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VOL> LXXV. No. 26. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, JULY 4. 1946 ESTABLISHED 1870
Friday Is Last Day
To Register to Vote
Let’s have a look at the latest
estimate of the registration for
Houston county for the July 17
primary.
It appears now that a registra
tion of 3,500 to 4,000 will be
reached by Friday night, July 5,.
the deadline. The office of Tax
Collector M. E. Akin will be
dosed all day Thursday, July 4,
and will remain open all Friday
for the last minute registrants.
About 700 Negroes have regis
tered for the primary and pres- 1
ent indications are fewer than'
100 will be left on the qualified
list by the Board of Registrars,
composed of S. L. Norwood, J,
K. Buff and J. F. Hammock. The
board has subpoenaed about 75
Negro registrants daily for the
last several days. On one day,
about 20 out of the 75 qualified
and on another day, 3 out of 75
qualified. Indications are that
many of those who qualify will
not vote.
Grant Signs Challenges
Dan L. Grant, who lives in
Atlanta and votes in Houston
county, has signed all challenges
of Negro votes.
After a heavy registration last
Saturday, the list of White regis
trants rose to between 2.500 and j
3,000. It appears probable that
3.000 Whites will be qualified to
vote and if the usual proportion
of the qualified voters cast their
ballots, about 2,500 will vote on
July 17. This will be about three
times larger than the usual vote
cast in the county.
The ratio of Whites to Negroes
voting will be between 25 to 1
and 30 to 1 in Houston county.
The Talmadge campaign head
quarters has furnished the
boards of registrars in many
counties in Georgia with the
subpoenas for challenging the
Negro vote. Chairman Nor
wood of the Houston county
board said he has not yet used
the Talmadge subpoenas and
that he does not know where the
subpoenas which he is using
came from.
Registration Not Required
It is reported that some of the
Negroes subpoenaed to show
cause why they should not be
stricken from the qualified list
had the impression that they
were required by law to register.
(It should be made clear to the
Negroes that they are not re
quired to register.—Ed,
Some Negroes could read the
paragraphs from the constitu
tion but they could give no rea
sonable interpretation. Most of
them could neither read nor un
derstand the paragraphs of the
constitution.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Vote
as you please, but please vote!
Chapman, Knight
Meet at Manila
Sgt. William A. Chapman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Chap
man of Perry swung his legs
over the sides of the truck and
dropped down on former Japa
nese soil at Manila the other day.
He turned to get into forma
tion with his company which had
Just arrived there for occupation
duth.
Who do you think was the first
man he saw? He was Sgt. Har
mon Knight, also of Perry, and
also an Air Force sergeant. You
can imagine the amazement of
tne two Perry boys when they
met there—across the world
’rom Houston county.
Only $285 Given
In Food Campaign
John Etheredge, chairman of
(ne Emergency Food Collection
m Houston county, announced
”at a total of $285 has been for
warded to national headquarters
to buy food for the hungry peo
ple of Europe.
. A total of $245 was contribut
or t™^ erry anc * by residents
UI toko community.
Houston county woman
n ° das been overseas and ob
"n ’ e (j the suffering in Europe
contributed $lOO of the $285. j
GOVERNOR ELLIS ARNALL
of Georgia will be heard on the
Baptist Hour network Sunday
morning, July 7. As the first
speaker in this new series on
the general theme, Faith Is
the Victory,his subject will be,
Christian Patriotism for the
New Day. The Baptist Hour
will be heard over Radio Sta
tion WMAZ, Macon, at 9 a.m.
and WSB, Atlanta, at 8:30a.m.
HERE IS LIST
OF CANDIDATES
The following is a list of can
didates for state offices who
qualified with the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee for
the July 17 primary.
Governor: James V. Carmi
chael, Hoke O’Kelley, E. D. Riv
ers and Eugene Talmadge.
Lieutenant Governor: Bel
mont Dennis, Spenbe M. Gray
son, Marvin Griffin, Frank Gross,
Dr. J. N. Huff, M. E. Thompson.
Secretary of State: Ben W.
Fortson, the incumbent, Napier
Burson.
Attorney General: E|u gene
Cook, incumbent. Irwin R.
Kimsey.
State Superintendent of
Schools: Dr. M. D. Collins, in
cumbent, John E. Manning.
State Treasurer; George B.
Hamilton, incumbent, Arlie D.
Tucker.
Comptroller General; Zack D.
Cravey, E. B. Dykes.
Commissioner of Agriculture:
Tom Linder, incumbent, J. C.
(Jim) Manning.
Commissioner of Labor: Ben
T. Huiet, Harry E, Monroe.
Public Service Commission
(two races): Walter R. McDon
ald, incumbent, Tom Durant, Al
len Chappell, incumbent, W. P.
(Bill) White, Glenn Allen.
Supreme Court; R. C. Bell,
T. S. Candler, T, Grady Head,
all unopposed.
Court of Appeals: Hugh Mc-
Intyre, opposed by Robert F.
Church and Earl W. Butler, I.H.
Sutton, unopposed.
Superior Court Judge, Macon
Circuit- Mallory C. Atkinson,
unopposed, and A. M. (Phil)
Anderson, to succeed Malcolm
D, Jones, who is retiring.
County Commissioner, Houston
County: J. T. (Tine) Lewis,
Warren B. Hodge and T. L. War
ren, (Vote for two).
State Representative, Houston
County: J. W. Bloodworth, un
opposed.
CARDS ISSEUD VETS
Identification cards which will
enable veterans with lost limbs
to get immediate repairs made on
prosthetic devices without prior
approval of the Veterans Ad
ministration, will be issued by
the VA beginning July 1. The
cards will identify to limb manu
facturers and repair shops vet
erans who are entitled to repairs
for artificial limbs, according to
Fred E. Lester, manager of the
Veterans Administration Sub
i Regional Office, Macon. Repair
I work costing up to $35 can be
done for veterans possessing
the cards and the VA will pay
the costs upon receipt of a bill
which has been countersigned by
jthe veteran.
INDIS
1 Along About
NOW
VETERANS of World War II
in Middle Georgia are interesting
themselves in government more
and more. Up in Macon, sev
eral young veterans are candi
dates for state and county of
ficers. Over in Havvkinsville,
Bob Cater Massee, the head of
the Legion, is an officer in the
Carmichael Club, and in Monte
zuma, Carl P. Savage, an ex-
Marine, has announced that more
than 100 veterans of Macon coun
ty have pledged to vote for Car
michael. Here in Houston, Dan
L. Grant, a veteran of the Nor
mandy invasion as a B-17 pilot,
is active for Marvin Griffin, can
didate for lieutenant governor.
Dr. Frank Vinson, War II vet
eran, introduced Mr. Carmichael
at Fort Valley Thursday morning.
THE END of an exceptionally
short peach crop appeared in
prospect for this weekend. The
Southern Fruit Distributors,lnc.,
largest single packer in the coun
ty, expect to ship about 120 cars,
80 less than they moved last
year. Worms ruined thousands
of bushels of this year’s crop,
which was short but sweet.
OPA DIED over the weekend
but Houston county refused to
he disturbed about it. The food
stores charged the same prices
and in most cases rents remained
the same. No wholesale price
rise was in evidence in the coun
ty. Coal dealers were advised
that they can deliver coal im
mediately, within certain quota
limits. It appears that inflation
. will encircle us gradually. C. E.
Presbyterians
Call Mulholland
The Rev. James H. MulhollaniS
of Fortworth, Texas, has accept
ed a call to be pastor of the Pres
byterian Churches at Perry and
. Clinchfield.
Mr. Mulholland, a student at
, Columbia Seminary, Atlanta, and
his wife will make their home in
Perry during the summer. They
• have taken an apartment in the
home of Mrs, R. E. Smith. He
will return to Atlanta this fall
to attend the seminary.
Mr. Mulholland will preach
each Sunday morning at the
Perry church and each evening
at Clinchfield. He preached his
, first sermons at the two churches i
’ last Sunday.
The Presbyterian Sunday
School at Perry meets at 10:15
a.m. and at Clinchfield at 3 p. m.
Evening services at Clinchfield
are at 8 p.m.
The people of Houston county
welcome the Rev. and Mrs. Mul
holland to the community.
Christians Enlist
In Regular Army
Joseph and John Thomas
Christian, Jr., sons of Mr, and
i Mrs. John Thomas Christian of
Kathleen, were accepted for en
listment in the new Regular Ar
i my at the Cordele Recruiting
Station Monday. The Christian,,
i brothers are enlisting for three*
years in the Ortlanance Depart
■ ment, Pacific Theatre and hope
to be assigned together. Joseph
i has a wife and two children. His
■ family will be entitled to $lOO
per month for the full period of
his enlistment. Family Allow
ances are authorized for full en
listment periods for those ?vh~
I enlist prior to July 1 and for the
, duration and 6 months for those
| who enlist thereafter.
; New Trial Motion
i Of Cook Dismissed
Attorneys for Thomas Cook,
i 38, convicted in May of the as
, sault of an 8-year-old Warner i
■ Robins girl, requested and ob
. tained the dismissal of their mo- •
• tion for a new trial.
. Judge Mallory C. Atkinson'
. signed the dismissal order last
; Friday upon the request of
, Cook’s attorneys. Cook drew an
1 18-20 year sentence after a four
j day trial in Houston county su
perior court.
STINCT PRINT
First Game
Protested
A protest of the Pierce-Ivey
game and a Bledsoe victory over
Cooper featured Sunday play in
the Perry Softball League.
The protest-lodged by Mana
ger Bobby Ivey resulted from an
error in a decision by Umpire W.
B. Evans. With two men out
and runners on second and third,
an Ivey batter hit a ball into
right field. Umpire Evans call
ed “foul”, then examined the
baseline markers more closely
and changed his decision to
“fair.” In the melee, one Ivey
man scored while the man who
was on second was held up at
third. Ivey argued that if the
umpire’s decision had originally
been “fair”, both of his runners
would have scored. Pierce argued
that the second runner would
not have been able to score.
To Resume In 7th
Commissioner John Satterfield
and Umpires W. B. Evans and
Albert Skpllie decided that the
game would be replayed from
the seventh inning, with the
score tied at 5-5, with one man
on base.
In a see-saw battle, Bledsoe
defeated Cooper in the final
game of the day, Bto 7, collect
ing 15 hits to Cooper’s 7. Beck
ham pitched for the winners and
Norwood for the losers.
In the middle game, Thompson
beat Ogletree, 19 to 4. A. Brad
dock got 4 hits for Thompson’s
nine, while his teammates. Smith,
Watts and Boler collected Beach.
Catcher Leroy Boswell led the
Ogletree hitters with 2 for 4.
Griffin was the losing pitcher
and Smith the winner.
1 he Standings
Won Lost
Ivey 1 0
Pierce 1 0
Bledsoe 1 1
Thompson 11
Ogletree 11
Cooper 0 2
Games Sunday, June 30
2 p.m. Ivey-Bledsoe.
3p. m. Cooper-Thompson.
4 p.rn. Pierce-Ogletree.
Poll s Results
Given Tonight
An independent poll of opin
ions on the Governor’s race, “to
determine which candidate has
the best chance to defeat Tal
jmadge,” has been made by Lon
Sullivan, Director of the Geor
gia Citizens Council, and Ruther
ford Ellis, member of the Board
of Regents.
Sullivan, who “leans toward
Rivers,” and Ellis, who “Jeans
toward Carmichael,” have asked
school superintendents, members
of the legislature, one county
commissioner, county agents,and
others in every county to send a
confidential report of the situa
tion to OPINIONS, which is the
name under which the survey is
being conducted.
“Mr. Ellis has bought time on
WSB from 9 to 9:30 p.m, for the
Fourth of July so we can give
others the benefit of our poll. We
have agreed that the thinking
itnd progressive people must
unite behind one candidate if
Talmadge is defeated,” Sullivan
said.
CHAPELL HERE
Allen Chappell of Americus,
member of the Georgia Public
Service Commission, visited Per
ry Monday on a state-wide cam
paign for re-election.
Chappell said he is “indig
nant” at the confusion caused by
Southern railroads in the state’s
supreme court case seeking bet
ter freight rates for the South.
I
JACKSON TO SPEAK
Judge Joe Ben Jackson of
(Gray will speak in behalf of Eu
,gene Talmadge, candidate for
| governor, at the Charles E.
Thomas School at Warner Rob
ins at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 4.
The meeting is sponsored by the
Talmadge for Governor Club of
Warner Robins, according to C.
C. Varnadoe.
ICarmichael Supports
jCounty Unit System
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W. K. WHIPPLE
W. K. WHIPPLE
ON PROGRAM
Wendell K. Whipple, Perry
, representative of the Connecti
cut Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, was among the speakers at
the company’s educational con
ference in Atlantic City.
Mr. Whipple was chosen to at
tend the conference because of
his outstanding sales record,
, Whipple was one of the “100
Leaders in the U. S. ” and was
inducted as a member of the
“Dependables.” The 100 top
men in the country held a tvvo
. d a y conference in Hartford,
Conn., the home office city, prior
to the convention. He already
is a member of the Quarter Mil
lion Dollar Corps.
At the convention, Whipple
participated in a panel confer
ence on The New Market for the
Single Idea.
Whipple’s territory for the
Connecticutt Mutual is all of
South Georgia.
Baptists Plan
Vacation School
Opening of a 10-day Vacation
Bible School at the Perry Bap
list Church on July 10, with
registration and a parade on Julj
5, was announced by the Rev. J.
> A. Ivey, pastor,
5 Mrs. George Parrish will bt
. general superintendent of t h (
i school, which will be held ead
. dBy through July 19 from 9 to li
. a.m. Other departmental super
1 intendents arc Mrs. F. M. Greene,
Jr., Beginners; Mrs. K.L. Roper,
1 Primary; and Miss Eva Bcrom,
i Junior. The music director wib
be Miss Dorothy Avera. Twenty
3 teachers will make up the fac
i ulty.
I Mr. Ivey said a parade at 9 a
i m. July 9 will launch the school.
. The commencement exerciser
? will be held at the evening ser
3 vice at the church on July 21,
when members of the school will
i present a program.
. Children between the ages of
; 4 and 13 years are invited to par
* ticipate.
f Farmers Receive
1 Gas Tax Refund
ATLANTA (GPS) —Georgia’s
new tractor gasoline refund law,
passed by the 194 G Legislature
after Gov. Ellis Arnall recom
mended it in his message to the
2 General Assembly, is now pay
. ing off—much to the delight ol
.jfarmers throughout the state,
I C. H. Foster, DeKalb county
.'farmer, has the distinction of
, being the first to receive a check
s under the law, which provides a
. refund of five cents of the six
cent tax farmers pay on gaso
line used in farm equipment.
Foster’s check amounted to
$11.75, but the average will be
$l5, with a total refund this
f quarter of about $15,000, ac
- cording to estimates by Wood
r row Tucker, director of the
. Farmers’ Gasoline Tax Refund
- Unit. Payments are made
. quarterly.
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‘ making spoon bread, corn bread and
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Jimmie Carmichael, running
his first race for governor against
two ex-governors, told a Hous
ton county audience here last
Thursday that he wants to pre
serve the county unit system be
cause it is the only means by
which the rural counties have a
voice in Georgia government.
Speaking in the courthouse,
Carmichael said his opposition is
not interested in a White Pri
mary except as a means of tak
ing over the government of
Georgia to run as they please.
“What they want is a Tal
madge primary, so they can de
cide who can vote and who can
not,” Carmichael said. “If they
control the primary, they can
tell the women that they can't
vote, they can tell the teen
agers that they cannot vote, they
can tell the old people they can
not vote.”
Business Like Basis
Carmichael said he proposed
to run the state on a legal and
business-like basis, and spend
the taxpayers’ money wisely.
He promised to support a pres
idential preferential primary.
Carmichael called attention of
the audience to the former gov
ernor’s actions in:
1. Calling out the National
Guard 17 times in 3 terms.
2. Purchase of out of date
textbooks for Georgia Schools,
3. Making deals with machin
ery salesmen.
4. Raising the false race
issue.
“Talmadge knows that Ne
groes and Whites aren’t going to
school together in Georgia, Car
michael said. “He knows that
the state constitution prohibits it
and he knows that that provision
has been upheld by the U. S. Su
preme Court/’
“Talmadge in 1940“
Carmichael called attention to
Talrnadge’s speech of July 4,
1940, when Talmadge said, “Any
doctrine that preaches class hat
red in Georgia is a sin in the
deepest dye. Any doctrine that
preaches prejudice is merely the
doctrine of a hypocrite who is
trying to hide under a shadow
tor the purpose of stealing. No
religious or racial prejudice has
any place in a Christian heart.”
“Mr. Talmadge stands before
the people of Georgia, by his own
confession, not only as a dema
gogue and a stirrer-up of strife
md hatred, but a hypocrite as
-veil,” Carmichael declared. ‘Til
oe 36 years old in October, and
dr. Talmadge has be on the
nigger, nigger, nigger’ issue
since I was 10 years old.”
Carmichael said he wanted to
oe governor of Georgia but he
does not want it if he has to have
the support of the apostles of
nate and those who want some
thing for themselves at the ex
pense of the state.
The young candidate was in
troduced by Mayor Francis
Nunn, who was a school mate of
Carmichael at Emory University.
Jhe Rev. J. A. Ivey, pastor of
the Perry Baptist Church,opened
the meeting with a prayer.
An audience of 250 persons
heard the candidate.
Ration Round-Up
_ Sugar Stamp No. 49, good for
•5 pounds, expires August 31.
Spare Stamp No. 9, good for 5
pounds of sugar for canning, ex
pires October 31, 1946.
. Spare Stamp No. R), good for
5 lbs. of sugar for canning, be
ginning July 1.
Methodist Activities
Church Services, 11:30 a. m.
and 8:00 p. m.
Church School--10;15 a. m.
| ioung People’s Service. 6:30
; p. m.
Rev. J. B. Smith, Pastor.
Cheese Made Early
1 The production of cheese Is the
> earliest form of dairy manufactur
ing. Recognizing the strength-giving
properties of cheese, the Jews
and the Romans fed it to their
. armies, and the Greeks gave it to
wrestlers to increase their endur-
