An Old Newspaper
Of the New South
VOL. LXXV. No. 35. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 19463 ESTABLISHED 1870
Blue Lupine
Yield Sets
New Record
By JACK C. MILLER
Soil Conservationist
From a 2-ponud packet in the
fall of 1935 to more than 2 mil
lion pounds of seed harvested in
the Spring of 1946 is the remark
able record of blue lupine. This
bushy annual promises to be the
answer to the search for a win
ter legume that will produce
good crops of seed in the lower
south.
Thousands of acres m Houston
county were planted to blue lu
pine this fall. A large part of
this acreage was turned under
for soil improvement but some
I, to 2,000 acres were com
bined and we produced in the
neighborhood of 2 million pounds
of seed in the county.
Some of the largest growers of
blue lupine in Houston county
this past season were G. W.
Hicks, Robert Tuggle, L. M. Ne-
Smith, T. L. Warren, Mead Tol
leson, VV. W, Gray, C. E. Stiven,
A. R. Talton, R. E. Ogletree,
J. N. Buff, W. B. Miller, David
Crockett, W. B. Sexton and W.
N. Johnson and Sons.
Yields Excellent
Seed yields were excellent and
probably averaged over 1,500
pounds per acre. Yields of a
ton of seed per acre were com
mon. At 5 cents a pound, this
meant much added income for
the farmers of Houston county.
Results from turning lupine
for soil improvement have gen
erally been good, and it com
pares favorably with other win
ter legumes from the standpoint
of increasing yields of following
crops.
A survey being conducted
among our District Cooperators
indicates that a much larger
acreage than heretofore will be
planted to lupine this fall, mostly
for the purpose of soil improve
ment.
Seed for planting is available
locally and farmers interested
should procure their planting
seed at once. September 15 to
October 15 is the best time to
plant. Seed at the rate of 50 to
100 pounds per acre. Seed must
be inoculated. Care should be
taken to cover seed not more
than Yz to 1 inch deep.
Two 4-H Clubbers
Win Scholarships
Two 4-H club boys—Donald
Stewart of Thomas county, and
Jimmie Snowden of Ben Hill —
have been awarded four-year
Union Bag and Paper Corpora
tion college forestry scholarships
in the University of Georgia
School of Forestry, the Georgia >
Agricultural Extension Service
disclosed this week.
The scholarship winners were
selected by a State committee.
Ihis is the first year that these
scholarships have been offered.
Bach scholarship will pay the
holder $4OO each year for four
years. Scholarships will be
awarded to two additional boys
each year.
Donald, who has had forestry as
ehe of his projects for seven of
his nine years as a 4-H club mem
ber, now has a 95-acre forestry
Project. He has constructed and
maintained firebreaks in his
woodland and has cleared fire
breaks on another 100 acres on
the farm.
The Ben Hill county winner
bas completed 17 projects, in
cluding five in forestry, during
ms five years as a 4-H club mem
per. He planted 10,000 trees
a ,, Jail and has planted a total
DU acres of slash pine seed
mgs. or 24.000 trees, in his 4-H
rorest projects.
Revival Planned
Andrew Chapel
Revival services at Andrew
hapel Church will begin Sun
t,dy - Sept. 8, continuing thru
the week at night only. The
mght services will be held at 8
aLj The public is invited to
Rev. C. Woodall, Pas
Jifome Journal
SPECLAL NOTICE
Through the cooperation of H.
L. Wingate, president of the
r arm Bureau, State AAA Office
and Congressman Stephen Pace,
and Charles Andrew we have se
cured 9,200 pounds of nails for
use of pernut growers to-date.
Ot this amount 4,900 pounds
have been issued to peanut grow
ers and we have 4,300 pounds
left for distribution.
Houston county peanut grow
ers who have not secured nails
may secure same by caliing by
calling by County Agent’s Of
fice and secure permit for pur
chase of nails based on acreage
of peanuts to be harvested.
W. T. Middlebrooks,
County Agent.
Mrs. Wise Heads
County Teachers
Mrs. Frazier Wise, a teacher
in the Warner Robins High
School,is the new president of the
Houston county unit of the Geor
gia Education Association, suc
ceeding E. P. Staples, superin
tendent of Perry High School.
Mrs. Wise was elected at tee
organizational meeting of the
group at Perry last week. Other
officers elected were Miss Doro
thy Jones, Perry, vice president;
and Mrs. John Howard, Bonaire,
secretary-treasurer.
The group unanimously voted
to be affiliated with the Georgia
Education Association and the
National Education Association l
and decided to meet each month.
County School Superintendent
S. W. Hickson, who has been ill
recently, appeared at the meet
ing and received a round of ap
plause,
Bert Rumble of Warner Robins
was the temporary chairman of
the meeting.
I ———
Perry Students
Off to College
A group of Houston county
young people are preparing to
leave soon to return to college.
The list of Perry High School
seniors who will enter colleges
was published last week.
Those returning to colleges in
clude Marvin Greene, University
of Georgia Medical School, Au
gusta; Billy Lee and Bill Bos
tick, Mercer University; Dur
wood Wilson and Albert Skellie,
Georgia Tech; Annis Jean Ne-
Smith and Buck Tolleson, Uni
versity of Georgia; Allen Whip
ple, Wendell Whipple and Jack
Marshall, Emory University;
Billy Avera, Middle Georgia Col
lege; Merryl Hunnicutt, Rich
mond Professional Institute of
William and Mary; Tommy and
Earl Marshall, Bob Jones Col
lege; Nathan Gilbert, Alfred
University at Alfred, N. Y.
Mrs. W. D. Henson
Dies at Hayneville
Mrs. W, D. Henson, 46, wife
of a Hayneville farmer, died
Tuesday night of a heart attack
while attending revival services
at the Hayneville Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be held
at 4 p. m. Thursday at the Hayne
ille Baptist Church, with the
Rev. John A. Pirtle, pastor,
officiating.
Mrs. Henson is the former Miss
Bessie Haynes of North Carolina.
Besides her husband she is
survived dy four sens, Donald of
Pembroke, Cecil, W. D., Jr and
Roy Henson, Hayneville; four
daughters, Mrs. Tom Huff, Mrs.
Floyd McClintic, Misses Betty
and Lillin Henson. Haynevilh;
two sisters, Mrs. T. M. Fisher,
Charlotte, N. C., and Mrs. Ray
mond Carver, Chinagrove, N. C.,
two half brothers, two half sis
ters, one grandson, and Mrs. J.
E. Henson, her husband’s mother
who made her home with them.
Tucker Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements,
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.
jCounty's Health
; Below Average
; Dr. Guy Lunsford, assistant
1 director of the State Health De
’ partment, cited figures in a
speech before the Perry Kiwanis
Club Tuesday that show Hous
’ ton county’s health is below the
average for the state of Georgia.
The average death rate in
Georgia in 1943 was 9.2 per 1,000
while the Houston county rate!
was 10.4 Stillbirths in the state I
for the same year were 38.6 per
I, live births, while the Hous-I
ton county figure was 75.9—al
most twice the state average.
The pneumonia rate in Hous
ton per 100,000 population was
79.6. as compared with 55.5 for
the state; tuberculosis 72.8 for
the county and 40.5 for the state;
typhoid 8.8 for the county and
0.7 for the state; pellagra, 8,8
for the county and 5.8 for the
state. Houston was below the
1 state average in infant mortality,
43.1 for the county and 46.7 for
! the state.
Cost $5,000 a Year
Dr. Lunsford said that the
State Department is unable at I
the present to expand its ser
vice because of the lack of train
, ed personnel. Sixty counties in
Georgia have full-time health
, services and another 60 have
nursing service, the health of
ficial said. If Houston is inter
ested in the service, plans should
be started at once, he said.
| He said that Houston could
form a health district with two
or three other counties to pro
vide a full-time health service at
a cost to the county of slightly
less than $5,000 a year. The state
offers 55 per cent of the cost,
bringing the county’s share
, down to the $5,000 figure, The
I county now has no health ser
vice of any kind.
Will we continue to ignore this
situation and let our people die,
or will someone take the lead in
developing this service for the
county?—C. E.
r '
, Membership Drive
I Opened by Legion
! The Robert D. Collins post of
the American Legion opened its
’ 1947 membership campaign at a
well-attended meeting at the Le
gion Home Tuesday night.
The campaign is planned so as
to give every eligible man in the
county an opportunity to join
the Legion post. The drive will
be climaxed on Armistice Day,
Nov. 11, with a big celebration,
according to C. E. Andrew,
chairman of the membership
committee.
Team captains named were C.
C. Chapman, Ralph Tabor and
Rhodes Sewell. Legionnaire Se
well served notice that his team
was ■‘dynamite,”
David E. Kaufman of Warner
Robins, a radio sound man be
fore the war, demonstrated
sound effects and gave several
impersonations.
On Monday night, the Legion
post began assisting veterans in
completing their applications for
the terminal leave pay. The;
Legion Home will be open again
next week, on Monday. Tuisday
and Wednesday night, for vet
erans who desire assistance in
filing their applications. Cohen I
Walker, service officer, is in
charge of this project.
Forestry Council
To Meet Sept. 10
The organizational meeting of
the Georgia Forestry Develop-;,
ment Council has been set for j
next Tuesday. September 10. This;
was announced by State Forester i
J. M. Tinker under whose guid
ance the new body is being l
formed.
Tne new Council, to serve as 1
‘ an aide to the State Department
of Forestry, is composed of the;
i leaders cf all civic clubs, the i
American Legion, press and
radio, forestry and lumber asso
ciations, women's clubs and large ■
wood-using industrial concerns.
Its first move, Mr. Tinker dis
closed, will be to endorse a strte
wide forest fire prevention drive
this fall and to adopt advertising
I and publicity cooperative under
takings which will call public
attention to the campaign.
j
Jury Drawn
iFor Court
:1
i The September term of Hous
i ton Superior Court will open here
1 Monday. September 16, with
Judge Atkinson pre
-1 siding.
Sheriff C. C. Chapman is issu
ing subpoenas to grand jurors
I and traverse jurors for the two
• weeks session.
I Tommie S. Hunt, clerk of the
court, issued the following jury
j list:
Grand Jurors —M. G. Edwards,
Gus Johnson (col.), J. A. Grubb,
W. V. Tuggle. F. E. White, D.
C. Dunbar, John L. Davis, W. E.
Vinson, Jr., J. P. Duggan, J. L.
Beavers, E. E. Bateman, Sr.,
I. T. Garvin, C. P. Gray, W. C.
Harrison, E. P. Staples, D. L.
Davidson, Marvin Dorsett, J. H.
Lary, G. C. Nunn, T. J. Nipper,
Geo. Riley Hunt, J. O. Jacobs,
W. E. Beckham, H. C. Arm
strong, Paschal Muse, Hugh
La won. S. H. Sasser, W.L. Ren
froe. M. L. Ren f roe, K. P.
Walker.
i Traverse Jurors, First Week —
L. C. Gentry, J. E. Adams, F.L.
Hammock, L. B. Stubbs, W. M.
Gibson, F. M. Houser, J. W.
Fullington, E. E. Peed, C. K.
Cooper, Roy L. Davis, D. H.
Smith. E. M. Akin, J. E. Scott,
W. H. Lewis, Jr., Ghas. P. Staf
ford, W. M. Hartley, John W.
Gray, E. Lashley, Lory Gunter.
Walter F. Marshall, D. H. Dan
iel, G. G. Davis, Aldene Lasse
ter, K R. Pratt, H. W. Huff, W.
W. Holer, H. S. Kezar, J. H.
Peyton, C. R. Whitworth, J. R.
Akin, C. A. Boswell, Jr., Morris
B. Williams, B. L, Cbsey, W. B.
Warren, F. M. Greene, Jr., K. L,
Batchelor, J, W. Story, F. G.
Miller, W. T. Flowers (col.) W.
C. Pollock, Buford Chapman, A.
B. Irby, W. B. Evans, L.H. Car
lisle, L, W. Houser, Cliff How
ard, Harry V. Thompson, Walter
B. Williams, G. E. Watson, H.
H. Watson, James M. Scarbor
ough, T. C. Johnson, Jr., M. H.
Stubbs, M. J. Helms, V. B. Ab
rams, J, M. Taylor, E, E. Log
gins, John S. Childs.
Perry First Grade
Has Sixty Pupils
One of the most important
events in life is the first day ol
school for the first graders. To
record this event for history, we
present the names of all young
pupils who started to school this
week:
Jimmie Anderson, Thomas Ar
nold, Mabel Barrett, Stewart
Bloodworth, Wallace Bozeman,
Noel Bramblett, Ted Brannan,
Barbara Brown, Gail Byrd. James
Carmichael, Jimmie Christian,
Minnie Ann Clarke, Elizabeth
Coleman, Jean Cosey, Janie
Crenshaw, Bobby Joe Culpepper,
Walter Davis, Sylvia Doster,
Robert Flanders, Horace Flour
noy, Louise Flournoy.
Wallis Greene, Terry Griffin,
Claire Grimes, Charles Harrison,
William Hardy, Helen Head,
Amelia Heard, David Helms,
Carlton Hicks, Jimmie Claire
Howard, Madge Irby, Dorothy
Johns, Patricia Johnston, Hamp
Kicklighter.
j Eleanor Knight, Jean Langs-
I ton, Marie Marshall, Sara Jane
l Miller, John Mobley, Patricia
Moore, Jerry Newman, Rhonda
Rook, Joane Roper Minnie How
land. Sam Ryle, Ellis Scarboro,
Bryant Scruggs, Joyce Smith,
Sherry Staples, Billy Taylor,
James Tidwell, Patricia Tobert,
Jimmy Walton, James Wilson,
Peggy Brown, Shelby Jean
; Brown, Laverne Hickman, Ver
| nita Redmond and Margaret Mc
| Flmurray.
I W. S. C. S. MEETING
The Methodist W.S.C.S. busi
ness meeting was held at the
church Monday afternoon, with
; Mrs. W. T. Middlebrooks in
charge of the program. Mrs.
Francis Nunn and Mrs. Earl
Marshall assisted in presenting
I the program, and Mrs. G. W.
'Hicks, president, led the devo
tional,
The circles will meet as follows
on Monday afternoon: No. 1 with
: Mrs. Stanley Smith, N 0.2 with
; I Mrs. W. C. Jones, and No. 3 with
•Mrs. Frank King.
0t
PHOTO BY METRO STUDIO
A. M. KICKLIGHTER
E. M. Akin Sells
Store Interest
To Kicklighter
A. M. Kicklighter has pur
chased the interest of Emmit M.
Akin in Akin Drug Company and
will operate the store under the
name of Kicklighter Drug Com
pany, it was announced this
week. The change in owner
ship became effective Sept. 1.
Mr. Kicklighter came to Perry
in October, 1944, from Hawkins
vilie and entered Akin Drug
Company as a pharmacist. He
had been employed at Hawkins
ville for 10 years prior to mov
ing to Perry. In January. 1945,
he purchased one-half interest in
Akin Drug Company.
The new owner, a veteran of
World War 11, served in the U.
S. Navy from July 1942, until
October, 1944, including 11
months in the European Theater.
He was a Pharmacist Mate First
Class when he received his hon
orable discharge.
Mr. Kicklighter is a member
of the Methodist Church, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the
American Legion, Masons,
Khights Templar, A1 Shiah Tem
ple of the Shrine and the Geor
gia Pharmaceutical Association,
Mrs. Kicklighter is the former
Miss Caroline Fountain,daughter
of Mrs. A. T. Fountain of Haw
kinsville, and they have two
sons, Hamp and Joe. They live
here on Second Street,
t In selling his interest in the
I business to Mr. Kicklighter, Mr.
> Akin said, “Although I regret to
- discontinue in the drug business,
5 I feel that Mr, Kicklighter will
■ maintain the high standard of
service and quality that we have
■ given over the last several years,
i I want to ask my friends to con
i tinue to give my successor the
i Kicklighter Drug Company, the
5 same kind consideration giver:
i Akin Drug Company in the
i past.”
J A drugstore has occupied the
■ location of the Kicklighter Drug
• Company since 1905. Mr. Kick
• lighter is the fourth owner. Dr.
R. L. Cater was the - first owner;
> A. C. Pritchett the second and
- Emmit Akin the third.
. Summers Buys Lot
To Install Bakery
T, R. Summers, Jr., a veteran
of World War 2, has purchased a
; lot on Macon Street between the
i Bloodworth and Wellons resi
i dences to erect a building for a
bakery, he announced this week.
The lot fronts 75 feet on Ma
con Street and extends back 210
feet. It was owned by Mrs.
Helen Davis.
Mr. Summers said he will be
gin construction of the building
as soon as he can obtain materi
als. He already has arranged to
obtain the necessary equipment.
Ration Rojind-Up
Spare Stamp 49 good for 5
J pounds, expires Sept. 30.
) Spare Stamp 51 good for 5
) pounds, expires Dec. 30.
Spare Stamp 9 and 10 each good
*1 for 5 pounds of Canning Sugar,
f expire Oct. 31'
* Welcome Home
3 Paul Stalnaker, son of Mrs. j
1 Alma Stalnaker, Route 1, Warner.
1 Robins, has received his honor
-1 able discharge from the U. S.
Navy.
Nearly Every Home
Has The Home Journal
Perry High
Enrolls 609
At Opening
j Perry School opened Fri
'day morning with a record en
rollment of 609 students, sur
| passing last year’s mark of 570,
This year’s total includes 421 in
the grammar school and 188 in
high school.
By the end of the first six
weeks, the enrollment is ex
pected to reach 650, Supt. E. I’.
Staples said.
The opening exercises of Per
ry High School were held Friday
morning, August 30.
The opening prayer was led by
the Kev. J. B. Smith, pastor of
the Perry Methodist church, af
ter which America the Beautiful
and Georgia Land, Jed by Mr.
John Etheredge, were sung by
all. Mayor Francis Nunn sang
The Lord’s Prayer and You’ll
Never Walk Alone. The ad
dress of the morning was de
livered by the Kev. J. B. Smith,
after which the audience was
dismissed by prayer.
Faculty Listed
The enrollment by classes, and
the teachers, follows:
First —60; Miss Frances Couey
and Miss Billie Goode.
Second—s 9; Miss Mary Lee
Greene and Mrs. H. T. Gilbert.
(Mrs. Pearsall Brown is substi
tuting temporarily for Miss
Greene, who is ill.)
Third —70; Miss Phoebe Harp
er and Miss Allene Ryals.
Fourth—4B; Miss Margaret
Hunt and Mrs. W. J. Boone.
Fifth—oB; Misj Dorothy Jones
and Miss Dorothy Avera.
Sixth —67; Miss Willie Gunter
and Miss Elvira Jackson.
Seventh—49; Mrs. Elmer
Wolfe and Mrs. Ed Weaver.
High School
Eighth,s3; Ninth, 48; Tenth,
62 and Eleventh, 25. High school
teachers are Mrs. Lula Driskell,
science; Mrs. C. H. Tucker,
mathematics; Mrs. Cromartie,
English; Miss Naomi Mizelle.
home economics: Miss Audrey
Andrews, history; Miss Ruby
Pickens, English, commercial;
Mrs. J. O. Coleman, mathemat
ics; John Etheredge, principal
and agriculture: Miss Louise
Kainey, Latin, library; Miss Wil
lie Ryals, music.
E, P, Staples returns as su
perintendent for his 14th year in
the Perry school.
Mrs. R. S. Collier
Dies at Comer, Ga.
Mrs. Ralph S. Collier of Com
er, Ga., mother of Mrs. Alton
Hardy of Perry and Mrs. Powers
C. Lawson of Warner Robins,
died Sunday night at her home
following a long illness.
Funeral services were held at
the home Tuesday morning and
burial was in the Comer ceme
tery.
Besides Mrs. Hardy and Mrs.
Lawson, Mrs. Collier is survived
by her husband and two other
daughters, Mrs. Troy Porterfield
of Colbert and Mrs, George Kel
ley of Carlton, Ga.
Farm Bureau Sets
Meeting Tonight
The Houston County Farm Bu
reau will hold its September
meeting tonight (Thursday) at
8 o’clock in the Perry High
School home economics rooms.
H. E. Woodruff, oaganizational
director of the State Farm Bu
reau, will be the principal
speaker.
The membership drive, in
which the goal was 600 mem
bers, will be closed.
A dutch supper will be served.
PLANT FALL GARDENS
Negro farmers, 4-H club mem
bers and house wives through
out Houston county have been
urged by John Moody, negro
county agent, to start preparing
for their fall gardens as quickly
as possible.
Many varieties of vegetables
can be planted in fall gardens:
Beets, turnips, cabbage, carrots,
collards, spinach, rape, mustard,
lettuce and onions.
