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VOL. LXXVI. No. . 11
PERRY PANTHERS WIN SI ATE AT BASKETBALL TOURNEY
Fat Cattle Show
Set March 22
Fifty-five calves will be entered
by 37 Houston county boys and
girls in the Ninth Annual Houston
County Fat Cattle Show in Perry
Saturday, March 22.
The youths will compete for a
bout $2OO in cash prizes offered by
Houston businessmen and then will
enter the Macon Fat Cattle Show
and Sale on March 24 and 25.
The Perry show will start at 11
a. m. at the vacant lot near George
C. Nunn and Son. Billy Gray,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Glea Gray,
will be defending the 1946 champ
ionship. Other champions are Wal
ter Gray, Jr., 1939; Eugene Lash
ley, Jr., 1940; Jack Eason, 1941;
and 1942; Richard Ogletree, 1943;
Billy Gray, 1944 and 1946, and Eu
gene Pyles, 1945.
Pizes are offered in heavy, med
ium and light classes in the F.F.A.
and 4-H Divisions; the grand
champion exhibitor will receive
$l5 and the reserve champion $10;
$l2 in prizes will be offered in
showmanship and handing and $45
will be offered in the heavy and
light classes for colored exhibitors.
Exhibitorsfrom the ranks of the
4-H Clubs in the county include,
Harold Flournoy, son of W. B.
Flournoy, Elko; David Gray, son
Glea Gray, Perry; Horace Griffin,
son of Horace Griffin, Kathleen;
Piobcrt Flournoy, son of J. P.
Flournoy, Elko; Clifford and Thom
as Grimes, sons of C. O. Grimes,
Perry June Harrison, daughter of
Mrs. Thelma Harrison, Grovania;
Charles and Wendell Meadows,
sons of P. D. Meadows, Hawkins
ville route; Cynthia Muse, daught
er of Paschal Muse, Perry; Gilbert
Miller, son of Frank Miller, Fort
Valley route; Billy and Roda Bell
Miller, children of W. B. Miller,
fort Valley route; Peggy Pyles,
daughter of C. E. Pyles, Elko; Syl
via Tabor, daughter of Floyd Tabor
Perry; Cullen Talton, son of H. C.
ialton, Bonaire; Betty and Wini-
Walton, daughters of H. I. Walton,
Elk °; Gene Lewis, son of G.E.Lew
is, Grovania.
In the FFA Division, entrants in
clude Billy Gray, Harold and Ver
"le Pl°urnoy; Allen Tabor, Char
s Meadows; Billy Barrett; Jack
PPis, Charles and Leroy Carter
'-nd Gene Davis.
Colored entrants will be Cain
W °st, Lenwood Engram, Charlie
Whitehurst, Willie Jas, Cox, Nor
-11 * n Durham, Alvin Norwood,
Johnny Johnson and Milice Sutton.
Postmaster's Place
A* Clinchfield Open
The United States Civil Service
’ Ol mission has announced an
( mhiation to fill the position of
° Urth cla ss postmaster at Clinch
field.
The examination will be held at
crr y. Receipt of applications will
Se ° n Apnl 10, 1947. The salary
*s $1382.
Houston Dourttal
FAT CATTLE SHOW i n
Perry Saturday, March 22, will
include many entries of fine
Houston county grown beef like
these Hereford steers belonging
to Clifford, left, and Thomas
Grimes, 11-year-old twin sons
of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Grimes
of Perry. They will be among
37 entrants in the Perry show.
(Photo courtesy of The Macon
Telegraph).
Legion Auxiliary
T > ive Barbecue
The Auxiliary of the Robert D.
Collins Post of the American Le
gion will be host at a barbecue Fri
day night in honor of the 28th
birthday of the Legion in Paris,
France.
The big barbecue will be held at
the high school gymnasium and the 1
high school basketball team, the
cheerleaders and Coach and Mrs. E.
P. Staples will be special guests of
the Legion.
Mrs. C. C. Chapman is general
chairman of the affair, assisted by
Mrs. J. B. Calhoun. Other commit
tees are as follows: Barbecue com
mittee, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Cal
houn, Mrs. C. O. Grimes, Mrs. T.
J. Mitchell, Mrs. Yates Greene and
Mrs. Paul Hardy; Drink committee,
Mrs. Henry Matthews, Mrs. George
B. Wells, Mrs. Cohen Walker and
Mrs. T. D. Mason, Jr.; Decoration
committee, Mrs. C. E. Andrew, Mrs.
W. G. Riley, Mrs. Frank King and
Mrs. Evan Guth; Table committee,
Mrs* B. H. Andrew, Jr., Mrs. R. E.
Ogletree, Mrs. S. E. Smith and
Mrs. A. M. Anderson, Jr.
Mrs. Grimes also is in charge of
the invitations.
This is an annual affair sponsor
ed by the auxiliary and one of the
biggest events i n the Legion’s
activities each year.
Hours for Voting
In unty Election
The three candidates for county
commissioner who had entered
last week remained the only ones
offering when the deadline passed
Saturday. They are R. R. Pratt,
Claude Watson and Dreyfus L.
Fountain.
The polls in all precincts will
open at 8 a. m. They wil remain
open at the courthouse in Perry un
til 6 p. m., but in all other pre
cincts, the polls will be closed at 3
p. m. If registrants are unable to
vote before the polls close in their
precincts at 3 p. m., they can vote
at the courthouse in Perry. Closing
of all precincts except the court
house applies also to Warner Ro
bins
This Special Election is held un
der the same rules and regulations
as regular county elections, which
require opening and closing hours
as set out above, Judge John L.
1 Hodges, ordinary, said.
Simmons INNERSPRING mat
tresses and matching box springs.
Massee Furniture Co., Phone 75,
Perry, Ga.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 13. 1947
Mrs. Hall Dies
Here at Age 65
Funeral services for Mrs. Homer
i W. Hall, 65, who died at her home
at her home here Tuesday, were
held at the Perry Methodist church
Wednesday morning. The services
were conducted by the Rev. J. B-
Smith, pastor, and the Rev. J. A.
Ivey, pastor of the Perry Baptist
church.
Mrs. Hall, an active member of
the Methodist church, had lived in
Houston county since 1900. She was
born in Pike county, the daughter
of the late Benjamin Howell Adams
and Ella Smith Adams.
Mrs. Hall was active in the af
fairs of the Methodist church and
the Women’s Society for Christian
Service.
Besides her husband, she is sur
vived by six children, B. H. Hall
of Dublin, Mrs. W. M. Hartley, Jr.,
Mi - s. Alton J. Edwards and Miss
Frances Hall of Macon; Mrs. Ro
bert S. Kytle of Eastman; three
sisters, Mrs. J. W. Jones, Section,
Ala.; Mrs. L. A. McDaniel, Means
ville, Ga., and Mrs. W. M. Rosser,
Atlanta, and eight grandchildren.
Tucker Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
T. L. Warren Opens
New Trailer Park
The Great Oaks Trailer Park,
owned by T. L. Warren on Georgia
Highway No. 7, is opened for trailer
travelers.
It is one- of the most modern
parks in middle Georgia with am
ple room between trailers. Two
spacious bathrooms with hot sho
wers serve the trailerites. A store
and service station will be opened
later for convenience of the visitors.
Steps will be taken to improve and
beautify the park from time to time
as well as to make it a convenient
one for the travelers.
RABIES INOCULATION
Dr. R. S. Duffell will be out in,
the county of Houston from Tues
day, March 18, through Friday,
March 21, and will be in Perry
Saturday afternoon, March 22, to
hold the Rabies Confrol Clinic.
Inoculation is $1 per dog. State law
requires the inoculation once a
year. (Adv.)
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TRIPPI IN PERRY
Charlie Trippi, All-American
football player at the University of
Georgia, had lunch at the New
Perry Hotel Tuesday. Trippi said he
was en route to Gainesville, Fla., to
join the Atlanta Crackers in spring
training there.
Perry 29 Pos. Valdosta 20
Cooper 4 f Grant 1
Whipple 15 f Stephenson 15
Calhoun 4 c Blanton 2
Thompson 6 g O’Neal 2
Bledsoe 0 g Jones 0
Subs for Perry, Chapman, Watts.
For Valdosta, Griffin.
Score by quarters:
Perry 2 10 18 29
Valdosta ... 5 9 12 20
15th Try
For Title
Successful
j For 14 years of the last 20 the
Maroon and Gold of Perry High
School was represented in the state
basketball taurnament. For 14
years the Perry boys made a cre
ditable showing but never won the
title.
The 1946-47 Perry High Pan
thers captured Perry’s first state
basketball tournament in Macon
last Saturday night, soundly whip
ping the Valdosta Wildcats, 29 to
20. And 99 percent of Perry was
there to see it well done on the 15th
try.
Playing at what was supposed to
be bclow-par strength, the Pan
thers went into the tournament
without much advance publicity,
and one state paper simply said
Perry’s entry “rounded out a good
program.” The Perry boys really
rounded it out last Saturday night.
With sprained ankles, colds and
aching backs, the Panthers took the
toughest bracket, whipped the two
best teams to get to the Valdosta
quintet, and then put on an exhibi
tion of ball handling that had the
crowd screaming.
Rossvillc No. 1
| First vistim of the Panthers was
Rossville, strong, tall champions of
the Seventh District, who furnished
the opposition Thursday night. This
. was the night Derryle Whipple was
supposed to be on the bench be
cause of a sprained ankle, and
Clint Cooper was just recovering
from a sprained ankle. There was
little joy in Perry when Coach E.
P. Staples and his charge left
Thursday night, but there was
plenty when they returned with a
' 25 to 23 victory.
Rossville came to Macon with an
' impressive record against strong
competition in North Georga. They
1 appeared stunned after Clint
' Cooper hit one from the corner in
the first 30 seconds of play and the
Panthers got off to a good start. It
looked too good for Perry at'the end
of the first quarter with the score,
8 to 2, in our favor.
It looked too good in Rossville’s
eyes, to, so they roared right back
and brought the margin down to
one point, 10 to 9, at half time. Up
to this point, Clint Cooper had born
the load of the scoring attack. Af
ter the half, Derryle Whipple got
his sights adjusted on his target for
the night and hit two baskets.
Billy Bledsoe, who had taken care
of the Rossville offense up to this
time, hit two baskets, and the Pan
thers were away, leading 22 to 14
at the end of the third quarter. Af
ter thatchings looked mighty good J
CHAMPS OF GEORGIA—The fighting Panthers of Perry High School, the best cage team among B
schools in the State. Left to right, kneeling, Ed Chapman, Ed Thompson, Derryle Whipple, Mac Peyton
and Billy Gray. Standing, John Blue Calhoun, Clint Cooper, James Matthews, Billy Bledsoe, Charles
| Whitworth, Jack Watts and Seabie Hickson. (Photo courtesy of The Macon Telegraph),
.... #
FIGURED RIGHT—Coach E. P.
shown here mapping strategy for
must have figured it out for they
courtesy of The Macon Teleg
until the automatic time out with
four minutes left. The officials
started reading the rule book to the
Perry boys, to the tune of six fouls
in the last four minutes—-and with
Perry leading by only two points.
The fouls must have been undeserv
ed because Rossville missed them
all. But fouls were not all. The
Panthers lost the ball six times in
the last four minutes because of
running penalties.
Canton Was Next
Despite all this, the Panthers held
onto their lead, edged out, 25 to 23,
ancT appeared ready to take on Can
ton, who had defeated the strong
Cochran club and Sonny Dykes on
Wednesday night.
The Canton Greenics, who had
lost to Perry during the season but
came back to beat Cochran, appear
ed to be the next toughest team to
Cochran and Rossville. And they
were mighty tough for the first
quarter, but then the scrapping
Panthers figured them out and beat
them the same way they beat them
in Perry, simply by outsmarting and
I outhustling the Greenies. Cooper
; and Whipple both had their shoot
ing eyes functioning and put away
29 points for themselves. John Blue
Calhoun, who has been depended j
upon chiefly as a defensive man
this year, came to the front offen
sively. Little Ed Thompson, who i
was possibly outshone by Billy
Bledsoe against Rossville, looked
like a million dollars against Can
j ton ’ s larger and taller boys. Besides
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Staples and Capt. Clint Cooper are
tiie State Tournament and they
won over tough opposition. (Photo
raph).
cutting the Greenies down to his
size, he looped in six points. He was
as cool as a January night when the
going was rough. If Whipple’s
spiained ankle worried him, you
couldn’t tell it, because he and
Cooper simply took the ball away
from the Cantonese and left them
standing in mid-court while the
Perry boys laid in four baskets un
der the goal.
It was almost too good (again) to
see Perry leading the Greenies, 24
to 12, at the end of the third quar
ter. Surely, Panther supporters
reckoned, the Canton five would re
cover and give us a battle. But the
I harder thp y tried, the more hustle
| the Staples-men showed, and Perry
I won the game in a walk at 36 to 18.
| The Valdosta Wildcats, who de
feated strong opposition down in
the Eight District, had brushed a
side pretty good foes in the lower
bracket m the state, and showed
Plenty of fight. When the finals
started, Cooper didn’t hit the first
basket in the first 30 seconds as he
had done previous two nights, and
fell behind 5 to 2 at the end of the
lust quarter. The locals came back
to knot the count at 9-9 just before
the half. The first half ended with
Perry leading, 10 to 9. But as they
had done all year, they listened to
wise counsel from Coach Staples
who changed his set up on offense
to put Cooper in the center position
and Calhoun in the forward post.
