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VOL. LXXVIII. No. 26 PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY GA., THURSDAY. JUNE 30. 1949 ESTABLISHED 1870
County Issues Beer Licenses to 5
Licenses to sell beer have been is
-uei to live Houston county places,
r E Brown, clerk of the county
commissioners said Tuesday,
granting of beer licenses outside
, . ■ porated cities in the county
' ‘J.i.. , departure from the policy
j„lljwed by the county commission
's s i n ce beer was legalized in Geor
gia.
5 The five places which have re
ceived beer licenses are €. H. Grif
fs Route 41 north of Perry; H. L.
Linton, operator of Shantytown on
the Houston Lake Road; J. R. Doke,
Route 41, 13 miles north of Perry;
Lake Joy, three miles east of Perry;
an( j B J. Blaney, Route 41, 8 miles
oU th of Perry near Henderson.
The Atlantic Company is the only
wholesaler to receive a license to
sell to the retail outlets.
State Jaycees
To Meet Here
The Perry Junior Chamber of
Commerce will be host to the mem
bers of the State Board of Directors
of the Jaycees at the New Perry Ho
tel Saturday and Sunday, July 23
and 24.
Marion L. Brown, president of
the Perry club, said about 100 per
sons, Jaycees and their wives, are
expected to come .here for the meet
ing. A oanquet and dance are sche
duled for Saturday night.
The state board is meeting here
at the invitation of State Vice Presi
dent H, E. Evans of Perry.
Today Is Deadline
For Drivers' License
Today (Thursday) is the last day
Georgians can obtain their 1949-50
drivers’ licenses, Sergeant L. M.
Jones, head of the Perry station of
the Georgia State Patrol.
The validating machine, which is
sues your license while you wait,
■will be at the station here all day
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(Veterans who desire the free five
year licenses should bring their
discharge papers with them. Hus
bands who want to get licenses for
their wives must bring their wives’
licenses with them.
Houston 4-H'ers
At Americus Meet
Mrs. Dora M. Clifford, home dem
onstration agent, W. T. Middle
trooks, county agent, and a group
of Houston county 4-H club Students
are attending the District Project
Achievement meeting at Americus
this week.
Those entering the contests are
Petty Stewart, senior dress revue;
Betty Nunn, junior quick bread
contest; Ann Elizabeth Griffin, for
estry demonstration: Sylvia Tabor,
junior public speaking, and Gene
-.ewis, livestock judging.
The Houston Farm Bureau paid
the expenses of the youngsters to
the district meeting.
Dr. C. F. Cooper, Jr.,
Moves To Atlanta
Dr. Charles F. Cooper, Jr., a
dative of Perry, has discontinnued
medical practice in Macon to go to
Grady Hospital in Atlanta for three
years study.
Dr. Cooper will specialize in the
of the eye. He will be resident
Physician at Grady Hospital.
Dr. Cooper is a graduate of Perry
*bgh School, Mercer University,
Fmory University and served in
U. S. Army for five years.
Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Cooper, Sr., of
visited their son and his
at nily in Macon Sunday.
Kiwanians Enjoy
Musical Program
Bev. Justin Hill and his mother,
J'bs. Sylvia Hill, presented a musi
program before the Perry Ki
-1 mis Club at the New Perry Hotel
’■Tuesday.
Rg v. Mr. Hill played the trumpet
■ ■ Piano and sang two Negro spir-
Jl l ~ s. Mrs. Hill accompanied him
a the piano.
B v. Mr. Hill is the supply pastor
■’ the Perry Baptist Church while
Alien Freeman is at the Sou
v 1 Baptist Seminary, Louisville,
Dr. Freeman is expected to re
*u ' ‘ about two weeks.
Houston mt Journal
HENTZ HOUSER
Perry Scouts
Win High Honor
Hentz Houser, son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Houser of Perry, has been
initiated into the Order of the Ar
row of thfe Boy Scouts.
The high honor was accorded
Hentz at ceremonies at Camp Ben
jamnn Hawkins last week. Hentz
is an Eagle Scout and a member of
Troop 96, sponsored by the Perry
Kiwanis Club. He is serving as a
counselor at Camp Hawkins during
the summer.
Members of the Order of the Ar
row are elected by the Boy Scouts
themselves in a secret ballot.
Harris Satterfield, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Satterfield of Perry,
also was elected to the Order of
the Arrow but was unable to attend
the ceremonies.
Eleven members of Troop 96 and
Scoutmaster Jube Strother will'
leave Sunday afternoon, July 3, for
Camp Hawkins. The scoutmaster
will notify the boys this weekend as
to the time and meeting place.
William D. Anderson
Dies At Age of 37
Funeral services for William D.
(Bill) Anderson, 37, former resi
dent of Perry who died in Phoenix,
Ariz., were held at the Fort Valley
Methodist Church Wednesday af
ternoon.
Mr. Anderson, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Anderson, lived in Perry
for many years and attended Perry ,
High School about 1930. He was a |
nephew of Mrs. A. M. Anderson,
Sr., of Perry.
Survivors are one daughter, Jean
Anderson, Eastman; one sister, Mrs.
Rhea O’Zanick, Macon, and two bro
thers, David Anderson, San Diego,
, Calif,, and Riley Anderson, Ft. Val
: ley.
Perry Missionary
Will Be Assigned
To North Africa
Friends of Miss Margery Short,
daughter of Mrs. J. H. Short of Per
i ry, will be interested to know that
I she is now in Paris, France, to study
1 for the summer before going to
! North Africa for her next assign
ment.
! Miss Short is a missionary serving
• under the Methodist Church. She is
a former resident of Perry and
r member of the local Methodist
. .Church.
> During the past few weeks she
visited the Scandinavian countries.
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Adult Swim Class
Will Be Organized
Andrew J. Hanson and Miss Bess
Nunn, veteran swimming instruc
, tors of Perry, announced plans for
- an adult swimming class at Hous
- ton Lake beginning Tuesday morn
-1 ing, July 5, at 9 o'clock.
The classes and the use of the
t lake will be free to those register
- mg. Those who desire to register
i are asked to call Miss Nunn at Tele
phone 29. The class will be strictly
r for adults who cannot swim. Fun-
damentals will be taught, the in
- structors said.
i t The class will not be held unless (
-a sufficient number register for the
course.
Rains Assist |
801 l Weevils
Houston county farmers this
week cast anxious eyes at the skies
this week, hoping for some hot, dry
weather to help them control the
boll weevil.
The weather was hot but the hu
midity was* high and rains fell al
most every day. Insecticides sold
like hot cakes during the week, for
Houston farmers found more than
normal weevil infestation. 801 l wee
vils thrive on rainy weather but
can’t stand hot, dry days and nights.
Meanwhile, peaches moved to
market in ever-increasing volume.
Most of them went by truck. Ice de
liveries to trucks were heavy. Local
stores felt some of the effects of
the peach packing house payrolls
bus the size of the crop this year
; .s about half of normal or less.
Corn and watermelons seemed to
be thriving on the rains.
Jo Alice Moody
Named Governor
Os Girls' State
Jo Alice Moody, Perry High
school senior, Thursday was duly in
augurated governor of 1949 Girls’
State in ceremonies at the state
capitol ii| Atlanta.
With her was her staff and more
than 250 girls, who went to Atlanta
as a climax to three days of elec-!
tions at Wesleyan College.
Miss Moody, running on the Fed
eralist party ticket, edged out Joan
Terry of Valdosta for the high of
fice.
A Nationalist party member, June
Mundy of Americus, defeated Fran
ces Sistar of Atlanta for lieutenant
governor.
GIRLS’ STATE, sponsored by the
auxiliary of Georgia’s American Le
i gion, met for the fourth year, sec
ond time at - Wesleyan, where the
girls leerned the rudiments of city
county-state governments first
hand.
The other seven girls from Perry
also were honored by election to
offices at Girls’ State.
They were Evelyn Gilbert, direc
tor of public safety; Barbara Jones,
health commissioner and represen
tative; Ann Bachelor, county com
missioner; Jean Clark, state sena
tor; Betty Ann Smith, state health
director and honorary escort to the
governor; Lucille Kovac, member
of pardon and parole board; Peggy
Jo Michell, superior court judge.
Mrs. D. J. Harrell of Brunswick,
| state auxiliary chairman of Girls’
State, came to Perry Wednesday
to take Jo Alice, Mrs. Paul Hardy
and Mrs. W. J. Boone to Florida
Girls' State.
FRIDAY, Governor Moody spoke
to her “subjects” at a general assem
bly on the Rivoli campus in the
morning. The assembly was follow
• ed by a session of both the senate
and the bouse.
Saturday was the last day, with
the girls returning home following
lunch.
Jo Alice is in Tallahassee, Fla.,
this week as the guest of Florida
Girls’ State. Later in the- summer
she will join the governors of Girls’
State from other states on a trip
to Washington, D. €., New York
and other points of interest.
Perry should feel very proud olj
the outstanding achievement of
charming, personable, friendly Jo
Alice Moody.
Jo Alice is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Moody of Perry,
She has won several high awards
as a speaker in high school and 4-IJ
Club competition. She was a cheer
leader at the high school last year
and made an excellent record in
all of her activities.
She will bring great credit to
the city and the school in her tra
vels. Congratulations to Jo Alice
Moody.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of Mrs. Hallie M. Hol
lomon wish to thank the many
friends for their acts of kindness i
and expressions of sympathy and
beautiful floral offerings in her re
cent illness and death.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bloodworth,
Tommy and Johnny Mobley, Mrs.
Helen Davis and Miss Helen Davis
are vacationing at Jacksonville
Beach.
\Perry High School Designated |
As Courthouse for July Term
Perry High School has been des
ignated by the Houston county com
missioners for the July term of
Houston superior court opening
here Monday, July 18, for two
weeks.
The school auditorium will be
used for the courtroom and the
judges, Judges A. M. Anderson and
Mallory C. Atkinson, will use of
fices in the building for two weeks,
according to an order issued follow
ing a county commissioners’ meet
ing last Thursday.
GRAND JURORS
P. D. Meadows, E. E. Bateman, C.
T. Hicks, A. F. Brown, C. O. Grimes,
Horton W. Eyer, C. P. Gray, Frank
A. Dauby, Dave C. Dunbar, C. H.
Whitener, Emmitt Akin, J. A. Bed
dingfield, Willard 'Stembridge, W.
W. Hunt, W. E. Strom.
James C. Johnson, J. H. Richards,
W. A. Defoe, Lawrence Hosteller,
Rhodes Sewell, W. T. Mobley, C. P.
Mercer, J. G. Giles, H. E. Smith, W.
G. Riley, Clarence Holt, Edwin
Pierce, Alton Hardy, R. G. Scar
brough, C. O. Davis.
TRAVERSE JURORS Ist WEEK
L. S. Hays, G. L. Hulsey, John J.
Griggs, Evans B. Guth, J. Y. Green,
O. L. Evans, H. D. Chapman, Ernest
C. Padgett, R. H. Benefield, Claud
White, W. H. Rape, B. W. Bozeman,
R. L. Roper, Robert E. Pyles, G. P.
Harkins.
I Howard Peyton, W. W. Jarrell,
| Milton Beckham, H. V. Bramblett,
B. F. Bennett, Thomas J. Cater, Jr.,
Mark Chapman, (Col)., M. F. Mc-
Cormick, Jr., J. B. Andrews, Chas.
H. Andrew, Malcolm Dean, C. H.
Gray, E. P. Staples, Charles E. Da
vis, W. B. Harrison.
G. T. Pierce, G. B. Wills, V. B.
Abrams, L. M. Harrison, W. C. Hug
gins, Arthur D. Steele, C. H. Arnold,
W. C. Moody, Leon Colson, J. P.
Risher, John G. Paul, Lee M. Paul,
Gordon Wilcoxon, A. B. Irby, Chas.
E. Cawthon.
Olton Smith, Marvin Gentry, E.
E. Loggins, Russell L. Johnson, D.
C. Wright, Harold F. Clements, R.
E. Smith, Freeman Jenkins, Charles
E. Horton, Charles P. Stafford, A.
M. Kicklighter, W. O. McElhenney,
A. J. Cannon, J. M. Strong, Sr.
W. O. Brooks, Louie Davis, C. R.
Whitworth, Richard T. Pierce, M.
M. Cloud, J. W. Arnold, D. L. Foun
tain, L. H. Jacobs, T. C. Mayo.
NOTICE OF DESIGNATION OF
COURTHOUSE and PLACE of
HOLDING COURT IN HOUSTON
COUNTY
GEORGIA, HOUSTON COUNTY,
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONERS OF
ROADS AND REVENUES OF
HOUSTON COUNTY:
WHEREAS, the old and regular
courthouse of Houston County has
been demolished and a new court
house is being constructed on the
site of the old building;
The building within the City of
Ferry, in said County, known as the
John Hodges Annex Building same
being an extension to the rear of
the Houston Home Journal Bldg., is
hereby provided, constituted and
designated as the courthouse and
place for the holding of any and all
sessions and sittings of the Super
ior Court of Houston County, in
cluding all sessions and sittings of
the Grand Jury of Houton County,
except that for and during the cal
endar weeks commencing July 18,
1949, and July 25, 1949, the public
school building located within the
City of Perry, in said County,
known as the Perry High School
Building, fronting on the south side
r«f MMn Street in said city limits, is
hereby provided, constituted and
designated as the courthouse and
place for the holding of any and
all sessions and sittings of the Su
perior Court of Houston County', in
cluding sessions and sittings of the
; Grand Jury of Houston County, as
well as the place for the comple
tion of any and all jury trials as
may be commenced during either
or both of said calendar weeks.
The building formerly occupied
I by Rogers grocery store, within the
City of Perry, in said County, and
being located next to Andrew Hard
ware Company, is hereby provided,
constituted and designated as the
offices of the Sheriff, Clerk of the
Superior Court, and the Ordinary
of Houston County for the purposes
* of the performances of their official
MRS. R. L. CATER
}
Class to Honor
|Mrs. Stella Cater
Members of the Stella Duncan i
Cater Class of the Baptist Sunday
School will hold their annual pic
nic tonight (Thursday) in the gar
den us Mrs. R. L. Cater, for whom
I the class is named.
The class desires to honor Mrs.
Cater, who has been a member and
leader in the Perry Baptist Church
for many years, according to Mrs.
Alton Hardy, the teacher. The class
is composed of young people.
The class has recorded an ex
ceptional growth during the last
few months.
Home Journal
Closes a Week
The'Houston Home Journal will
close all next week for the annual
vacation for employees.
No paper will be issued next week
and no job printing can be done
during the week.
, Those who desire job work done
are requested to order it at once so
•hat it can be handled this weekend.
The Journal will open again for
business on Monday morning, July
11.‘
CORRECTION
The name of Mrs. W. J. Boone
> vras omitted from the list of new
f officers of the Legion Auxiliary
I in last week’s Home Journal. Mrs.
Boone was installed as the histor
ian of Lhe local unit.
duties as provided by law,/including
the holding of any and all hearings,
sittings and sessions of the Court
i of Ordinary.
So Ordered at a special meeting
! of the Commissioners of Roads and
Revenue of Houston County, Geor
’ gia, this 23rd day of June, 1949.
■ I, Robert E. Brown, Clerk of the
: j Commissioners of Roads and Reve
: nup of Houston County, Georgia, do
! certify that the above and forego
i ing constitutes a true and correct
1 copy of the resolution and order of
I the Commissioners of Roads and
• Revenue of Houston County, Geor
gia, passed in a special meeting on
‘ the 23rd day of June, 1949, as the
,! same appears of record in the of
■ ficial minutes of said body.
, 3VXTNESS my hand and official
: seal this 23rd day of June, 1949.
i Robert E. Brown, Clerk
, (Official Seal)
1 '
J GEORGIA, HOUSTON COUNTY,
s IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
11 SAID COUNTY:
1 The foregoing order and resolu- 1
l|tion of the Commissioners of i
- Roads and Revenue of Houston j
- County designating the courthouse
- and place of holding court in Hous
-3 i ton County is hereby approved,
-jand it is ordered that a copy of the
3 1 same be recorded on the minutes of
r j said Court and that a copy of the
l same, together with this order, be
1 published in the next regular issue
» of the official gazette of Houston
i County at the expense of Houston
- County.
, So Ordered in Open Court this
l* 1 23rd day of June, 1949.
e j A. M. Anderson
y I Mallory C. Atkinson
s Judges, S. C. M. C.
il (Official Seal)
I
Nearly Every Home
Has The Home Journal
I Patrol Here
Gets Bigger
Barracks
j
A large addition to the Georgia
State Patrol station here is being
built by the Houston county com
missioners.
The county, proud of the loca
tion of one of the state’s major pat
rol stations in Perry, agreed to en
large the building to accomodate
the growing patrol activities out of
the Perry station. A number of fam
diies live in Perry because of the
location of the station here.
Three bedrooms, two baths and
? radio room are being added to
the west side which formerly was
the rear of the building. The sta
tion, when finished will appear to
have two fronts, facing on the new
ly paved Commerce street and on
Carroll street.
Milton Beckham has been em
ployed by the county to supervise
the construction and some convict
labor has been used to keep the
costs tp the county as low as possi
ble.
The commissioners are to be con
gratulated on helping out the state
patrol to this extent, which means
that the city and county will bene
fit at the same time.
Pirates Second
As Half Closes
The Perry Pirates booted away
their chances for a tie for the first
half place in the Macon League last
Sunday, losing to Payne City at
Hickson Field, 10 to 6.
But they wouldn’t have tied for
first, anyway, for Warner Robins
captured the spot with a close 3-2
victory over Seals Brothers at War
ner Robins.
The Pirates were scheduled to
open the second half of the Macon
league season with a game in Ma
con with Peeler Wednesday night.
The Macon League took on an
other member, Hawkinsville, for the
last half race. There are now 10
teams in the loop.
The Pirates will face Willingham
Mill here at 3 p.m. Sunda'y, July 3.
Willingham finished in the first di
vision in the first half.
Perry’s Legion team walloped
Hawkinsville, 10 to 3, at Hickson
Field Tuesday night. Bobby Satter
field was the Perry Pitcher. Coach
E. P. Staples has drafted two Una
clilla boys to play for the Legion
team, Catcher Williams and Third
Baseman Roberts, both of whom
showed up well in Tuesday’s game.
STANDINGS
MACON LEAGUE
Team W L
W, Robins 13 3
Perry 12 4
Roberta 10 5
Peeler Hardware 9 6
Payne Mill 9 7
Willingham Mill 5 10
Brighton Mill 5 10
Seals Brothers 4 12
Smith Motors 1 12
BASEBALL COMING UP
Perry Legion vs. American Le
gion, 8:15 p.m. Friday, July 1, Hick
son Field.
Perry Pirates vs. Willingham
Mill, 3 p.m. Sunday, July 3, Hickson
Field.
Stores to Close
Here for July 4
Most Perry stores will be closed
next Monday, July 4, for the In
dependence Day observance. ,
! The Perry Loan & Savings Bank
[and grocery, hardware, dry goods
(and many service stations will be
closed all day.
Kicklighter Company will
be closed all day Monday and
Houston Drug Company will close
at 1 p.m.
Welfare Directors
Meet at Perry Hotel
County welfare directors from 25
; Georgia counties met in Perry Wed
nesday to discuss changes in the
welfare program under a curtailed
budget.
Miss Carolyn Bullard, Third Dis
trict director, was in charge of the
meeting at the New Perry Hotel.