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Visit Perry The
Crossroads of Georgia
VOL. 79 No. 7
Penn-Dixie
Breaks Own
Safety Mark
plant Two of Pennsylvania-Dixie
Cement Corporation, located at
Cl nchfield, has established a new j
,;v record of 1730 days without
a lost time accident. Their last lost
r.m. accident was on May 19, 1945.
TilL , o ld record of 1725 days was
established in 1935.
Plant Two added another year to
it; safety trophy by operating
through 1949 without a lost time
accident. A suitable celebration of
this event will be held at a later \
date. It is interesting to note from
Portland Cement Association re
ports that a 25 per cent reduction in
accidents within the cement in
dustry last year establishes a low
nine-year record. A total of 42
plants went through the year with
out a lost time accident while only
one mishap each marred the records
of 29 other plants.
The January mass meeting of
employees was very helpful and
inspiring. The minor accident sta
tistics were encouraging and the
plant speaker, John Satterfield,
gave a splendid tal'ak on training
new employes in safety methods.
Eev. J. B. Smith was guest speaker
and delivered one of his usual in
teresting talks. He related some of
his early experiences as a worker
before entering the ministry and
compared industrial safety then and
now. Rev, Mr. Smith complimented
the organization as well as all others
who are actually engaged in formu
lating and enforcing safe practices
in the prevention of accidents.
Linder Taiget
Os Farm Bureau
IMACON, Ga—The Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation has charged Tom
Linder, state commissioner of agri
culture, with resorting to deliberate
“misleading statements” in defeat
ing legislation proposed by the or
ganization before the session of the
General Assembly which adjourned
February 13.
The February issue of the Geor
gia Farm Bureau News, official pub
lication of the GFBF, will say edi
torially that “Georgia’s ‘Propaganda
Sheet,’ the Market Bulletin, was
used most extensively to drum up
support against the proposal crea
ting a Livestock Sanitary Board.”
The measure was defeated in com
mittee by a vote of 25-21. i
Commissioner Linder appeared i
before the house committee in op- |
position to the proposal, which had!
the unanimous endorsement of the
state Farm Bureau membership, the
monthly publication points out.
GFBF membership at the end of the
1949 fiscal year was 71,145 farm
families, the paper reports.
“The influence of the Commiss
ioner of Agriculture,” the farm
paper’s editorial will say, “has pre
vailed over the combined interest
of Georgia’s farm organization
which includes the producers of
many and varied commodities, and
particularly those thousands en- j
gaged in livestock production.”
“The question arises,” the publi
cation points out, “Shall the farmers
of Georgiia tell the Commissioner of
Agriculture what they want, or
shall this official tell the farmers
what they shall have and what they
shall not have.”
A recent issue of the Market
Bulletin, edited by Commissioner
Linder, carried an editorial which
consumed the entire front page and
half the back page “attacking the
Livestock Sanitary Board proposal,”
the Georgia Farm Bureau News
editorial asserts. “Many legislators
were lulled to sleep by the poison
Pen of Mr. Linder who has appro
priated the columns of the Market
Bulletin, which is paid for by the
taxpayers, to defeat a program de
signed to improve livestock
industry in Georgia.”
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Johnny Mobley, son of Mr. and
Tom Mobley, celebrated his
'9th birthday with a party at his
r.ome last Wednesday.
Sixteen of Johnny’s classmates
Joined him for the party, which
•“atured the Vaalentine
Mrs. Vaughn Bramblqtt assisted
•Mrs. Mobley in entertaining.
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GUESSING GAME—These Kiwanians will shake a leg as hula
girls in the Kiwanis Minstrel Chuckles to be presented at Perry High
School auditorium Friday night. We blacked out the faces but you
might be able to pick out Horace Evans, Johnnie Williamson, Gardner
Watson, Yates Green and Marion Scott. That’s who they are, you can
identity them Friday night. (Exclusive Home Journal photo.)
Kiwanians 'Primed' for Minstrel
Scheduled for Friday Night Here
Forty-five Perry Kiwbnians
in hula skirts, minstrel suits and
black faces—will present Kiwanis
Minstrel Chuckles at Perry High
School auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday
for the benefit of Kiwanis youth
programs.
Advance ticket sales indicate a
full house, Kiwanis President Gard
ner Watson said.
The show is divided into two
parts, an oldtiime blackface mins
trel and a skit entitled, the Island
of Never Known.
Soloists featured will be Francis
i Nunn, Wlendell Whipple, Charles
Andrew, Dan Grant and Stewart
Richardson. Cooper Etheridge will
be the interlocutor for the minstrel.
End men include Cohen Walker,
Marion Houser and W. B. Evans.
Miss Martha Cooper, Miss Sara
Lewis and Mrs. W. B. Evans are
directing the show.
Every Kiwanian has tickets for
sale and in addition they will be
on sale at Horace & Mildred Shop.
Club Has Meet
At Centerville
In spite of not having a “mama”
I ('agent), the Centerville Home De
monstration Club held its February
imeeting at he home of Mrs. James
! Johnson with Mrs. Homer J. Wal
ker as co-hostess.
The meeting was called to order
by Mrs. E. E. Bateman, president.
Mrs. Harry Dumas gave the devo
tional. After the business session,
Mrs. William Bateman gave a talk
on “The Promotion of Health and
Nursing in Communicable Di
seases”.
Mrs. Bateman also gave a demon
stration on bed-making with the
patient in it. Little Miss Carol Mil
ler acted the part of the patient.
; During the social hour, refresh
j ments were served by the hostesses.
i \ few of the Centerville club
members attended the District
Home Demonstration Council In
stitute in Roberta Feb. 9. They
were Mrs. Harrv Dumas, president
of the Houston County H. D. Coun
cil, Mrs. Ira Garvin, Mrs. Fred
Cartei: and Mrs. James Johnson.
Emory Gle > Club
Coming March 18
The Emory Glee Club will appear
in Perry March 18 under the spon
sorship of the Perry Kiwanis Club
and the Perry Delphian Club, it
was announced Wednesday.
The club’s appearance here will
be the first concert in its spring
tour.
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Houston Bond Goal
Set at Half Million
| 1 Mayo Davis, County Chairman
! for Houston County, announced that
goals for U.S. Savinigs Bonds in
, 1950 were set in this county as fol
’ lows: $480,000, E, F and G Bonds.
Other comparable counties in this
I area have goals of: Peach, $195,000;
Dooly, $170,000; Pulaski, $120,000.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GA„ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1950
City Limits Bill
Signed Into Law
Plans went forward Tuesday to
annex more territory to the City
of Perry and push the estimated
'population to more than 4,000 per
sons.
Mayor Mayo Efavis announced
that Governor Talmadge has signed
into law the bill to extend the city
limits to one and three-quarters
miles from the courthouse, forming
a circle with a diameter of three and
a half miles.
The city limits will extend “from
the center of the new Houston
county courthouse," according to
the bill passed by the recent legis
lature and plans will ndw be made
to determine exactly what new
property will come under the city’s
jurisdiction.
City officials believe that more
than 1,000 persons will be added to
the city’s population by the city
limjits extension.
Few if any protests were made
by the property owners being taken
into the city.
Free Show Offered
By Andrew Truck
Andrew Truck and Tractor Com
pany is sponsoring a free show—
the Cotton Carrier Plantation
Gang—at the Perry High School
auditorium at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb.
20.
Earl F. Lewis, manager, said the
show will be strictly entertain
ment and there will be no com
mercials, no advertising schemes,
no registration, just good entertain
ment from the hill billy group of
musicians. There is no charge and
the public is cordially invited to
attend.
Hospitalization Plan
Brought to Houston
A voluntary hospitalization in
surance plan designed to reach
every family in Houston County is
presented elsewhere in this issue
of the Home Journal, as the beginn
ing of a special campaign by the
Mutual Benefit Health and Acci
dent Association.
Opening tomorrow, agents of the
company will begin the campaign
to present the Houston Community
Hospitalization plan throughout the
county.
Headed by J. P. Lowry, of Macon,
who is District officer of the com
pany, the campaign will open Feb.
16 for a limited time.
Differing from many hospitaliza
tion plans the Mutual proposals
ccver surgical, doctor, maternity,
and room and board bills in hos
pitals.
Mrs. George Riley, Jr., of White
Springs, Fla., and her daughter,
, Mrs. Caampbell of Denver, Colo.,
. spent several days with Mrs.
George Jordan.
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Baptist Women
In Perry Today
The Baptist Woman’s Missionary
I L’nion, .Auxiliary to the Rehoboth
'Association, will hold itis 55th an
nual meeting at the Perry First
Baptist Church from 10:30 a.m. to
13:30 p.m. Thursday.
Mrs. Thomas E. Turner Jr, of
j Macon, superintendent announced
! that the theme for the meeting will
be The World to Christ We Bring.
The Rev. Karl Perego, pastor of
First Baptist Church of Warner
j Robins, will lead the morning de
votional, after a welcome given by
Mrs. Allen Freeman of the Perry
church and Mrs. A. C. Pritchett,
president of the hostess WMU.
Mrs. Luther Bloodworth of Ma
con, vice president of the West Cen
tral Division, will deliver a mes
sage on Bringing the World to
Christ Through Prayers and Offer
j ings. Mrs, Herbert Hyde of Mabel
j White Baptist Church, Macon, will
speak on the Rural Churches of
Our Asociation. Francis Nunn will
give musical numbers during the
morning session.
I Dr. Allen J. Freeman will dis
| cuss the Evangelistic Crusade to
bt conducted ip the eastern section
of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion during 1951. Miss Janice Sin
gleton, executive secretary of the
state WMU, will speak on Evan
gelism in WMU.
Missionary Talk
The main missionary address will
be delivered by Mrs. Bela Udvar
noki from Hungary. Mrs. Udvar
noki’s husband is now a pastor in
North Carolina awaiting the day he
may be able to return to his field
of service.
During a short business session
after lunch, officers will make their
annual reports. Reports will be giv
en by Mrs. Alton Bickley and (Mrs.
J. W. Hudson of the First District;
Mrs. M. K. Dorsett and Mrs. J. A.
Todd of the Second District; Mrs.
J. B. Edwards and Mrs. J. S. Wat
kins Jr. of the Third District and
Mrs. Elmer T. Jones and Mrs. O. L.
Carr of the Fourth District. Mrs.
Ralph Lovelace of Macon will re
port for the Business Women’s Cir
cles.
Mrs. Owen P. Thompson of Ma
con, Young People’s leader for the
association, will conduct. Bringing
, Our Young People to Christ, dur
ing which time representatives from
the YWCA, Girls’ Auxiliary, Royal
Ambassadors and Sunbeams will
appear. Bobby Thompson, steward
of the State Royal Ambassadors,
will discuss the RA Congress in
Atlanta. Tommy Davenport, Am
bassador from the First Baptist
Church, will tell of his experience
on the RA tour to Cuba. A group of
Sunbeams and their leaders from
i Perry will give a demonstration.
Pace Declines
»
Again to Run
Congressman Stephfcn Pace of
. the Third Georgia District reiterat-
I ed his statement Wednesday that
t he will not be a candidate for re
, election.
In a letter to The Home Journal,
Representative Pace said:
“I have been requested to recon
sider my decision, announced last
November, to retire as a member of
Congress upon the expiration of
' my present term.
L “I shall never cease to be grate
-1 ful to those who have been so gra
! clous and so generous in urging me
’ to remain in office. Even those
i who have been suggested as can
didates to succeed me have joined
|in this request and have been
5 islanding by to await further word.
1 |Such action has moved me deeply.
j All of this is so much more than I
; i deserve.
“I have, therefore, reviewed my
• previous decision, seriously and
• prayerfully. I have wanted so much
• to do the right thing and to acco
modate, if possible, the wishes of
■ those who could be prompted by
3 no more than the purest and most
• patriotic motives.
“But the facts remain the same,
and I can only reaffirm my deci
a sion and repeat in part my previous
announcement: I am very tired, I
feel the urgent need of rest, I shall
•» t
; not offer for re-election.
STEPHEN PACE
COACH E. P. STAPLES
Hunt Succeeds
Brown As Clerk
‘Lawrence Bunt, administrative
officer of the local office of the
Production and Marketing Admi
nistration, will become clerk of the
Houston county commissioners and
custodian of the new $325,000
Houston county courthouse on
March 1.
R. E. Brown, presently clerk of
the commissioners and county at
torney, will be retained as coun
ty attorney. Mr. Brown has been
clerk of the commissioners since
the death of C. E. Brunson two
years ago.
Jack Bradley, veterans On-the
farm teacher here, will succeed Mr.
Hunt at the PMA office. Mr. Brad
ley has six years experience as a
PMA officer. He will take over his
new duties March 1.
Forestry Work
Planned Today
A Forestry Demonstration will be
held Thursday, February 16 at 1:30
pm. on the farm of Paschal Muse
near Perry.
This demonstration is sponsored
by the Ocmulgee Soil Conservation
District and the Georgia Depart
ment of Forestry. It is under the
technical direction of Olin Wither
ington, district forester, with head
quarters in Americus. Witherington
will be assisted by J. C. Miller, rep
resentative of the Soil Conserva
tion Service in Houston County; W.
T. Middlebrooks, county agent; and
other agricultural workers in the
county.
Representatives of a number of
different companies will demon
strate power saws and bow saws.
Four different types of mechanical
planters, and a fire plow mounted
on a jeep will be demonstrated.
G. I. Farm Classes as well as a
large number of land owners in
■both Peach and Houston counties
are expected to attend. Vocational
agricultural students in both Perry
and Fort Valley will attend.
Bright Green Carpet Unrolled
For Big Conservation Tour Mar. 1
BY R. B. GOODY
Assistant Soil Conservationist,
Houston County
A bright green carpet has been i
unrolled along Highways 7, 41 and
49 in Houston, Bibb and Peach Co
unties on the route of tour that
700 soil conservation supervisors
will follow on March 1.
These supervisors, who are to
attend the National Convention of
Soil Conservation Supervisors in
Atlanta on February 27 - March 2,
’will come to these counties from
almost every state in the union to
get a glimpse of our farming prac
tices.
The Houston County farmers a
long this route of tour have done
a splendid job of getting the fields
planted to winter cover crops, small
grain and pastures. The spirit of
cooperation has been excellent.
Many farmers have gone to con
siderable trouble and expense to
make the tour route green and in
so doing have exhibited the finest
of community spirit.
Roadsides Green
In addition to planting the fields
and orchards, the highway should
-11 ers have been sown in crimson
’ clover and rye grass in cooperation
i with the State Highway Depart
ment. Fertilizer used at the time of
) was furnished by the fol-
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Perry Out
For Another
District Cup
The Perry Panthers will lay their
16th district basketball champion
ship on the line next week when
they enter the Third District Class
J tournament beginning Monday
night in Fort Valley’s giant gym.
First foe of the Panthers will be
the Buena Vista five. They will
meet at 9 p.tn. Tuesday night. In
the same bracket with the Perry
quint are Buena Vista, Cordele,
Dodge High and Cuthbret.
In the other bracket are Eastman,
Hawkinsville, Warner Robins, Daw
son, Sycamore, East Crisp and Fort
Valley. •
The best teams in the tournament
ore Perry, Eastman, Fort Valley,
Cordele and Warner Robins.
The first night’s games Monday
■will see Dawson vs. Sycamore at 6,
Dodlge High vs. Cuthbert at 7,
Hawkinsville vs. Warner Robins at
6, and East Crisp vs. Fort Valley
at 9.
Perry’s Panthers have won 16
district championships in the last
21 years, which covers the history
of basketball tournaments in this
section. They hold two state cham
pionships, 1947 and 1949.
The Panthers wound up the re
gular season with a 50-50 weekend.
They won over a strong Brown
High (Atlanta) team here Friday
night, 43 to 35, and then lost a close
one to Cochran in Cochran Satur
day night, 36 to 35.
Attack Is Fatal
To Jack Arnold
(Funeral services were held Tues
day for James William (Jack) Ar
nold, 25, widely known dealer of
Amoco Oil Company, who died,
unexpectedly Sunday night.
Rev. J, B. Smith, pastor, and the
Rev. J. A. Ivey, Baptist pastor at
Dawson, officiated at the services
at the Methodist Church and burial
was in Evergreen cemetery.
Mr. Arnold was a member of the
Perry Methodist Church and a
graduate of Perry High School. He
was a member of the Perry fire
department, whose members served
as pallbearers.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Betty Jean King; three
brothers, Henry, John and E. A.
Arnold, Perry; a sister, Mrs. I. C,
Britt of Cochran Field, Macon; and
his mother, Mrs. W. T. Arnold of
Perry, and a son, Jimmy.
IGardner Watson Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements.
Your best entertainment bargain
—The Home Journal, less than 4£
a week.
i lowing Peach and Houston County
I merchants: George Mills; A. J.
' Evans Marketing Agency; Dave
Strother; A. C. Pritchett; Mayo
Davis and George C. Nunn & Son.
The nitrogen used to top-dress
these shoulders was furnished \by
the following: Royster Guano Com
pany; Cotton States Fertilizer Com
pany; Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany; George C. Nunn & Son;
Heard Brothers; and Mayo Davis.
The planting of grass and clover
on the road will make the way
green and pleasing to the eyes of
these visitors from snow-cove red
states.
These Farmers Help
Houston County farmers who
have co-operated with the Ocmul
gee Soil Conservation District in
getting the fields green are J. F.
Hammock, W. C. Bateman, W. E.
Vinson, Jr., W. B. Sexton, A. W.
, Pratt, L. C. Holleman, Gunn Bro
, thers, F. W. Leverett, Marvin Dor
: sett, Arthur White, Jr., F. H. Tabor,
D. B. Durden, J. H. Smith, A. W.
[Davis, J. E. Estes, Charles Evans,
’ W. E. Ingram, L. W. Tabor, W. W.
t Gray, Robert Horton, Charles Mar
i shall, C. H. Griffin, Henry Giles,
■ Dr. Smoak Marshall, Clifford Gri-
E mes, T. L. Warren, D. H. Smith, T.
- D. Mason and Paschal Muse.