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HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
The Only Paid-In-Advance Circulation, Direct Mall News
paper Published in Houston County _ 22,000 Population.
Published weekly at Perry, Ga.
C. COOPER ETHERIDGE
Editor and Publisher
Official Organ—Houston Coun
■ty and City of Perry. Subscrip-
Uons: $2.50 per year in state;
$3.00 out of state; $l5O for six
months. All subscriptions pay
MACON SHOULD HAVE
SCHOOL TELEVISION
We know better than to get in
to the line of fire in the contro
versy between Bibb county school
teachers and Bibb school board,
which cut county taxes and school
funds when it received increased
state funds and thus deprived
teachers of a part of the salary
increase they had expected.
But here’s one suggestion we
don’t hesitate to make because it
would be to the great advantage
of thousands of school children
all over Middle Georgia.
How about the Bibb school
board using any "extra” county
funds for starting a Macon tele
vision station exclusively for ed
ucational purposes?
Denying Opportunity
Every day that school authori
ties in metropolitan areas delay
in planning to make use of tele
vision for improved and broader
instruction, they are denying the
children in their charge some of
the most effective educational
opportunity that it is possible to
give them.
The Federal Communications
Commission has set aside at least
10 percent of television channels
for the exclusive use of educa
tional institutions, and whatever
the squabbles that may arise
among commercial stations to de
lay the installation of regular tel
evision stations in Macon, there
should be no technical difficul
ties in establishing a school sta-*
tion.
Scores of city, county and state
school systems throughout the
country are already planning sta
tions. Our interest, of course, is
MAD DOG
BIT SEVERAL DOGS IN PERRY
ALL DOGS MUST BE SHUT UP
OR CHAINED
FOR 30 DAYS
From Tues., July 10 Thru Aug. 8
This Applies To All Dogs, Whether
They Have Been Inoculated or Not!
Dogs Which Are Not Locked Up
or Chained Will Be Killed!
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State law requires all dogs must have been inoculated by
July 1. To enforce that law, the County Board of Health,
City and State, will have a Veterinarian to begin Thursday,
July 12, calling house to house to check all dogs and inoculate
those which have not been treated. If any dog is not in
oculated, it will have to be destroyed. The samejapplies to
any dog not shut up or chained.
BY ORDER OF MAYOR and COUNCIL
CITY OF PERRY, GA.
We Must Protect Our Children!
able in advance. Entered as
Second Class Matter at Post Os
!ice at Pprr y- Ga - under Act of
March 3. 1879.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
partly “selfish”—for the children
of Houston should be greatly
benefitted from the Macon sta
tion.
"WAKE UP OR BLOW UP”
Every American mother who
doesn’t want her son to have to
fight and possibly die on some
battlefield in Asia or Europe
should be writing letters —daily
if necessary—to her Congressmen
and Senators, telling them to get
busy on the one method which,
in all Christian common sense, is
the most helpful way of prevent
ing World War 111.
We are spending billions on
arms, getting ready to fight that
war at a cost of millions of lives.
We are spending tiny, piddling
little sums and making only a
half-hearted effort to PREVENT
it.
Arms Aren’t Enough
War is not inevitable—unless
we simply sit on our big pile of
arms and wait for it. If we do, it
will come.
But it CAN be prevented if we
win to our side the one billion
poverty-cursed, under-developed
peoples of Asia.
And we can win them only by
showing them that we are genu
inely interested in helping them
lift themselves from poverty, dis
ease, starvation and hopelessness.
How To Slop Communism
The world famous missonary,
Dr. Frank C. Laubach, in his
book titled, “Wake Up or Blow
Up,” says:
“The bottom four-fifths of the
world are going Communist be
cause they are hungry, terribly
unhappy, and grimly determined
to rise out of their destitution.
"We can stop Communism cold
by lifting those wretched people
above their misery and despera
tion.
“We can do it by sharing our
know-how (in farm and indus
trial production).
“They lack progressive meth
ods and will follow anyone who
promises to help them rise,” Dr
Laubach declares.
The Russian Communists are
promising to help them rise. The
Reds are not sincere, of course
and will eventually enslave them;
but they are smart enough to see
that such aT promise is the most
powerful lure for these poor
people.”
Send "Missionaries”
Why isn’t the U, S. giving them
some genuine, effective help—to
win them away from the false
doctrines of Communism?
We aren’t talking about simply
handing out more money in loans
and grants.
We are talking about sending
agricultural, engineering, medical
and other kinds of “missionaries”
to show the people of Asia and
other lands how to get the most
out of their own resources.
We are talking about some
thing like Pres. Truman’s Point
Four program which proposes to
make available to other nations
the technological know-how, the
medical knowledge and other
modern methods which can give
these people hope.
Let Them Hear From You
All of these things put together
wouldn’t cost one-millionth of
what we are spending on war
materials—yet we are spending
practically nothing on this means
of PREVENTING war while
throwing billions into the arms
pile.
When are the American people
going to demand the typically
American way of preventing the
trouble by solving problems be
forehand, instead of waiting un
til war comes to kill our sons and
daughters by the millions? Let
your representatives hear from
you if you want to try this Chris
tian way of saving our boys and
girls from war.
One way to keep down brown
rot of peaches is to pick and de
stroy all fallen fruit regularly.
HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA
STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONERS’ WARRANTS AND
OTHER AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES
JANUARY 1, 1950 TO DECEMBER 31, 1950
COMMENTS
EXHIBIT “B”
This Exhibit contains a detailed analysis by classes of expendi
tures for the year.
Total expenditures, including warrants. Jury Script and Court
Orders, compared to total receipts is as follows:
Capital Ordinary Total
Expenditures $134,473.51 $115,811.50 $250,285.01
Receipts 44,027.57 163,575,27 207,602.84
EXCESS EXPENDITURES $90,445.94 $ 47„763.77 $ 42,682.17
All invoices and vouchers supporting, statements were examined
by us and found to be duly authorized by the Board of County Com-
No errors worthy of comment were discovered.
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
Balance on Hand January 1, 1950
Perry Loan and Savings Bank $92,327.53
Plus Receipts From
Tax Collector - $111,662.26
State of Georgia Fuel Oil Tax 26,949.09
Highway Patrol Fines 1,308.62
Licenses and Beer Royalties 4,372.55
Refunds 56.19
Convict Labor 3,937.42
County Farm Sales 1,900.67
State Highway Department ... 3,172.58
State Board of Health for Nurse 1,499.18
Fines and Forfeitures 4,089.43
Miscellaneous Sales and Supplies and Equip. 2,324.10
Equipment Rental 744.00
Sale of Treasury Bonds 8,740.00
Payment by City of Perry on Paving 542.00
Fines for Receiving Stolen Goods 200.00
Tax Deeds Redeemed 278.57
Welfare Dept.—Payment of Office Equip 826.18
Perry Loan & Savings Bank—Notes
Due 12-20-50 35,000.00
TOTAL RECEIPTS. 207,602.84
TOTAL CASH TO ACCOUNT FOR $299,930.37
Disbursements
Warrants Paid $236,063.45
Jury Script Paid 2,578.00
Coroners Script 38.00
Ordinary’s Script 335.00
Witnesses 235.36
Bonds Paid 10,000.00
Bond Interest 2,250.00
TOTAL DISBURSED. $251,499.81
Balance on Hand December 31, 1950
Perry Loan & Savings Bank—Reg. Acct $43,886.38
Spec. Acct 4,544.18 48,430.56
TOTAL CASH ACCOUNTED FOR $299,30.37
(a) Salaries and Compensation
Clerk of Commissioners $ 3,650.00
Tax Assessors 1,383.30
County Physician 600.00
County Farm Agents 2,640.00
Home Demonstration Agent 550.00
County Attorney 400.00
Commissioners 1,250.00 $10,473.30
(b) General Expense
Postage and Expense—Commissioners $ 140.40
Books, Stationery and Office Supplies 2,547.04
Indexing aid Recording 228.35
Publishing Statements and Legal Ads 367.10
Insurance Bonds 889.02
Rent of Offices 1,230.00
Vital Statistics 404.75
Election and Registration 1,070.95
Legal and Audit 404.00 7,281.61
(c) Bonded Debt
Retirement of Bonds $10,000.00
Interest on Bonds 3,250.00
Exchange on Funds 41.25 13,291.25
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(d) Public Safety and Welfare
Lunacy Hearings $ 754.50
Delivery and Return of Prisoners 896.83
Destroying Stills 20.00
County Police 2,700.00
Health Nurse 1,513.20 '
Health Nurse Clerk and Assistants 899.78
Health Nurse Travel 450.00
Health Nurse Expense 263.66
Coroners Inquest 83.00
Blinker Lights, Etc ... 94.02 7,674.99
(e) Jail Expense
Prisoners Board $ 2,898.30
Turnkeys 290.00
Lights and Water 377.38
Supplies and Repairs 962.62
Telephone 81.07
Attending Ordinary’s Court 60.00
Fuel 42.00 4,711.37
(f) Superior Court
Salary Solicitor $ 1,800.00
Clerk of Court 909.34
Sheriffs Fees 1,126.00
Jury Script 2.630.00
Witnesses 235.36
Court Reporters 616.08
Jurors Rooms and Meals 136.05 7,452.83
(g) Court House Operation
Lights and Water $ 749.46
Janitor 931.00
Maid - 620.00
Supplies 2,444.97
Fuel 1,021.73
Telephone 686.64
Repairs 12.15 6,465.95
(h) Public Charity
Welfare Requisitions r .~ $ 9,221.53
Hospital Bill 103.20 9,324.73
(i) Construction and Maintenance *
Salaries Supt. and Guards $12,503.75
Gasoline and Oil 6,954.72
Hardware and Supplies 2,489.70
Repairs and Parts 7,871.71 •
Food for Convicts 3,917.91
Clothing and Bedding - 1,100.46
Medical Attention 341.43
Lumber.. 2,760.30
Cement and Gravel * 3,114.94
pjpg 696.62
Beckham Construction Company 133.28
Topsoil 25.00
Farm Electricity 207.83
Farm Telephone 70.15
Right of Way- 3,000.00
Bloodhounds and Reward 75.00
Farm and Road Work - 38.00
Bridge Steel 336.62
Fuel 16>50 45,653.92
(j) Capital Expenditures
New Court House Payments $61,845.94
Court House Furniture and Equipment 34,484.97
Truck Tractor 1944 KB 11 Int 1,000.00
Heating Kettle - 485.10
Bridge Forms _ - 1,600.00
Chain Hoist - - - 57.50 $99,473.51
(k) Miscellaneous
Tax Collectors Postage and Exchange $ 369.47
Patrol House Improvements - 28.75
Retirement Fund Farm Agent 110.11
—Home Demonstration Agent 32.44
Library - 383.10
Pro-rata Fines and Forfeitures —t
to Sheriff and Clerk I — - 326.30
Tax Defaulters Docket 7.25
Refunds and Adjustments 46.29
Loans Repaid 35,000.00
Interest on Loans - 1,430.84
Furniture Participation Welfare Dept 826.18 38,560.73
Expenditures Authorised $250,364.19
Less— Withholding Tax Collected $ 812.28
Less— Withholding Tax Remitted 733.10 79.18
Total Expenditures Authorized 5250,285.01
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By COOPER ETHERIDGE
KNOCKDOWN: Ask Redding
Talton Jr. if you don’t believe
that using an electric mower on
wet grass is a dangerous thing.
Redding tried it, got knocked
down, and reports that the mow
er jumped on top of him and
started beating on his head with
the handle. No wet grass when
using, an electric mower; it gives
you a good excuse for putting it
off another day anyhow.
HEY! MAD DOG! The cooper
ation of all the citizens of Perry
;s urgently requested in keeping
down the possibility of rabies.
The child you save from rabies
may be your own. Help out the
city, county and state officials
by seeing that all those dogs that
have not been treated are treated
right away, and the rest killed
pronto. We still believe that Per
ry has more dogs per square foot
than any town in Georgia.
LET GEORGE DO IT! The
Jay-Cees have heard nothing at
all from the citizens about possi
ble winning entries in the
Champion Home Town Contest of
the Georgia Power Co. Every
body is afraid if they make a
suggestion they will be called on
to do a little work. We want a
good town but we want it to
JUST HAPPEN; no work in
volved.
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COMING EVENTS
The Clifford Hunter Sunday
School class of the Baptist church
will meet at 8 p. m. today (Thurs
day) at the home of Mrs. J. M.
Teresi.
GREASE BURNS UP
AT LASSETER HOME
A pan of grease caught fire in
the kitchen of the home of Mr.
and Mrs, Aldine Lasseter Wed
nesday morning and caused heavy
smoke. No damage was done.
The fire department was called.
Mr. Lasseter? a fireman, was out
of town when the siren sounded
and got home just as the crowd
was leaving.
MRS. E. A. ARNOLD
HURT IN WRECK
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Arnold es
caped with only minor injuries
when their car struck a truck on
the Macon highway last week.
Mrs. Arnold, with a laceration
on her forehead, was the more
seriously injured but is recover
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilder and
daughter, Myra, returned Mon
day from a trip to Pensacola,
Fla., for the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Cal
houn had as' their guests for sev
eral days Mrs. W. W. iLangtry Jr.
and children, Susie and Florence,
of Falls Church, Va.
Julie and Ellen Outler of Fort
Valley are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Logue.
Miss Dorothy Jones entertain
ed Wednesday, morning with a
Coca-Cola party for Miss Gail
Robinson.
BUREAU HEAD FAVORS
HEAVY TAX INCREASE
A steep increase in taxes is ad
vocated by Allan B. Kline, pres
ident of the American Farm Bu
reau, as a better way to combat
inflation than price and wage
controls.
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