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THE 80th ANNIVERSARY EDITION
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VOL. 80 No 29 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951 , ESTABLISHED 1870
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By COOPER ETHERIDGE
THANK YOU: I want to say
very simply and humbly that I
thank all you fine people of the
county who helped to make pos
sible this big and historic 80th
anniversary edition of The Home
Journal. This community has
been good to the Etheridges and
we all are grateful.
PERCY ON MOUND; The Per
ry Legion boys were beaten last
Friday night but the sight of
Percy Hardy, 13-year-old, bare
foot mighty midget on the mound
was the outstanding feature of
the game as far as the local fans
were concerned. Percy allowed
three hits, gave up two walks
and generally pitched a nice
game. He’ll be a mighty good
ballplayer if he can get some
growing mash. He s only 4 feet
4 inches but every inch a man!
LIKES PERRY: An Illinois
truck driver, who had never been
as far south as Perry before last
weekend, told a Perryan that he
would like to settle in_this part of
Georgia because of the friendli
ness of the people and the beauty
of the countryside.
HOT DOG: Recent hot weather
was tough all around. Pat Cart
ledge’s red cocker spaniel found
it almost unbearable until he
figured out that plopping down
in front of an electric fan would
do the trick. He just lies there
and enjoys the breeze. He also
likes ice water—none of this
plain tap water for him.
3 GOOD ’UNS: r One of the
memories of old timers around
Perry is the greeting that Sam D.
Rogers used when meeting Sher
iff C. C. Chapman downtown
each day. He would comment
each time, as if he had never
said it before: “Samuel D.,
Franklin D. and Chaim,us C.,
three damn good ’uns.”
Pool, Golf
Course Is
Progressing
There’ll be swimming in the
New Perry Country Club pool by
the middle of August and golf
rounds played on the new nine
hole course by November, mem
bers of the new organization
speculated this week.
All nine greens have been built
under the supervision of Sid
Clarke, golf professional from
Montezuma who will be in charge
°t the club here, and he will be
gin seeding the greens as soon as
v ater is distributed about the
course.
the city has run a four-inch
uiain from Houston Lake Road to
the golf club and a power line
has been erected. The city is
Paying half the cost of laying the
ma ‘ n and is giving the club a flat
annual rate of S3OO for water for
the course and pool.
Ihe footing for the concrete
Pool has been poured and work- (
m en expect to begin pouring the '
'■■’alls sometime next week. It is
hoped that swimming will be .
Possible early in August.
Dificers of the newly organized
t J crry Country Club, Inc. are
Mayo Davis, president; Wilson
" ( ’°dy, vice president; and Dud
' Jones, secretary-treasurer.
Other directors are A. E. Car
■'-nter, Yates Green, Louis Har
peL Dan L. Grant, Watt Boler
and Francis Nunn.
What's The Secret of Perry
And Houston County?
A great many people have asked what it is that makes Houston
oun \ and its county seat, Perry, one of the cleanest, most
attractive and progressive areas in the South,
Tourists just driving through notice it and ask the question.
IVlany ol our fellow-Georgians have asked it.
Some say it’s the rich farm land in Houston county—and cer- j
tamly that soil, under the care of intelligent farmers, is producing
low nops and beautiful pastures for the fast-growing livestock in
dustry as never before.
Some say it’s Perry’s fine accommodations for tourists in clean,
modern, courteous hotels and motor courts at the junction of three j
major highways— and certainly the half-million-dollar income from i
this business is a substantial factor in the county’s economy.
Some say it’s the proud civic spirit of Perry merchants, business !
men and other citizens who simply cooperate to get things done
and certainly this is one of the most valuable of civic assets.
Some say it is the many millions of Federal funds which the
Armed Forces have poured and are pouring, at the rate of a $3-mil
lion monthly payroll, into the county at Warner Robins Air Base
where thousands of residents of the county are employed—and cer
tianly such funds are bound to have their impact on the county.
It is all of these things—but it is more, too.
We think the most valuable thing has been and is the charac
ter ol the PEOPLE of the county—people who know that the most
important thing is to provide a clean, wholesome, progressive
community in which to rear their children.
That is plain in the emphasis which the people of Perry and
Houston county have always put on having good schools, well sup
ported and attended churches, wholesome recreation for children
and a genuine concern for the welfare of their fellow man.
The “free enterprise” they practice is the American freedom for
all men—white, Negro and of any background—to rise according to
their personal industriousness and enterprise in serving the com
munity, not the totalitarian “enterprise” in which only a favored
few have “freedom” to prey upon others in acquiring property and
power for themselves.
We are sure, therefore, that the most valuable asset possessed
by Perry and Houston county is SPIRITUAL CHARACTER—a
Christian concern for the freedom and welfare of others—not mere
material wealth.
May we, in humility and gratitude, suggest that this is the
only workable peace plan for the world?
We think a preacher who several years ago wrote an historical
sketch about Houston county caught something of the essence of
Houston’s “secret.” He wrote in other times and of greatly differ
ent world conditions, but much of what he said is eternal:
TRUE RICHES
(Following is the conclusion to
the “Historical Sketch of Houston
County Baptists,” by Dr. Walter
M. Lee, who was pastor of the
First Baptist church of Cochran
in 1923.}
Houston co. is noted through
out Almerica for its blossoming
orchards, its luscious Elbertas
and its blushing Georgia Belles.
Many noble families have arisen
to send out sons and daughters
who have been a blessing to the
world and an ornament to so
ciety.
Peradventure it may occur to
the thoughtful reader that our
present social state, our present
happy environment and in fact all
the commendable and delightful
features of our present commer
cial, intellectual, social and re
ligious civilization are to a great
extent traceable to the spiritual
Experiment Station
Visit Is July 23
County Agent W. T. Middle
brooks announced this week that
the date for the visit of Houston
county farmers to the Griffin ex
periment station has been chang
ed to July 23, instead of July 17.
A barbecue dinner will be served
at $1 a plate. Farmers are re
quested to contact Agent Middle
brooks if they desire to make the
trip.
Wives of Houston farmers are
urged to accompany their hus
bands on their visit to the Ex
periment Station as there is much
to interest them also, Mr. Mid
dlebrooks said.
TIMELY, GENERAL RAIN
WOULD BOOM CORN
Scattered thundershowers on
Tuesday night broke a drought of
(about three weeks but even in
those parts of Houston county
I which were wet down, farmers
(said their corn, cotton and pea
nuts could use more.
They said a good general rain
this week would produce the big
gest corn crop in the his'ory of
the county. The cotton crop was
also in need of more moisture.
Keep up with your home town
in The Home Journal.
labors of a Christian ancestry and
to the character, integrity, and
stability inculcated by a race of
| predecessors who looked upon
spiritual things as eternal and up
on carnal things as transient.
Houston’s riches, then, are
not found in peaches but in pur
ity, purpose, piety, and punctili
ousness in all things involving
honesty, character, integrity and
virtue.
Peaches are subsidiary. Per
fection is prjmary.
The worm may destroy the
peach. Let not the worm pene
trate the character. The spray of
gospel truth has aided in the de
velopment of a race of truth
loving and God-fearing citizens.
The leaders in the commercial,
banking, social, and religious
life of Houston are sprung from
the pious plodders after truth
who learned wisdom at the feet
of Jesus a generation ago.
Rev. Herbert Rice
To Preach Here
The Rev. Herbert W. Rice, pas
tor of the Methodist Church at
DeFuniak Springs, Fla., will
preach at the Methodist Church
here Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Rice is the husband
of a former Perry resident, Mrs.
Mamie Houser Rice. She and her
husband are here for a reunion
of the Fred Houser family. Rev.
Mr. Rice has been district super
intendent and pastor of large
churches in the area around Mo
bile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla.
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SOIL HEALTH PROGRAM
SLATED NEXT THURSDAY
Farmers of Houston are invit
ed to attend a Soil Health Day
program to be held Thursday,
July 26, at Heard School on Route
41 eight miles south of Macon,
under the sponsorship of the
Farmers Club of the Macon
Chamber of Commerce.
Mobile laboratories will run
on-the-spot tests of soil samples
from counties in this area. Dr.
C. C. Murray, director of the Ex
tension service, and Dr. L. C.
Olson, soil chemist from the
Griffin station, will speak. The
program begins at 9 a. m. and
will end vtfTh a barbecue at $1 a
plate. Substantial prizes of lime
and fertilizer will be awarded. <
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OLD HOME JOURNAL BUILDING ami staff were photographed about 1907, just two years
before Henry Powell, present printer at the Home Journal, began work. That’s J. H. Hodges,
editor and proprietor seated in front of the build ing. The two men on the steps are Mac Rainey,
left, and Dan Bateman. The colored man on the right is Bill Harrison, who turned the press by
hand. The Hodges family owned The Home Journal for 65 years. This photograph is the prop
erty of John L. Hodges, son of J. 11. Hodges, who operated the paper for 2» years prior to its
sale to the present owners.
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PRESENT HOME OF THE HOME JOURNAL is thismodern brick building on Carroll St. built by
John L. Hodges in 1939 and still owned by him. It is next door to the corner lot where the old
Home Journal Building was located, the site where Dr. J. L. Gallemore’s Clinic now stands.
Home Journal Photo by Dungan.
Stanley Smith Wins
Vacation Award
As one of the top agents of
Southern Life Insurance Com
pany of Georgia, Stanley E.
Smith and Mrs. Smith will leave
Monday for Daytona Beach, Fla.,
where they will spend a v/eek as
guests of the company.
Several leading representatives
of the company and their wives
are being entertained at the Sher
aton-Plaza Hotel.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of B. F. Mosteller
wishes to thank all who express
ed their sympathy through flow
ers, cards and acts of kindness in
our recent bereavement. May
God bless you all.
Mrs. B. F. Mosteller, Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Mosteller, Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Mosteller, Mr.
and Mrs. M. O. Mosteller.
THE STAFF
Home Journal staff members
who produced this special edition
were, in addition to Cooper Eth
eridge, editor and publisher and
Jim Etheridge Jr., editorial as
sistant, Printer Henry Powell,
who has been with the Home
Journal 42 years; Homer C.
Dungan, Forsyth, linotype opera
tor and printer; and Billy Clark,
military editor and shop assist
ant.
The Home Journal, the paper
with the NEWS.
C -mp Meeting
Brings Large
Group Here
Preparations are being made
for the annual camp meeting of
members of Christ’s Sanctified
Holy Church at the church’s per
manent camp grounds on U. S. 41,
Macon highway, about four miles
from Perry.
The meeting begins the first
Sunday in August and several
hundred members of the church,
which is particularly strong in
the Southeast, fill all of the cot
tages at the grounds and all rent
al accommodations in Perry and
vicinity during the week.
The church sponsors an old
people’s home and is now consid
ering plans for construction of a
more modern and convenient
home on church property here.
The annual camp meeting ses
sions are open to the public.
Site Here Selected
Plans for establishing a home
and camp meeting ground some
where in the Southeast were vot
ed in 1938 at a church meeting in
Norfolk, Va. and church groups
were asked to vote on selection
of a site. Georgia and Houston
county was the choice of the ma
jority.
John W. Miller was head of the
church for many years pr>or to
. his death in Montgomery, Ala. in
1948 and was a leader in the
Get After That
Cutworm Now!
By W. T. Middlebrooks, .
County Agent
The cutworm is now invading
the cotton fields—they gnaw the
bark of the main trunk, eat the
leaves and cut off the squares.
In case of heavy infestation they
can completely destroy a field in
2 or 3 days.
The most effective control is a
mixture of 2 Vi% Aldrin and 10%
D. D. T„ applied at the rate of
10 to 12 pounds per acre with
dusting equipment. Repeat ap
plication of dust on the third
day.
This mixture is also effective
against the boll weevil and boll
worms. In applying, avoid inhal
ing the dust as much as possible.
NOTICE
Complaints have been received
that some residents of the city
are careless about placing their
garbage in closed garbage cans,
causing an undesirable condition.
It is urgently requested that all
residents place their garbage in
closed cans and it will be picked
up regularly by the City.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
CITY OF PERRY.
movement to establish the old
people’s home. His widow is now
secretary of the group and Rob
ert Hartsfield, Columbia, S. C.
and Mrs. Hattie Merritt, Norfolk,
Va. are church leaders.
Peach Season
Ends On Good
Market Note
Tabor’s packing house on U. S.
41, North, Macon Highway, has
closed for the season this week
after shipping about 75 cars of
peaches, about half of them by
refrigerated trucks and the rest
by rail.
With about 80 cars packed
at Southern Fruit Distributors’
packing house here, plus about
40 cars packed by the Kerseys
land smaller shipments from the
! Hammock place and other orch
ards in the county, production in
the county this year was several
hundred cars—best in three or
four years.
Although some Hileys were
left on the trees because of a
mid-season break in the market
for white-meat peaches, several
growers expressed themselves as
generally pleased with the sea
son. Early variety yellow meat
peaches brought good prices and
the market for Elbertas was fair
ly strong.
They were bringing about $3.50
a bushel last weekend,
Floyd Tabor, who with his bro
thers, Lewis and Ralph Tabor,
packs in the shed on Macon high
way near his home, expressed
the opinion that hereafter grow
ers should reach an agreement
not to ship any Hileys of less
than 1 7/8 inches in size in order
to strengthen the market for the
white meat peaches. The nation’s
housewives seem to prefer yellow
peaches.
E. P. Staples managed the Ta
bor packing house as he has for
the last several years and many
Perry young people were employ
ed there. They were transported
in Buddy Jones’ bus.
Boxing Card
For July 27
Is Top One
Three red-hot matches have
been arranged for the American
Legion boxing card at Hickson
Field, Friday night, July 27.
The main go will feature Ma
con’s Ralph Pearson against
Rocky Dixon of Atlanta, a 10
rounder between these welter
weights.
Luther Whitehurst, local Negro
weighing 163 pounds, will meet
“Jabbing Foots” Jackson, 162, of
Atlanta, in a six-round semi-final.
Dot Roughton of Perry, weigh
ing 160, will meet a man of al
most the same name—Doc Row
den, 160, of Atlanta.
Other preliminary bouts will
be arranged, according to Dot
Roughton, chairman of the Le
gion’s boxing committee, and A1
Low, promoter.
Pearson is fighting in Macon
this Friday night, July 21. Luth
er Whitehurst will go six rounds
with Johnnie Sexton of Miami,
Fla., on the Macon card.
Kiwanians Hear
Theatre Official
Willis J. Davis, executive as
sistant to the president of Geor
gia Theaters Co., Atlanta, was
the guest speaker at the Kiwanis
Club meeting Tuesday.
Mr. Davis explained several
phases of the motion picture in
dustry, calling attention to the
records showing that 70 million
people attend movies each week
in the il. S. One of the latest de
velopments in the industry is the
growth of drive-in theaters. He
said Georgia has 110 drive-ins.
Mr. Davis was introduced by
Billy B. Murphy, nephew of the
speaker, who was program chair
man for the day.
PRIDGEN TO LEAD
JACKSON SERVICES
Rev. John Pridgen, pastor of
the Perry Presbyterian church,
will lead special services in the
Jackson, Ga. Presbyterian church
next month.