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HOME JOURNAL. PERRY. GA.. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951
Supt. Staples Is Able
Youth Leader, Coach
You can ask anybody who
knows Class B’ basketball in
Georgia who is the best coach in
the stale and Coach E. P. Staples
will be one of the top men named.
The reason is obvious. Staples
came here in 1933 and has won
the district 11 out of the 18 years
and the state championship twice.
Those are the results that can be
counted on. The scores of boys
he has helped through basketball
training to become good citizens
cannot be counted but they are
many.
A Staples-coached team first
won a state title in 1947, whip
ping Valdosta in Macon before an
overflowing Mercer gym. This
was the game that convinced Mu
con that the Mercer gym, which
hoids 2,000, just wasn’t big en
ough when Perry was playing in
a tournament. Macon officials
moved the tournament to the
auditorium.
First Won 1947
The team Staples led to the I
first state title was made up of '
Clint Cooper, Derryle Whipple,
John Blue Calhoun, Billy Bledsoe
and Ed Thompson. You never
saw such a bunch of mighty mid
gets.
Perry repeated in 1949 under
the expert coaching of Staples,
who chews a cigar to bits and
can’t eat for a week before a
tourney. The 1949 team included
Billy Gray, Edward Chapman,
Seabie Hickson, Bobby Satter
field and Mac Peyton.
Every year he puts on a long
face and says “we’ll be making
friends this year; we won’t win
any ball games.” But before the
season is over the foes of the
Panthers are shaking at the fe
rocity with which the Perry lads
play. Staples gets everything a
boy’s got when he puts him in a
game and Staples-coached teams
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Warner Robins, Ga. Perry, Ga.
Phone 1430 Phone 235 SIGNATURE
Date: 1951.
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are noted for their hustle and
spirit and determination, also for
; their sportsmanship.
LOUIE GILBERT HEADS
CORDELE LIONS CLUB
Louis Gilbert, son of Mi s. H. T.
Gilbert of Perry, has been in
stalled as president of the Cordele
Lions club, one of the most active
civic groups in the state. Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Gilbert, the former
Miss Frances Gower of Cordele,
lived in Perry several years.
EIGHT GIRLS’ STATERS
Perry High School girsl who at
tended the American Legion Aux
iliary Girls’ State at G. M. A. in
College Park recently were An
gela Anderson, Bennieta Andrew,
Beth Daniel, Lula Alice Collier,
Betty Hartley, Betty Hulsey, Bet
ty Jones and Sarah Riddle.
RECORD TRAFFIC
Tourist traffic through Perry
before and after the recent July ;
4th weekend was the heaviest in :
history, observers said.
FEMALE COLLEGE
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day of private schools, however.
The next change came when
Fort Valley and Perry establish
ed their public school systems,
supported by local taxation. The
Fort Valley public school system
dates from 1886. Prior thereto
flourished the Fort Valley Male
and Female Institute.
Perry’s public schools began in
1889.
The Act creating the public
school system for Perry named
as the first Board of Education
for the town the following:
C. F. Cooper, F. M. Houser,
E. S. Wcllons, L. S. Townsley,
E. M. Fuller, and R. N. Holtzclaw.
Other early academies organ
ized in this area during the 1800 s,
and some of the citizens who
sponsored them, include:
Farmers Academy, under acts
of 1837; Houston County (Acad
emy, Acts of 1824, Howell Cobb,
Wilson Collins, Michael Watson,
Charles F. Patillo and James
Holt; Flint River Academy, Acts
of 1828.
Popular Springs Academy,
Acts of 1837, Thomas Allen, J. H. '
Davis, James Murray, Elijah E.
Crocker; Hayneville Academy,
Acts of 1838, Joseph Tooke, Wil
liam S. Coalson, David Hamiter,
John Hamiter, Edmund K. Hodg
es; Linwood Academy, Acts of
1839, Ephriam Kendrick, George
Patten, Matthew J. Sikes, Na
than Busby, Thomas Dawkins.
,Minerva Academy, Acts of
1843, Moses Rountree, Caleb
Rembert, Benjamin Webb, John
E. Dennard, Daniel Broad well;
Republican Academy, Acts of
1843, Bryan Bateman, James W.
Hardison and Joseph Harper;
Sandy Run Academy, Acts of
1855, Milton L. Burney, John A.
Sperry, Austin M. Frederick and
Barnett Holliman.
Approximately 25,000,000 gal
lons of cider and apple juice are
processed annually—about one
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OLD UNION SCHOOL IN 19i5—Here is a rare photograph of the old Union School of Houston
county, located near the J. S. Jones home. F. M. Greene Sr. was county school superintendent
and Peach county had not been divided from Houston.
First row, left to right: Buddy Jones, Frances Hancock, J. C. Tucker, Ruth Glover,
Robert Hunt, Claude Reynolds, Parker Whitehead, next boy unidentified, Robert Tucker,
Louise Whitehead and Tommie Hunt.
Second row, left to right: Helen Carney, Alline Carney, Ruby Glover, Chester Edwards,
Lois Jones, Connie Kersey, Mary Alice Hunt, next unidentified, Annie Laura Parker, Lizzie
Kate Parker, William Dorsett, Estes and Cordelle Kersey.
Third row, left to right: Inez Tucker, Estes, John Allen Hunt, Tommy
Parker, Millard Dorsett, next unidentified, Harvey Reynolds, Henry Parker, Grady Tucker,
Felton Edwards, . Milton Carney, G. T. Hunt and George Riley Hunt.
Fourth row, left to right: George Hunt, teacher, Mabel Carney, Lois Glover, Annie Smith
Jones, Bessie Glover, Louise Jones, Lizzie Reynolds, Louise Glover, Mrs. I. V. Heard, Essie
Dorsett and Wyatt D. Kersey.
Fifth row, left to right: J. F. Houser, W. E. Vinson Sr., Will Cheek, George Hartley, Red
ding Howard (board members), Ira Parker, Grant Kersey, Lutie Glover, F. M. Greene Sr., Heard
Carney and Mrs. J. S. Jones holding Eunice Hunt.—This photograph is the property of Buddy Jones. |
PERRY NEGRO TEAMS
ALSO AT THE TOP
Both boys’ and girls’ basketball
teams of Houston High School for
Negroes won their district cham
pionships this year in spite of the
fact that they do not have an in-
door court here on which to prac
tice and play. Coach A. D. Red
mond took both teams to the state
Negro basketball tournament in
Savannah where they went to the
finals.
Perry is the Camellia City.
JAYCEE VOLLEYBALL
Perry Junior Chamber of Com- 1
merce members gather at the
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Smoak playground for a fast
game of volleyball many Monday
nights.
Delphian Club
Is Known For
Welcome Service
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i Perry’s Delphian Club, a serv
-1 ice and social group for young
matrons, was organized here in
December, 1946, with 12 charter
members.
The first president was Mrs.
j Stanley E. Smith. Other presi
| dents who have served since then
were Mrs. Cooper Etheridge, Mrs.
: Cohen Walker, Mrs. Gardner
Watson and Mrs. Marion Brown,
1 present leader.
i The club is best known for
its “Welcome Service,” a plan
whereby club members visit all
, newcomers to Perry and welcome
them to Perry and present court
esy cards given by merchants as
a goodwill gesture. The club has
sponsored other noteworthy pro
jects and joined with other clubs
in Perry to support youth pro
grams and civic ventures of all
kinds.
The club now nas 2u members.
Wheat is grown on more of the
world’s acreage than any other
crop.
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