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HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951
School Board
Leads Progress
In Education
Expanding county population
has put new pressures on the
school system, and Supt. Lewis
Tabor and the County School
Board, of which L. C. Walker is
chairman, have acted as rapidly
as possible to meet them.
Work will soon begin on a new
$485,000 school building at War
ner Robins, to be built with Fed
eral funds granted the county
on account of the impact of the
population increase caused by the
expansion of the Air Force Base.
Warner Robins High School of
which Bert Rumble is principal,
is also getting a $7,000 manual
arts building which ;s now under
construction. Civic and school
leaders are hopeful of providing
a new gymnasium as soon as pos
sible for the high school athletic
activities. ,
Busses For Negroes
A new Negro High School
building was completed in Perry
about a year ago.
Prof. A. D. Redmond is prin
cipal.
This year four busses will
transport students from all over
the county to the Houston High
School here. The busses will also
transport Negro grammar school
students where schedules and
routes can be arranged to ac
commodate the most students.
A new Perry Grammar School
building was completed and oc
cupied about two years ago,
eliminating temporary classrooms
which had been in use for a few j
years and providing a building j
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HOUSTON COUNTY’S OLDEST
BUSINESS STILL IN THE
FAMILY
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Perry’s Oldest Business
Under the Same Name
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Houston Home Journal
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Two Veteran Institutions Dedi
cated to Building A Bigger and I
Better County and City
Andrew Hardware Co.
A. R. TALTON, Jr., Manager
Phene 200 924 Carroll St. Perry, Ca.
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L. COHEN WALKER is chair
man of the Houston County
School Board. He came to Per
ry several years ago as head of
the vocational agriculture de
partment at Perry High School
and is now active in Perry bus
iness and civic affairs.
for the vocational agriculture de
partment to have a building of
its own.
Junior High Planned
The Perry High School Build;
ing, which was one of the most
modern in the state when if was
constructed about 20 years ago,
is still in sound and attractive
condition. Supt. E. P. Staples is
inaugurating the Junior High
plan beginning with the Fall
term.
Members of the county school
board, in addition to Chairman
Walker, are R. R. Pratt, Warner
Robins, Henry Cullen Talton,
Kathleen; Harvey M. NeSmith,
Elko; and Floyd H. Tabor, Macon
highway.
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Sorelle Club Is
Newest Os Groups
The youngest social and civic
club in Perry is the Sorelle Club,
which derived its name from the
Sorosis Club and the Delphian
Club, the two “mother” groups.
The Sorelle Club was organiz
ed in August of 1948 by a group
of young matrons, and the aims
are social and civic betterment.
Mrs. Raymond Hammock was the
first and second president, Mrs.
H. E. Smith the third and Mrs.
Ralph Tabor is the leader now.
The club has sponsored the Tu
berculosis Seal Sale campaign
for three years, has beautified ,
the Hodges Scout Home grounds,
promoted the Red Cross drive for i
one year and has joined other lo- |
cal clubs in civic improvement
projects.
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TWO W. ROBINS MEN
ON GOVERNOR’S STAFF
Two Warner Robins business I
men are on the military staff of
Gov. Herman Talmadge. They
are Royce R. Pratt, a director of
the Flint REA Membership Cor
porative and county school board
member, and Attorney Calvin B. 1
Oliver.
Judging is now in progress on
the Georgia 4-H club pasture
contest for 1951.
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MRS. EVA HAWKINS is super
visor and bookkeeper of the
Perry office of the Southeastern
Telephone Co. She started in
the telephone business as night
I operator for the old Perry Ex
change 18 years ago.
First Phone
Company Was
Family Firm
I Perry’s first telephone ex- I
change was established in the I
first years of the 20th century by I
James D. Martin who operated it I
I until 1923 when it was purchas- I
ed by a group of Perry business I
men who organized the Houston B
| Telephone Co.
In the approximately 20 years I
that the late Mr. Martin operat- I
ed the exchange, his attractive I
wife and four pretty and talented I
! daughters—Emily, Addie Kate,
Jane and Tattee (Katherine) —
j were operators. The exchange
. was in their home. They now
| live in Miami.
When the Houston Telephone
1 Co. purchased the business in
1923, T. C. Rogers, who now car
ries one of the RFD mail routes
out of Perry, was persuaded to
return to his home-town from
Hawkinsville to become superin
tendent and manager of the com
pany.
| The citizens’ group and Mr.
Rogers greatly increased the
number of subscribers and in a
year or two sold their holdings to
Howard A. Bond of Roberta. Mr.
Bond died about 10 days after
the sale was closed and Mrs.
I Bond asked Mr. Rogers to con
tinue operating it for her.
He was manager until the com
pany was sold in 1928 to the
| Southeastern Telephone Company
j which now operates it. Robert
Morris is now manager of the
Perry office of the company.
Collins Family
In Shoe Business
Over 100 Years
The Collins family has been in
the shoe repair business in Perry
for more than 100 years.
Manuel Collins, father of the
late John Collins, who died in
1946 after being in the shoe re
pair business here for 52 years,
manufactured shoes here for the
Confederate Army.
Father and son in this Negro
family kept the same business
going for more than 100 years,
and now Russell Collins, a son of
John, carries on the tradition.
Big John Helpful
J Perry youngsters always knew
that they could not only get their
shoes repaired by John, a big
man who sat down to work with
a big apron across his lap, but
their bicycles and other toys as
well.
His widow, Viola Collins, sur
j vives him and operates Collins’
j Case and a real estate business
here.
Their children are Robert Col
j lins, Detroit; James Collins, New
'Brunswick, N. J.; Annis Jones,
Perry; Russell, O. M. Collins,
assistant manager of Henry Ir
by’s store in Old Field; Amos
Collins, who operates a furniture
refinishing and upholstery shop
1 here; and Samuel Collins, who
is in radar work at Warner Rob
ins Air Base and operates a radio
and phonograph shop here.
MRS. VINSON AMONG
TOP FLOWER GROWERS
Mrs. W. E. Vinson Jr. is one of
the outstanding flower growers
lof Houston county. She won the
i coveted tri-color for the best ar
rangement in the Bibb County
Flower Show several weeks ago.
Judges for this show included Pa<
Cartledge and Mrs. J. Wesley
Calhoun of Perry.
National Farm Safety Week is
scheduled July 22 - 28.
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KEEPING PACE
I With the Tremendous Growth
of Perry and Houston County
From $12,606 in 1536 to
$938,000.00 in 1951
June 30, 1936 . . . $12,616.60
June 30, 1941 . . . 137,630.19
June 30, 1946 . . . 315,715.48
| June 30, 1951 .. . 938,404.07
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9 Over 90 per ct. of Our Deposits is Geor
§ gia Money. We Have Made 493
Real Estate Loans
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Deposits Insured Up to $10,000.00
DIRECTORS
OFFICERS C. E. ANDREW
S. A. NUNN, President F. M. HOUSER
C. E. ANDREW, Vice-President jar...' PERRY ‘ ®^9^N
F. M. HOUSER, Secty. & Treasurer J
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