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WIDEN AND REPAVE
U. S. 41 IN HOUSTON
VOL. 80 No 30
Grand Jury To Get
Bragg Case Tuesday
Twelve witnesses have been
subpoenaed to appear before a
Houston county grand jury next
Tuesday in the case of Thomas A.
Bragg, Hawkinsville police chief
charged with murder in the
pistol deaths of two AWOL sol
diers.
The April term grand jury re
cessed without hearing the case.
The soldiers, Privates Louis L.
Passmore of Hawkinsville and
Lon G. Asman of Woodlake,
Calif., were killed by Chief Bragg
as he returned them to Warner
Robins last May 12. Chief Bragg
said he shot the soldiers in de
fense of his own life.
The grand jury reconvening
here Monday expects to get other
matters out of the way on Mon
day so the jurors can consider
the Bragg case Tuesday (morn
ing.
Under SIO,OOO Bond
Chief Bragg, who has been re
turned to duty at Hawkinsville,
has been under SIO,OOO bond
since May 18, when Judge A. M.
(Phil) Anderson set the bond
after a preliminary hearing.
The soldiers had been picked
up by another officer at Haw
kinsville on May 12. Chief Bragg
was returning them to military
custody at Robins Air Force Base
when, he said, they attacked him
and tried to wrest his revolver
from him. He said at the hearing
through his attorneys that he was
forced to empty his revolver into
the soldiers in self defense.
Solicitor William West will
present the case to the grand
Jury. Attorneys for Chief Bragg
are Lovejoy Boyer of Hawkins
ville and S. A. Nunn and H. A.
Aultman of Perry.
Health Department
Gets New Quarters
Houston county has leased a
house on Commerce Street for
the county health department
from W. E. Beckham.
The health department will be
moved into the house, located
just across the street from the
Muse Theater, in a few days. The
county is having the interior re
painted. The house contains five
rooms, a bath and kitchen.
The health department has
been located in the grand jury
room at the, new courthouse
since its beginning two years ago.
After the move to the new health
center, the grand jury room will
be always available to that part
of the court.
Mrs. H. B. Rossier is county
health nurse and Mrs. Valeria
P. Luoma is the clerk of the
health office.
Men In Service
Pfc. John Blue Calhoun com
pleted an 11 weeks cartographic
drafting school at Fort Belvoir,
Va,, recently and has been as
signed to the 111th Strategic Re
connaissance Wing'at Fairchild
Air Base, Spokane, Washington.
He will leave Saturday. He and
Mrs. Calhoun spent last week at
Jacksonville Beach.
Pfc. Charles Irby Shelton spent
four days last week with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Shel
ton. He is stationed at Fort Mac-
Pherson.
Pvt. Johnny W. Collier of Per
ry, brother of W. L. Coll’cr of
Perry, has completed 14 weeks
basic training with B Company,
61st Regiment, of the famed Bth
Infantry Division at Ft. Jackson,
South Carolina.
During his basic training, he
fired most of the infantry weap
ons, engaged in squad and pla
toon problems and took intensive
training in preparation for assign
ment to a service or combat unit.
He is a graduate of Perry High
and was employed as a truck
driver prior to his induction in
March.
Major Wallace J. Slappey, U. S.
Marine Corps, son of Mrs. W. J.
Slappey Sr. of 1308 Parkway
Dr., Perry, has reported to the
U. S. Naval School, All Weather
JStfome 3) ourtml
Guard Unit
Home After
1951 Camp
by BILL CLARK
The two officers and 48 enlist
ed men of Heavy Mortar Co., i
Perry’s National Guard unit, re- >
turned home Sunday at 11:45
a. m. after a rugged 15-day train
ing period at Fort McClellan,
Ala. They were all glad to get
back from the rough hills and
powdery dust of northern Ala
bama.
The company arrived at Fort
McClellan Sunday, July 8, and
found the concrete tent floors
caked with mud. The men im- I
meidately started cleaning the
entire area until it looked reason
ably good.
Training started bright and
early Monday morn with Reveille
formation at 5:45 a. m. Later the
entire 121st Infantry regiment
listened to an orientation address,
by a division chaplain and also
talks by other officers, including
Major Dodd, the regimental sur
geon; and Col. Hogan, command
ing officer.
Special Dust
Tuesday morning the regiment
embarked on a 3-day field exer
cise. The men bivouacked in the
Talledega National Forest aboujr
40 miles from the fort. While
riding to the area in trucks, the
men received their first taste of
Alabama dust. It is a thin pow
der.
The regiment carried out a
field problem under simulated
combat conditions and it was
successful with only a minimum
of errors. We returned to the
Fort Thursday afternoon.
Friday, Heavy Mortar Co.,
along with all other companies in
the division, witnessed an Air-
Ground tactical Support demon
stration carried out by four F-84
jet fighter planes from the 137th
Fighter-Bomber group stationed
at Montgomery, Ala. The planes
used bombs, rockets and napalm
bombs at targets on the ground.
The demonstration proved very
interesting but we had to eat
more dust on the way to the
range and back.
Governor’s Day Parade
A Governors’ Day envision pa
rade was held Saturday morning
July 14 to honor the governors
of Georgia and Florida. Both
Gov. Talmadge and Gov. Warren
were present, along with adjut
ants general from the two states
and other distinguished visitors
who included Lt. Gen. Henry D.
Russell, former division com
mander, now retired.
Mortar training marked the
first three days of the second
week for Perry’s company, with
the unit taking part in a regi
mental firepower demonstration
Wednesday night. The local unit
fired 4.2 mortar while the other
units fired automatic weapons
with tracer ammunition and oth
er weapons. It was a beautiful
display of “fireworks.”
Training ended with a regi
mental retreat parade Friday af
ternoon.
This 1951 summer camp was
marked by Guard leaders as the
most successful camp in the di
vision’s five-years of post-war
history. It was certainly the most
interesting one, if also the most
rugged. i
HAYNEVILLE REVIVAL
Revival services start at Hayne
ville Baptist church Sunday with
an all day meeting and basket
lunch on the church grounds.
Flight at NAS, Corpus Christi,
Texas, for duty involving train
ing in the latest procedures in
all-weather instrument flying.
Upon completion of the course
he will report to Marine Corps
Air Station, El Toro, Calif., for
duty.
PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY, GA.. THURSDAY. JULY 26. 1951
JOHN H. WILLIAMSON is
c hairman of the Troop Commit
tee of Boy Scout Troop No. 96,
of Perry, sponsored by the Per
ry Kiwanis Club.
Allen Tabor
Wins Georgia
Scholarship
Allen Tabor, secretary of the
Georgia Association of Future
Farmers of America, and past
president of Perry FFA, has been
awarded a S2OO scholarship to
the University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture, Associate
Dean Paul W. Chapman announc
ed this week.
The scholarship, for the year
1951-52, was won on the basis of
leadership, scholarship and farm
ing program, based on his re
cords in vocational agriculture.
Allen has served for two years
as Perry FFA Reporter and one
year as its President, He is cur
rently serving as Secretary of
the Georgia Association and is
doing an excellent job. He is the
only active member of Perry FFA
holding the degree of “Georgia
1 Planter,” Allen has served as a
| member of Beta Club, Key Club,
school band, and the debate
team which won the district
meet.
Is Eagle Scout
He is an Eagle Scout and was
elected as a delegate to Boys
State where he was elected honT
orary citizen for a day. Last year
he was one of two boys from
Georgia in the National FFA
Band. For two years he was on
the Perry FFA livestock judging
team which won Ist place one
year and the next year tied for
first place in the district.
His farming activities have in
cluded both crops and livestock.
His steers have won many prizes
in the Macon show, including one
FFA reserve champion and one
reserve champion. He has also
won many prizes on his swine.
Last year he won 2nd place in
the county corn contest and is
entered in the FFA corn contest
this year.
Perry FFA chapter, as well
and the state FFA organization,
are proud of the part played by
FFA in helping Allen and others
like him to help themselves. It is
quite fitting that recognition be
given a boy who has shown so
much ability and willingness to
work.
Other outstanding Perry grad
uates this year who have earned
college scholarships recently are
Hentz Houser, who had been
awarded a Naval RO.T.C. schol
arship to Georgia Tech before he
was injured in a diving accident
at Houston Lake two months ago,
and Charles Bledsoe who has re
ceived a four-year scholarship to
Vanderbilt University for a med
ical course.
NOTICE
The City has received com
plaints that some chicken pens
in the city are causing an of
fensive odor and also attracting
flies. The City urgently re
quests all owners of chickens
to make a special effort to
keep their chicken yards clean
to keep down the possibility of
spreading disease and to stop
the offensive odor. Otherwise,
it will be necessary for the City
to declare the chicken pen a
nuisance and order its removal.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
CITY OF PERRY.
Presbyterian
Project To
Cost $5,000
The Perry Presbyterian Church
will begin a building program
next week to cost more than
$5,000, the Rev. John B. Pridgen,
pastor, announced.
The building program will in
clude remodeling of the steeple
and the front of the church, the
addition of more Sunday School
rooms, purchase of new pews for
the auditorium and the addition
of a balcony in the auditorium.
More, than SI,OOO of the money
has been raised, the pastor said.
The congregation voted last week
to start the project as soon as
possible. Work will begin July
30, Rev. Pridgen said.
The church has grown so rapid
ly in the last three years that
this building program is the
third in that period of time. The
membership has increased to
more than 100 members.
New Pirates
Scrappy, In
Ist Division
Just before the first half of
the Macon League schedule end
ed, the local boys on the “Out of
Town Boys” infested team of the
Macon League entry got together
and decided they had rather get
out of the Macon League and get
into The Tri-County League,
where only local boys would
play.
This being agreed oh, such ac
tion was taken, but then some of
the local boys again changed
their minds and decided they had
rather play with an out-of-town
team and stay in the Macon'
League. This put Skipper Las
t seter on the Spot, but he rather
courageously corraled a few of
the school boys together, with the
kind assistance of three or four)
veterans of the team, and has a
hustling ball team on the field
which has battled into third place
in The Tri-County League.
On Hickson Field last Wednes
day Night, the Pirates lambasted
the strong second place Lilly
team of The Tri-County League
to the tune of 14 to 5. It was a
very splendid pitching perform
ance by Jack Spickard, who af
ter a shaky start settled down
and hurled 8 hit ball over thet
nine inning route, striking out
11 men and walking only three.
No Lilly player reached “Spik”
for over 1 hit each; he came in
for his share of hitting, getting
3 for 5 times at bat. Harris Sat
terfield had a field day at bat,
getting 4 hits for 6 times at bat,
including a double. Pierce, Har
dy and Gray each 2 hits for 4
times at bat. For Lilly, McGough
and E. Yawn had a triple each.
R H E
Lilly 000 130 010 5 8 5
Perry 110 246 OOx 14 14 6
Yow and Woodruff; Spikard
and Hardy.
On Sunday afternoon on Hick
son Field, it was a different
story in a good Ball game, both
teams being slowed down by the
extreme heat of the afternoon.
Dooly High came out on the long
end of a 6 to 4 score. Bobby
✓
Cannon, pitching his first day
time game this summer, started
slow giving up 4 runs on 5 hits
in the first two innings, then
settled down and blaqjted the
Dooly high bunch until the Bth
inning, when he had to have
help from Spickard, who came in
and stopped them after the two
winning runs had been scored. It
was a pitching battle between
Cannon and D. Brantley of Dooly
High until the Bth inning. Can
non gave up only 6 hits and!
Brantley gave up only 5 hits.
D. Brantley and Nelson were the
only battlers to get over one hit
during the afternoon, each get-}
ting two hits. The fielding play
of Bush at shortstop for Dooly
High was outstanding,
R H E
Dooly High 130 000 020 6 6 6
Perry 002 000 200 455
D. Brantley and Kirkland,
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CARL W. GRANT JR. is super
visor for Houston anil Peach
counties for the Farmers Home
Administration and maintains
his office in the Anderson
Building here. Mrs. Emma
Stokes is also employed in the
FHA office here.
Roughton
Faces Dixon
Tomorrow
Middle Georgia fight fans are
looking for Dot Roughton, 162-
pound Perry battler, to slow
down Rocky Dixon in
the second summer fight card
here Friday night at Hickson
Field.
The card, sponsored by the
American Legion, includes two
preliminaries of six and four
rounds and a battle royal. The
main event will be* an eight
round bout.
Dixon was supposed to meet
Ralph Pearson of Macon, but
Pearson sustained a gash on his
face in last Friady night’s fight
with Frankie Palermo and was
unable to keep his date with
Dixon here. So rough and ready
Roughton, who got plenty of ex
perience in fighting in the Army,
said he would take on Dixon in
the main go.
The semi-final bout will be
between Perry’s Luther White
hurst, 160,, Negro, and Jabbing
Foots Jackson, 162, Atlanta Ne
gro. Whitehurst won his Macon
fight last week and is expected to
be hard to handle.
Cecil Deal, Macon, 130 pounds,
and O. B. Evans, Atlanta, 128,
will meet in the second prelim.
Promoter A1 Low said all the
battlers are in good condition
and promised the fans good
fights from the opening bout thru
the main go. Admission prices
are $1.25 for ringside, 85 cents
general admission, and 55 cents
for students under 15 years old.
Joe Kicklighter
Ready For School
Joe Kicklighter, who was
stricken with polio in the sum
mer of 1950, is planning to start
school here this fall.
Joe, who’ll be six in August,
has recovered from the attack to
the extent that he can walk sev
eral steps without assistance.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs, A. M.
Kicklighter, will take him to
;chool each day. The doctor has
told Joe he can walk around in
the room but cannot go out and
play until his muscles are strong
er
Joe says he’s ready to start to
this thing they call school.
COMING EVENTS
The Stella Duncan Cater Class
will meet at 8 p. m. today (Thurs
day) at the home of Miss Patsy
Harris.
Cannon, Spickard and Hardy.
On Thursday Night of this
week the Perry Pirates will meet
the Fort Valley Team of the Tri-
County League in a Double Head
er starting at 7 p. m. Won’t you
come out and support a hustling
team of local boys? They may
not win but they will be hustling
all the way, and you can never
tell, those youngsters out there
playtng tonight may be the stars
of tomorrow, come on out and
encourage them. Don’t Forget.
Game time 7 p. m.
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NEARLY EVERY HOME
HAS THE HOME JOURNAL
Schools Open Sept. 4
For 180-Day Session
Big School
Project Is
Advertised
Advertisement for bids on the
big new elementary school at
Warner Robins were started this
week and will be opened at the
courthouse here at 2 p. m., Thurs
day, Aug. 23, County School
Supt. Lewis Tabor announced
this week.
A number of contractors have
already requested plans and spec
ifications from Architect N. J.
Pascullis, Macon, for the big
building which will include 20’
classrooms, assembly and lunch
room and library.
It is by far the largest single
school building project in the
history of the county. It will be
erected on a 12-acre tract which
fronts on Pleasant Hill Road be
tween the home of John Bell and
Walker Heights in Warner Rob
ins, Ga.
The building is being financed!
with a $485,000 federal grant to
aid the county in caring for the
increased school population
ing out of the expanded activity
at Warner Robins Air Base. The
school board hopes that construc
tion can be well started within
60 days.
Patrol Nabs
Two Alleged
''Hot-Rodders 1 '
State patrolmen from the Per
ry station believe they have
broken up “hot-rod” racing on
U. S. 41 north, Macon highway;
with the arrest Sunday of two
Macon men who were charged
with speeding and reckless driv
ing.
The men, who spent a few
hours in Houston county jail be
fore they were released on bond,
were identified as Alton Daniel
Joyner, 22, 812 Hemlock St., Ma
con; and Harold Warren Rober
son, 20, 668 Cleveland St., Ma
con.
Sgt. R. J. McNeill and Trooper
C. M. Stallings made the arrests
shortly after midnight and said
“it definitely was a hot-rod race”
along a straight-away stretch of
the Macon highway between the
Gunn place and Echeconnee.
Cpl. G. H. Webb told the Ma
con Telegraph that the patrol had
known about the Saturday night
hot rod races for sometime but
that they were held as long as
four months apart and had there
fore been difficult to catch. A
sizeable crowd of other hot-rod
ders and spectators scattered out
along side roads when the pa
trolmen appeared to make the
arrests.
Hentz Houser Day
Honored A Perry
"Favorite Son"
Hundreds of the friends and
well-wishers of Hentz Houser
thronged Houston Lake yester
day to salute the young man who
was injured in a diving accident
at the lake May 19.
Hentz, who has bAen in Macon
Hospital since that time, has
heard from or been visited often
by many of his host of friends,
but far more people than could
ever crowd into Macon Hospital
wanted to honor him.
So yesterday was “Hentz Hous
er Day’ at the lake and through
out Perry and Houston county,
with many friends outside this
area also joining in.
Barbecue plates were served,
cakes baked, bowling and games
enjoyed, boat races and water
skiing watched—all arranged by
Perry friends of the Housers, by
Dave and Art Goodman, opera
tors of Houston Lake, and eager
ly participated in by all who at-
ESTABLISHED 1870
1 Schools will open in Houston
county Tuesday, Sept. 4, for a
180-day term, County School Su
perintendent Lewis Tabor an-
I nounced this week,
i Pre-school week for teachers in
the county begins Tuesday, Aug.
28, but classes for children will
not start until a week later, the
day after Labor Day.
Remainder of the calendar for
♦he school year is as follows:
Schools close for the Christmas
holidays Friday, Dec. 21, 1951.
Schools re-open for Spring
term Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1952.
Tentative closing date, May 28,
1952',
180 Days Required
However, schools must operate
until 180 days of actual teaching
have been completed for the
school year, as required under
the Minimum Foundation pro
gram.
The above calendar allows for
five holidays as in the past—two
days for Thanksgiving, one for
district meeting of Georgia Ed
ucation Association and two
Spring holidays—but if any oth
er teaching days should be miss
ed, classes would have to run
beyond May 28 in order to com
plete the 180 days, the superin-
tendent pointed out.
Enrollment in the county next
term is expected to approach
5,000 children, with about 50
teachers in the Warner Robins
schools, 32 in Perry school for
white children and others in ele
mentary schools for white and
Negro children and Houston High
School for Negroes. .
Four Busses Added
Last year’s enrollment was
about 4,250 with an average daily
attendance of 3,538, but these fig
i ures will be substantially increas
ed this year, the superintenrent
said, as population continues to
rise.
Another factor will be inau
guration of bus transportation for
Negro school children, with four
busses to bring Negroes of high
school age to the high school here
and also to transport as many
Negro elementary children as
bus schedules and routes will
permit.
Because of the increased coun
ty population around Warner
Robins Air Base, the county,
school system is receiving some
Federal aid for capital outlay, op
eration and maintenance, but
even with this aid, the county
school board will be hard-pressed
to keep up with the rapid in
crease in enrollments.
Judy Gray Hurt
In Fall At Beach
Judy Gray, 4-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wordna Gray,
is recuperating at her home here
from a serious fall at Jackson
ville Beach last week.
Judy suffered fractures of both
arms and a slight skull fracture
when she fell about 12 feet from
a STha-ll shed. She was treated at
St. Vincent’s Hospital in Jack
sonville and was brought home
by her parents Friday after
noon.
J. Frank Ingram
Dies In Florida
J. Frank Ingram, 60, brother
of Mrs. E. D. Smith and W. E.
Ingram, and himself a former
resident of Houston county, died
at his West Palm Beach, Fla.
home Monday, July 23.
Funeral services were held on
Tuesday and interment was in
his family plot there.
Besides his two sisters and two
brothers, Mr. Ingram is surviv
ed by his wife, the former Miss
Clyde Butts; three sons, Joseph,
William and Frank Jr., their
wives and three grandsons.
Mrs. Artemus Braddock was a
patient in Middle Georgia Hos
pital, Macon, this week.
tended, and some who could
not, as an earnest tribute to
Hentz. *