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U. S. 41 IN HOUSTON
VOL. 80 No 32
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THESE TWO GIANT International trucks with dump bodies have
been purchased by Georgia Limerock Co. from Andrew Truck and
Tractor Co, The vehicles, with gross weight of about 18 tons
each, are some of the biggest “rolling stock” in the county
They were added this week to the fleet of seven other trucks
which the limerock company uses to haul the rock from the pits
to the mill. They are not used on public roads.
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New Pool
To Be Open
In Few Days
Children in the Perry area will
be able to get in a lot of swim
ming in the new Perry Country
Club Pool even before school
starts and more from then on,
officials said this week as the
pouring of cement neared com
pletion.
The new concrete pool will be
allowed to season before water is
turned into it and that will
probably be on or before Aug. 20,
Dan L. Grant, a director of the
club, said.
The pool will be lighted for
night swimming, in addition to
its day-time operation.
Membership in the club, which
is constructing both the pool and
a nine-hole golf course, is open to
all residents of this area through
purchase of a share of stock in
the sponsoring corporation and
everyone is invited to join, Grant
pointed out.
Further information may be se
cured from Major Dudley Jones
who is secretary-treasurer of the
club.
The new golf course, which is
supervised by Sid Clarke, for
merly of Montezuma, is shaping
up nicely and should be ready for
play by Oct. 15, officials said.
Pirates In Win
Streak, Play
Here Sunday
The Perry Pirates of the Tri-
County League defeated the
Georgia Kaolin Team of the Ma
can League 13 to 1 last night on
Hickson Field.
Lewis Bledsoe, home on fur
lough from the Army, pitched
for the Pirates and was master
all the way, giving up only four
hits and striking out five and
walking only two men.
While there was no slugging on
the Pirates side the whole team
was hitting and taking advantage
of nine free passes. This win
gives the Pirates five wins out of
the last six games.
The game scheduled with the
night has been cancelled so that
the players may take part in the
Tri-county Ayy-Star game Thurs
day Night in Cordele, when the
picked All-Stars from all the oth
er Teams will play the first place
Unadilla Wildcats.
Five members of the Perry
Pirates will participate in the
All-Star game of the Tri-County
League at Cordele tonight.
They are Aldine Lasseter, who
will be assistant manager of the
All-Stars, Pitchers Cannon and
Spickard, Outfielder Gunter, also
Catcher Hardy and Umpire FT
Satterfield.
The Pirates will play the first
place Unadilla Wildcats on Hick
son Field Sunday afternoon at
3:30.
Last Tues. night on Hickson
Field the Perry Pirates defeated
the Fort Valley Ramblers 7 to 6
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Dot Houghton
Hurt In Cycle
Accident
1 Doddridge K. (Dot Roughton,
owner of R. & G. Cleaners, was
seriously injured in a motorcycle
accident at St. Augustine, Fla.,
last Thursday.
Mr. Roughton is reported to
have sturck a hole in the road,
causing the motorcycle to throw
him off. He was taken to the
Flagler Hospital at St. Augustine
for treatment.
Mr. Roughton was brought
from St. Augustine to the Vet
erans Hospital at Dublin on Sat
urday by Gardner Watson. He is
reported to have suffered a brok
en collar bone, several broken
ribs and a bruised kidney. He
will have to remain at the Dub
lin hospital for several weeks, it
was reported.
Mr. Roughton is in Ward 10-B
and would appreciate a card from
his Perry friends.
Cotton Guessing
Contest Opened
By Gray-Walker
Gray-Walker Tractor Co, is
conducting another cotton pro
duction guessing contest this
year, with prizes of sls for the
first and $lO for second place.
County Agent W. T. Middle-1
brooks won the contest last year
with a guess within 25 bales of
the official Census Bureau fig
ures. The production was about
2,900 bales in the county last
year.
It is expected that about 4,000
bales will be produced in the
county this year in view of the |
government’s appeal for a 16-
million bale crop.
Guesses wil be received up to
September 1.
Cohen Walker invites all coun
ty farmers, business men, bank
ers, fertilizer dealers, ginners,
warehousemen, and citizens gen
erally to come by the Gray-Walk
er company and register their
guesses in this contest which the
company sponsors annually.
Methodist Youth
Lead Services
The Youth Fellowship of the
Perry Methodist church will con
duct evening services of the
church this Sunday night and
next Sunday while Rev. H. H.
Heisler, pastor, is on vacation.
These will be vesper services
at 7:30 p. m. instead of the usual
8:30 hour.
Lay leaders of the church are
conducting the morning worship
services for the two Sundays.
in a rather loosely played base
ball game.
After a very shaky first inning,
in which Fort Valley scored five
runs on three hits and two er
rors, the Pirates came back be
hind the good pitching of Kinnas,
to score a 7 to 6 victory.
Ft. Valley 500 010 000 6 9 6
Perry HO 031 Olx 7 11 5
Batt: Wilder and Davis,
Kinnas and Hardy.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1931
Court Opens
August 20;
Civil Cases
| Houston county superior court
' will convene here Monday, Aug.
j 20, for two weeks. v
1 Thirty-eight indictments re
turned by the last grand jury
I will be presented during the sec
ond week. Civil cases will be
j heard the first week.
Judges A. M. (Phil) Anderson
I and Mallory C. Atkinson will
preside and Solicitor William M.
West will represent the state.
The April term grand jury,
which met last week, handled the
criminal matters up to date and
i no grand jury will be called at
, this time.
I Forty - seven indictments re
| turned by the April term grand
I jury have been placed on the
calendar for the second week,
1 which is set aside for criminal
cases, starting Aug. 27. Ninety
i five jurors have been chosen for
i the second week.
Civil Court Calendar
Here is the court calendar for
I the civil session of Houston coun
! ty superior court beginning here
! Monday, Aug. 20.
, i Mrs. Ruth Stitt Mitchell vs.
Jack J. Mitchell, divorce and ali
mony.
| Lillian Dorris McGee vs.
I George Raymond McGee, divorce
’ i and alimony.
, i Gordon Day vs. Elizabeth
, Island Day, divorce and alimony.
Sam A. Vizzini vs. American
. Airmotive, attachment and bond,
j B. L. and Marvin Newberry,
doing business as Newberry and
, Son, vs. John T, Day and R. R.
Pratt, trading as Pratt’s Auto
Service, garnishment.
, 1 GMAC Corp. vs. A. L. Vickers,
suit on note.
. 1 Sam Lee Kendrick vs. C. E.
I Holly and James T. Brown, suit
, for damages.
Jimmie Reed for herself and<
minor children, Charlie Reed et
al, vs. Lowell S. Griffin, suit for
damages.
H. G. Tinker vs. Fred Griggs,
suit on account.
Cherry Burrell Corp. vs. Thos.
A. Harrison, suit on note.
Sarah Lee Scott vs. Wallace
Scott, divorce and alimony.
Employees Loan & Trust Corp.
vs. Gus Stubbs, suit on note.
Luther B. Ray vs. W. C. Lind
i sey, suit for damages.
I Industrial Salvage Corp. vs.
D. G. Goings, Goings Construc
tion Co., suit on account.
Mrs. Grace Jones vs. Z. R.
Jones, suit on account.
Universal CIT Corp. vs. G. L.
Finney, suit on con/sale.
Reginald Trice, Inc., vs. K. L.
! Grantham, suit on note.
Beech Nut Packing Co. vs.
Mabry T. Smith, Smith’s Curb
Market, suit on account.
Geo. C. Nunn & Son vs. H. L.
Dorsey, suit on note.
Mrs. Ruth Anderson vs. D. C.
Dunbar and David C. Dunbar Jr.,
suit for damages.
Wood Dairy Supply Co. vs.
Thomas Harrison, suit on note'.
United States Fidelity and
Guaranty Co. vs. Mrs. Frances
Hall, suit on note.
Edmond Wargo, by next friend,
S. J. Wargo, vs. Atlantic Co. and
D. C. Childs, suit for damages.
S. J. Wargo vs. Atlantic Co.
and D. C. Childs, suit for damag
es.
J. D. Moore vs. B. W. Bozeman
and D. H. Smith, suit on check*.
Mrs. P. H. Hinson vs. Andrew
Truck & Tractor Co., suit for
damages.
Mrs. James A. Jones vs. An
drew Truck & Tractor Co., suit
I for damages.
Lorie C. Josey vs. American
| Casualty Co. and Homer Smith,
suit for damages.
T. H. Treadwell vs. G. L.
I Marks, suit for damages.
L. Luria & Sons vs. Thomas H.
Walker, Walker Electric & Sup
ply Co., suit on account.
L. D. Aiken vs. Charles Zette
rower, attachment bond.
T. T. Carstarphen Jr. and R. B.
Carstarphen vs. Charles J. Smith,
suit on note. ,
Universal CIT Corp. vs. Claude i
THEATRE MANAGER
AND FATHER ILL;
KENNY SUBSTITUTES
As far as we are concerned,
M. H. Boyer Jr., manager of the
Muse Theater, is among the lead
ing candidates for the title of
“Hard Luck Man of 1951.”
Mr. Boyer suffered a disloca
ed vertebra in an automobile
accident about two months ago
and has had his neck in a brace.
After two weeks in a brace, the
doctors had to re-set the brace
because the vertebra was not
healing properly.
Mr. Boyer’s father, M. H. Boy
er Sr., former solicitor of the
superior court circuit, underwent
an operation last week.
Mr. Boyer Jr. was sent to the
Hawkinsville hospital Saturday
night with an attack of virus
pneumonia. He’s still wearing
the neck brace.
W. G. Kenny, manager of the
Martin and Thompson theaters
at Fort Valley, is substituting for
Mr. Boyer during his illness.
Thompson, suit on note.
Ocean Accident & Guarantee
Co. vs. Albert L. Hester, Clyde
Barrett and John E. Scoby, dec
laratory judgment.
Tournapull Housing. Corp. vs.
Robert R. Steel, suit on account.
City of Macon vs. Robert Eu
gene Fudge, suit on acciount.
Harry F. Northington vs. John
Edgar Bostwick & Southeastern
Greyhound Lines, suit for damag
es.
Building Supplies Corp. vs.
Frank G. Miller and Geo. H. Mil
ler, suit on account.
TRAVERSE JURORS
AUGUST 20, 1951
B, S. Flournoy
Julian Cawthon
M. M. Dean
David A. Perdue
J. H. Richards
R. C. Sanders
E. H. Cosey
Harris Chapman
E. L. May 1 *
T. E. Smith 'I
Wesley Ramsey
Dan Gunn
M. E. Sisson
W. W. Jarrell
H. E, Stacey
Frank R. Swain
S. V. Maine
B. L. Newberry
Homer D. Knight
G. G. Davis
Joe Beddingfield
Culma Harris
Tom Chapman
P. D. Meadows
H. G. Braddock
Frank Sims
J. M. Johnson
Roger E. Mills
Henry M. Powell
M. E. Batchelor
W. L. Best
Roy L. Davis
J. M. Winslett
W. A. Defoe
M. E. Johnson
James W. Stubbs, Jr.
J. M. Taylor
Hoke Harper
J. O. Jacobs
O. L. Evans
M. B. Keel
M. A. Burnette
Frank Moody
James McKenley
Chas. Stafford, Jr.
Thomas Finlayson
L. D. 91° un t
H. W. Bartlett
John Arnold
Clarence Logue
Henry Middleton
C. L. Kersey, Jr.
A, J. Elkin
E. W. Kinser
D. M. Ryle
Russell L. Johnson
Roy Marshall
Jack Wilson
James A. Layson
Mabry T. Smith
J. F. McCrary
Clyde W. Felker
R. D. Beachler
Roy Bateman
G. M. Hollomon
Olton Smith
A boy becomes a man when he
walks around a puddle of water
instead of through it.
Dogs Freed;
Must Have
City Tags
Yesterday was Emancipation
1 Day for dogs in Perry—but they
have got to be inoculated and
registered from now on.
The 30-day period in which the
’ city ordered all dogs penned or
■ tied, following the killing of a
rabid dog which had bitten sev
eral animals in Old Field and
' Smoak Subdivision, was conclud
ed yesterday.
Many dogs celebrated their
freedom with a stroll downtown
1 and resumed their snoozes on
shaded sidewalks.
Ordinance Passed
To retain their freedom, how
; ever, their owners rriust keep
> them inoculated regularly and
registered with the city here
; after.
5 Mayor and city council have
adopted an ordinance requiring
the registration of all dogs and
the wearing of a tag indicating
, that they, have been inoculated
, against rabies. Registration fee
is $1 and the certificate must
show when the dog was last in
oculated.
After sufficient notice of the
ordinance has been given, dogs
without tags will be picked up
( and impounded of destroyed.
, Some Dogs Destroyed
About 50 dogs which contin
ued to roam at large during the
30-day quarantine were destroy
ed when their owners could not
be found or when the owners re
fused to have the animals inoc
ulated.
A senior veterinary student
from the University of Georgia,
Ray White, made a house-to
house canvass of the dog popula
tion and assisted Dt. Felix M.
Smith, Perry veterinarian, in
inoculating as many dogs as pos
sible. The canvass was sponsor
ed by the city, county and state
health departments.
Jim Bkmey
Brings First
Bale Os Cotton
First bale of cotton ginned in
Houston county this year was
produced by Jim Blaney on his
farm about two miles south of
Henderson and ginned at the
Davis Company gin in Perry on
Monday.
J. D. Felder and Bud Fairfax
worked with Blaney in the pro
duction of the cotton. It was gin
ned without charge.
The bale weighed 464 pounds
and brought a premium price.
Pickers were observed in many
fields in the county while others,
set back by Spring hail, were still
full of blooms.
The second bale of the season
was brought in by W. L. McCor
mick from his place near Hayne
ville. It was ginned Tuesday.
The Davis Co. gin expects to be
operating almost on full-time
in a week or two and night gin
ning will be added to the daytime
schedule later in the season. The ‘
warehouse is bonded for storing
cotton under government loan. 1
R. C. Howard Dies
A.t Elberta Home
Funeral services were held at ;
3 p. m. Tuesday for Robert Cleve
land Howard, 56, who died Mon- ;
day morning at his residence in ;
Elberta. i
Services were conducted at
Warner Robins Methodist Church i
by the Revs. C. W. Still and Geo. <
Clary. Burial was in Howard )
Cemetery near Byron with Card- ;
ner Watson Funeral Home of
Warner Robins in charge.
He had lived in Houston Coun- ]
ty all of his life. *
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. 1
Annie Roberson Howard; two 1
daughters, Mrs. H. L. Jones, Ma- <
con, and Mrs. John J. Stephens,
Columbus; and four sons, Marion ]
C. and Cecil Ray Howard, both of i
Elberta, and W. C. and Ted Eu- 1
gene Howard, both of Warner ;
Robins. i
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PfT JOHN It. CALHOUN, 111
Pfc. John Blue Calhoun 111, of
Perry has left for Spokane,
Wash., to begin his new assign
ment with the 111th Strategic
Reconnaisance Wing, Fairchild
Air Base.
Pfc. Donald Griffin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Griffin, has been
; assigned to Robins Air Force
I Base.
j Pfc. Charles R. Whitworth, son
| of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Whitworth,
| has been chosen to attend the
i Veterinary Technician’s course
at the Agriculture and Mechanics
College, Fort Collins, Colo. Priv
ate Whitworth is stationed at the
I Brookley Air Force Base here.
He is a veterinary technician,
with the 2789th Medical Group.
Chief Storekeeper Walter L.
Leaptrot, son of Mrs. D. B. Leap
trot of Perry, was at home for
the weekend from the naval base
at Charleston, S. C.
Chief Radioman Pierce Leap
trot, another son of Mrs. Leap
trot, is now stationed in Hawaii.
Pfc. Billy Gray, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Glea Gray, has been trans
ferred from Lackland Air Force
Base in Texas to Keesler Field,
Miss, and visited his parents here
Saturday en route to his new
assignment.
Pfc, C. I. Shelton spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. I. Shelton Sr. He is
stationed at Fort McPherson.
Pfc. Charles Hicks of Cocoa,
Fla., spent the weekend with his
wife and other relatives in Perry.
Airman Harold Wilson of Co
coa, Fla., is recovering from a
truck accident at the base hos
pital there.
Hit-Run Victim
Found In Road
Near Henderson
Sheriff C. C. Chapman and
state patrolmen were searching
this week for a hit and run driv
er who struck and killed Henry
Layfield, 44, near Henderson
about 9:30 p. m. last Saturday.
A jury called by Coroner J. S.
Rainey decided Monday morning
that Layfield was killed by “un
known parties” in a hit and run |
accident. The body was about a |
mile east of Henderson on Route j
28.
The body was discovered by
C. J. Langston, who told the jury
that the body was almost in the
center of the road. State Troop
er J. P. Oldham testified that the
body had been knocked about 40
feet after being hit by the ve- j
hide. Charles Kersey reported,
to the jurors that he had seen j
Layfield in front of the J. L.
Davis home about 8 p. m. the
same day. ;
Jurors were John H. William-,
son, foreman; W. E. Barfield,
clerk; W. C. Jones, B. W. Boze
man, T. F. Hardy Jr. and Jack !
Moss.
Funeral services for Mr. Lay
field were held Sunady after
noon in Harmony Baptist Church, j
The Rev. L. F. Smith, pastor of j
the Unadilla Baptist Church, of- !
ficiated and burial was in the j
church cemetery. •
Survivors are his father, ylim
Layfield; two brothers, Alonzo
and Jeff Layfield, all of Unadil
la; two sisters, Mrs. G. H. Bryant
and Mrs. P. G. Thompson of Una
dilla.
NEARLY EVERY HOME
HAS THE HOME JOURNAL
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i West Named
I Solicitor In
Light Vote
William West is now officially
3 I Solicitor General of the Macon
I Judicial Circuit which includes
i Houston County.
! In an extremely light vote
Tuesday, Houston countians add
' ed about 100 votes to his total in
I the circuit which included 612
I votes in Bibb county.
The election attracted little in
terest in the state since it affect
ed only three judicial circuits in
which the solicitors general who
1 are now serving had no opposi
tion on the ballot.
Solicitor West was appointed
by Gov. Talmadge and nominat
j, cd by the State Democratic exec
utive committee to succeed the
’ late Charles Garrett.
Some Write-In Votes
j 1 Os the 35 votes for West in
, Perry precincts, seven of them
i were write-in votes for him, cast
j , by citizens who apparently want-
Jed to establish the fact that
j write-in votes could be and were
j cast, since the question had been
raised about the legality of an
’ election in which only one candi
' date for each post could get on
" the official ballot.
Write-in votes were also cast in
; Perry for John Davis in the
Rome circuit and Wingate Dykes
in the Southwestern circuit; both
of whom were elected without
opposition.
j Only five people voted at War
. ner "Robins, most populous pre
. i cinct in the county, while Hattie
i (Centerville) and Elko recorded
. the largest percentage of regis
. tered citizens.
The Tabulation
[ Votes cast in the county’s pre
. cincts, all for the candidates on
; the ballot, were reported by John
, L - Hodges, Ordinary, as follows;
; Perry 35
Hattie (Centerville) 19
Elko is
■ Hayneville 7
Henderson 7
Heard 0
Warner Robins 5
Polling places were not opened
; at Bonaire and Kathleen, it was
reported.
Church Building
Projects Underway
Two church repair and re
modelling projects were progress
ing rapidly this week.
The Presbyterian church has a
graceful new steeple and will
, soon have a porch with large col
umns, to further change the
appearance of the exterior. A
balcony and additional Sunday
School rooms will complete the
$5,000 remodelling project.
The Methodist church is being
re-roofed over the old building
which contains the main audito
rium.
I 1
Samuel Carter
Dies At Vinson's
Samuel Carter, 48, Robins Field
employee, died of a heart attack
at Vinson’s Valley Tuesday after
noon.
The body was found in the
water but it was reported that
| there was no water in the lungs
' so death was attributed to a heart
1 ailment.
Gardner Watson Funeral Home
; took charge of the body pending
. arrival of relatives from Miami,
1 Fla. Survivors include a sister,
Mrs. W. H. Frost of Miami,
|Kiwanis Official
Visits Club Here
Billy Smith of Americus, lieu
tenant governor of the Fifth Di-
I vision of Georgia Kiwanis, was
' an official visitor at the meeting
1 of the Perry Club Tuesday.
A musical program was pre
sented by Misses Peggy Jo Mitch
ell, Betty Ann Smith and Bobbe
Smith of Perry and Mary Jane
Pettus of Birmingham, who is
visiting the Smiths, Francis Nunn
accompanied at the piano by Mrs.
A. M. Kicklighter.
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