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VOL 82 NO. 8 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1953 ESTABLISHED 1870
Charles P. Gray Improving;
Seriously Injured in Wreck
Charles P. Gray, prominent
Perry business, church and civic
leader, was seriously injured in a
collision of two automobiles near
Hampton, Ga., last Saturday morn
ing.
Mr. Gray was reported slightly I
improved Wednesday at St. Jos- I
eph’s hospital in Atlanta, where he |
was taken after emergency treat- |
ment at Grady hospital in Atlanta.
He suffered a broken arm, broken
leg and severe head injuries.
Mr. Gray was en route to Atlan
ta for a Republican Party meeting.
State troopers at the Griffin sta
tion said a car driven by Miss
Anne Walters Deal, 34, skidded on |
wet pavement, turned around and |
crashed into Mr. Gray’s car. The
Deal car caught fire after the |
wreck and burned, and state
troopers estimated the damage to
GA. POWER CHECK FOR CITY
SHOWS BIG GROWTH OF PERRY
Legion Auxiliary
Has Tea Marking
25th Anniversary
The Robert D. Collins Unit 24
American Legion Auxiliary cele
brated its 25th anniversary Sun
day afternoon, Feb. 22, with a Sil
ver Anniversary Tea at the Legion
Home.
Silver and blue decorations were
used in the auditorium and vesti
bules. The tea table was lovely
with cut work cover, flower ar
rangement of blue carnations and
snapdragons, with blue candles.
Mrs, T. R. Summers Sr., a past
president, poured tea. Other past
presidents assisting were Mrs. J.
G. Bradley, Mrs. Edna Mitchell,
Mrs. Donald Smith, Mrs. Paul
Hardy, Mrs. H. S. Kezar and Mrs.
J. B. Calhoun Jr.
Mrs. Rhodes Sewell, president,
with the charter members formed
the receiving line .
DAHLBERG HEADS
RED CROSS DRIVE
A. W. Dahlberg, Perry certified
public accountant known as “Mr.
Red Cross” throughout Houston
County, will be chairman of the
county drive for the Macon Chap
ter of Red Cross in the March
campaign.
Campaign Chairman Thad Mur
phey of Macon announced the ap
pointment of Chairman Dahlberg
and the Houston County quota of
$3,000.
The goal of the three-county
campaign is $62,757 to support the
Macon Chapter’s service r .o veter
ans, Gl’s and their dependents, its
blood collections, water safety pro
grams first aid and home nursing
instruction for Civilian Defense,
disaster preparedness and Junior
Red Cross.
Dahlberg has been Houston
County Red Cross representative
for five years, and is a member of
the Macon Chapter board of di
rectors. A volunteer, he does case
work and service for Houston Gl’s,
veterans and their dependents. He
has led the county campaign ap
peal for several years.
Chairman Dahlberg is organiz
ing a force of campaigners to soli
cit Red Cross donors in Perry and
over the county.
FARMS NEED DAIRY COWS
Every Georgia farm family needs
at least two dairy cows, according
to dairymen for the Agricultural
Extension Service, University of
Georgia, When both of the cows
are in production the family may
have more milk than it needs but
at other times it will be very nice
o have o .e cow producing while
the other one is dry.
Livestock specialists for the Agri
cultural Extension Service, Univer
sity of Georgia ,say that purebred
"°gs require greater skill in breed
ing and management.
% ourttal
CHARLES P. GRAY
A check for $3,968.81 was de
livered to Mayor Mayo Davis of
the city of Perry, by Ed Sandefur,
local manager of the Georgia Pow
er Company.
This payment represents three
percent of the gross receipts from
the sale of electric power to com
mercial and residential customers
of the company in the city. This
payment is made under the Muni
cipal Partnership Plan by which
the three per cent is paid by the
Power Company in place of oc
cupation and franchise taxes. The
plan permits the city to share in
the growth of the electric business
in the city. The payment is made
in addition to the company’s prop
erty taxes paid to the county and
city. The payment for 1951 was
$3,504.01; for 1948 it was $1,795.64.
This shows more than 100 percent
growth in five years.
The company’s total tax bill for
1952 amounted to nearly sl7 mil
lion in comparison with sls million
for 1951.
Os the total taxes, nearly $1,300,-
000 was paid to the communities of
Georgia under the Municipal Part
nership Plan. This was an increase
of more than SIOO,OOO over last
year.
The largest single item was fed
eral income tax amounted to over
$11,300,000 in comparison with SB,-
300,000 which the company paid in
1951. City, county and state, real
and personal property taxes
amunted to nearly $3,250,000 for
1952 in comparison with $3,000,000
in 1951.
The $17,000,000 total does not
include the Georgia three percent
sales tax which the company paid
on materials bought for operation
during the year.
Savings Associations
Lauded in Talk Here
W. O. Duvall, president of the
Atlanta Federal Savings and Loan
Association, told Perry Kiwanians
Tuesday that savings and loan as
sociations have provided more fi
nancing for home ownership than
any other single agency.
Mr. Duvall, invited here by F.
M. Houser of the Perry Federal
Savings and Loan Association, said
the associtions have enjoyed their
greatest growth in the last 25
years in the South and have be
come known as “apostles of thrift
and home ownership.”
Profits made by the associations
stay in the home community and
enrich the people of the commun
: ity, at the same time reducing the
interest rate.
Guests at the meeting included
James Johnson of Warner Robins
and Frank Mallory of Macon.
NOTICE
All property owners who bought
dogwood trees from the Business
Women’s Civic Club are requested
to place stakes where the trees
are to be planted so the workmen
can set out the trees if the owners
are away.
Mr. Gray’s car at S4OO.
Miss Deal was taken to a Griffin
hospital and was reported to be
recovering satisfactorily.
Mr. Gray’s condition was re
ported Wednesday to have im
proved to the point that his bro
\ en arm could be set. He suffered
severe chest injuries and physici
; ans were anxious to prevent pneu
s monia. Members of his family
have been at his bedside since re-
ceiving the report of the accident. >
A former mayor of Perry, Mr.
! Gray is the Chevrolet dealer here,
i the lay leader of the Macon Dis
trict of the South Georgia Metho-
I dist Conference and chairman of
I the board of stewards of the Perry
I Methodist Church. He also is an
I owner of Gray-Walker Tractor
I Company and Gray-Walker Supply
* Company here.
i
SAWYER ATTENDS
MEETING OF YMGA
The State YMCA of Georgia held
its annual board meeting in Atlan
ta last week. Dr. George M. Sparks
of the Atlanta Division of the Uni
versity of Georgia was re-elected
state chairman. Reports were made
by A. W. Wrighter, state secretary
and the six district secretaries, in
cluding Rev. Swoll Sawyer of
Perry.
The State YMCA of Georgia has
grown in the past few years from
338 clubs and 9,600 members in
1946, to 749 clubs and 22,470 mem
in 1952, according to the report of
the state secretary. The budget for
1952 reached an all-time high of
SIOO,OOO.
Highlights of the state secre
tary’s report shows an upward
trend in the services rendered the
boys and girls in the high schools
of Georgia. Ten Christian Life
Conferences with a total attend
ance of 1,975 boys and girls, has
as their goal helping the boys and
girls understand their problems in
the light of Christian principles
and to encourage them to dedicate
their lives to Christian living and
loyalty to Christ.
Thirty-nine Program Planning
Conferences with 3,780 boys and
girls attending gave instruction
and training to both members and
the adult advisorc in the work of
their clubs. The purpose of all I
these clubs is to “create .main
tain, and extend thru out the j
school and community high stand
ards of Christian character.
Teen Talks Increase
Bible Study enrollment, in what
is nationally known as Teen Talks,
also reached totals beyond any
previous year. 109,461 boys and'
girls in the public schools of Geor
gia either studied these Teen Talks
in club meetings or heard them
given as chapel talks in school as
semblies.
The Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y Club
work is within the high schools.
The State YMCA also has Gra-Y
which are organized in the ele
mentary schools. The state YMCA
serves the small towns and rural
communities where there are no
local YMCA’s.
The budget of the State YMCA
of Georgia is raised through mail
canvasses in every local community
where work is being done. In 1952,
11,285 contributors made possible
the meeting of the budget which
was something over SIOO,OOO.
Perry .through the sponsorship
of Eugene Beckham, raised $695,
which placed Perry among the top
givers of the Peach district over
which Rev. Swoll Sawyer is the
district secretary. In raising these
funds no committees nor indivi
duals are asked to see anyone. The
mail canvass letters presents the
cause and the giver sends in what
he voluntarily gives.
Youth Assembly Held
Among other activities of 1952
were the Georgia Youth Assembly,'
j when more than 500 boys and girls
took over the capitol and held a
Youth Assembly. This is done
every fall. Other states followed
Georgia’s lead and have held
Youth Assemblies. The Alabama
Youth Assembly will be held next
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NATIONAL FFA j
WEEK MARKED j
The week of February 21-28 has
been proclaimed National FFiA
Week by the National Association
of Future Farmers of America.
Future Farmers of the Perry
FFA chapter here in Houston
county will join more than 360,000
FFA members in 8,500 local chap- ;
ters throughout the nation in ob-j
servance of National FFA Week.
This year marks the 25th year
—the Silver Anniversary—of the
Future Farmers of America. 1
Throughout .Georgia the 16,447 (
members in 297 local chapters will
1 hold special programs in obser
vance of this week which marks
the beginning of their Silver Anni
versary year celebration.
“National FFA Week seeks to
focus attention on the work of the
Future Farmers today who will be
the successful farmers of tomor
row,” points out State FFA Presi
dent Wesley Patrick of Quitman.
“The Week is celebrated each year
during the week, of the anniversary
of the birthday of George Wash- 1
ington.
First Scientific Farmer
I
“Most people think of Washing
ton as an engineer ,a general ,the
first president and the father of
our country, but he was also the
first scientific farmer. He was one
of the first in the nation to prac
tice contour planting, crop rota
tions, and other soil conserving
methods. It is out of our deep
respect for Washington, the farmer
in whose progressive ways we seek
to follow ,that we Future Farmers
of America annually set aside the
week of his birthday as National
FFA Week.”
The FFA is a national organiza
tion of farm boys studying voca
tional agriculture in high school
and was founded in 1928 by a
group of vocational agriculture j
students meeting in Kansas City,
Missouri. Since theri ft has grown
to be the world’s largest farm boy
organization with members extend
ing throughout the 48 states, Ha
waii and Puerto Rico. Its objective
is to help farm boys help them
selves.
“Through their organization,
FFA boys receive leadership train
ing, gain recognition for outstand
ing farming accomplishments, and I
are able to participate in recrea-1
tional activities,” points out T. G.
Walters, state FFA advisor. “Every!
Future Farmer has on his home
farm a supervised farming project 1
which is the training ground where
j he’s learning to be the successful
, farmer of tomorrow,” he added.
The FFA is sponsored nationally
by the agricultural education
branch of the U. S. Office of Edu
cation and maintains its national
headquarters in Washington, D. C.
Here in Georgia, the FFA pro- 1
gram is administered through the ;
| State Department of Education’s
division of agricultural education.
|
TEAM HONORED
Members of the Perry High
School basketball team were hon- j
ored last Friday night with a steak
supper at Debbs Restaurant by |
E. P. Staples, Glea Gray, Ed j
Thompson and Richard Ogletree.
Dr. Tippett to Speak
At Rally Here Today
A Sunday School rally of the
Rehoboth Baptist Association will j
be held at the Perry Church at I
7:30 p. m. today, Rev. J. M. Teresi, ■
pastor, announced. ,
I
Dr. T. W. Tippett, state Sunday 1
School secretary, will be the in- |
spirational speaker. The program |
is in charge of Rev. Ed Vallowe, I
pastor of the Second Baptist
Church of Macon.
The public is invited to attend, i
DR. T. W. TIPPETT
[Ft. Valley Eliminated
By Hawkinsville, 39-34
I .lip-
CHEERING THE PANTHERS in their game with Buena
Vista last night were these enthusiastic cheerleaders of
Perry High. Front row, left to right, Martha Cooper and
Nelda Edwards; second row, Barbara Davis and Sylva
Tabor; third row, Margaret Gibson and Rosemary Tharpe,
and back row, Carolyn Davis and Betty Nunn. (Panther
photo).
LIONS CLUB WILL SELL CAMELLIAS
AT LOW RATES TO BEAUTIFY TOWN
i .
| Whipple Is Member
Os One Million Club
W. K. Whipple of Perry, assist
ant general agent for the Con
j necticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company for the state of Georgia,
has just been officially notified
that he has qualified for the Mil
lion Dollar Round Table, highest
honor organization of life under-
I writers in America.
Mr. Whipple is one of the few
Georgia life insurance men who
achieved this honor in 1952, and
j membership in the organization is
| very exclusive and includes the
I top flight life insurance men of
the nation.
Mr. Whipple led the entire state
i among Connecticut Mutual Men in
business produced and has success
i fully qualifed for the Georgia
j Leaders Round Table for the past
ten years.
Mr. Whipple will be invited to
attend the Million Dollar Round
Table meeting to be held in Mas
sachuesetts this summer.
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Bugs and fire can raise your ire!
Your best entertainment bargain
—The Home Journal.
The local Lions Club announced
today that it will hold a sale of
Camellias on the Courthouse
square Tuesday, March 3.
This sale will last all day and
will offer plants 18 to 24 inches
tall in almost all varieties, done up
in packages of 5 plants for $2 per
package.
These packages will be made up
by the nursery with mixed varie
ties to each package, and because
of special prices and previous
agreement with the Nursery, no
package can be broken. All plants
are well rooted and inspected and
guaranteed to be stated on the
label.
All owners of homes that are
now planning landscaping or put
ting out of shrubbery and flowers
are especially invited to drop by
the Courthouse anytime during
the day and pick out enough Ca
mellias to fill their needs at this
low price, or if not convenient to
drop by, just call number 2 and
give their order and it will be
promptly delivered subject to ap
proval.
It was also announced that a
l house-to-house canvass would be
held Tuesday night by members
of the Lions Club in order to con
tact everyone in town with this
special low price. Remember the
date, Ladies—Tuesday, March 3,
at the Courthouse square or in
your home, 5 big plants for only
$2.
Jones Motor Co.
Established Here
Robert B. Jones of Perry and
M. W, Carmichael of Jackson will
open a car sales business here in
the near future under the name of
Jones Motor Company.
The business, which will handle
new and used cars, will be located
on the lot south of R. & G. Clean
ers. An office will be built on the
location soon, Mr. Jones said.
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GREEN WAVE
EDGED OUT
The Hawkinsville Red Devils
quickly changed the picture in the
Third District Class B tournament
here Tuesday night toy defeating
the defending champions, the Ft.
Valley Green Wave, 39-34.
Fort Valley was looked upon as
the class of the tournftnent up un
til two minutes before the end of
the battle with the Pulaski team,
but a shifty guard named Bobby
Joe Goode upset the estimates of
the forecasters and paced his
team to a seven-point splurge after
tying up the game at 32-all.
Roth teams played a cautious
game from the opening whistle
and Hawkinsville grabbed a first
quarter lead of 7-6. Fort Valley
came back in the second quarter
and led at one time, 17-8, but
went out at the half with only a
four-point advantage, 17-13. The
Hawks kept on the pressure and
moved up to within two points,
29-27, at the end of the third
quarter. It was nip and tuck from
that stage until the score was
knotted at 32-all with two minutes
to go.
Perry was to meet Dawson in
the first round of the Third Dis
trict Class B tournament Wed
nesday night. Warner Robins
was scheduled to meet* Buena
Vista in the opener.
Hawkinsville’s victory sends
them* against Sycamore at 7:30 p.
m. Thursday.
Warner Robins also pulled an
upset Tuesday night by defeating
Cuthbert, 45-43, in a thriller.
Luther Wheelus and Ray Wlnslett
led the Robins team to victory
with a big second and third quart
er drive. Cuthbert staged a last
minute rally that fell just short.
Warner Robins’ victory places the
Houston countians in the quarter
finals against the strong Buena
Vista team last night.
Sycamore ran true to form and
defeated Eastman, 57 to 35, in the
opening game Tuesday night.
Hawk’ville 39 Pos. Ft. Valley 34
Smith 8 f Merritt 5
Rewis 5 f Swan 9
Eaton 6 c Beck 14
Lee 4 g McCants 1
Goode 17 g Fennell 5
Subs: Fort Valley, Wilson and
Aultman; Hawkinsville none.
Cuthbert 43 Pos. W. Robins 45
J. Hartman 14 f Gay 4
Peavy 9 f Winslett 12
Stembridge 4 c Dennard 10
P. Hartman 2 g Greenway 0
Woods 6 g Wheelus 14
Subs; Cuthbert, Rhodes 7, Tay
lor. Warner Robins, Watson 2, and
Adams 3.
Government Okays
Gas System Here
The Federal Power Commission
has authorized the Southern Nat
ural Gas Company to go ahead
with plans for a natural gas sys
tem in Perry, Congressman E. L.
(Tic) .Forrester advised The Home
Journal this week.
"I am aware of the convenience
that this service will give," Mr.
Forrester wired, “and am very
glad that it has been accomplished
and that I could be of assistance in
expediting the processing.”
Perry will vote March 24 on the
proposal of a city-owned system
to be financed without additional
taxes for property owners.
Mrs. Leila Wilkinson
Mrs. Lelia Goff Wilkinson, 80,
died Monday at her residence in
Charleston, S. C.
Funeral services were held at
the Christ Sanctified Church in
Perry Wednesday with the Rev.
Ray M. Smith and Mrs. A. R.
Escakib officiating. Interment were
in the church cemetery.
Gardner Watson Funeral Home
of Perry was in charge of arrange
ments.