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Widen and Repave
U, S. 41 in Houston
VOL. 82 NO. 9
Presbyterians Name
Three New Deacons,
Conduct Visitation
Hobart Richards, Riley Young
and John Jones were elected dea
cons of the Perry Presbyterian
Church at a congregational meet
ing at the church last Thursday
night.
The church members also ap
proved a budget for the next nine
months of $6,600, S9OO of which
will be used for benevolent cause
of the church.
The church, under the direction
of Rev. John B. Pridgen Jr., pastor,
conducted an every member can
vass Sunday.
Pledges Received
Eighteen Presbyterian men in
teams of two visited all members
of the church during the afternoon
to seek pledges for Bible reading,
prayer and church attendance and
finances.
An incomplete report Sunday
afternoon indicated more than 100
church members pledged to give
financially during the year, to at
tend church for the next 13 weeks
and to read the Bible and pray
once each day until Easter.
More than $7,000 was pledged to j
the financial support of the church '
for the next nine months.
Making the visits were J. B. Cal
houn, W. W. Hunt, Aldine Lasseter,
Worth Bryant, Riley Young, Phil
lips Griffin, F. H. Fudge, Hal
Grooms, V. P. Brooks, A. E, Car
penter, John Barton, John Jones,
J. H. Richards, A. J. Adams, Bailey
Harrison, J. S. Harvard, C. W.
Morrow and Rev. John Pridgen. .
Speech Department
Sets PTA Program
The Speech Department of the
Perry High School, under the di
rection of Mrs. Willis Harrison,
will present the program at the
meeting of the PTA to be held in
the high school auditorium, Tues
day, March 10 at 7:30 p. m.
This first night meeting of the
year is planned so that the business
mothers and the fathers can be
present. A large group of parents
and other members is expected.
This meeting is the first to count
on the new attendance contest
which will continue through the
May meeting.
Hometown Contest
Leaders to Meet
Committee chairman of the Per
ry Champion Hometown Contest
will meet with the Business Wom
en’s Civic Club at the Legion Home
at 8 p. m. today.
Frank Hood and Phil Talley of
the Georgia Power Company, spon
sors of the contest, will present a
motion picture and discuss details
of the contest with the community
leaders.
The contest is headed up by the
Business Women’s Civic Club and
other organizations and individuals
in Perry are cooperating fully in
the project.
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S’JPE.RT'tR RATINGS v/?re awarded these Perry High
School students at the Third District Music Festival in Fitz
gerald last Friday. Left to right are Ann Boterweg, Jean Con
nell, Jane Bossier, and Felton Norwood. Bill Moody, who also
won a superior rating, was absent when the photo was made.
They will go to the state meet. (Home Journal Photo).
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Perry High Wins Third District Class R Title,
Beating Hawkinsville in Overtime, 36 to 32
TOURNAMENT SIDELIGHTS
Seats in the Perry High gym
came high during the Third Dis
trict Class B tournament last week.
There were two alternatives: you
could get there about 5:30 p. m.,
or (2) you could do like a Mar
shallville man did. He paid admis
sion for himself, hi s wife and
daughter. When they could not
find a seat, he found three young
boys and peeled off three dollar
bills, waved them at the boys and
quickly got three front row seats.
The boys figured they could stand
a long time for a buck.
What happened in the Perry
team’s huddle between the regula
tion game and Vie overtime period
last Friday night? We found out
this week and thought you’d be in
terested in knowing. They were
not excited. One of them suggested
I that '.hey pray and they said the
Lord’s Prayer together .
Cooper Jones said that Mrs.’
Jones, who uses a wheel chair
since she broke her leg a few
months ago, got so excited over
the radio broadcast of the final
game that she got up out of the
wheel chair and sat in a rocker.
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They closed the doors when)
Three Paving Jobs
Readied in Houston
Better roads for Houston county
were the prospect this week as
the State Highway Department ad
vertised for bids on paving the
Perry, Elko, Unadilla road and
planned to surface treat two other
heavily traveled highways.
The highway department will
open bids March 13 for grading
and paving nine miles between the
end of the Perry-Elko paving into
Unadilla. A new bridge over Big
Creek also will be built under this
contract.
The two roads to be topped with
asphalt and gravel are the Perry
to Pulaski county line and the Per
ry to Kathleen road. This work is
expected to be done in the spring.
Both roads are in bad shape at
present.
Meanwhile, work continues on
the Macon-Warner Robins road,
part of which is in Houston county.
Beckham Construction Company
has this contract.
Delegations of Houston and Pu
laski county citizens have recently
appealed to the State Highway
Department to widen the bridge
over Big Indian Creek six miles
south of Perry on U. S. 341. The
highway officials promised that
safety devices will be installed on
the bridge immediately and that it
will be widened soon unless engin
eers advise that the bridge itself
would have to be relocated under
a long-range planning program.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1953
about 1,200 people had paissed
through the gates at the gym, but
this did not stop some of Vie more
zealous fans. They got a ladder,
went up to the windows and clung
to the window sash or shinned
over to a rafter. We counted 16 of
them at one time last. Friday night.
One window was missing entirely
when the tournament was over.
Tournament officials did not pick
an all-star team for the Third Dis
trict last week, so The Home Jour
nal made this choice: Forwards,
Lowe and Miller of Buena Vista,
and Powell and Leverette, Perry;
Centers, Beckham of Perry and
Brooks of Sycamore; Guards, Gray
and May of Perry and Goode and
Lee of Hawkinsville .
The first five high scorers for
the tournament were: Harold
Brooks, Sycamore, 74; Joe Lowe,
Buena Vista, 69; Billy Miller, Bue
na Vista, 58; Billy Powell, Perry,
44, and Billy Beckham, Perry, 33.
Perry scored 1,715 points during
the regular season and tournament
and our opponents had 1,198
I points. Perry’s average was 55.3 ]
| and the opponents’ 38.7. This is j
I figured on 31 games .
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FASHION TEA SET
NEXT WEDNESDAY
The Perry’s Business Women’s
Civic Club will sponsor a fashion
tea —“Fashion in Melodies”—at
the New Perry Hotel from 3 to 5
p. m. next Wednesday.
Models will be Miss Jane Ros
sier, Miss Jean Connell, Miss Ann
Boterweg, Mrs. Charles Whitworth
Jr., Mrs. Lewis Bledsoe, Mrs. Gard
ner Watson, Miss Margaret Gibson,
Mrs. Dan Gunn, Pam Strong, Carol
Etheridge, Judy Gray, Toni Jane
Tait and Alexa Tail.
Mrs. Hoke Smith will play the
piano during the show and many of
the models will sing as they model
the new spring clothes, according
to Mrs. Gladys Culpepper, presi
dent of the club.
Tickets are available at the Van
ity Shop, Cinderella Beauty Shop,
Perry Pharmacy, Debbs Restaurant
and Risher’s Restaurant .
Farm Bureau to See
Safety Film Tonight
The Houston County Farm Bu
reau will meet at 7:30 p. m. today
at Perry grammar school.
Byron Kirkland, agricultural
agent for Standard Oil Company,
will show a movie on farm safety.
Ladies of the Perry community
will serve supper.
Subscription Rate Going Up to $3.00 a Year,
Effective April 5, Home Journal Announces
The Home Journal announces an increase in the annual
subscription rate from $2.58 to $3.00 a year, tax included,
for subscribers in Georgia, and $3.50, tax included, for those
outside of Georgia.
, The new rate will become effective on April 5, 1953.
Current and new subscribers have an opportunity between
now and April 6 to renew or start a subscription at the old,
rate. Subscriptions received through Saturday, April 4, at our 1
office, or through the mail if postmarked on April 5, will be
I marked up at the old rate of $2.58 for those inside the state
and $3.00 outside the state.
It is pointed out that the raise for subscribers inside Geor
gia amounts to only 42 cents a year since the sales tax is in
cluded in the new $3.00 price. The price of the paper will be
$2.91, plus nine cents sales tax. Subscribers outside of Georgia
do not have to pay sales tax and therefore the rate increase
amounts to 50 cents a year.
Whether you live in Georgia or outside the state, the in
crease is less than one cent a week.
The single copy price will be raised from five cents to 10
cents. You can readily see that you will save more than $2.00
a year if you get your name on the subscription list.
The increase in the subscription rate is necessary because
of production costs throughout the newspaper industry. * 1
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DISTRICT CLASS B TROPHY is fondly held by Captain Billy Powell of the Perry High
Panthers, and looking on, left to right, are David Gray, Franklin May, Joe Leverette and Billy
Beckham, the otrer members of the district winner. They added tv/o more items to the over
crowded trophy case in the last five days. (Home Journal Photo),
Lolf Pro Arrives
At Country Club
John W. (Bo) D#n>psey, former
baseball player who turned to pro
golf a year ago, assumed the duties
of head professional at Perry
Country Club, Perry Monday.
Dempsey has been serving as
assistant to Bobby Stowe at Mead
owbrooks Country Club,’ Atlanta.
An all-around star at Russell High,
Dempsey signed with the St. Louis
Cardinals upon graduation and
played with several of the Red
bird farm clubs. A tour of duty
with Uncle Sam interrupted his
baseball career and he finally de
cided to cast his lot with pro golf.
Dempsey is a very promising
golfer. Last year he fired a five
under-par 66 in the pro-amateur
event of the State Open at Mead
owbrooks.
Mrs. Nunn to Head
Easier Seal Drive
Mrs. :S. A. Nunn of Perry has
been appointed Houston county
chairman of the 1953 Easter Seal
Sale to raise money to aid crip
pled children .
The campaign is to run between
March 5 and April 5 and letters
containing the seals will be mailed
out in the next few days, Mrs.
Nunn said.
FFA BOYS WILL ENTER MACON SHOW
The Perry FFA Chapter plans to
show livestock in the Middle Geor
gia Livestock Exposition. The show
will be held in Macon at the Live
stock Arena, March 19, under
sponsorship of the Farmers Club of
the Macon Chamber of Commerce.
This show is to be a breeder type
show with emphasis on the fitness
of the animals rather than the fat
ness. This will permit more cattle
men to participate since all have
suffered from the drought and
few are prepared with fat cattle.
Many have held off entering the
show because their animals were
not in fat cattle show condition.
The show committee wants as
many cattle and hogs from the
area as they can get to participate
in a truly representative show of
Middle Georgia Livestock.
There will be two shows, Junior
and Open. The FFA and the 4-H
will have separate shows of their
own and then the open show will
be entered by anyone who wishes
to do so. The prize money totals
$3121.
All FFA and 4-H entrants in the
show will be guests at the Farmers
Club meeting at 6:30 p. m. March
19 following the Livestock Show
in Macon for dinner.
The Perry FFA chapter has a
good record on winning prizes
with their livestock in the past
few years and we hope to keep it
this year.
The boys entering the show from
Perry are James Mealer, Donald
Simmons, Franklin Middlebrooks,
Wendell Meadows and Richard
Goodroe, entering Hampshire gilts;
Donald Simmons will enter a Here
ford bull, Julian Kersey, a Spotted
Poland China gilt ,and Bill Duffell
will enter his Jersey heifer.
The Perry FP'A also plans tc
enter a few animals in the Ameri
can Spring Fat Barrow Show and
Sale in Americus March 31.
Gordon Scarborough, Reporter
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Hus Station Here
To Reopen Monday
Mrs. Sam J. English of Perrj
will reopen the bus station here in
the same location on Carroll Street
next Monday.
Mrs. English will complete a
course of instruction at the Grey
hound Bus Station in Macon this
week and will open the station
j Monday morning.
The station has been closed for
| several weeks.
Subscribe to The, Home Journal.
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~ v Lions Continue
r Camellia Sale
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. The local Libns Club announced
> that the sale of camellias would be
5 extended through Saturday, March
-7, provided plants are available.
Efforts to obtain a sufficient
; number of plants are underway
I now, and they will be for sale on
. [ the Courthouse Square if the nur
; | sery is able to supply them.
;' The sale of these plants has ex
. j ceeded all expectations so far, and
> the Lions Club wishes to thank i
: everyone for the response to es
; forts to add to the appearance of
[ the Town and Community.
Remember folks—this is an op
• portunity that cannot be repeated
I after the present supply is gone,
r so if you haven't bought you better
1 hurry down to the Courthouse be
s fore they are all gone.
3 Don’t forget, five plants for only
$2.00 while they last, and all you
; have to do is call Number 2 or
i come to the Courthouse in person. .
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, Perry lo Cet Gas
Look inside for more informa
tion on Perry’s Natural Gas Sys
tem. The data is under the head
ing, “Gas Gab,’’ and explains
the set-up on which Pfcrryans
will vote March 24.
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GRUBBY PITZER is shown here with his Hampshire gilt
which he will enter in the Middle Georgia Livestock Exposition
March 19. Grubby is a Green Hand in the Perry FFA chapter
, and is a gophomore in Perry High. (FFA Photo).
10 Pages This Week
Only a Nickel a Week
GRAY CINCHES
PANTHER WIN
The Perry High Panthers march
ed to their 18th district basketball .
championship in the last 25 years
last weekend, soundly walloping
Dawson and Buena Vista and
squeaking by Hawkinsville in the
finals.
The Perry fans who were for
tunate enough to get in the Perry
gym for the finals Friday night
woke up Saturday still trying to
settle themselves following Perry’s
overtime, 36-32 victory over the
Hawkinsville Red Devils in the
Third District Class B.
David Gray, playing his last
game before the homefolks, came
through with four straight foul
shots in the extra period and there
by established himself as the hero
of the game. But there were four
other heros playing on the Perry
team with him that night.
Tied 32-32 at End
The count was knotted at 32-all
at the end of the regulation game.
As a matter of fact .that was the
score three minutes before the
end of the game and Hawkinsville
chose to ride out the three minutes
on hope that a Perry player would
commit a foul and give Hawkins
ville an opportunity for the win
ning foul shots. But the Panthers
kept a safe distance away and al
most won the game with a field
shot in the last five seconds. It
missed by inches. Whether the
Hawkinsville player who froze the
ball thought he was ahead by two
points or whether he was playing
for that last shot before the end
of tlie game will be argued by bas
ketball fans here for many a year,
In the overtime, Perry probably
won the ball game by getting pos
session of the ball from the tip-off.
Then David Gray was twice fouled
by the same Hawkinsville player
and sank all four shots. That de
cided the game.
Franklin May, fast moving guard,
was the hero of Thursday night’s
victory over Buena Vista, consid
ered the darkhorse of the tourna
ment ,as he held the high scoring
Buena Vista ace, Joe Lowe, to 8
points. Lowe had shot 35 points
against Warner Robins the night
before.
Powell Scoring Leader
Billy Powell, who has borne the
burden of Perry scornig during
the season, came through with 44
points in the three games Perry
played for an average of 14.6
points a game. He had 14 against
Dawson, 26 against Buena Vista
and 10 against the tight Hawkins
ville defense.
Billy Beckham, the fifth high
scorer in the tournament, was also
strong on defense throughout the
meet, closely guarding Billy Miller
of Buena Vista and Jim Eaton of
Hawkinsville.
Joe Leverette broke up a Hawk
insville shot in the last 20 seconds
of the final game and may have
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