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More Parade of Progress Pictures Inside This Issue
CONSTRUCTION
is the sign of progress. Construction is going
on ail about you in the City of Perry.
VOL 84 NO. 23 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1955 ESTABLISHED 1870
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STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS INSPECT NEW ELKO SCHOOL
Following final inspection of the new Southside School for Negroes at Elko, these
state and local officials were photographed. Left to right, N. J. Pascullis, architect; Harry
Abel, resident enginneering inspector; Lewis Briggs, contractor; J. G. Evans, building superin
tendent; Miss Peggy Harrell, secretary to Mr. Pascullis; J. R. Courson, chief engineering in
spector, State School Building Authority, C. E. Morris, official of Briggs Construction Com
pany, and Lewis W. Tabor, Houston county school superintendent. (Home Journal Staff
Photo).
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Mrs. Dumas, Houston County,
Head of State HD Council
By MRS. J. D. WOOD
President, County Home
Demonstration Council
All good things come to an end,
so on Saturday morning, June 11,
the Houston County delegation to
the State Demonstration Council
in Athens turned their cars home
ward. This had been a very enjoy
able trip, and we feel we know
women from other parts of our
state much better.
Our own Mrs. Harry Dumas was
installed as the 1955-56 State pres
ident in a very impressive cere
mony. Her mother, Mrs. W. N.
Johnson of Warner Robins, her
husband, Harry Dumas, and Mrs.
Richard Johnson and daughters
went up to see the installation. We
feel sure Mrs. Dumas will make a
very capable president.
There was quite an interesting
and informative program arranged
by the state officers. There were
about 600 women present, a pow
erful force for good.
Those from Houston who attend
ed were Mrs. Harry Dumas, first
vice president, state council; Mrs.
Watson Fisher, clothing delegate;
•Mrs. Fred Carter, first vice presi
dent, county council: Mrs. J. D.
ood, county council president
and state nutrition project chair
man; Mrs. A. L. Sasser. Mrs. L. M.
McCormick, Mrs. Howard Over
ton, Mrs. Hollis Kezar and Mrs
Harvey NeSmith and others came
up for the day on Wednesday.
Each of us was very much in
terested in Miss Li Yuli See from
Seoule, Korea, who Is studying
Houston 31 our ttal
there in the nutrition department.
She was guest speaker on the nu
trition program and told us of her
hopes and dreams for service to
her people. She is to go to Cornell
University later.
Each of us hopes we were “am
bassadors of good will’’ in her
estimation.
The weeks activities were cli
maxed by a garden party Friday
afternoon, given by the state offi
cers on the terrace of Myers Hall.
The dress revue was held Friday
night with 129 dresses being mod
eled. This was under the direction
of Miss Mary Jo Ridley, clothing
MINISTERS DRAW PLANS FOR FIGHTING
LEGAL LIQUOR REFERENDUM PETITION
Thirty ministers and laymen of
Houston county churches mapped
plans here last Sunday afternoon
to oppose efforts of County Com
missioner Homer J. Walker Jr. to
legalize liquor in the county.
Rev. J. O. Dorriety, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of War
ner Robins, was elected chairman
of the church group at a meeting
in the Perry Presbyterian Church.
The pastor of the Perry Baptist
Church, Rev. J. M. Teresi, in a
statement to his congregation Sun
day morning, described the move
ment as “an insidious effort” to
legalize liquor in dry Houston
county.
“I could not live with my con
science wdthout condemning the
movement,” Mr. Teresi said. “If
I specialist. The state winner of this
j event was Mrs. John R. Strother of
| Cobb county. Many lovely dresses
j were shown.
Many interesting, lovely things
in handicraft were on exhibition
in the physical education building.
They were made by the Home
Demonstration women of various
! counties. There were hats, bags,
hand painted china, pictures, trays,
baskets, hand enameled jewelry,
upholstered chairs, painted
and other things too numerous to
mention.
The next big event is national
HD convention in Chicago in Au
gust. Mrs. Fred Carter, first vice
' president of the county council,
• is our delegate and others plan to
1 go.
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there is one deadly enemy to the
life of this nation it is the enemy
of whisky.”
He urged Christian people to
“at least utter a prayer before
you sign a petition” being circula
ted by Mr. Walker calling for a
referendum.
Mr. Walker and his so-called
“Houston County Temperance and
Legal Control Committee,” the
other members of which have not
been made public, claim to have
more than 800 names on their pe
tition. Only slightly more than
1,700 or 35 percent of the qua
lified voters are necessary to
force the election.
The petition has had wide cir
culation in Warner Robins but
only a few people in Perry have
been approached for signatures.
Hutcherson
To Dublin;
Shippey Here
Rev. L. D. Shippey, pastor of the
First Methodist Church at Quitman
for the past five years, will come
here next week to become the pas
tor of the Perry Methodist Church.
Rev. Guy K. Hutcherson, pastor
here for the last two years, will
leave during next week for Dub
lin, where he will become the pas
tor of the First Methodist Church.
Mr. Hutcherson will preach his
last sermons here Sunday.
Mr. Shippey is a graduate of
Emory University. He and his wife
have two children, a boy and a girl.
One Voting Place
For Wheat Election
Chairman H. B. Gilbert of the
Houston County Agricultural Stab
ilization and Conservation Com
mittee has designated one voting
place in Houston county for the
wheat referendum to be held June
25.
Here is the place where the eli
gible wheat growers of the county
will indicate whether or not they
want the wheat marketing quota
program to continue in operation
for the 1956 crop: Houston County
ASC Office, courthouse building.
Wheat growers have been (or
are being) notified of their wheat
acreage allotments. All wheat pro
ducers who will have more than
15 acres of wheat for harvest in
1956 are eligible to vote. The mar
keting quota program does not af
fect those who will have 15 acres
or less of wheat for harvest in
1956. The program will be in op-1
eration only in the commercial I
wheat states.
If two-thirds or more of the na
tion’s wheat growers voting in the
referendum approve, marketing
quotas will continue in effect for
the 1956 crop. This will mean that
price support within a probable
range of 75 to 82 percent of parity
will be available to those who
stay within their farm’s wheat.
acreage allotment. Those who ex-!
ceed the larger of the farm allot-1
ment or 15 acres will be subject to j
a penalty equal to 45 per cent of j
parity on the excess production,
and price support will not be avail
able for any of their 1956 wheat j
crop. If quotas are approved the
support price will be sl.Bl a bus
hel.
If more than one-third of the
growers voting disapprove, mar
ket quotas will not be in effect and
price support will be available at j
50 per cent of parity for those I
farmers who stay within the wheat'
acreage allotment for their farms. ]
Those who exceed their farm \
wheat allotments will not be eligi
ble for price support.
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(’an You Identify This Houston County Farm? a
Perry's 6 Parade Progress'
Best Celebration in History
MISS AMERICA CROWNS MISS PERRY
Marlene Livingston Receives Coveted Title
Marlene Livingston Crowned
Miss Perry by Miss America
Pretty, 18-year-old Marlene Liv
ingston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ivan M, Livingston, won the title
of “Miss Perry’’ and was crowned
toy Miss America last Thursday as
Perry celebrated its Parade of
Progress.
The brunette beauty, who is
wearing John Malone’s ring on
her third finger, left hand, broke
j into a broad grin as Miss America,
[ the nation’s reigning beauty, plac
jed the crown on her head and
j handed her a diamond-studded
wrist watch. Asked for autographs
by many admirers, Miss Llving-
I ston commented: “I don’t know
City Tag Ordinance
The new city ordinance re
quiring residents of Perry who
own cars and trucks to register
the vehicles and pay $1 for a tag
is published in this issue of The 1
Home Journal.
Mrs. William Barfield has had !
as her guest her mother from !
Plains.
- what to write ”
Miss Livingston was one of 39
■ beauties who competed for the
Miss Perry title in a contest in
connection with the appearance
here of Miss America. The judges,
whose identities were kept secret,
observed the young ladles
throughout the day. The winning
Miss Livingston represented the
Kicklighter-Akin Drug Company.
The celebration marked one of
the greatest five years of progress
in Perry’s history. One of the fast
est growing cities in Georgia. Per
ry has jumped from a town of
1,540 in J 940 to 5,000 in 1955.
PATTERSON ATTENDS
PRESBYTERIAN CAMP
Rev. Donald B. Patterson, pastor
of the Perry Presbyterian Church, '
is serving as a leader at the Pion-
I eer Camp of the church at Craw
| fordville, Ga., this week.
Larry, David, Linda and Charles
| Walker are visiting their grand- j
I parents Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Walker j
! in Warthen.
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12 PACES THIS WEEK
“Miss America” and “Mr. Geor
gia” came to Perry last week to
join Perryans in their greatest
celebration —a Parade of Pro
gress marking five years of unpre
cedented growth and development.
“Miss America” is Miss Lee
Ann Meriwether, the California
beauty who won the national beau
ty title for 1955, and “Mr. Geor
gia” Is Herman E. Talmadge, the
man who served the longest con
tinous period as governor of Geor
gia.
It was a shining hour for Perry,
which has grown from a village
of 1,540 persons in 1940 to a bust
ling, clean city of 5,000 today.
“Miss America”, who won the
hearts of the city with her good
looks, charming personality and
naturalness, was intentionally in
voled in a long list of activities
from the time she arrived in the
city just before noon. She was
greeted at the gleaming new Hous
ton county courthouse by a bevy
of local beauties and local ladies.
Immediately afterward,she attend
ed a luncheon with the contest
ants in the beanty contest and
their sponsoring merchants.
Plays Baseball
She tossed out the first ball at
a Little League baseball game be
tween the teams of Perry and But
ler and played catch with the
thrilled youngsters. (Butler won).
She hurried out to the Perry
Country Club from the ball game
and met the beauty contestants
who had changed into their swim
suits, drank a Coke and thrilled
the teen-agers attending a swim
ming party at the club.
Miss Meriwether, georgeous
1 brunette, attended a tea for the
ladies of the city at the grammar
school auditorium, where some of
the local stores presented summer
fashions with local models.
Right after the tea, she boarded
the city’s float with the 39 Perry
girls and rode in the lead of Per
ry’s greatest parade more than
40 vehicles, plus several marching
units headed by the smart Warner
Robins High School band.
Gov. Talmadge Speaks
An the end of the line of march
she met several visiting mayors,
other dignitaries and the speaker
of the day, former Gov. Herman
Talmadge.
The former chief executive,
speaking without notes, praised
the city of Perry for its progress
over the last several years and
described the tremendous growth
of the state of Georgia in the last
decade and a half. He stressed the
great strides made in industry,
I livestock production, milk, poul
try, forestry as shown by the
mounting bank deposit in Georgia
and the steady increase in per
capita income for Georgians.
Georgia, he said, is onthe eve
of an even greater development
in the next few years because of
the natural resources the state
possesses and the character of the
people.
Miss America, a Californian,
listened intently as he remarked
that Georgia has surpassed the
“great state of California” in for
est acreage, to become one of the
top forest product states in the
nation.
The former governor was intro
duced by Sam A. Nunn, Perry
attorney and farmer.
Goes to Big Dance
After three days in Georgia, and
as many Georgia barbecues, Miss
America grabbed herself a rest
before going to the “Miss America
Ball” at the new National Guard
Armory, where she seemed to en
joy herself dancing with 10-year
old boys and graying men. But
most of ail she seemed to like the
jitterbug steps performed by
young men about her age 2O.
About 500 persons attended the
dance.
She smiled prettily as she
crowned Miss Marlene Livingston,
representing Kicklighter - Akin
Drug Co., as “Miss Perry” and
Miss Livingston was so happy she
almost cried.