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VOL. 84 NO. 25 * PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1955 ESTABLISHED 1870
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NEW PERRY LIONS CLUB OFFICERS INSTALLED
Left to right, Norman Parker Jr., second vice president; Robert Fudge, first vice presi
dent; Fred Lampley, treasurer; Charlie Farmer, president; Durward Tatom, tail twister, Rich
ard Ray, third vice president; Carl Barrett, secretary; and Henry Williams, Byron, the zone
chairman who installed the officers. (Home Journal photo).
Three Perry Scouts Awarded
Eagle Rank at Court of Honor
Three Perry Boy Scouts attain
ed the highest Scout rank—Eagle
—in a Court of Honor Saturday
night at the Perry Baptist Church.
The three are Conrad Boterweg,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Boter
weg; Tommie Sandefur, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Sandefur; and Sam
Ryle, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. M.
Ryle.
The mothers pinned the covet
ed Eagle badges on their sons and
the sons in turn pinned roses on
their mothers. Both parents of
the boys attended them as they
received the honors.
Taking part on the program,
which followed a fish fry prepared
by the members of Local Troop
96, were Scoutmaster Ed Weaver,
Assistant Scoutmaster D. M. Ryle,
Advancement Chairman F!ranci(s
Nunn, and Troop Committee Mem
bers Alton Hardy, Frank Holland,
Eric Staples, Cohen Walker, Hugh
Lawson, Marion Brown and Wil
son Martin.
Baptist Families
Hosts to Children
Twelve residents of the Baptist
Children’s Home at Baxley are vis
iting in local Baptist homes this
week and next under the sponsor
ship of the Women’s Missionary
Society.
All of the 125 children in the
home at Baxley are visiting Baptist
homes throughout the state during
the two-week period.
The children and their hosts are
Charles Morris, with the Thomas
Mayos; Kenneth Ashworth, with
the Bob Comerfords and the Adam
Andels; George Holley, with the V.
L. Lasseters; Robert Poke, with the
Raymond Smiths; Louie Spratlin
and Morris Roberson, with the W.
E. Beckhams and the J. L. Galle
mores; Mary Carnes and Aaron
Spratlin, with the Hoke Smiths
and the A. C. Pritchetts; Diane Ed
mondson with the Marion Greenes
and the Tommie Hunts; Carol Hol
ley with the Talmadge Tomlinsons;
Doll Stanfield, with the Adam An
dels and the Cooper Etheridges;
Sue Poke, with the Wallace
Moodys.
Matthews to Cet
Jet Pilot Wings
Lt. Horace Matthews, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Matthews of Per-
D, will get i|is wings as a jet air-1
( raft pilot at Greenville Air Force
liase, Greenville, Miss., this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Matthews left yes
terday for Greenville to attend the
ceremonies at the base.
Lt. Matthews is a graduate of
Perry High School and the Univer
sity of Georgia.
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THREE NEW EAGLE SCOUTS IN PERRY
Left to right, Sam Ryle, Tommie Sandefur, Connie Boterweg
Rains Assured Good Crops,
Houston County Agent Says
BY GEORGE ALLMOND
Houston County Agent
The rainfall we have had in the
last couple of weeks has meant
a lot to Houston County farmers.
Farmers were able to prepare
land for summer grain crops and
most of them have planted.
Dairymen have greed grazing
coming in now from millet; this
will increase the milk produc
tion by at least 20 percent.
The corn crop in Houston coun
ty looks very good, especially in
the upper part of the county. The
lower part of the county around
Elko and Grovania has not had
as much rain as the rest. There
are some fields in the Elko sec
tion that have suffered from lack
of water.
Cotton is fruiting up heavy, but
boll weevil infestation is increas
ing. Fields checked last week
showed about 8 percent, no doubt
today those same fields would
show up 15 percent unless dust
ed or sprayed for weevil control.
Tom McCroskey will start pack
ing sweet corn for market this
week. Tom has a good quality of
corn and has done a good job of
controling the ear worm so far. To
control this worm, Tom sprays
every two days with 1 1-2 -2
pounds of actual DDT per acre.
The corn will be packed at the
Kersey Packing House. The corn
will be pulled and carried to the
Pack House as soon as possible
w'here it will be trimmed, pack
ed in boxes, and then run through
the steri-cooler.
The corn done in this manner
will have much higher quality
than corn not pre-cooled and us
ually brings $2 more per box.
C. L. Kersey Jr. is making
plans to pack cantaloupes along
with the corn operation. Farm
ers who are interested in and
have cantaloupes should see Mr.
Kersey. Packing and pre-cooling
cantaloupes will bring a lot more
return than shipping on an open
truck.
Stores Will Close
AH Day on July 4
Perry stores, city, county and
federal offices and the bank will
be closed Monday for the July 4
holiday.
The drug stores will observe
Sunday hours for emergency
drug business.
Picnic Scheduled
At Country Club
Members of the Perry Country
Club will have a picnic at the club
at 6:30 p. m. July 4, President
Louis Harper announced yesterday,
A “Calloway Handicap” tourna
ment will be held during the day
with club members participating,
according to Sid Clarke, pro.
Clark also asked members to
qualify Saturday and'Sunday, July
2 and 3, for a club tournament to
be held soon.
ON GA. DEAN’S LIST
Carlton C. Pierce Jr. of Perry
was one of a group of students
who made the dean’s list for the
School of Pharmacy at the Univer
sity of Georgia during the spring
quarter.
Commissioner S. L. Norwood
Opposed to Legalizing Liquor
Rain Ad Paid Off!
Drought Is Broken
What results you get from
Home... Journal, advertising!
Our “Rain Wanted’' ad last
Week... brought several... good
rains over the weekend and
one local citizen said we might
plan to get a ‘Stop Rain’’ ad
ready.
The day we wrote the ad it
rained two inches. Then last
weekend we had about two
more inches. Francis Nunn of
George C. Nunn and Son
claims his ad also had some
thing to do with the good
rains. He advertised “The
Rains Are Coming.”
ROBINS WORKERS
GET $1 MILLION
INCREASE IN PAY
Robins Air Force Base civil ser
vice employees will receive more
than one million dollars this year
in pay increases. President Eisen
hower signed the 7 1-2 percent
raise Tuesday.
More than 4,000 Robins employ
ees would be affected by the raise,
retroactive to March, and already
approved by Congress.
Retroactive payments dating
back to March will total approxi
mately $330,000 and will average
about SBS, officials staled. Civil
Service employees holding higher
or lower positions on the pay scale
would receive proportionate sums.
Civil Service employees at Ro
bins are paid on the general sche
dule pay scale. The general sche
dule includes general employees
such as engineers, office workers,
and others.
Lowest general schedule salary
at Robins is $2,500, that of a GS-1.
This will be increased to $2,690.
Highest pay level at Robins in
the general schedule is that of a
GS-15, whose starting annual wage
is SIO,OOO. The pay raise would
increase it to $11,610 a year.
Swimming Classes
To Close Friday;
Picnic to Follow
The Red Cross Swimming
classes being held at Vinson’s Val
ley will close Friday, July 1.
The last session will be held in
the afternoon instead of the morn
ing class. The Swimming demon
strations will begin at 4 o’clock
and will be followed by the annual
Farm Bureau picnic. These two
events are being combined this
year as the swimming classes are
sponsored by the Farm Bureau.
Picnic supper will be served be
tween 6 and 7 o’clock.
Artificial Breeding
Available in County
Houston county dairymen can
now receive artificial breeding for
their herds from the best bulls in
the nation, County Agent George
Allmond said this week.
Leon Page, artificial inseminat
or, has moved to Perry and can be
reached at Phone 599-L.
The bulls used in this program
are proven bulls, ones that have
increased production over their
dams up to 2,090 pounds for a
305-day milking period. The fam
ily cow and nurse cows will be
served too, if the farmer desires.
Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey
breeds are available. Angus serv
ice also will be furnished for beef
breeds, but the Angus cannot be
registered. The dairy breeds can
be registered if the dam is regist
ered.
Misses Margie Nunn, Sherry
Staples, Fred Wiltern and Carl
ton Hicks have returned from
Senior Assembly at Wesleyan Col
lege. Bill Whipplp served as coun
selor there.
HODGES ASKS
COOK TO RULE
ON SIGNATURES
Judge John L. Hodges, ordinary
of Houston county, said yesterday
he has asked Attorney General
Eugene Cook for a ruling as to
whether he can eliminate names
on the petition for liquor referen
dum at the request of signers.
Judge Hodges said he asked for
the attorney general ruling in view
of the action of Anti-Alcoholic
Crusade suggesting that \toters
request the ordinary to take their
names from the petition.
All laws that he can find pre
vent him from altering the peti
tion either by taking off names or
adding names after the petition
is presented to him, Judge Hodges
said. The petition, as soon as it
is presented him, becomes a public
record and he cannot alter it in
any way, Judge Hodges said. He
. said that those who wish to take
B off their names should contact
r Homer J. Walker, chairman of the
. Houston Temperance and Legal
Control Committee, who Is spon
soring the petition in the county.
Judge Hodges asked the attorn
ey general to say whether he can
legally take off a name or add a
name at the request of the voter
j, after the petition is once present
. ed him. Judge Hodges said he will
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‘[Local Chamber Commerce
■- To Be Organized on July 11
Walter L. Cates, executive vice president of the Georgia
State Chamber of Commerce, will speak at the organizational
1 meeting of the Perry Chamber of Commerce Monday night, |
July 11.
a Mayor Stanley E. Smith, revealing that 71 firms and in-
B dividuals have signed applications for membership in the
1 chamber, said Mr. Cates will speak at a meeting in the Ameri
can Legion Home at 8 p. m.
Mr. Cates, former manager of the Macon chamber, has
had wide experience in the organization and operation of
chambers of commerce and is expected to outline the best
plans for running a trade body for a town the size of Perry.
Indications are that Perry will have about 80 members
• and an annual budget of about $4,000 to $4,500. Informal dis
cussions have centered around promotion of local industry,
, agriculture, tourist business retail trade and civic improve
■ ment.
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c Mayor Smith said that two other teams have not reported
1 as yet and several more members are expected to come in.
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HOMER J. WALKER
Legal Liquor Backer
Will Speak Tonight
At Warner Robins
Homer J. Walker, the only per
son mentioned to date as a mem
ber of the “Houston County Legal
and Temperance Control Commit
tee,” will make a platform appear
ance at Warner Robins at 8 p.m.
today in his campaign for legal
liquor in Houston county.
Mr. Walker, who was elected
county commissioner last year,
said the reason for the public ad
dress is “for bringing to the peo
ple the truth directly from the
mouth of the chairman."
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TAKES ISSUE
WITH WALKER
ON VOTE IDEA
S .L. Norwood of Perry, member
of the board of county commission
ers said this week that he is “bit
terly opposed” to legalizing liquor
in the county.
This statement put him on the
apposite side of the fence from
another county commissioner,
Homer J. Walker Jr., Warner Rab
ins, who is chairman of the so-call
ed Houston Temperance and Legal
Control Committee, which is circu
lating a petition asking for a vote
on legal liquor.
“I can’t see how two evils will
make a good thing,” Mr. Norwood
said in commenting on the claims
of the pro-legal liquor forces that
there is plenty of bootleg whiskey
in the county. “1 am opposed to
legalizing liquor and I’m going to
vote against it if the election is
called. There are a lot of good,
strong people all over the county
who are against this thing.”
The Home Journal has polled the
three other commissioners—Claude
Watson, Wyatt Kersey and John T.
Miller Jr. but has received no
reply.
Few people residing in the Per
ry precinct have registered to vote
in the event the legal liquor ref
erendum is called, Miss Florine
Rainey, tax collector, said this
week.
Miss Rainey, as the county’s
vote registration official, will go to
Warner Robins again Friday to
register persons who are not al
ready qualified to vote. More than
1400 registered at Warner Robins
J two weeks ago and about the same
number are expected to register
Friday. This would give Warner
Robins about 3,300 voters.
Those who were qualified to
vote in the last general election do
not have to register again to be
able to vote if the liquor issue is
voted upon. Homer J. Walker says
he already has the necessary 35
per cent of the registered voters
to sign his petition.
It is not known whether the new
voters now registering at Warner
Robins are doing so because they
are in favor of or opposed to legal
izing the sale of whiskey in the
county.
Miss Rainey said a few people
living in Perry have registered in
recent days but that the number
does not compare with the large
group at Warner Robins, which al
ready has 500 more voters than
the remainder of the county.
The Macon newspapers have car
ried stories almost every day for
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