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@A PRIZE WINNING
GEORGIA NEWSPAPER
FOUR STATE AWARDS
VOL. 88 NO. 51
Perry Girl Finalist
In Memphis Contest
Martha Evans, Perry, has been
named a finalist in the 1959 Maid
of Cotton contest, the National
Cotton Council announced today.
She is the daughter of Mrs. W. B.
Evans and the late Mr. Evans.
The 20-year-old Georgia beauty
is one of 21 girls selected to com
pete for the honor of representing
the American Cotton Industry on
an international tour in 1959. She
will go to Memphis for the two
day contest finals December 29-30.
An honor student at Wesleyan
College, Macon, Martha is a sopho
more, majoring in English and
speech. She is on the Dean’s List
and member of Social Standards
Board, French Club, Speech Club,
Dancing Club, and Fencing Club.
She was in Queen’s Court, was
sponsor at Georgia Military Aca
demy graduation, Greek Goddess
of Phi Delta Theta fraternity,
Georgia Tech, and cover girl for
Macon Guidepost Magazine.
At Perry High School, Martha
was Georgia champion in home
economics, first honor girl gradu
ate, senior class president, winner
of the DAR Good Citizens award,
and member of Georgia state
champion debating team. She also
was Homecoming Queen, Future
Farmers o f America regional
sweetheart, cheerleader, and staff
member on school yearbook and
newspaper. Martha is attractive
brunette with blue eyes and is
five feet, five and one-half inches
tall.
Another Georgia girl, 19-year
old Beth Hunt, Baxley, a junior at!
DECORATIONS TO BE JUDGED SATURDAY
The judging of door decorations for Christmas sponsored
by the Perry Garden Club will be between the hours of 6 and
9 p. m. on Saturday, Dec. 20.
Prizes will be given for the most attractive formal doors
and the most attractive informal doors. Three prizes will be
given in each category and judging will be done by out of town
judges.
Everyone is urged to get their decorations up in time to
be included in the judging.
FRIDAY DEADLINE
FOR YULE EDITION
The Christmas week issue of
The Houston Home Journal will
be distributed on Tuesday, Dec.
23.
This means that our deadlines
for news and ad copy will be 6
p. m. Friday, Dec. 19. We will
have to adhere strictly to this
deadline in order to get the
Christmas issue in the hands of
subscribers to make the Christ
mas advertising of our mer
chants effective.
Thank you for your coopera
tion.
THE EDITORS
CRAY NARROWLY
ESCAPES DEATH
IN PERRY FIRE
Wordna S. Gray, owner of a j
service station here, narrowly es
caped death last Friday when a
flash fire swept through his tire
shop.
Rushed to the Macon Hospital,
Mr. Gray was reported out of dan
ger this week despite severe burns
about the face and hands. He was
expected to return home Wednes
day.
Firemen were fighting a fire
at Thompson Warehouse about 1
p. m. when a second alarm sound
ed, and they were sent to Mr.
Gray’s service station at the corn
er of Carroll and Jernigan Streets.
It was not known at first whe
ther Mr. Gray was in the burning
building or not, but as soon as
firemen could get inside they
found him crouched in a corner
with his hands over his face.
“I struck a match and I don’t
know what happened,” Mr. Gray
was able to mumble to firemen.
Hb clothes had not caught fire
but his skin was black from the
soot and smoke of the fire. He was
given oxygen by Dr. H. E. Weems
and Gardner Watson rushed him
bv ambulance to the Macon Hospi
ta . .
The service station was one of
three fires with the period of two
hours. The damage at Ihompson
Warehouse was not serious. An au
tomobile belonging to a tourist
caught lire on Carroll Street early
in the afternoon.
Teachers from the West Side
School, Warner Robins, enjoyed a
Christmas party at the home of
Mrs. Mabyl Fast Friday evening.
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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1958
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MISS MARTHA EVANS
University of Georgia, Athens, has
been named a finalist in the Maid
of Cotton contest.
Winner of 1959 title will be
first fashion and good will envoy
of American cotton industry to
fly around the world. Her global
tour, which includes 14 stops in
Europe, Asia, and the Far East,
will follow visits to 30 major cities
in the United States and Canada.
This is 21st tour sponsored by
the National Cotton Council, Mem
phis Cotton Carnival Association,
and Cotton Exchanges of Memphis,
New York, and New Orleans.
Kathleen Man Hurt
In Collision Here
Thomas Newton Williams, 51,
caretaker for paper company lands
in the vicinity of Kathleen, was
seriously injured in a collision (
with a Central of Georgia train
here about noon Tuesday.
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The jeep Mr. Williams was dri
ving was in collision with the j
freight train at the Commerce \,
Street crossing. He was taken to ■
the Peach County Hospital in Fort j
Valley by Gardner Watson ambu
lance. He suffered a brain con-: ,
cussion but was reported improv- j (
ing Wednesday.
The engineer of the train was '
V. E. Avery Jr. of Macon.
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Police Chief J. B. Hawkins in
vestigated the accident. i
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Baptists to Give
Musical on Sunday
The choir of the First Baptist
Church, under the direction of
James C. Lewis, will present
James R. Gillette’s Christmas pas
torale, “The Shepherd and His
Lamb,” at the evening worship
hour Sunday night at 7:30 p. m. j
The public is cordially invited. ,
The pastor, Rev James M. Te- ]
resi, will be narrator, Mrs. Mayo
Davis, organist, and soloists will
be Mrs. Bobby Brooks, Miss 1
Jeanne Connell and James C. Lew- i
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PANTHERS FACE HAWKINSVILLE. HEARD
AND LANIER IN TOUGH WEEKEND CARD
The Perry High School Panthers
will be busy this weekend—with
games scheduled for Thursday,
Friday and Saturday nights, with a
kind of brother-against-brother act
on Friday night here.
The boys and girls will play
Hawkinsville High here Thursday
night, in a game postponed from
last week when Hawkinsville was
still playing in the football play
off. Game time is 7 p. m.
On Friday night Perry Coach
Eric Staples will be challenged by
the Heard County quintet, whose
coach is brother Don Staples.
“Every now and then when Don
has a good team, he wants to
schedule us,” Eric said. “He’s got
a really good team this year and I
let him sneak up on me and sche
POWER CO. PAYS
LARGE TAX BILL
TO CITY, COUNTY
District and local managers of
the Georgia Power Company
| throughout the state this week are
presenting to municipal and coun
ty government officials checks to
taling approximately $4,350,000 for
the company’s 1958 property tax
es, according to J. E. Crutchfield,
local manager at Perry.
Houston county was paid $24,-
443.41 and the City of Perry was
paid $789.30.
Os this amount, Mr. Crutchfield
reported, $2,246,500 goes into gen
eral county funds, $1,718,700 to
school districts, and $384,800 to
cities and towns.
The company already has paid
more than $925,000 in property
taxes for the year 1958 making the
total to be paid for this year
$5,275,000. This compares with
$4,840,486 paid for the year 1957.
Earlier in the year, municipal
partnership tax payments totaling
$1,931,983 were paid by the com
pany to the 381 cities, towns and
communities in which the firm’s
j three per cent franchise agree
ment was in effect. Under this
agreement, the company pays each
municipality in which it operates
three per cent of its gross revenue
from the sale of electricity for re
sidential and commercial use.
PHONE RATE CASE
SCHEDULED AGAIN;
PROTESTS HEARD
The General Telephone Com
pany of the Southeast presented
exhibits and armuments to the
State Public Service Commission
Thursday to back up its requests
for rate increases in 22 Georgia
counties.
Some 50 persons from the areas
involved showed up to protest the
increase and the hearing was con-[
tinued until Feb. 3 to give both
the protestants and the commis
sion time to analyze the company’s
claims.
A company spokesman said the
desired increase of about 7.5 perl
i cent, totaling $18,834, was needed
because of increased labor and
i materials costs and the increased
cost of attracting capital.
The spokesman offered exhibits
to back up the company claim that
increased rates are needed to per-|
mit the company to attract capital
so it can carry out a proposed
expansion program.
Opponents objected that the
company’s prevailing rates are al
ready higher than those charged
by the Southern Bell Telephone
Co. in adjacent areas.
The firm, with headquarters in
Durham, N. C., maintains 35 ex
changes in 35 Georgia counties.
The localities in which the rate
increases are sought:
Winder, Fitzgerald, Nashville,
Quitman, Edison, Ft. Gaines, Adel, :
Carnesville, Lavonia, Perry, Ocilla, 1
Montezuma, Buena Vista, Cuth
bert, Shellman, Ellaville, Toccoa,
Dawson, Mcßae, Ashburn, Monroe
and Preston.
A comission spokesman said
it had received about 250 letters
from these localities protesting
the increase. Some complained of
poor service, the spoksman said.
Mayor Stanly Smith of Perry ap
peared at the hearing to oppose
the increase.
Gilbert Promoted
By Chicopee Mills
Hal T. Gilbert, native of Perry,
has been promoted to the position
of general manager of the Chico
pee Mills at Athens.
Mr. Gilbert, son of Mrs. H. T.
Gilbert, 1013 Main Street, has
been assistant general manager of
the mill for several years. He is a
graduate of Georgia Tech.
dule us. We may be sorry we
ever let him on our schedule, but
then again we might convince him
to schedule games with Alabama
teams in the future.
There will not be a girls game
Friday night but there will be a
preliminary game at 7.
After the tough one expected
against Heard County P’riday, the
Panthers will go against the Lan
ier High Poets in Macon’s City Au
ditorium. The Poets have not been
as tough in recent years, but Tom
Porter’s gang is hard to beat, es
pecially in Macon. This is a toss
up. The B team will play in the
preliminary.
The Panthers will take the
Christmas vacation after the Lan
ier game and will see action again
on Jan. 2 in Hawkinsville.
Voters Return Four of Five
Education Board Members
DISTRICT 1
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U 6 BJ a U CO EC W Oh is H
Boor ZZ 1 0 0 27 4 0 0 46 392 470
Cannon 14 1 2 7 8 2 6 75 255 402
Davidson 41 0 27 9 100 61 11 114 246 608
Dorsett 16 25 41 98 19 62 35 680 155 1131
Goodwin 3 0 2 2 8 11 20 102 139
Harrison 11 0 5 12 8 4 2 52 320 404
McConnell 2 1 2 10 13 0 8 116 529 739
Pratt ...... 6 18 37 33 31 32 22 448 686 1313
Robuck .. 1 0 1 5 7 3 1 32 192 252
Smith * 3 0 2 2 8 4 2 30 70 121
Strickland 5 1 2 2 13 2 0 20 50 95
Talbert 10 3 5 19 15 3 1 230 683 969
Talton 38 26 48 55 114 53 41 646 354 1375
Treadaway 0 2 8 12 9 2 5 30 288 356
Tucker 28 7 34 1 04 30 36 20 447 289 995
Mrs. Walker 3 0 11 21 26 7 10 164 544 786
DISTRICT 2
Bloodworth 1.... 13 1 20 38 47 11 8 188 593 913
Greene , 33 7 38 52 71 19 12 494 809 1535
NeSmith 13 18 22 40 51 28 48 307 550 1077
Roughton 36 9 23 51 46 49 8 378 637 1237
Walker 27 23 55 101 70 78 36 817 893 2100
Merchants Asked
To Help Clean-Up
In Business Area
The Civic Affairs Committee of
the Perry Chamber of Commerce
is requesting' local merchants to
cooperate wiUi the city in clean
ing up the fetreets on Saturday
nights.
The commiAee is asking all mer
chants ttf sweep~'off the sidewalks
each Saturday night by midnight,
j so the city’s new street sweeper
can sweep up all the streets just
after midnight.
The committee said the down
town section looks dirty on Sunday
morning because of the trash
thrown onto the sidewalks but not
swept into the street where the
street sweeper can pick it up.
The Panthers Prowl
THOMAS (BOOT) HUNT
Much of the success of the Per
ry basketball team will depend on
the ace playing of Boot Hunt.
Boot stands six feet, weighs 185,
plays forward and is a senior.
Other activities in which Boot
participates are senior class presi
dent, “P” club president, member
of the Pocket Testament League,
outstanding quarterback of the
football team and was chosen run
ner up for the Middle Georgia
player of the year.
Boot plans to attend the Univer
sity of Georgia on a grant-in-aid
scholarship.
He is the son of Mr, and Mrs.
j H. J. Hunt.
COHEN WALK Kit
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MAHION GREENE
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MARVIN DORSETT Available)
COUNTY HOSPITAL PLANS APPROVED
Plans for the million-dollar Houston County Hospital to
be built at Warner Robins were approved yesterday by the
state and federal health departments, Secretary W. K. Whip
ple of the Houston Hospital Authority was notified.
Construction of the 50-bed hospital is expected to start
in the next few days. E. A. Scott and Sons of Americas are the
contractors.
Perry Host to Tourney Dec. 29-30
Four Middle Georgia high
school basketball teams will com
pete in a tournament here Dec. |
29 30 under three proposed rules
that may be adopted by the Geor
gia High School Association.
Vienna, Cochran, Warner Ro
bins and Perry will start play at
7:30 p. m. Monday, Dec. 29, under
rules which (1) require a team
to attempt a shot at its basket
within 24 seconds after it gets
possession of the ball, (2) ban the
zone defense, and (3) give the op
ponent two shots when a foul is
made in “back court.”
Members of the Macon Referees
Association and the Warner Ro
bins Referees Association will pro
vide their services free for the
tournament, according to Perry
Coach Eric Staples, the tourna
ment host.
Vienna-Cochran First
On the opening, night, Vienna
will meet Cochran at 7:30 and
and Perry will play Warner Ro
bins at 9 o’clock. On the next
night, the losers of the first two
games will play each other at 7:30
and the winners will meet at 9.
All four teams will receive tro
phies for their participation in the
experimental tournament.
Two clocks have been installed
to keep up with the 24-second rule.
If the team in possession fails to
try a shot within 24 seconds, a
siren blows and the ball is given
to its opponent. An extra time of
ficial is required for this rule.
Statistics will be kept on the
times each team losses the ball
because of the 24-second rule, the
times the teams lose the ball for
using the zone defense, and the
10 CENTS PER COPY
GREENE VICTOR
IN DISTRICT TWO
Four of the five members of the
Houston County Board of Educa
tion were returned to office in a
special election Tuesday—the first
popular election of school board
members in several decades.
Cohen Walker of Perry, Royce
Pratt of Warner Robins, H. C.
Talton of Bonaire and Marvin K.
Dorsett of Byron Route, were the
victorious board members. Marion
Greene of Perry replaced Harvey
NeSmith,, Elko, a current board
member.
Walker and Greene were elected
from a field of five for the two
places alloted to Education Dis
trict No. 2 (south of Mossy Creek)
by a new law passed by the last
I general assembly. Walker led the
ticket with 2,100 votes and Greene
was second with 1,535.
Pratt, Talton and Dorsett were
elected from a field of 16 candi
dates for the three places on the
board alloted to Education Dis
trict No. 1 (north of Mossy Creek).
' Defeated candidates in District
i No. 2 were NeSmith, D. K. (Dot)
Roughton and J. W. Bloodworth
of Perry.
Unsuccessful candidates in Dis
l trict 1 were Stanley F. Boor, Ru
dolph Cannon, D. L. Davidson Jr.,
George Goodwin, Kemp Harrison,
L. A. McConnell, Mrs. F. L. Ro
buck, J. L. Smith Sr., James D.
Strickland, Dr. W. G. Talbert Jr.,
Foy W. Treadaway, J. Alton Tuck
er and Mrs. Homer J. Walker Jr.
The vote was much lighter than
expected in view of the large num
ber of candidates and the appar
ent interest in the new method of
electing school board members.
Only 1,850 cast ballots at Warner
Robins and 1,150 at Perry. It had
been predicted that 3,000 would,
vote at Warner Robins and 1,500
in Perry.
Dec. 20 Deadline
For Tax Payment
To (iity and County
December is the month for
Santa Claus and taxes for
Houston county folks.
Saturday, Dec. 20, is the last
date for paying State and Coun
ty taxes at the County Court
house, and City taxes at City
Hall.
Most taxpayers were bearing
up well under the strain but
some were crying loudly, and
the tears were freezing on their
cheeks in the below-freezing
temperatures.
PARKING FREE
FOR CHRISTMAS
The coin slots in Perry’s park
ing meters were taped up this
Christmas season as a gift to the
Christmas shoppers.
The Christmas shopping pace in
Perry picked up noticeably Mon
day as stores were busy selling
and gift wrapping. Two merchants
interviewed said they are expect
ing the “biggest Christmas shop
ping season in history.”
School Holidays
Begin Tomorrow
Houston county students will be
gin the Christmas holidays at the
close of school Friday, Dec. 19,
and will return to classes Friday,
Jan. 2.
number of fouls committed in
“back court” by either the offen
sive or defensive team.
Coach Staples said considerable
interest is being shown in the
tournament because of the great
change it will make in the game.
The tournament is sanctioned by
the Georgia High School Associa
tion, which will have observers
here to watch the effect of the
rules on the game. A similar tour
nament is being held in North
Georgia.
All four schools usually field
outstanding teams. Vienna is in
Class C, Perry in Class B, Cochran
in Class A and Warner Robins in
Class AA.
Glenn Cassell is the Vienna
coach, Shelley Hayes at Cochran.
Don Leßlanc at Warner Robins
and Staples at Perry.
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