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GEORGIA NEWSPAPER
FOUR STATE AWARDS
VOL. 89 NQ - 4 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1959 ESTABLISHED 1870
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HOUSE OF DAVID PLAYS MACON TEAM HERE AT 8 P. M. TODAY
Panthers Capture Two
But Lose to Montezuma
The Perry Panthers, playing
poorly for the last several games,
ran into more trouble than they
could handle Tuesday night, when
the Montezuma Aztecs humbled
them, 56 to 43, in Montezuma.
Montezuma, always hard to han
dle on their home floor, threw up
a tight defense, and their 6’ 4”
center, Dnoald Jones, threw in 22
points to smother the Panthers.
Perry had only five points at
the end of the first quarter,
against Montezuma’s 10. The Pan
thers couldn’t buy a basket in the
first half, hitting only four bas
kets for 31 shots. At the half the
Aztecs had a comfortable 14-point
The Panthers Growl
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DERRY WATSON
Une of the hardest workers
among the “second five” at Perry
High School is Derry Watson, sen
!or forward.
Derry stands 6 feet and weighs
148.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Watson, Houston Lake, Derry is a
member of the Hi-Y Club and the
1’ Club. He plans to attend the
University of Georgia.
—PERRI-SCOPE STAFF
Houston D ournal
lead.
The Panthers did some better in
the third quarter and were behind
only nine points at 35-26. In the
final period, the Panthers pulled
up to within five points with 3;30
minutes to go, but the Axtecs let
Perry force the game and make
fouls, giving Montezuma an ever
widening edge.
Perry’s all-night average was a
weak 27 per cent from the floor,
but Montezuma had only 32 per
j cent. Montezuma made good 17
free throws and Perry made 9.
In the girls game, the Panther
esses almost caught Montezuma in
the final period, but the determin
ed lady Aztecs won, 55-46.
Knighton and Todd tied for high
score honors for Perry with 19
each. Montezuma’s Monk had 36
points to lead all players.
The girls would have fared bet
ter if they had not lost two of
their guards, Yeomans and Ko
vac, by the foul route. The Panther :
girls had a percentage of 48, con
siderably better than their all
time low of 18 per cent, which
they shot in a recent game.
The Perry girls, the first team
here in 25 years, continues to show
improvement week by week under
the coaching of Earl Marshall.
Two Macon Triple-A basketball
teams—Lanier High and Willing
ham High—challenged the Perry
High Panthers without success 1
last week, Lanier falling 41 to 36
and Willingham 40 to 32.
It appeared that Perry would
swamp Lanier, rolling to a 17
point lead in the third quarter.
But the Lanier Poets came back i
strong in the fourth quarter and
almost caught the local quintet.
Perry seems to play just hard
enough to win, which is a bad ha
| bit. Lanier caught fire on de
| sense in the last frame and allow
i ed the Panthers only four points.
The Lanier game was played here
Friday night.
In Macon Saturday night, the
Willingham Rams, who have won
none for the year, gave the Pan
thers a real battle, tying them up
at the half and being only four
points behind at the end of the
third. Willingham has a good ball
club that is just now getting to
gether. It’s a new school, new ma
terial and a new coach.
, In both games, freshman guard |
Lee Martin led in the scoring with
15 against Lanier and 10 against
Willingham.
The Perry Bees defeated Lanier
and Willingham to match the re
cord of their senior Panthers.
BASKETBALL COMING UP
Jan. 23, Butler, here.
Jan. 27, Roberta, here.
Jan. 30, Wilkerson County, here.
The girls will play each night
preceding the boys’ game.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Anderson,
I Mrs. Irene Lawler Eden and Pat
Cartledge attended the Southeas- 1
tern Gift Show in Atlanta Sunday.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
C. K. Cooper Sr. who visited her
daughters, Mrs. Davis and Mrs.
| Scarborough.
HOUSE OF DAVID
CAGERS TO PLAY
IN PERRY TODAY
One of the world’s most colorful
basketball teams the House of
David bearded stars —will play the
Cheshire Typewriter Co. team in
Perry at 8 p. m. today.
1 The game will be played in the
1 new high school gymnasium and
proceeds above expenses will go to
the high school athletic associa
-1 tion.
| The House of David is composed
of ex-collegiate stars led by Bobby
Roth, playing manager and former
great and is considered one of the
best ball handlers and clowns in
professional basketball. He will be
ably assisted by big Bob Wintter
burn, 6’ 6”, 240 lb. center former
. ly of the University of Pennsylvan-
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The schedule of the House of
1 David carries them all over the
I United States and Canada. They
J play approximately 200 games
each season and average losing
only six. The players will put on
clowning exhibitions prior to the
j game as well as through the con
test.
The strong Cheshire All-Star
team is composed of Richard Reid,
(Inman Veal, Tommy Mixon, Glenn
, Cassell, Bobby Brown, Jack Lassi
, ter, Jim Nolan, Bill Fickling, Jim
my Holton, Sonny Vaughn. As
Middle Georgia spectators know,
these boys represent some of the
best basketball talent ever pro
! duced in this area.
HOUSTON EXCEEDS
I BOND SALES GOAL
Sale of U. S. Savings Bonds in
Houston county in 1958 amounted
| to $3,306,630, or 157 per cent of
i the goal of $2,100,000, it was an
j nounced this week.
Only two other counties in the
state surpassed the total sold in
Houston county—Fulton (Atlanta)
and Cobb (Marietta).
Purchase of bonds by employees
of Warner Robins Air Materiel
Area accounts for the mammoth
total in Houston county. C. C. Eth
eridge of Perry is the county chair
man.
I Georgia exceeded its quota of
bond purchases, while the nation
as a whole fell slightly short of
the quota.
Methodists Plan 2 Services
Sunday Mornings at 9 and 11
Beginning on Sunday, February 1, 1959, there will be
two morning worship services at the Perry Methodist Church.
The first service will begin at 9 a. m. Then they will have
Sunday School at 10 a. m. The second worship service will be
gin at 11 a. m.
The two worship services will be identical except that at
the early service the choir will not sing; however, there will be
special music. The choir will sing at the 11 a. m. service.
All these times are different, so please take note.
This is being done for your convenience and the Metho
dists hope they can serve better by changing the time of their
services, and by adding the early morning service at 9 a. m.
The evening worship service will continue to begin at
7:30 with Meditation Music at 7:20 p. m.
The public is cordially invited to attend each of these
services.
WHAT AN OFFER!
All babies born in Perry, Ga.,
today, Jan. 22, 1959, will receive
a lifetime subscription to The
Home Journal.
We just got to feeling gener
ous and wanted to make this
special offer. It’s not our fault
if you don’t qualify.
Protest Phone Raise 9
City Urges Residents
GEORGIA JAYCEES
RECOGNIZE CITY
FOR ITS SUPPORT
The Georgia Junior Chamber of
Commerce has voted a complimen
tary Sustaining Membership to the
City of Perry, Mayor Stanley E.
Smith Jr. was informed by State
Jaycee President Jeff Davis this
week.
“There are not many ways that
a grateful organization can openly
express its thanks and apprecia
tion to a fine city such as yours,”
Mr. Davis wrote, “and we hope in
this small token of our esteem that
you will realize that we sincerely
appreciate the tremendous support
and assistance we have received
from you and the good people of
Perry.
“On behalf of the nearly 6,000
Jaycees in Georgia living in 122
communities of our state, may I
take this opportunity to say
‘Thank You’.”
COMING EVENTS
The Executive Board of the
WSCS will meet at the church at
3:45 p. m. Monday, Jan. 6.
The board of deacons of the
First Baptist Church will meet at
7:30 p. m. today at the church.
Bosses Night will be observed
by the Perry Jaycees at 7:30 p. m.
today at the New Perry Hotel.
The Executive Board of the
WOC of the Perry Presbyterian
Church will meet at the home of
Mrs. Earle Smith on Thursday, i
Jan. 22, at 8 p. m.
The Girl Scout Caravan of Crafts
will be at the Hodges Scout Home
from 9:30 to 11:30 a. m. and 1 to
4 p. m. Friday, Jan. 23.
MOHLERS ATTEND
SKATING TRADE SHOW
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Mohler at
tended the Manufacturers of the
Roller Skating Industry Trade 1
Show at the Hotel Briarcliff in |
Atlanta, Monday, January 19. Sun
day evening they were the guests
of Bob Phillips at an Open House
at Playland. Roller hockey, Euro
pean style and roller skate square
dancing were featured entertain
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Batchelor
announce the birth of a daughter,;
Kim lone, born January 18 at the
Gallemore Clinic..
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At the Hospitals
Thomas Elder was admitted to
I the Macon Hospital Tuesday.
Commissioners Elect
Jake Eason Chairman
Perry’s Mayor and Council call
ed on Perry residents this week
to send protests to the Georgia
Public Service Commission in op
position to a proposed increase in
telephone rales for this communi
ty.
The city’s governing body said
rates already are higher here than
in surrounding communities; that
service was better under previous
ownership, and that continued
growth of Perry will increase the
gross revenue of the company
without raising rates.
Perry is among about 15 Georgia
cities where General Telephone
Company of the Southeast is ask
ing for approval of rate increases.
Motion for official protest of
telephone rate increase, unani
mously passed at regular meeting
of Mayor and Council January 6,
1959;
“The General Telephone Com
pany having requested the Geor
gia Public Service Commission for
approval of a rate increase, we
resolve to go on record as opposed
to the request for the following
reasons:
“1. It is not in the public inter
est to raise telephone rates when
present rates are already in ex
cess of surrounding communities
served by other Telephone com
panies.
“2. This will place the City of
Perry in an unfair position in re
lation to neighboring cities.
“3. Service under ownership of
Southeastern Telephone Company
was more efficient and General
Telephone Company was aware of
rate structure at time of purchase.
“4. Number of phones in service
have steadily increased and this
growth will continue to increase
the gross revenue of several tele
phone companies.
“5. Mayor and Council have
been besieged with complaints
from residents of the community
concerning service and fact that
j rates are higher than in communi
ties from which new residents
have left to move to Perry.
“We further resolve that above
official protest be published in lo
cal paper and urge every resident
of the City of Perry to address
, complaints to the Georgia Public
l Service Commission, State Capitol,
i Atlanta, Georgia, who arc your
duly elected representatives and
are placed in this position to pro
tect your interest.”
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
City of Perry
Goodman Is Flown
To Warner Robins
Nathan Goodman, of Byron, 20-
year-old Navy man who was strick
en suddenly with leukemia in San
Diego, Calif., arrived by plane Sun
day at the Robins Air Force Base
t Hospital where he can be nearer
home.
Doctors say the youth has “acute
leukemia” which they describe as
fatal within as short a period as
three weeks.
The sailor’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Goodman of Byron,
and his three brothers and three
sisters greeted him at the plane.
The Air Force plane put down
at San Antonio, Tex., Friday night
and at Mobile Saturday night.
Joseph Barlow of Warner Ro
bins, Goodman’s brother - in - law,
said the youth arrived “laughing
and talking and in good spirits.”
Barlow said Col. Thomas O. Law
ton of RAFB kept the family in
i formed where the plane was en
route from the West Coast.
, EDITOR’S NOTE: The Home
Journal regrets that it erroneous
ly reported last week that Good
man had already been flown home.
Our source of information was
just faulty. The person who told
us that Goodman was at home said
that the person visited him and !
talked to him at the Goodman
home. That sounded authenic to
us, but it proved to be wrong.
Mrs. George B. Wells Jr. has re
turned to her home after under
going surgery at the Peach Coun
ty Hospital.
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JAKE EASON
BEAUTY PAGEANT
PLANS DRAWN UP
Jack Crutchfield, local Georgia
Power Co. manager and general
chairman of the Miss Perry con
test this year, announced the
names of committee chairmen who
will assist in selecting the local
beauty queen to compete in the
Miss Georgia contest.
Winner of the Miss Georgia
contest will enter the Miss Ameri
ca pageant in Atlantic City Sept.
2-8 to compete for the $30,000 in
, scholarship prizes being offered
this year.
The Miss Perry pageant is a
■ project of the Perry Junior Cham
. ber of Commerce.
The committee chairmen an
nounced by Mr. Crutchfield in
’ elude:
[ D. K. Houghton, entries; Seabie
Hickson and Billy Ethridge, sta
ging; Raymond Gornto, tickets; Ri
chard Ray, awards; Frank Darity, |
1 publicity; Jeff Pierce Jr., adver
tising and promotion; Harry Du-
Bois, souvenir programs; Allen
Whipple, judges; Jimmy Peavy,
hostesses; Charlie Ganas and Fe
| lix Smith, ushers; Mason Gam-
( mage, budget and finance; and
Terry Waldorf, auditor.
The date for the Miss Perry
contest will be announced later.
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WORK OF TRI-HI-Y AND HI-Y CLUBS
RECOGNIZED IN MAYOR S STATEMENT
Mayor Stanley E. Smith Jr. has j
proclaimed this week, Jan. 18-25,'
as YMCA Week in the City of
Perry in recognition of the work
of the Ili-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs in
the community.
As part of the observance of me
week, the members of the boys’
and girls’ organizations will attend
the evening service at the Perry
Presbyterian Church in a group
Sunday. Other special activities
are being held at the high school.
Here is the mayor’s proclama
tion:
City of Perry
Office of the Mayor
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, The Young Men’s
Christian Association of Georgia is
beginning a period of commemor
ation and tribute to the volunteer
lay leadership, past and present,
in the service of the YMCA here
and throughout North America: J
and
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MAYOR PROCLAIMS YMCA WEEK
With Tri-Hi-Y’s Janie Brock, Hi-Y’s Charlie Etheridge
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KERSEY IS NAMED
VICE CHAIRMAN
J. E. (Jake) Eason of Elko was
elected chairman of the Houston
County Board of Commissioners at
a harmonious session Monday as
the new board organized for the
new year.
Wyatt D. Kersey of Kathleen,
who was elected last September
for a four-year term at the same
time Mr. Eason was re-elected, was
named vice chairman. Other mem
bers of the board are Mayo Davis
of Perry, W. H. Rape of Warner
Robins and Paul Stalnaker of Cen
terville.
The commissioners re-elected
Roy (Sonny) Watson as clerk of
the commissioners; David P. Hul
bert as the county attorney; and
N. M. Parker Sr. as the county
warden.
Mr. Eason, who is recovering
from a recent operation which
forced postponement of the first
commissioners’ meeting of the
year from the first Tuesday, said
the session was harmonious.
Mr. Kersey replaces Homer J.
Walker Jr. of Warner Robins, who
lost out in his bid for re-election.
The commissioners voted to re
quire all applicants for pipe for
new driveways from public roads
to file a written application and
pay $25 of the costs.
NOTICE
Beginning with bills rendered
this month, charges for gas, water
and sanitation will be on the same
bill. Both gross and net amounts
will be shown on the bill. The net
amount is due if paid by the 10th;
the gross is due if paid after the
10th. Under this new billing sys
tem, it is necessary that the bill
be brought to the City Hall when
payment is made. The bill with
the stub must be presented at the
office in order to receive a paid
receipt. Enclose only the stub
when mailing payment.
Thank you for your cooperation.
CITY OF PERRY
Gas, Water and Sanitation
Dept.
C. E. Davis Sr. of Cochran, for
merly of Perry, spent last Wed
nesday in town on business.
WHEREAS, the YMCA, here
and everywhere, is synonymous
with selfless organized effort for
the betterment of the mental, spi
ritual, physical, and social welfare
of youth; and
WHEREAS, Since its establish
ment the YMCA of Georgia has
worked unceasingly to guide the
young toward balanced maturity
and conscious citizenship; and
WHEREAS, This city and its
people enjoy the work of the State
YMCA of Georgia through the Hi-
Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs of its schools;
NOW THEREFORE, I, Stanley
E. Smith Jr., Mayor of the City of
Perry, do hereby proclaim the per
iod of January 18-25, as YMCA
Week in City of Perry and call at
tention to all citizens of this ob
servance.
Dated this 17th day of January,
A. D. 1959.
STANLEY E. SMITH JR.
Mayor