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The Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thurs., April 9, 1959
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Published weekly at Perry, Georgia
COOPER ETHERIDGE and BYRON MAXWELL
Editors and Publishers
Entered as Second Class Matter
at Post Office at Perry, Georgia,
under Act of March 3, 1879.
Official Organ—Houston County and City of Perry
Subscriptions $3.00 per year in state
$3.50 out of state $1.75 for six months
All subscriptions payable in advance
PERRY WOM VN IMPRESSES COLUMNIST
WITH KINDNESS ‘JUST DOING HER DUTY’
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The follow
ing column appeared in The Atlan
ta Journal-Constitution last Sunday
under the by-line of Eugene Pat
terson, executive editor of the At
lanta newspapers. The Home Jour
nal determined that lady he re
fers to here is Mrs. Marvin Grif
fin Sr., Hiway Haven),
About four miles north of Perry,
Ga., on Hwy. 41 there is a filling
station where I am going to buy
my gas when I pass that way from
now on.
The lady who runs it gave me
a refresher course Wednesday on
what the Southern Way of Life is.
And it really is much more than
Tops forTREATS
... AT HOME, TOO!
Its fun to go out for DAIRY QUEEN 1 kj)
but just as much a treat at
home right from y°ur own f j ' / J
freezer. Stop by— stock up with I f" / / i?
your DAIRY QUEEN favorites / |il||
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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the bilious flapheadedness that
| some native noisemakers misre
; present it to be.
lit was not so much a filling sta
tion as it was a country store with
faded Shell pumps out front. I no
ticed it as I cruised past going
south.
My gas gauge stood on empty.
But I was trying to stretch it into
Perry where the gleaming gas sta
tions look fresher and more offi
cial. Didn’t make it. A mile past
the country store the engine sigh
ed, caught and died.
Pickup Truck
Sedans swept past but the first
pickup truck heeded my thumb,
Attention Robins Field Personnel
EFFECTIVE APRIL 17, YOU WILL BE PAID BY MAIL
Shortly, you will be asked to designate whether your cheek should be mailed to your home address or to your bank for
deposit to your account.
We Invite Your Account At Perry Loan & Savings Bank
LET US TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SAFEGUARDING YOUR SALARY
as pickup trucks will. The man in
side was helpful and unsuspicious,
as drivers of pickup trucks are. He
dropped me back at the country
store.
The lady came out from behind
the cake and bread racks and stood
by the soft drink box, listening to
my story. Like her store, she was
modest, but very neat and marked
with character.
“I don’t have a can for carrying
gas,” she said. ‘‘But here—we’ll
use this.” She picked up a water
ing can with one of those long
spouts you use for watering flow
ers.
It was full of water. She poured
the water in a tub. ‘‘We’re having
trouble getting water,” she ex
plained. Before she put gas in the
can she went behind the grocery
counter and got a towel and dried
the water drops from the inside of
it.
“I don’t have any way to get
you back to your car,” she said.
“I’ll thumb a ride,” I said. But
she wouldn’t have that. She turn
ed and looked inquiringly at a
woman customer who was just
leaving with her baby and a sack
of groceries. The pretty young mo
ther eyed me up and down to see
if I looked dangerous. She decided
1 didn’t and drove me back to my
car. It hurt my male pride a little
to be considered harmless looking
of course. But it would have hurt
my feet worse to walk that mile.
With all this ready help, I got
the car cranked and returned the
can to the store. The lady filled
my tank and I paid for the gas.
Then I tried to give her some
Jf' ’ -%&. '^aw.
GET THE POINT? . . . Pretty
Pat McLaughlin treads with
trepidation through the prickly
plants of a Silver Springs, Fla.,
rock garden.
money for all she had done.
“No,” she said. “I can’t take
that.” She stood there on the plank
floor of her humble store and
shook her head.
“Now look here,” I said. “You
found me a can. You went to a lot
of bother to dry it and fill it. You
trusted me to return it. And you
helped me hitch a ride. I want to
pay you for the trouble you went
to.”
“No,” she said. “I won’t take
your money. That was not trou
ble." She lifted her hands and ges
tured at the canned goods on the
shelves, at the two old gas pumps
out there in the shade. Then she
looked me in the eye and said.
“That was my DUTY.”
I had driven a hundred miles
down the road before I remember
ed I had not even offered to wash
the gasoline out of her watering
can.
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LOCAL
BUSINESS
BY BYRON MAXWELL
The loudest advertising is not
always the best advertising.
The medicine barker at a carni
val is both loud and entertaining,
but few people take him seriously.
Over a period of time he could
not hope to compete with a repu
table pharmacy.
A basic ingredient of good ad
vertising is its ability to inspire
long rang public confidence. This
is true of the advertising of in
dividual firms. It also holds for
the type of medium which carries
advertising.
Command of public confidence
is the chief reason why newspa
per advertising retains undisputed
leadership as a retail advertising
medium. Study after study has
shown that the public has more
faith in newspaper advertising
than in any other kind of adver
tising.
Just recently, a survey conduct
ed in Mankato, Minnesota indica
ted that 58.7 per cent of the peo
ple in that city consider the news
paper to be the most truthful ad
vertising medium. In contrast, on
ly six per cent listed radio as
“most truthful,” and less than
eight per cent expressed the
same faith in television.
A similar study made in Missis
sippi among people over 60 years
of age indicates than more than
70 per cent of the elderly people
in that area rely more on news
paper advertising than any other
form of advertising. Both of the
studies were supervised by uni
versity research teams with no
vested interest in the results.
Other media may shout loudly
and invent clever gimmicks to at
tract attention, but as long as the
newspaper is the most believed
medium it will continue to do the
best job of selling goods for local
retailers.
4 Perry Students
In Atlanta Show
Four vocational agriculture stu
dents from Perry High School will
exhibit steers in the Georgia Fat
Cattle Show in Atlanta, April 14,
according to E. H. Cheek, teacher
of vocational agriculture. The Fu
ture Farmers will exhibit seven
steers.
For FFA members, the show is
the climax of months of study and
work, during which they used |
their steer projects to get practi
cal experience in feeding and fit
ting beef animals.
Future Farmers from Perry
who will exhibit animals in the
show are: Mike Jacobs, Chuck
White, Floyd Tabor and Earl
Cheek.
Sponsored by the Atlanta Cham
ber of Commerce, the show will
begin Tuesday at 8:30 a. m. Gen
eral Chairman of the event is
Lamar Wansley, Manager of the
si
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Dr. Herman Purdy from Pe nn .
sylvania State University
judge the show.
Wansley says the Chamber 0 f
Commerce is offering premiums
of $25 for all animals which grade
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