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The Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thurs., April 9, 1959
I HENDERSON NEWS I
BY MRS. LEON RAGAN
Mrs. W. M. Haywood has re
turned after a month’s visit with
her daughter, Mrs. A. G. Robin
son, and family in Longview, Tex
as.
* • *
Faye Moody was the weekend
guest of Betty Kersey.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Buck Poole and
family of Marshallville and Mr.
and Mrs. Edison Howell of Ogle
thorpe spent Sunday with the
John Bivins.
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Mr. and Mrs. Arling Bivins, Bil
ly Ray, of Atlanta spent the week
end with the John Bivins.
• • *
Pal Ragan was honored with a
birthday party by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Ragan at the Com
munity House Friday night. They
played games, promed and went
on a hay ride. Miss Faith Davis
and Billy Ragan assisted Mrs. Ra
gan.
Those present from Henderson,
Elko and Perry were Jan Strong,
Betty Kersey, Faye Moody, Jan
Brown, Abbie Sue Hunt, Porter
Staples, Rodney Hunt, Currey
Gayle, Mike Deason, Harvey Ne-
Smith, Brenda Cawthon, Pam
Strong, Marvin Ragan, Leighton
Kersey, Alice Hunt, Janice Mcln
tyre,
Susan Skinner, Alton Ellis, Paul
Bozeman, Jimmy Dorsett, Cheryl
Richards, Judy Gray, Barbara Jo
Gary, Ray Matthews, Pence Mid
dleton, Martha Ann Mobley, Bob
by Ragan, Sandra Watson, Ronnie
Locke, Robert Heard, Chuck
White, David O’Steen,
Gail Logue, David Hathaway,
Sandra Reynolds, Warren Wil
liams, Melton Cloud, Carol Ann
Cheek, Gail McKenzie, Julia Bos
well, Levin Pearce, Louis Pearce,
Mary Ann Bivins, Virginia Bivins,
Lydia Ambrose, Rosemary Giles,
Russ Mayo, Rhetta Irby and Rich
ard Andel.
* * «
Pam Strong of Perry spent the
weekend with Brenda Cawthon.
Jan spent the weekend with Pat
Ragan.
♦ ♦ ♦
Among those attending the sing
ing course at Cordele nights last
week were Frances, Ann and Lin
da Corn, Fred Walker Langston
and Ted Thames.
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TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
BY BERNICE McCULLAR
HE WROTE A LETTER TO
YOUR SENIORS The 12th gra
ders at your school will be listen
ing soon to the reading of a let
ter from Dr. Claude Purcell, their
state superintendent of schools,
congratulating them on staying in
school to graduate. Dr. Purcell,
who is sending the letter to the
class presidents, in care of their
principals, wrote, “I wish that I
could write each one of you a
personal, handwritten letter. I
want to tell you that I share the
pride that I know your parents
and teachers feel in you because
you have stayed in school to gradu
ate. Many who started with you
in the first grade 12 years ago
have fallen somewhere along the
way. But you have stayed. I con
gratulate you. It is not only be
cause you will make some $45,000
more money with a high school
diploma; it is because you have
gained deeper insight and under
standing that will make you a
more useful citizen. This is a do
it-yourself age. It should also be
a learn-it-yourself age. No school
can teach you everything. Keep
learning. Keep your intellectual
curiosity alive. Keep listening and
reading and thinking. Then you
will have the basis for a wise,
constructive action as a citizen of
a great democracy. Remember
that you are the product of your
school. People will judge your
school by you. That is why I join
with your teachers, your principal,
and your superintendent in being
proud of your achievement and of
the contribution which you make
to your community. I hope that
you will decide to invest your fu
ture in Georgia. We need good
citizens who are well educated and
who can help us develop the re
sources of our great state. I wish
you a happy future.”
THE MAN SAYS ‘‘PAY AT
TENTION” The other night I
sat with a banquet group and lis
tened to Lawrence Derthick, U. S.
Commissioner of Education, tell
about his recent trip to Russia. He
does not think that they have a
better school system than ours,
but he does think that they set a
higher value on education than
we do. They have signs all around
saying, ‘‘Beat America. Over-reach
America. Out do America.” They
put 13 per cent of their national
income into education. We put
about 5 per cent. They pay their
teachers top salaries and give
them the respect due to real
brains and genuine leadership.
Here we treat them like glorified
baby-sitters and then wonder why
more top brains and incandescent
personalities are not eager to
teach. The Commissioner says we
better pay attention to these
things. (Derthick’s brother Roger
is head of the Atlanta teachers,
one of the few teacher groups af
filiated with organized labor.)
THE TEACHER AND THE
HAIR NET I know a former
teacher who has a hair net that
she has kept for years. It is one
of her most precious possessions.
It was given her by a little boy,
now grown up and gone away. He
sidled up to her one Christmas
Eve, with mist-filled eyes, and
said, “I’m sorry I couldn’t buy
you something nicer, but Daddy
had only a dime to give me for
your present. The only thing I
could find for a dime was a hair
net.”
EDUCATOR IN THE LEGISLA
TURE Up in Washington, the
NEA was planning a good citizen
ship get-together. They were in
viting Paul Butler and Meade Al
corn, of the Democratic and Re
publican parties, to meet with
some teachers and other school
folk. They asked for a list of the
Georgia teachers who are in the
Legislature. From it, they picked
for an invitation Dr. Edgar Wilson
of Macon, professor of law at Mer
cer’s Walter George Law School,
and representative from Bibb
county to the Legislature.
GUESS WHO STARTED IT?
You may be surprised to know
that teacher education in Georgia
was actually started by Governor
George Gilmer, who set aside a
fund for the University to train
elementary teachers. The real pat
tern of education for Georgia, with
a plan for the University at the
top, and elementary schools at
the base, was designed by a Yale
graduate, Abraham Baldwin, who
settled in Georgia. The odd thing
is that he left out high schools.
Took us a long time to get them
in and get them financed.
WAITING—“The students wait
ed until the day before their pa
pers had to be handed in, then
they rushed to the library, hastily
gorged a few facts, and regurgita
ted them on paper. It was no won
der the results sounded distress
ingly like the Encyclopedia Brit
tanica copied by an anxious luna
tic,’ writes a modern novelist.
DISSAPOINTMENT Dr. Ben
Bornhorst— whom I first met a
few years ago when he and his
wife were fellow guests of mine
at a houseparty in the mountains
—was all set to be on a coast-to-
I
ICE BOX? . . . This letter box,
belonging to Lottie Snow, stands
amid the drifts of snow in
Dutch Hollow, Wls., during
their worst storm in 39 years.
coast TV show the other day. Ben
and his wife and their four chil
dren were going to be half of
Atlanta’s answer to “What do col
lege professors make?” He is on
the staff at Oglethorpe, and has
been on my own TV and radio
shows. Naturally, the children
were excited. They had been up
before daylight. Everybody had
been getting ready. Then with the
“cussedness of inanimate objects,”
the TV picture broke down be
tween Atlanta and New York. Oth
er cities had their part of the
show. Atlanta’s was a blank
screen. But that night, the family
was shown on our local TV. The
question was how much money
a professor makes. The answer
for Ben; $5200. The reason he
stays in education is that he likes
students and wants to help them
develop their ability to create a
better world.
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BIRTHDAYS
April 10 through April 16
Saturday, April 11—Chris Brew
ster.
Sunday, April 12—Mary Ann
Rainey.
Monday, April 13—Jack Crutch
field.
Wednesday, April 15 —Mrs. Vir
gil Brooks, Sharyl Lee Colwell.
Thursday, April 16 Jimmy
Swinney.
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Indian Springs, located just below Jackson, the county seat of
Butts County, is the nation’s oldest state park. Long before
the white man came, Creek tribes all over Georgia brought
their sick and wounded here to be cured by the healing waters.
For this reason, Indian Springs was a place of peace, and war
ring tribes bathed together with no sign of hostility. Each
year, thousands of visitors are attracted to Indian Springs
State Park, where park facilities and historical points of in
terest provide recreational variety for people of all ages. Butts
County is also a prime farm area. Cotton is the principal crop,
with recent expansions in cattle and dairy activities adding
new vitality to its farm economy.
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