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COME AND GET ’EM, SAYS COBY
Country Club Pro Bill Coby shows group of trophies
awarded winners in the recent club tournament, won by Nor
man Parker 111. (Home Journal Photo).
3 Leagues Formed
For Junior Baseball
Selection of squads and mana
gers for the Junior Baseball Pro
gram in Perry was announced this
week by Commissioner Cohen Wal
ker and his public relations assis
tant, Seabie Hickson.
Three leagues are being formed: .
The Senior League composed of
boys from 13 to 15 years old; the
Junior League for boys 10 to 13; 1
and the Daytime League for boys
from 8 to 10 years old.
To qualify for the Junior League
(1013) a boy must be 10 years ,
old by October 1, 1959, and not 16
by August 1, 1959. I
The Junior League squads i
drawn up include 20 boys each in :
six teams. The managers will pick
the 15 best boys for his team and
the remaining boys will go back to
the Daytime League.
Plans for the Daytime League
will be announced later. More than
15 boys from 8 to 10 have signed
up for this age group.
The Junior League will play on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
nights, and the Senior League on
Tuesday and Thursday nights. The
schedule for the Junior League
will open May 25.
Teams drawn in the Junior and
Senior League are listed below:
Junior League (10-13)
CAB MART, Ed Thompson and
Otis Whitten, managers; Richard
Robinson Gayle, Gary Wayne Mar
shall, James Elmo Coleman Jr.,
Thomas Kent Sanderson, Johnny
William Woolfolk, Freddie C. Sea
go, Charles Lary Belflower, Larry
Earl Mosteller, Raymond King
Leach, Donovan Scott Gary, Billy
T King, Robert Dale Tomlinson,
Clayton Lawrence Vachon, Larry
S Ellison, Rodney Earl Locker
man > David C. Russell, Bennie Al
vm Mygrant, J. D. Calhoun, Barry
Ward Grooms, William Ashley
Whitehurst.
ANDREW HARDWARE-MC
LEiXDON, Lory Gunter, manager;
Ronnie Harold Bryant, Terry Lee
rsrey, Raymond Earl Stanford,
Carl Everette Hammock, Larry
Ronald DeLoach, Leon Lee, Ed S.
■tree Jr., David Wayne Home,
arr. Dean Dennard, Winford
ewey Huff, Robert Perry Rine
dl' Charles Gary Jones, Michael
J u? Reason, Richard Berryman
i,° 1 ey > George Lamar Griffith,
Charles Joseph Norman, H. G.
womans 111, Doug Eugene Nip
*Jll > Donald Lee Ganas.
CLUB > Doug Nipper and
o‘ ‘ bate s. managers; Walter Ray
übng, Alrie J. Adams, Don
chapman, Clark Todd, Bennie
Dennard, l ra Thomas White,
oody Moody, Edward Allen, Le
-1 > atson, Richard Dennard, Don-1
Lambert, David A. Lee, |
I derson, Bernard Hageman, j
, , ■ C. Todd, Carl D. Mauldin,
Wicks, Danny Merritt,
J umes F. Griffith.
is SUPPLY CO., Lew
“ . manager; Joe Martin,
r-K )av is, Frank Williams,
son n T WeU OI - Jimm M Lay
tv’ V avid , Walker, David Mcln-
D a , ,on ' Middleton, James Horne,
Chari „ nson , Larry Farrell,
mi l- ~ a l° ne > Kenneth Stefan-
B r agg K Jr y r Hammock Jr., Ray
Summr Barne y Adams, Donald
•her urn- Jo^n HaB > David Lari
mer. wuham Rainey
son an d A R IS K CLUB - Seabie Hick-
John MnM b n Ulpeßper ’ managers;
-Walom eiB ’ William Thomas
man r Lawrenc e Michael Street
’ Georgia Andel, Donald Ed
Houston journal
win Hicks, David Paul Hulbert,
James Wright McCarty, James Ed
ward Hardy, David Scott Hatha
way, James Larry Davis, William
Shivers McCarty, Bobbie Larry
Wilkerson, Steven Allen Wright,
Michael John Vance, Gibbs Augus
tus Hasty, Michael Alan Gibson,
Kenneth Marion Cloud, Joel Hulon
Baxley, Julius Buddy Irby, Larry
Grover Walton.
VETERANS OF FOR E I G'N
WARS, Riley Young and Jack Har
dy, managers; Wayne Hardman,
Jimmie Rainey, James Ivie, Dave
Stanley, Jimmie Law, Carlton Bes
singer, Brad Gunter, Edgar Bar
field, Bobby Humphries, David
Dismukes, Draper Watson, David
Flournoy, Charles Hamlin, Jerry
Huff, Jerry Wells, Dale Kersey,
Robert Jackson, Mike Hackworth,
Rickey Peyton, Jerry Davis Jr.
SENIOR LEAGUE (13-15)
MOODY MOTOR COMPANY,
Aldene Lasseter, manager; Wayne
Riner, Butch Skinner, Dennis
Fike, Ronnie Sanders, Mike Kin
nas, Calvin Middlebrooks, Charles
Bridges, Larry Moody, James
Flournoy, Richard Andel, Charles
McCullough, Martin Meadows,
Mike Swick, Karl Varner, Mike
Grant.
GRAY-WALKER TRACTOR CO.,
Pap Nipper, manager; Lee Martin,
Ernest Martin, Jimmy Dorsett,
Freddie Dismukes, Larry Bailey,
Duane Powell, Ray Matthews, Mel
ton Cloud, Jerry Bowen, Corneli
ous Hardy, Henry Gotten, James
Barrett, Gerald Lavern, David
O’Steen, James Barry.
CHAPMAN-BEATTY TRACTOR
CO., Skeet Chapman, manager; Al
ton Ellis, Tommy Baker, Joe
Gayle, Ronnie Kinnas, John Mar
shall, Jerry Flournoy, Jackie Ham
mock, Jimmy Chapman, Curry
Gayle, Kenneth Knight, Ralph De-
Loach, Clifton McSwain Jr., Wil
lard McCarthy, Oliver Britt, Eddie
Arnold, Raymond Money.
JAYCEES, Billy Bledsoe, mana
ger, Ronnie Davis, Ronnie Griffin,
Leroy Williamson, Bert Bozeman,
Larry Huff, Paul Bozeman, Rod
ney Hunt, Jimmy Pennington,
Kyle Dismukes, Larry Benford,
Gerald Chapman, Mike Rapp, Har
vey NeSmith Jr., Rawlins Den
nard, Tampa Smith and Russ
Mayo.
Miss Martha Evans spent Satur
day at home with her mother,
Mrs. W. B. Evans, and had as her
guests, Miss Nancy Brannen of
Unadilla and Miss Bess Mason,
Pensacola, Fla.
Baptists add Educational Space
Police Shoot Out Tire j
To Halt Theft Suspects
I Perry police were forced to i
i shoot a tire to stop a stolen car
last Thursday night, Chief J. B. 1
Hawkins said. •
< Officers Charles Hicks and B. E. j
Dennard chased a suspected sto
len car through Perry and Den- ,
nard shot the tire on U. S. 41 '
i North in the vicinity of North ‘
| Avenue.
They arrested John P. Johnson, ,
I 22, white, Miami, Fla., a r i charged
| him with stealing the car, and |
Earl D. Miller of Tennessee, (
charged with obtaining gasoline ■
and failing to pay for it. ,
Chief Hawkins said the young .
men drove off from a Unadilla
service station last Thursday night 1
without paying for the gasoline, i
The State Patrol asked Perry po- <
lice to be on the lookout for the
car, and they picked up the chase
in the city. The suspects stopped i
the car on Commerce Street mo
mentarily, but they took off again
at high speed and the tire-shooting i
Lions Broom Sale
Tonight and Friday
The Perry Lions Club will hold
its annual broom and mop sale
April 23 and 24 from 8 until 10
p. m.
Buy a broom or mop to help
promote sight conservation. The
Lions are giving their time, so
please, don’t turn them down.
15 ARE SENTENCED
IN HOUSTON COURT
Judge Oscar L. Long in Houston
Superior Court Tuesday sentenced
15 persons who entered pleas of
guilty to criminal charges.
Sentenced were Obie Tukes, 10
. months each on charges of carry
ing a concealed weapon and dri
, ving while drunk; Johnnie Wil
-1 liams, 30 days or S3O fine for hav
’ ing no driver’s license; George
, Bryant, 6 months on probation and
, S3O fine for being drunk at a pri
vate residence; Martha Williams,
violating prohibition law, 12
months suspended, SIOO fine;
. Jack Buckle, drunk on highway,
* 6 months on probation, fine of
1 S3O; Frances Clark, violating pro
■ hibition law, 12 months on proba
i tion, fine of $100; Dempsey Frank
'< lin Cox, driving while drunk; 12
i months on probation, fine of $200;
> Dallie Johnson, violating prohibi
! tion law, 12 months on probation,
pay a fine of $125;
> L. J. Sanders, violating prohibi
i tion law, 12 months on probation
- and pay SIOO fine; S. T. Lewis,
i simple larceny, six months; Nettie
* Lawrence, violating prohibition
■ law, 10 months; Frank Albert
* Wyatt, simple larceny, 12 months
I on probation; Levon Farms, 12
months on two charges of driving
t while drunk; George Relious Bus
- bee, 12 months on probation, pay
; a fine of $200; Henry Allen, vio
lating prohibition law, 12 months.
Trial of civil cases was under
r way in the courtroom, with Judge
- A. M. Anderson presiding. Judge
- Long presided over the plea-taking
j session in the grand jury room.
' Electricity Cutoff
; Set for April 29
AH electrical power in Perry
’ will be cut off from 3 to 4:30
p. m. next Wednesday, April 29,
Local Manager Jack Crutchfield
1 of Georgia Power Company, said
yesterday.
The cutoff is necessary to en
- large power facilities at the 10,
, cal sub-station, Mr. Crutchfield
r said.
f He emphasized that no power
, will be available in any section
of the city during that time.
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resulted a few seconds later.
Johnson was turned over to the
FBI on a charge of transporting
a stolen car across state lines, and
Miller was returned to Sheriff
King of Dooly county to face the
charge of obtaining gasoline and
failing to pay, Chief Hawkins said.
He added that Johnson pleaded
guilty to the car theft charge be
fore a U. S. commissioner in Ma
con.
Another case of beating a gaso- \
line bill involved the Perry police j
department Tuesday of this week, i
when a 14-year-old Atlanta boy
driving a car reported stolen in I
Atlanta drove off from Mrs. C.
Miller’s Station on U. S. 41 South.
She notified the Perry police, who
called the State Patrol. A patrol
car took up the chase near Unadil
la and followed the driver into I
Vienna, where the car was wreck
ed. The boy was seriously injured
and was taken to a Vienna hospi
tal. He was driving a 1955 Dodge
convertible.
Mitchell to Speak
On Memorial Day
At Perry Jr. High
Confederate Memorial Day will
be observed at 10 o’clock on Fri
day, April 24, with an interesting
program at the Perry Junior High
Auditorium.
Rev. Donald Mitchell Jr., rector
of St. Andrews Episcopal Church,
Ft. Valley, will be the principal
speaker. Before World War II
Mr. Mitchell was on the editorial
staff of the Macon News and the
Macon Telegraph for 16 years. He
volunteered for service in the U.
S. Army Ambulance Corps, and af
terward served for eight years as
executive director of the Macon
Community Chest. He resigned his
Community Chest post in 1950 to
study for the ministry.
Mr, Mitchell’s great-uncle was
General Francis Bartow, who was
killed at the First Battle of Ma
nassas. The first battlefield mar
ker to be erected for action during
the War Between the States was
built by Georgians in memory of
Georgia’s own General Bartow.
The program will open with an
original sketch worked up by the
seventh grade students of Mrs.
Irven B. Middlebrooks on the
[ meaning of Memorial Day.
Southern airs will be sung by
the Girls Trio, and the Perry
School Band will play several ap
propriate numbers.
The invocation and benediction
will be given by Rev. Jim Coad.
This program is sponsored an
nually by the Sgt. Clinton C. Dun
can Chapter, United Daughters of i
the Confederacy, and the public is 1
urged to attend. All Southerners
should pause at least once each
year to pay homage to those who '
wore the Gray. 1
Hail and Windstorm Cause
Heavy Damage in Houston
More than SIBO,OOO damage was
done to Houston county crops by a
hail and windstorm last Sunday
afternoon, County Agent George
Allmond said yesterday.
“Some peach orchards and wheat
fields were a 100 per cent loss,”
Allmond said. “Damage to pecans,
cotton and corn has not been de
termined.”
Farms hit by the hail were those
of the Gunn Brothers, R. F, Scar
borough, James Johnson, Harry
Dumas, Jewett Story, Edgar Bate
man Jr. and Dewey Bateman, all
in the Centerville and Warner Ro
bins sections.
The hail was described as heavy
and big and stripped some peach
trees and battered grain to the 1
ground. i
Red Cross Assists
Sixteen Houston county families
were affected by a tornado which
struck in Houston and Twiggs
counties last Sunday afternoon j
and left two injured and wide
spread property damage. ,
C. E. Tweedle, disaster chair- <
man for the Macon Red Cross I
chapter, said 5 p. m. Thursday is !
the deadline for families affected I
by the tornado to make applica
tion to the Red Cross for disaster
relief. i
About half of the families as- <
fected apparently will not be able ]
to meet their own needs and the i
Red Cross will help them on the 1
basis of need, not loss, Mr. Tweed- <
le said. The Red Cross furnished .
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MEMBERS OF PERRY’S SECOND PLACE STATE LITERARY TEAM
Left to right, first row, Nancy Boler, home economics; Mary Sue Nunn, piano; Linda
Tabor, debate; Patsy Todd, Pat Adams and Beverly Jacobs, trio; Vivian Kersey, girls’ essay;
Barbara Belcher, shorthand; Carole Mason, debate; back row, I. to r., Stanley St. John, boys’
declamation; Jerry Langston, typing; Thomas Hunt, boys’ essay; Allen Kennedy, boys’ solo;
and Lamar Anderson, Mike Jacobs, Hearn Bennett and Jerry Horton, quartet. (See Perry-
Scope Section for details).
Superhighway Route
At Perry Described
At the Hospitals
Mrs. John L. Hodges was ad
mitted to the Middle Georgia Hos
pital Tuesday.
J. D. Linton was dismissed from
the Macon Hospital Tuesday.
Herbert Mills has been a patient
at the Macon Hospital.
Susan and Jay Schenck, children
of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hall Schenck,
had tonsil operations at the Macon
Hospital last Saturday.
J. Alva Davis Sr. is a patient at
the Macon Hospital.
Mrs. Charles G. Harris was dis
missed from the Macon Hospital
last Saturday.
Mrs. E. K. Braselton is a pa
tient at the Peach County Hospi
tal.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Davis and
children of Marietta returned
home after spending several days
with Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Cooper.
Mrs. C. K. Cooper and daughter,
Gale, of Milledgeville visited the
Coopers on Sunday.
food, clothing, medical and nur
sing attention and building repairs
in cases where affected families
show they cannot meet those needs
on their own.
Application for assistance should
be made at the Macon or Warner
Robins offices of the Red Cross,
Mr. Tweedle said.
The two injured persons were
residents of Dry Branch in Twiggs
| county.
Foot Misses Brake,
Mailboxes Flattened
When you start to take off your
coat while driving, be sure your
car is under control.
That’s the moral of this story,
for a driver knocked down 10
mailboxes one night last week on
U. S. 41 South near Evergreen
Nurseries.
The Warner Robins man stop- i
ped his car to take off his coat. !
When he had the arms almost j
out of the sleeves, he noticed his
car was rolling. He tried to hit the '
brake, but hit the accelerator in- (
stead. Result: 10 mailboxes flat
tened.
i 1
Mrs. T. F. Hardy spent Saturday '
in Milledgeville. The Hardys had ;
as their guests for the weekend, 1
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sparrow and
son, Johnny, of Hawkinsville and
Mr. and Mrs. Vallene Bennett and
children, Lawrence and Paul of
Alma.
Construction of Interstate High
way 75, which will split the west
side of Houston county from north
to south, should be started next
year and traffic should be using it
in 1961, a representative of the
State Highway Department said
here last week.
John Wilkinson, highway de-1
partment engineer, said this sche
dule should be followed unless un
expected problems arise on ob
taining rights of way. He made
his statements at a public hearing
at the Houston county courthouse.
The hearing is required by the
federal act setting up the big In
terstate Highway System, in which
the federal government pays 90
per cent of the cost of construc
tion and the states pay 10 per
cent. After the roads are built,
the state will have to bear all
maintenance costs.
Some Houston county landown- i
ers protested that they would be
! damaged by having the highway
cut them off from parts of their
farms. Mr. Wilkinson said he re
alizes landowners will suffer da
mages and that he would have to
take up individual problems with
the landowners.
The proposed location of the
highway was shown by the state
highway official. From the south,
the route will come into the coun
ty about one-fourth mile west of
the Houston-Dooly county line;
cross State Route 26 about one
j mile east of Henderson (with an
! interchange at this point) and
I come into Perry at the city limits
' on U. S. 41. There would be an
other interchange with U. S. 41
at this point. Continuing north
ward, the route location goes over
] Big Indian Creek and the Central
of Georgia Railroad to a point on
341 to Fort Valley between T. D. j
Mason’s Store and the guest house
|of the New Perry Hotel. There i
will be another interchange at this
point. From there the route pro-1 j
j ceeds out of the county into Peach | ]
I county at Mossy Creek, about one j
mile west of the present U. S. 41.
Houston would have about 17
miles of the superhighway from j
its northern border to the south- (
ern.
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Funeral Conducted ,
For Mrs. Frederick '
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella (
W. Frederick, 82, who died early
Monday at her residence, were ]
held at 3 p. m. Tuesday at the ,
F’irst Baptist Church.
Elder J. M. Denton and the Rev.!
James Teresi officiated. Burial!
was in Red Hill Primitive Baptist
Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Frederick was a native of
Texas and had lived in Houston
County most of her life. She was
a member of the Pilgrim Baptist
Church.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Miss Gertrude Frederick,
Perry, and Mrs. James Tycock,
Birmingham, Ala.; and three
grandchildren.
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CATHOLIC PARTY
TOMORROW NIGHT
A benefit card party and fash
ion show, sponsored by the Catho
lics of Perry to raise funds for
1 a Catholic mission here, will be
presented at 8 p. m. Friday at the
Natonal Guard Armory.
Twenty-seven models will be
presented by Mrs. Gladys Culpep
per of the Vanity Shop, with Mrs.
A1 Evans as narrator and Mrs.
Sal Beaumont furnishing the mu
sic.
The Altar Society of the Catho
lic Mission here is the sponsor of
the project. Tickets will be $1 and
are available at the Vanity Shop
or through Mrs. Martin Austin,
chairman of the affair.
The models will show the latest
styles in spring and summer fash
ions and resort and play wear.
Religion or Chaos
Is British Choice,
Kiwanis Club Told
England must have a religious
revival or face chaos, Rev. Jimmy
Waters of Macon’s Mabel White
Baptist Church told the Perry Ki
wanis Club Tuesday.
Mr. Waters described the trip
that he and 75 other Southern
Baptist ministers took to England
in the winter to discuss the serious
decline in church influence and
interest in that country.
Baptist churches nave lost a
million members since World War
I, Mr. Waters said, and what is
true of the Baptists is true of all
the other churches, including the
statesupported Anglican church.
Between 3 and 10 per cent of the
English people attend church, he
said. In a church building that
seats 1,500, only 15 to 20 people
attend worship services.
“England has two very serious
problems: economic and religi
ous,” Mr. Waters said. “They have
cobwebs in their pews. They can’t
break with -tradition. They haven’t
recognized the need for change.”
The average British worker
makes $25 a week, he said, and
gasoline costs 95 cents a gallon.
Ministers make S3O a week and in
Liverpool only three of 21 minis
ters can afford automobiles.
Mr. Waters was introduced by
Rev. J. M. Teresi. Allen Pritchett
was program chairman.
INSIDF STIFF
On the inside pages of The
Home Journal this week are a
number of interesting stories.
Such as:
Engagements and marriages
announced;
FFA makes big strides under
Cheek’s leadership;
Perry boys at Fort Jackson.
Plus bargain-packed ads of
Perry s leading stores.