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The Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thurs., April 7, 1960
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Published weekly at Perry, Georgia
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EDITORIAL
Cry for Imagined 'Rights' Is Tiring
Excuse us if we get weary of the constant “demand” for
“rights” and “privileges”—a cry that we hear more often now
than ever before.
It seems to us that too many people are demanding all
kinds or rights without doing anything about deserving them.
The modern idea seems to be to (1) Join a movement,
(2) Demand rights, and (3) Cry about it if you do not get what
you want.
We do not belong to a lot of organizations because we
have not been asked to, but we don’t worry about it. We do
not organize a movement against the group that didn’t invite
us and demand that we be let in. Those folks probably have a
good reason for not inviting us and a lot of other people and
we do not fret about it.
What we object to is the government’s taking over private
organizations and telling them that they must let certain peo
ple in because this is the “constitutional right” of these people.
That’s just not so.
We read that a state anti-discrimination commission ruled
that an airline must hire a Negro girl as a stewardess, claiming
that the only reason she was not hired was that she was
colored.
We read that another person sued a college fraternity
because it would not invite him to be a member, claiming it
was his constitutional right to become a member.
An airline is a privately-owned business and ought to be
allowed to hire and fire whom it chooses. A college fraternity
is a private organization and ought to be able to choose its
members under whatever rules it decides to adopt.
Sit-downs, or sit-ins, or whatever you want to call them
are illegal, whether carried on by a racial group or by a union
or any other group that interferes with the way a man oper
ates his business.
“A man’s house is his castle” is an old rule of law that
has stood through the ages. The same things should and does
apply to his business and a violation of this right should be
punished.
The fact that a person has two feet, two arms and the
other attributes of a human being does not entitle him to the
right to trample on the rights of others or invade their privacy.
Sometime someone is going to suggest that a person ought
to actually EARN some rights by proper attitude, behavior and
extra effort, and the suggestion is going to shock the country.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
OF REAL ESTATE
State of Georgia,
County of Houston
WHEREAS, on the 31st day of
October, 1958, WEST LESTER,
of Houston County, executed and
delvered to W. B. HODGE, d/b/a
W. B HODGE WAREHOUSE, of
Dooly County, a certain promis
sory note for the principal sum
of Three Hundred Seventy Five
and 18/100 Dollars ($375.18); and
contemporaneously therewith
did execute and deliver to W. B.
Hodge, d/b/a W. B. Hodge Ware
house, a deed to secure debt with
power of sale to the real estate
hereinafter described, said deed
to secure debt being dated Octo
ber 31, 1958. and recorded in
Deed Book 128, page 506, Clerk’s
Office, Houston Superior Court;
and
WHEREAS, on March 15, 1960,
Mention
When you bring a prescription to
Houston Drug Co. you arc at
tended to promptly by a register
ed pharmacist. Your medicine is
then prepared with all the speed J
|Cr consistent with professional care.
£ HOUSTON DRUG CO. 1
1c SPECIALS
$1 Cigarette Lighters . .. 2 for sl.Ol
79c Speed Shave .... 2 for 80c
Regular and Menthol
Ironboard Covers .... 2 for sl.Ol
49c Epsom Salts . . . 2 lbs. for 50c
DRUG CO.
WATT BOLER, Owner
24-HOUR PRESCRIPTION SERVICE
Phone GA 9-1431 Nights GA 9-1925
said note, said deed to secure
debt and the property described
in and conveyed thereby were
assigned and transferred by W.
B. Hodge, d/b/a W. B, Hodge
Warehouse, to Union Motor
Company of Perry, Georgia, said
transfer being of record in Deed
Book 150, page 210, Clerk’s Of
fice, Houston Superior Court;
and
WHEREAS, said deed to se
cure debt provided that in the
event of the default of West
Lester In the payment of any
of the monthly Installments due
on the note secured thereby,
the holder of said note and of
said deed to secure debt may
declare the entire indebtedness
secured thereby immediately
due and payable; and
WHEREAS, the said West Les
ter did default in the payment
of the installments due on said
] Mrs . Lee Honored
With Shower Here
Mrs. Joe Leverett and Mrs. Ro
bert Horton Jr. honored Mrs. Ben
Lee with a stork shower at the
home of Mrs. Leverett last Wed
nesday night.
Refreshments of dainty cakes,
mints, nuts and coffee were served
before the honoree opened her
gifts presented to her in a baby
crib.
Out-of-town guests were Mrs. Bil
ly Everette, Mrs. Harpe Suggs and
Mrs. Willie Lee Daniels of Una
dilla; Mrs. Scotty Horne, Cochran;
Mrs. Jimmy Poe, Macon; Mrs. Jim
Lee, Hawkinsville. Attending from
Perry were Mrs. Gus Williams,
Mrs. Billy Gray, Mrs. Herb St.
John, Mrs. A. E. Jackson, Mrs. Al
len Tabor, Mrs. Jack Crutchfield,
Mrs. Paul Hall, Mrs. Frank Satter
field, Mrs. Paul King and Mrs.
Bobby Brooks.
After the gifts had been opened,
, the guests played bridge and canas
ta.
indebtedness, and by reason of
said default the undersigned has
declared the entire indebtedness
represented by said note and se
cured by said deed to secure
debt due and payable;
NOW THEREFORE, because
of said default and under and
by virtue of the power of sale
contained in said deed to secure
debt; the undersigned, UNION
MOTOR COMPANY, of Perry,
Georgia, will sell during the
legal hours of sale, before the
courthouse door of Houston
County, Georgia, the county in
which said real estate is situat
ed, to the highest bidder for
cash, on the first Tuesday in
\ May, 1960, being the 3rd day of i
May, 1960, the following real ,
estate described in and convey- (
ed by said deed to secure debt, ;
to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land .
situated, lying and being in Land 1
Lot No 77 in the 12th Land Dis- 1
trict of Houston County, Geor- '<■
gia, and containing IbVfc acres, s
more or less, and being in the l
northeast corner of said Land ,
Lot No. 77, and being the same ,
land as described, along with ,
other land, in deed of record in *
Deed Book 39, page 5, Clerk’s! J
Office, Houston Superior Court, i
Said land is bounded on the i
north by land of Josh Holt, (
estate; south and west by land (
of West Lester and on the east r
by land of Willie Woolfolk.
Also: 1
All of a one half undivided in-
terest in the 12th Land District 1
of Houston County, Georgia, be- t
ing 130 acres, more or less, of £
land lot No. 77 in said district t
and being all of said lot except j
57 acres off the southwest corner
in the form of a square, and ap
proximately 15 acres off the
northeast corner in the form I
of a square, said tract of land r
known as the Harrison Benson
Place and having been conveyed ,
to first party by W. H. Roberts
under a deed dated January 22, *
1920. c
A fee simple deed will be ex- t
ecuted by the undersigned to the a
purchaser at said sale. The pro- c
cceds of said sale will be ap
plied as provided in the afore- ‘
said deed to secure debt.
This sth day of April, i 960. '
UNION MOTOR COMPANY r
Nunn, Aultman & Hulbert t
Attorneys at Law s
Perry, Georgia 4tc 4-7 j
ORDINARY’S CITATION 1
Georgia, Houston County
To All Whom It May Concern: t
Mrs. Eunice Scoggins Wilson j
having applied for guardianship of 1
the property of her daughter, Mar
garet Wilson, incompetent, notice
is given that said application will
be heard at my office at ten o’clock *
A, M. on the first Monday in May E
next, May 2, 1960. r
This April 4, 1960. a
JOHN L. HODGES, Ordinary „
4tc. 4-7. g
NOTICE OF SALE ‘
UNDER POWER 1
Georgia, Houston County *
Because of default in the pay
ment of the indebtedness secured
by a deed to secure debt executed .
by Eugene J. Wider to H. V. Hig- ,
ley, as Administrator of Veterans ,
Affairs, an Officer of the United .
States of Amercia, and his succcs- '
sors in such office, as such, dated 1
August 17, 1956, and recorded in '
Deed Book 106, Folio 397-400, in 1
the Office of the Clerk of the Su- i
perior Court of Houston County, (
Georgia, the undersigned, as sue- ,
ccssor in office to H. V. Higley, as |
Administrator of Veterans Affairs,
has declared the entire amount of '
said indebtedness due and payable;
in accordance with the terms of
said deed and the note secured ‘ -
thereby, and pursuant to the power (
of sale contained in said deed, j
there will be sold by the under- j
signed at public outcry before the ,
courthouse door in Perry, Houston ‘
County, Georgia, on the first Tues- 1
day in May 1960, within the legal 1
hours of sale, to the highest bid- i
der for cash, the following describ- (
ed property, to-wit:
All that lot or parcel of land
with all improvements thereon, ly
ing and being in Land Lot 202 in
the Fifth Land District of Hous
ton County, Georgia, and in the
City of Warner Robins, same be
ing known and designated as Lot
No. 122 in Block C of Northview
Subdivision, according to a plat of
survey of said subdivision made by
Rhodes Sewell, State Surveyor No.
160, on May 12, 1954, a copy of
said plat being of record in Map
Book 3, Page 135, Clerk’s Office,'
Houston Superior Court. Said plat
and the record thereof are made a
part of this description by refer
ence thereto.
Also, one 50,000 BTU Quaker
Gas Space Heater. i
Said property will be sold as the ■
property of Eugene J. Wider and I
Coach Wally Butts of Georgia and immediate past president
of the National Football Coaches Association, assures little Lee
Vergason of Decatur, Georgia that he is calling signals for
Sidney Smith (60) and Tommy Milner (10), members of the
Athens High School football team, as he sends them and other
high school football players out to solicit Dollars for Crippled
Children on Crippled Children’s Day of the Easier Seal Cara*
paign. Coach Wayman Sellers (far right) of Athens High has
pledged his team to help.
At the thought of football players carrying the ball for
other crippled children, Lee thinks about the sight of hundreds
of high school football players out on Crippled Children’s Day.
Little Lee has received treatment at the Atlanta Easter Seal
Treatment Center.
The Easter Seal Campaign is a project of the National Foot
ball Coaches Association and is receiving cooperation from high
school football teams all over the state. When one of their boys
calls on you, April 9th, give your Dollars for Crippled Children.
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
BY BERNICE McCULLAR
LETTER FROM A TEACHER—
Long time ago—sometime in the
thirties—the state superintendent
of schools got a letter from a man
teacher saying, “I resign. I am go
ing to work as a section hand on
the railroad so I can feed my fam
ily.” The other day, the superin
tendent of schools got a letter from
a woman teacher in Georgia. Said
she, “Today our school is closed
because of the snow. I am cold and
unhappy. I have just come in from
trudging up and down the streets
trying to sell encyclopedia so that
I can pay my family’s bills. My
meager little salary as a teacher
fails to cover their bare ’ necessi
ties and I have come to the end
of my row. I am a college gradu
ate, and a widow. My check—which
is ALL we have to live on— is
$258 a month. I have been teaching
thirteen years. Our bills last month
totaled $315.27. We cannot even
afford to go to the movies. Isn’t
this a disgrace? P. S. Would you
like to buy an encyclopedia?”
APRIL IS TEACHING CAREER
MONTH—I know there are so
many special days and months
that you’d probably like to add a
Leave Me Alone Mouth. But I do
hope you will help us observe Tea
ching Career Month. Here’s the
best way you could help: encour
age your brightest children to be
come teachers. Unless we get more
and more brains in our classrooms,
YOUR child’s brain may go unde
veloped in the future. The U. S.
right now needs 227,000 teachers,
but only 92,000 college graduates
are expected to become teachers.
How many really first-class tea
chers do you have in your school?
Have you done one solitary thing
to make them want to stay there in
your school teaching your child?
What?
THEY CAN GO TO SCHOOL ON
SATURDAY but all day. The
State Board agreed to let schools
make up for recent ice-and-snow
absences on Saturdays, if they have
school all day. No piece • meal
school days . . . School systems may
also count the best 8 out of 9
months for the purposes of teacher
allotment for next year, too.
GOODBYE TO A GREAT LADY
—Atlanta’s long-time school super
intendent, Miss Ira Jarrell, is get
ting ready to retire, after 15 years
in that job and a lifetime in educa
tion. She is a big, handsome wo
man, who often wears orchids on
her shoulder, and probably knows
more children than anybody who
ever taught school. She is one of
the few women superintendents of
big city school systems. Atlanta
will miss her.
DON’T GET THESE MIXED UP
—You can elect anybody you want
to elect for your county school su
perintendent. Those requirements
have not been changed since 1919,
and they are not strict. But where
the rub comes is this; the accredi
ting agencies will lop your schools
right off the accrediting list if you
elect a superintendent who does
not have professional qualifica
tions. If you have any questions
about these matters, write W. E.
the proceeds of said sale will be
applied to the payment of said in- 1
debtedness, the expense of said
sale, all as provided in said deed \
to secure debt, and the balance, if
any, will be distributed as provided
by law.
SUMNER G. WHITTIER
As Administrator of Veterans
Affairs and as Attorney-in-
Fact for Eugene J. Wider
By: Pierre Noel, Jr.
Loan Guaranty Officer
J. J. Summerford, Attorney
Veterans Administration Regional
Office.
441-449 West Peachtree Street,
N. E., Atlanta 8, Georgia. 4tc. 4-7.
Pafford, State Department of Edu
cation, Atlanta. Nobody tells you
that you can’t elect anybody you
please, a janitor or a general. But
they do say what can happen to
your schools if your prefer to elect
a poorly qualified man to run
them.
ON THE REPORT, BUT NOT IN
HIS HEAD Wonderful teacher
died recently in Georgia, at about
80 years of age. We were telling
stories about her remarkable years
in education. Said one man, “The
story I like best about her is this
one. A mad mamma came one day
to quarrel because her little boy
did not get an A in handwriting.
The teacher said to Mamma, “You
want him to have A? Hand me the
report. I’ll put A on it.” She took
the report back, wrote a big A on
it and handed it back to Mamma.
Then Teacher said, “He can’t write
a bit better now than he could be
fore!”
FARMER JONES’ BARN?
What are you going to use for
schoolrooms if the schools close
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF
PERRY FEDERAL SAVINGS
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
PERRY, GEORGIA
March 31, 1960
ASSETS
First Mortgage Loans $5,289,873.45
Loans on Savings Accounts 118,846.74
Stock in FHLB 105,000.00
U. S. Government Bonds 300,000.00
Other Investment Securities Nil
Cash on Hand and in Banks 193,930.50
Office Building and Furniture Less Depreciation 50,241.30
Other Assets 528.75
TOTAL ASSETS $6,058,420.74
LIABILITIES
Savings Accounts $5,398,689.32
Advances from FHLB 50,000.00
Loans in Process 2,125.00
Other Liabilities 406.01
Deferred Credits 8,546.87
Reserves and Surplus 597^653.54
Specific Reserves 1 000 00
TOTAL LIABILITIES $6,058^420.74
GROWTH IN ASSETS
December 31, 1940 $ 110,159.50
December 31, 1945 278,998.29
December 31, 1950 948,430.77
December 31, 1955 2,696i086i39
December 31, 1958 4,840,800.93
December 31. 1959 5,981,909.85
March 31, 1960 6,058,420.74
OFFICERS DIRECTORS
S. A. Nunn, President S. A. Nunn
t «» rr „ »». „ ~ , /^-/rou« savingsG. F. Nunn
J. M. Tolleson, Vice President p|I»JM. L. Brown
J. S. Pierce, Jr., Acting II.• J c. E. Andrew
Secretary-Treasurer up to /£// Mayo Davis
Leonora E. Houser, Assistant Y'm"
Secretary-Treasurer J- M. Tolleson
down? It’s against the law to use
the public schools for private class
es. Where are you going to teach
your future doctor science? In
Farmer Jones’ barn? I’m just ask
ing you.
ABOUT THAT BUSINESS OF
SELLING IN THE SCHOOLS?
You’ve heard the pro’s and con’s
about the State Board of Educa
tion’s rule against selling things
in school. They want the kids to
study! Well, here’s what happened.
There was a lot of protest, includ
ing a resolution from the legisla
ture asking the Board to rescind
its motion. The Board appointed a
committee to study the whole
thing. Result: on Tuesday, March
22, the six members attending a
special Board meeting voted to
hold to their original ban but to
allow local boards to make excep
tions. The local board can approve
the sale of whatever it likes, but
each separate action it takes about
this must be taken at its regular
meeting, and put in the minutes
as official action. The principal
must follow these proceedings—or
have his state supplement with
held. Board members present and
voting to approve this decision
were these: Chairman Jim Peters,
Clarke Duncan, Paul Stone, Lonnie
Sweat, Mrs. Juluis Talmadge, and
Henry Stewart.
SILLY VALUES Doesn’t it
strike you as woefully stupid and
silly that America pays its big mon
ey to the Elvis Presleys and the
Lana Turners and keeps them in
swimming pools and Cadillacs,
while the best teachers we have
must trudge up and down the
| street selling books or work after
school at a filling station to eke
out a living? I know one fine
science teacher who has a second
job as janitor. Yet an Elvis Pres
ley—who mutters to music and
wiggles his hips—makes millions.
Unless we remedy this situation,
our nation will perish, my friends.
HOW TO MAKE BOWS AND
ARROWS—SchooI leader, viewing
DR. WILLIS L. WEBB
OPTOMETRIST
THOMAS L. WEBB
OPTICIAN
Announce the location of their new offices on North Macon
Street, next to the Coca-Cola Building
Practice includes contact lenses
Same Phone TAylor 5-2621
Fort Valley, Georgia
a world poised on the brink of to
tal destruction, was taking part in
a discussion about what the schools
should teach. Said he, “What we
should be teaching them is how to
make bows and arrows, find safe
drinking water, trap animals, catch
fish, plant corn, and shape weapons
out of stone. Unless we come to
our senses, that’s what humanity
will be doing in the next century—
at least the few that are left.”
YEAR ROUND EDUCATION—
There’s a mighty movement getting
under way across the nation to
have school and college all around
the calendar. The advocates say the
September starting is left over
from an old time when children
had to help gather the crops. With
40 million in school and 7 million
pressing against the college door,
they say we can’t afford to let the
buildings stand there idle three
months in the year.
SOMETHING WAS MISSING
Papa got tired of telling his little
first grade daughter bedtime stor
ies, so he bought her a little phon
ograph and some story records.
She played them four nights. On
the fifth night, she was back, bath
tubbed and night-gowned, with
story book in hand. “Honey, go get
your record player,” said Daddy.
“You know how to play it.” Baby
shook her head solemnly. “I can’t
sit in its lap,” she explained.
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