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VOL. 90 NO. 30 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1960 ESTABLISHED 1870
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PERRY GUARDSMEN AT FORT STEWART
Preparing to load ammunition onto a M4B tank are Georgia
National Guardsmen from Co. A, 3rd Medium Tank Battalion, 108th
Armor. Pictured, l-r, are Sgt. Stanley J. Luoma of Perry; Sps Henry
F. Arnold, Perry; SFC Loren D. Arnold, Ft. Valley; and PFC Julian
C. Hawkins of Ft. Valley. Some 9,000 troops from Georgia and Flor
ida are at Fort Stewart for two weeks annual manuevers July 17-3-.
with the 48th Armored Division.
Grand Jury Indicts Negro
In Cut-Throat Death Here
The Houston county superior
court grand jury Monday indicted
Sammie Lee Smith, 25-year-old Ne
gro, for the knife murder of Jerry
Cooper, 73-year-old Perry Negro,
here on July 10.
Sheriff C. C. Chapman and GBI
Agent C. D. Leverette testified be
fore the grand jury Monday and
the indictment was returned dur
ing the afternoon.
Cooper’s throat was cut some
time in the early morning hours of
Sunday, July 10, and he was left
to die in a pool of blood on the
floor of his house on Sunshine Al
ley. His body was found by a
neighbor about 16 hours later.
The indictment charges Smith,
alias Jessie James Smith, with in
flicting the wound “with a knife,
dirk, razor or other sharp instru
ment” and that he did “cut, stab
and wound” Cooper, “of which
wounds the said Jerry Cooper then
and there died.”
Trial In August
Trial of the case probably will
come up during the week of crim
inaal court here beginning Aug.
22,
The hard-working grand jury,
having ground out 109 indictments
in two days, went back to work
at 10 a. m. yesterday. It was ex
pected they would finish their
work Thursday.
Others indicted by the grand
jury, of which Hugh Lawson is
foreman, included:
Lloyd Vernon Kitchens and John
Thomas Kitchens, burbglary of the
place of J. F. Joyner and stealing
a dinette set valued at $l5O and
tables, lamps and settees valued at
$200; Maggie Lee Williams, larceny
from the house in the loss of
518.98 worth of merchandise from
Hose’s 5 and 10 Store in Warner
Robins.
Charlie Thomas Davis, drunk on
highway; Marvin Wilson, drunk on
highway; Fred Eugene Crapps,
speeding; Robert Robertson, driv
ing under influence; Ralph Howard
Ivester, driving without a valid
driver's license; Willie Lee Bell,
driving without a valid driver’s
license.
Other Indictments
Tom Fluellen, driving under in
fluence; Edwin Tracy Coffee, driv
ing under influence; Giles Denls
(,y> driving under influence; Pres
ton Wright, speeding and driving
under influence; Grady Talmadge
fuller, speeding; Lewis J. Perdue,
driving without a license and driv
ing under influence.
Lilly Ruth Powell, carrying con
cealed weapon and without license;
Marcus L. Schofield, driving un
der influence; Robert Gene Same,
driving under influence; Charles
foody, drunk on highway; Gordon
Johnston, carrying weapon without
a license; Fred Hortman, permit
iing another to drive under influ
uce; Royce Paul Snead, assault
a nd battery.
And the following for violating,
M prohibition laws; Lillian Haynes,!
! /ckial Watts Sr., Martha Gordon, I
' a *sy Mobley, Preston Porter, ]
Robert Haynes, Eddie Mae Burke,!
Mizie Meadows, George Meadows,
,( rry Granville, Johnnie Head Jr. j
James Clinton Howell, five
counts of obtaining money on fic
tions writing; Harold A. Harris,
'Mirthless check; Robert Chandler,
1111,0 larceny; James Gebaner,
urthless check; Benjamin Cal
':°un, three counts of forgery and
Bering forged instrument. Mrs.
Miner W. Smelley, two counts of
Worthless checks; Johnny T. Turn
cr, worthless check.
Jasper N. Dill, worthless check;
homas D. Poss, worthless check;
1 M. Johnson Jr. two counts of
worthless check; George Helms,
Houston Worn l 3) ourital
forgery and uttering a forged doc
ument; McNair Edge, largency
after trust; Jerry Granville, as
sault and battery; Duke Spires,
two counts of worthless check; Le
vone Farms, assount and battery;
Robert Veal Jr. and Eunice Jiles
Jr., burglary; Ed Haslam, assault
and battery and drunk at a private
residence; Jimmy Moore, assault
and battery; James A. Joyner, vio
lating prohibition law.
Worthless check charges were
brought against the following:
Fred Morgan, Pauline D, King,
Cosby West (12 counts), Bobby
Walters, Y. O. Knight, Donald L.
McCown, Mary A. Miller, Robert
J. Inman.
Arthur Lee Sanders, assault and
battery; Harris Sledge, Frank
Wright and Johnny Taylor, burg
lary; John Jackson, arson of his
own automobile; James R. Ivey
and Thomas Mashburn, worthless
checks; Arthur Lee Sanders, stab
bing of Viola Sanders.
Final Rites Held
For Mrs. Story
Funeral services for Mrs. Sadie
Wardlaw Story, 86, who died Fri
day at her home in Kathleen, were
held Saturday at Gardner Watson
Funeral Home in Perry. Rev. Les
ter Pritchett officiated, with burial
in the Bryan Cemetery in Kath
leen.
A member of the Houston Lake
Baptist Church, Mrs. Story was the
daughter of the late James Ward
lay and the late Kate Bryan Ward
law, and was the widow of the
late Dr. J. W. Story of Kathleen.
Survivors include one daughter,
Mrs. Mattie Woolfolk of Kathleen;
one son, James E. Story of Kath
leen; one grandson and one grand
daughter.
Pallbearers were Julian Fields,
B. J. Hunt Sr., Robert White, Mel
ton Davis, Bobby White and Scar
borough Watson.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr.
j J. L. Gallemore, Dr. A. G. Hend
l rick, Dr. H. E. Weems, Dr. Sam
Patton, Joe Beddingfield, Dave
Coley and Emmitt Akin.
Big Loan Granted
To Flint Electric
For Expansions
The Rural Electrification Ad
ministration has approved a sl,-
600,000 loan to the Flint Electric
Membership Corp., Reynolds, to
build 127 miles of lines and erect
a new headquarters in Reynolds,
Senator Herman Talmadge advised
The Home Journal.
The new lines will serve 2,200
j new customers in Houston, Peach,
j Crawford, Talbot, Dooly, Musco
gee, Taylor, Macon, Marion and
I Chattahoochee counties.
Floyd H. Tabor, of near Perry,
is the president of Flint Electric
j Membership Corp.
Revival Planned
At Houston Lake
A revival will be held at the
Houston Lake Baptist Church, be
ginning Sunday July 31 through
! Friday, August 5.
The Rev. Harold Moore of the
First Baptist Church in Warner
Robins will be guest speaker.
The church service will begin at
; 8 p. m. each night. Visitors are
, welcome.
Perry FFA Wins National Honor
Williams Studies
'Corrected Bill’
Os Commissioners
Houston county commissioners
Wednesday had not received pay
ment on a “corrected bill” they
sent to Charlie L. Williams, War
ner Robins real estate and insur
ance executive, for work done on
a subdivision at Warner Robins.
The commissioners had return
ed to Mr. Williams his check for
$19,000 because the bill on which
the check was paid included
charges for convict labor, which
is an illegal charge.
The commissioners then sent
Mr. Williams a bill for $15,000, a
figure reached by deducting the
convic labor charges.
R. H. Watson Jr., clerk of the
county commissioners, said yester
day Mr. Williams said he would
study the new bill to determine
whether it is legal for him to pay
it. He has contended all along that
he was ready to pay the bill any
, time he can be sure that it is legal
for him to pay it.
At the Hospitals
Morris C. Jacobs Jr. was admit
ted to the Parkview Hospital last
Wednesday.
Mrs. Ruth Seism was admitted
to the Macon Hospital Sunday.
Dismissed from the Macon Hos
pital Sunday was Mrs. Mae D.
Chapman.
Louis E. Davis was dismissed
’ Sunday from the Middle Georgia
, hospital.
j Mrs. W. C. Carlisle was dismiss
ed from the Middle Georgia hos
pital Monday.
Mrs. G. L. Hulsey was admitted
to the Macon Hospital Tuesday.
Mrs. W. C. Crisler was dismissed
from the Middle Georgia Hospital
Tuesday.
1 Mrs. Mary C. Akin, who has been
a patient at the Houston County
! Hospital, was dismissed and enter
-1 ed a nursing home in Macon.
1 Johnnie Bryant was a patient in
■ the Peach County Hospital Friday
where he underwent a tonsillect
! omy.
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James H. Richards was dismiss
ed from the Macon Hospital Tues
i day.
1 W. I. Harley is a patient in the
Macon Hospital where he under
went an operation Wednesday.
Mrs. Mac Chapman was dismiss
ed from the Macon Hospital Sun
day.
Louie Davis was dismissed from
the Middle Georgia Hospital in
i Macon Sunday.
Mrs. Raymond Stanford was dis
-1 missed from the Macon Hospital
last Thursday.
Mrs. H. A. Thompson was dis-1
missed from the Taylor Memorial
Hospital in Hawkinsville Wednes
day.
Mrs. Ruth Seism was admitted
to the Macon Hospital Sunday.
James C. Mitchell is a patient at
the Taylor Memorial Hospital in
Hawkinsville.
Jimmie Mitchell was dismissed
Wednesday from the Hawkinsville
Hospital where he underwent ma
jor surgery last week.
Mrs. B. B. Nall is a patient at
the Macon Hospital where she un
derwent an operation Monday.
INSIDE DOPE
There are many interesting
items on the inside pages of
The Home Journal this week.
You don’t want to miss them,
man. Items like:
What Happens to a City When
It Is By-Passed?
Newsy items from Houston
county communities.
Comings and goings as report
ed under the Personal Mention
columns.
Twelve pages of real enter
tainment!
Band Camp Dates
Now Aug. 22 to 27
The date for the camp for the
Perry School Band at Epworth
by-the-Sea has been changed to
Aug. 22-27, Band Director Hal
Middleton announced yesterday.
The original date was Aug. 15
but a conflict in the schedule de
veloped and the new date of
Aug. 22-27 was set this week.
Forty-two students, two chap
erones, Mrs. Gardner Watson
and Mrs. Stanley Smith, Director
Middleton, and the bus driver,
Mr. Estes, will make the trip,
leaving Monday, Aug. 22, and re
turning to Perry Saturday Aug.
27.
These Ga. Cities
Take Advantage
Os Housing Funds
Here is a list of Georgia cities
which have participated in Public
housing programs of the federal
government during fiscal year
1960;
Locality Units
Adairsville, Ga. 30
Americus, Ga. a 100
Buena Vista, Ga. 12
, Camilla, Ga .|. 50
Canton, Ga 66
Carrollton, Ga. 88
Columbus, Ga 100
Dublin, Ga t 150
Eastman, Ga. ...1 12
. East Point, Ga 150
Ellaville, Ga 20
Fayetteville, Ga', 14
Grantville, Ga. 20
Lawrencevlile, Qa 50
Leesburg, Ga .. 12
Lincolnton, Ga 30
Newnan, Ga i 45
, Reynolds, Ga 20
. Richland, Ga J 20
Ringgold, Ga. 30
Savannah, Ga 400
[ Sparta, Ga 24
Tallapoosa, Ga 35
Unadilla, Ga 22
[ Villa Rica, Ga 40
1
Total 1,540
This information was furnished
( by the Public Housing Administra
. tion through the office of Senator
Talmadge.
City to Leave Off
Meters on Square
Mayor and Council voted last
Thursday night to continue the
same parking meter arrangement
around the Courthouse Square and
to make parking free anywhere in !
the city on Saturday afternoons.
The city officials had considered
putting parking meters around
three sides of the courthouse to
relieve the parking situation, but
decided that since the post office
aand Perry Loan and Savings Bank
had moved out of the area, the
parking problem had been reliev
ed.
Parking meters will not be
checked after 12 noon on Satur
j days.
The city officials agreed to co
operate with Fort Valley and
| Hawkinsville in placing a sign at
the intersection of U. S. 341 and
Ga. 247, five miles south of Perry,
to urge tourists to come through
Perry and stay on U. S. 341 in
stead of turning north on Ga. 247
and going through Macon.
Hill and Adler, consultants in
the Planning and Zoning Program,
reported that aerial maps of the
city have been made as the first
i step in their study of needs here.
BIRTHS
Lt. and Mrs. Malcolm Gilchrist
McPhaul of Fort Campbell, Ky.,
announce the birth of a daughter,
Lillian Ariamanda, born on July
23 at P'ort Campbell Army Hos
pital. Mrs. McPhaul is the former
Sandra Dykes of Cochran.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hardy of
Colorado Springs, Colo, announce
the birth of a daughter, Brenda
Kay, on June 24 at the Air Force
base hospital. The grandparents,
Mrs. J. C. Hardy of Perry and Mr.
and Mrs. C. B. Lowery of Warner
Robins, are visiting the Hardys
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hardy visited
Mrs. H. A. Thompson in the
Taylor Memorial Hospital in Hawk
insville Mnoday night.
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L. to r.. Adviser H. A. Casey, Jerry Horton, Hearn Bennett, ,
Earl Cheek Jr. and Adviser E. H. Cheek. (Home Journal Staff
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Sure Sign That Fall Is Coming Soon:
St. John Getting Ready for Football
A sure sign of fall is Football
Coach Herb St. John preparing to
start drilling the 1960 edition of
the Perry High School Panthers.
The Panthers will start a full
week of two-a-day drills on Mon
day, Aug. 15, staying in the gym
-1 nasium and eating in the school
lunchroom. By having the boys 24
hours a day, Coach St. John can
give them an intensive program
' of football.
This year, for the first time in
! history, the Panthers will start the
football season before they start
| classes. They open the season here
■ on Sept. 2, against Vienna High
| School, and classes will not start 1
. until Sept. 6, the day after Labor
, Day.
I School originally was scheduled
, to start Aug. 29, but it was neces
-1 sary to delay the start of classes a
i week to give the contractors time
[ to finish four construction projects
in the Houston county school sys
i tern.
Coach St. John says he needs
some more strength at center,
tackle and end positions. If some
of the candidates come through at
those positions, he will have a
“pretty fair ball club,” said the
pessimistic coach.
1960 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Sept. 2, Vienna, here.
Sept. 9, Manchester, there.
Sept. 16, W. Robins, here.
Sept. 23, Wilkinson County, there
Sept. 30, Treutlen County, there
Oct. 7, Hawkinsville, here.
Oct. 14, Montgomery County,
here.
Oct. 21, Open.
Oct. 28, Vidalia, here.
Nov. 4, Forsyth, there.
Nov. 11, Lyons, there.
Houston Farmers
Vote 20-J Favoring
Wheat Crop Quotas
Houston county farmers voted in
favor of wheat marketing quotas
last week, 20 to 1, Manager Jack
Bradley of the county ASC office
announced yesterday.
Twenty-one farmers cast ballots 1
in this county.
The marketing quotas were ap-1
proved in the nationwide voting, j
FOREST FIRE PHONES
Day, Ga. 9-1921
Night, GA 9-2460 or GA 9-2022.
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PERRY'S TEAM IN CONNIE MACK LEAGUE
L. to r., Wilson Martin, Pete Hunt, Derrell Davis Lee Martin,
Tommy Baker, Ronnie Sanders, Ernest Martin, Alton Ellis, Lindy
Evans, Ronnie Davis and Jerry Flournoy. (Home Journal Photo by
Henry Gotten).
I
Subscription Drive
Deadline Saturday
The 40 yongsters who are out
selling subscriptions to The Home
Journal must turn in their records
by 12 o’clock noon Saturday, July
30.
They have sold several hundred
subscriptions since the campaign
began June 23, and they arc down
to the home stretch in their efforts
to win a bike or a watch.
A new subscription counts as
one credit. A RENEWAL subscrip
-1 tion, to count as a one credit,
must be for two years. A three
year renewal counts as two-credits.
I A two-year renewal is $5 and a
three-year renewal is $7.
It is expected that several will
qualify for bikes and watches at
the end of the campaign.
Miss McLester, 77,
Dies in Florida
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Miss Lula Hortense McLester,
77, former resident of Perry, died
Wednesday afternoon in West''
Palm Beach, Fla. at the home of • j
her brother, Lee McLester. I ]
Funeral services will be held at I j
4 p. m. Friday at the Perry Meth- «
odist Church, with burial in the j
Evergreen Cemetery here. Rev.
James B. Hutchinson, pastor, will
conduct the services. ]
Miss McLester moved from' *
Perry to West Palm Beach in! <
1958. She had been in declining !
health since that time.
In Perry she was a member of '
the Methodist Church, the Daugh- <
ters of the American Revolution, *
the United Daughters of the Con- !)
federacy, and the American Leg-j
ion Auxiliary. Before coming to ’
Perry, where she owned a home
on Main Street. She was employed '
for a number of years by Union
Dry Goods Co. and Davison-Paxon I
' in Macon. She was the daughter of <
1 the late Leonidas and Lula Per 1
! sons McLester of Perry. I
Gardner Watson Funeral Home (
is in charge of local arrangements. 1
I
Miss Ann Reed and Earle Smith i
Jr. of Atlanta were the weekend
| guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earle <
Smith Sr. i
1870-1960 '
-O UR 90TH YEAR
90 Years Old, But As Modern As
Tomorrow
Group Soon to Be
California Bound
Working together and helping
each other in their farm business
projects, 96 Future Farmer mem
bers of the Perry FFA Chapter at
Perry have won national honors
and a trip to the University of
California, Berkeley, August 7-10,
for their officers, and Advisors E.
H. Cheek and H. A. Casey, offered
by the American Institute of Co
operation.
In their dramatic report of co
operative business activities, the
boys told how they worked with
community farm groups in carry
ing out 110 projects; how their
members marketed over $20,000
worth of grain and other fram
products, and $14,147 worth of
swine and cattle; how the chap
ter and members bought $72,950
worth of feed, seed, fertilier, in
secticides, and insurance service;
and how the chapter members and
their families borrowed $543,355
for purchasing land, seed, feed,
fertilizer and livestock.
“The Perry boys are joint win
ners with three other FFA chap
ters in widely separated parts of
the country which competed for a
share of the $2,000 in expense
funds offered by the Institute to
FFA chapters reporting the most
outstanding programs of cooperat
ive business cativities,” J. K. Stern,
president of the Institute, said.
The A.I.C. is chartered as a uni
versity in the District of Columbia,
and is the educational and re
search agency for farm cooperative
business.
4 Chapters In Finals
Other winners, in the regions es
tablished by the U. S. Office of
Education, are Townville FFA
Chapter, Townville, Pa.; Mowrys
town FFA Chapter, Mowrystown,
Ohio; and Bear River FFA Chap
ter, Garland, Utah.
While hundreds of Chapters
competed throughout the Southern
Region, the Perry boys, who were
Georgia Champions, competed in
the finals with Jasper FFA Chap
ter, Jasper, Fla., and Muskogee
FFA Chapter, Muskogee, Okla.
The Perry boys and their advis
ors will join with some 1,000 other
rural youth and young farmers
from all over the country and sev
eral foreign nations in panel dis
cussions on farm business and
community problems, and on tours
to outstanding packing plans and
farms in the Golden Gate area.
' They will participate with adult
farm business and government
leaders in joint sessions on improv
ing marketing practices, and on in
creasing farm income through
more efficient distribution.
Cheek Jr. to Make Report
At a Youth Reports session on
Monday evening, August 8, Earl
Cheek Jr., chapter reporter, will
tell the audience of some 3,000
youth and adults what his chap
ter members did through Learn
by-Doing projects to earn the na
tional honors, an attractive plaque,
and the trip to the A.l.C.’s 32nd
annual conference.
In the thousand-word report
which the boys submitted to the
Institute, they described the fol
lowing typical activities:
All 96 FFA members visited the
four major types of business con
cerning farmers, participating in
82 tours and 237 hours of instruc
tion on farm business and coop
eratives covering all phases of
farm business. A junior coopera
tive was organized with an initial
membership of 52.
The Chapter organized a Safety
Council and carried out a com
plete safety program. It also ar
ranged and conducted 35 programs
for local civic groups. As shop
projects the FFA boys built over
50 items for churches in the com
munity. An estimated 10,000 peo
ple were reached through radio,
safety exhibits, club programs,
news articles and safety literature.
All of the boys belong to the
Cotton Producers Association, the
Perry Junior Farmers Cooperative
and the Rural Electric Membership
Association.”
Hearn Bennett has been selected
to serve as chairman of a youth
panel discussing What Coopera
tives Contribute to My Community,
a part of the conference to be at
tended by the Perry boys.
BONAIRE GIRL A WAVE
PATUXENT RIVER, Md.—Wave
Gloria M. Perkins, seaman ap
prentice, USN, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Perkins of
Bonaire, Ga., is serving at the
Naval Air Station, Patuxent River,
Md.