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FIRST BULK LOAD OF CEMENT RECEIVED HERE
Tolleson Supply Co., Inc., received its first bulk load of Penn-
Dixie (>ment Corp.’s cement last Thursday. Schwerman Trucking
Co. of Clinchfleld unloaded 47,600 pounds of cement in 30 minutes
nto this new bin erected by Tolleson. The cement is blown in the
bin through that pipe you see on the side of the bin. The blower is
powered by the truck motor. Handling time is cut more than one-half.
(Home Journal Photo).
Perry Plant to Be Merged
With 17 Other Companies
The planned merger into one
company of 17 manufacturing con
cerns with combined annual sales
of 80 million dollars was announ
ced Tuesday by Maurice Perlstein,
president of McComb Manufactur
ing Company, McComb, Miss., and
Georgia Decor, Inc., of Perry.
The merger is expected to be
completed before the end of the
year, Mr. Perlstein said.
The new concern, incorporated
in the state of Delaware, has been
named Kellwood Co. Perlstein has
been elected president of the new
company and the chief executive
officers of the participating com
panies will serve on the board of
directors. Its headquarters will be
in Chicago.
The companies involved in the
merger plan are firms engaged in
the manufacturing of various non
competing lines of wearing ap
parel and specialty items. The
wide range of products involved
include: Men’s, women’s, boys’ and
infants’ apparel; bedspreads and
mattress pads, tents, tarpaulins
Panthers Lose to Manchester Blue Devils, 19-0;
Face High Riding Demons in Robins Friday Night
The Perry High School Panthers
ran into a tough Blue Devil team
from Manchester here Friday
night and limped off the field on
the short end of a 19-0 score.
The few chances the Panthers
had were lost by fumbles or bad
judgment.
But Manchester, conceded to be
one of the best in Region 4-B, just
had a better ball club and was
“up” for the game—the first a
Manchester team has ever won
from Perry in five games.
Perry was “down,” partly be
cause four of their starters still
were out of the game due to
injuries.
Devils Start Strong
Manchester scored in just nine
plays from the opening kickoff. It
took only four minutes to engineer
the first touchdown.
The Blue Devils came out after
the half and recovered a Perry
fumble on the second play of the
half, losing the ball on the Perry
25-yard line. In six plays they
were in the end zone and their
point-after kick was good.
Manchester kept the Panthers
with their backs to their own goal,
using two quick kicks which fell
dead on the 4-yard and the 7-yard
lines.
The Panthers lost two scoring
opportunities in the third and
fourth quarters. After a 42-yard
pass play from Quarterback Do- 1
zier Hasty to End Bobby Goodman,!
a Perry back fumbled on the
Manchester 16-yard line, and the
drive was ended.
Down to 8-Yard Line
In the fourth quarter, the Pan- 1
hers got down to the Manchester
8-yard line but could move no
further.
Fullback Thomas Wallace of
•Manchester, 190 pounds of power,
vas the outstanding player on the
Meld, gaining 114 yards .on his
own.
The Manchester quarterback,
Donnie Henderson, picked up 80
J’ ar ds for himself.
Alton Ellis, Perry fullback, had
yards to lead his team’s yard
a?e figures, while Halfback Ron
nie Davis had 59. Davis and Cen-
Houston f]omt journal
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and sleeping bags. All of the firms
have been long time suppliers of
private label goods to Sears, Roe
buck and Company.
Products Diversification
Mr. Perlstein, who has been in
the manufacturing business for
the past 23 years, and president of
McComb Mfg. Co., for the past 13
years, describes the merger of
the 17 companies as a “significant
step by these firms to gain ad
vantages from products diversifi
cation.”
In this connection, Mr. Perlstein
said:
“The consolidated management
is planning to provide financial
engineering and design service to
the various plants which will here
after function as divisions. All of
these divisions will continue their
normal operations in their present
plant locations.”
The 17 companies participating
in the merger plan are:
Ahoskie Mfg. Co., Ahoskie, N.
C.; Albert of Arizona, Inc., Mesa,
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ter David Lawson were defensive
standouts, although Lawson lost
his contact lens from one eye and
was not up to par.
In frist downs, Perry had 11,
while Manchester had only two
more, but the Panthers couldn’t
get it over the goal. The Panthers
gained 84 yards on passes, com
pleting four out of 10 throws. Man
chester intercepted one Panther
heave.
Warner Robins Friday
Unless Perry can be running at
full speed by Friday night, it will
be a long night for them when
they meet the Warner Robins De
mons, conquerors of the Lanier
High School Poets in Macon last
Friday, 13-7.
The Demons may be on the up
swing Friday night and they might
be suffering from a case of over
confidence. The Panthers hope the
i latter possibility comes true.
The Lanier game was the first
Warner Robins had won in their
last 16 battles, although they had
three ties in that span. Last year,
Perry and Warner Robins tied at
6-6 here.
This year’s game will be played
in Warner Robins and their fans
are so steamed up after the Lan
ier victory they are expected to
turn out in force. Extra seats have
been added this year at the Rob
ins stadium and you can expect
everyone of them to be filled with
Perry and Warner Robins fans in
the annual battle for “the cham
pionship of Houston county.” Per
ry is in Class B and Warner Rob
'ins in Class AAA.
Other football scores in games
involving Perry opponents or in
nearby cities included:
Warner Robins 13, Lanier 7;
Cuthbert 27, Vienna 0; Treutlen
County 27, Metter 0; Hawkinsville
25, Dodge County 0; Claxton 46,
Vidalia 0; Jones 16, Wilkinson
County 0; Morgan County 50, For
syth 0.
Mrs. L. F. Cater left today for
a two weeks visit with Dr. and
Mrs. T. B. Christian in Jackson
ville, Fla.
More Interstate
Contracts Slated
For County Oct. 6
Contracts for building the new
Interstate Highway 75 from Perry
to Byron, a distance of nine miles,
will be awarded by the State High
way Department Oct. 6, the de
partment announced yesterday.
The contract for building six
bridges on the section of Inter
state 75 also will be awarded at
this time.
Awarding these contracts will
mean that all of the new super
highway in Houston county will be
let to contract or under construc
tion.
The State Highway Department
is obtaining rights of way on this
section which begins .4 of a mile
inside the north city limits of
Perry. Some property owners are
1 accepting the offers of the state
while others indicate they will go
to court in an effort to get more
for their property.
Part of the new nine-mile
stretch to be built north of Perry
will be in Peach county. Houston
will have about 16 miles in its
borders—from the Dooly county
line to the Peach county line.
Construction of the stretch be
tween Perry and Unadilla is ex
pected to begin in a few days.
Hugh Steele Construction Co. has j
the contract.
Mrs. M. R. Bowling
Dies Unexpectedly
Mrs. M. R. Bowling, 83, died un
expectedly Monday night at the
Peach County Hospital.
A native of Burke county, she
was a member of the Louisville
Baptist Church.
Survivors include one daughter,
Mrs. R. L. Roper, Perry; one son,
Mark Bowling, Mobile, Ala.; and
five grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at
11:30 a. m. Wednesday at the
Gardner Watson Funeral Home,
with Rev. James M. Teresi and
Rev. Grady Summer officiating.
Burial was in Woodlawn Ceme
tery here.
Pallbearers were Marion Greene,
Will Adkins, Jack Miller Jr., Jack
Miller Sr., Terry Griffin and Ted
Ursrey.
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FULLBACK ELLIS ON MOVE FOR PERRY PANTHERS
No. 22 Advances 8 Yards, but Manchester Won, 19-0 }
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Ronnie Davis, No. 40, center man of the three white-clad Pan- 1
thers, rolls up good yardage against Manchester here Friday night.
Other Perryans are Dozier Hasty, No. 10, and Alton Ellis, No. 32. 1
(HJ Photos by Henry Gotten). a
Mass Meeting Tonight
On CD Fallout Shelters
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PART OF CROWD OF BUSINESSMEN AT CHAMBER MEETING
Businessmen Urged to Unite to Moke
Interstate 75 Pay Off (or Perryans
More than 150 business and pro
fessional men, meeting as guests
of the Perry Chamber of Com
merce Tuesday night, were told
that Interstate Highway 75 de
finitely will have a serious im
pact on Perry and whether it is
“for better or for worse” will de
pend on the city’s business lead
ers. ..V
The concensus of the speakers
and the listeners was that Perry
stands to gain tremendously by
the coming of the Interstate and
will grow to a city of 10,000 by
1975.
Most cities the size of Perry do
not have the good fortune to get
two interchanges from the Inter
state Highway, Harry Adley, the
city’s planning consultant, said.
Mr. Adley said the interstate
will “change our way of doing
business, it will change the way we
try to get industry and will change
the traveling habits of the tour
ist.”
26,000 Cars a Day
“This is not just a bigger high
way, not just more of the same
highways that we have; this is a
different kind of critter,” Mr. Ad
ley said. “This is not an isolated
section of road, it is a part of a
tremendous system of highways
that will bring 26,000 cars a day
by Perry between 80,000 and
90,000 people a day. That’s a mess'
I of people.”
He said industry will look with
favor on Perry because the two
interchanges will give it ready ac
cess to the interstate, and trans
portation facilities are becoming
more important all the time.
“Interstate 75 certainly can be
a bonus, depending on how you
use it,” Mr. Adley said. “We can
compete effectively with other
cities only if we sell what we
have.”
He suggested free golf, tours of
residential sections, a nice trailer
park, planting of trees on entran
ces to the city, and colorful bro-;
chures advertising the advantages
of Perry from both the tourist
and industrial angles.
Businessmen Give Views
Wendell Whipple, who was the
moderator for the program, called
on three businessmen to give their
views on what they think the com
ing of the interstate will do for
Perry.
C. E. Andrew, president of Per
ry Loan and Savings Bank, said
the interstate “can be of great
benefit to the city if we rise to
the occasion.” He suggested that
Perry should capitalize on its good
reputation as a tourist town by
erecting many attractive signs in
prominent locations north and
south of the city. These signs
should begin as far as 50 miles
away, he said.
Glenn Van Fossen, Leonard Real
ty Company, said the realtors of
Perry expect that the coming of
Interstate 75 will mean that pro
perty values will go up by as
much as 25 per cent. He said the
usage of Perry property will be
better and more varied, that the
supply will be reduced and the
demand greater. He said local
realtors are receiving many in
quiries as a result of the location
of Interstate 75 at Perry.
Industrial Park a “IVlust”
Bill Nall, plant superintendent
of Penn-Dixie Cement Corp., said
access to transportation has be
come a basic requirement of all
industries and that he believes an
“industrial park’ near 1-75 is a
“must” for the proper develop
ment of Perry’s industrial poten
tial.
Mr. Whipple said the tourist
business “is one of our greatest
assets” and the chamber is an
xious to coordinate the efforts of
local businessmen to make it pay
off better than ever. He said the
tourist places now furnish em
ployment to more than 150 people
directly and indirectly benefit
many others.
“We have checked north and
south in Georgia on the proposed
route and we know that from the
Florida line to Atlanta (leaving
out the unknown quantity of Grif
fin) that we have the best posi
tion in regard to city and Inter
state approach and exit,” Mr.
Whipple said.
He said that industry once fol
lowed the railroads but now it is
following the Interstate route all
over the country. There was a
time when lack of a railroad was
|!a handicap to Perry, but that day
is past, he said.
He believes many people who
work in Macon will want to live
in Perry, only 20 minutes away
by 1-75, “people who do not like
to live in a big city, but near one.”
Work Together
“The directors of the Chamber (
of Commerce arc appealing to you
to work together and to work ■
with us to make Perry an even
better town than it already is,” i
Mr. Whipple said. “We want to i
set up a program that will work <
for you, and we hope that you .
will help us to make it work.”
J. M. Gooden, secretary-manager
of the chamber, reported on the
many projects on which the cham
ber worked with others, includ
ing a labor survey and industrial
survey, bringing of the bedspread ,
plant to Perry, the location of the ,
pine tree nursery in the county, j
the fat cattle shows in coopera
tion with the Farm Bureau, Myr- j
tie Airfield, Highway signs, <
Christmas decorations, two busi
ness clinics, clean-up and beautifi- £
cation in cooperation with the i
Perry Garden Club, efforts to get
telephones in the Sandbed and t
Henderson areas, efforts to get the (
new Perry post office, lists of s
newcomers furnished to merchants t
and tours for the newcomers, city t
maps and many brochures and oth- t
er literature advertising Perry. j
He said the chamber of com- p
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Bloodmobile to Be He
(overage Hinges on
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will il
visit Perry Sept. 29 in an effort
to obtain 125 pints of blood so ii
Houston county can continue to c
receive “blanket coverage” for all f
of its residents. a
If Houston county fails to meet o
its quota, blood will be made avail- o
able at no cost only to those who b
have donated blood, Red Cross h
officials said. Each donor will re
ceive a credit card which entitles c
only him and members of his im- g
mediate family to receive Red /
Cross blood for the next six £
months. The plan will go into es- r
1 feet when the county fails to meet
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OUR 9IST YEAR
Effort to Be Made
To Correct Many
Misconceptions
A public meeting to distribute
accurate information about fall
out shelters and their construc
tion will be held at the Houston
county courthouse at 7:30 p. m.
today, Civil Defense Director H.
E. Evans announced yesterday.
“We want as many people as
possible to come to this meeting
and learn the true facts about civ
il defense and survival,” Mr, Ev
ans said. “There seems to be con
siderable misconception about
shelters and how we can best pro
tect ourselves and we want to
answer all questions that the pub
lic has. There has been a tremen
dous amount of interest in fallout
shelters in recent weeks, and we
want to help those who are inter
ested.”
Mr. Evans also announced that
a demonstration fallout shelter
will be constructed on City of
Perry property near the water
tank on Macon Street in the next
few days. It will be a double-wall,
concrete block shelter with a re
inforced concrete roof. It will also
serve as Civil Defense Headquar
ters and literature will be avail
able there.
The shelter will be equipped
completed with the items approved
by the Office of Emergency Plan
ning.
Shelters lax Exempt
The Mayor and Council of the
City of Perry met Saturday to ap
prove plans for the fallout shelter.
The City said every builder of a
shelter must obtain a permit but
i no fee will be charged for the
permit. The shelter will not be
subjected to property taxes, as
far as the city is concerned. The
reason for requiring builders to
obtain a permit is to have a re
cord of shelter space available.
The city officials authorized Mr.
Evans to go ahead with building
of the shelter and to make him
self available for planning shel
ters for residents of Perry.
Financing Available
Mr. Evans said that financing of
the shelters should be easy to ob
tain. Most of the companies who
building shelters have their own
financing plan and the govern
ment will lend up to $3,500 under
FHA for construction of shelters.
Shelters may be built above
ground, below ground level, or in
basements, Mr. Evans said, but
specifications on each will differ.
There are only two large base
ments in the city which might be
used for public shelters and they
would have to be converted, he
said. They are the basements at
the county courthouse and the
Perry Methodist Church.
Working With Schools
Mr. Evans said he is working
with the schools at present to de
velop a plan for getting the chil
dren to their homes in case of an
attack. It is obvious, he said, that
families are going to try to get
together and that CD officials
realize that they must work to ac
complish this.
It would be economically impos
sible to build shelters for such
large groups at the schools.
“Civil Defense leaders do not
expect to save everyone in the
event of an attack,” Mr. Evans
said. “They now talk about trying
to save as large a percentage of
the people as possible. So it be
hooves everybody who wants to be
in that percentage saved to try to
provide the best possible protec
tion for themselves and families."
ere September 29;
Meeting Quota <
its quota.
If Houston county does meet
its quota, each resident of the
county is automatically covered
for Red Cross blood, regardless of
amount and regardless of whether
or not he has given blood, not
only in Houston county hospitals
but in any hospital in the U. S.
having a Red Cross agreement.
Tommy Alexander is county
chairman of the Bloodmobile pro
gram in the county. Mrs. Martin
Austin is Perry chairman and Roy
Sasser and Charlie Hill are War
ner Robins chairmen.
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