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91 14 ~~ PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1961 ESTABLISHED 1870
Centerville Vote
Scheduled Nov. 7/
Two Men Unopposed
Only two men qualified for city
council in the Centerville City
Election to be held next Tuesday
Nov. 7.
James S. Mason and Hollis D.
Molton are the two candidates to
be elected.
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PANTHER INTERFERENCE LEADS THE WAY FOR RONNIE DAVIS AGAIN
Mike Jacobs (22) Up Front, Leo Perfect (84) at Side of Panther Halfback
Ponfhers Face Forsyth Here Tomorrow
In Homecoming Game; Vidalia Defeated
Houston Grand Jury Indicts Collins
On Murder Charge in Wheeler Death
A Crawford county man who
formerly lived at Henderson was
indicted by a Houston superior
court grand jury Monday on a
charge of murdering Grady Wheel
er with a revolver near Hender
son Oct. 19.
W. D. Collins, the grand jury
indictment said, “did unlawfully
with force and arms, feloniously
and with malice aforethought” as
sault Wheeler.
The shooting apparently result
ed from an argument between the
two men about a bond which
Wheeler had signed in behalf of
Collins, a former house-to-house
salesman.
Collins, in an unsworn state
ment to a coroner’s jury, said he
shot Wheeler when the man ad
vanced on him and reached to
ward his pocket. Collins waited at
the scene of the shooting until
Sheriff C. C. Chapman arrived and
turned over his revolver to him.
Collins has been in the Hous
ton county jail since the shooting.
Others Indicted
Others indicted by the grand
jury this week included Buddy
McElmore, assault with intent to
murder W. 0. McCard by running
over McCard with his auto; Bar
bara Brown, assault with intent to
murder and carrying a concealed
weapon without a license; Sam
mie Lee Walker, driving under
the influence;
Thomas W. Horton, larceny af
ter trust; Coolidge Jackson, bad
check; William D. Wills, bad
check; B. C. Waters, bad check, !
two counts; John H. Lawrence,
two counts of cheating and swind
ling; Emmett B. Smith, cheating
and swindling; Robert G. Blizzard,
bad check; Audrey Barron, bad
check, two counts;
Hay St. John, bad check; Alon-,
10 0. Spinks, obtaining money
upon fictitious writing; Carrie
Wimberly, arson; Charlie Lee Wil
liams, carrying concealed weapon
without a license; Ralph L. Sher
rell, burglary; Sammie Lee Bry
ant, violating prohibition law; Sam
Bryant, shooting at another;
Albert Caldwell, no drivers li
cense; Henry Burton Shiver, dri
ving under influence; Katie Chris
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RONNIE DAVIS CHARGES VIDALIA DEFENDER
ferry Halfback Goes for Good Yardage in Third Quarter
tine Maddox, misdemeanor; Jim
my D. Emmett, cheating and
swindling, two counts; Edward
Marks, abandonment of illegiti
mate minor child; James Plez,
larceny from house.
James 0. Thomas, bad check,
two counts; Doyle Ivester, assault
with intent to murder Clyde Fel
ker with soft drink bottle; Venzie
Beasley, misdemeanor, building
septic tank without permit; Wal
ter Douglas Whiting, driving un
der influence and hit and run;
Ellen Horn, larceny from house;
Lillian Taylor, assault and battery;
Douglas King, violating employ
ment security law, two counts;
John Sumner, assault and battery;
Wayne Bush, shooting at another,
two counts;
Johnny F. Pittman, Robert N.
McGlamary, Jimmy Lee Walker,
Willie B. Simmons, Leroy Wal
lace, Edward Jackson, Jim Hen
ry Maine, abandonment of minor
children; Jim Jackson, assault
with intent to murder; Eddie Mims
Jr., cruelty to animals.
Five no-true bills were returned
by the grand jurors as they ad
journed Tuesday afternoon.
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Perry Co. Moves
In New Addition
.
The Perry Company, makers of J
quality bedding ensembles, has
moved into its new offices and
production space in the addition to
the building of Georgia Decor,
Inc.
Although the building is not <
quite completed and equipped, the J
office force of The Perry Com- ,
pany has moved into its new quar- \
\ ters.
Martin Austin, president of The j
Perry Company, said full produc- 1
tion is expected in two or three t
weeks. 1
The addition to the building >
contains about 17,000 square feet (
of space. The original building 1
was about 46,000 square feet, ma
king a grand total of 63,000 <
square feet now in the building.
Invest in Your Future -- Join The Perry Chamber of Commerce
“We would hate to be the only
team that Forsyth has beaten this
year,” Coach Herb St. John said
yesterday in commenting on the
Homecoming game with Mary
Persons High of Forsyth here Fri
day night.
“We think we can beat them
and in view of their record, we
should take them,” St. John said.
“But we never count them until
they write the score in the record
books.”
Forsyth is rebuilding this year
after having strong ball clubs du
ring the last two years, St. John
said.
It’s Perry’s Homecoming and
the athletes usually get pretty
heated up about winning for the
Alma Mater on this big night.
The students have asked for
permission to have a bon-fire but
because of the extremely danger
ous fire conditions due to the
drouth, the fire chief was going
to wait a little before giving his
permission.
The Perry High Panthers set up
' a 4-4 record for the season by de
feating the Vidalia Indians in the
! South Georgia city last Friday
night, 27 to 6.
The Panthers gained 128 yards
|on pass plays from Quarterback
Dozier Hasty to Bobby Goodman,
and Fullback Alton Ellis went ov- i
er the goal line on short runs to
score three touchdowns, in be
tween, Halfbacks Ronnie Davis
and Mike Jacobs put the ball in
scoring position with some nice
I runs.
Perry got its first touchdown
in the second period in a 62-yard
drive, with Ellis going over from
the 1-yard line. The feature of
this march was a 34-yard pass
play from Hasty to Goodman. I
Perry had only a 7-0 margin at 1
the half.
The Panthers of Coach Herb
St. John got their second touch-!,
down in the third period on a 66
yard pass play from Hasty to
Goodman. (
Vidalia came back after receiv
ing the kickoff and returning it
to the 46-yard line. After moving
the ball on the ground to the
Perry 45, Vidalia Quarterback
Allen Rive connected with End
Charles Collins in the end zone
for a touchdown.
Taking possession of the ball
on the Indian 43-yard line, the
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Merchants Reject Plan
To Improve Downtown
Chamber Groups
Get Busy for Year
The standing committees of the
Perry Chamber of Commerce arc
beginning to become active on new
projects. 1
Malcolm Reese, chairman of 1
projects and public relations, held
a meeting of his committee Tues- '
day night.
Vernon Tuggle, chairman of the
Merchants Committee, has called
a meeting of his committee for !
the Legion Hall at 3 p. m. today.
Mrs. Gladys Culpepper, chair- !
man of the civic affairs, committee
held a meeting of her group last !
week.
The committees are developing 1
a Program of Work for the year. (
Mr. Reese’s committee decided J
Tuesday night to take on the fol
lowing jobs for the year:
Publish monthly news bulletin (
on chamber activities;
Bring Perry’s Labor Survey up
to date;
Conduct Membership Campaign;
Conduct Tourism Clinics;
Contact new businesses coming
into town; and
Coordinate projects of commit
tees asking for assistance.
The chamber this week wel
comes the following newcomers to
the city: 1
Arthur Calhoun, Perry Court.
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Haley, 1
1322 Smoak Ave.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Eason, \
1410 Elizaoeth Ave.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Nelson, 1412
Elizabeth Ave.
Mrs. W. P. Griffin, 605 Pine
Ridge. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gayle, Godfrey '
Place. 1
Mr. and Mrs. V*. W. McDonald,
Perry Court.
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CORRECTION (
In the list of newcomers to Per- ]
ry printed in The Home Journal i
last week the name of Mrs. New- ;
ton L. Allen 925 Forrest Avenue,
was included. The line should ]
have read, “Mr. and Mrs. Newton j
L. Allen,” at that address. \
Student, Suspended for Not Having
Conventional Haircut, Goes to Court
A Perry High School senior yes
terday asked Houston superior
court to require the County Board
of Education to readmit him to
school after he was suspended be
cause he did not have a “conven
tional haircut.”
Stanley Sorrells, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter C. Sorrells, Lake
Joy Road, through his father seeks
an injunction against Perry Prin
cipal E. P. Staples, County Supt.
David Perdue and Board Chairman
L. C. Walker.
Judge W. D. Aultman set Nov.
17 as the date for hearing of the
request for injunction.
The petition says the hoy was
suspended from school Oct. 27 for
“the manner in which his hair is
! combed.” It further states that
the boy presented himself at the
school on Monday, Oct. 30, “in a
j neat and presentable manner”
and was again refused admittance
for the same reason.
The petition, filed by Attorney
John P. Nixon of Warner Robins,
says the action of Mr. Staples is
1 “arbitrary” and “illegal” and that
Sorrells “will suffer irreparable
injuries should the court fail to
enjoin the defendants” from car
rying out their action.
“I have no comment to make
other than to say that after check
j ing with other schools and after
considering the morale of the
school, we decided to require all
boys to wear conventional hair
cuts and tuck in their shirt tails,”
Mr. Staples said.
Mr. Perdue and Mr. Walker
said they did not have any com
| ment. They said the next meeting
of the county board is scheduled
for Nov. 14 and they have no
plans for calling a meeting any
I earlier to consider the haircut
shirttail situation.
Mr. Staples said he contacted
Albany High School, Butler High
46 Days Without
Rain, This Area
Like Tinder Box
During the month of October
the Houston-Pulaski County Fores- 1
try Unit fought seven forest fires
which destroyed 28.95 acres of the
county’s woodlands, and 20 grass
fires.
Debris burning and recreational
activities were the main causes of
these fires.
As everyone knows, this area
has already gone through a period
of about 46 days without rain. This
has caused an extreme fire dan
ger situation.
Since fall is the hunting season,
there are more people than usual
in the woods. Forest fires become
more numerous because of the
careless hunter who fails to crush
out his smoke or drown his camp
fires.
Not only hunters are asked to be
extremely careful, but everyone ,
who is in or around the county’s
forests.
Griggs Concrete
Products Is Sold
To Grant of Macon
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Griggs Concrete Products Co.,
Inc., has been sold to J. 0. Grant
of Macon, who has become pre
sident of the company, headquar
tered at 7651 Hawkinsville Road,
Macon.
Harry F. Griggs, H. A. Aultman
and Mrs. Mary Lee Griggs of Per
ry sold all their interest in the
concrete block plant, effective
Sept. 14. The amount involved was
about $300,000.
Mr. Griggs will devote all time
to the building construction busi
nes.
Mr. Grant is also president of
Grant Construction Co., Inc., City
Builders Supply Co., Grabt-Mar
shall Reaty Co. and Grant Insur
ance Co., Macon.
The sale of the Griggs Com
pany involves all real estate and
plants in Houston and Bibb coun
ties.
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School and Dudley Hughes High
School and found that they have
had a similar ruling for some
i time.
The county board ruled two or
three years ago that girls must
wear conventional street clothes,
which it said did not include
shorts, bermuda shorts, slacks or
pedal pushers.
Reports that the schools had
ruled that girls must not wear
red skirts and must not wear
sweaters outside their skirts are i
not true, the school officials said. <
Houston County FB ,
Wins State Award 1
The Houston County Farm Bu- L
reau was one of 25 Georgia coun- J c
ty FB units to receive plaques 1
from the state organization for J;
outstanding programs of activities *
on the local level. a
It was the first year that the
Houston County Chapter has won \ 1
a plaque. c
FB President Harry L. Brown r
made the presentation to Ralph 1
Tabor, president of the Houston 0
chapter. v
The awards to the winning s
! counties were based on an eight-
[joint program including (1) or- 0
ganization structure and proce- v
dure, (2) membership acquisition
and maintenance, (3) resolutions £
process, (4) Farm Bureau policy
implementation, (5) information- v
public relations, (6j commodity a
activities, (7) service to member
programs, and (8) solving county
problems.
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DR. BELL ATTENDS r
OPTOIVIETRIC MEETING h
Dr. L. W. Bell of Perry was c
among those registered for the 7th S
annual Georgia Optometric Educa- a
tional Conference at the Center fo r n
Continuing Education, University f
of Georgia, at Athens last week. c
Vote 16-0 Against Renewal Plans;
No Suggestions Come from Meeting
Property owners in Perry’s
downtown section voted 16 to 0
last Thursday to reject a proposal
for revitalizing the downtown sec
tion under urban renewal and in
dicated they much preferred “to
let nature take its course.”
C. E. Andrew, president of Per
ry Loan and Savings Bank, made
a motion that the proposed plan
“is impractical and that this group
vote to reject it.” The motion was
seconded by Freeman Cabcro, beer
parlor operator and owner of sev
eral downtown stores.
When the vote was called, 16
downtown property owners and
tenants voted to reject the plan
and no one of the total crowd of
about 30 voted against the motion.
Stanley E. Smith Jr., chairman
of the Perry Planning Commission,
said (hat the proposal was not be
ing presented as the “only” plan
for improving the downtown but
was “a” plan that was suggested
as a guide for future develop
ment.
Mr. Smith asked for reactions of
the group and either Mr. Smith or
Bill Hibbard, representative of
Hill and Adley, planning consul
tants, attempted to answer the
questions.
Question on Rents
Julian Cawthon, Perry Super
Foods, asked if rents would be
increased on buildings as a re
sult of the renewal of the down
town. Mr. Hibbard said it would
depend on values of adjacent pro
perty in the area.
Mrs. Ruby C. Hodges, property
owner, asked: “Is the property
owner going to have to spend an
untold sum of money to improve
his property?” Mr. Smith said ur
ban renewal does not provide for
requiring any property owner to
do anything to his property as
long as it is not sub standard.
Louis Harper, Edwards-Harper
Co., asked: “Where are we going
to get the money to do all this?”
The answer was that the federal
government provides 75 per cent
| and the city 25 per cent. Mr. Har
per said he did not believe the
city could provide its share with
out going up on taxes.
Pat Cartledge, property owner,
said it is practically impossible to
get a loan from the Small Busi
ness Administration to start a new
business or expand a business.
Let Property Owner Alone
Mr, Cabero said “Let the proper
ty owner do what he wants to do
with his property.”
Mrs. Hodges said she is strongly
opposed to closing of Carroll
Street and making a shopping mall
there; that she is for anything
that improves the town but does
not think closing of Carroll Street
! would improve it.
Mrs. Clyde Gurr said: “I think
it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve
ever heard of.”
Mayor, Councilmen Absent
Mr. Andrew asked how the city
council feels about the proposal,
that not a one of them was present
at the meeting. Mr. Smith said
city council has not taken a posi
tion for or against the plan and
that Mayor Beckham had advised
him that he had to be out of town
and could not attend the meeting.
Mr. Cartledge said it seems that
property owners would be losing
control of their property if urban
renewal were instituted, and that
the cost to a business of being out
of operation for an extended time
would be prohibitive. Mr. Smith
said urban renewal provided only
for relocation of a business in an
other area and that the maximum
would be $3,000.
Mrs. Hodges said it seems to her
that all the downtown needs is to
“improve what we have and pro
vide more parking facilities, which
are needed only on Fridays and
Saturdays.”
Fears Future Councils
Mr. Andrew said the present city
council might handle the urban
renewal properly, but “we might
have a city council that didn’t
care and we have had some.” Mr.
Smith said that after the plan is
approved by the planning com
mission, the city council and the
federal government, then no
changes could be made in it by
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future councils.
It was at this stage of the meet
ing that the motion was made and
carried that the plan be rejected.
W. A. (Pete) Whitehurst, mem
ber of the planning commission,
then asked Mr. Andrew what
would he suggest for improving
the downtown, to which Mr. An
drew replied, “I don’t know.”
1 C. E. McLendon, automobile
; dealer and property owner, said
“Let the individual property own
• ers make the improvements.”
, Complaints Received
J. M. Gooden, secretary of the
| Chamber of Commerce and a mem
. ber of the planning commission,
said the chamber office receives
' many complaints about the down
town section from prospective
’ customers.
x “It looked like a good idea to
t me to have an outside body to look
1 at our town impartially and make
. recommendations,” Mr. Gooden
said. “It seems that there is a
feeling that whenever the planning
commission meets that we are
working against you. I would hate
to see all these suggestions and
recommendations laid aside; I’d
hate to see the whole thing knock
ed in the head.”
Mr. Smith tried to get an ex
pression from the group whether
they thought it was feasible to get
together on a face-lifting program
downtown, with interior improve
-1 ments, too, with property owners
having the work done without gov
ernment help.
' “You can slap the public in the
' face every day but they are the
1 ones that support your stores or
5 support out-of-town stores,’ Mr.
■ Smith said.
Good Idea to Study
> Mr. Andrew said he thinks it is
! a good idea to study the idea of a
face-lifting. Mr. Gooden said he
’ thought the improvement of down
-1 town, with more merchandise in
the stores, would head off the
possibility of a shopping center
being built here.
Mrs. Allen Tabor, housewife,
said that the young people are
not worried about the outside or
the inside of the stores but about
the variety of the merchandise;
that so many things they need is
not available in Perry.
Perry Needs More Stores
Mrs. Gladys Culpepper, The
Vanity Shop, said Perry needs
more stores to offer more variety
of merchandise to shoppers; that
more stores would bring more
shoppers downtown.
Paschal Muse, property owner,
said “We ought to look at our
selves and give it some good, hon
est thought; Perry needs a face
lifting and more variety of mer
chandise.”
W. E. Beckham, Gulf dealer and
property owner, said “I don’t want
to see this whole program ditch
ed. Let’s don’t let it stop here.”
Mr. Andrew said he thinks it is
a good idea “to keep working” for
improvement of the downtown
section.
Keep Drawing, Reese Says
Malcolm Reese, secretary of
Perry Federal Savings and Loan
Association, said city planning is
like having an architect draw
plans for a house—keep drawing
until you find the plan you want.
He said many improvements in re
cent weeks in the downtown sec
tion have come about because of
the attention that has been focus
ed on it by the planning studies
already made.
Yates Green, owner of the New
Perry Hotel, said he was concern
ed about the rerouting of traffic
on U. S. 41 along Commerce
Street southbound and on Main
Street northbound. Mr. Hibbard
said when Interstate 75 is comple
ted, U. S. 41 will be “shot” as far
as carrying anything but local
traffic is concerned.
"Meeting Cleared the Air"
Stanley Smith, chairman of
the City Planning Commission,
said his group is undaunted by
the rejection of the plan.
“We did not expect this full,
far-reaching program to be ap
proved but a lot of the items
in it are sound and deserve ser
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