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VOL. 94 NO. 38
Schools Will Open
In Houston Monday
Bloch so Address
1,000 Committee'
Here Next Tuesday
Charles J. Bloch, veteran prom
inent attorney of Macon, will
speak to the “Committee of 1,000”
at the Capri Theatre here at 8
p. m. next Tuesday, Sept. 1.
All members of the group are
urged to attend this important
meeting.
Mr. Bloch was born in Baton
Rouge, La. in 1893. Subsequently,
his family moved to Macon, where
he has lived since April 9, 1901.
He attended public schools in Ma
con, Louisiana State University,
the University of Georgia ( A. B.
1913) and Mercer University. He
entered the practice of law in
1914 and has practiced law in Ma
con since that time. He is now the
senior member of Bloch, Hall,
Groover and Hawkins, successor
to the firm with which he started
49 years ago.
During the MacArthur hearings,
he was personal advisor to Sena
tor Russell. In 1957, 1959, 1962
and 1963, he appeared before both
the House and Senate Judiciary
Committee in opposition to the so
called Civil Rights Bills.
From January, 1950 until July
1957, he was a member of the
Board of Regents of the University
System of Georgia. For the last
months of his service on that
Board, he was chairman of its Edu
cation Committee. He was presi
dent of the Georgia Bar Associa
tion, 1944-1945, after having been
an officer of it since 1938 and a
member of its Board of Governors.
He was chairman of the Judicial
Council of the State of Georgia
School Bus Schedules
Announced (or Perry
Houston county school buses
will begin traveling practically all
roads in the county bright and ear
ly Monday morning, August 31.
Sixty-five buses were inspected
by the Georgia States Patrol on
Wednesday, August 26. All buses
have been put in top mechanical
condition and cleaned both inside
and out at the school bus garage
located in Perry and Warner Rob
ins.
George Riley Hunt, transporta
tion supervisor, estimates that
6.200 students will be transported
to county schools on Monday morn
ing by this fleet of buses.
School bus drivers were tested
this summer by the Mobile Test
tng Laboratory of the State De
partment of Education. This test
consists of detailed examination of
the driver’s reaction response and
visual acuity. In addition to this
all drivers have been examined by
their physician this month. Each
driver must pass rigid physical
snd mental requirements before
being qualified to drive a school
bus.
Good Safety Record
The Houston County School
transportation Program has been
recognized by the State Depart
®en* of Education as among the
est in the state. The School Bus
. et -y Record for Houston county
Is outstanding and has resulted in
a t-eat savings to the taxpayer
n re duced insurance premiums
and operating cost.
t > - , aren ts are reminded to caution
f r children, when it is necessary
01 them to cross the street to
oard or get off the bus, to cross
m front of the bus.
* ans for Perry school bus
ro. tPS • are ann °unced here. It is
cognized by school officials that
* JU e a djustments will have to be
' to best serve the students.
;se changes will be made as
r 011 as Possible. School officials
( iuest the patience of the stu
‘ L and parents in working out
f Problems that may arise.
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CHARLES J. BLOCH
from its creation in 1946 until
1957. He is chairman of the Rules
Committee of the Supreme Court
of Georgia and has been so since
its creation in 1946.
He was chairman of the Ameri
can Bar Association Committee on
Individual Rights as Affected by
National Security, 1962-63, and a
member of its Committee on Juris
prudence and Law Reform. He was
a member of the Federal Judiciary
Committee of the American Bar
Association representing the Fifth
Circuit, 1957-1960. He is editor of
the Georgia Bar Journal and au
thor of “States Rights, The Law
of the Land.” He was a delegate
from Georgia to the Democratic
National Conventions of 1932,
1944, 1948, 1952 and 1960. In June
of 1959 he was awarded the honor
ary degree of Doctor of Jurispru
dence by Suffolk University, Bos
ton, Massachusetts. He has re
ceived awards of merit and ser
vice from the University of Geor
gia Law School Association and
the Alumni Society of the Univer
sity of Georgia.
School transportation service
will operate under a new set of
State Department of Education re
gulations for the first time this
year. These regulations require
strict adherence to rules regula
ting bus stops; routing and other
operating procedures. Failure to
operate in accordance with these
regulations could result in with
drawal of state operating funds
for pupil transportation services.
The school transportation program
will be surveyed by state officials
during the school year.
Students living within one and
one-half miles of the school they
attend by the nearest practical
bus route are not eligible for
transportation by the school bus.
Students eligible for bus trans
portation are reminded to ride
their assigned bus only. Students
changing from one bus to another
for their own convenience could
possibly lose their school transpor
tation privileges.
On Monday morning students
being transported on the first trip
are requested to be ready for the
school bus not later than 7:15 a.
m. Students riding the second trip
should be ready for the school bus
at 7:45 a. m.
After the first week of opera
tion all school buses will run on
schedule and reach the student’s
bus stops at approximately the
same time each morning.
Perry white school buses will
serve the same residential areas
as last year with the following
exceptions:
Bus 28 driven by G. W. Hicks
will continue serving the Houston
Lake Road, Farm Estates and Lake
Joy Road area same as last year.
In addition to this Bus 28 will
transport 1-6 grade students from
the Holly Hills Subdivision to
Tucker Elementary School. The
bus will enter Holly Hills from
Highway 41 and travel Greenwood
Drive and make a right turn onto
Springdale Avenue and back to
(Cont’d Back Page, Sec. 1)
The Houston Home Journal
13,000 Students
Expected to Enroll
During This Year
All Houston county public
schools will open next Monday
morning with an expected enroll
ment of about 13,000 students, an
increase of between 600 and 700
over last year, County Supt. David
A. Perdue said yesterday.
The four white schools in Perry
will have an enrollment of about
2,025 students, divided as follows:
high schoool, 625; junior high, 317;
Tucker elementray, 465, and ele
mentary, 518.
Two colored schools in Perry—
Houston County Training School
at New Hope Elementary will
have a total of about 1,000, while
Southside School at Elko and the
new King’s Chapel School will
have about 500 each.
White schools will open at
8:30 a. m. and close at 3:15 p. m.
and colored schools will open at
8:45 a. m. and close at 3:30 p. m.
The new hours comply with the
new requirements of the state
that students must be in school
for 6 hours a day, exclusive of
recess and lunch periods. Last
year they were in school for 5 Vi
hours.
Warner Robins schools, white
and colored, will have about 8,000
students enrolled.
The four Perry white schools
will have 79 teachers, and the four
colored schools in this area will
have about the same number.
Grammar School
Students attending the Perry
Grammar School will be unable to
find out their homeroom class as
signment prior to the opening day
of school due to the fact that re
gistration will run through Thurs
day afternoon and all teachers will
be attending meetings in Warner
Robins on Friday and Saturday.
Names of students will be post
ed on the doors of all classrooms
and each student may check these
lists to locate his homeroom class.
Students who fail to register at
the pre-registration held yesterday
and today will be able to register
Monday morning after all lunch
reports and other details are taken
care of. Late registration will be
handled through the office.
All students are reminded that
they must wear conventional clo
thing to school. This consists of re
gular dresses for girls and long
pants for boys.
Mothers bringing students to
school or picking them up after
school are urged to wear conven
tional clothing when it is neces
sary to come into the building.
Classes begin at 8:30 a. m. Mon
day. Town students are reminded
that they will not be allowed to
enter the building before 8:15
a. m.
Integration Tried
At Local Motels /
Brick Hits Window
Three efforts to integrate three
Perry motels last weekend were
made by Negroes but they were
unsuccessful. A brick was thrown
through a big glass plate window
at the Heart of Perry Motel Sun
day night.
Police Chief J. B. Hawkins said
these were the only activities in
the integration problem.
Motels reported to have been
contacted by Negroes to ask for
rooms were the Heart of Perry
Motel, Bel Aire Motel and Colonial
Motel.
D. K. (Dot) Roughton offered a
SSOO reward for information lead
ing to the arrest of those who
threw a brick into his motel office
at the Heart of Perry. The brick
was found in the motel office on
Monday morning and no witnesses
saw who threw the brick to which
was attached a note addressed to
Mr. Roughton.
Hilt Gray and Buck Whiddon
are spending several days in Jack
sonville, Fla., and Sparks.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUG. 27, 1964
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Architect's Sketch of Houston Halls . Layout Shown on Inside Page
Football Season
To Open Sepl. 4
On Perry's Grid
With the first football game of
the season only eight days away,
you’re probably beginning to con
tract that age-old ‘football fever’.
In fact, if you’ve watched any of
the Panther training sessions, you
probably already have it!
Enthusiasm runs high in the
Perry training camp, and desire is
ever present. Always-tough Haw
kinsville will be going all out to
knock off Perry, but if Coach Herb
St. John’s charges have anything
to say about it, the game will be
all-Perry.
The Red Devils, who will be
trying for the top spot in Region
2-B, will have their season opener
on their home turf tomorrow night
against Bainbridge. The Bearcats,
out of Region 1-AA, posted a 5-5
record last year, but are consider
ably stronger than the record
might indicate.
The Hawkinsville lineup boasts
six men who weigh in at 200
pounds or better. Captains Jack
Yancey, a 204 pound center; Jo
seph Dana, a 200 pound tackle;
and Johnny Holland, a 220 pound
tackle will be starters for sure.
In the backfield, the Red Devils
average a solid 160 pounds. In the
line, they’ll average about 198
pounds. Any way you cut it, that’s
a lot of beef!
Comments from Head Coach
Herb St. John included praise for
the outstanding defensive work of
such people as Mark Volk, Jimmy
Hardy and Bobby Arrington, while
Sonny Livingston and Issac Davis
were strong offensively.
As a whole, football camp was
very successful, Coach St. John
said, but some sort of virus hit
practically the entire team on the
last day of camp and the after
noon session was cancelled.
Between now and September 4,
the team will be concentrating on
building up its strength and sharp
ening its timing.
Offense to be put to use by the
’64 Panthers include the slot, the
T and the pro-set. Combine this
with the all new two-platoon sys
tem, and you have an entirely dif
ferent brand of ball to be played
before the hometown fans this
coming season!
Golf Tournament
The Club Championship tourna
ment of the Perry Country Club
will be held on Sunday and Mon
day, Sept. 6 and 7, it was announ
ced yesterday.
The championship flight will be
divided into A and B divisions.
Fees for the championship flight
will be $4 and fees for the remain
ing flights will be $3. Pairings will
be based handicaps on file at the
club.
50-Bed Skilled-Care Nursing Home
To Be Built Here by 5 Businessmen
Five businessmen this week an
nounced plans for building here
a 50-bed skilled-care home for the
elderly. The proposed date for
opening is April 15, 1965.
The 18,500 - square - foot brick
building will be erected on five
acres in Bon Acres, subdivision off
U. S. 41 South just behind the
Frank Bonner place.
The owners will be Herbert F.
Moore, Dr. H. E. Weems Jr., Jack
Beavers, Malcolm Reese, all of
Perry, and Dan L. Grant of Atlan
ta, former Perry resident.
The home will be called “Hous
Sewage Treatment Plant
Costing Million Planned
The City of Perry has applied
for a federal grant of $295,700 to
build a sewage treatment plant
that will cost a total of $995,000,
Mayor Richard B. Ray announced
yesterday.
The city’s share of $700,000
would be financed by an increase
in the sanitation fees applied to
every water meter in the city. The
sanitation fee, which is figured on
the basis of the amount of water
used, would be increased by about
$3 a month, or $35 a year, per
meter.
Mayor Ray said the city had
promised the State Health Depart
ment back in 1947 that it would
build a sewage disposal plant, but
had added many subdivisions since
that time and added raw sewerage
to Big Indian Creek, until a seri
ous health condition exists.
To Sell Revenue Bonds
The city will sell water and
sewer revenue bonds to finance
the city’s share of the program,
and repayment would be spread
over a long period of years. Two
sites near the city are being con
sidered, the mayor said.
The “interceptor sewers” would
be designed for the next 40 to 50
years and the treatment plant
would be sufficient for normal
growth for the next several years,
the application says. Perry will
have a population of 10,400 by
1980, according to population ex
perts, and the proposed plant will
be large enough to handle a popu
lation of between 10,000 and
12,000, Mayor Ray said.
The city estimates that it has a
population of 7,400 now and has
2,200 water users served by the
city’s water system.
Health Problem
“While the majority of the city
is sewered,” the engineers said,
“there is no treatment provided,
all sewage being discharged raw
into Big Indian Creek at four lo
cations. Due to the slight fall in
the elevation of the bed of Big
Indian Creek, the flow in the
stream is slow. During periods of
hot weather, this creates an odor
and health problem that is becom
ton Halls.”
It has been approved by the
State Fire Commissioner, the State
Health Department and the State
Department of Family and Chil
dren Services. It will have central
heating and air-conditioning.
There will be eight private rooms
and 21 semi-private rooms for resi
dents, a dining room, kitchen,
three dayrooms and two sunporch
es, and other service rooms.
It is expected to furnish em
ployment to 10 or 12 people.
Earth-moving operations have
already started and laying of foun
dations will begin soon.
ing more acute with the rapid
growth of the city.
“With the implementation of
this project, the city proposes to
complete its sewage system
throughout the city. At present
one area of fine homes has been
provided with a lateral sewer sys
tem but no residence has been
connected to the system as yet
since the city desires to be able
to provide treatment rather than
discharge additional waste into
Big Indian Creek.”
Construction cost continue to
rise and the city officials have de
cided that this program must be
undertaken because it can’t be
avoided and costs will continue to
rise.
The city seeks an “immediate”
grant to begin work.
An Atlanta bonding company
has submitted a statement saying
it is prepared to purchase the
bonds from the city.
Mayor and Council contracted
with Milton Beckham to build
three traffic islands at the inter
section of Houston Lake Drive,
(Cont’d Back Page, Sec. 1)
Conlract Let to Thomasville Firm
To Erect Security Federal Buiding
A contract for the construction
of a new home office building for
Security Federal Savings and Loan
Association has been awarded to
H & H Construction Company of
Thomasville, Georgia.
The Georgian Colonial building
will be located at the corner of
Main and Washington Streets in
Perry and is to be completed with
in 280 consecutive working days.
The Building Committee of Se
curity Federal is made up of G. F.
Nunn, chairman, Mayo Davis, A.
Lawton Pearson, W. K. Whipple,
and Malcolm Reese.
Appropriate groundbreaking ce
remonies will be held at 11:00
a. m., Monday, August 31, 1964 at
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ASC Committee
Votes Tabulated
, Results of the August 21 elec
■ tion of ASC community commit
teemen for the communities of
Houston county were announced
today by J. A. Davis Jr., chairman
Agricultural Stabilization and Con
servation County Committee.
The election was held by mall
and ballots were tabulated public
ly at the Houston ASCS County
Office August 24.
Farmers elected to the commit
tee(s) include—
District A—(Upper and Lower
sth) —J. M. Johnson, Byron, chair
man, R. Harry Dumas, vice chair
man, A. A. White Jr,, member,
Otis Gunn, Ist alternate and W. E,
Vinson Jr., 2nd alternate.
District B—(Upper and Lower
11th) —H. C. Talton Jr,, chairman,
C. E. Sasser, vice chairman, Mar
[vin Gentry, member, A. W. White
Jr., Ist alternate and Ned David
son, 2nd alternate.
District C—(Upper and Lower
Town and 10th) —W. W. Gray Jr.,
chairman, Z. T. Houser, vice chair
man, W. C. Langston, member,
Richard A. Johnson, Ist alternate
and James C. Johnson, 2nd alter
nate.
District D—(l2th and Old 13th)
—A. E. Harris, chairman, Harold
Cook, vice chairman, J. D. Abrams,
member, E. E. Loggins, Ist alter
nate and H. T. Dunlap, 2nd alter
nate.
District E—(New 13th and 14th)
—F. W. Langston Jr., chairman,
Henry Andel, vice chairman, C. T.
Kersey, member, R. L. Davis, Ist
alternate and Calvin Andel, 2nd
alternate.
The ASC community committee
chairman, vice chairman, and re
gular member automatically be
come the delegates, alternate del
egate and second alternate del
gate, respectively, to the county
(Cont’d Back Page, See. 1)
the building site.
The building has been designed
by Norris and Associates, Archi
tects of Atlanta. In making the an
nouncement, Malcolm Reese, exe
cutive vice president, said that the
Building Committee and the archi
tects had worked closely together
for a number of months to devel
op this building. It has been de
signed to handle the ever-growing
needs of a growing middle Geor
gia.
Other directors and officers of
Security Federal Savings and Loan
Association include Marion L.
Brown, president, C. E. Andrew,
Albert Pratt, E. M. Whiting and
Henry Mathews.