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VOL. 94 NO. 39
A Seven-Foot Perry 'Gator
This seven foot, one inch 'gator was spotted crossing the
road near Perry and was done in by an unidentified service sta
tion attendant. This one is probably the largest ever seen in this
part of the state. (Home Journal Photo).
Houston County Schools
Enroll 12,489 Students
Houston county public schools
opened Monday with an enroll
ment of 12,498 students, which was
383 more than enrolled the first
day of school in September, 1963,
it was announced by the office of
County Supt. David A. Perdue.
The enrollment was divided as
follows: white 9,553, and colored
2,945.
The enrollment by schools in
Perry was:
Perry High School 592
Perry Junior High 328
Perry Elementary 580
Tucker Elementary 427
Total, white, Perry 1,927
Enrollment in the colored schools
of the county was:
Houston Co. Training 815
New Hope Elementary 367
Southside (Elko) 339
King’s Chapel 327
Pearl Stephens (WR) 1,097
Total, colored, county 2,945
In Warner Robins, Northside
High and Warner Robins Senior
High have 980 and 1,193 respec
tively. All the elementary white
schools in Warner Robins have a
total of 5,269 students.
The Bonaire white school has
284 students.
The federal government oper
ates a school on Robins Air Force
Base.
County Supt. issued the follow
ing statement on the opening of
the county’s schools:
Perdue’s Statement
“The 1964-65 School year for
all Houston County Schools began
on Monday August 31, with 12,471
students enrolled. There were ap
proximately 540 teachers in the
classrooms ready to begin classes
when the students arrived on Mon
day. These teachers had spent a
week of pre-planning and in-ser
vice training preparing for the
new year during the week of Au
gust 24-29.
' Through the splendid efforts of
the principals, teachers and other
school personnel, along with the
wonderful cooperation of parents
and students the beginning of the
new school year has been one of
the best ever experienced in Hous
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ton county.
“We would like to express our
appreciation to all parents and
students for their fine spirit of
cooperation in helping to make
this beginning of the 1964-65
school year a pleasant one.
TUCKER SCHOOL
HUNTING FANS
The Tucker Elementary School
PTA put out an emergency call
this week for some fans to relieve
the situation in Perry’s newest
elementary school.
Mrs. Chesley Cawthon said they
will appreciate fans—either win
dow fans that can be placed on a
table, or pedestal fans, or large-size
table fans—on a lend or donation
basis.
“The gnats are about to eat up
the children and the temperature
is very high,” said Mrs. Cawthon.
If you can help out the Tucker
school, call Mrs. Cawthon at 429-
1027, and she will pick up the
fans.
Security Federal
Begins Building
Groundbreaking ceremonies for i
the new 10,000-square-foot home of
Security Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Perry took place
last Monday morning for the new
two-story brick structure.
Rev. J. M. Teresi, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Perry,
gave the invocation. Malcolm
Reese, executive vice president of
the association, took charge of the
proceedings. He introduced Fran
cis Nunn and M. L. Brown, who
made short talks on the progress
being enjoyed by the association
and then turned the first spades of
earth.
The Houston Home Journal
Perry Will Close
For Labor Day
School students are not the
only ones who will get a holiday
Monday Labor Day —for all
stores and institutions in Perry
will be closed for the annual hol
iday.
City and county offices, banks
and stores will be closed ail day
as the country honors the work
ing man.
CHAMBER NAMES
SIX DIRECTORS
Six directors were elected by
members of the Perry Chamber of
Commerce, it was announced after
tabulation of the mail ballots last
Friday.
Elected were Billy Bledsoe, Nor
man Parker Jr., Ogden Persons,
Jack Ragland, Mell Tolleson and
Gardner Watson.
Directors whose terms expired
at the end of August were Milton
Beckham, Joe Beddingfield, Mal
colm Reese, Vernon Tuggle, Wen
dell Whipple and Arthur Adams.
The new directors will meet
soon and elect officers for the
new year.
Accidents Increase
In City of Perry
The heavy traffic pouring off
Interstate 75 into Perry, the nor
thern terminus of 1-75, has in
creased the accident rate in Per
ry’s city limits, Assistant Police
Chief B. E. Dennard said yester
day.
Up through Aug. 30, Perry has
had 123 accidents, as compared
with 97 accidents at the same time
last year, police records show.
While accidents were increasing,
fires decreased. Up to Aug. 30 this
year, city firemen had answered
39 calls, while last year they an
swered 62 fire calls up to Aug. 30.
Beall and Boland
To Become Eagles
At Honor Court
Tommy Beall, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Beall, and Carl Boland,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Boland,
will receive their Eagle Scout
badges in a Boy Scout Court of
Honor ceremony at the Perry Pres
byterian Church at 8 p. m. Sunday,
Sept. 6.
Both young men are members
! of Explorer Post 96.
While a Scout and Explorer,
Beall has attended the National
Scout Jamboree in Colorado, Phil
mont Scout Ranch in New Mexico,
and has served as a couselor at
Camp Benjamin Hawkins for the
past two summers. He is now
serving as president of Explorer
Post 96. He will be a freshman at
the University of Georgia this fall.
Scout Boland has held various
offices of leadership in Scout
Troop 96 and Post 96. He spent
the past summer working on a
ranch in New Mexico and is now
a member of the Junior Class at
Perry High School.
ADVERTISING GETS RESULTS
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1964
Old Time Rival Hawkinsville
Faces Panthers Here Friday
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The 1964 Perry High Football Panthers
First row, left to right; Ed Pierce, Issac Davis, Gary Maggard, Mark Volk, Ricky Lawson, Bob
Cater, Carl Boland, Jimmy Rainey, Robert Chamlee, Skeet Hulbert, Dick Gayle and Steve Thomp
son. Second row, left to right: Spencer Gunn, Sonny Livingston, Lee St. John, Larry Ellison, Ronnie
Greene, David Walker, Leon Watson, Ashlev Whitehurst, Jack Smith, Jerry Thompson, Rodney Lock
erman, Curtis Riner and Jerry Johnson. Third row, left to right: Mike Vance, Jimmy Hardy, Edgar
Barfield, Don Ganas, Jimmy Coleman, John McNeill, Draper Watson, Joe Norman. David Overton,
Eugene Graham, Edward Morton and Marion Cloud.
About 8,000 Houston County Voters
Expected to Go to Polls Wednesday
Nearly 13,000 Houston county
voters will have the opportunity
next Wednesday to cast their bal
lots for Third District congress
man, the state senator from the
18th District and other unopposed
county and state officers.
About 8,000 are expected to go
to the polls to choose between six
candidates for congress and two
candidates for the state senate
post.
Running for congress are
Charles R. Adams of Fort Valley,
Garland T. Byrd of Reynolds, Erie
Cocke Jr. of Columbus, Robert L.
Newby of Vienna, Stephen Pace
Jr. of Americus and Ed Wohlwen
der Jr. of Americus and Colum
bus.
For the state senate job, includ
ing Houston, Peach, Twiggs and
Crawford counties, Senator Stan
ley Smith is seeking re-election
and is challenged by Dreyfus
Fountain of Warner Robins. Smith
is a former mayor of Perry.
Unopposed candidates for of
fices having jurisdiction in Hous
ton county are Judge Hal Bell of
the Superior Courts of the Macon
Judicial Circuit, and Solicitor Gen
eral Jack Gautier of the smae cir
cuit.
RAGLAND NAMED
KIWANIS HEAD
The Perry Kiwanis Club Tues
day elected Jack Ragland as presi
dent and a slate of officers for the
the new year beginning Jan. 1. Mr.
Ragland succeeds Dr. J. R. Arnall.
Other officers elected were Paul
Armitage, vice president; Williams
Jerles, secretary, and Ed Beckham
11, treasurer. Directors elected
were Herbert Moore, Sam Nunn
Jr., Hugh Lawson and Bobby Tug
gle.
Dr. C. E. Graham was chairman
of the nominating committee.
EVENING HOURS CHANGED '
AT FIRST BAPTIST
Evening worship hours of the
First Baptist Church have been set
up a half hour, effective Sept. 6.
Training Union will be held at
6:30 p. m. and evening worship
hours will be held at 7:30 p. m.
Hours for other night services will
be changed for the fall and winter
as usual.
Mrs. L. F. Cater and Mrs. J. L.
Beavers will leave Friday to spend
a few days at Elder Hotel at
Indian Springs.
Paul Stalnaker and David C.
Peterson, incumbent representa
tives of Houston county, were
nominated in the county primary
back in March and are unopposed
in the state primary next week.
The Home Journal will not have
the results of the primary in next
week’s paper because publication
cannot be held a full day to com
pile the results. Its advertisers re-
Parking Meters Ticking
Again on Perry Streets
Perry’s parking meters were
back in use again last Friday after
a 60-day trial period and city coun
cil voted to put the parking meter
problem on the next election bal
lot in December.
Mrs. Clara Dykes, Perry Beauty
Shop, presented a petition of 46
names requesting parking meters
to be put into use again after a
60-day trial period was ordered by
the city. The trial ended Aug. 27
and the meters were being check
ed again Friday morning. The vote
in city council was unanimous.
Councilman D. K. Roughton
moved that the parking meter is
sue be voted on at the next elec
tion when councilmen are elected
in December. The motion was se
conded by Alton Hardy. Roughton,
Hardy, T, R. Tolleson and Ray
mond Gornto voted for the motion
and Dan Britton abstained.
Sam A. Nunn Jr., attorney for
Corner Grocery and Bob Massee, |
read a letter requesting that the I
Corner Grocery beer license be |
continued until Jan. 1, 1965. A mo- 1
tion by Dan Britton against the
extension of the beer license to
Jan. I was passed by a unanimous
vote. Another motion was passed
giving Corner Grocery 60 days
from Aug. 27 to sell out its stock
of beer.
Rainey Named Judge
Alton Rainey was appointed as
city recorder’s judge for the re
mainder of the year, succeeding
Paul Armitage, who resigned.
The city agreed to assume one
third of the cost of paving the
street which circles the new Tuck
er Elementary School in Perry,
with property owners paying the
other two-thirds.
City council voted to place the
quire that their ads appear on
Thursday and the paper must be
printed Wednesday afternoon for
distribution T h u r s d ay morning.
The full results will be carried in
the following issue on Sept. 17.
Other state officials to be elect
ed include public service commis
sioners, three justices of the state
supreme court and two judges of
the state court of appeals.
gas revenue fund in the new First
National Bank effective Sept. 1.
Requests for juke box permits
at Collins Washerette and Eddie
Solomon’s Case for the next year
were denied.
Bank balances reported includ
ed: general fund $23,478; gas rev
enue fund $24,426, and water rev
enue fund $5,353. Bills payable
amounted to about SIO,OOO,
Jaycees lo Sponsor 'Safety Break'
Here on Friday and Monday Nights
The Perry Jaycettes were the
special guests of the Perry Jay- (
cees at their regular bi-monthly
meeting held last Monday night
at the New Perry Hotel,
Jaycee President Ronnie Stanley
praised the Jaycettes for their suc
cessful endeavors thus far this
year and extended thanks to them
from the entire Jaycee member
ship for their invaluable help in
numerous projects, particularly
the upcoming Bloodmobile visit,
scheduled for September 16.
The Jaycees voted to sponsor the
twice-a-year visits of the Bloodmo
bile with the help of the Jaycettes.
Jack Ragland, chairman of the
upcoming Labor Day weekend
Safety Break, gave a final summa
tion on what would be expected
of each member.
The Safety Break, to be con
ducted this Friday and Monday
nights, is an annual Jaycee project
aimed at reducing the number of
highway accidents and deaths
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OUR 94TH YEAR
1870- 1 9 6 4
ESTABLISHED 1870
I Perry Will Miss
Many Graduates
From 1963 Squad
BY FRANK HAGUE
Tomorrow night you’ll be able
to get your first look at the ’64
Panthers in action as Perry plays
host to the Red Devils of Hawkins
villo on the home field.
If you want to sit down, I sug
gest you make plans to come
EARLY! As is always the case
when Perry plays Hawkinsville, a
capacity crowd will be on hand.
The Red Devils played their
season opener last Friday night
at home and came out on the short
end of a 26-6 score against 1-AA
Bainbridge. The score is no indi
cation of the Devils’ strength, how
ever, since the Bearcats definitely
outclassed the hard fighting Dev
ils.
Hawkinsville’s offense probably
will be a hard hitting aerial at
tack, with sophomore quarterback
Rodney Collins at the helm. Col
lins, a 160 pounder, showed deadly
accuracy against the Bearcats, but
the outstanding pass defense dis
played by Bainbridge proved to be
the Red Devils undoing, as pass
after pass was intercepted.
Tackle a Powerhouse
Johnny Holland, co-captain and
220-pound tackle, will be a defin
ite defensive threat. The five-foot
ten inch powerhouse displayed
rugged aggressiveness throughout
last Friday night’s encounter. All
in all, the entire defensive line for
the Devils will offer quite a chal
lenge for the Panther offense.
Coach Herb St. John’s boys have
showed steady improvement and
the names of Isaac Davis, Sonny
Livingston and Edgar Barfield will
probably be heard many times by
the visitors from Hawkinsville.
Offensively, here’s how the Pan
thers will start: quarterback, Ed
gar Barfield; halfback, Sonny Liv
ingston; halfback, Tom Clark or
Bobby Arrington; fullback, Isaac
Davis; center, David Overton;
guard, David Walker; guard, Leon
Watson or Ricky Lawson; tackles,
Draper Watson and Joe Norman;
ends, Marion Cloud and John Mc-
Neill. The Panthers will average
156 pounds in the bacfield and 172
pounds in the line, as compared
to Hawkinsville’s 160 in the back
field and 198 in the line.
Under the new two platoon sys
tem being initiated this year, there
will be a separate defensive team.
The defensive starting lineup
looks like this: Ed Pierce, Tom
Clark or Bobby Arrington, Dick
Gayle, Bob Cater, Jimmy Coleman,
Robert Chamlee, Jimmy Rainey,
Gary Maggard, Eugene Graham,
Jimmy Hardy and Mark Volk.
Their average weight rounds out to
164 pounds, with the bulk of the
weight where it ought to be—in
the center of the line.
SCORES OF INTEREST
Americus 21 Cochran 0
Bainbridge 26 Hawkinsville 6
which occur on Georgia highways
during this long weekend holiday.
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RONNIE STANLEY