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Coxwell Shows Mysterious Piston Rod
Coxwell is a forester with Tolleson Lumber Com
pany of Perry. (Home Journal Photo).
I Think I’ll Never See
A Tree With Piston Rod
"I’ve seen a lot of things in
my lime, but this is one of the
strangest things I’ve come a
cross,” Jerry Coxwell, Tolleson
Lumber Company forrester said.
He was talking about a piston
rod from a Model T Ford that
was found in the center of a big
hardwood tree at Tolleson's mil!
here last week
"They were running the tree
through the mill when the saw
hit something in the middle of
the tree that caused it to grind
and slow down. One of the men
went over and found this piston
rod buried in the tree,” Coxwed
said.
He said the rod was not im
mediately identified, but al.er
checking around the mill with
several of the old-timers, it was
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Lt. Gov. Smith Urges
Constructive Criticism
Lt. Gov. George T. Smith told
Perry Kiwanians Tuesday that
Georgians can serve their gov
ernment best by offering con
structive criticism, leaving off
trivial matters and getting invol
ved personally in their govern
ments at every level.
The stale official said he was
disappointed that only 53 per cent
of the eligible voters cast their
voles in the last general elec
tion.
Vour’ve got to stand up and
be counted to get involved and
keep the kind of government that
you and I love,” Lt. Gov. Smith
said. “We need to be able to
tell the difference between the
trivial and the important mat
ters.”
He said he got more letters
about a silly statement he made
about mini-skirts than he did
about all of the many important
issues such as mental health pri
son reform, efficiency and oth
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Speaking to Perry Kiwanis Club Tuesday
decided that it was definitely a
piston rod from an early 1900
Model T.
Coxwell said he look a reading
on the4ree and found that it was
about 50 years old. He said the
rod must have been placed on a
limb or hung up on the tree
around 40 years ago and that
the tree just grew around the
rod.
“As if that wasn’t enough to
be strange, the thing that go;
me was when we took the rod
out of the middle of the tree,
some oil ran out of one end of
it. Tliat was oil that had been in
the rod all these years and
hadn’t dried up,” Coxwell said.
He said the tree was cut from
a stand of timber near Kathleen
Many citizens fail to under
stand governmental p r o b 1 e ms
and refuse to make any extra
effort to find out the full facts
about an issue before criticizing
all public officials, he said. Con
structive criticism is welcomed
by public officials, who need all
the information they can get
about solving the many problems
that beset the slate, he added.
State Senator Stanley Smith
introduced the lieutenant govern
or as a public official of honoi
and integrity.
Cancer Meeting
Scheduled Today
The Perry Unit of the Ameri
can Cancer Society will meet at
the Security Federal Building at ■
7:30 p. m. today to plan the
work for another year.
The Houston Home Journal
I PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. 31069, THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1967 , NO. 38
PERRY CHAMBER
KEEPS GROWING
The Perry Chamber of Com
merce has grown from 89 mem
bers in 1955 to 208 during 1966,
and looks forward to an even
larger membership roll in 1987-
88.
“We are beginning our 13th
year of operation and we expect
greater things in 1967-68,” ac
cording to Furman Clielt, execu
tive vice president of the cham
ber.
Letters are being sent out to
associate and individual mem
bers inviting their membership,
Mr. Clielt said. A membership
campaign will be conducted to
contact all regular members and
prospects.
Membership dues will remain
the same as last year; individu
al $10; associate, S3O, and regu
lar SSO.
The newly elected directors of
the chamber will meet today and
will elect chamber officers for
the new year.
Last Rites Held
For Mrs. Watson
Mrs. Annie Logan Watson, a
resident of Perry for the last 24
years, died Monday at the home
oi her daughter, Mrs. D. M.
Kyle, in Perry, after a long ill
ness.
Mrs. Watson, for whom a circle
of the Woman’s Missionary Un
ion of the First Baptist Church
is named, was born in Cobb
County and moved to Perry in
1943. She was the daughter of
the late John Perryman Logan
and Mrs. Ella McDaniel Logan
of Cobb County. She was the
widow of Warren Samuel Wat
son Jr.
Mrs. Watson taught private
school in her home at Marietta
for seven years. She was employ
ed in the Marietta Post Office
from 1919 to 1943, when she re
tired as register and money or
der clerk.
She was superintendent of the
extension department of the Sun
c.ay School of the Perry First
Baptist Church for several years
and was treasurer of the WMU
for many years. A Circle of the
WMU is known as the “Annie
Watson Circle.”
Mrs. Watson is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. D. M. Ryle, Per
ry: iwo grandsons, D, M. Ryle
Jr. of Marietta and C. S. Ryle of
Jacksonville, Fia.; five grand
children, an aunt and several
cousins.
Funeral services were held at
10 a. m. Wednesday at the First
Baptist Church with Rev, James
M. Teresi and Rev. Dan Hodges
officiating. Graveside services
were held in the Watson family
lot in Midway Cemetery, Cobb
County eight miles west of Mar,i
eda on the Dallas Hoad, at 3
p. m. Wednesday.
Mrs. Bobby Brooks sang and
Mrs. Norine Jones was the or
ganist.
Pallbearers were S4ew ar t
B.oodworlh, J. B. Davis, C. A.
Terry, Luther Mosteller, Billy
Lee and Hugh Lawson.
Gardner Watson Funeral Home
of Perry was in charge of ar
rangements.
Mr. and Mrs. David Harrison
and sons, Bradley and Lance,
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bailey Harrison, enroute from
Miami, Fla. to make their home
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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New Officers of Perry Kiwanis Club
The Perry Kiwanii Club Tuesday elected these men as its officers for 1968.
Left to right, seated, are John Conway, secretary; Larry Walker, treasurer; Tom
Daniel, vice president; and Jim Geiger, president. In the back row, left to right,
are newly elected directors. Bill Jerles, Holmes Cunningham, Dave Crockett, Rob
ert McNeill and Glen Van Fossen. (Home Journal Photo).
Panthers Face Jeff Davis Here
Friday After Beating Quitman
Houston Schools
Receive $257,756
From Government
The Houston County School
System has received an alloca
tion in the amount of $257,756 un
der Title I, Public Law 89-10 for
fiscal year 1968.
These funds are provided to
school systems for the special
educational needs of children of
Iwo-income families to expand
and improve their educational
opportunities.
Five Houston County Schools
have a sufficient number of chil
dren from low-income families to
qualify for these funds to be
used to improve their programs
These schools are: Pearl Ste
phens, Houston County Training
School, King’s Chapel Elemen
tary, Soulhside Elementary and
New Hope Elementary.
During the regular school term,
1,100 children will be involved
in a program to improve their
reading readiness and reading
achievement. Emphasis will be
placed on preparing these chil
dren for a meaningful develop
mental program in their regular
classrooms.
In addition to reading, the
Title 1 Program includes special
materials, equipment, and in
struction in the areas of home
economics, industrial arts, mus
ic, health services, library serv
ices and psychological testing.
A summer program of six
weeks duration is also planned
as a continuation of the success
ful program held last summer.
During a six weeks period, 825
elementary children received in
tensified and enrichment exper
iences in the language arts.
Another objective is to provide
teachers, through service instruc
tion, an opportunity to learn to
be better teachers. Sixty-seven
staff members participated in
up-grading their qualifications in
this manner during the past sum
mer.
BOOSTER CLUB
MEETS TONIGHT
The Perry Panther Booster
Club will hold its regular meeting
at eight o’clock tonight at the
Perry High School Cafeteria.
It has been designated as
“Perry Panther Booster Night”
Friday, September 22, at the Per
ry High and Jeff Davis County
High Football game.
The club will give away three
or more home made cakes at the
game. Only the Perry Panther
Booster Club Members will be
eligible to participate in a con
test for the cakes. You must be
present to win. Membership tick
ets will be sold by members at
the gate. If you are a Panther
Booster member, support your
team,_ attend all the ball games
and you will always be the win
ner.
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Jerry Smith Runs for Touchdown Country
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Lee St. John Rolls Into End Zone
Work (amp Rules Irk Commission
Houston County Commissioners
agreed Tuesday to oppose a pro
posed set of rules for public work
camps that is under considera
tion by the State Board of Cor
rections.
Commissioners said the rules
would force the closing of this
county’s camp because the price
would be too high. Among other
things, the rules include provid
ing indoor and outdoor recrea
tion, daily newspapers, educa
tional instruction and a library.
The commissioners urged the
state board of corrections to de
lay the vote on the rules until
county commissioners from over
the state could voice their ob-
jections.
Houston county commissioners
recently corrected minor defi
ciencies at the public work camp
as required by the state board,
but the new rules would go far
beyond current requirements.
The commissioners discussed
"loose spending” by some county
employees and considered the
possibility of hiring a purchasing
agent to handle all county pur
chases. Two bills that the board
considered to be "loose spend
ing” were a bill for sll4 worth of
automobile expenses for a sher
iff’s car and a S2B bill for cur
■ tains in the office of the clerk of
the Stale Court of Houston Coun
ty-
The commissioners agreed to
stick to their new rule that all
water customers must pay SIOO
to lap onto the county water sys
tem. even though they may have
had pul up a $lO fee earlier.
BAPTISTS ELECT
6 NEW DEACONS
Members of the First Bap
tist Church elected six dea
cons Sunday morning, raising
the number of active deacons
from 18 to 20.
Elected were Bobby Brooks,
Drew Bynum,, Curtis Foun
tain, E. H. Holland, Thomas
Mayo and Charlie Logue.
Deacons who are complet
ing six-year terms and rotate
oft the board are Jimmy Con
nell, James P. Duggan and
Avon Buice. Kiley Hunt, a
deacon, is moving to Macon
and one of the new deacons
will fill his term.
At an organizational meeting
Tuesday night, the deacons elect
ed Hugh Lawson as chairman,
C M. Daniel, vice chairman and
Don Parkinson as secretary.
Grand Jury (ailed
To Meet Friday
' The August Term Grand Jury
of Houston Superior Court that
has been called to convene at 10
a. m. Friday, Sept. 22, is ex
pected to recommend that a
juvenile court be established in
Houston County.
The call for the grand jury to
meet said the activities will be
“unrestricted”, but it is expect
ed that its principal business
will lx; to recommend a juvenile
court.
The county has no separate
juvenile court at present and ail
of its juvenile cases are heard
by .Judge C. Cloud Morgan of
Superior Court. Court, law en
forcement and juvenile officials
have asked the county to set up
a juvenile court.
The preceding grand jury rec
ommended that a juvenile court
be established and the state law
requires establishment of a juve
nile court if two successive grand
juries lake that action,
A special committee of the
August Term Grand Jury has
been investigating the need for
a juvenile court for the last
month and is expected to submit
a reiiorl tomorrow.
Newcomers to City
Newcomers to the City of
Perry, es reported to the
Chember of Commerce in
recent days, include:
Mr, and Mrs. Richard M.
Pryor, 547 Ansley St.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman T.
McKinney, 1735 Greenwood
Circlo.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Soles,
1714 Sewell Circle.
Mr. and Mr*. F. K. Simp
oon. 1003 Smoak Ave.
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ESTABLISHED 1870
Brooks County
Swamped. 28-0,
In Region Till
The Perry Panthers mauled
the hapless Brooks County Tig
ers. 28-0, Friday night in Quit
man. The game marked the third
win in as many outings for the
Panthers and the first region vic
tory.
The hard, hull-like running of
Lee St. John. Jerry Smith and
Larry Horsting was just too
much for the Quitman lads to
stop. The running attack was
sparked by the brilliant passing
of Quarterback Ed Harley an.t
the pass receiving of Lynward
Barrett and Mike Seago.
Perry's first TD came in the
first quarter when St. John ran
over from the three. St. John al
so set up the initial score with
a 22-yard run down to the three,
Jerry Smith came in with his ed
ucated toe and kicked the extra
point. Smith hit the mark r.a ail
four tries Friday night boosting
his average to seven out of seven
for the season.
Harley to Barrett
The Panthers’ second score
came on a pass from Ed Har.ey
to End Lynward Barrett thai
covered 17 yards. Smith again
connected for the point after.
Perry’s third score was set up
when defensive hustler Gerald
Norris jumped on a Brooks Coun
ty fumble. On the first play, Har
ley dropped back and hit Mike
Seago with a perfect pass near
the end zone. Smith once again
converted to make the score 21-0.
A 65-yard punt return by Lee
St. John set up the final score,
SI. John carried the ball down
to the 23-yard line. Hard-running
Jerry Smith then go: the can
and carried the fall into touch
down country. Smith once again
booted the extra point to make
the score 28-0.
Defensive Play
The Panthers once again stood
out on defense. Leading the de
fense were Steve Cook, Eugene
Graham, Steve Brown, Ronnie
Hammock, David Bellflower,
George McGinly, George Bran
nin, Add Harris, Gerald Norris,
Otis Slocks, Lee St. John and
others.
"Our defensive was pretty good
Friday night but we made a
good many mistakes. We think
we can iron out our mistakes in
practice this week and be ready
for liie Jeff Davis team this
week,” Coach Herb St. John said.
Offensive Play
Lee St. John, Jerry Smith and
Larry Horsting led the offensive
running attack. S'. John was
named to The Atlanta Constitu
tion’s 'Prep Honor Roll’ for his
part in the win Friday night.
Quarterback Harley was once
again on target and his favorite
receiver, Lynward Barrett, was
able to reach out and grab the
right passes as he has been doing
all season, Mike Seago was also
on the beam as he grabbed a
Harley pass for a touchdown.
Jeff Davis Friday
The Panthers will meet the
Yellow Jackets of Jeff Davis
County <Hazlehurst) at home Fri
day night for the second region
tilt of the season. The Jackets
were defeated by one point last
Friday night when they p ayed
a strong Worth County team.
"We’re looking for a real bat
tle against Jeff Davis.” Coach St.
John said. This isn't a real big
team but they play hard and
they know how to hit. We’re go
ing to have to be on our toes to
win this one," the coach said.
Mrs. Charles Scarbough of
Marietta is leaving for England
to join her husband for an in
definite stay. Their children
Mike, Laurie, and Julie will stay
with their grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Fesmire on Center
ville Road.
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Miss Claudia Croom re
turned last week from a trip
to Houston, Texas, where she
visited relatives. She left
Sunday to enter the fresh
man class at Georgia South
ern in Statesboro.
Small town: place where every
one knows whose check is good
and whose husband isn’t.