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VOL, 98 NO. 24
Junkyards Spring Up in Perry
Junkyards are growing all over the world faster
than they can be covered up.
The city of Perry has its share of junk
Some eyesores are growing up on some of our
main thoroughfares, and little or nothing is done
about it.
Recently we observed a small city not too far
from Perry which obviously had never heard of
planning and zoning. A fine house was right next
to a junkyard, and rundown shacks next to fine
looking business houses.
It was obvious that all you had to have to build
whatever you wanted to build was enough money.
The location meant nothing. Consequently, the
town has a sad look, an unplanned look, like a lady
with her hair uncombed.
Junkyards threaten to overwhelm us, unless
city and county officials keep a day-by-day watch
on the situation. Prosecution of one or two indivi
duals for keeping one or two junk cars will not
correct the real problem. The business junkyards
seem to be the biggest offenders.
We urge city and county officials to take action
against junkyards before it is too late.
From Our Files
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5 YEARS, 10 YEARS, 20 YEARS
and 30 YKARS AGO THIS WEEK.
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S years ago; Dedication of air
port scheduled here June 30.
Slate officials will come to Perry
for ceremonies . . . Bill Coby,
Kolf professional at the Perry
Country Club for the last five
years, said yesterday he is sever
ing his connection with (he club
immediately .... Mrs. Elwood
Maggard entered the Bank of
Warner Robins Tuesday in hopes
of selling two or three tickets lo
th community concert. The staff
members of the bank bought 12
tickets . . . Vanity Shop has
completely redecorated inside of
store .... Small Shopping cen
ter on Macon Street is under
construction . . . Georgia Power
Company is constructing new
buikhng . . . Miss Anja llvonen,
24, an elementary school teacher
in Finland, will live in Houston
County during June under the In
lernatinoal Farm Youth Ex
change Program. Mr, and Mrs.
Charles Perfect of Elko will be
Miss llvonen's hosts . . , The big
Kiwanis team moved ahead in
the Junior baseball program tins
week . . Three Middle Georgians
receive cash for suggestions
for savings for Ah' Force. Col
onel Castex P. Conner presented
suggestion award checks and
certificates to Charles M. Brown,
Owen M. Stapleton, and Mrs. Sa
rah W. Thomas . . . Perry’ Jay
cees have a big work day clean
ing headquarters and grounds . .
Ground broken here for Tucker
Elementary School. F. M.
Greene Jr., Chester Crowell. Da
vid A. Purdue and Charlie Boyle
were present .... Welfare bene
fits increased by $2 . . . Annual
Stembridgc family reunion draws
110 members to Perry . . . Perry
FFA quartet wins slate meet.
The quartet was composed of
Jackie Stewart. Lurry Barrett.
Richard T Tucker ikk! Harven
NeSmith. with Carol Ann Cheek,
accompanist.
10 year* ago: Sixteen Chilean
lumbermen paid Tolleson Lum
ber Co.’s big sawmill here a
visit as part of their lour of the
United States. The group is
studying methods of using wood
in house construction. Yates
Green named advisor to the
Tourist Department of the State
Chamber of Commerce . . . Jer
ome Bloodworlh received S2O
award in the Georgia Power
Co.'s annual FFA winter grazing
contest . . . Rev. Russell Lenox
reassigned to Perry Methodist
Church for another year. William
M. Whipple, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wendell Whipple, was ordained
an elder in th Methodist ministry
and admitted into full connection
at the South Georgia Annual
Conference at Valdosta. Rev.
Whipple was returned for his se
cond year as pastor of the
Graves charge.
20 years age: State Depart
ment of Education recommends
Bonaire School, both elementary
and high schools, be consolidated
with the schools at Warner Rob
ins and Perry .... Marvin Grif
fin of Kathleen wins the honor
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. 31069, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1968
of bringing in first cotton bloom
o flhe season . . . County School
Supt. S. W. Hickson outlines new
12-yera program to begin in the
high schools of the county. The
plan is lo be initiated because it
is the thinking of the board that
the students need an additional
year of maturing; students en
tering college need extra year
to compel owitJi graduates of
other 12 year schools; students
need more Urn for arts, music,
damalies, etc.; students entering
college and taking jobs need
more language and mathemuUcs
. . . . J. W. Bloodworlh qualifies
for re-election to the General
Assembly of Georgia as repre
sentative.
30 years ago: The largest en
rollment of CCC workers since
last October will take place in
Georgia between July 1-July 20
when 1,806 enrol lees will be
sought . . . Perry Baptist Church
holds revival preparatory to cen
tennial celebration of the church,
J. A. Ivey is pastor and Rev.
L H Wright of Macon will be
doing the preaching . . . Miss
Chloc Traylor and E, P. Staples
wed at beautiful church cere
mony . I P, Etheridge an
nounces for re-election as repre
sentative in the Georgia Legisla
ture.
Book Club Studies
Work About China
’ The Wednesday Afternoon
Book Club met May 15 at the
home of Mrs, W. E. Marshall.
Mrs. C. K. Radebaugh was co
hostess.
Mrs. E. I’. Staples presided
and appointed the following
committees for the new year:
Mrs. C. K. Radebaugh,Mrs. J. L.
Beavers and Mrs. Hugh Lawson,
books; Mrs. W. E. Marshall and
Mrs. D. M. Ryle, program; Mrs.
G. F. Nunn and Mrs. M. M. Dean,
yearbook; Mrs. W. T. Middle
brooks, librarian; Mrs. W. K.
Whipple, publicity.
Officers who are elected for
two years and will continue in
office for 1968-69 are Mrs. E.
P. Staples, president; Mrs. C.
H. Tucker, Vice-president; Mrs.
S. A. Nunn, secretary-treasurer;
Mrs. J. B, Calhoun and Mrs. A.
P. Whipple, historians.
Mrs. W. T. Middlebrooks
introduced the program.
Miss Theresa Hodges gave
an informative and thought-pro
voking study of China, The Other
Communism, by K. S. Karol, a
well known foreign journalist.
Twenty Letters by Svetlana
Alliluyeva was the background
for an interesting talk by Mrs.
Staples, giving her impressions
of the author, her family, and the
average Russian.
Dainty refreshments were
served by the hostesses.
DAD’S DAY- JUNE 16
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HOBBY HRANCH
,; ON A BRANCH.. .
If seems almost certain now the
state will purchase Sapelo, one of
Georgia’s more prominent Gold e n
Isles. The island will be used for ma
rine biology research and the State
Game and Fish Commission will utilize
the vast natural resources on Sapelo
to raise and preserve deer and wild
turkey, among other native Georgia
wildlife.
The state is paying $1 million for
Sapelo Island. That sounds like a lot of
money and it is, but it’s a bargain price
for Sapelo.
Sapelo, for many years, was the re
treat of North Carolina tobacco mag
nate R, J. Reynolds. He had a palatial
mansion on the island with every con
ceivable luxury built into “De big
white house" as long-time resident Ne
groes of the island called the mansion.
I spent a good portion of my child
hood being reared on one of Georgia’s
Golden Isles, Colonel’s Island, which is
located only a few miles from Sapelo.
1 remember going over to Sapelo
and pushing our small boat up onto
the white, sandy beach, completely ig
noring the big signs posted on the
beach that read: “Absolutely No Tres
passing." The beach on Sapelo was a
great place to walk and find all kinds
of shells and marine life that had been
washed ashore. You could find big.
scary-looking horeshoe crabs that had
been left by the ebb tide way up on
the beach to die. Many times you could
catch mullet or other fish that had
been trapped in a beach pool by the
outgoing tide and it was never surpris
ing to see an alligator scamper from
the beach into the thick undergrowth
that bordered all along the crystal
beach.
Sapelo’s beach is sprinkled with tons
of driftwood. It was always a difficult
thing for me to understand how old
Jennings Attends
School of Banking
BATON ROUGE. La.-Harold
Jennings, cashier of Perry
Loan and Savings Bank, Perry
was among 281 bankers who
received certificates at gradua
tion ceremonies Friday, June
7, ending the 19th annual ses
sion of the School of Banking
in the South. The School meets
for two weeks each summer at
Louisiana State University in
Baton Rouge, under sponsorship
of 14 Southern state bankers’
associations.
trees and limbs hail Deen molded into
such shapes by the sand and sea. Many
pieces of driftwood on Sapelo look al
most as if they have been touched by
the hand of God and not time.
There are quite a lew Negroes who
live on Sapelo, many of them who were
born there. They all work on the is
land in some capacity or other and for
the most part live from the riches of
the Atlantic surrounding Sapelo. There
is always a supply of shrimp, fish, oys
ters, clams and crabs in abundance
around Sapelo. And all this seafood is
there for the taking, free.
On one occasion when we visited
Sapelo, we ran into a white-haired Ne
gro man who was sewing a shrimp net
out by a large oak tree near his small
house. The net was hung on a nail in
the tree and his old but nimble fingers
sewed the big shrimp net in away that
made it look like a simple task, which
it isn't. The old Negro was friendly
and talkative, as are all the Negroes
of Sapelo. I remember some of what
he told us, just as if my last visit to
Sapelo was yesterday.
“I ben cachin’ swimp with dis’ net
for de las' many year and I hope de be
many year moe.’’
"Dey tel me I be 100 year old. but
I don’t know if dat true. I been he’ar
a long time do’ and I reckon as to dat
migh’ be true.”
”1 was born on dis’ place and I ain’t
neve’ been offin’ it—not one time and
1 reckon I be right he’ar wen de’ Lord
call me—which’in dat gone be alrigt
wid me.”
I’m glad the state is going to buy
Sapelo. Such places where natural
wilderness and an old way of life still
remain, should be preserved for future
generations to see. . . . Sapelo Island
deserves to remain just the way it is
now. ... I hope bulldozers and men
never damage it.
Revival Planned
By Church of God
The Perry Church of God on
Oakridge Dr. will begin a revival
on June 24 with the Rev. Ram
kisson doing the preaching.
Rev. Ramkisson is a full
blooded Indian from Trinidad,
who was converted to Christ
when he was 16 years old. He
was driven from his home after
his conversion.
Come and be blessed by this
man of God. Services will be
held each evening at 7:30.
Cable TV Going
To Centerville
CENTERVILLE-The City
Os Centerville awarded a cable
TV franchise to CATV and
Service Communications, Inc.,
last week.
The firm has its headquarters
in Centerville. Negotiations
between the City of Center
ville and the firm have been
underway for several weeks.
Printing type was invented in
China.
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GOODBYE, BILLY: Rev. Billy
Key, Perry Methodist pastor who is
going to Americas this week, has been
a Home Journal guest columnist
(Light from Lamps of Truth) for the
last two years. We will miss him. Ev
ery week people told us how much
they appreciated his column. He al
ways had an interesting and inspiring
column.
Rev. Dan M. Hodges, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, has accepted our
invitation to write a column for us
during the next year, and we look
forward to his columns beginning next
week. He has not chosen a name for
his columns but headings for columns
don’t make much difference; it’s
what’s down in the message that
counts.
LOOK BACKWARD AND FOR
WARD: Looking at two oak trees in
our yard, we were impressed the other
day to think of the past, then to think
about the future.
One of the trees is a mighty oak
tree, about six feet in diameter near
its base. It has been there maybe a
hundred years, perhaps planted by a
member of the Culler family when
Perry was a settlement of about 100
people. It stood near the frame house
that stood for nearly 75 years before
it was torn down to make room for
what is our “modern house”, built in
1952. We wondered what those people
of three or four generations thought
when they planted this old oak tree,
which catches the eye of every tree
surgeon that comes by our house. If
they are like we are, they wondered
who might live near this big oak many
Who will live under its branches when
The other tree that attracts us is
a little, spindly water oak, the same
kind of tree as the old, decaying oak.
who will live under its branches when
this tree that we planted becomes big
and strong? And what will a genera
tion of another time in history think
about this tree? What kind of foot
prints will have been left by the occu
pants of this house; will the house be
torn down for another “modern
house” and who will plant another
oak to take the place of the decaying
tree of that time?
Where did we come from and
where are we going? Why were we
sent to this place in this time? Why
were there three children in this fam
ily instead of two, or four, or no chil
dren?
Lord, there are a thousand ques
tions that man has been asking about
himself, and no human has been smart
enough to answer them. Man cries
out for the answers, all the time feel
ing incapable of even being articu
late in forming the questions.
So we look at the two trees and
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I f LIGHT FROM
f LAMPS OF TRUTH |
by rev. billy key
Pastor, Perry Methodist Church
IN GRATITUDE
For the better part of three
years 1 have been writing a little
message in this paper under the
heading, “Light From Lamps Os
Truth”. With these words I will
conclude this column in the
hope that it has added a bit of
light to some who walk in the
shadows.
With the reading of the ap
pohtments at our South Georgia
Annual Conference last Friday I
was appointed pastor of the First
Methodist Church in Americus,
ESTABLISHED 1870 I
our mimi runs over the period of five
or six generations and we wonder
what the past is trying to tell us, and
we long for a view of the future, but
we stumble here and find that we
must live from day to day and put our
questions to the supreme being that
orders the universe.
THE EPITAPH chosen for the hy
pochondriac’s tombstone was sim
ply: “I KEPT TELLING THEM I was
sick”.
MRS. NORA LAWRENCE SMITH.
82, editor of The Wiregrass Farmer
at Ashburn, was being honored by her
friends and state officials last week.
As she reached out to shake hands
with Gov. Maddox, a snap loosened
and her skirt dropped to the floor.
She was not disturbed, simply reached
down and hooked everything up again. *
Gov. Maddox said that even after her
skirt dropped, Miss Nora still had on
more than the mini-skirt set.
THE WORST THING about get
ting up in the morning is that the
next thing you have to do is to go to
work!
VIOLENCE; President Johnson
has appointed a special commission
to determine the cause of the kind of
violence that caused three assassina
tions in the U. S., in the last four
years. This is an over-simplification, of
course, but the underlying cause is
greed—on the part of the great major
ity of Americans. How to change the
mood of America? Someone might try
God, for a change.
GUN LAW: We had much rather
that our Congress be a leadership
group, instead of reacting to situa
tions. We dislike seeing our leaders
waiing unil somehing happens and
then passing some hastily-drawn legis- ft
lation to correct a situation. We be
lieve that some kind of firearms le
gislation should have been passed a
long time ago. A firearms law on the
books would not necessarily have sav
ed the life of Senator Kennedy. No
law is perfect; there is law against
speeding but deaths are caused by
speeding every day. We think that a
strong firearms law could REDUCE
the number of gun deaths in the U. S.
It would never be 100 per cent en
forceable, no more than a speeding
law would be 100 per cent effective,
but we do not hear any suggestions
that the speeding laws be taken off the
books because speeding laws restrict
individuals. A strong firearms bill
would make people think twice before
letting guns get into the hands of
those who should not have them.
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We, the whole Key Ring, leave
Perry with reluctance and with
many fine memories tucked away
in our hearts. It has been a
short four years.
I am grateful to The Home
Journal for the opportunity given
me for expression and witness
concerning the highest that I
know and feel. I am thankful to
all of you who have taken time
to read this column and for every
expression that has come to me
about its helpfulness. lam
indebted to Mrs. Eric Staples for
reminding me every Monday A. M.
that it was that time again and
then for typing it and getting it
to The Home Journal on time, f
If this corner of the paper
has been a blessing to any, has
helped lift a load for those that
are overburdened or shed some
light on those walking in the
dark then that is my reward.
So today, with thanksgiving t°
God and with love in my h* ' l ° r
all of you I bring to a close this
wonderful chapter of m> “ e
with a favorite hymn of nine.
My times are in Thy hand'
My God I wish them there,
My life, my friends, my ioU *’
I leave entirely to Thy car ®‘
My times are in Thy hand,
whatever they may 56 ’
Pleasing or painful, dark
bright, as best may seem to nee.
My times are in Thy n 1
why should I doubt or f par '
My Father’s hand will never
cause his child a needless tear.
My times are in Thy he * |
I’ll always trust in ®f’ /
And, after death, at Thy
hand I shall for ever ne.