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The Houston Home Journal
COOPER ETHERIDGE BYRON MAXWELL BOBBY BRANCH
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Official Organ of Houston County and City of Perry
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. 31069, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1968
Perry Needs Lorger Airport
Perry has a nice little airport, but
‘‘nice little airports” are a dime a doz
en over Georgia.
Perry deserves a better airport. Our
airport cost about $42,000, as we re
call. when it was built during the Carl
Sanders administration. The cost to
the City of Perry was about one-third
of that amount.
We read where cities smaller than
Perry are getting grants of SIOO,OOO
and up from the federal government
to build and equip airports. The City
of Swainsboro, which is a town about
the size of Perry, has an airport that
will handle small jets, which boasts a
runway about twice the length of Per
ry’s, and bases more than 25 planes.
The fact that we are near Macon’s
Cochran Field has a bearing on our
need for an airport, but we think we
Don’t Help the South Motors
One of the reasons the South gets a
bad name for dealings with poor peo
ple is that some people in the South
take unbelievable advantage of their
employees.
A Mississippi farmer has paid $50,-
000 back wages to 200 of his em
ployees on a complaint filed in U. S.
District Court charging the farmer
with failure to pay minimum wages.
The defendant did not contest the fed
eral action and paid off.
The defendant, according to the gov
ernment, had charged some employees
S2O to S4O a month for housing which
was worth $5 a month. The govern
From Our Files Os The Past
5 years ago: Miss Joan Roper
was a stewardess aboard a Delta
Air Lines DC-8 fan jet which on
June 28 set an unofficial speed
record of 3 hours, 43 minutes,
45 seconds between Atlanta aixl
Los Angeles... Rains washed out
airport opening... Donkey, friend
of Lory Gunter of Penn-Dixie,
represents “Mr. Accidents” in
Safety Campaign... Richard Ray
named head of state board of
Pest Control... City increases
water rates to build new tank and
mams...David Hathaway, Porter
Staples, Edgar Barfield and Mark
Volk will represent Perry in the
Georgia Jaycee Junior Golf Tour
nament at Waycroes July 15-17...
County holds to 45V4 mill lax
rate for this year... Chuck White,
Jimmy Dorsett, and Harvey Ne-
Smith officers of FFA, secretary,
treasurer and reporter respective
ly, represented the chapter in the
secretary, treasurer, and report
er contests.
10 years ago; Lawrence Hunt
becomes Postmaster July 11...
New band leader, Hal Middleton,
has arrived in Perry... New offi
cers of the Perry Lions Club are
Robert Rainey, treasurer; E. A.
Arnold, pest president and di
rector; Wm. J. Clark Jr., direc
tor; Max Rickett, director; M. T.
Morrow, Lion Tamer; Carl J. Bar
rett, secretary; John Lacefield
first vice president; Robert
Fudge, second vice president;
C. M. Daniel, third vice presi
dent; David Coley, president...
The Perry Babe Ruth team con
tinued its winning ways by de
feating Warner Robins Babe Ruth
team in two games.,.R. H. (Son-
Jjy) Watson is appointed Com
■ftfion’s Clerk... Wyatt D. Ker
ment also accused him of charging
four workers living in a 3-room house
a total of S7O a month. The defendant
agreed in the judgment that $5 was a
reasonable cost. He paid the $50,000
to the Department of Labor, which
will distribute the back wages to the
employees.
Sure, other sections of the country
have similar cases in which the poor
and ignorant have been mistreated,
but the South cannot afford to provide
more ammunition for South-haters.
Taking advantage of the poor and ig
norant is a rotten sin, wherever it is
practiced, south or north, east or west.
aey a candidate for the office of
commissioner of roads and reve
nues, Homer J. Walker Jr. can
didate for re-election to the
Houston County Board of Roada
and Revenues, Jake E. Eason
candidate for re-election ns a
member of the Houston County
board of roads and revenues...
Methodist Church has 770 mem
bers... Many civilian workers
transfer to Robins from Topeka
at depot... Mrs. Lawton Daniel
ia being installed as the new
president of the Perry Jaycettes.
20 years ago: Hubert A. Ault
man, Perry attorney, announced
this week that he will be a can
didate for representative of
Houston County in the general
assembly in the Sept. Bprimary...
Presbyterians to mark 100th
Anniversary with former pastor,
Rev. Everett P. Moye, as prin
cipal speaker... This county
working to save soil by planting
Ky-31 Fescue grass, construct
ing farm ponds, and production
of Sericea Lespedeza, etc...
This edition was a Special Soil
Conservation Edition... Billy
Bledsoe outlasted Delta Tank
Monday night to put the local
team back on the victory road...
Buddies defeat Amencus, 10 to
6... At the Roxy Theatre, "Blon
die’s Anniversary”...Betty Stew
art of Perry 4-H Club was dis
trict winner in the Senior dress
revue and Betty Nunn, a Junior
member of the Perry 4-H Club,
wes district winner of Junior
Public Speaking...
30 years ago: WPA allots
•9,000 for Houston road work...
’37 Cotton subsidy payments
coming. ..Shumate’s Cash and
Carry is the name of the new,
deserve a bigger and better airport.
The continued industrial growth of
Perry will increase the need for an
adequate airport. The executives of
our industries will use the airport
more and more and additional planes
will be based there if adequate hang
ars are provided. Peach County has no
airport and air passengers who want
to go to Fort Valley are using Perry's
Myrtle Field. Gov. Maddox used the
airport here twice in a week recently,
en route to Fort Valley.
We would like to see the City of
Perry and Houston County look ‘into
the possibilities of extension of the
runway, construction of adequate
hangars, fuel tanks, etc.
Perry’s about to burst wide open,
and an adequate airport will be es
sential.
modern food store which opened
for business Tuesday in the
building formerly occupied by
T. D. Mason’s store. Mr. Mason,
after 29 years operating the
store, will devote hia time to
has farming business... Termites
was the subject brought before
the Kiwnnis club luncheon at
the American Legion Home,
Glenn W. Rhodes was received
as a new member of the club and
C. E. McLendon drew the attend
ance prize. ..Herbert Moore cele
brated his eleventh birthday with
an enjoyable supper party, the
guests were Carlton Pierce,
Nathan Bernstein, Wendell Whip
ple Jr., Emmett Cater, Billy
Watts, Elaine Moore, Jean
Pierce, and Tommie Ann Bryan
...Mrs. Wordna Gray, a recent
bride, was the central figure at
a seated tea given by Mrs. Lewis
Tabor and Miss Ruth Smith...
Society and personal news was
edited by Mrs. Dallas M. Ryle...
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' FOR THE FAMILY ,
ITEM: All jewelry needs oc
casional cleaning. Rub a pearl
necklace and earrings fre
uuenUy with a soft chamois.
When they become very soiled,
soak in lukewarm mild soap
suds, then rinse in clear water
and dry.
• • •
ITEM: When using presti
cides, read, heed carefully, then
spray. Chemicals are good
partners when properly used.
CfK 7U COOPER ETHERIDGE
ALONG
FOR THE BIRDS; About 10 or 12 years ago, Mrs.
Wesley Calhoun, representing a garden club, got
Perry designated as a “Bird Sanctuary’. I am very
much in favor of birds but the feathered friends of
the garden clubbers are eating my wife’s garden.
She and our son have worked very hard to get
some tomatoes, butter peas and watermelons, and
what appears to be most of the birds in the county
gather In our garden. And it’s against the law to
“shoot in the city"! Mrs. Calhoun lives in another
city now, and we are left with her feathered friends.
We love them but think they should stay in their
place!
WATERMELONS are hard to get before July 4,
and after that date you can find them everywhere
and cheap, Perry once was a big shipper of water
melons, with tram cars lining the freight tracks
being packed with melons. Perry boys would go
down and watch the packing and hope that some
one would drop a melon, breaking it just enough
to prevent it from being shipped but not enough
to keep it from being eaten- The packers would see
the boys—just standing around with their mouths
watering—and give them two or three of the busted
melons. If a pocketknife was not handy, the boys
would drop the melon again and dive right in.
grabbing a hunk pf watermelon meat with their
clean or dirty hands. And toward the end of the
season farmers were calling their friends to come
by and get themselves some free melons. The price
usually dropped and broke just like the melons did.
( LOSE FRIENDS: The following letter was re
ceived by a Houston County official from a man
who was recommending that this friend get his
driver’s license back. The names have been chang
ed, so don’t try to guess who it is. “I being nowing
the Jones for 3 generation. But Joe I now very
little. I see him often in passing if he get close
ROUgh he will always speak to me. But as far as
his drinking I now noting. I thinking sincerely that
he need his driving liceing. And I will pray that
he will be all right." We bke that place in the let
ter where he rays ‘‘if he get close npqgh he will
always speak to me", That’s what a close friend
can do for you —always speak if he gets close
enough,
GUILT: We reject the idea that we are “guilty"
of every bad thing that happens in America. I do
not feel guilty that there are hippies, that we have
had three ternble assassinations that some chil
dren rebel against their elders. We are guilty of
many things but we cannot accept a guilt feeling
about everything. There are many, too many, short
comings in our life; perfection seems a million
miles away, but we are not overwhelmed by a feel
ing of guilt,
NEW KIND OF POQ: A local gardener, who
would not let his name be used, said he has a dog
that pulls tomato worms off his tomato stalks and
brings them to him. This dog got his training by
accident, the gardner says, The man was put pull
ing off the tomato worms, which are about the size
of your finger and the e*act color of the tomato
stalks, and the dog was following him- The dog ob
served what the gardener was doing, so the dog
went ahead of him and started pulling off the
worms and retrieving them. The gardner’s wife
suggested that he not tell this story because some
people might think he is telling a tale. Heard of
bird dogs, but never heard of a tomato dog until
now.
NO BIBLE SCHOLAR: We should have known
better than to quote the Bible without checking
with our theological students, the pastors. We
quoted Saint Paul wrongly last week about a church
that was "neither hot nor cold". The first to call
our attention to our error was Rev. L. L. Sapp.
Church of the Nazarene. The quote should have
been from Revelations 3, in which the Apostle
John was quoting Jesus. We will not quote any
scriptures again until we check out the Bible schol
ars, of which we are not a good one-
Editor, Home Journal:
1 feel as a newcomer to Perry
one must analyze themeelves
before they attempt to either
speak, or write. I feel Perry,
Ga., has a heart just as any
other hometown.
Let us ask ourselves those
following questions,
1. Do I try to like Perry?
2. Do I try to fit daily into
Perry?
3. Can I do anything to better
myself to show Perry I want to
be a part?
WRITE US A LETTER
THE HOME JOURNAL wants to know what
you are thinking. What are your views on vital
local, state and national issues? Get it off your
chest in a letter to the editor, Names will be
withheld on request, but it is neeessary for the
editors to know the identity of the letter writer.
Write to THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL,
Perry, Ga.
4, Did I move ray church mem
bership, or did I tell God bye
when I crossed the Georgia Une?
5, Did I act cool when Perry
tried to welcome me?
6, Do my home and yards show
that I want to live rather than
camp in Perry?
Newcomer, this I know, “Per
ry will not reject you, you must
reject Perry,”
To prove you are a part of
Perry you must get involved—
social, or in God’s business.
As for me I'm involved.
A Grateful Newcomer
and Family
. f BOBBY BRANCH mt
|fIUT ON A BRANCH. . £
ON THE ROAD: It was Saturday
afternoon and the sun was bearing
down about 98 degrees. It was hot
and humid. It was a good day to be
near an air-conditioner, if you could
get to one. These two guys who were
hitchhiking through Perry could tell
you just how hot it was, using the
vernacular, too. They were both about
18 year old and carrying samsonitg
suitcases. Let’s face it, a couple of
bums don’t hitchhike around carrying
expensive luggage.
“Where you fellows headed for?” I
asked.
They looked at each other with a
puzzled expression on their faces and
in about a minute one of them, a tall
boy with short brown hair and a clean
cut look, answered the question.
“We don’t really know where we’ll
go. We think we’ll swing through
Florida and then head on out toward
Texas, to Hemisfair in San Antonio.”
“We hear that you can get a gppd
job in Miami at some of the big ho
tels as bellhops and make real big
money." the other boy said, who was
shorter than the tall boy and had light,
sun-bleached hair hanging down on his
forehead.
They were from Augusta, Ga., and
they had come through Macon to visit
a friend before going on to Florida.
They both are planning to enter the
University of Georgia this fall and one
of them said he wanted to study journ
alism.
“We got this bug to hitchhike a
round about a month ago and we plan
to stay on the road until the last of
August,” the tall boy said.
“We left Augusta with SIOO each a
couple of days ago and we figure we
tFOR TIMES
LIKE THESE
BY DAN HODGES, Pastor
Pint Baptist Church
Think with me today of that
Scripture verse, “No man cared
for my soul.” Recently 1 read
of a fourteen year old boy who
took his own life because “no
one seemed to care.” He felt
no relationship, no sense of
love from any creature but his
dog, and in a brief suicide note
addressed to his parents, he
left instructions for its care.
No one seemed to care. What
a stark summation of our world’s
lack of love—or lack of com
munication. Quite likely that
boy’s parents did love him, but
they evidently never let him
know it, and his death illustrat
ed sharply how minor deeds of
lovelessness (undeeds might be
better description) add’ up to
major tragedies. This is no rev
olutionary statement of fresh
truth: it is a heartbreak we have
with us always. Frustration,
loneliness, self-pity, indif
ference, emptiness, hostility.
can make that last until we find us a
job in Miami or somewhere,” the
blonde-headed boy said confidently.
I gave them a ride to the nearest
service station and bought them a
Coke. The last I saw of them they were
walking up the southern entrance
ramp on Interstate 75. I think there’s
a law forbidding hitchhikers on the
Interstate systems but these kids are
“On the Road” and all they could
think about was getting to Florida and
making money as bellhops in some big
hotel. . . . What a dream.
THIS ’N THAT: The amount of beer
Pabst will produce in their plant here
each year after they get into full op
eration is 1,5 million barrels. Broken
down into 12 ounce cans that comes
out to be more than Vz billion cans of
beer a year. , , , Low calorie com
modities have flooded the market in
the past few years in the form of low
cal soft drinks, food, candy and many
others. A company recently hit the
market with low calorie beer. Next in
line is low cal martinis. ... The State
of Florida gets something like 3 bil
lion tourists a year. You know what
state Floridians visit more than any
other state? Georgia, of course. ... If
you don’t think Perry is a town of
newcomers, just think about all the
people you know who have been here
10 years or less. And it’s becoming
more and more a town of newcomers
with new people moving here every
week. . . . The Security Federal Build
ing catches the eye of more tourists
than any other one thing in town. Two
tourists were out front of the building
last week taking pictures of the im
pressive structure.
hatred, closeheartedness, resent
ment jealousy, and the resultant
criminal acts and the ills of mind
and body, all grow like rank
weeds to fill the holes gouged
in the human spirit when nobody
seems to care.
People of all ages and cul
tures have a sensitivity to gen
uine love and concern, and
when these come through with
unmistakable clarity, an amaz
ing, mysterious energy leaps
forth in response. And God, who
is love, once again is revealed
through the act of human loving.
“When you refused to help
the least of these My brothers,”
Jesus said, “you were refusing
to help Me.” (Matthew 25:45).
He told His followers, “If you
love only those who love you,
what good is that? If you are
friendly only with your friends,
how are you different from any
body else?” (Matthew 5:46, 47).
But the nagging question re
mains: How to do it?
The good news of the Gospel
lies not in words or creeds, but
in power. God has given the
Christian the power to care. To
the Christian there is nothing
more important than learning how
to love others. One day Jesus
asked a rich young ruler to ttive
his money to the poor—a supr me
test of love in his case— he
turned away sadly. The Bible
is very clear on the point that
if we have money enough to live
well, and don*t share it with
others in need.it is questionable
whether God’s love is in us at
all.
“Little children, let us stop
just saying we love people; let
us really love them, and show it
by out actions.” (1 John 3:1
How much do you really care.
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Men from the 2nd Vieln.
mese Marine Battalion
board a small boat before
setting out along a canal in
the Mekong Delta.