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Perryans Voice Opinions For Choice Os Governor In Upcoming Election
A hot summer in politics is upon Georgia voters
who go to the polls next fall to elect a governor and a
lot of local office holders up for re-election around the
-tate.
The Home Journal took a survey of a cross section
, 30 Perry voters and asked them who is their candi
,to for governor. Those surveyed were asked only to
; ve their preference in the gubernatorial race and rea
,,ns why they are going to support the candidate of
their choice.
The results of the survey stacked up this way:
|4 were for Carl Sanders, 9 for Jimmy Carter and 7
(or Jimmy Bentley. None of the other candidates for
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MAGEE WORKERS ASSEMBLE in-process carpet
storage racks in new 45,000 square foot warehouse addi
tion to the plant here. The new warehouse, located on the
Magee Carpet Co. Completes Big
45,000 Sq. Ft. Warehouse Expansion
"Our contractor has com
pleted his work on our new
$45,000 square foot ware
house on the east end of the
plant, and we have already
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Perry Calendar
The Wesleyan Service Guild will meet at the
home of Miss Florine Rainey on Tuesday, May 19,
at 7:30 p. m.
The Ladies Golf Association at Houston Lake-
Country Club will meet Tuesday, May 19 at 1:00
P- m. in the Ladies Locker Room.
The Houston Lake Country Club Ladies Golf
Association is sponsoring a Card Party May 15, at
8:00 p. m. for members and guests. Reservations
should be made by calling 987-3046.
The Perry Business Women’s Club will meet
Thursday night, May 14, at 7:30 at the Ochlahat
thee Club House.
Card night is scheduled at the Perry Country
Club Friday, May 15 for all members and their
guests. Starting time is 8:00 p. m. Come on out
and win a prize-
The St. Patrick’s Sunday School swimming
party and picnic will be Friday, May 15 from 4:00
P m. to 7:00 p. m., at the Perry Country Club.
All are asked to bring 50c.
The Perry Woman’s Club will meet Monday,
-May 18 at 8 p. m. at Ochlahatchee Clubhouse. All
members urged to attend this meeting.
The Town and Country Garden Club will meet
at 10 a. m., Thursday, May 21 at Ochlahatchee Club
House. Mrs. Carolyn Dick and Mrs. Bonnie Nelson
will serve as hostesses.
The Akikta Club will entertain their husbands
at a Spring Party at 7 p. m., Friday, May 15 at the
Ochlahatchee Club House.
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The Houston Home Journal
begun setting up the in-pro
cess carpet storage racks for
this new plant addition,”
Magee Carpet General Man
ager H. L. Sain announced
governor were mentioned by those taking part in the
survey.
Following are some of the answers given by those
surveyed who were asked this question . . . “Who is
your candidate for governor and what reasons can you
give for supporting his candidacy?”
“I’m voting for Carl Sanders because 1 think he’s
just what this state needs. He’s got the leadership
and everything else it takes to straighten Georgia
out.” ... “I think I’m going to vote for Jimmy Carter
because he looks like to me he’s honest and sincere
about doing a good job.” . . . “Bentley’s going to get
my support and I think a lot of other people are going
“The Only Newspaper Published By And For The People of Perry And Surrounding Area”
east side of the Perry Magee Plant here, was completed
recently. Shown from left, Jim Roberts, Fred Bottom,
R. A. Williams.
this week. This most recent
expansion will provide a new
yarn storage warehouse, new
in-process storage, a mainte
nance shop, and new dye
handling area and facilities.
The new yarn and in-pro
cess carpet warehouses will
allow present warehouse
space to be utilized for ad
ditional tufting equipment.
This increase in tufting pro
duction area will provide
space to double our present
tufting production capacity.
One additional tufting ma
chine is planned for later
this year.
The new dye handling ar-‘
ea and dye production fa
cilities will allow space for
up to twice the present dye
production capacity without
further building expansions.
This recently completed
$45,000 square foot expan
sion on the east end of Ma
gee Carpet’s Perry plant fol
lows closely behind last
year’s 35,000 square foot ex
pansion on the west end of
the plant. These two expan
sions for 1969 and 1970 com
plete the original five year
plan for expansion of the
original Magee Carpet build
ing, which began production
three years ago this month
in May 1967 .The original
building began production
Methodist Spring Sing
Set Here This Sunday
Perry First Methodist
Church will hold its annual
Spring Sing on Sun. evening,
May 17, at 8 p.m. All who
enjoy singing or listening to
good singing will find this
to be a memorable program,
from the opening favorite
“How Great Thou Art’’ through
the last verse of “To God be
the Glory.”
The Youth Choir will sing
two choruses from “Good
News” - heard Easter Sunday
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. 31069, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1970
with four tufting machines
and was originally engineer
ed including these two 'ex
pansions to handle up to a
maximum of fourteen tuft
ing machines.
These two expansions will
allow Magee to participate
in and stay abreast of the
growth of the overall carpet
ing industry. The total car
pet volume has double dur
ing the 1960’s and is expect
ed to double again during
the 1970’5.
Magee carpets are manu
factured i n Bloomsburg,
Pennsylvania and Perry, and
sold nation wide through au
thorized distributors. Ma
gee’s 80 years of production
makes it one of the oldest
carpeting manufacturers and
is included in the ten largest
carpet manufacturers in the
United States. Magee’s Per
ry, Georgia plant was names
one of the “top ten textile
plants for 1968” by “Textile
World” magazine.
Pattillo Construction Com
pany of Decatur, was gener
al contractor on the original
building and both expan
sions to this building.
Got an opinion? Let The
Home Journal have it.
night at the First Baptist
Church services. Enthusiastic
Sunday School Juniors will
have a special, and join the
choir for another.
The Adult Choir will sing
two great anthems and a beau
tiful spiritual. Os particular
enjoyment to many will be
the congregational singing.
A special invitation is exten
ded by the church members to
music lovers to “Come and
bring someone with you.”
to vote for him, too, because the Republicans can do
more for us in Georgia right now.”
“I’ll go with Carl Sanders for the reason that he’s
already done a lot for Georgia the last time he was
governor and he can do even more for the state if he
is elected again.” . . . “Well, I’m a farmer and I don’t
think there’s hut one man running who really under
stands a farmer’s problems and that’s Carter. He’s
a farmer himself and I think he’ll do a good job as
governor for the farmers and everybody else.” . . .
“I’ve always thought Jimmy Bentley would make a
good governor and I’m planning to vote for him.”
These were sonic of the answers The Home Journal
Light Vote Here Tuesday
Ends Election Districts
A light vote Tuesday by
Houston County voters chan
ged the method by which mem
bers of the board of education
will now be elected.
Board of Education mem
bers have been elected from
districts in the county in the
past. The Mossy Creek line,
which has in the past divided
the county in many elections,
was wiped out by the vote
Tues. In the past, three
board members have been
elected from the north end of
the county (Warner Robins)
and two members south of the
Mossy Creek line.
Board members will now
be elected county-wide in
stead of by districts. Serving
on the board from Perry at the
present time is chairman L.C.
Walker and member Dr. J.R.
Amall.
There are about 18,000
registered voters in Houston
County but only 2,755 turned
out Tuesday to cast their
Beavers Make Perry Their New Home
There is a beaver pond in
the back yard of the Jack
Akridge home on Springdale
Drive in Holly Hills. It is a
very small one enclosed with
a wire fence, but it is home
to Susie and Jill, two very
young beavers rescued from
Flint River during flooding
a couple of months ago by
Gerald and Steve Akridge.
The beavers’ homes had
been flooded out and broken
up, and these young ones
sat forlornly on debris, so
the boys brought them
home. They had to be bot
tle-fed, and still take bottles
of milk along with lettuce,
apples, and baby food smear
ed on bread, which they
seem to consider a real deli
cacy.
The Akridges had thought
that perhaps beavers would
be vicious and would bite
them, but even though they
have grown to several times
their original size they are
perfectly gentle. One time
two year old Mary Beth was
playing with them when one
of them grabbed her finger
in its mouth—but it didn’t
bite, it just throught it was
a dinner bottle and started
sucking away!
When the gate to their
pen is opened, Susie and Jill
walk out and follow people
around the way a puppy
does—except that they move
more slowly. They resem
ble little fat, brown, furry
bears—except for their web
bed feet and broad, flat
tails. Their whiskers are
stiff, and their eyes are
bright. Occationally one of
them will stand up on her
hind legs and look around.
They try to hold their bot
tles that way, but so far
have not managed it. They
live in the shade, and when
they’re brought out into the
bright sunlight they head
back for the shade.
Last year the Akridges
raised a heron, which finally
flew away and stayed, possi
bly reverting to its wild na
tural state. Another time, an
vote. The total of the vote ing (he method of electing the
was 1,298 for abolishing the board members the same as in
districts and 1,073 for keep- the past.
Precinct For Against
Henderson 1 33
Elko 3 25
Hayneviile 8 45
Kathleen 9 29
Bonaire 62 60
Heard 18 35
Centerville 84 43
Perry 182 471
Warner Robins 1,298 332
Total 1,682 1,073
Perryans Attend Convention
The seventy-fourth Con
vention of the Georgia Fed
eration of Women’s Clubs was
held April 29-30 at Holiday
Inn, Callaway Gardens, and
was attended by Mrs. J.C.E.
old dead tree blew down
and they took in a bunch of
baby pileated woodpeckers
when their nest was des
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IT S FEEDING TIME for Sutio and Jill, and Garald Abridge hold* their
bottle* for them .He and hit brother Steve found the beavers when they were
very small, and now they follow them around like puppies and are very gentle.
received from the 30 people in Perry surveyed. Carl
Sanders has a definite lead it seems in Perry, but both
Jimmy Carter and Jimmy Bentley have considerable
support in the Middle Georgia area.
The season of political speeches and campaigning
is here and The Home Journal invites all interested
readers to write a letter to the editor expressing
opinions on the candidates. All letters are welcomed
and will be printed, if they are signed by the writer.
Let us know who is your candidate.
At a later date in the campaign season, The Jour
nal will conduct another survey on the gubernatorial
race . . . With different people, of course.
Meadows, President, and Mrs.
8.8. Nall, Public Affairs
Dept. Chairman, of the Perry
Woman’s Club.
The theme of the 1970
convention was “Wise Use
troyed. After the birds learn
ed to fly, they were turned
loose to Join the other wild
birds.
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of Our Resources - Human
and Environmental.” A pro
ject of the clubs is Tallulah
Falls School, the only school
in the world that is owned and
operated by a state federated
group of women. Established
in 1909, it is not only a pri
vate school but also serves
as a public school for the
town of Tallulah Falls loca
ted in the North Georgia
mountains.
The high school there is
accredited by the Georgia and
Southern Assn, of Secondary
Schools and Colleges, and it
has a work program for its
boarding students in which
every student works as part
of their school program. The
community refers to the school
as “A Light in the Moun
tain.”
Food bargains in The
Home Journal.
Right now, Gerald and
Steve won’t talk about turn
ing Susie and Jill loose.
They’ve grown too fond of
the gentle little creatures.