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- - PEAR EDITOR
Dear Mr. Branch:
The people of Perry saw
Saturday that we not only
appreciate our local mer
chants, but that we have one
of the friendliest towns in
Georgia.
The Civic Clubs combined
their efforts to show that
we will back our local mer
chants and our city.
The Perry Jaycettes would
like to thank the other Civic
Clubs that made this day
possible and also the local
merchants for being so kind
and cooperative.
Please shop at home . . .
support your local mer
chants and help our city
grow and prosper!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
MRS. BRENDA BRYANT
President
Perry Jaycettes
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Editor
Perry Home Journal
Perry, Georgia
Dear Sir:
The members of the Perry
Civitan Club think that Per
ry is a very nice place to
live and raise our children.
We enjoy an environment
that has clean air- clean wat
er, and moderate weather.
Our population is made up
of God-fearing Christian peo
ple. We are blessed with
more jobs in this area than
we have skilled employees
to fill them. Our area is one
of the fastest growing areas
in the state. We have more
construction going on now
than probably any other city
our size in the state.
I can’t think of anywhere
else in the country where
the employment situation is
so good for everyone that
has a skill to offer. We have
the unusual growing motel
industry in Perry. We have
close to as many stores in
construction and planning as
we currently have. These
stores will need employees.
Georgia Decor is still grow
ing. Magee Carpet Company
is still growing. The constru
ction industry is still grow
ing. Tollcson Industries have
just added a new plant.
Dixie Lime and Stone is go
ing strorig. The Board of
Education (one of the larger
employees in the County)
needs teachers. Robins AFB,
a giant employer, continu
ously needs new employees.
Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery
and Continental Can Com
pany are just beginning op
eration. Growing employ
ment means more support
ing jobs of all kinds.
The young people have the
greatest opportunity ever a
vailable to young folks. All
they need to do is get all
the education they can hand
le and develop a marketable
skill. The day of the unskil
led common laborer is gone.
The only thing that will lim
it a young person’s income
is his training and ability.
These are primarily control
led by the individual.
The Perry Civitans urge
all citizens of Perry to join
together in the growth and
development of our town. If
each citizen would dedicate
himself to being the best
citizen possible and ensure
that Perry will be a better
town because he lived here,
we will have the best town
in the U. S. A., made up of
the best citizens in the U.
S. A.
Respectfully yours,
RAYMOND HOOTEN,
President
The Perry Civitan Club
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Editor, Home Journal:
The membership of the Akik
ta Club wishes to commend the
Perry Jaycees for their leader
ship in sponsoring the "Merch
ant’s Appreciation Day.”
The qualify of their efforts is
attested to by the success of
the program. We are in com
plete harmony with the spirit
behind Merchant’s Day and
wish to add a personal note of
appreciation to the merchants
for always being courteous,
kind and considerate to shop
pers.
Sincerely,
The Akifcta Club.
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This past weekend the Per
ry Jaycees were honored and
proud to be a part of a tre
mendous effort put forth by
the civic clubs of Perry.
I believe that these clubs
proved, beyond a shadow of
a doubt, that they are appre
ciative of our merchants and
the support they have given
the various clubs in the past.
M e, the Perry Jaycees* DO
appreciate our merchants
WHAT THE READERS THINK
and call on every citizen of
our city to support our mer
chants and our city by tak
ing every opportunity to
shop in Perry.
Ours is not only a chang
ing but a demanding times.
Our citizens are demanding
the best our modern life
has to offer. These convien
ces can only be realized thru
the benefits of a healthy lo
cal economy.
With pride, the Perry Jay
cees salute our merchants
and ask our citizens to buy
a share in Perry’s Future
growth by supporting our lo
cal merchants.
Sincerely,
ERVIN GOODROE,
President
Perry Jaycees.
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Editor, Home Journal;
The Idaka Club would like to
go on record as fully supporting
the Merchants and the City of
Perry. We are grateful for the
opportunity to shop for a great
variety of items right here in
downtown Perry.
Our club greatly appreciates
the assistance we have receiv
ed from the merchants in our
various projects, and we hope
to be able to reciprocate by giv
ing them our business and our
good will.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. A1 Lasseter, Secretary
The Idaka Club.
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TO THE PERRY
BUSINESS COMMUNITY
We salute you! The Soga
dera Club believes that the
most vital element of any
town or city is its business
community. Commerce has
been responsible for the
establishment of many cities
in the United States and all
over the world.
We support you and we
express hope for a United
Perry Community.
Sincerely,
MEMBERS OF THE
SOGADERA CLUB
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Editor, Home Journal;
For the Perry “Pink Ladies,”
I would like to express our ap
preciation for the opportunity
we had last Saturday to show
our local merchants how much
they mean to the community on
"Merchants Appreciation Day.”
The Hospital Auxiliary is “the
lie that binds” the community
to the hospital, and what af
fects the community affects us
all. Our sixty-nine members
represent a cross-section of
families in the town and sur
rounding area. Whatever is
good and worthwhile in this
community we are proud of,
and we are certainly proud of
our local business people who
have kept faith in Perry.
For this is the American way
—of private enterprise, fair
competition, the right to own
property, to build a business, to
trade wherever you wish. This
is why every war in our history
has been fought, to preserve
that inalienable right, of “life,
liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness.”
We believe in Perry—it is a
part of each of us. By showing
our support for our Perry mer
chants, we show our faith in
the future of our community—
in our future.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Lewis B. Smyth.
President. Perry-Hous
ton County Hospital
Auxiliary.
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Dear Bobby:
Without the coverage and
support given this Depart
ment and its efforts to de
velop new, problem-solving
approaches to welfare by
your paper during the past
34 months, the progress we
have made in overcoming
public apathy and antipathy
to the plight of the poor
would and could not have
been achieved.
As one of my last acts as
State Welfare Director, I
wish to express my profound
gratitude, personal as well
as official, for what you
have done to help the men
and women of the State and
County Departments of Fam
ily and Children Services
add hope to help as the es
sential catalyst in breaking
the cycle of poverty and re
versing the welfare trend. I
am confident you will accord
this same assistance to my
successor, Mr. Phil Cawthon,
who come to the office as a
career social work adminis
trator with the greatest
breadth of experience of any
Director in the Department’s
33-year history.
I look forward to having
an opportunity at an early
date to express my appre
ciation in person. In the
meantime, please call on
me for any assistance I can
give you or your paper.
In highest esteem and
with deepest gratitude and
every good wish.
Sincerely,
BILL BURSON
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Dear Mr. Branch:
May I pay your fine pub
lication a double compliment
by passing along the
thoughts of Mrs. Lewis B.
Smyth, contained in a letter
to me.
She said. “We thought it
was a special touch of our
‘Houston Home Journal’ to
print this picture (the one
made in Washington) beside
your column, which we all
read and appreciate.”
I share this high regard
and appreciation.
Sincerely,
JACK BRINKLEY
Member of Congress
(Copy to: Mrs. Lewis B.
Smyth)
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Dear Mr. Branch;
A word to college demon
strators or any group dem
onstrating against their good
government and President
and what the fair-minded
leaders of this country be
lieve to be the best thing for
this country.
No doubt that our govern
men is lending part of this
group money to go to school
on. The beginner of all these
demonstrations is a commun
ist or he has had his mind
made up by a communist,
someone who wants this
country to go wild against
our government so they can
take over and tell you what
you must study, and take
your freedom away, and tell
the newspapers what they
must not write.
A few army guards should
not be held responsible
when a wild group comes at
them threatening them.
They could become excited
and do something for pro
tection.
When we become little
enough to go out doing dam
age to property and threat
ening others, we should ex
pect to lose one of our own.
You are asking that the
American troops be pulled
out of Viet Nam and Cam
bodia, just give up and let
the communists take over.
When they do, in the course
of time, they will take ano
other and finally try and
take the United States. Then
you will work for $2 or $3
dollars per day and your
family want have a welfare
to live on. At present you
would call that Hell. We are
winning the war now and we
are not losing very many
men. To give up now in time
to come, you will lose 1,000
more per day where you lose
now only about 10 a day and
they will be driving you into
slavery. That is what you
are asking for in your dem
onstrations. The men over
there are not asking out and
your demonstration does not
please them.
The majority of our youth
are good citizens and be
lieve it would be well for
all college students to spend
all their time on books, to
learn how to make good lead
ers that believe in the living
Spirit of Christ and His
Church, We should lorate
those that say that there is
no God. and describe the
realities of this present
world, which we must main
tain our own house, our own
defense, our own strength.
We should be discouraging
dirty beatnics, men with
bearded faces and boys with
long stringy hair—an ugly
sight that does not have the
approval of the nicest girls.
Such men finally become
dope users or peddlers, a
thing that must be stopped
to save this country from
filth and slavery. Young men
with long haid cannot find
employment in the most
part of the United States.
We need to look like men,
act like men, win this war
and get an education.
B. F. BLOODWORTH
Macon, Ga.
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Dear Mr. Branch:
I returned to the United
States from Vietnam six
months ago. While in Viet
nam I served as a staff ser
geant with the 101st Air
borne Division, 2/506th In
fantry. During my tour I
served as either a platoon
sergeant or a platoon leader
for an airmobile combat pla
toon.
I have been surprised to
see several letters in local
Georgia papers from service
ment in Vietnam who tell
the public that their exper
iences in Vietnam indicate
that the United States is do
ing the right thing there.
I would like to point out
that neither combat nor sup
ply experience makes one an
expert on foreign policy. A
combat soldier in Vietnam
may learn military tactics,
but these are not at issue
in the debate over our in
volvement there. For in
stance, he may learn that the
Cambodian invasion has
been a military success, but
those opposing the invasion
never doubted this. He may
also learn that it would be
good military strategy to
bomb North Vietnam, but
no one disputes this. It
would also be good military
strategy to bomb Peking and
Moscow; however, military
tactics are only a small part
of a sensible overall for
eign policy.
I do not claim to be an ex
pert in foreign policy, and
I learned nothing about for
eign policy as a result of my
service in Vietnam. I left for
Vietnam with grave doubts
about the American involve
ment there. It would have
been easy*-to pat myself on
the back and tell myself that
I was “fighting for freedom”
there. This is precisely what
many soldiers do in order
to make the experience bear
able. But anyone with a sen
sitive conscience knows that
things just aren’t that sim
ple. I returned to the United
States with those same grave
doubts.
Yours sincerely,
JON M. MIDDLETON
P. S. I was a 1966 graduate
of Perry High School.
STATESBORO Gregory
James Leonard has graduat
ed Cum Laude from Georgia
Southern College. The an
nouncement was made June
7, at the 42nd Annual Com
mencement Exercises hold in
the Hanner Fieldhouse on
the GSC campus. He receiv
ed his A. B. degree in Poli
tical Science.
To graduate Cum Laude a
student must have attained
an overall Grade Point aver
age of 3.4-3.6.
Leonard, a resident of Per
ry, Georgia, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Leonard
Jr., of Perry.
* * *
Jerry Wayne Johnson, son
of Mrs. Mary Johnson of
Kathleen and Morris John
son of Perry and whose wife
is the former Lynn Mat
thews of Ft. Valley was grad
uated cum laude from the
University of Georgia in
ceremonies Saturday, June
6 in Athens. He received a
B. S. degree in Agronomy.
While at the University he
was a member of Phi Kappa
Phi, Alpha Zeta and was re
cognized with a scholastic
achievement on Honor’s Day.
Mr. Johnson will continue
his education at Perdue Uni
versity, Indiana on an assist
antship.
* * *
Honor graduates of Mid
dle Georgia College on Fri
day, June 5, were Peggy S.
Griffin and Stephen H. Man
tooth of Kathleen; David
Wayne Lewis of Elko; and
Barbara A. Purdom and Ber
tie Elizabeth Riner of Perry.
Honor graduates must aver
age at least 3.2 out of a pos
sible 4.0 on all academic
work completed at the col
lege,
* * *
Charles Anderson Aultman
of Perry received his Bach
elor of Arts degree from
Mercer University Sunday,
June 7, in exercises at the
Macon Coliseum.
* * *
Several Perry students re
ceived degrees at Fort Val
ley State College on Sunday,
May 31. Annie Bell Price
received the Bachelor of
Arts degree. Receiving the
Bachelor of Science were
Paulette Bannister, Tereasa
Burden, Miller Dixon, and
Annette Williams. Winston
Lawson received the Bache
lor of Science in Business
Education.
* * *
Andrew Scott Gordon,
1104 East Tolleson Street, is
a candidate for a Bachelor
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MISS LOUISE HOUSER (right) is presented with a
service award for 25 years of service to the Houston
County Dept, of Family and Children's Services by Mrs.”
of Science in Business de
gree from Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, on June 14.
* * *
Karen Bowman received
her BS degree in Medical
Technology June 6 at The
Medical College of Georgia,
Augusta.
* * *
Joy Copeland Click was
graduated Cum Laude, with
an average above 3.3, from
Georgia Couthwestern Col
lege in Americus.
EUGENE SCOTT
Funeral Services for Eu
gene Scott, Sr., a native of
Houston County, were held
Sunday, June 7, 1970 in the '
Shiloh Baptist Church.
The Rev. E. L. Clark offi
ciated. Pierce and Butts Fu
neral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
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PERRY MAYOR MALCOLM REESE is prtssntsd • copy of ■ rocord mod*
by Centerville recording star Larry Thomson. The new record, "I've Found Some
body That Loves Me," is fast becoming a hit around the country and Thomson
already has plans for making more recordings for a New York based recording
company. Thomson is a graduate of Perry High School.
Th* Horn* Journal, Parry, Oa., Thursday, Juno 11, 1970 |
Aurelia Evans, FACS Director. Miss Houser was honored
local staff of FACS with a coffee Friday morn-
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