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M. C. Jacobs of Perry picks tomatoes from the lush jungle of vines in his large greenhouse where he harvests two crops each year. These vine-ripened to matoes are very popular in the area, especially the late crop when they can no longer be grown outside. Perryan Heads WRBN Radio John Lynn has been nam ed as general manager of WRBN, Warner Robins. Lynn, a veteran middle Georgia broadcaster, heads both the AM and FM facili ty. E. F. BELLFLOWER MACHINE SHOP AND GARAGE TRUCK BODIES BUILT Complete Line of Hardware and Auto Parts ALL TYPES CONSTRUCTION Bridges, Culverts, Curbing All types cement work PHONE 987-1202 PERRY, GEORGIA spend your nights with WRBN nighttime FM 101.7 Middle Georgia's FIRST ALL-ROCK FM STATION WRBN 1600 AM/ 101.7 FM WARNER ROBINS, GA. I Cl Cl I W He was previously associ ated with WPGA, Perry, for 8 years, serving as sales man ager for 6 years. He joined the sales staff of WRBN March 9, 1970, assuming managerial responsibilities June 18. Lynn is vice president of the Perry Exchange Club, has served with the United Givers Fund of Houston County, and is an active member of the U. S. Army Reserve. He and his wife, the former Sheran Halvig, are members of the First Baptist Church, Perry, and they are the parents of a two-year old son, John. SERVICEMEN Pt*C Woourow W. Moony Jr„ of the U. S. Army Engineer Corps completed basic training at Ft. L)ix, N. J. April 2. 1970 and completed AIT Engineer Training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., May 28. His company re ceived the Post Commanding General’s Award as the Most Outstanding Unit in the First Brigade. PFC Moody is a pla. loon leader. He will assume new duties June 28 at Ft. Dev ens, Mass, where Mrs. Moody will join him. For the past two weeks, he has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil son Moody: his wife. Mrs. Mi chele Moody: and grandmother Mrs. Ouida Thorpe in Macon. Perry Grown Jacob’s Tomatoes Have Become Area Favorite BY MAXINE THOMPSON Approximately six months out of the year residents of Perry can buy homegrown, vine-ripened tomatoes at their grocery stores. At the produce counters they head straight for the bin with a sign proclaiming them to be ‘‘Jacobs Tomatoes.” For the past ten years M. C. Jacobs has grown the to matoes in his greenhouses behind his home on Houston Lake Road near Perry. He originally had two small plas tic covered greenhouses, but now he has a 64 by 100 foot fiberglass greenhouse which he plans to double in size in the near future. At present two crops a year are harvested. Mr. Jac obs orders seeds from New York, a hybrid variety General Tel Expansion Here On Schedule The General Telephone Company of the Southeast has announced that it is on schedule in providing Ex tended Area Service for its customers in the Unadilla and Byromville area. District Manager Kenneth Aldridge of Perry announc ed that General Telephone would be ready to join the other telephone companies in order to provide an EAS network, and that the est ablished in-service date of March 21. 1971 is on sche dule. This means that sub scribers of General Tele phone in Unadilla and By romville will be able to pick up their telephones and dial toll free from one town to another, and to Vienna and Pinehurst through intercon nection with other telephone companies serving that area. A person living in any of these four areas will be able to pick up and dial any where else in these areas just as they would call next door. Aldridge indicated that in order to provide this service it would be necessary to double the existing equip ment and building in Byrom ville at a cost in excess of $45,000. Construction on this project is set up to begin on August 1, 1970. Aldridge recently met with Mr. Earnest Hayes, Chair man of the Dooly County Telephone Committee, and other members of his com mittee, to explain the pro gress that had been made in providing EAS service. LT. GARY WILLIAMS FT. SILL, OKLA. Gary L. Williams. 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Talmadgc L, Wil liams, Kathleen, recently was commissioned a second-lie utenant upon graduation from the Officer Candidate School at the U. S. Army Field Artillery Center, Ft. Sill. Okla. Gunnery was the primary subject taught during the 23- week course, designed to prepare men for officer du ties in artillery units, He was also trained in artillery sur vey and transport, commun ications. map and aerial-pho to reading, electronics, coun terinsurgency and leader ship. His wife. Sandra, lives in Lawson, Okla. —Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Patrick H. Stone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stone of Route 1, Bonaire, participated in “Operation Foopdeck" while serving a board the guided missile fri gate USS William V. Pratt in the Mediterranean. “Operation Foopdeck” was a joint United Slates-Span ish exercise to test anti-air/ anti submarine warfare cap abilities. HELP BOOST PERRY known as Veegan recom mended for greenhouses, and grows his own plants. After each crop the greenhouse is cleaned out and fumigated with methalbromide, and seedlings are set out in nows. Plants set out around the middle of February or the first of March start bearing in late April. For the fall crop, plants are started the last of August or early Sep tember and tomatoes are ripe the last week in Octo ber. With temperature and hu midity rigidly controlled by thermostat, the greenhouse resembles a lush green jung le with tall vines loaded with scarlet globes from the ground all the way up over the heads of the pickers. Left alone, some of the plants have grown to heights of 10 to 12 feet. Mr. Jacobs pinches off the tops of his plants and prunes them to one stem each. Not only does this control height, but the vines then average 7 or 8 clusters of fruit each, some times having as many as 10. Each vine is staked and fastened to crosswires, and in the absence of insects in the controlled atmosphere pollination is accomplished by tapping on the wires with a stick when the plants blos som. During picking time a screened porch at the house is filled with boxes of to matoes, and Mrs. Jacobs, who works at Georgia De cor Co., and their son, Clint, who was graduated from Ferry High School this year, lend a hand a people drive out from town to buy large quantities of tomatoes. Mr. Jacobs also has an equal amount of tomatoes growing out in the open dur ing the summer, but ho is the first to admit that their * THE VANITY SHOP £ All Summer Merchandise *p ★ * 1 SAVE lupto L £ BOX Off! \ ijuiVii i - LOW PRICES! Dresses, Junior, Misses and half sizes ~.I IIPn. Summer Suits and Sportswear BIG VALUES! Hals and Jewelry S 89111 THE VANITY WWt Bm HhM| village square perry, ga. iB fßlp JBBhbBI quality and taste just don’t quite come up to that of those grown in the big green house. I NOTICE j I THE BANK OF PERRY I I WILL BE CLOSED I SATURDAY j JULY 4th The Home Journal, Perry, Ga„ Thursday July 2, 1970 f^erdonai Mrs. Orval B. Stever was honored at a luncheon at the New Ferry Hotel by Mrs. Tom Cater, Mrs. Allen Whip ple and Mrs. C .C. Fierce Jr. recently. The hostesses pre sented Mrs. Stever a gold monogram pin. Mrs. Tom Cater, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pierce, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Fryer en tertained the Stever family at a cook-out at the Pierce home at 1105 Duncan Ave nue prior to their departure to Wilmington, N. C. where they will make their home.