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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1972
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Red Carpet In Perry
Georgia’s annual Red Carpet Tour
that visited here last week was a
genuine success. Some of the world’s
top industrialists and businessmen
toured the Pabst Brewery and the
City of Perry as part of the state-wide
junket.
It was indeed a honor for Perry to be
able to host the group and thanks to
the long months of work by the
Chamber of Commerce it was all
possible. Elwyn McKinney, executive
veep of the Chamber, handled the
Our Banks Offer Much
This is Georgia Bank Week and we
are proud to salute the commercial
banks in Houston County and
especially our own local banking
institutions, The First National Bank
of Houston County and The Bank of
Perry.
The theme of this year’s Georgia
Bank Week is “Banks Make It
Happen.” And to mark the
celebration, the two local commercial
banks are giving away flower seeds
and information on gardening to
inspire their customers to “watch
Georgia grow.”
It is difficult to imagine the many
New Attorney And Judge
We congratulate the Perry City
Council on their selection of a new
City Attorney and City Court Judge.
The Council, last week, unanimously
voted to hire Larry Walker as the City
Attorney and George Nunn to replace
Walker on the City Court Bench.
Both men are outstanding young
Tourists Pour Into Perry
Tourist traffic in Perry last week
was heavier than it has been in a long
time. Most motels filled up each night
and tourists continued to pour into
town seeking a room for the night.
Tourist-related businesses around
Perry reported brisk business,
especially during the period of last
Thursday through Sunday.
BACKWARD^
FROM THE HOME JOURNAL FILES
5 YEARS AGO - The Houston County
Board of Education called in an ar
chitect to furnish comparative figures
on renovation of Perry Junior High
School or building a new school plant
... Members of the First Baptist
Church Sunday voted to authorize the
trustees to sign a contract for $307,000
for building a new sanctuary ... A
contract has been let for an overhead
sign on Interstate 75 just south of
Perry to improve traffic flow into
Perry on the south interchange.
10 YEARS AGO - Tax Commissioner
Forine C. Rainey sold 15,194 tags by
the deadline, as compared with 12,836
sold up to the same date last year. She
expects to sell 20,000 during this year,
compared with 16,345 for the county
last year ... Teachers who have
arrangements on the Perry end of the
tour and it was a high spot in the visit
to the state.
The visitors were especially im
pressed with the Pabst Brewery and
Pabst’s top man, James Windham,
who addressed the group Thursday
morning. We think a comment made
by the President of the 3M Company
to Mr. Windam sums up the way the
visitors feel about Middle Georgia ...
“I am impressed thoroughly with this
plant and this area.” ... So are we.
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services our local banks render to
their customers and to the com
munity. Making loans and offering
checking accounts are only a small
part of the total banking services
offered to customers.
Banks have come to be such an
accepted and vital part of the com
munity that we may have grown to
take them for granted. Certainly our
local banks are deeply involved in the
business of helping Perry and
Perryans to grow. Visit your bank
this week. “Banks Make It Happen.”
We salute our banks during their
special week.
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attorneys and we feel the City will
benefit from the appointments.
Interim attorney Tom Spencer of
Centerville, has done a fine job for
Perry while the Council pondered a
permanent replacement for former
City Attorney David Hulbert, who
resigned in December.
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We are predicting the biggest
tourist season in Perry’s history this
summer as tons of thousands of
persons journey to Florida to
visit Walt Disney World and stop
over in Perry on their way down and
return home. Tourism continues to be
Perry’s number one industry. And we
are proud of it.
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retired this year or plan to retire at
the end of the year will be honored
with a banquet by the Houston Co.
Board of Education ... Seven young
ladies have entered the “Miss Perry”
pageant to be held April 20.
20 YEARS AGO ■ The Federal
Housing Administration announced
that allocations to builders for 200
houses at Warner Robins has been
made upon assurance that a water
supply will be available. Robins Air
Force Base has agreed to supply
water until the town can develop its
own system ... The Perry PTA, of
which Mrs. E. P. Staples is president,
concluded a successful year’s work
with the April meeting ... Stewart
Richardson was elected president of
the Perry Junior Chamber of Com
merce, to succeed Dr. C. E. Graham.
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In line with the Red Carpet Tour of
Georgia this past week that included
Perry and Houston County, it is in
teresting to learn that in M ay of 1918 a
party of “Good Road Tourists” in
cluding members of the Georgia State
Automobile Association, state of
ficials and other prominent citizens
passed through Perry during the
morning in their tour of the state. The
speaker, Mr. Thomas Winn, said the
purpose of the tour was to ask the
cooperation of our people in securing
legislation for proper road building in
Georgia. The purpose was “to amend
Georgia road law so as to secure the
federal appropriation to help in
building a permanent highway
through Georgia.”
After being served drinks and
cigars by the Perry Commercial
Club, the party went to Cordele where
they were guests of that city for
dinner.
So I suppose that if they had used
such terms in those days, this would
have been a type if Red Carpet Tour
also.
While I was researching in the 1918
issues of the Houston Home Journal, I
thought of Macon News Editor Joe
Parham’s recent column about type
lice when I came across this line in a
display ad: “We also carry a com
plete line of Dill Tickles.” Another ad
offering two Ford trucks for sale with
flats built for hauling peaches,
reads on the next line, “capacity 25 to
30 crates of perches.” Fishy business.
One of the nightmares of those of us
who sew our own clothes was aired by
several women at the local fabric
shop last Saturday. It’s trying to get
all of the pattern pieces folded and
back into the envelope from whence
they came. Even with less paper
(remember, we trim off all those
extra edges when we cut out
something) what came out of the
pattern envelope as a neatly folded
bundle goes back as a wadded mess,
no matter which way you try to fold.
One bright young miss came up
with the answer to how the pattern
folks got the pieces in there neatly in
the first place.
“I think they folded them up, then
made the envelope to fit around
Shop In Perry . . . Where Bargains Are
Better And Service is Tops ... You Come
Out Better When You Shop At Home
them,” she said. May be that’s not as
far-fetched as it sounds.
We’ve started spring-cleaning at
our house, and I wonder what became
of the resolution I made last year to
get rid of junk all through the year
instead of having to cart it all out at
one time. As usual, I’m amazed to
find that things considered absolutely
essential a few months ago have lost
their appeal.
I’m going to try again this year to
remember: If I know I’ll never wear
it again, give it to someone who will.
If it’s too worn out for anybody to
wear, for goodness sake either throw
it away or use it for dustrags. Read
magazines with a pair of scissors or
razor blade in hand, clipping anything
I want to save as I go along. And
occasionally go through those clip
pings and cull them, too.
Along with the cleaning bit, I’m
wielding a paintbrush here and there.
An old chair, chest or other piece of
furniture that’s an eyesore is sud
denly transformed into a thing of
beauty, and I like a lot of color in the
house.
I sensibly wear old rags for pain
ting, but anywhere that skin shows is
apt to be streaked and spotted with
paint. I’ve learned to endure having
to scrub myself with turpentine,
though, since I can’t remember to
wear long sleeves and rubber gloves.
Sewing is piling up on me while I
fool around with the house cleaning
and refurbishing. My dresser looks
like a flower garden with print
material spilling from a stack - some
cut out, some not - and I’ll get around
to it some of these days. In the
meantme, all that rain has made a
meadow out of my front yard again
the grass hasn’t grown an inch but the
weeds are a foot high in spots - and it’s
time to drag out the lawnmower
again.
Mercy me. I’m learning more every
day to think like Scarlett - “I’ll worry
about that tomorrow.” In the
meantime, my editor just told me this
column is holding up the editorial
page, so I’ll finish that up right now
and put off something else until
tomorrow.
BOBBY
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SUNDAY AFTERNOON I visited some friends
on their farm near Perry, and we were all stan
ding around in the front yard watching the dozen
or so youngsters play. All of a sudden two
automobiles traveling at close to 100 miles per
hour came weaving by on the long, straight road
in front of the house these folks were fixing up for
a week-end retreat. The drivers of the cars were
“drag racing.”
One time wasn’t enough for the teenager racers.
They ended their race and came back by the house
for a second run. The racers had left two of their
companions at the end of the road to act as
starters and when they passed the second time,
we jumped in our car and proceeded to go have a
chat with the two boys at the end of the road. In
the meantime, the race drivers had spotted us and
did not return right away to pick up their com
panions.
My friends explained, in easy to understand
terms, to the boys that he did not appreciate them
racing up and down the road and that he felt as
though their racing put his and the other
children’s life in jeopardy. The boys did not say a
word during the one-sided conversation. Indeed,
one of them flashed a grin.
It bugs me to see such a flagrant violation of the
laws and one that endangers the drivers as well as
other people who live up and down the road. Had
one of the drivers lost control of his car at such a
high speed and rolled into the yard where the
dozen children were playing, it might have been a
real tragic Sunday afternoon.
Drag racing is dangerous, yet it persists around
Perry. I wonder if the parents of the 16 and 17 year
old boys we witnessed Sunday know what their
children are doing for thrills on Sunday af
ternoons. There are legitimate drag strips for
drag racing right here in Houston County. Public
roads and streets are not the place. I hope the
proper authorities will take note and I hope the
youngsters drag racing will realize the danger
involved in racing on public roads ... Before it is
too late.
OUR GEORGIA General Assembly is a great
group to pass stacks of laws each session. I am
sure most of the thousands of laws on the Georgia
Code Books are good ohes, but the thing that
concerns me is the fact that so many of them are
not enforced. Yet, hundreds more laws are passed
each year and written on the books.
I suggest the General Assembly not meet for
about three years and give us a chance to catch up
on some of those laws and enforce them. Sure
would save us taxpayers a lot money, too.
AN EDITOR of a small town weekly recently
found that he didn’t have enough material to fill
up his paper, which is not an unusual occurence.
So, his had his typesetter set up the Ten Com
mandments and he ran them in his paper without
any editorial comment or explanation. A reader
wrote the editor and asked that his subscription be
cancelled. The reader allowed as how the editor
was getting “personal.” and he didn’t appreciate
it. ... I guess he must have just had a guilty con
science.
1 READ the other day about a suggestion made
by a major advertising firm that one way the U.S.
Postal Service might boost their operating deficit
is to sell advertising space on postage stamps. A
distillery immediately offered to buy a large
portion of the advertising and also offered to make
the glue on the back of stamps bourbon-flavored.
A problem that might arise with advertising
stamps is that you might pay your Gulf credit
card bill with a Shell-stamped envelope or pay a
Sears bill with a J.C. Penney stamped envelope.
Or so on and so on.
But there might be some merit to the hour
boned-flavored stamp.
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