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The Houston Home Journal MEMBER Bobby Branch, President-Editor-Publisher NeMpAper Assoc 111 ion . Founded 1885 Official Organ City Os Perry And Houston County, Georgia MAXINE THOMPSON JIMMY CHAPMAN PHIL BYRD Associate Editor Production Mqr. Sports Editor DORIS BAFfTELD JANICE COLWELL Computer Opr. Bookkeeper b L Pj> p jjx EMILY MONTGOMERY ' NATIOf,A L^-S\ mm*- \ Xs \ NEWSPAPER / / "An Award Winning Georgia Weekly Newspaper" PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1972 PAGE 3-A 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. -8.8. 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. --8.8. 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. --8.8. 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. -8.8. 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. jwwSy«wwSs!sSisi>S^»ji<SjSwws?wjS&^ Wvv?v^.w. , XNw! , >w.vXwNy®.WsNw/\X*!v^X , Vv\v-;->XW . , | } j •f | |1 ■SOia | Tj £ufl^^,' "ITnjiH^iidiPK ir DECISIONS! DECISIONS! axins ■ * ~jH The View From Here Pfll jHH ■ y . / / 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 BRANCH | 9 ~J OUT ON A '* ' BRANCH 'jT 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. f/ (y* y I — ni >»iiiT* 1» 11 U H * i