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The Houston Home Journal
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Official Organ City Os Perry And Houston County. Georgia
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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1972
Perry Chamber President Joe
Poole pointed out in a story last week
the vital need for an industrial park in
Perry. The Chamber chief noted that
Perry has recently lost an industry
because of not having an industrial
park site.
Perry needs more small industry.
We need industry that employs less
than 100 people and we need the
facilities to draw such industries
here. Certainly we can not expect to
get a Pabst, Magee Carpet or
Kellwood plant here very often but we
do have much to offer smaller in
dustry. We have labor, tran
Houston County’s oldest, and
certainly one of the finest, citizens
passed away this week with the death
of Mrs. Bright Harper at the age of
105.
Mrs. Harper was an inspiration to
those who surrounded her for so many
years. She was active and bright up
until the last few months. Her life,
indeed, served as an example to
many others and she will be sorely
The Georgia Supreme Court may
very likely rule on the Perry election
case on May 8, or soon thereafter. We
hope the matter is resolved soon so
that the City of Perry can get down to
business with a full Council.
Because of the “lame duck”
Council since the first of the year, the
budget is extremely late getting
Salute To The Library
This is National Library Week and
our public and school libraries are to
be commended for the manner in
which they keep up with modern
trends in living. They are no longer
the places that smell of musty old
book bindings and furniture polish,
where you have to tiptoe around and
the librarian “shushes” you if you
even whisper.
Modern libraries now include
filmstrips, magazines, tapes,
records, and newspapers. Andrew
Carnegie educated himself in the
public library of his day; today we
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FROM THE HOME JOURNAL FILES
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5 YEARS AGO • The first roll of
carpet was completed recently at the
Magee Carpet Company of Perry ...
Houston County will vote Tuesday on
$1,400,000 school bond issue ...
Houston County farmers stand to lose
millions of dollars this year unless
rain falls soon, County Agent Emmett
Whelchel said ... Suzie White sold her
reserve champion Angus, 993 pound
“Willie,” to Winn-Dixie forsl a pound
after the Georgia Cattle Show in
Atlanta.
10 YEARS AGO • Construction of a
new motel, to be known as Heart of
Perry Motel, was announced this
week by the Roughton Family,
owners of the Swan Motor Court ...
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Meens, who live
near Henderson, have passed their
Perry Industrial Park
Mrs. Harper Passes
Perry’s Court Case
sportation, water and many other
things to offer small industry but we
do not have an industrial park. It is
almost necessary to have such a park
to attract small industry into a
community.
We endorse Poole’s statement
calling for a joint effort between the
City and the Chamber to seek out
ways to establish a Perry industrial
park. As President Joe Poole put it,
“If we don’t do something about
establishing an industrial park soon,
we are going to be left behind in the
competition for industry.”
missed.
We can’t help but think of the
history Mrs. Harper witnessed during
her long and full life. Being born in
the south in the days shortly after the
War Between the States and all the
history filled years in that century
and this one too. We had the pleasure
of interviewing Mrs. Harper a couple
of years ago. We were impressed. We
will miss her.
-8.8.
prepared and committee assignments
to Councilmen are uncertain. The
court case has put the City in a bind,
to put it mildly. But we are glad it was
filed so that when the High Court
rules and doubt surrounding the
December 7, election will no longer
remain ... No matter what the ruling
is ... The law is the law.
--8.8.
can supplement our education with
the vast array of educational
materials in the libraries.
Our librarians cheerfully assist the
person doing research work; en
courage those who need
more material by ordering it from
other sources; and many remember
the kind of books we enjoy reading for
pleasure and recommend titles we
might like to check out.
To all of our Perry and Houston
County librarians, a big “Thank
You,”
-M.T.
examination for U.S. Naturalization
papers and will take the oath of
citizenship in the next few weeks. The
Meens family came to this country
five years ago from Holland ... Mayor
Milton Beckham itemized proposals
for a bond issue estimated at $250,000
for city improvements.
20 Y’EARS AGO • Members of the
Cater family, pioneer family of
Middle Georgia, gather 60 strong here
Sunday night for their first full-scale,
organized reunion ... 23 Houston
County farmers are engaged in
cotton, corn and peanut production
demonstrations and tests ... A total of
80 civilian employees of Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio have
now been notified their jobs are to be
transferred to Robins Air Force Base.
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The View From Here IPII
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The English language, American
style, is a funny, constantly changing
thing. So many new words are coined
through science and research; so
many formerly slang words are
accepted as permissible for everyday
use; so many former “no-nos” are
now “yes-yes.”
When I was a child, I was taught at
home and at school that you didn’t
call Mrs. a married woman’s title,
“Miz”. Instead, it was pronounced
correctly something that sounded
roughly like “Mizziz.” (I frequently
got the creeps hearing it also
pronounced “Miseries” by some;
while it may well have stated the
condition of the existence of some
bearing the title it was still in
correctly pronounced.)
Now Women’s Lib has come up with
Ms., a blanket title meaning “it’s
none of your business whether I’m
single, married, widowed or divor
ced” and pronounced - I couldn’t
believe it - “Miz”. My first and still
current reaction is “ugh!”
Now, I’m a champion of women’s
rights as human beings. I’ve heard
men comment that women didn’t
need to make as much on a job as
men. Maybe that’s true in families
that have a man and woman both
working. But in households such as
mine, in which the woman had to be
head of the house and support
children until they’re old enough to be
on their own, a woman not only needs
to make as much as the man doing the
same job but is entitled to it. I’ve quit
a number of jobs because my salary
stayed the same while men who came
in later climbed over my head salary
wise while doing less work.
But other than that, I’m a woman
who has been married, however
disastrously it may have turned out,
and since there are children involved
I still wear the title of “Mrs.”
proudly. If I had never been married
at all, I wouldn’t care a fig who knew
it and a “Miss” would be worn just as
proudly.
I don’t care to be called a “Miz.”
Wanting that title because all men are
“Mr.” may be all right for those
clamoring hordes of women wanting
to dig ditches and work in foundries
and drive semi-trucks like the men. If
they want to be like men, that’s their
business and more power to them.
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If You Don’t Read The Home Journal You
Really Don’t Know What’s Happening In Perry
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They deserve everything they get.
I was created a woman, and that’s
what 1 want to be. With some ex
ceptions, women were created with
softer voices and bodies than men.
While many have great physical
stamina, they don’t appear to have
great physical strength that shows, as
that of men does in bulging muscles.
Since God created man and woman
different, I prefer to emphasize the
difference, to play up femininity and
make the most of it. In the same way
most men want to appear as
masculine as possible, scorning the
idea of being considered soft or sissy.
I thoroughly enjoy having doors
opened for me by gentlemen; chairs
pulled out for me; my coat held while
I slip my arms into it. And since they
so obviously enjoy doing these little
things for a lady, why should the
women’s libbers get so hot under the
collar about them? Or is that the
reason in itself - they want to deprive
men of as many as possible of the few
little pleasures left in life?
Big things in life occur in
frequently; it’s the little incidents
that happen each day that are so vital
a part of our lives. The flash of a
smile; a sweet, kind word; the soft
touch of a hand; often these are the
only things needed to “make”
someone’s day. Far be it from me to
snap and snarl at someone trying to
be kind to me just because that person
happens to be male. I’d rather help
“make” someone elses day, too.
There are enough problems in most
people’s lives to fill volumes of print;
sometimes a bleeding heart is given a
transfusion by kindness.
You won’t find me picketing,
marching, or carrying banners for
Women s Lib. I’m going to continue to
carry on the best I can with the
abilities, talents, and ambitions with
which God endowed me, and leave it
up to Him to show me the best use for
them.
Very few people here call me
anything except Maxine; it’s one of
the things I like about a small town.
But if anyone feels compelled to call
me anything else, or to write it, please
don t call me Ms.” It appears too
much to be a neuter symbol, neither
masculine of feminine. And I’m not
one of those mixed-up kids saying
“What am I?” I know what I am.
BOBBY
BRANCH k£l
OUT ON A
BRANCH
IT OCCURS to me that Perry City Councilman
D. K. (Dot) Roughton may be going after the
block vote for whatever future political cam
paigns he plans to wage. The female block vote
that is.
The colorful Councilman Roughton brought up
the subject of “Women’s Liberation” at the
Council meeting Tuesday night. He said he could
not understand why the City does not pay the full
time female policewoman the same salary earned
by the male policemen employed by the City.
Other members of Council pointed out that the
lady cop does not perform the same type of duties
as the males on the force, such as regular
patrolling at night and carrying a pistol. But
Roughton stuck to his obvious belief in “women’s
lib.” Os course, all the Councilmen agreed that the
lady police officer in question is one of the most
dedicated officers on the force and performs her
job most efficiently and satisfactorily.
You may not know this but Councilman
Roughton is a bachelor. Now, I don’t know if that
has any bearing at all on his feelings towards
“women’s lib” but most certainly it is interesting.
Personally, I believe the ladies movement is fine
to a certain point. As far as I know, my better half
is liberated. I get my orders in the morning before
I leave the house and again at night when I get
home.
Maybe Councilman Roughton will one day give
up his bachelorhood and at that time his feelings
on “women’s lib” may change. I think his point is
well taken. I have to because I have several ladies
working for me who strongly believe in “women’s
lib”. Especially in the area of male-female
salaries.
Oh well, as Dizzy Dean would say, “take the bad
with the good podner.” what ever that means.
MY MIDDLE son had a friend spend the night
with him the other night and the two got into a
very deep conversation about who they love. My
boy pointed out that he loves his parents and his
brothers and his grandparents. His friend thought
a minute and came up with this quote, which ain’t
bad for an 8 year old. ...“I love God because he
made me. I wasn’t made in Japan like all the
other junk around.”
MY GOOD FRIEND Bo McLeod, the sage of
Seminole County (and also Editor of the
Donalsonville News) wrote in his column last
week that the good folks in Donalsonville are
planning another “Jallop supper.” I didn’t even
know they had already had a Jallop supper but I
am certainly pleased to hear they are going to
throw another one. By the way, what is a Jallop?
Must be some particular type of Seminole County
food foreign to us in Middle Georgia. It bothers me
somewhat, however, that I am not familiar with a
dish that is so widely touted in Donalsonville, and
perhaps in other areas of the state. And me, who is
a devotee of just about any kind of food around,
not knowing what Jallop is.
I hope Bo McLeod sees this column and im
mediately sends me a sampling of Jallop ... I’ll
send him some roasted soybeans in return.
SUMMER HAS finally arrived. I know it has
because my boys have begun their annual cam
paign of working on me to convince me that it’s
not too early to go swimming.
Another sign of the approaching summer is the
arrival of the mosquitoes in Perry. From the looks
of things, we are going to have some healthy crop
of mosquitoes this season and it’s going to be a
banner year for makers of insect sprays.
The City is going to try and get the jump on the
pesky little insects, though, and start spraying
them by airplane in the next few days. It costs us
taxpayers, by the way, about $425 each time the
plane sprays the City. But it’s worth it If the City
didn’t control the insects by spraying, it would be
almost impossible to get outdoors during the
summer ... Now just wait until the sand gnats
arrive. They’ll be here in about a month.
It's Finally Happened, Mildred, We've Hit A Bracket
Where Our Tax Rate Is Higher Than Our Income....