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Beat Perry’s Mosquitoes
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We hope the City Council will take a
long, hard look at a report that has
been prepared by the Environmental
protection Agency of the Georgia
Dept, of Natural Resources con
cerning recommendations for
mosquito control in Perry. The
report, which was requested by
Councilman James McKinley, is the
results of two days of study by two
The Andersonville Trail
We think “The Andersonville Trail”
is something to get excited about. It’s
the number one tourist attraction in
this part of the slate and it is only now
beginning to really receive the
publicity and promotion it deserves.
Thanks to the efforts of Perry’s Don
Parkinson, a member of the An
dersonville Trail committee, and
others in Middle Georgia, the at
traction is beginning to move and it
has helped put Perry on the tourist
attraction map.
Just what is The Andersonville
Trail? It’s 75 miles of scenic Central
Georgia lands away from the frantic
rush of interstate highways.
From 1-75 you get onto the Trail at
Perry, the northern most point, or at
Cordele, from the South. Whether you
ejpct to quickly cover the entire route
or to stop overnight, an abundance of
family accommodations are
available at the three largest towns
on the trail: Perry, Cordele and
Americus.
Driving southward, you leave
Perry and in only a few minutes you
Open Letter to Senator "by Appointment" David Gambrel!
Dear Senator;
Up to this point I have not seen fit to mention your name on
any public occasion, but I see in the papers where you state I
have very few “old friends’’ left in Georgia. In fact, you
intimate that 1 may not have any.
Senator, a man of my age does not have as many “old
friends” as he once had because many of them have gone to
their rewards 1 do. however, appreciate the many who are
left.
Your statement reminds me of the story of the late
playw right. George Bernard Shaw-, who sent the late Winston
Churchill two tickets to the opening night’s performance of
Shaw's new play. With the tickets he inclosed this note:
“Dear Winston. I am sending you two tickets for the opening
night’s performance of my new play. Bring a friend, that is.
if you can find one ”
Churchill replied “Dear Bernard, 1 appreciate the two
tickets, but I cannot attend the opening night’s performance
of your new play due to a previous engagement, I will attend
the second night’s performance, that is. if there is one.”
1 will see you in the second primary later in the fall,
Senator, that is. if you are in it.
Marvin Griffin
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5 YEARS AGO • The Houston Home
Journal won awards for first place in
Local News Coverage and third place
in Best Editorial Page at the Georgia
Press Convention ... Mrs. Byron
Maxwell, wife of one of the partners
in the Houston Home Journal, won
first prize with her newspaper dress,
a fringe style, at the convention ...
The City of Perry received checks
totaling $35,030 from the State of
Georgia, representing the city’s
portion of grants to municipalities
approved by the General Assembly.
10 YEARS AGO • Dot Houghton says
he hopes to have the new Heart of
Perry Motel open by July 17 ... The
Perry FFA String Band will compete
in the state string band finals
Tuesday night, for the fifth con
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972
engineers from the agency.
The report recommends that Perry
can better control the mosquito
population by purchasing a fogging
machine and discontinue the spraying
from an airplane. We hope Council
heeds the advice and will take a step
forward in the battle of mosquitoes in
Perry. Nobody, but nobody, likes
mosquitoes. Let’s get rid of them now.
--8.8.
are able to see the American
Camellia Society National
Headquarters at M arshallville.
Flowers are in bloom most of the year
at the gardens providing an eye
appealing sight over the seven acre
gardens which contains hundreds of
varieties of camellias.
Some of the other scenic attractions
along the way are Georgia’s last
state-owned ferry, near Mar
shallville, Whitewater State Park, the
famous Andersonville National
Historic site, the antebellum homes of ”
Americus and Montezuma and the
Veterans Memorial State Park near
Cordele.
We highly recommend “The An
dersonville Trail” for an enjoyable
family outing for a day or even more.
It's one of Georgia’s finest attractions
and it is right in our own front door.
You can get a well done and colorful
brochure about the trail from the
Perry Chamber of Commerce. Plan
to travel it this week-end. You’ll enjoy
it.
-8.8.
secutive year the Perry FFA has been
represented in this event... Voters in
Perry approved three phases of a
$250,000 bond issue for street and
sewerage extensions and im
provements and for a municipal
building.
20 YEARS AGO - A celebration is set
for July 30 for the opening of the
Marshallville-Perry Road ... The
“thing” you’ve seen on display in
front of the Gray-Walker Tractor Co.
is a mechanical cotton picker which
picks it and puts it in the truck
without being touched by hand ...
Houston County farmers have suf
fered thousands of dollars loss
because of the extended dry period. In
some sections of the county no rain
has fallen since the latter part of May.
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If anyone happens to notice Wad
dell, the well-known Perry house
painter, walking around town with a
pistol holster - don’t shoot. That’s his
eyeglasses he carries in it.
0. W. Waddell, who is seldom called
by anything except his last name,
said his glasses case kept falling out
of his shirt pocket when he bent over,
and when someone gave him the little
holster he solved that problem
quickly.
He claims to be the only man in
Houston County with four honorable
discharges from Uncle Sam. Two are
from the old Civilian Conservation
Corps (C.C.C.) that preceded World
War 11, and the other two are for
army stints during that war. He was
drafted the first time, got his
discharge, later joined the regular
army.
Waddell said he was at Fort Hen
ning, Georgia in 1941 at the same time
George Wallace, currently the
governor of Alabama and a
Presidential candidate, was there as
a Second Lieutenant
We’ve come a long way, baby, since
the first term of Superior Court held
in Houston County in a blacksmith
shop in 1822, its second year of
existence, and its second term when
the judge and lawyers slept on pallets
in their host’s bedroom.
The Flint Judicial Circuit com
prising the five counties carved from
land ceded by Creek Indians was so
new that Houston County had no
judge and was temporarily attached
to the Southern Circuit
Five Justices of the Inferior Court
were elected and were the most
powerful officials of the county,
holding all the powers of the present
Court of Ordinary, Board of Com
missioners of Roads and Revenues,
The Perry City Charter
We want to go on record as en
dorsing the suggestion last week by
City Councilman Alton Hardy that a
group be appointed to study the Perry
City Charter and make recom
mendations for the updating or
rewriting of the charter.
We feel this action is long overdue
and that the City needs an updated
charter that will blend with the times.
Certain sections of the old charter
were written and adopted decades
and those usually held by City courts.
They would meet once a month for
“county purposes” and twice a year
to hear civil and criminal cases.
In the second court session, held at
the house of Jacob Little, Justice of
the Peace, the judge propped his
chair against the whiskey barrel to
keep everyone out until court was
over, and since it wasn’t finished in
one day the people involved had to
sleep on the floor that night
Houston County has had its own
Superior Court system now for a little
over a year. Things may get rough
mentally and emotionally for the
judge, jury, lawyers, and the ac
cused, but it must be admitted that
their physical accomodations are a
far cry from “the olden days!”
M. F. McCormick, grocery store
owner in Hayneville, brought in a
copy of the Hayneville Academy’s
announcement of its term to “com
mence on the 3rd day of January,
1848,” with courses and their tuition
listed.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jennings were
entirely in charge, he of the boys and
she of the girls. Tuition for reading,
writing and spelling was $3 a quarter;
geography and arithmetic, $4;
grammar, history and rhetoric $5;
philosophy and chemistry $6; higher
mathematics $7; Greek and Latin
Languages $8; French Drawing,
painting and embroidery $10; and
music, sl2.
It is notable that arts, domestic and
cultural, were emphasized in the little
village school when Houston County
was just 27 years old.
Mr. McCormick said that
descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Jennings
now own the telephone company in
Hawkinsville.
ago and it is time to take a look at the
charter and bring it up to date.
We believe a charter study com
mittee should be appointed by Mayor
and Council made up of interested
and concerned citizens who are
concerned about the City govern
ment It will be a challenging job for
those who undertake to study the long
and cumbersome charter but we feel
the final results will be of benefit to us
all in the City of Perry. Let’s get a
charter study underway right away.
“8.8.
BOBBY
BRANCH
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COUNCILMAN D. K. (Dot) ROUGHTON at
tended a portion of the Georgia Municipal
Association at Jekyll Island, recently but he said
he paid his own way and ate bologna sandwiches
because he didn’t want to charge any of his ex
penses to the City.
The outspoken Councilman Roughton, who is
known to be quite frugile on certain City spending,
told me he didn’t register and that he wasn’t
allowed to attend the meetings of the G.M.A. so he
got in his car and left the second day. He did say,
however, he accomplished what he set out to do
and that was to talk to a gentleman at Jekyll about
something important to the City of Perry.
Roughton said he has proof he didn’t charge his
expenses to the City because some of the other
Councilmen saw him with a loaf of bread and sack
of bologna that he purchased for his supper while
at Jekyll.
Next time I eat a bologna sandwich, I’ll think
about you, Dot.
PERRY’S SAM NUNN has a lot going for him in
the crowded and heated race for the U.S.
Senatorial nomination in the Democratic primary
August 8. One of the biggest things is the fact that
he now has more than 30 headquarters around the
state that are located in donated office space and
staffed by volunteers. And he is planning to open
even more headquarters.
There are numerous folks in Houston County
that are giving of their time and efforts to do
volunteer work for the Perry candidate, also. He’s
got a lot going for him and it looks like our can
didate is going to be in a run-off with incumbent
David Gambrell. His campaign is really moving
and Georgians are getting serious about Sam
Nunn. He’s the man.
DRUNK DRIVING is a pretty serious offense in
these parts but getting under the wheel in a bit of a
tipsy state is a right risky thing in some countries.
For example, in Australia the names of drinking
drivers are published in local newspapers under
the heading, “He’s a drunk and in jail”.
In Malaya, a drunk driver is jailed, and if he’s
married his wife gets thrown in the klink with
him.
In South Africa, the driver is given a 10 year
prison sentence, a fine of $2,800 or both.
In Turkey, drunk drivers are taken 20 miles into
the country by police and forced to walk back
under escort
Now there are never any repeaters in San
Salvadore, where convicted drunk drivers are
executed by a firing squad ... It’s enough to make
a fellow loose all taste for the grape.
YOU WILL RECALL in this column last week
that I ran a few items recently released by the
Federal Food and Drug Administration as to the
tolerable contamination in food they will allow us
to consume. I came across some more facts on
this concerning peanut butter and other foods.
For example, the F.D.A. will allow 50 insect
fragments or two rat hairs per 100 grams of
peanut butter. The tolerable limit for tomato juice
is 10 fruit fly eggs or two larvae per 100 grams.
Corn meal has exceeded the tolerable level of
contamination when it has as many as five
“rodent pellet fragments” per 50 grams.
Personally, I would just as soon the FDA kept
all these facts away from me ... I’m a fool about
peanut butter sandwiches.
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