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Exercise Your Right
There are some 24,000 registered
voters in Houston County. We hope
most of them turn out at the polls next
Tuesday to cast their ballot in either
the Democratic or Republican
primary election.
Voter apathy has always been a
serious problem. Observers of
elections in Houston County are
Welcome Camp Meeting
Members of Christ’s Sanctified
Holy Church -- 3,000 of them -- will
begin arriving in Perry next Saturday
for their annual week-long camp
meeting. The group has been meeting
in Perry annually for more than 50
years.
Down through the years the church
group has developed a complete
camp meeting area 5 miles north of
Perry highway 41. They have two
Nunn In The Run Off
Senator David Gambrell must be
running scared. He has taken to
releasing his own polls to newspapers
stating that he is way out front of both
Sam Nunn and Ernest Vandiver in the
race for the U.S. Senate.
Most political observers now have
Perry’s Sam Nunn neck in neck with
the appointed incumbent David
Gambrell. Nunn, who started more
than 3 months ago as a dark horse
candidate, has made his mark with
Georgians and captured a lead in the
campaign. Unless we are all wet, we
predict Sam Nunn will be in a run-off
with Gambrell. We believe Nunn will
make a strong showing next Tuesday.
David Gambrell knows that Sam
Nunn will beat him in a run-off. That
is why he is concocting polls and
One of the strongest testimonials to
the merit of the private enterprise
system has come from the Food and
Drug Administration. The agency
reports that there is far less con
tamination in food than is permitted
by the legally established maximum
levels. Says the FDA, “The major
safeguard for the consumer is the
food industry itself, because it is in
I MCKWARD% I
5 YEARS AGO- Perry's newest water
tank, located near Interstate 75 south,
will be completed soon. It is being
built to serve Magee Carpet Co., the
motels in the area and others in the
area. The capacity of the tank will be
500,000 gallons ... A five-barrel,
steamer type still was discovered by
Sheriff’s deputies in a wooded section
behind the Perry Trailer Park on
Perimeter Road, in the city limits ...
Jimmy Carter will be the speaker at
the dinner meeting of the Perry
Business Women’s Club on August 10.
10 YEARS AGO - All Houston County
school bus drivers have been ordered
to burn their headlights in broad
daylight to focus additional attention
on school bus safety ... Swimming
classes at Vinson’s Valley are
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUG. 3, 1972
Free Enterprise
predicting that 12,000 to 13,000 per
sons will vote here next Tuesday out
of a possible 24,000. Some are even
predicting less.
Voting is a right and a privilege.
Please exercise both next Tuesday
and let’s have a record voter turnout
for this most important primary
election.
chapels, a number of dormitories and
houses and a cemetery. Plans call for
the future development of a lake and
year round recreational area.
We want to extend a warm welcome
to everyone here from the Christ’s
Sanctified Holy Church. Your stay
here is always welcome. We hope you
have the most successful camp
meeting ever.
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making predictions. He is trying to
convince people that he is a winner.
But David Gambrell has all he can
handle in this race with Sam Nunn
breathing down his neck.
The same week Sam Nunn an
nounced his candidacy for the U.S.
Senate, this newspaper endorsed his
candidacy. We want to strongly
reiterate our feelings about Sam
Nunn. We sincerely believe Georgia
needs Sam Nunn in Washington. His
youth, his intelligence, his
background, his patriotism, his firm
stand on the issues, are all a plus
factor in his favor. It’s time to get
lough in Washington ... It’s time to
elect Sam Nunn our next U.S.
Senator.
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the processors’ best interests to
maintain a low level (of con
tamination) ... for their customers.
The industry has much more to fear
from a critical public than from the
FDA" Laws and police surveillance
are, at best, inadequate substitutes
for the automatic self-policing
mechanism of a competitive free
market.
drawing to a close after a most
successful two-week period of in
struction ... Christ’s Sanctified Holy
Church will hold its 24th annual Camp
Meeting at the Camp Grounds North
of Perry ... Perry Panthers football
drills will open Monday afternoon.
20 YEARS AGO - The Third District,
which includes 23 counties in Middle
and Western Georgia, will be
declared a “disaster area” in the next
few days, Congressman E. L.
Forrester said, because of the
prolonged drouth and hot weather.
The corn crop has been cut by at least
65 percent and cotton and peanut
yields will suffer seriously ... Daniel
K. Grahl and Lewis Smith, publishers
of the Warner Robins Press, have
purchased the Fort Valley Leader-
Tribune from Mr. and Mrs. John
Jones.
THE EQUALIZER
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The View From Here SB
We were all sitting in county
commission meeting in the cour
thouse here Tuesday with
goosebumps you could hang a hat on,
the air conditioning was so cold.
“I’m going home and kill hogs,”
county building inspector Fred Beard
said, trying to rub some circulation
back into his arms.
That’s about what that room felt
like, and it had been many years since
I was present at a hog-killing but the
memory is still clear and enjoyable.
For some reason children don’t seem
to mind the cold as much as grown
ups, and while my grandparents,
aunts, uncles, and often my parents
pitched in with the work we just ran
around playing, getting in their way
and having fun.
Even seeing washpots in the an
tique stores I’m practically living in
these days reminds me of hog-killing.
I can almost smell the fat cooking in
one to render the clear grease that
would turn into lard. In the yard and
in the house, the meat that wasn’t to
be salted and cured in the
smokehouse or eaten that day was
cooked.
Liver, lights (lungs) and heart were
cooked with just enough backbone for
extra seasoning. Sometimes these
were then chipped up and fried with
onions. Some liver was boiled,
mashed and pressed into a container
after being seasoned and that was
called liver pudding. Odds and ends
from the head and goodness-knows
where else went into souse meat,
which I never cared for. Somehow I
always got the piece with the most
gristle.
After the hogs were slaughtered
and hung up to bleed (I was always
too chicken to watch them killed) I
The agribusiness system of
agriculture in this country is a
combination of technology,
mechanization and scientific
management The food and fiber
production miracle it has wrought has
produced an abundance of food and
fiber for our own growing population
as well as a surplus that has staved
off starvation in other lands.
When Secretary of Agriculture Earl
L. Butz went to Moscow last Spring,
one of his objectives was working out
long-term agreements by which the
Agri-Business Great
saw the hair scalded and scraped off
and the meat cut into different parts
and put in clean washtubs, dishpans,
and most of the big cookpots in the
house. Sausage-making always
fascinated me, both the grinding and
the stuffing. Gramdma would always
fry a little bit of it to taste the
seasoning and make sure it was just
right. I hated sausage that had too
much sage or too much red pepper.
Since I had several uncles who liked
their sausage hot as fire, it had to be
made in different batches to suit
everyone.
Some sausage was hung up in the
smokehouse and smoke-cured, my
favorite even now. Some was packed
in jars with lard and canned.
Since my family lived in town
during the depression years, a mess
of good fresh-killed hog meat was
especially good when we were sick of
dried peas and beans. Even in the
country, though, where cured meat
was available the year round
everyone looked forward to the fresh
meat.
No matter how fancy some cooking
gets, it’s hard to beat a mess of fresh
collards cooked with fresh backbone,
or a bowl of backbone and rice with
plenty of black pepper. Pork chops
have never tasted so good as they did
then.
Long after hog-killing day, though,
its dividends paid off.For breakfast,
grandma’s table would be loaded
down, long before daylight, with
dozens of tiny buttermilk biscuits,
platters of sliced ham, a bowl of red
eye gravy, fried and scrambled eggs,
and the never-forgotten sugar cane or
sorghum syrup for sopping with one
of those hot buttered biscuits.
My goodness, I think I just gained
five pounds thinging about it!
USSR will purchase sizable quantities
of U.S. grain in the years ahead. It
appears the Soviets are interested in
importing certain grains because, as
one Soviet official expressed it,
“climatic conditions in our country
are not favorable for soybeans and
corn.” No doubt this is true. But,
aside from weather, the climate in
Socialist countries is rearly con
ducive to productivity. Capitalistic
American agriculture has no equal as
a good producer. Critics of capitalism
are remarkably silent on this point.
BOBBY
BRANCH 1
OUT ON A
BRANCH
THERE IS some confusion among voters about
the State Representative races in Houston County
from districts 98, 99 and 100. On the sample ballot
we are printing in the paper this week, you will see
all three races outlined. But those of us living in
the 100th district (Perry and the southern part of
the County) will vote only in that race between
Larry Walker and Kevin Sumner. The other two
races will be covered up on the ballot And in
Warner Robins, the district 100 race will be
blacked out on the ballot.
Ordinary Clint Watson, who knows about as
much about elections as anybody in the state,
figured all this out and he pointed out to me that in
some voting precincts there will be voters from
both districts casting their ballots. Well, he has
that figured too. The voter’s registration card will
show in which representative district they live
and when they vote in the proper representative
race the machine will lock out the other race.
Smart machine ... Clint is pretty smart himself
and he looks just like Lester Maddox.
DON’T FORGET to vote twice in the U.S.
Senate race next Tuesday. Whether you vote in
the Democrat or Republican primary, you have to
vote twice in that race. One vote goes to fill the
unexpired term of the late Richard Russell (two
months) and the other vote is for a full six year
term. Confusing, yes, but don’t forget to do it.
I AM OFTEN asked why some weeks we print
mostly bad or negative news on the front and
second front pages. The news, unfortunately, is
not always good, even in Perry and we publish all
the news from personals to police reports to bad
and good news.
About a year and a half ago, a fellow in
Sacramento, Cal., by the name of William Bailey
started a new newspaper called “The Good News
Paper”, which dealt only with happy tidings. His
circulation increased to 11,000 by listing only
stocks that went up, by banning ads for cigarets
and sex movies and by using story leads such as -
“In the U.S. Last Year, 196,459,483 Citizens Did
Not Commit A Crime” - But the paper fell into
debt and had to discontinue publication. Even to
the end, Bailey stood by his policy of good news.
He never printed the bad news of his failure in
“The Good News Paper.”
I guess it goes to show that all good news - is bad
- For business, anyway.
I REALIZED just how important electricity is
last Thursday when it went off for about two
hours. We were right in the middle of printing the
Unadilla newspaper and after about an hour we
really got concerned. Then it began to get un
bearably hot in the office without the old air
conditioner pumping out that cool air. It was dark
and it was depressing. Everyone just sat around
in the still quietness and after about 15 minutes
there was very little conversation. It was weird.
I wonder how long we could survive in these
days without electric power. I wonder are we so
dependent on electricity that we would not be able
to survive without it ... I wonder?
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Be Sure To
Vote
Aug. Bth
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