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The Houston Home Journal M£MAER Bobby Branch, President-Editor-Publisher *MAmmNML MewwpApep Official Organ City Os Perry And Houston County, Georgia MAXINE THOMPSON PHIL BYRD JOE HIETT Associate Editor Sports Editor Advertising Mgr, mUIRI M * M JIMMY CHAPMAN JEANIE JOHNSON JANICE COLWELL Production Mgr. Class Adv Mgr. Bookkeeper t°'T0 4/ EMILY MONTGOMERY DORIS RAFFIELD Society Editor Computer Opr. / / 2s7fajLdOfa\ 1 MCWSPAaM^-^/ ........ ~ ..»^Qi/.r,.y>oVllll "An Award Winning Georgia Weekly Newspaper^ PAGE 4-A 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. -8.8. 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. -8.8. 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 “8.8. <zA/\cocins. *Ulionifii.on T jH 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? ★ * ★■**★*★★★*■*■**•*•★■**■***★■**★★ Be Sure To Vote Aug. Bth ★★★★★★★a********************** '—zzifpleFle "...Tell You What...l Won’t Talk About Your Running Mate,lf You Won’t Talk About Mine."