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The Houston Horn Journal
VOL. 107 NO. 44
Houston Farmers
Middle Georgia farmers ap
parently are joining farmers from
across the nation in setting up a
strike on December 14, 1977 unless
Congress agrees to a one hundred
percent parity on all farm
products. We endorse the farmers
in their drive to earn a profit from
their labors. For too long the
farmer has been the forgotten man
in America’s economy.
Forgotten, that is, until our
bureaucrats wanted to use our
agricultural prices in securing
balance of trade advantages with
other nations. Corn prices today
according to our information are
Perry High FFA No. 1
The Perry High School Future
Farmer of America (FFA)
Chapter has been named Georgia’s
number one high school FFA
Chapter.
Our hearty congratulations to
this dedicated group of teachers,
and boys who all work hard at
being number one with their many
school and community projects.
The boys who make up
the membership of the Perry High
Perry Political Pot
i
In case you have had your head
in the sand for the past three
weeks, there is a good old
fashioned, Perry city council
election coming up on December 6.
Get involved with the candidate of
your choice and if you are not
already registered to vote, by all
means do so right away.
The three seats up for grabs are
posts one, two and three. Running
for post one is Ervin Goodroe and
incumbent H.E. (Gene) Smith;
Post two is incumbent Barbara
Is Your Child Safe?
Most parents would take strong
exception to the accusation that
they are neglecting their children.
They make sure that their children
are well fed and dressed. They
make sacrifices so that their
children have material advantages
that they themselves never had.
They forego social pleasures to put
aside money for their children’s
education. Their children, they
contend are at the very center of
their lives.
But with all the things these
parents do to take care of their
children and provide for their
future, many make a tragic
mistake; they neglect to have their
children protected against
childhood diseases. Some parents
are not aware of what vaccinations
should be given, and when. Others
mistakenly believe that the
diseases have been eliminated and
that vaccination is no longer
necessary. Some put off vac
cination until the child approaches
school age, not realizing that some
of the diseases are most likely to
strike the young child and that
Six Bis Mistakes
The General Federation of
Women’s Clubs reminded us
recently of what Roman philosopher
.Cicero said more than 2000 years
ago.
He listed 6 mistakes of man as:
1. The delusion that personal gain
is made by crushing others.
2. The tendency to worry about
things.
3. Insisting that a thing is im
possible because we cannot ac
Opinions and Obsewations
no higher than twenty years ago.
Vet equipment prices and the farm
family’s cost to live has soared like
everything else. The farmer has
become increasingly dependent on
uninformed Congressmen for farm
product prices not based upon
reality.
Hopefully the farmers will not
have to strike. Hopefully Congress
will act. But if it comes to it, maybe
then the nation will wake up and
realize that a very small per
centage of our population feeds all
of us. They deserve better treat
ment from that huge majority.
FFA deserve a lot of credit for their
efforts. But the advisors, Jake
Redmon and Bill Eaves, also
deserve much credit for their
leadership and guidance of these
fine young people.
We are always proud to salute
the young people of our community
who really have it all together. And
the Perry High School FFA Cha
pter is such a group.
Calhoun, with no opposition as yet.
Post three has George Nunn and
incumbent Dr. Jerome Bloodworth
both seeking the seat.
Get out and work for the can
didate you think is best qualified to
represent you on city council. This
is no election to take lightly; these
three council seats represent half
of the members of your city council
who will be running the affairs of
this city for the next three years.
Get busy, get involved...now.
young children may suffer serious
complications.
Children should be vaccinated
against polio, measles, mumps,
rubella, diphtheria, tetanus and
pertussis. The oral polio vaccine
and the combination injection for
diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis
should be started when the infant is
only about two months of age. Each
of these vaccinations is repeated at
intervals during the first two years
of life and before school. Vac
cination for measles, mumps and
rubella should be given when the
child reaches 15 months of age,
either as a single injection com
bination vaccine or as three in
dividual vaccines, depending on
the doctor’s preference.
Check your records. If your
children have not had all of their
vaccinations, or if you are not sure
that they have, check with your
doctor or Houston County Health
Department. To allow children to
remain unvaccinated is a type of
neglect that can make all other
plans and sacrifices meaningless.
complish it.
4. Refusing to set aside any and all
trivial preferences.
5. Neglecting development and
refinement of the mind, and not
acquiring the habit of reading and
study. ,
6. Attempting to compel the other
persons to believe and live as we do.
That’s pretty good advice-even
after 2000 years.
THURS. NOV. 3, 1977
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BY JOE HIETT
This past Monday night I had the
pleasure for the first time in my
son’s life of carrying him on his
trick or treating haunts. Right off
the bat, we made the mistake of
walking around our neighborhood.
After what seemed like a half mile
(but was probably only a few
hundred yards), this reporter
remembered he was but a week out
of the hospital.
Yep, I’ll freely admit it, my back
hurt. But hearing Jeff moan “trick
or treat” in his piping voice was
worth it. To anyone who didn’t
recognize the type, he was
“Casper, The Friendly Ghost”.
Friends, that ghost made quite a
haul, and I shudder at the up
coming dentist bills.
Never knew until Monday night
that Billy Longino had such a
complexion problem. He looked
like a “before” for a Clearasil ad.
As for Dixie, her dentures will cost
a fortune. Anyone who didn’t stop
by their home on Glenwood Drive
hasn’t the slightest idea of what I
mean. The Longino’s “haunted
house” was scary and eery.
Oh, yes, someone ought to tell
Mrs. Wilson Moody to have her
son’s back problem analyzed by a
specialist. Jim was the “hun
chback” and even startled me as
he leaped from the shadows. Jeff
on the other hand simply asked for
his “treats”.
Walking and driving around
Perry Monday night made me
realize most folks really get in the
Halloween spirit. People were
quite friendly, freely dispensing
candies, apples, and other junk
that made every convenience store
Houston School Board
Should Meet At Night
Recently the Georgia Association
of Educators called for the moving
of all school board meetings
currently held during normal
working hours, to a time later in
the day or in early evenings. The
Houston Board of Education now
meets at 10:00 a.m. the second
Tuesday of each month for its
regular session. Several times by
different groups they have been
asked to hold some night meetings,
but so far have refused.
We think the Association of
Educators has a good idea, not only
for the school board, but for ALL
governmental bodies. Thankfully,
almost all of the governmental
bodies in this county do meet at
night at least part of the time. This
includes the City Councils of all
three cities, the county com
missioners (two of four meetings
each month are in the early
i evenings), and the various
authorities and commissions.
wealthy. Many homes boasted
jack-o-lanterns and four or five
included witches and black cats.
Wasn’t it nice for our esteemed
City Council for once to hold “Trick
or Treat” night on the actual
Halloween night, instead of shifting
it to some other time? I also like
their idea of confining the
doorknocking to two hours.
Jeff even had to trick or treat at
our own home. Afterwards he spent
about thirty minutes separating his
haul into five distinct stacks:
candy bars, bubblegum, suckers,
pixie sticks, apples and
miscellaneous.
Now, someone pass the liniment
and aspirin tablets. Tell Dr. Arnall
I’ll be in to see either he or Dr.
Weems as soon as I recover. Still, I
wouldn’t trade Monday night for
anything.
Maybe I am old fashioned and
quite possibly, the television
commercials will be worse than the
movie, but those ads promoting
that George Burns and John
Denver are to me in bad taste and
even sacreligious. I don’t cotton to
the idea of God being “used” to sell
movie seats. The way in which the
film is advertised, is another at
tempt to undermine the Scriptures
and cast doubt in people’s minds.
While I’m on my soapbox, might
as well condemn “Jesus Christ
Superstar”, even though I’m a few
years late. The Bible is God’s gift to
mankind and I do not appreciate it
being altered to fit modern times,
changed to be more palatable to
society’s current mores, and
mocked by those of supposed
higher learning.
As far as we can determine, only
the school board adamantly clings
to holding sessions ONLY in the
day hours. Now we are not saying
the first Tuesday day meetings
should be abandoned, BUT the
school board should hold at least
one nightly session each month, so
working mothers and fathers can
be present to voice opinions.
It also might not be a bad idea if
the school board, as well as all
other bodies who meet in smallish
areas, transfer their meetings to
more spacious confines. As it now
stands, more than five or six
visitors would severely crowd the
conference room at the school
system headquarters.
The school board and all
governmental bodies should
always remember they are
representing taxpayers, who pay
them to make decisions. Giving
those taxpayers a voice is not only
right, it is needed.
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People Working
Together To Solve
Community Problems
People, working together, to solve the
economic and socio-economic problems of a
community describes the Perry Area Chamber
of Commerce.
People...business and professional men and
women, primarily, and others who have a
common interest and pride in their community
and in the area which it serves.
Every citizen in the Perry community is
eligible for chamber membership - as long as he
is interested in, and prepared to work for, the
growth and development of the community.
The Perry Area Chamber of Commerce is the
vehicle that enables people to work together, to
mold divergent interests into a cohesive force, to
build a better community and to develop better
citizenship in the community, the state and the
nation, and in so doing improve the economic
and social stability of the community business.
Although the community is a market in which
local businessmen compete for customers, the
improvement of this market is a common ob
jective of these business leaders. Their chamber <4
of commerce is the means through which they
can work together to achieve this goal.
To solve the economic and socio-economic
problems of a community...To make maximum
progress toward this broad objective, the Board
of Directors of a chamber of commerce sets up
specific goals in its annual work program. A
well-balanced program of work usually in
cludes:
Economic development activities - in such
fields as agriculture, industrial activities, trade
and area promotion, market analysis, con
vention and tourist development, world trade, 4
business development and environment;
Community development activities - in such
fields as education, housing, manpower training,
consumer relations, law and order, tran
sportation, health, poverty, cultural, urban
physical development and human relations;
Public affairs activities - in such fields as
political education, economic understanding,
legislative action on the local, state and national
levels and business-consumer relations;
Organization improvement activities - sach as
membership building and retention, new
member orientation, leadership orientation,
finance and development.
The Perry Area Chamber organization needs
your support and membership today.
Is This Batin’
Deal Or Is It
A Sel lin ’ Deal ?
They tell me you are an old-timer if you can
remember when they sold pickles in bulk right
out of the barrel in the general merchandise
store.
A farmer friend told me a story several years
ago that I will never forget concerning a barrel
of Houston County pickles.
A south Houston farmer (who shall remain
nameless) brought a barrel of his wife’s pickles
to town. At that time, pickles were selling for $6 a
barrle, but the sly old farmer explained to the a
Perry storekeeper that these pickles were
something special, made from a special recipe
handed down in his wife’s family from the “old
country”. So, the storekeeper paid the Houston
farmer $lO for the barrel of pickles.
When the drummer (salesman) from a Macon
wholesale company came to town, the
storekeeper told him about the special pickles.
The drummer later bought them for sls and
resold them to a Macon store for $25.
When the Macon grocer opened the barrel, he
found the pickles were rotten.
His complaints took him right back through
the line to the farmer, where he demanded
restitution.
“Them weren’t eatin’ pickles,” explained the
farmer. “Them were seilin’ pickles.”
Whenever I hear of some quick easy deal to
make or save money, I try to stop and think: “Is
this an eatin’ deal or a seilin’ deal?—lt works'
most of the time.
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