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VOLUME W-NUMBER 17
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General Library
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
The Taylor County News
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and The Butler Herald
BUTLER, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1963
PRICE: 10c PER COPY
The talk at the Kiwanis Club
on Friday certainly was a good
one for all parents to cause
them to think what a tremendous
responsiblity it is to rear
children. When 75% of the blame
lies with the parents it is real
ly their job to not only teach
their children the right way
and the way God would have them
live but also to set a good ex
ample before them each day.
Are you sure that your Johnny
and Mary get up in time on
Sunday morning to make Sun
day School and church? Do you
go too? Do you ever write
teacher a little note and say
Johnny was sick when he knows
as well as you do that you want
to take him shopping with you?
Do you yell at him for doing
something that he sees you
do every day?
Children imitate because they
learn by seeing older people do
things so think twice before you
do something you don’t want to
see your little one do later.
* * *
It seems so much tragedy
and illness has come into our
county this last week. Thecold
weather brought death into a
home when an old colored wom
an living alone was found dead
and death attributed to the cold
by Coroner J. C. Royal. Fire
caused the death of another on
Friday night.
* * *
We want more news from the
entire countyl Don’t wait for
someone else to send it in, if
you go visiting or your child
wins an honor or anything hap
pens to a former Taylor resi
dent now elsewhere, write or
call us. We begin collecting
news on Friday for the next
week so jot down your news
and mail it to Box 298, Butler
or call me at UN 2-2552.
But Please have it in by Tues
day at 6 p. m.
TAX REFUNDS
IN BONDS
Taxpayers were reminded to
day of the new plan allowing
them to take their tax refunds
in United States Savings Bonds,
by A. C. Ross, District Direc
tor of the Internal Revenue
Service.
Beginning with the 1962 In
dividual Income Tax Return,
eligible taxpayers will be given
the opportunity of taking their
refunds in Series E. Saving
Bonds, in addition to the stan
dard options of each or apply
ing the refund to next year’s
tax. When Savings Bonds are
chosen, the smallest possible
number of the highest denomi
nation bonds will be issued, a-
long with a check to cover
any remaining balance of a
dollar or more.
The idea of allowing a tax
payer to choose between Sav
ings Bonds and a check is not
new. Taxpayers have been
recommending it for years.
What enabled the Treasury to
offer it with the 1962 returns
was the recent installation of
high-speed data processing
equipment to handle tax returns.
The Treasury also conducted
a survey of taxpayers to de
termine their interest in a Sav
ings Bonds refund. A signi
ficant number of those question
ed said they would take their
tax refuns in Series E Bonds
if given the option.
Last year approximately five
billion dollars in refunds were
returned to American taxpay
ers. Sales of Savings Bonds
could thus be swelled by many
millions of dollars in the next
few months, thus putting more
of the public debt into the hands
of small savers.
The tax forms—1040 (long)
and 1040A (short) — have been
changed to provide an extra
space in which taxpayers may
elect U. S. Savings Bonds for
their refunds. Information on
the option also appears in the
instructions for both of these
forms.
KIWANIS LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Judge Tom Marshall, Judge
of the Southwest Judicial Cir
cuit of Georgia Court System,
Americus, was guest speaker at
the Kiwanis Club on Friday.
Judge Marshall spoke on ’Ju
venile Delinquency’.
Judge Marshall said that in
1957, the latest year figures
are available for at this time,
there were two million major
crimes and teenagers commit
ted 47% of them. His predic
tion for the futre was that 20%
of our teen agers would be ar
rested.
The general rate of crime is
on the increase and participa
tion by juveniles is also on the
increase. Three causes of this
cited by the judge were 1) lack
of supervision, guidance and
discipline by the parents, 2)
subsitution of material values
for spiritual ones and 3) a
change in our way of life from
rural to urban, more leisure
time and more money to spend.
75% of the fault lies with the
parents for this trend with the
church and school responsible
for 25% of it.
To help this, parents can 1)
supervise, 2) discipline by
teaching respect for the rights
of others and obedience to au
thority, 3) give guidance in
basic values, in sense of re
sponsiblity, in sense of honesty
and integrity and in a sense
of having a job and doing it
well, 4) inspiring to the great
values of life, patriotism, love
of church and achievement of
worthwhile goal, 5) give recog
nition and affection and 6) set
a good example.
President Julian M. Whatley
announce that the Internation
al President’s Meeting will be
held in Atlanta on February 11.
Woodfin Hinton announced
plans for a "Wornanless Wed
ding” to be held on February
28 to benefit the Kiwanis Club.
Further plans will be announc
ed later but it promises to be
a scream when Miss Snodgrass
alias Mr. Goddard andMr.Tur-
nipseed alias Mr. Hicks are
united in matrimony by the
Rev. usually called Mr. Hin
ton.
Sandy Hinton was pianist for
the day in the absence of
Melodye Hill and guests intro
duced by the committee were
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Luther,
Steve Pace, Jr., George
Mathews and Jim Luck of
Americus, Ed Van and Julian
Fussell of Lakeland, Florida,
J. H. Neisler and Key Club
bers, Rusty Lane and Jimmy
Holloway.
"A MOUNTAIN OF QUILT SCRAPS”
“A Mountain of Quilt Scraps for Milledgeville State Hospital”
is the slogan for the current project of the Butler Chapter, Fu
ture Homemakers of America. This is a project in which almost
every family in Taylor County can have a part.
The need for quilt scraps became apparent last spring when a
group of FHA girls and their advisor toured the hospital. There
they saw patients idle for want of something to work with to pass
the time.
The patients are furnished food, clothing, shelter and medical
care by the state, but there are no funds for occupational therapy
which might well be as valuable for many of them as the basic
necessities.
This week end groups of FHA’ers will begin making contacts
in all areas of the Butler school community. If you should not
be contacted and you have scraps to donate, please call Butler
High School and leave your name. FHA members will be glad to
pick your contributions any afternoon after school.
Will you help the FHA to help provide pleasant hours for some
of the mentally ill?
Let’s make the slogan a reality. Let’s contribute “A Mountain
of Quilt Scraps for Milledgeville State Hospital.”
Frank Roughton
To Speak At
Butler Church
On Sunday night, February 10,
at 7:30 p. m. at the Butler
Methodist Church, an inspir
ing Biblical production, "The
Sermon on the Mount” will
be presented by Frank M.
Roughton. This portrayal of
Jesus of Nazareth has re
ceived wide acclaim in churches
throughout the Southeast and in
three cotmtries abroad.
Mr. Roughton was a drama
major during college years and
graduate studies in New York.
He traveled in the U. S. and
Canada for three years, playing
the part of Caiaphas the High
Priest, in an American version
of the Oberammergau Passion
Play.
Mrs. Hazel Roughton nar
rates the program and pro
vides vocal solos self-ac
companied with an Irish Harp.
The dramatic effect of the pro
gram is heightened by the use
of Holy Land constumes and
special lighting and sound
effects.
Stork Club
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Sloan an
nounce the birth of a 7 lbs., 14
oz. son at the Montgomery Hos
pital on Sunday, January 20. The
youngster has been given the
name, Glenn Roscoe, and will be
called Rusty.
Taylor Native
Helps Bring
Meet To Macon
A. B. Childres, Jr., a na
tive of Taylor County now of
Griffin, Ga., and a breeder of
more champions in the past
three years than any other
Georgia Berkshire breeder,
was nominated and elected
Secretary and Treasurer for the
Southeastern Berkshire Asso
ciation at their past meeting.
Alfred Childres with the help
of Mayor Ed Wilson, Jack
Causey, and Thad Murphy of
Macon influenced the voting to
bring the January, 1964, meeting
to Macon. Everyone interested
in Berkshire hogs are invited
to this event. It will, be the
State’s greatest hog show.
At the January 10, 11, and 12
meeting in Orangeburg, S. C.,
the members of the Southeast
ern Berkshire Association
voted to bring the Conference
Show and Sale to the State
Fair Ground in Macon, Georgia,
January 9, 10, and 11, 1964.
This will be the first year the
Berkshire Swine Association
has held their annual confer
ence in Georgia.
This association was or
ganized in 1958 and since this
date the state of South Carolina
has had the conference two
years with wonderful success.
We Georgians wish to make the
Macon meeting as good or even
better than the South Carolina
Conference Show and Sale. The
South Carolina meeting had re
presentatives from twelve
states.
The headquarters for the
meeting will be the Town Pavi
lion Motel in Macon. The Fri
day night banquet will be held
at the S & S Cafeteria near
the Town Pavilion Motel.
There will be outstanding in
dividual swine for breeding
stock of the leading lean meat
breed to be sold at this event.
Burglars Hit
Butler
A burglary of the vault at
Butler High School was under
investigation here this week,
according to Police Chief R. C.
Peacock.
The burglary was the third at
the school and the second in as
many years. All are unsolved,
so far.
The burglary last week was
discovered by W. J. Brand,
school custodian, when he re
ported for work about 6 a. m.
last Thursday.
According to Chief Peacock,
the vault door had been forced
open by prying apart the two
layers to gain entrance. The
contents were thoroughly ran
sacked. School records were
scattered about the vault, al
though none were lost or dam
aged.
G. W. Goss, of the GBI, is
conducting an investigation, ac
cording to Peacock.
Less than $50 was taken, ac
cording to M. J. Marchman,
principal. No checks were lost,
he said.
The funds consisted of a small
amount of lunch money, some
miscellaneous funds and small
amounts of money belonging to
various clubs. No athletic funds
were in the vault at the time.
The lunch money had been de
posited on Monday, according to
Mrs. Betty Sue Kennon, school
secretary. She said that when
she checked the lunch funds
Little Gay Parks
Is Improving
After Surgery
Miss Fran Cochran left by
plane, Sunday, for Dallas,
Texas, on an unexpected trip to
visit her sister, Mrs. Rudolph
Parks. Little Gay Parks, three
year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Parks was to undergo
emergency major surgery,
Monday. Miss Cochran will re
main in Texas for an undeter
mined visit. Latest report from
little Gay by her grandmother,
Mrs. Robert Cochran was that
the operation was completed
and the doctors expect a com
plete recovery in due time with
no complications.
BOOKMOBILE
SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
9:15 - 10:00 Mauk at Post
Office
10:15 - 11:00 Charing at Wal
ler’s Store
11:30 - 12:00 Taylor Mill at
Mclnvale's Store
1:00 - 1:30 Reynolds Com
munity Library
1:45 - 2:15 Crowell Commu
nity at Peacock's Store
2:45 - 3:15 Central Commu
nity at Partain Home
Wednesday there was not enough
for another deposit.
B. B. Huling, assistant prin
cipal, said that he was in the
school building at 10 p. m. on
Wednesday evening and did not
notice anything wrong. Police
man Robert Poole said that he
checked at the school building
twice between 12 midnight and
6 a. m.
The burglars entered the
school building through the
Homemaking Department by
breaking a window and tearing
away a screen.
No damage was done to any
of the counters, sinks orequip-
ment in entering and nothing was
taken from the department.
Tools which apparently had
been taken from the county
bus maintenance shop by the
burglars to open the vault were
later found on the school
grounds. A ladder was used to
climb over the door of the
maintenance shop to gain entry.
Mrs. Morrell
Dies Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs."
Nettie Cornelia Windham Mor
rell were held Thursday, Janu
ary 31 at 11 a. m. in the Mt.
Olive Freewill Baptist Church
with the Rev. W. J. Owens,
pastor of the Turner's Chapel
Freewill Baptist Church, offi
ciating, assisted by Rev. J. B.
Fuller, Rev. J. W. Hutchinson
and Rev. W. J. Childree . In
terment followed in the Mt.
Olive Cemetery with Goddard
Funeral Home in charge of
arrangements.
Born in Taylor County, Nov
ember 25, 1910, she was the
daughter of the late Ben F. and
Polly Ann Payne Windham. She
was the wife of Gervis Morrell
Sr., who survives her.
She died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. AllenCoulter, at
about 12 midnight,Tuesday. She
had been ill for some time but
had returned home from the
Macon Hospital on Monday much
better. Death was attributed to
a heart attack.
Survivors include besides her
husband, one daughter, Mrs. Al
len Coulter; two sons, Morris
Morrell and Gervis Morrell
Jr.; one brother, Boss Allen
Windham all of Reynolds.
The pallbearers were J. B.
Youngblood, Otha Youngblood,
Robert Windham, Allen Wind
ham, Felton Windham and John
W. Hinton.
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Tradegy Strikes Twice In County;
Fire, Freezing Weather Claim Lives
Corn Kickoff
Set For 'Monday
The second stage of Soil Fer
tility Program is scheduled for
1963 with the major emphasis
on increasing corn yields in
Taylor County. We know inor
der to make a profit on corn
it will be necessary to increase
our yield per acre. Many
farmers in Taylor County are
growing corn at a profit.
Questions will be answered
on how this can be done by Mr.
Harold Gurley, Extension Agro
nomist at the meeting Monday,
February 4 in the Butler School
Lunchroom at 7:30 p. m. Also,
a member of the Independent
Plant Food Manufacturers As
sociation of Georgia will be
represented at the meeting.
McCants Is
PCA Officer
"The Flint River Produc
tion Credit Association reached
an all-time high in credit ser
vice to agriculture by extend
ing $2,518,562 in short and in
termediate-term credit to 268
farmers in the association’s
territory during the calendar
year 1962,” Rhodes Murphy,
general manager of the asso
ciation reported this week.
The association is a farmer-
owned and operated credit co
operative serving farmers of
Butts, Clayton, DeKalb, Fa
yette, Fulton, Henry, Lamar,
Monroe, Pike, Spalding, Taylor
and Upson counties with the
principal office located at
Thomaston and field office lo
cated at Jonesboro.
"The association’s all-time
high loan volume for the year
1962 was 8.5 percent more than
for 1961 and included service
to 30 new farmer-members,”
according to Mr. Murphy.
Mr. Murphy said the PCA has
extended $30,297,466 in credit
service since its organization
in 1933 and now has $163,157
in member-owned capital and
$282,867 in accumulated earn
ings.
Officers and directors of the
association include W. J. Mc
Daniel of Zebulon, president;
W. G. Burch of Fayetteville,
vice president; Wiley A. Brown
of Locust Grove, director; F.
L. Maddox of Jackson, director;
Hubert Hancock of Thomaston,
director; J. J. Pierson of Cul-
loden, director; Franklin Mc
Cants of Butler, director;
Rhodes Murphy, general man
ager; Grover C. Worsham, Jr.
assistant secretary treasurer
and Travis R. Hardy, assistant
secretary treasurer.
Tragedies in our county took
the lives of two citizens during
the last week. Mrs. Ollie Mc
Gill Larkin, about 70 years of
age was burned to death when
her home was destroyed by fire
last Friday night. Lola Gray
Towns, colored, was found
about noon on Friday andCoro-
ner James C. Royal attributed
the death to the freezing tem
peratures on Thursday night.
The fire at the Larkin home
H. D. Taunton
To Accept
New Position
Henry Douglas Taunton Sr.
has accepted a position in the
public relations department
of the Chilean Nitrate Sales
Corporation to become effec
tive on February 1. "Dee”
will make calls on the dealers
and farmers in this area to
promote the use of Chilean
Nitrate.
Graduated from Butler High
School, he served two years in
the U. S. Navy before going to
work at Pyane’s Warehouse.
He has been employed therefor
the past 16 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Taunton, the
former Nellie Underwood, and
their two sons, Steve, 10, and
Doug, 14, are residents of
Butler and members of the But
ler Baptist Church where Mr.
Taunton serves as a deacon.
Reynolds Woman's
Club To Meet
The Reynolds Woman’s Club
will meet at the Club House
at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday, Feb
ruary 6.
Mrs. E. H. Griffith, music
chairman, will present the
Reynolds High Trio, Misses
Kikky Goddard, Sue O’Neal and
Gail Aultman accompanied by
Miss Melodye Hill.
Mrs. Irene Whatley, Chair
man of Tallulah Falls School
Department, will present the
guest speakers, Mrs. W. F.
Banks of Montezuma, presi
dent of the Third District of
Woman's Federated Clubs and
Mrs. Eunice Mobley of
Hamilton, ThirdDistrictChair-
man, Tallulah FallsSchool, who
will tell of the work at the
school.
Hostesses for the afternoon
will be Mrs. R. E. Aultman,
Mrs. A. J. Fountain and Miss
Winnie Aultman.
was discovered by Deputy
Sheriff Charles Young at about
11:30 p. m. Upon reaching
the scene on the Payne Pond
road about six miles east of
Butler, he found the house com
pletely in flames. The Butler
and Reynolds fire departments
and the Forestry Unit answered
the call for help.
The body was found near
the back door by Policeman
L. D. Gordon. Coroner Royal
said there was no evidence
of foul play or arson and from
existing evidence a kerosene
lamp was the possible cause of
the blaze.
The body was taken to Ed
wards Funeral Home. Funeral
services were held Sunday in
Ellaville with burial in the City
Cemetery. Mrs. Larkin, a
native of Marion County, was
survived by one half brother,
GeorgL McGill of PhenixCity,
Alabama.
The body of Lola GrayTowns
was found on the floor of her
bedroom in her home Friday
about noon, apparently having
been dead several hours.
Investigation by Coroner
Royal showed no evidence of
a criminal act having beencom-
miited. She was completely
clothed and money and valua
bles were found. There was no
heat in the house and the tem
peratures reached sub-freezing
during the night.
This death occurred in the
Graball community, appro
ximately 12 miles north of But
ler.
Mr. J. A. Payne
Has Accident
Mr. J. Allen Payne remains
ill at the St. Francis Hospital,
Room 118, Columbus, Georgia,
after having a chicken bone re
moved from his throat on Mon
day.
Mr. Payne swallowed the bone
on Sunday night and when he
went to the Monggomery Hos
pital, he was sent totheColum-
bus hospital for having it re
moved. He was said to be
in good condition on Monday
night and hoped to come home
on Tuesday.
Tuesday morning it was dis
covered that the bone had punc
tured the esophagus and fluids
had entered the lungs. It was
necessary that a second opera
tion be done on Tuesday after
noon for repair of the damage.
It was reported that pneumonia
had set up at the time.
Puppet Show Benefits March of Dimes
by Margaret McCleskey
"Mrs. Carter's fourth grade
thought of having a puppet show
Friday afternoon, January 11 at
2:30. It was held at Butler
Grammar School. Itwasasur-
prise to Mrs. Carter. We
thought of it ourselfs. Then we
asked her if we could do it and
she said that we could do it.
The name of the puppet show
wer Cinderella and The Three
Bears.
“Jerry Whitley, Claire
Blashe, Margaret McCleskey,
Patsy Ranow, Joyce Kendrick,
Jack Brooks and Deborah Mont
gomery acted out the puppets
and at the end we introduced
all of them. We plan to give
the money to the march of
dimes.
“The fourth, fifth and sixth
graders saw it Friday, the sec
ond and third grade saw it
Monday and the first grade
saw it Tuesday. We charged
each person 5<f to see it. At
the show we sold cookies and
candy. All together we earned
$13.08.”
Yes, this pictured group
of fourth grade children saw a
need and went to work to do
something about it. The group
pictured with the puppets did the
work in putting on the show but
it was only with the aid and en
couragement of the entire class
in the other photo that they were
able to put on the show. A
great deal of credit goes to the
teacher, Mrs. JaneCarter, also
for the help she gave.
The $13.08 was presented to
County Chairman Mrs. Suggs to
add to the March of Dimes fund
for Taylor County.
Fourth grade students of Mrs. Jane Carter who helped to make
the March of Dimes puppet show successful.
Left to right are Claire Blasche, Margaret McCleskey, Wayne
Ford, Dianne Kendrick, Patsy Ranow, Jerry Whitley, Debra Mont
gomery, Jack Brooks, Joyce Kendrick, Pauline Hall and Sandra
Guined who actually did the work of putting together the puppet
show.