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University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
The Taylor County News
' and The Butler Herald '
BUTLER, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1$, 1961
PRICE: 10c PER COPY
Taylor County Board
Discusses Consolidation
The following is an unofficial account of the County Goard of
Education meeting held last Friday night. (Ed. note)
County School Superintendent W. H. Elliston announced to the
group of PTA members from the Butler and Reynolds Schools
gathered in the courtroom on Friday night, that the bids for the
construction of the gymnasium at Eureka High School would be
opened. W. H. Whatley, architect, read the bids with the apparent
low bidder being the Garland Construction Co., Thomaston, with
a bid of $65,275, if the city runs the sewerage to the building.
The board members then went to Mr. Elliston’s office for fur
ther discussion of the bids. All bids were found to be too high
and according to Moody Peed, no bid was accepted but the archi
tect would negotiate with the contractor for bringing the building
down to within the $60,000 for which bonds were voted.
Returning to the courtroom, Chairman William Maxwell called
the meeting to order. He asked fora spokesman from each of the
groups assembled and stated that then the meeting would be open
for discussion.
Mrs. Jimmy Smith, chairman of the EducationCommitteeof the
Butler PTA, asked that the County Board consider the possibility
of consolidating grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Butler and Reynolds
Schools into a Taylor County High School. She gave reasons why
the schools should be consolidated and then made a motion that the
board take some action on the matter.
C. E. Whatley, board member, stated that the people of Reynolds
were satisfied with their school but that Woodfin Hinton would
speak for them.
Hinton said that he was not aware of this meeting until the middle
of the afternoon. He also said that his son had been easily able to
enter college with the courses he had in Reynolds. Reynolds now
has 30 subjects offered with 22 required for graduation. He sug
gested that a committee from Butler and Reynolds meet together
to discuss the school problems, and said he thought they had a good
accredited high school. The city of Reynolds has taxed themselves
to add more funds so that they could improve the school. With
combining the schools there would still be slightly less than 400
students and this according to state authorities is not a standard
high school and would not be any better - "if it would help the
situation let us go to the larger schools - Reynolds could go to
Fort Valley and Butler to Thomaston to go to a bigger and better
school.”
E. H. Dunn then said he did not think it was the job of the citi
zens of the two towns to decide what is good for the students of
the county but it is the job of the county board to decide with the
help of authorities at state level.
Mrs. Smith then gave the recommendation from the area
supervisor that the schools in this county consolidate into one
larger school and this survey run by the state committee said
that the Butler school is large enough to take care of the child
ren.
Emory Harris, board member, than spoke. He said that he
did not know a delegation was coming. "I want to speak for the
welfare of our children. I wanted to be a board member to help
our children. We are not satisfied with Butler. We are not
offering the subjects to get our children into Georgia Tech,
(gave example of child who can not get necessary courses)
Though this is the first organized effort I have seen at Butler to
get consolidation, I sun not satisfied with the school as it is. "He
said if we have consolidation it must go before the county. The
people voted "me in as a board member and if they don’t want me
they can vote me out. When I am not interested in children you
need another member.”
Whatley then stated that the people should vote who had to
move.
Harris stated that really the majority of the people would be
involved because 70% of the children in the county ride buses
from the rural areas to school in the two towns.
Whatley said that Reynolds had grown 33 students since the new
building was built while Butler has lost 2 classrooms. He said
“I spend money going all over the Third District to help the
children. I’m certainly interested in the children or I wouldn’t
do it.”
Mrs. Smith asked if Reynolds had enough children at the time to
get on the accredited list.
Elliston said that Butler has lost 53 students in the last year.
Dunn then asked why Butler lost the two classrooms mentioned.
Maxwell stated that the recommendations of all committees have
been for consolidation of the two high schools since the new
building was built. It was built for a Taylor County High School.
Dunn again asked why the two classrooms were lost.
Whatley said they were not needed because at the time the
building (this building mentioned so many times is the Butler
High School building built in 1955-56. Ed.) was built, the com
mittee said Reynolds could keep their high school.
Rev. Walter R. McCleskey then asked how many of the men
tioned 33 students gained in Reynolds were from Macon County.
Elliston said 4 high school students are still in Reynolds.
Mrs. Martha Avery said there were 14.
Maxwell said from talking to Purcell and the area supervisors
almost every year they say when are we going to consolidate.
The state men all recommend that we consolidate - that is the
state advice.
Whatley said if "you’re, going to consolidate, why consolidate
with someone no larger than you are."
Mrs. Avery said that Dr. Bryant says that we put all our eggs in
one basket and teachers together we will get improvement.
Hinton - let’s do what Dr. Whatley and the state board says do,
let’s go to a larger school, Thomaston or Fort Valley.
Mrs. Mary Anthony asked would you rather ride to Fort Valley
than to have pride in our county?
Bobby Aultman - How many of you would send your children to
Reynolds?
Mrs. Avery - We cannot put our children in Reynolds bAause
you don’t have space and Reynolds is not on the Southern ac
credited list.
Julian Whatley spoke then that he saw friends in the audience
and told of his mother coming from Butler. "We ought to think
of Taylor County - We are "150,000 indebt.’’ He said that Craw
ford, Peach and Macon counties are not in debt and counties all
around are not in debt like Taylor. Reynolds and Butler have
been fighting for so long they have forgotten Taylor County. He
said it smacks of underhandedness when pressure is put on this
group to vote for consolidation. If Reynolds goes to Butler and
then we have no better school, where will we be? “Our backs are
on the ground now because the people won't get
on us county commissioners and get some tax re-
evaluation. Let’s quit bickering and fussing and fighting. We
are one of the fewcounties without social security for our teachers.
Get on Ralph and Garland and get something for the county. We
could get a trade school in our county but the only way Taylor
County can be here is that we stop bickering and do something for
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T. E. "Doc” Tante Night Held At Byron
"Doc" Tante Night was held
at the Byron school cafeteria
January 26th honoring Doc’s
15th Anniversary as a repre
sentative of Woodmen of the
World. Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
"Buck" Keys were in charge
of arrangements. Mr. Keys,
Commander of Byron Camp#ll
97, was Master of Ceremonies.
The head table was centered
with greenery and a four tiered
stump, the emblem of Wood-
cake decorated with "Congra
tulations to Doc" in yellow and
topped with a stump, tha em
blem of Woodcraft.
Dinner was served by mem
bers of the Byron Camp to
Woodmen families from Byron,
Butler, Montezuma, Roberta
and Fort Valley. Guest speak
er was State Manager Paul
A. Jones, of Macon, who pre
sented Mr. Tante a gold tie
bar commemorating his 15
years of service.
E.M. Gaultney Jr. Selected
Forest Park’s Man Of Year
(The following article was
taken from the Forest Park
News and tells of a native of
Taylor County, son of E. M.
Gaultney, and graduate of But
ler High School in 1944 and the
success he has gained. He has
been named the Man of the Year
Carson Attends
National Meet
Mr. C. F. Carson of Rey
nolds, Taylor County Soil Con
servation District Supervisor,
attended Conservation Dis
tricts National Convention held
at Denver, Colorado February
3rd through 7th. Approximately
twenty-five Supervisors from
Georgia attended the conven
tion. Mr. Carson represents the
Ocmulgee District.
Principal speaker of conven
tion was Secretary of Interior,
Udahl. Carson stated that the
convention adopted several
items on Soil and Water Con
servation that will be of bene
fit to the people of Southeastern
states.
A special item of interest
to the Georgia delegation was
the awarding of a special plaque
to Miss Susan Myrick for her
outstanding contribution to Soil
and Water Conservation pro
gress in the Southeast. This
award to Miss Myrick was the
first of this type ever awarded
to any woman in the history
of the association.
Taylor County citizens take
pride in the contribution that
Mr. Carson has made to Soil
and Water Conservation in Tay
lor County and feel confident
that the district, Ocmulgee, was
ably represented at the conven
tion.
in Forest Park where now lives.
Ed.)
The annual Jaycee Awards
Banquet held Tuesday evening
of this week saw the naming of
E. M. Gaultney Jr. of Forest
Park as Forest Park’s Out
standing Young Man of the Year.
Mr. Gaultney, Forest Park’s
Outstanding Young Man of The
Year is married and has two
sons. (Mrs. Barbara Gaultney
is the author of the weekly
poem series, ‘Life Rhyming’,
in The Forest Park News).
Jr. Gaultney, as Mr. Gault
ney is better known in tne
Forest Park area, is a top
salesman for Cowan Supply
where he started fifteen years
ago as warehouseman. Jr. is
president of The Jaycees, City
Councilman for the past two
years and recently elected as
Mayor-Protem.
In 1962, Mr. Gaultney was an
associate director of The Na
tional Foundation Clayton
County (March of Dimes) and
this year is Co-director. He
is also a Director ofThe Forest
Park Civic Congress.
Local Residents
Complete 'Study
A story in the Fort Valley
Leader-Tribune told ofagroup
of citizens primarily police
officers, who on January 18
completed a course in Stand
ard First Aid as prescribed
by the American Red Cross.
The men have completed ten
hours of study and will be
presented certificates.
Among those listed as tak
ing the course were Swilling
McElmurray, Robert Humber
and Brady Humber of Taylor
County.
Byrd To Head
Heart Fund
Garland T. Byrd has been
named chairman of the Heart
Fund Drive in Taylor County
and Frank Riley has been nam-.
ed co-chairman. The entire
month of February has been
named as Heart Month and Feb
ruary 24 is Heart Sunday.
Dr. James Minor, a gradu
ate of Butler High School and
son of L. L. Minor and the
late Mrs. Minor, is a noted
heart specialist in Atlanta at
Medical Arts Building. He
works with heart patients and
recently spoke at the World
wide Forum of Heart Specialists
in Mexico. His speech was
translated into 15 languages.
Mrs. Doyel Dies
In Tennessee
Mrs. Loretta Doyel, eighty-
three year old mother of Mr.
Lorenzo M. Doyel, Butler, suc
cumbed after a lengthy ill
ness Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Funeral services were held
Saturday, Feb. 9th at Green
field, 111.
Mrs. Doyel had been making
her home with daughter, Mrs.
D. P. Hamilton, inChattanooga,
Tennessee for several years,
prior to her death.
Survivors include son, Mr. L.
M. Doyel and one daughter, Mrs.
D. P. Hamilton; two grand child
ren and three great grand child
ren.
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Doyel
and Mr. Lorenzo Doyel return
ed to Butler Sunday night after
attending furneral.
THE GIRLS SUB-REGION
TOURNEY IS TO BE HELD
IN BUTLER, FEBRUARY 20,
21, 25 and 26.
Dr. Barker Is
Kiwanis Speaker
At Friday Meet
Dr. Edwards C. Whatley in
troduced Dr. Royce H. Barker,
who travels for Smith, Kline
and French, drug manufac-
tureres, as the guest speaker
at the luncheon meeting of
the Kiwanis Club on Friday.
Dr. Barker spoke on "Pre
scription For Tomorrow."
In the last 20 years, more
medical progress has been
made than in the previous 20
centuries. The pharmaceutical
industry spends $20,000,000per
year on research to help this
progess. From flu, pneumonia,
TB and other respiratory
diseases, deaths have become
only 1/13 of what they were in
1930. In 30 years, much pro
gress has been made.
The three things that phar
maceutical researchers do in
their work are: 1) search for
new chemical compounds; 2)
test for effectiveness and re
sults and 3) put compounds
into the best form for con
sumption. Many hours of re
search was spent in learning
to put the numbers of tiny pills
into the capsule with each
granule scheduled to burst forth
in the period and furnish med
ication when it was needed.
This is just one example of the
work done along this line and
yet the average prescription
still costs only $3.14.
Tranquilizers have made a
difference in our lives too. They
have enabled the doctors to cure
formerly incurable mental
cases and have made a great
difference in the mental illness
field.
According to Dr. Barker, 9
out of 10 prescriptions written
by our physicians today call for
drugs not heard of 20years ago.
Fresident Julian M, Whatley
announced that Garland Byrd
has been chosen the chair
men of the Heart Fund Drive
in our county.
Guests for the day were
Dr, Edwards Hicks of Elber-
ton and Key Clubbers Louie
Lashley and A1 Denton.
The program for next week
will be on Scouting.
Gurley Speaks
Approximately 60 farmers
and business people of Taylor
County attended a supper meet
ing at the local school lunch
room Monday nigut, February 4.
Mr. Gurley explained the steps
of land selection, soil testing,
liming, proper analysis and
amount of fertilizer plus addi
tional nitrogen and use of re
commended hybrids for our
area and especially the spacing
of plants with row widths of
36-42 inches apart and approx
imately 12,000 to 14,000 plants
per acre, weed control, early
and shallow cultivation.
"Agriculture-Vito I To America"
BUTLER HIGH FUTURE FARMERS
OBSERVE WEEK FEBRUARY 16-23
Vocational agriculture stu
dents in Butler High School
will join Future Farmers of
America members throughout
the nation in activities to fo
cus attention on the importance
of agriculture during National
FFA Week, February 16-23.
“AGRICULTURE-Vital To
America" is this year’s FFA
Week theme. The farm boys will
undertake a campaign to inform
the general public about the
importance of the agricultural
industry to America, and of
the numerous and wide variety
of opportunities that exist in
this field for young men who
have a background of farm ex
perience and training.
"We have such an abundance
of food in America that people
are taking farmers for grant
ed," said W. J. Davis, vo
cational agriculture teacher and
it is becoming increasingly im
portant with our expanding pop
ulation. In our area, particu
larly, most of the businesses,
and most of the jobs, are basi
cally dependent upon surround
ing farms for their existance.
Take away the farms, and for
all practical pruposes you would
destroy the entire community."
Locally, members of the But
ler FFA Chapter plan a pro
gram for the local PTA meet
ing in February and two window
displays in Butler.
Membership in the FFA is
made up of farm boys who are
students of vocational agri
culture in high school. The
organization's activities are
designed to help develop rural
leadership and good citizenship,
and to stimulate the boys to
better achievement in their
study and work toward suc
cessful establishment in farm
ing or other agricultural oc
cupations.
The Butler FFA Chapter has
85 members. Officers are Ron
nie Parker, president; Wayne
Cox, v. president; John Pur
vis, secretary; Billy Blasche,
treasurer; David Joiner, re
porter and Derrell Kendrick,
sentinel.
Future Farmers choose the
week of George Washington’s
birthday each year for the
observance of National FFA
Week. Although unsually re
cognized as a Revolutionary
War General and our first
President, Washington’s first
love was the farm. He was
one of the first in the nation
to practice contour planting,
crop rotations, fertilization and
other soil conservation and
improvement practices and me
thods.
Girls Tournament
Here Next Week
The Girls’4C south tourney
begins Wednesday at 7:30 with
Byron engaging 4th seeded Rey
nolds. At 8:45 Macon Co.
clashes with top seeded Butler.
Thursday night Unadilla meets
3rd seeded Yatesville at 7:30
Hill 'Promoted
To 'Sergeant
Fort Valley Police Officer
B. F. Hill was promoted to the
rank of sergeant on February
4, according to an announce
ment made by Police Chief
Grady W. Cochran.
A native of Taylor County,
he now resides in Reynolds.
Sgt. Hill has been a police
officer for 12 years. He spent
2 years as a Reynolds police
officer and for the past 10 years
he has been a member of the
Fort Valley Police Department.
and Schley takes on 2nd seed
ed Roberta at 8:45.
4th seeded Reynolds is one
of the most improved teams in
the region. Their scoring at
tack is balanced, and their de
fense emphasizes speed and de
ception.
Yatesville, led by speedy
Paulette Beeland, is most im
proved. They defeated Roberta
by 4 points and lost to Roberta
by 2 points in two of their
better games.
Roberta is depending on the
scoring of Melinda O’Neal and
the defending of her sister,
Rita. Roberta’s record for the
year is 19-5.
Butler's attack has as its
primary feature balance.
Paced by solid scoring and
sound defense, the Bearettes
compiled a 24-2 record for the
year.
BURGLARS HIT COUNTY AGAIN
MAUK AND CHARING NEW VICTIMS
Burglars struck for the third
time in a month during the week
end when stores belonging toL.
R. Pike and Roy Waller in Mauk
and the Post Office and Grocery
Store in Charing was borken in
to. Entrance was gained by
forcing the doors of each build-
Final Rites For
Grover Garrett
Held Saturday
Funeral services for Grover
Samuel Garrett, 46 years of age,
were held at the Butler Baptist
Church at 3 p. m. on Saturday
with the Rev. Walter R. Evans
officiating, assisted by the Rev.
Herschel Whitley and the Rev.
E. H. Dunn Sr. Burial was
in the family lot of the Bethel
Primitive Baptist Cemetery.
Born in Taylor County, June
7, 1916, he was the son of S.
Napoleon Garrett and the late
Mrs. Beulah Hinton Garrett.
He was a member of the Butler
Baptist Church, the Volunteer
Firemen and was a machinist
at the Suggs Machine Shop.
Mr. Garrett died at the Mont
gomery Hospital at 12:10 p. m.,
Thursday, after a brief illness.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Myrtice Allmon Garrett;
one daughter, Mrs. Gene Whit
ley, Mauk; father, Mr. S. N.
Garrett; one brother, Narby
Garrett, Thomaston and one
sister, Mrs. Charles Lyles,
Columbus; three grandchildren
and a number of nieces and nep
hews.
Edwards Funeral Home Home
was in charge of arrangements
with the following serving as
active pallbearers: Allen
Coulter, Clinton Culverhouse,
Charlie Hart Jr., J. S. Green
Jr., Marvin Peed and Bobby
Brooks.
Members of the Fire Depart
ment, the Young Men’s Sunday
School Class of the Bulter Bap
tist Church and the employees
of the Suggs Machine Shop
served as an honorary escort.
Final Dote For
Filing 'For New
Allotment
The final date for filing an
application for a new grower
cotton or peanut allotment is
February 15, 1963. The appli
cation must be in writing and
filed with the county ASCS of
fice on or prior to this date.
Farm owners or operators
who have an old grower cotton
or peanut allotment established
are not eligible for a new
grower allotment, and there are
other eligibility requirements.
Producers interested in
the establishment of a 1963
new grower allotment should
contact the county office and
review the new grower eligi
bility requirements not later
than February 15.
Operators of farms who will
not plant their 1963 cotton or
ing with a bar.
In Mauk, Mr. Pike reported
only a small metal box attached
to one of his counters missing
while Mr. Waller reported a
loss of about $5 or $6 in small
change, according to Deputy
Sheriff Charles Young.
In Charing, about $65 of per
sonal funds and about $15 from
the cash register was taken.
The intruders attempted to open
the safe bur broke the tear gas
and were run out.
No leads have been reported
by Investigator G. W. Goss
of the G. B. I. who is investi
gating the case, according to
Young.
Taylor Mill
Receives Award
Three plants of the Bibb Mau-
facturing Company will receive
awards in the Annual Textile
Safety Contest conducted by the
Georgia Textile Manufacturers
Association, Inc., according to
an announcement made by Frank
L. Carter, the Secretary of
that Association.
These three plants, the We-
launee Mill at Porterdale, The
Star Plant at Macon, and the
Taylor Mill at Reynolds, all
completed the year without a
single lost time accident, even
though the employees in those
three plants worked a total of
approximately 450,000 man
hours during the contest year.
“A new low accident fre
quency record has been esta
blished by Georgia textile mills
participating in the Associa
tion’s 14th Annual Safety Con
test", Mr. Carter said.
"For the first time since the
Safety Contest began in 1949,
an average frequency rate of
less than 6.00 accidents per
million manhours worked, was
recorded. The 122 industrial
plants that took part in the 1962
contest that ended December
31, established an all-time low
with an accident frequency of
only 5.90 accidents per million
manhours worked".
"This new record is all the
more remarkable”, Mr. Cart
er said, "when it is realized
that the 122 Georgia textile
plants that took part in the
1962 contest accumulated a total
of 33,520,973 manhours work
during the 12-month contest
period.”
Bronze plaques will be pre
sented to representatives of the
winning plants at the Annual
Textile Safety Conference to
be held at Georgia Tech in At
lanta, on March 19.
peanut allotment acreage may
release the unplanted acreage
for reapportionment by the
County Committee to other
farmers in the coumy. Release
of cotton acreage allotment
must be made by March 25,
1963. Farmers desiring an
acreage should file a request
at the county office. The final
date for filing a request for
reapportioned cotton acreage
is March 11, and the final date
for filing a request for re
apportioned peanut acreage is
April 1, 1963.