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The Taylor County News,
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VOLUME 17-NUMBER 21
BUTLER, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1MI
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SENATOR GARLAND T. BYRD
EXPLAINS SENATE Bill 105
This is an unofficial account of a meeting of the Committee
for Better Education of the Butler PTA with Hon. Garland T. Byrd
and Hon. Ralph R. Underwood to obtain an interpretation of Senate
Bill 105 and the motive behind it. Also present were three mem
bers of the County Board of Education and several other interest
ed people.
James T. Smith - Mr. Byrd, we have asked you here to obtain
an interpretation of Senate Bill 105. Would you explain what you
meant by this bill?
Byrd - Yes, the bill provides that the local board will hold a
referendum on the question of consolidation. Each group will hold
a referendum and the votes will be counted separately.
Smith - Is this bill written so that a minority group can control
consolidation?
Byrd - Yes, the affected areas will vote on this question.
Smith - What are the intentions of this bill?
Byrd - I want to see a referendum on this matter but I want a
referendum that would offer a safeguard to all affected areas.
1 want to see how the people feel about it. 1 am in favor of conso-
Reynolds-Butler Cage
Game Real Thriller
TO SPEAK AT REYNOLDS CHURCH
Dr. Evangeline Thillayam-
palam, a native of Ceylon and
lecturer from Wesleyan Col-
Bearettes To
Play In Region
The Butler Bearettes roar-
Mrs. B. E. Avera, presi
dent of the Cross Roads Home
Demonstration Club, has been
invited to appear on the pro
gram of the Macon County Home
Demonstration Workshop on
Thursday, February 28, begin
ning at 10 a. m. She will give
a demonstration on how to make
a hat from a straw table place-
mat.
DR. EVANGELINE THILLAYAMP ALAM
Give HarMaking
Demonstration
lege, will be guest speaker
at the Reynolds Methodist
Church, Monday evening, March
4, following a covered dish
supper beginning at 7 p. m.
She will show slides and talk
about the Methodist mission
work in India. Everyone is
invited to attend this meet
ing sponsored by the WSCS of
ed to their third straight sub- the Reynolds MethodistChurch.
region title by downing a fight- ' 1
ing Reynolds team 58-36, then
roaring past Roberta 62-40.
Led by the shooting of Ann
Benns, Elaine Bryant, and Gail
Moore, plus the tenacious de
fense of Doris Peed, Dondra
Peed, Mary Lee Oliver, Bren
da Gassett, Marilyn Spillers,
Linda Taylor and Lynne Taylor.
The Bearettes fought back a
charge of the Reynolds Ti-
gerettes and coasted the 2nd
half, winning by 22 points on
Monday night. Tuesday, the
Bearettes blistered the Craw
ford County Eagles in the 2nd
quarter and won going away by
22 points.
The girls journey to Roberta
tonight and at 7:30 they play
Milner for a shot at the state
playoffs in Columbus. A
motorcade is being formed to
leave for Roberta from the
courthouse at 6:30. Bring your
family.
"If My People Pray” Is Theme
For Baptist Missioa Week
AfTdersen Is
Kiwanis Guest
The unsung heroes of the athletic teams that play around our
country are often forgotten in the praise for the teams them
selves. But as the spotlight turns once again to the finale of the
year, the tournament games, the cheerleaders certainly deserve
some thanks for the work they have done this year.
In the picture at the left is the group that cheered the Reynolds
lidation but I am in the small minority therefore I don t want to team- This squad is made up of front row> left t0 right . Lynda
penalize the people there. : .
Smith - But a referendum would be by the county at large but
a small minority could rule over the remainder of the county.
Byrd - I only went back and picked up the old 1945 law.
Smith - But we can hold a referendum now.
Byrd - The board refused to hold one.
Emory Harris - No sir, we only tabled it until the committee
can meet. Itwas left for the periof of one month. Dr. Whatley was
to appoint a committee for his side of the county and I was ap
pointed by the Board of Education to get 6 from the Butler dis
trict to get a committee together and work on it.
Byrd - Wasn’t a committee already working on it?
Harris - No sir, this was a PTA committee and had nothing to
do with consolidation. They are the Education Committee of the
PTA.
Byrd - Is consolidation essential?
Harris - Tests prove that we must have a better educational
system for our students to get into college. The same tests were
given in Butler and Reynolds and the alarming thing about it was
that neither school had developed the potential of their children.
We are not pointing a finger at the Reynolds School. We realize
our own shortcomings and are only trying to help all concerned.
These tests were given to the present Senior Class in the spring
of 1962 and they graded at Princeton University for tabulating
by IMB machine so you see it was not done by someone here but
by a machine - human hands didn't do it.
Byrd - Where will you put them?
Harris - We have the space in this high school building. Four
rooms of the grammar school are now in the high school and could
be moved back to the elementary building. It was mentioned at
the board meeting to raise millage 5 mills to keep both schools but
one local man said it wouldn't be right to increase taxes to keep
both schools. We think it is a county wide issue because we all
must raise the money and all the people would pay the taxes.
Moody Peed - Would this bill do away with the power of the
board in all counties? It would here.
Byrd - It certainly would but this bill would only affect Taylor
County. It was meant as a stopgap measure to give time to stop
and take stock. I thought we were going to take stock after the
meeting with you here. I had no idea there would be any starting
on consolidation at this time. So I wanted to see how the people
felt on it.
Smith - So this bill Indicates that the board were not handling it
Byrd - No, I just want to see how the people and the board feel Anderson Speaks
about it.
Harris - Wome of our members are here. There’s Mr. Peed
and Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark, how do you feel about it?
Byrd - I assume you three are for consolidation. I have been
In the Macon County squabble for seven years. In fact, I am the
only one of the lawyers living. I don’t want to see a good school
system ruined and a county divided as there was there. I hope
to postpone consolidation for a year.
Harris - We want to ask you to let us as a board of education
of the county to let the committees work this out. We are trying
to pick people who sit and talk intelligently. We believe we are
going to be able to work it out to the satisfaction of the majority
of the people. We would ask you to let this bill ride like the
temperance bills that are put in the hopper each session.
Byrd - If the schools are consolidated, my children would
come to Butler but I can tell you they will be some of the few
who do.
Harris- Well we don’t want to see you live permanently in
Reynolds - we would like to see you sit in the governor’s chair
and we know you have to live the people in Reynolds but we also
feel that this district has treated you fairly and there is almost
as many voting in the Butler district as in the rest of the county.
What I’m asking is that you don’t drive a wedge between these
people.
Byrd - I’m fully aware of how good the county has been to me
- I went through this same thing in Macon County. I recognized
an effort to consolidate without the PTAs working it out and I
believe this committee led by Phyllis could have done it. We
don't want a river to divide us. I was shocked and surprised at
the effort to consolidate I read in the Taylor County News. I
thought it was behind us until I read it. The bill is only tem
porary to allow a "cooling off’’ period. Nothing can be done
in the heat and passion of such discussion.
Smith - These committees were being formed. The motion was
not for consolidation but for a referendum to let the people
speak on it.
Byrd - A majority of the voters. And you know the main area
affected wouldn’t have a ghost of a chance.
Jim Gibson - It would be discriminatory if it pits one end of the
county against all the rest of the county.
Byrd - If my bill passes, will it take away from Butler?
Several answered - Yesl
Harris - Let me ask you one question, Can six people run a
good high school and give all the subjects that are needed?
Hullng - How far do we have to go on this exploration before
something will be done?
Byrd - I wouldn’t be satisfied with a State Education report. Left to right, back row: Reid Walton and Mrs. Virginia Boger;
Harris - I don’t feel that legislation coming out of Atlanta front row > Hugh O Neal, Sara Ann Fountain and Butch Thornton,
should run the county.
Smith - What is this legislation designed to do?
Byrd - To stop consolidation.
Smith - By a minority group?
Gibson - Why did you have the urgency to get this Dill in?
Byrd - I thought we should study further.
Peed - We’ve been studying it since we were in school.
Byrd - Should we completely disregard that end of the county? fou'rnament'' held in Athens,
1 will take full responsiblity of the bill. February 22-23. The negative
Smith - This was conceived in Atlanta and no delegation came team> Butch Thornton ^ Reld
to see you? Walton, won four of their five
Mr. Byrd stated that he had no delegation and drew up the bill rounds and ln lndlvidual polnts
Continued on page 4.
Whatley, Peggy Childree, Caroline Brady, Jeri Windham and back
row: Betty Cummings, Gayle Aultman and Sue Trussell.
In the right photo is the Butler cheerleaders squad composed
of front row, left to right: Ellen Parks, Betty Jo Hammack,
Daphne Barnes and Linda Cowart; back row: Marie Albritton,
Ellen Eubanks and Kay Davis.
WALTON NAMED
STAR STUDENT
FOR TAYLOR
At Reynolds High
Mr. Paul Anderson, the
World’s Strongest Man pre
sented a program to the Rey
nolds School Students, Friday,
February 22. Mr. Anderson
delivered a short talk on his
background and his accom
plishments, including his Boys
Home in Vidallia, Ga. where
he spends most of his time
now. He also demonstrated
feats of his strength and an
swered questions of the students
and teachers in the audience.
WSCS SPONSORS
DAY OF PRAYER
Reynolds WSCS is sponsoring
the World Day of Prayer ob
servance Friday morning be
ginning at 10 a. m. at the Rey
nolds Methodist Church.
The Butler Baptist Woman’s
Missionary Union will observe
the Week of Prayer for Home
Missions during the week of
March 4-8 meeting each morn
ing at the church at 10 o’clock
for one hour. The topic to be
studied for the week is "If
My People. . . Pray”.
The public is invited to come,
especially all ladies of the But
ler Baptist Church are urged to
be present. Will YOU Come?
Final Rites
Held Here For
Miss Bussey
Funeral services for Miss
Mary Thomas Bussey, who died
at the Mockingbird Rest Home,
Geneva, on Saturday at 2 a.m.,
were held at the Edwards Fun
eral Home Chapel on Sunday
at 3 p. m. with the Rev. Her-
schel Whitley, pastor of Horeb
Baptist Church, officiating, as
sisted by the Rev. E. H. Dunn.
Interment was in the Bussey
Cemetery.
Born in Taylor County, April
19, 1872, she was the daughter
of the late Thomas J. and Nancy
Willis Bussey. She was a life
time resident of the county and
a member of the Horeb Bap
tist Church.
Survivors include a host of
nieces and nephews.
Edwards Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements with
the following serving as pall
bearers Eugene Downs, J. B.
Vain, Mercer and Charles
Downs, T. A. Teale and
Curtis Wade.
The Reynolds High School
debate team, composed of Sara
Ann Fountain, Hugh O’Neal
Butch Thornton and Reid Wal
ton, participated in the Fourth
Annual University of Georgia
Invitational High School Debate
Reid Walton scored in the top
percentage of the 188 debaters.
Of the 47 teams participating
from all over the states of
Georgia and South Carolina, the
top honors went to Dreher High
School, Columbia, South Caro
lina.
The group recently won third
place in the Class C, Region 4
Loierary Events. MaconCounty
placed second and Greenville
was first in the event.
Paul Anderson, World’s
Strongest Man, was guest
speaker at the Kiwanis Club
luncheon on Friday at the noon
hour. Mr. Anderson, introduced
by Richard Parks, spoke on the
wgrk he and his wife are doing
with a home operated for teen
agers.
Born in Toccoa, he develop
ed his strength by lifting weights
and participated in his first
international meet in Moscow
in 1955. In 1956 he won the gold
medal at the Olympics at Mel
bourne, Australia and holds 52
world records in weight lifting.
He is a lay speaker in the Me
thodist church and a member
of the President’s Physical Fit
ness committee.
He said that he is most in
terested in our children be
cause "They are our most valu
able assetl" To do the most with
a child go to the source of
trouble, the home. Stay in close
contact with your children and
let them talk out their troubles.
He also gave the ten ways to
rear delinquent children.
After having had the home in
operation for little more than
a year, they have 14 children
which they have obtained
through various sources. All
are required to work and to go
to church and Sunday School.
He is also interested in getting
detention homes built to keep
children who are in trouble
from the hardened criminals.
Guests for the day were
Holmes Harrison, Richard and
Roland Brooks, Ray Hartley,
Brady Humber and Key Club
bers Henry Sams and Anthony
Smith.
Mr. S. J. Tankersley will
be program chairman for the
next week.
Reynolds Man
Dies In Atlanta
Funeral services for Clenton
D. Green, 76, who died Sunday
were held Monday at 3 p. m. in
Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon.
Mr. Green, a native of Bibb
County, had lived ln Reynolds
for 20 years. He was a retired
Southern Railway employee.
Surviving are several
cousins, Mrs. James Gray,
Mrs. Ernest Childre, Mrs. A.
S. James and Mrs. Henry Payne
all of Reynolds.
Peter W. (Bill) Walton has
been named the 1963 STAR
STUDENT for the Taylor
County school system area, the
Reynolds Kiwanis Club
announced this week. The STAR
STUDENT is a senior at Rey
nolds high school. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wal
ton of Reynolds.
The STAR STUDENT then
selected Mrs. Virginia Boger
teacher at Reynolds High School
as his STAR TEACHER, the
teacher who made the greatest
contribution to the student’s
scholastic achievement.
Walton serves as STAR
STUDENT for both Reynolds
high school and the Taylor
County school system area.
At the supper meeting at
tended by the Kiwanis com
mittee and the STAR student
Continued on page 2
Postpone
Regular Meet
The regular meeting of the
Taylor County Commissioners
has been postponed from March
5 to March 12.
Georgia Power
Presents Checks
A check for $2259.32 was de
livered Feb. 27, 1963 to the city
of Butler and a check for
$2,064.29 was delivered to the
city of Reynolds by H. L. Rus
sell, local manager, Georgia
Power Company.
This tax payment represents
three per cent of the gross
receipts in 1962 from the sale
of electric power, under the
Municipal Partnership Plan, to
commercial and residential
customers of the company. It
is in addition to the company's
property taxes, which on a
statewide basis last year total
ed $7,308,700.
More than $2,734,000 in 1962
gross receipts taxes is being
paid this year to the commu
nities of Georgia. This an in
crease of more than $246,000
over the amount paid last year.
The company’s total tax bill
for 1962 was $31,596,000. This
does not include the sales tax
which the company collects
from its customers for the
State of Georgia. Neither does
it include the sales tax which
the company pays on materials
used in its operations.
The Reynolds - Butler game
was a scorcher. The first
seven shots taken from the
floor were made. Ann Benns
started things off with a 30
ft. two hander. Sandy Hinton
retaliated with a hook. Elaine
Scouting Film
Feature At
Kiwanis Meet
The program of the Kiwanis
Club on Friday was presented
by Woodfin Hinton who was in
troduced by Ed Goddard. A
film on Scouting was shown
telling of the work of Explorer
Scouts. It showed how explor
ers are busy throughout the
United States and maintain
church grounds, teach polio vic
tims to swim and other things
as each post specializes in some
one thing whether music, elec
tronics, swimming or gasoline
engines.
Mr. Howard Neisler was in
ducted into the club as the 50th
member by J. W. Windham.
The committee selected to
help with the Heart Fund Drive
included C. E. Marshall, Bobby
Aultman, Luther Willis and
Woodfin Hinton.
Visitors included Cornelius
Lumpkin of Columbus and Key
Clubbers, Jimmy Holloway and
Bill Holloway.
Funeral Rites
Held Tuesday For
Mrs. Mathews
Funeral services for Mrs.
Eula Windham Mathews, 83
years of age, were held at the
Butler MethodistChurch,Tues
day at 3 p. m. with the Rev.
Walter McCleskey, pastor of the
Butler Methodist Church, offi
ciating, assisted by the Rev.
Walter R. Evans. Interment
was in the Butler Cemetery.
Mrs. Mathews was born in
Taylor County, January 11,1880,
daughter of the late J. J. and
Sara Johnson Windham. She
was married to the late J. T.
Mathews, who died in 1957.
A lifetime resident of the coun
ty, she was a member of the
Butler Methodist Church and
the WSCS.
She died suddenly at her home
in Butler at about 8 a. m.,
Monday.
Survivors include one daugh
ter, Mrs. W. F. Gray Sr. But
ler; two sons, Robert M. Ma
thews, Charlotte, N. C. and W.
M. Mathews, Butler; two
brothers, W. G. Windham, Tif-
ton and C. G. Windham,
Thompson; one sister, Mrs.
W. W. Wallace, Miami, Flori
da; 7 grandchildren, 4 great
grandchildren and a number
of nieces and nephews.
Serving as pallbearers were
Charlie Wright, Wanza Hort-
man, Vernon Reddish, Hugh
Chee k, James Gray, W. H.
Trussell, H. E. Childres and
Lawson Wilson.
Watson-Mathews Funeral
Home was in charge of arrange
ments,
Bryant then dropped in a driv
ing hook. Miss Hinton hit a
jumper. Gail Moore dribbled
to the corner to sink another
jumper. The tirade of bask
ets continued throughout the
first quarter with Butler ahead
16-12 at the first rest stop.
The action slowed a bit in
the second quarter as the de
fense began to show its teeth.
Reynolds guards, led by Slaton,
Hill and Perkins held Butler to
12 points during the period while
Butler’s Oliver and Gassett held
Reynolds to six.
The second half found a fight
ing Reynolds team, led by Rita
Wilson and Havilyn Montgo
mery, trying desperately to get
back into the game, but the
overall depth of the Bearettes
was just too great an obstacle.
Butler extended the lead to 41-
27 after 3 quarters, and won
going away. Reynolds came
back Tuesday night to win the
consolation game from Yates-
ville, 41-27.
Sanders Asks
Aid For Taylor
Governor Carl Sanders has
appealed to U. S. Secretary of
Agriculture, Orville Freeman,
for emergency assistance to
livestock farmers in Taylor
County.
The Governor said Taylor is
one of 75 Georgia counties
where pasturage has been wiped
out by severe freezes and
drought.
Secretary Freeman has
approved emergency aid
for five counties — Colquitt,
Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell and
Clay — but has given no an
swer to Governor Sanders’
request for assistance for the
remaining 70.
"Local and Senate disaster
committees have informed me
that livestock farmers in these
counties are suffering from lack
of pasture and hay to feed their
animals," Governor Sanders
said.
"Under such conditions,
Secretary Freeman may grant
permission for the farmers in
these hard-hit counties to graze
pastures held in reserve under
the soil bank program," Gov
ernor Sanders said.
"In addition, the farmers
would be permitted to buy feed
grains from the Agriculture
Stablization Conservation
Service at reduced prices,"
The Governor said.
Taylor is among 44 counties
for which Governor Sanders
requested aid this week.Others
in this group are:
Barrow, Berrien, Bibb, Bul
loch, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll,
Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chat
tooga, Columbia, Coweta, De
catur, Dodge, and Early.
Floyd, Glascook, Gordon
Grady, Gwinnett, Haralson,
Harris, Henry, Jasper, Lamar,
Lincoln, Monroe, Muscogee,
Paulding, and Putnam.
Quitman, Schley, Stephens,
Sumter, Tattnall, Taylor, Tift,
Twiggs, Upson, Walker, Wash
ington, Webster, Whitfield, and
Wilkinson.
Legion Auxiliary
Meet Postponed
The meeting of Butler Unit
124, American Legion Aux
iliary, has been postponed from
March 1 to Friday afternoon,
March 8, at 3;30 p. m. Mrs.
Joe Royeton and Mrs. C. S.
Sawyer will be hostesses at
the meeting which will be held
at the Woman’s Club House in
Reynolds.
Mrs. E. J. (Mable) Stinson has been elected "Favorite Teacher
of the Year" by the student body of Butler High School. Mrs.
Stinson first attended Berry College and graduated from the
University of Georgia. She did further work at Mercer and the
Woman’s College of Georgia. Mrs. Stinson teaches science and
biology and also sponsors the Hi-Y Club and the Junior Class.
The election of the "Favorite Teacher" climaxed Teacher
Appreciation Week sponsored by the Student Council. Each day
a coffee break was held for the teachers with members of the
Student Council serving coffee and other refreshments.