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TITB BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JUNE 2<j JP40»
NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGA!
Early Rose peach hRulings were Alice Lee Gorman, 7-year-old
increasing to the marketing news daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
service. Fob prices were 75-80 cents Gorman was instantly killed Friday
per half bushel for best offerings in
Lum Vaughn, 43, Crawford county
iarnier, died at the Macon hospital
Monday after an extended illness.
Thirty cars of peaches left Geor
gia Friday with hauling o.f Uneedas
New York. The market was slightly
I weaker. A few Early 'Rose, half
' bushels $1.60.
i Willie K. Bray, son of Mr. and
j Mrs. Jim Urny, Crawford, Ga., has
enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps
and transferred to the marine bar-
oeereasing and Early Rose increas- j nicks, Paris island, S. C., according
The
convention wi
Southwest Georgia singing
meet with the Troup I
to district headquarters
station at Macon.
recruiting
Discussing his campaign for one of
County Singing at LaGrange on the Colquitt's two seats in the general
assembly, if. W. Garrett, editor of
the Doerun Courier, in the current
issue of his paper, said he “needed
fourth Sunday in Jue.
Because of its increased activities
, . i,i U1 in'*
the justice department plans to add ?29>87 more to pay the en-
three deputy marshals in the south
ern districts of Georgia.
John J. Yarbrough, prominent Co
lumbus business man died Sunday
night after a short illness at the
family residence in that city.
Patrol officials Monday were in- j Clerks, to be held at the Rome Mu-
trance fee of $80.’’
Around 200 postal clerks from
pointst throughout Georgia are ex
pected to attend the annual conven
tion of the state division of the Na
tional Association of Post Office
vestigating a fatal accident which
hilled one and injured seven more
near the city limits of Adel Sunday. )
Three prisoners escaped the Lau
rens county works camp Tuesday,
Warden Bryant Tingle reported, and
one had been recaptured Tuesday
night.
C. A. Sweet, formerly of Columbus
has been named a member of the
national defense advisory commission
and will be charge of the cotton fab
ric division.
A number of Lee county farmers
expeetde to begin shipment of water
melons this week. Already a number
of them are bringing in ripe melons
for their friends.
Harold G. Powell, 38, an Atlanta
druggist, was in Grady hospital Mon
day with a bullet wound in his hip
—the result of an unauthorized ride
on a neighbor's goat.
Odie Fluker, serving life at Reids-
ville prison farm, Tuesday sought
permission from state officials to at
tend the funeral of his wife, but he
■was denied the request.
Reports from tobacco growers in
Worth county say that tobacco cur
ing is expected to be well under way
within two weeks and that the crop
has never been promising.
Georgia has hundreds of dilapi
dated' school buses which should be
removed from the highways, John 1.
All-man, slate director of school ad
ministration, said Tuesday.
Robert E. Ware, 65, night watch
man at the Alexander sawmill at Dal
ton, was found brutally beaten to
death early Monday morning Chief
of Police J. W. Robertson said.
Francis Bartow Camp No. 93, S. C.
V., Savannah voted Tuesday night to
prepare a special set of resolutions
on the death of Wm. G. Sutlive, who
rendered tine service to the camp.
Mj^s Florence Brend, who en
deared herself to hundreds in the 45
years she has been on the faculty of
Macon schools, was given permission
by the Bibb board of education Mon
day to retire.
The bodies of Legare Burney and
Thomas Pound had not been recover
ed yesterday from Jackson Lake in
which they were drowned Sunday
while H. A. Jordan narrowly es
caped the same fate.
A Jacksonville mother and her 12
year old son were under treatment
in a Macon hospital Tuesday for in
juries received when their auto over
turned on the Cochran Short Route
just outside of Macon.
Brig. Gen. Walter E. Prosser ar
rived at Ft. Henning to command
the newly organized Fourth Division
and was officially welcomed to the
post Monday with a guard of honor
and a 10-gun salute.
Lieut-Col. Andrew Weeks, member
of the staff of Col. John Millikin,
commandant of Ft. Oglethorpe, has
been assigned to duties as full-time
military attache and attache for air
at Montevido, Urguary.
A family reunion marked the ob
servance of Father's Day at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Bramblett of
Montezuma Sunday when seven sons
ad three daughters with their fami
lies (29 persons) were guests.
With his, Clarence Tillman, 21,
held in jail on murder charges, fu
neral serivees were held Tuesday in
Columbus, for Samuel T. Tillman, 47
who died Sunday of bullet wounds
Allegedly inflicted by the son.
when struck in front of her home in
Atlanta by a truck, which police said
was driven by E. M. Atwood, 20, of
Atlanta. Arrested on reckless driving
charges, Atwood was released on a
copy of charges and the trial was
set for a later date.
Thirty-four Elbert county couples
who have been married 60 years or
more will be feted by the Elberton
Kiwanis Club today at a mass golden
' wedding celebration. A ceremony
will be led by the Rev. B. F. Pirn,
and Ordinary Cone B. Thornton will
present certificates, no which will be
iscribed the time and place of ntar-
j riage and the names of officiating
| ministers and witnesses.
Sumter county, which claims to
| produce the most healthful milk in
| Georgia, is working hard to make
I more money out of its dairy and cat-
i lie business. The Americus milk shed
was the only one in Georgia in 1939
to make the L T . S. Public Health
Service Honor Rolls. To to be on
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nicipal clubhouse July 4.
In Washington yesterday the house honor roll, a community's grade
appropriations committee recommend
ed incmeasps totaling $3),5<XH<XX) in
the cost of 33 public building proj
ects. Among the increases were:
Athen, Ga.-—Post office and court
house, $220,600 to 410,000.
' Evelyn Harden, 12, of Richland, is
reported to be resting comfortably in
a Macon hospital following a har
rowing experience Sunday morning
when she was suffocated in a saw
dust pile which caved in as she and
her two brothers were playing on
it.
The Central of Georgia passenger
train bound for Macon was held up
30 minutes Monday night in Hape-
ville because of an automobile wreck
at Sylvan road. The car apparently
plunged from the road up the em
bankment to the tracks where it
came to rest.
Final preparations are under way
for entertainment of the state con
vention of Disabled American Vet
erans, to be held at Gainesville July
2 and 3, accroding to Jeff Thompson
newly elected commander of the
Hall County Chapter, No. 22, which
will be host.
Candidates who have announced
for representative to the General as
sembly from Macon county are Sid
ney Moore, Mrs. John Guerry and
S. O Jones. The final date for qualifi
cations for the officce has been set
by the democratic executive commit
tee as July 25.
The death of Hon. Henry C. Mor
gan, prominent and well known
Homerville attorney, occurred last
week in a Waycross hospital. His
passing followed a cerebral hem-
niorage. He had been solicitor-gener
al of the Alapaha judicial circuit
for the past 16 years.
Mrs. Catherine Briney von Schoem
wife of a German newspaperman in
Santiago, Chile, has sent a $50 con
tribution to the Alice McClellan Bir-
ney Memorial Fund, Mrs. Virginia
Croshv, chairman of the movement
to erect a memorial for the late P.
T. A. founder, said Tuesday. *
State Representative F. M. Dick
erson, A. L. Barnhill and T. D. Mit
chell, turpentine operators and far
mers of Clinch county, have herds
of Polled Hereford cattle that are
demonstrating the natural advantag
es of this prt of Georgia as a great
cattle section and rivaling that of
the West.
Mrs. Dozier Thornton, of Elberton
says some women who gave no name
called her from Chicago, made sure
it was she, told her to read a certain
verse in the Bible and hung up. Mrs.
Thornton can't think of anyone who
would spend $2.95 to call her from
Chicago and was so surprised she
failed to remember which verse she
was told to read.
With four negroes in jail for fur
ther questioning, authorities Tues
day speeded a widespread search for
clues that might lead to the appre
hension of the person or persons
who bludgeoned Robert E. Ware, 65
year old night watchman, to death
apparently in an attempt to rob
him of money he was believed to
have been carrying.
The road to stardom seems to be
opening before Patty Irwin. Patty,
pretty Atlanta girl, finished at Wash
ington Seminary and for two years
has been studying at Kdngsmith
studio. She was graduated the last
of May having specialized in dra
matics, and Saturday she went to
Milford, Conn., to become a profes
sional player with the Plymouth the
ater.
A pasteurized or raw milk must have
a bating of 90 or more in state and
national inspections.
Lamar Dodd, Georgia artist and
teacher, reached the top this week as
an American painter with the an
nouncement of the purchase of his
Sand Sea and Sky zy the Metropoli
tan Museum in New York City. The
painting by Dodd, a native of La-
Grange who heads the University of
Georgia art department will hang in
the permanent exhibit of American
painters. Dodd who is only 31, has
shown in ail the major exhibitions in
the United States.
John Wesley Hortman, 30-year-old
father of- three children and con
fessed slayer of his wife, Lessie,
will go on trial for his life in Bibb
superior court at Macon Monday. I
Mrs. Hortman was bludgeoned to
death with the blaut end of an ax at
her. home in Macon. Hortman said he
killed her when lie discovered her in
a midnight tryst with another man.
A coroner's jury investigated the
slaying and charged Hortman, a box
factory worker, with murder.
third term seen
ON FIRST BALLOT
Atlanta.—Gov. E. D. Rivers spokes
man for Georgia's Roosevelt-in
structed Democratic delegation, pre
dicted Friday the president would
be nominated for a third term at the
Chicago convention “on the first bal
lot.”
“It probably will be by
Hon,” he said, before they
down to a roll call.
acclama-
even get
FLASH OF LIGHTNING
FATAL TO BABY FISH
the
Richmond, Va.—And now
lightning war. fish fashion.
G. *W. Butler, state superintedent
of fish propagation, said Monday
that about oOO young trout had 1 been
killed at the Montebello hatchery by
abolt of lightning.
The bolt struck a wooden enclos
ure surrounding two fish pools and
then skipped' across the water.
Economic
Sixty-three percent of the farm
families are tenants and of Ini* num
ber approximately one-third change
farms every 12 months. The average
income per farm person is upptox.-
mately $55.00 annually.
After making a careful study of
the agricultural situation within the
county the committee lists in accord
ance with their importance problems
affecting local farmers.
1. Problems of Income:
a. Lack of proper planning and
execution of same
b. Unfavorable prices and lack of
markets.
c. Lack of supp'enuntavy income.
d. Lack of cash crops and markets.
2. Listing in order of importance
c' problems of land cm found in
tlie county.
a. Soil Erosion.
b. Landlord, tenant relationship.
0. Improper forest management.
d. Failure of farms to produce and
save adequately for families and
livestock.
e. Small percent of land producing
all the income.
3. (People:
a. Social problems. Lack of energy
due to poor health.
b. Lack of recreational advantage.
1. Porblcms of Income:
a. We recommend as a possible so
lution for problem number one tin
der income that each family execute
a farm and home plan sheet at the
beginning of each year and set-up
farming operations in accordance
with the executed plan. We further
recommend that an accurate inven
tory be made at the beginning of
each crop year and that accurate
record of sales and purchases be
kept.
b. Unfavorable prices and lack of
markets:
As a possible solution to this pro
gram we recommend the establish
ment of one-variety cotton communi
ties in the county and participation
in same by cotton farmers. We rec
ommend that all perishable products
he packaged more attractively and
graded more closely. We also reco
mend that farmers, by planning
avoid distress sales of food and feed
crops. We further recommend that
growers of other crops follow the
examples set by the poultry produc
ers in the organinzing of cooperative
sales and purchases
c. Lack of Supplementary Income:
As a solution to this problem we
recommend that our farmers who are
not already doing so, round out their
individual farm problems by adding
livestock where practical. Giving
more attention to care and market
ing forest products and in cases
where lievstock is increased adequate
fences are almost as essential as
feed and pasture.
Land Use Problems; Soil Erosion:
The entire solution of this problem
as we see it can be affected only by
adequate terracing, rotation, fertili
zation, and strip cropping on indi
vidual farms and we recommend that
every farm in the county as ,s on as
possible execute an agreement with
the district soil conservation supet-
visors and carry out same its lapid-
ly as feasible.
b. Landlord. Tenant Relationship:
We recommend as a solution to
this problem that a rental contract
between landlord and tenant should
carry the following provisions: Ten
ant to receive payment for imprive-
ments made on the farm and receive
penalties for abuses on the farm.
The incoming tenant should be given
the privilege of planting winter
cover crops and grain on the farm
as soon as he finds out he is to live
on the farm the following year. In
other words possession of the crop
land on which crops have been har
vested should he given the incoming
tenant not later than October and
complete possession not later than
Nov. 1.
c. Improper Forest Management:
We believe that proper forest
management can be brought about
only thru education in prevention of
forest fires and by a system of coun
ty wide organized fire protection.
The educational part o f this bettor
forest management program should .
be carried on in the schools by the i
ccunty agent and others and the or
ganized fire protection should come
through an organization for this pur
pose, such as county T. P. 0. In ad
dition to the above we also wish to
Shreveport, La., June 14—A mys- ! |’ ecomnlen( l that the provisions be
terious and unidentified envelope ' " lcluded in the landlord tenant con-
containing a $5 or $l(U,ili arrives in tract su ffff est ed above which will in-
the mail at the home of J. G, Levy sure forest protection along the
Shreveport insurance man, every few i same bnes as recommended for crop
months, he revealed Friday. ! Iand Protection and that all farm-
And it's been going on like that I ” S co ‘°l )erat e with the local farm
for three years.
The envelopes, postmarked in
Shreveport, contain no letter or ex
planation for the money.
.. Richland Child Hurt!
When Buried in Sa»J
rave for families and livestock:
One possible approach to the so
lution of this problem would he to
encourage growing and saving of
sufficient seed. Encourage the build- pjjg Sunday Affpi'h,
ing of community canning centers J ru wl[||
wherever practical, the building of . —
more trench silos, and cooperative ■
purchases of harvesting equipment. Richland, Ga June l(Uj
e. Small percent of land produc-, and quick thinking 0 f tw„
ing all the income: I pothers probably saved the
As a possible solution to this prob- KveIyn Hurden ’ ^-year-old d,
lem we recommend that all sub-mar- uf L ®' vis Ha «l en , when ,
ginal land lie classified ,.s such and caught under four feet of
that the possibility for nublic own- ' vl, ® a it caved in while she
ership as game reserves, forest re- brothers were playing „ n th(
serves, and public parks he invest!- undermined by fire, at Kiehl,
L’ttted and if possible at least parts (
of this land lie procnrec for such by When t e girl was trap],
either state, federal government, or t,ie sawdust, one of her
county. T u homas ’ aKed 8 ’ dlwe a st ic |
3. Problems of Peoples: j the mass making tt small
a. Social Problems: Lack of en- through which she was able
ergv due to poor health. air to breathe ' Tlw boys ,|„
It seems to us that this most im- tically > the K ir > talking to thi
portant problem should he solved wbde and begging them not J
through a more adequate health do- but were unable to reach her]
partment and an educational pro- When their sister quit tall
gram emphasizing the value of ‘Tightened brothers ran for
home screening, a balanced diet, ' Persons summoned to the
and more sanitary surroundings.
b. Lack of Recreational Advan
tages:
In addition to the use of sub-mar
ginal land for recreatoon purposes
we believe that public organization
such as P. T. A. should be increased
to promote school play grounds and
community recreational centers.
removed the unconscious oj
under the sawdust and she w,
ed with difficulty. She was
a Richland hospital where s]
ported to be in a critical r
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ministration, citing its solvent finan
cial condition and argued that “the
state must be put on a firm financial
basis.” He said the seven months
school term must become a reality
and not an 1. 0. CTP'fffid declared ho
wanted teachers paid in full and the
gasoline tax applied to roads.
“We don’t want a dictator in.
Georgia with people huddling behind
barbed wire and national guards
men,” he said.
Herman Talmadge spoke for his
father who was in Atlanta recupe
rating from a minor operation last
week.
“When my father was elected gov-
rnor in 1932, the issues were very
much tlie same as those confronting
us today.” he said. “The school
teachers were unpaid, the state was
move than $10,000,000 in debt and
th“ majority of the people of Georgia
had resigned themselves to a sales
LEG A I, 8ALL
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Will be sold at the cou..
door in said Taylor County I
First Tuesday in July, l'J
same being the 2nd day of Juj
within the legal hours of >a:e|
highest bidder for cash the f
ing described property, to-wil
Fifty (50) acres of land, i
less, in the south-west cornel
No. One in the 15th land disl
Taylor County, Georgia,
levied upon and to he sold I
proeprty of Mrs. L. W. i;|
heirs to satisfy tax fi fas
following vears: 1933, 1934,
1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939,
of Mrs. Belle Garrett, transfej
Said property to he sold
property of of Mrs. L. W. (
defendant in fi fa.
Tenant in possession n
Property pointed out by
This the first dav of June,]
J. M. BONE, SI
Taylor County,
ELECTION TO BE HELD j|
FOR SCHOOL TRISTEI
NO ALIEN TROUBLE
AT MARSHALLVILLE
Marshallville, June 14.—Marshall-
viile, mre than 100 years old, and
boasting amost a thousand people,
won't have any trouble about regis
tering aliens. Never in the history
of ths iaristocratic town has a for
eigner or even a foreign-horn citi
zen lived there.
The city likewise has no dentist,
nu lawyer, no real estate agency
and no undertaking establishment.
EATONTON PAPER
SOLD TO GRIFFITH
Eatonton—Sale of the Eatonton
Messenger to Louis Turner Griffith
1940 journalism graduate of the Uni
versity of Georgia, was announced
Friday.
Former State Senator and Mrs.
F. A. Dennis owned a majority of
the stock of the Messenger, whose
present editor, T. A. Gregory Jr.,
was elected Putnam county school
superintendent.
MYSTERY MONEY
THROl GH MAIL
tax. j
“After election my father reduced j GEORGIA—Taylor County:
expenses wherever possible. Useless I There will be an election
bureaus and departments were abol- ] all School Districts in the Cod
ished, useless employes were ( | ls . | ^uturday, June 29, 19iu, !nr:'|
, ,, , nose of electing Trustees to I
missed ana the state was operated on .. , , , 1
, , ..... i vacancies on the local bo:
a sound and economic basis. He re- trustees
duced taxes. He cut the automobile [ Said election will lie held
tags to ,-i flat rate of $3 . . . The 1 same place and in the same
state obligations were paid in full I thirt other elections are held
and $9,000,000 in cash was left in
the state treasury.”
Young Talmadge compared the fi
nancial situation of the state today.
The traditional Georgia barbecue
followed the talks. Other festivities
then took the attention of the towns
folk and visitors, including selection
of MissCotton Queen an historical
pageant dealing with Griffin's one
hundred years history and a cotton
ball.
Mr. 1 Mary Alice Stapleton rep
resenting Georgia-Kincaid Mill No.
3, was elected cotton queen in a
contest with 14 others. She was
crowned during the evening by W.
D. Anderson, president of the Bibb
Manufacturing company, with the
other contestants forming her court.
An exhibition golf match ended
with a one-cup victory for Charlie
Y ates and Louise Suggs, newly-
crowned woman's state champion,
over Dorothy Kirby, former south-
various School Districts of Ok
ty. Only qualified voters ’
ticipate in said election.
Returns will he filed
County School Superintendent!
day, July 1, 1940, for -
by the County Board
meeting Tuesday, July 2, 1911
Done by order of the County!
of Education this June 4, 194T
W. T. RUSTIN, Superintaj
Taylor County Sch#|
Grfri
ern champion and
Chestham.
An aviation show at the nil
airport, with Beverly Ho want I
flier, heading the cast, will fl
Tuesday's program, during
three historical markers
veiled and dedicated.
A parade in which Fort 1
troops are to participate
Wednesday's program. The centi
closes Wednesday night vvitnj
i<roduction of the Wings of 1
historical pageant.
forestry project in developing an in
dividual forest management plan on
the farm .
i d, Failure of farms to produce and
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