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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, APRIL 16, 1942,
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NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
The commencement of the Towns
County High School Will bo held
beginning Friday night, April 24,
through the 27 at Hlnwassee, when
39 graduates will get their diplom
as, the largest class ever to gradu
ate from the school.
Funeral services for Rev. W. F.
Mott, 71, former pastor of the First
Christian Church of Waycross, and
widely known throughout the
Southeast as a church leader and
educator, were held Sunday at his
former church at Waycross.
Most of Georgia's draft boards
have enough 1-A men available
from earlier registrations to take
care of quotas until June, and few
of the February 16 registrants will
be needed until then, according to
Brigadier General S. B. Hawkins.
Georgia peach growers will
and railway mall clerk, were held I Rather at Macon Tuesday to par-
Monday at Spring Hill. |tic!pate In a statewide celebration
I of the recent overwhelming ap-
Lt. E. E. Mullis, former sports proval of a new marketing program
editor and circulation manager of 1 which will be Initiated with the
the Dublin Courier-Herald, is now!rapidly approaching 1942 harvest
with the U. S. Army in Australia. | season.
The citizens of Macon Sunday
paid posthumous tribute to Capt.
.E. L. Parsel, Macon airman killed
recently In a Far East plane crash
Capt. Alvan C. Gillem, whose
home is in Columbus has been
promoted to his present grade from
first lieutenant at this Army Air
Base.
While visiting relatives at Doe-
run, Wm. L. Perkins, of Columbus,
died suddenly Tuesday.
Savannah wlllbe host to the an
nual session of the Georgia Educa
tion Association April 23-25.
Gov. Talmadge approved a $6,-
220,COO highway department bud
get for the second quarter of 1942.
The North Georgia peach crop
has been considerably damaged by
recent cold, it was learned Tues
day.
Funeral services for C. T. Stand
ard, 79, former newspaper editor
3. Randall Cuurell, editor of the
Spokesman, publication of the in
mates of the state prison at Reids-
ville, was paroled Tuesday by Gov.
Talmadge.
Investigation of charges of "al
leged irregularities” filed against
the Henry County Draft Board is
scheduled to be held at McDonough
this week.
The trial of Jno. W. Greer, former
state purchasing agent who is un
der federal indictment for violation
of the antitrust law, Monday was
postponeduntil today.
A three-day session of the Geor
gia Pharmaceutical Association, at
tended by approximately 1,000
members, convened at the Biltmore
Hotel in Atlanta Monday.
Members of the Macon bar have
endorsed Solicitor General J. E.
-Cook of Dublin, for the office of
attorney general of Georgia. Mr.
Cook was informed Monday.
Looking to future expansion the
Columbus Coca-Cola Bottling com
pany Monday completed the pur
chase of a tract of land north of
and adjoining the present site*of
-its new plant.
Civilian sportsmen and State
Guard units Monday began ans
wering the Government's call for
serviceable Springfield and Enfield
rifles with which to equip United
Nations troops.
L. L. Woodward, attorney, has
been appointed acting postmaster
at the Vienna postoffice to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of T.
A. Adkins. Woodward assumed his
duties Monday.
Col. H. R. Anderson, professor of
military science and tactics at the
University of Georgia, Athens, was
found shot to death from self-in
flicted wounds on the banks of the
Oconee river Monday.
Americus' municipal airport has
been designated by the War Depart
ment as a field for the landings
and take-offs of private and com
mercial planes after having met
-rigid requirements of the depart
ment.
The federal grand jury at Macon
Tuesday indicted 16 men for draft
evasion, and District Attorney T.
H. Davis declared the government
is going to deal sternly with viola
tors of the Selective Service act in
the future.
Dr. Geo. W. Truett, America's
foremost preacher, now of Louis
ville, Ky., is in Atlanta for an eight
dav series of evangelistic meeting
thesue st of Druid Hills Baptist
church of which Dr. Louie D. New
ton is pastor.
Capt. M. R. Ashworth succeeds
Capt. J. C. Lambert as adjutant of
Ft. Bcnning. Capt. Ashworth was
publisher of the Columbus Ledger-
Enquirer papers before he was
called from the reserves to active
■duty last summer.
State income tax payments for
the first three months of 1942 were
22 per cent higher than for the first
quarter of 1941, it was revealed by
the state income tax unit of the
Revenue Department. The actual
gain was $675,000.
The spring meeting of the First
District Press Association will con
vene in Vidalia on April 24, it was
announced Monday by Mrs. R. E.
Ledford, associate editorof the Vi
dalia Advance and acting president
of the organization.
Edward White, prominent young
Vienna business man, was elected
alderman of the City of Vienna at
a special election this week. He
fills the unexpired term of T. H
Davis Jr., who resigned to accept
a position elsewhere.
Under an attachment for debt of
-3,000 In favor of the Fidelity Loan
and Investment company against
a Columbus man, a large diamond
ring, which he is said to have of
fered to sell for between $800 and
$1,000 was seized by Muscogee of
ficers Saturday.
Sunday, May 17, has been desig
nated by President Roosevelt as “I
Am An American" day. The chief
executive urges that it be observed
in a manner to impress on all citi
zens “the duties and opportunities
of citizenship and Its special re
sponsibilities In a nation at war.”
The Ledger-Enquirer's annual
cooking school for homemakers of
the Chattahoochee Valley was
launched Tuesday morning at the
Royal theatre in Columbus. Daily
sessions will continue through Fri
day, all of them conducted by Mrs.
Mabel Bowen, nationally-known
home economist.
A group of men from all sections
of Bacon county met Monday night
in the high school building at Alma
for the purpose of organizing
Masonic lodge. D. W. Locklln and
W. J. Penn Jr., of Macon, represent
atives of the Grand Lodge of Geor
gia, were present and assisted in
the organization.
B. H. Lord, of Dublin, general
manager of the Louisville & Wad-
ley, Wrightsville & Tennille, Wad-
ley, Southern & Sylvania Central
railroads, affiliates of the Central
of Georgia, Monday was named
President of the Louisville & Wad-
ley road at a meeting of the board
of directors of that line.
Dr. Charles E. Diehl, of Mem
phis, moderator of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S., attended and de
livered the principal address at the
anniversary session of the Macon
Presbytery which opened its 75th
annual session at the First Presby
terian church, Macon, Monday af
ternoon.
Three members of one family
are in the Columbus hospital suf
fering from injuries received in an
automobile accident Saturday night
near Buena Vista. T. L. French, 54;
Mrs. T. L. French, 43, and their son
T. L. Jr., 13, suffered back injuries
in the accident. The car reported
driven by Mr. French, got out oi
control it is understood.
One Atlanta man was fatally in
jured and another critically hurt
when a car in which they were
riding turned over on the Hamilton
road about eight miles from Co
lumbus early Sunday morning. J.
W. Smith, 21, of Atlanta, died at
a Columbus hospital at 10 o'clock
Sunday morning as the result of
injuries suffered in the wreck.
In anticipation of reduced reve
nues, Gov. Talmadge continues to
trim budgets of State Department
and institutions for the present
quarter. Speaking of state finances
Georgia’s revenues to the state in
creased $14,760,333 to a record-
breaking total of $78,835,469 in the
last fiscal year, but expenditures
gained $12,455,104, the annual re
port showed.
Mrs. Louise O. Moore, Hancock
County superintendent of education
is said to have received the sur
prise of her life Friday when she
opened a letter, postmarked Navy
Yard, S. C., containing a crisp new
$20 bill and a note saying, “from
an old teacher who feels that this
is due the Board of Education of
Hancock county? Mrs. Moore, it is
said, has no idea who the donor
could be.
Judge Max E. Land, 70, of Atlan
ta, for many years one of Cordele's
most honored and beloved citizens
died unexpectedly of a heart at
tack at his home in Atlanta Friday
Funeral services were held Satur
day at Cordele. Judge Land was
Montezuma Couple Are
Proud Of Their Son's
Speech For U. S. Army
Montezuma, April 13—Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Lester, prominent farm-
owning couple of near Montezuma
are walking on air this week.
Pvt. J. M. Lester, the 26-year-old
University of Georgia graduate who
was chosen to represent the 125,000
men of the armored forces in an
address at the Ft. Knox Army Day
exercises held in a Louisville hotel
last week, was their son.
Pvt. Lester's audience was com
posed of no less than eight generals
including Maj. Gen. J. J. Devers,
chief of the armored forces, Miss
Margaret Sullivan, the motion pic
ture star, the city officers of Louis
ville, and 500 prominent citizens of
the town.
John Lester—known as Sam or
Sambo to his friends—volunteered
two days after the attack at Pearl
Harbor.
“I had an especially good dinner
that day," says his -mother, “and 1
was happy when he came home
from town in time to enjoy it.
When he sat down in his usual
place, he remarked, ‘I've done
something today I've been thinking
of doing for a long time. I went to
the draft office and volunteered.’
My heart turned over in me and I
couldn't eat a bite of that very spe
cial dinner, but I was as proud of
him that minute as I am today.”
John is the third and youngest
son of the Lesters. His brothers are
Frank, a University of Georgia
graduate, is married, has two chil
dren and lives on the home place
in a newly built home. Jim, who
went to Tech, lives in Montezuma
is married and has an eight-year
old daughter.
PELHAM FLIER RILLED
IN PLANE ACCIDENT
Livermore, Calif. — A Georgian
and a North Carolinian died in one
of two airplane crashes which
killed 12 other navy fliers in the
same vicinity of the Livermore hills
late Sunday.
Two victims In one of the giant
land-and-sea patrol bombers were
identified as Lt. Frank S. Fernald,
whose father, F. O. Farnald lives
at Charlotte, N. C., and Oliff P.
Flynt, whose wife, Thelma Flynt
resides at Pelham, Ga. Flynt was
an aviation chief machinsts’ mate.
FIRST DISTRICT EDITORS
ARE TO MEET AT VIDALIA
Vidalia, Ga., April 13—The regu
lar spring meeting of the First
District Press Association will con
vene in Vidalia on April 24, it is
announced by Mrs. R. E. Ledford,
associate, editor of the Vidalia Ad
vance, and acting president of the
district organization. Mrs. Ledford
has served as acting president since
the death of President Wm. Sutlive
last year. ,
Other officers of the association
include L. M. Rhoden, of the Tatt
nall Journal, Reidsville, secretary,
and Mrs. Estelle Rimes, of Ludo-
wici, treasurer.
MRS. J. E. O'NEAL. 80,
DIES IN TALBOT COUNTY
Talbotton, April 9—Mrs. Tommie
Gray O'Neal, SO, wife of J. E. O'Neal
died at her home four miles west of
Talbotton Wednesday after a
lengthy illness. Recognized as one
of Talbot county's most beloved
women, Mrs. O’Neal was an active
church worker and was the personi
fication of the ideal grandmother.
Besides her husband who has
served O'Neal militia district as a
justice of the peace for half a
century Mrs. O’Neal is survived by
daughter, Mrs. L. K. Fryer, of
Talbot county and four grandchil
dren.
67 DESCENDANTS MOURN
JASPER NATIVE, 104
Atlanta.—Mrs. Fannie A. Cosby,
who was 104 years old last October
9, died Thursday. She leaves 67
living descendants.
Born in Monticello, Ga., Mrs. Cos
by was married during the War Be
tween the States. Her husband was
a Confederate soldiers in Virginia
and Georgia.
In recent years she had been
alert despite her advanced age. On
her 102nd birthday she attended
church accompanied by four suc
ceeding generations.
The oldest of her five living chil
dren is 75, the youngest 66.
BATAAN'S COLLAPSE ON SAME
DATE OF R. E. LEE'S SURRENDER
Appamattox, Va., April 9—News
of the collapse of Bataan defenses
reached here on another memorable
date in American history, the 77th
anniversary of Lee's surrender to
Grant.
impasse shortly after 8 a. m. Palm
prominent Georgia attorney and Sunday, April 9, 1865 for Southern
public official of nearly half a f orces .
"There is nothing left for me to
do but to go and see Gen. Grant
said Lee, “and I would rather die a
thousand deaths.”
Several notes were exchanged
under a flag of truce and the sur
render was completed at 3:45 p.m. 1
century, and a director and mem
ber of the Georgia Industrial Com
mission since 1927.
For delicious Cube Steak call
Bazemore's Department Store, But
ler, Ga., Phone No. 32.
Gwinnett County Man
Is Critically Wounded
When Shot By Father
Atlanta, April 14—A Gwinnett
county deputy sheriff Sunday
critically- wounded his son by
' shooting him in the right side dur
ing a family quarrel, Sheriff W. H.
' Hutchins, of Gwinett county, said
Sunday night.
| Sheriff Hutchins said Deputy H.
j H. Cofer and his son, Leon, were ar
guing at Hazlehurst, about eight
i miles from Lawrenceville, and a
scuffle ensued, in which Cofer drew
his pistol, which was discharged
once.
I The victim was taken to Emory
University hospital, where his con-
i ditionwas reported as “very criti
cal.”
| Sheriff Hutchins said the shoot-
ling was “kinda accidental, I fig-
ure.” He said his investigation re-
I vealed the father and son were
I fighting when the deputy pulled
I his gun, “figuring, I think, to wgrd
hisboy off, but somehow the thing
went off.”
Deputy Cofer lives in Norcross,
His wounded son is married and
the father of a small son.
Sheriff Hutchins said no arrest
had been made.
PIN IS REMOVED FROM
CUTHBERT CHILD'S LUNG
Cuthbert, Ga., April 10—Little
Derell Settles, five-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Settles
of Cuthbert, was at home playing
Thursday night after having under
gone a successful operation for the
removal of a straight pin from her
lung Tuesday in aR Atlanta hos
pital.
Last week, the child was play
ing with her.dolls on the floor when
her mother/ who was in another
room hear her gasp. Running into
the room, Mrs. Settle* asked Derell
what was the matter. The little girl
calmly replied that she had
swallowed a pin.She was carried to
the hospital in Cuthbert but the
doctors there informed her parents
she would have to be taken to At-.
lanta where the proper instruments
for such an operation could be used I
The pin could not be removed im
mediately after the family reached
Atlanta because, the child's throat |
had become so inflamed and it was 1
not until Tuesday that the opera-1
tion could be performed. I
Lee W. Moore, Veteran
Newspaper Man, Dies
At Jonesboro, Ga.
j Lee W. Moore, aged 75, a veteran
Georgia editor and former Asso-
I dated Press correspondent, died
last Wednesday at his home in
Jonesboro’ after an illness of sev
eral weeks.
Mr. Moore was prominent in
journalistic circles and was con
nected with the Clayton News at
Jonesboro at the time of his death.
Mr. Moore moved to Clayton
county in 1928 and he immediately
launched a civic improvement cam
paign there that culminated in or-
40-YEAR DEBT PAID
Statesboro, Ga., April 12—Forty
years ago Henry Allen, traded hors
es with Allen supposedlyto get
$2.50 cash to ma ke up the differ
ence. At the time the other trader
did not have the money and was
to pay later. He did. The $2.50 ar
rived last week.
ganizatlon of the Jonesboro Civic
Club.
Mr. • Moore was a Mason and a
member of the Jonesboro Methodist
church.
He ir. survived by his wife, four
sons, Richard Moore, of Savannah;
George, of Washington, D. C , and
Dannie and Carl Moore of Jones
boro, ando ne daughter, Mrs. J. W.
Bevel of Guyton.
CUBE STEAK
— -AT NO EXTRA COST -
Dear Customer:
We have installed a cube steak
machine in our market. This machine
makes our GOOD steak even better.
Come or phone us your order.
□
Cube steak, with its delicious flavor
has been tendered and is juicy if not
cooked more than one minute on each
side.
Cook Cube Side First
j When pan broiled have pan hot be
fore starting.
BAZEMORE DEPT. STORE
Butler, Georgia
M>«n»o4M»ri4
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WAREHOUSE
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Runners and White Spanish
Recleaned and Sacked
PEANUTS SHELLED
and TREATED
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Assure better yields by
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Our sheller is running every
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Grade A Quality Seeds
Don’t take chances with your
crops . . . use our jnspected
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Cotton Seed
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GEORGIA