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this? Butler Herald * -ng eveblastinglt at it is the secret of success** fOLUME 68 BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1943 NUMBER 4 THIS AN’ THAT Wise Old Owl A wise old owl sat on an oak; The mere he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he neard— Why aren't we like that wise old bird? —Ed. H. Richards. MINUTCS OF OCTOBER MEETING OF THE TAYLOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS B. Q. BLACKWELL RE-APPOINTED AS COUNTY FARM AGENT FOR 1944; L. R. DEAN RE-NAMED TO BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE. GEORGIA—Taylor County: The Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Taylor County, Ga., met in regular session the First ;=a*i i ctr SEN. GEORGE SEES STATE HIGHWAY SENATE APPROVAL CAMPS ORDERED OF NEW TAX BILL ABOLISHED NOW Passage of Bill Expected To Be Eiglit Convicts Make Getaway Completed Before the Holiday Recess. From Folkstoa Sunday Nigrt. Prison Early We are always delighted to see i Tuesday in October, the same be any of our neighbors to the east! ing October 5, 1943, with all mem- of us, in that splendid town, bers present to-wit: J. R. Cooper, Reynolds, attending Sunday serv- Chairman, W. M. Brown and R. L. ices at either of our churches. But, | Swearingen, with L. P. Anthony, for some unexplainable reason, Clerk. when Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Whatley | Minutes of the last meeting were walk down the aisle and take their read, approved and ordered signed epats among the worshipers we . . , , . are particularly delighted as was L . v re in reduced against the of last Sundav I bounty an ^ ordered paid witn the occasion ot last Sunday warrants No 8126 thru N 8201 morning. They are always ready to greet you with a cheerful | j* ^ as a "reed by the Board, smile and friendly handshake effective Jan. 1, 1944, that all old when services are over. Come or outstanding Warrants issued by often, Clifford, and bring all you i t * ie ^ oar d of County Commissron- can like you and “Miss Mary.”| 0rs > Taylor County, are to bear in- xxx Through the courtesy of the! torest at the rate of five percent recently transferred to another ,t5%) per annum, charge parson of the local Metho- L. R. Dean was reappointed to dist church had the pleasure Fri- j the Board of Public Welfare for a day of meeting the new parson, i term of three years, who with his family, comes from Application of E. G. Blackwell Waverly Hall to Butler today to i was accepted for County Agent occupy the parsonage, which In 1 for the year 1944. It was also recent months has undergone agreed that ten dollars per month many changes and improvements, be paid to the County Agent for Washington, Nov. 13—Sen. Wal- Folkston, Ga., Nov. 15—While ter F. George (D-Ga.) chairman of fellow inmates raised a hub-bub the senate finance committee, °f talk and song, eight convicts predicted Saturday senate accept-! bored through the floor of their ance of the basic features of the prison cell with an old-fashioned UNADILLA MAN SUCCEEDS A. P. JARRELL, PROMOTED IN EDUCATIONAL CIRCLES FORMER LOCAL MAN NOW STATE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF RE HABILITATION WORK UNDER P. S. BARRETT OF ATLANTA. House $2,142,000,000 tax bill with passage likely by Christmas. As house ways and means com mittee leaders mapped a plan to thrust the bill before the house auger and fled the Georgia high way camp at Folkston Tuesday night, prison officials reported. The warden was away but a guard was standing in front of Nov. 22, house passage was indi-1 the “bull pen” where the convicts cated within two or three days were housed for the night when The introduction included a rec ommendation from Parson Gilbert to Parson Glenn that we were a regular attendant at church and a mighty good sleeper. We have since given considerable thought! 8126 V e! ‘ Benns,"?'.' M., Box to the latter. Know of nothing; Rpnt ’ more welcomed at times and the i ome u„...l,j"’"gg aso ” Agt traveling expenses. List of Warrants Issued. October, 1943 8126 Dr. Eli Garrett, service | to convicts $ 8.50 .60 Exp. on Materials 3.C5 price many would pay for that privilege when suffering from j8129 G <s Serv . Station> pam, sorrow or sadness or perhaps Part / road equip. 7 . E0 from a guilty conscience in hay.. gl30 ch le ^ c ing committed evil against his j Parts 4 £ oad equip y 7 . 50 neighbor either by word or deed.! gl31 H E Allcll( 4 R £ ad sup . 29 . 9 - Yes sure we like to snooze, x x x c T W right, Warde n, Attendants at the morning hour gal less tax 147 . 10 of worship at the Baptist church ^ E Oliver, G uard, U’nivi founror i n rvi'intf uroiro were favored in many ways Sun- Salaiy less tax 74.30 day. Principal among these were:| gl34 j c G riggs, Guard; A most enjoyable sermon by Rev. Salary less tax 64.60 W W Campbell, a visiting min- gl35 w A Dunn Tr . 0 ister from Macon; delightful choir Sal less tax 60 . 80 J - , W - Edwards, gl36 j w Aultman , Guard, Mrs. W. R Poole and others with Salary , ess tax 64.60 M.ss Kathryn Amos pianist; the| ffl37 0scar oli G uard, lovely floral arrangement with; gal ]pss tax 6 4.60 speaal appreciation to Mrs. L R. gl38 Adrian Trussell T r.Op. Dean and Mrs. T. L. Fountain for, gal lpss tax 74 . 30 a large collection of beautiful chrysanthemums; and the number of visitors in the congregation. 8139 Sara Windham, Co. Nurse, help and other „ . . i expenses 22.00 X X X The step of the American, gl4() Y Tractor Ca> Legion veteran of World War. I, r> 0 „ tc ' , Parts road equip 101.23 8141 Standard Oil Co., Gas &oil, road equip 206.23 thereafter, with the senate finance committee beginning hearings on the bill about Dec. 1. “I would like to get the bin through our committee within one week and through the senate with in another week so that it can be put in the hands of the President by Christmas," George told news men. Otherwise, he said, the increas ed excise and new excise tax rates which make up the bulk of the house bill could not be made ef fective on Jan. 1. Any considerable delay, he said, would postpone the effective date of the excise taxes for one month. George proposed the 4 per cent increase in the normal individual income tax rates provided in the house bill as a part of integration of the Victory tax be discontinued one year after the war. The Victory tax, he explained, expires at the end of the war. In order to agsorb and slightly in crease the Victory tax the house ways and means committee abol ished it and then increased the normal individual tax rate. The only bar to speedy senate action on the house bill, George said, would be a renewed demand by the treasury for a tax bill to talling over ten billion dollars the escape took place, State Super visor of County Convict Camps Elbert Forester said he was in formed. ! It was the third escape in three, weeks from Georgia highway J camps. Fourteen prisoners pried j their way from a camp at Car- tersville on Oct. 25, using an iion bar, and two more walked away the next day. Eleven long-termers blasted their way from the Doug las camp with shotguns Nov. 7, killing a guard and wounding another. As was done in the first two breaks, Wiley L. Moore, director of corrections, said the Folkston camp would be closed tomorrow, the 34 remaining convicts to be transferred to Tattnall state pris on. Abandonment of the camps, 1U of which remain, was ordered as soon as practical in penal reform legislation enacted at a special state legislative session in Sep tember. Federal Penologist L. E. Lawes, former Sing Sing warden, recently loured Tattnall and made recom mendations to Gov. Arnall for sweeping reforms. Forester, who is also state sena tor from Trenton, was recently Ted R. Owens, former superin tendent of the Unadilla schools, it is learned, has assumed 3upervis- ion of the Columbus district of vo cational rehabilitation, succeeding A. P. Jarrell, who recently oecame state assistant director of rehabili tation work under P. S. Barrett, cf Atlanta.. Sponsored by the federal and the state government, and under the direction of the State Depart ment of Education, the division of vocational rehabilitation provides training and other aids for the physically handicapped and places them in jobs. The 17 counties formerly in the Columbus district under Mr. Jar rell have been placed under the supervision of three men. Besides Mr. Owens in Muscogee, B. K. E. Davis directs the work in Talbot, Taylor, Chattahoochee, Stewart, Marion, Schley, Macon, Webster, Sumter, Dooly and Cnsp counties, and W. B. Gaines in Harris, Meri wether, Troup, Heard, and Coweta counties. “In view of the registered opin-1 riame d to the prison post at a sal- ion of the house wavs and means I ar y °f $300 a month. His employ- committee, I do not* think com- < ment was sh o^ on a supplemen- pulsory savings, the sales tax or tary budget of the department of increased individual income taxes. corrections, which also listed the are likely,” said George. He indorsed provisions of the house bill limiting an increased excise taxes to this war period. Evangelistic Rally And lhanKSjving Service At Bethel C. M. Church may not be as sprightly as it was in days of yore, but the heart and spirit continues as fervent in I gl42 “ j“’r™ unrford,'Ord., patriotic activities as it was 25 years ago. This is being evidenced by Rev. E. H. Dunn and his com mittee in the November sale of War Bonds. The wives of these Reg. Vital Statistics 25.10 (Turn to Page 6: No. 2) Vocational Ag. Teacher activities. Their regular business Ready To Assist In Beef meetings, social functions and in, _ . . ~ A HI I ike Poppy sale of last week QffMinQ 4 D3tfS A W60K through a committee headed by j * Mrs. J. S. Green and Mrs. W. M. Mathews, x x x Honors worthily | The Reynolds Canning Plant won and new title applied to the' w jjj be open Monday, Tuesday, name of one of Butler's mest I Wednesday and Thursday for can- prominent women does not create j n ing beef. in the hearts of her friends any. An yone wishing to can, is re peater love than that already be-1 ques ted to see Mr. J. B. Forehand, stowed, but these friends we^e, Agrlcultura i Teacher, one day in deeply gratified last week upon i advance . the announcement that Mrs. Mary 1 — — Sims’ husband, Col. Leonard Sims I . \ r had been promoted to the rank of 03ft Ui’QYcJ brigadier General stationed with ‘ °ur armed forces overseas, x x x Genial Hamp P. Mahone, post master of our friendly city to the west—Talbotton—paid us a de lightful visit Friday. Bachelor Ma- hone (shame on ye bachelor girls thp oak Grove and WIDOWS) has a !00 - percent “J purged to £e nspection record for his postof-1 ^ pt * a busine ss meeting for bee, a record reached by but few P . t c undav » any other in the state. Ho was | c , arc held at Oak Grove accompanied by his mother, whose I J, rst alld lhlr d Sunday. Rev. Butler High School First In District To Qualify For Credit In Victory Corps The Victory Corps of Butler High School was recently inspect ed by Mr. T. E. Smith of Ameri- cus. Mr. Smith reports the local school is the first to qualify for a certificate in this district. Victory Corps work is being carried on in most schools in the state as students will receive credit for this course. employment of H. M. Milner cf Atlanta' as an agricultural expert at a salary of $333 a month. For ester said the Folkston escape oc curred between 9 and 11 p. m., while Warden Carl Smith was in Atlanta. Four Convicts Captured Near Clarksville Atlanta, Nov. 16—Four of the eight convicts who escaped from the state highway camp at Folk ston Sunday night were captured near Clarkesville today after flee ing the length of the state, while in Atlanta the state highway camp at LaGrange was ordered closed tomorfrow as a precaution ary measure. The recaptured convicts were identified by Hatchett as Pete. Clements, serving eight to 10 years for robbery; Joe Blake, serving (J The woik includes all forms of to 12 years for robbery and as- physical education, created to de velop students' bodies along with their minds. Baptist Church Urcsed To Attend Meeting Sunday ™ Vn' S re bes° (oT'sove^ Herman Uyd — - jveeks. speaking of Talbotton a , P a stor. Services begm at 11^ a. m. learn, has and 7:30 p. m. The public is cor dially invited to attend all serv- 8 r( '«t loss was suffered by that when Mr. and Mrs. T. C.,. 'Tom) Boswell selected Butler as: ices - ‘heir future home. They are ideal 1 c t i7.ens and we are most happy TRUCKS FOR SALE to have them in our midst, x x x — engineer Roy Fowler, whose pri-1 Dne 1940 Dodge Truck, 1 1-2-ton; nary visit was to see his sister, mecha nical condition; Good - Florence Gordy and me.e hands Berna Hv, G ° rdy ’ WaS Shaldng ! One International 1-ton pickup, mnds with hLs many warm I un ® . Tirps . in fair f bends on the streets of the city No. C-15; Good Tires, r )day. Roy's niece, it will be r e- 'condition. . called has been a patient sufferer Each of these trucks are priced since her fall, fracturing her hip reasonable. “ u ?p, terest R f., S ® e r „ 'Turn to Page 6; No. 1) H. E. Childres, Butler, Ga. Funeral Services For Eld. H. H. Phillips, 92, Held At Eilaviiie Monday Ellaville, Ga., Nov. 16—Funeral services were held Monday after noon at the Ellaville Baptist [church, for Elder H. H. Phillips, 92 well known and beloved Primitive i Baptist minister, who died at his I home in Fellowship community of Schley and Macon counties, Sun day. i The last rites were conducted by ; Eld. C. H. Chance, pastor of the Red Hill Primitive Baptist church, assisted by Rev. C. D. Carter, cf Ellaville. Interment was made in , the Ellaville cemetery, i Eld. Phillips was born and reared in Macon county and lived most of his life in that coramuni- ! ty. He started preaching in the | horse-and-buggy days when a ; young man and served churches in Schley, Muscogee, Webster and other counties. Surviving are the widow; two sons, Elijah and Jeanne (Jim) Phillips, of Macon county; two daughters, Mrs. Weldon Smith and Mrs. Donnie Roberson, of Macon county; 33 grandchildren, 57 great grand children and four great, great grandchildren. sault to murder; Garnett Adams, serving 10 years for rape; ana Arthur Smith, serving 15 to 20 years for robbery. The County Evangelistic Rally will be held at Bethel C. M. church next Thursday, Thanksgiv ing Day. Rev. G. M. Spivey will occupy the pulpit at the morning worship! hour. A light sandwich lunch will be served at the noon hour. The afternoon session will be devoted to prayer and praise serv ice and a sermon by Rev. M. J. Wood of Ft. -i»troy!K;f. A cordial invitation is extended everyone to attend this Thanks giving service and make it truly a a day of giving thanks to a lov ing Providence who lias so bounti fully blessed this entire commun ity. Two Magnolia Trees To Be Planted On Square Honoring Men In Service Two magnolia trees honoring Taylor county men in the arme. service will be planted on the court house lawn in Butler Friday afternoon, Nov. 26th. The Butler Garden Club and the Lions Club are s ponsoring the planting of these trees. All parents in the county hav ing three or more sons in the armed service are requested to notify Mrs. R. L. Sutton of this city giving the name of each son. Special Thanksgiving Show At Dean Theatre Thursday, Nov. 25th The special picture for Thangs- giving is “Random Harvest,” star ring Greer Garson and Ronald Coleman. “Random Harvest” is a beautiful job of film making in all departments. In this excellent drama, the attraction reflects the greatest cf care in script, production values, and stellar performances with the cenetr of the performing sta. e held, with genuine distinction, by Ronald Coleman and Greer Garson. In th excellent supporting cast are: Philip Doin, Susan Peters, Reginald Owen and others. It was magnificently directed by Mervyn LeRoy. w. e.Tteed ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Special attention given to investigating and abstracting land titles and preparing commercial contracts. Office In Masonic Building Butter. Ga. Six Children Trapped In Burning Residence One Dies As Result Perry, Ga., Nov. 13—Fourteen- year-old Laverne Perdue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Perdue, was burned to death in a blaze which destroyed her rural farm home Thursday and threatened the lives of five other children. The fire started, witnesses said, when one of the children threw kerosene on an o pen blaze. Ihc mother, in the yard at the time the blaze started, saved five of the children from the flaming build ing. Mr. And Mrs. R. 0. Rogers i To Celebrate Their Golden I Wedding November 28fh ' Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Rogers will keep open house at their home j from noon until five p. m. on Sunday, Nov. 28th, celebrating their Fiftieth Wedding Anniver sary. BAPTIST HOSPITAL GROUP PLANNING $1,000,000 DRIVE Georgia Convention Is Asked to Approve Proposal For New Building in Atlanta. Atlanta, Nov. 16—A request from the Georgia Baptist Hospital Com mission that the executive com mittee of the Georgia Baptist Con vention approve a campaign to raise $1,000,000 for a hospital building program is to be acted upon in a pre-convention meeting of the committee Monday night. Dr. Jas. W. Merritt) executive sec retary-treasurer said. The proposed fund would be used to erect a new building which would increase the capacity of Georgia Baptist hospital by 300 beds, according to I. M. Sheffield Sr., chairman of the hospital com mission. Other members of the commission are: Dr. Louie D. Newton, vice chairman; Dr. Jam.es W. Merritt, secretary, and Wiiey L. Moore and I. G. Hailey. The committee, composed of more than 60 pastors and laymen will meet at 6 p. m. at the Wine- coffe Hotel to approve reports and recommendations to the conven tion, which opens Tuesday at 10 a. m. for a two-day session at the First Baptist church. The committee will also ap prove the budget for 1944 which will cover missionary, benevolent and educational work in Geoigia and throughout the South, since Georgia, like other states, con tributes to the support of South ern baptist Convention causes. In compliance with a request from the trustees of the Georgia Baptist Orphan's Home at hape- ville, the committee will recom mend that the name of the hr e be changed to the Georgia Baptist Chiluien s i-iume. Rev Glenn And Family To Be Met With Welcome At Local Parsonage Today Butler Methodists have been preparing for several days to wel come Rev. C. L. Glenn and family who will arrive today to reside at the local parsonage. Rev. Glenn comes from Waverly Hall to be pastor of churches embraced in the Butler-Howard circuit. The former pastor, Rev. F. J. Gilbert and wife left yesterday to Lake over the duties of pastor of the Folkston charge, and it is very much regretted Butler will lose them. He was pastor of the local church for four years pre ceding the recent session of the South Geoigia Conference. The new pastor will come to the charge with all obligations paid in full as 1943 was one of the best years in the church's his tory. Col. Leonard Sims Receives Promotion To Brigadier General It was most gratifying to the many friends here of Col. Leon ard H. Sims, husband of Mrs. Mary Scandrett Sims, of this city to learn that on Wednesday, Nov. 10, his name Was sent to the U. S. Senate by President Roosevelt for promotion to Brigadier Gen eral. Colonel Sims is army finance officer in North Africa. Before go ing there he was stationed at Ft. Benning as finance officer from 1937 to 1941. He was born and reared at Chattanooga, Tenr., and received his military training at West Point. DOGS LOST Taylor County Schools To Get Two Days Off To Observe Thanksgiving ' According to Superintendent W. T. Rustin all schools of this coun ty, ^>oth white and colored, will , have two days for the observance I of Thanksgiving next week, viz: I Thursday and Friday, Nov. 25 and 26. Two black and tan male hound ] FOR SALE pups about six months old. Strayed from my home Thursday Nov. 11. Reward offered Jack Peed, Butler, Rte. 2. Several hundred glass jugr suitable for syrup. E. A. Hollis, Reynolds, Ga.