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1 M ; v/ He butler herald * • KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS*' VOLUME 70 BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1945 NUMBER 7 GENERAL PATTON SUFFERS INJURY 'THE 0. T. DRISKELLS* TO CELEBRATE GOLDEN IN AUTO ACCIDENT wedding anniversary THEY WILL HOLD "OPEN’ HOUSE" U. S. Army Officer Is Reported in Wednesday, dec. i», And URGE REV. C. L. NAMED HEAD OF TEN MORE MEN RETURN HOME COUNTY RED CROSS WITH DISCHARGE REYNOLDS NEGRO DIES OF SHOTGUN WOUNDS; 'another NEGRO HELD Serious Condition in German Hospital. WEDNESDAY, dec. i», imut Succeeds Miss Melissa ALL THEIR FRIENDS TCP*CALL BY Thi« DURING AFTERNOON. Rev. C. L. Glenn has accepted _ _ | Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Driskell of Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. ^ this city will celebrate their Gen. Geo. Smith Patton Jr., who Q 0 j den Wedding Anniversary Dec. led his conquering troops from 1£Hh ftt their home here . — - - charee Africa to the heart of Germany They have issued no invitations Cross, succeeding Miss Melissa, ^ without Ogbum Who Has Held This Position for Five Years. Three White Men and Two Colored Will Be Inducted Into Army Next Tuesday. , VICTIM WAS SHOT IN THE LEG SUNDAY AFTERNOON DURING A FIGHT IN CITY OF REYNOLDS WHILE PLAYING CRAP. MRS. SARA PARKS DIES AT HOWARD TUESDAY NIGHT George Bryant, colored, of Roy Paralysis Claims Life of One of Taylor County's Oldest Ladies At Howard. Ten Tavlnr mnnlu men have rp- 7~—— * - Mrs. Sara Carr Parks, 87, widow — -• — , — * turned home during the nast few nolds ’ died at the Macon hospital 0 f the i a te Mr. George Y. Parks of the county chairmanship of the, J™* 1 a ^ J aV e been riven a d!s Sunday night of shot gun wounds this county, died at her home in Taylor County Chapter of the Red weeks and have been given a dis m{llcted during a fi g nt near Bry-(Howard Thursday evening De- - ^ nave- tBDucu *.» «„„au U . H Cross, succeeding Miss Melissa, charge from^ the armed *° rces ^ ant’s home Sunday afternoon. He cember 6 at 7:15 o’clock.’ Her being scratched, suffered but st their friends to call Ogburn, who has held this position , oitncse men nave servea shot in the calf of the leg death was attributed to a strode 3 spinal injury Sunday b during t he afternoon. \tor the last five years, and who i»» ™ m™y mo nthTof which time W 3 ^‘! a f ue ahotgun and later of para i ysis . she had been ill only U. S. Army truck crashed Mr . and Mrs> Uriskell who wer e now retains the chairmanship of,^ e “ s L ° hlL t m was rushed to Macon for treat- about 6 weeks. a serious when a into his automobile near Menn- ’ ma rri e dDec.\9. 1.895 10 this coun- Home Service. heim on the Rhine. Patton, who ty bave s j x children and ten I The fact that nev. uienn nas as- was GO years old last Armistice grandchildren who will be their sociations and frequent contacts Day, said “my neck hurts,” and guests for tbe day of t he a nni- with the citizenship of various complained of lack of feeling in versar y. sections of the county, makes him his lower extremities as he was q be children are: Mrs. Hoke a valuable addition to our Red lifted from his Cadillac and taken! Windham Mrs. Horace Watson, Cross organization; and our coun- to a hospital at the famed univer- 1 ]yj rs _ yj g Goodwin, Messrs Mur- ty. especially at the time when sity city of Heidelberg. i ray Driskell and J. C. Driskell ot our returning veterans need serv- The back seat where Patton was tbis c jty and Mr. Brown Driskell ices, is very fortunate in having a sitting in his big limousine was 0 f Thomaston. ! person of his experience and abili- covered with blood. He was hurled grandchildren are: Messrs ty at the head of its Red Cross, violently forward by the impact, vVendell and Frank Windham,, Our Chapter should now look suffering head cuts. The 2 1-2-ton Misses Doris Goodwin, Betty Sue, forward to a very satisfactory and truck was driven by T-5 R. L. JoyGe and willa Fay Watson, Ter- 1 useful year. Thompson of the First Armored re n and Jackie Driskell of this! Mrs. Bertha Bazemore several was spent overseas. ment Those granted discharges were: White Men G. R. McKenzie, Navy John Henry Amerson Lavelle Stevens Charels Hugh Neisler Willis Garrett, Navy Edward M. Williamson William Robert Turner Jr. Colored William James Strong Lenward Hicks Lock Edward Towns Mr. H. K. Sealy, chairman of the local draft board, states that on j Mrs. Parks was born in M.s- Tommy Dent, another Reynolds sissippi on Oct. 31, 1858 the negro is being held in the local daughter of George W. and Lu- jail charged with the fatal shoot- ,cinda Johnson Carr. She was mar- ing- j ride in early womanhood to Mr. Sheriff J. M. stated that Dent ’ George Y. Parks and moved wit.i confessed to the shooting and him to Howard about 55 yea s said that the fight between he and ago. Her husband preceded her i Bryant began over a crap game death about 20 years ago. M.s. in which they were engaged Sun- Parks was a member of the day afternoon. Widely Known Scout Leaders Attend Meeting Division. It rammed Patton’s car city; Mrs. A. S. Jones of Coluinbus' months ago accepted the chair- ,™;* 1 /*})f® day ^ hit f ™. en from the side. and Walter Gray Driskell of the manship of the Camp and Hos- I , * . f ° r * for Harp MfiildfW Nlfillf f, somewhere in the Pa- pital Council work and is report- induction nto the army. USK OTOUQfly NigilT A series of bulletins issued by y. S. Navy, doctors attending the colorful 60- clfic. year-old soldier each ended with the phrase "prognosis guarded.’’!*. a *, »•, That meant the doctors were un- NCgrO IdUQlM AfTCr willing to commit themselves as _ , to whether Patton would recover. AutOmObllC"! TUCK LffiSu The bulletins said that Patton, thrown forward when his speed- PacHtWI I IVM ftf ThfAP ing 1938 Cadillac plowed into an tWillig LIYcS 0l IlHcC army truck near Mannheim, suf- j ed to be doing an excellent job. The Butler Garden Club sponsors this feature of the Red Cross work. k Mr. Thelmon Jarrell who has served for the duration of the war as War Fund Drive Chairman, will keep this position for 1946. Mrs. Ed Swearingen is an efficient Cor responding Secretary and assists Mrs. Ogbum the Home Service, This call will include: Loyd Mangham Hortman Clarence Montgomery John Nelson Jr. Primitive Baptist church. S Hived a simple Christian life and Iwas loved by everyone who had I the pleasure of knowing her. | Funeral services were held at I the family residence at 4 o’clock | Friday afternoon. Rev. W. E. I Hightower, a former pastor of the j Howard Methodist church, cf- I ticiated. Burial was in Pine Level Mr. Herbert Stuckey, deputy re cemetery, gional scout executive and Mr. H.| Grandsons of the the deceased S. Baldwin, field scout executive acted as pallbearers: Messrs Cecu, ® n . the same date two negroes o{ Co i umbus were in this city,Bobby J. G and Bennie Parks Ft Bennin^Thevare- M °"day evening to attend a meet-!Gorman Jarrell and Cart Rutland Benning. Ihey are. : ing of the district Scout commit j r . Denson Gooche 1 i • Fvutrm Knnwitnn I iee> Survivors include five sons: G, Next Wednesday two white men D ®° th . Mr Stuckey . and Mr -! B., M. L., H. H., M. M. and G. M. , ___ , ,— vveonesaay two wmte men B a i dwm gave interesting and in-ip ar ks all of this countv twei.t/ fered a simple fracture of their Columbus, Dec. 8-Sam Chinn, 1 while Mrs . F A Ricks is Treasur-1 W, J be give " pre-induction physi- formative addreS ses at the meet-!grand children aSd 12 Sat cervical vertebra and a “posterior 34-year-old Columbus negro, was er and in of SGrV ice, the cal examinations at Ft. McPher- lng b d lu umuren ana kieat or bockward dislocation of the being held in Muscogee county 0 j dest officer in our organization, s 00 - 3hese include: fourth cervical vertebra. They said without bond Thursday night ^j r Walter Suggs, though his there was “complete paralysis be- on a charge of murder with an au- serves j n f be Red Cross have low the third cervical vertebra. tomobile in the death of three per- bee n required only one time, holds ^ons instantly killed in a head-on tbe t j t j e Q j Disaster chairman. truck-auto collision Thursday —County Red Cross. night on Cusseta highway. The negro, who was driving the' . . _ , truck which officers said ran in- Mr J. A lOUZlT3H1 to an automobile driven by Cash ' Georgia Teachers End Their Annual Meet in Spirit of Optimism couch and occupied by hu wife, ii Macon Phvslcfan, Named year-old son, Johnny and Paul 1 , * r curtis, fied the scene, ! Head of District Unit Atlanta, Dec. 7—The Georgia Couch, his wife, and Curtis were Education Association concluded killed. The 11-year-old boy was its 79th annual convention Friday seriously injured and taken to Ft. on a note of optimism—with a Benning hospital where he was gubernatorial promise of Dr. J. A. Fountain, physician,son William Cecil Hendricks Oscar Mangham Ranow Georgia Editors Mourn Death of Mr. Shackleford, Veteran Newspaperman • Lexington, Ga., Dec. 5—Wm. A. etc. throughout the year Shackleford, 84, former editor and publisher of the Oglethorpe Bcho, » • # a • * * died at his residence in Lexington DOCly Ol MlSSIIIQ M(H1 December 5. He is survived by his | grand-children. The committee discussed plans i Mr. J. W. Edwards II, of Ed- whereby a larger number of Tay- wards Brothers Funeral Home o£ lor youths could be given the op- Butler was in charge of iuneiai portunity of becoming Scouts dur-! arrangements, ing the year 1946. j 1 Honors” will be held in this coun-/ AAA Committeemen for ty every other month beginning p • i • i • /* « in January. The January Court o> CdCH DlSmCt K1 COUUlty Honors will be held in Butler with -j* r n* *aj* 'the March meeting iii Reynolrls 10 jCI'YC 1/1111110 l#40 of Mr. T. J Fountain of Reynolds,' w if e I three children, Mrs. Frank Found in Creek; Ex-Sailor 12 reported as improved Friday ■ was re-elected president of the Camstra, Conyers; Mrs. Frank B. months’ pay and the first step night. ! Sixth District Medical Association • Machen; Pat S. Shackelford, Lex- UgM qn Mlirrlpr fPiarnp taken toward statewide teacher, A group of officers searched for a t a meeting at the U. S. Naval j i n Eton; nine grand children and v '"'S’* security. ' the negro until 2 a. m. and re- hospital at .Dublin Friday with fou r great-grandchildren. i In the elections held for AAA Community Committeemen on November 27, the following farm ers were ejected to serve as com mitteemen during 1946: North Butler, Frankling McCants; South Butler; Emory Harris and Joe Eubanks; Carsonville, Murray iJarrell and R. E. McCants; Ced. r The 650 delegates representing Burned the search Friday morning ^e other officers retaining their! Before his retirement, “Uncle j Macon, Dec. 11 Led to the Creek ^ Solno Callahan’ ' i’n ss the 15,000-member organization, finally surrounding him at 3:45 p. posts. They are Dr.Chas. Fulghum, 1 Shack” as he was affectionately stream by a 22-year old ex-sailor Roads ’ Homer Chaoman ’ ,-. d m heard Gov. Arnall say he wouid m - at the house of his father near Milledgeville, vice president, and known by the membership of the a rrested near Macon, officers of q AUmon - Daviston W W * Ames* ask the January session of the Cusseta, it was announced. .1 Dr. A. M. Phillips, Macon, secretary j Georgia Press Association. of Clarke county Monday found in Howard j’ L Whitlev Panhandle general assembly for year-round j Officers in the party included and treasurer. which he was one of the charter the chill waters of Hard Labor r r shine and H H Bouih p pay and declared, "the money will State Troopers J. E. Shaw, W. T. j Capt. A. L. Bryan, medical offi- members, had been in newspaper Creek the body of Harry W. Wil- tervill^ Lee Posev- Rtn nolds be available.” Beauchamp, Sheriff N. E. Wright CPr j n charge of the Naval hospital wor k tor nearly 70 years. His first lfomson, of Atlanta missing R vrd Po S p V and E A Newsom’ Fridav the convention adopted a of Chattahoochee county, Deputy and members of his staff,, were editorship was at Harmony Grove Southern manager of Charles R US ij n j w Woodall resolution, presented by Miss Allie Je ® se Wright and Special Invest!- hosts lo the December meeting of Commerce He sold the News Scribner’s Sons Publishing Com-j The’principal duties of commit- Mann of Atlanta, which would ask gator pans Hood of the solicitor the association with 60 civilian ■ to the late John Shannon. I pany. Walter H. Learwood, dis-' teemen P are to inform farmeis c£ the legislature “in the future” to ee *} c ™ 1 * off ‘ ce ' , . ! physicians attending. Following! Tbe . Pr ess Association was or- charged from the Navy in June lhe pr0 visions of the agricultural enact a tenure bill. | Solicitor General Ed Wohlyend- the captain’s welcome and regis- gaaized at ^ Iil ® d f^'JP ar 188 J’ bad conduct, had signed a progr a m s,to determine what the ag MJcc Mann whn ha« inno fmipht er Jr ” who also aided in tho tration, the guests made a tour of and ,n the following year at confession that he killed William- ricultural Drotrrams are nronenv fo^Tob secur’itv h si?such a law Search and a PP rehension - said the inspection of the hospital facili-, Gainesville he was elected secre- 0 n after the altter gave him a dmini steIed P in his commimiJ ? , _ vr id potion of teachers negr0 a t tem pted to escape even ties and were entertained at lunch tar y> taking over at the next ses- r i de in his car and started lectur- make recommendations toward would avoid election of acl c a £t e r the house was surrendered j n the officers’ mess s i° n * n Cartersville. He filled this ing him about drinking agents of i by pressure from political groups, hv nffi p Prs | omcers mess. ... - 1 agenu, ui bet te r existing nrnmmK and tr* prevent unqualified teachers from Investigating officers rep0 rted I u .TT ^ holding jobs and give the teacher that evidence they collected tend- HeTa\A UrGCS AdVCrtlSerS "the quiet mind and assured feel- ed to show the negro was under __ lSt n vvo?k” ry to accomp the intluence of lic i uor ' Also - the y To Send in Copy Early for vvuirw. KairJ statpmpnts of witnpecpq » Holiday Issue Next Week Her plan, which she said could showed his truck had only one not be put on the agenda of the headlight and was traveling at an forthcoming general assembly, excessive rate of speed. would require local units to have continuing contracts, with a teach- ■ , , >■ , er being placed on tenure after a ImpOrTQTTT NOTICP TO three-year probationary period. Al! D & t l!. Dr. S. D. Copeland of Augusta, All ICirOHS Ot THC seconding the motion which was rg ^ Mail CaruVa adopted unanimo'isly, said the U* J. riUll jwlYlCc tenure plan had .vorked success fully in Augusta. I It is the urgent request of office for 28 years, declining to the FBI said. Deputy Sheriff C. E. S'SnST’^'mmitiee ‘n serve longer, and he then was Kidd of Clarke Coimty, said Year- nlkimr deto mination, T„lo vin elected a life member. Several wood would be charged with mur- ‘ g . t - min< s i years ago, he was given a button der - !CaimerS ln hlS testifying to his 50 years’ service; Williamson had been sought in'u w c l t u , in the group, whose policies he five states since he vanished Nov. M. M. bCIIOlS, hCllf&Cl had a strong hand in shaping, 19 between Athens and Atlanta and for whose success he was after calling on the superintendent widely credited. He had been un- of Schools in Clarke County. Re- Next week the Herald expects to able to attend sessions of the as- wards offered for information to- publish its annual Christmas edi- sociation in recent years, but taled over $1,0000. tion. | rarely missed sessions of the We solicit the cooperation of all Press Institute at the University in y .• # u. * advertisers as well as correspon- Athens. In his many trips with flaTIVc 0T VIcTlila lid. . dents and others who may have the editors, he always was ac- /* . /* , _ 1 articles for publication to please companied by “Miss Nellie,” the (j0|$ LOV61CO 1*81*111 ' get their material to us as early former Miss Stevens, who was a all as possible. Our "dead-line” for great aid to him in his work on 50rijritv ADDOiflfniOflt The group approved also a res- 1 postoffice employees, and this in- thi edition will be Tuesday noon, The Echo, which always has tak- " rr olution asking that legislative ac- eludes R. F. D. carriers, that mail- Dec. 18th. en rank as among the best Geor Upson County Farmer, Dies of injuries Thomaston, Dec. 9—M ,M. Echols retired farmer, died last night at his residence at Thomaston r'rcm injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile on U. S. Highway No. 19, near his home. Funeral services Monday jn the First Methodist church, with R A. L. Gilmore and Rev. Richard tion be taken to allow a governor ers of Christmas cards attach to Your cooperation will be sin- gia weeklies, particularly for its Washington, Dec. 10—The $10,000 Simpson oficiating. to succeed himself. same the proper amount of post- cerely appreciated. [strong editorial page. He took a post of farm security administrator Surviving in addition to his Other resolutions adopted asked age before mailing. It is further 1 THE HERALD. j deep interest in education and over which some southern con- V vie, are four sons, Talmadge and that the general assembly appro- requested that in affixing Red! 'published much local school gressmen had waged a behind-the Leon Echols, of Thomaston, Roy priate $13,500,000 to raise teach- Cross stamps to letters and A.ifMftn C a U A* Rfthprta neWS ’ 8cene tug of war went Monda y to S. Echols, of Atlanta and Guy 1R ers’ salaries 50 per cent, so that Christmas cards inclosed in en- HULIIWII JOIC HI llvwvl IQ Mr. Shackelford was a Mason Dillard B. Lasseter, regional di- Echols of Davenport, Iowa; and a the 1,000 classroom vacancies can velopes they be affixed to the, TiiACflau |an j) 1Q4A , and a member of Baptist rector of the War Manpower com-, brother, S. E. Echols of Ctflando, be filled, a stagger system of ba ck of envelope and never on | lUCaUQjf, JQII. V, I | church, adopting textbooks be put into ef- lace of the envelope. By following ! Fla. mission at Atlanta, Ga. Lasseter, named to the job by a former resident of Cornelia, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson M r . Echols moved to Thomaston succeeds Frank Hancock, former ab0 ut two years ago. North Carolina congressman, who private business. to return to SeCVICC fW Lasseter’s appointment had been 1 • 1 1 » ■ urged by Representative Tarver LOCdl UUIrCn AiHIOlftlCCCI feet, support of an expanded pro- these instructions you will confer One 5-room dwelling with cellar ri)j|f|rp|| AcUn/| 4a llp| n gram of teacher education, with a great favor upon these em- located on 2-acre lot. Also two 2- vihmmwi mjuvu iv iivip recruiting, subsidization of stu- ployees, as well as probable delay story garage apartments. All npA Ara tp THrictlliaC TrftA dents and other measures and a of mails during the rush of the within city limits of Roberta. VCLUMIIC vlll ISIIIIO) I ICC single salary schedule for ele Christmas season. And, please, 203 1/2 Acres land, part in cul- A. f n „ r f Mnncp CnilArP mentary and high school teachers don’t forget to do your Christmas tivation but most of it in timber, vWUll IIUUJC JIJUulC instead of differentials now prac- mailing early. two streams stocked with fish.. ticed by city and county units in — (Eight tenant houses and large Chief of Police J. D. Cooke re- (D-Ga.) chairman of the house supplementing state funds. I LOTS FOR SALE barn within 1/4 mile of Roberta, quests that all children of the city appropriations sub - committee Rev. C. L. Glenn announces that Mrs S. C. Patterson of Homer- To be sold at auction at Ro- meet him at the court house which drafts agriculture depart- plans are being fornulated for a ville retired as president, to be Lots with east front in City of berta, Ga., to the highest bidder square this afternoon at 3:30 ment appropriation bills. watch-night service to be held at succeeded by E. R. Moulton, prin- Reynolds for sale. See on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1946. o’clock for the purpose of helping Laseter formerly was deputy ad- the local Methodist church, cinal of PpDnerrell scnoois at inn-1 Mrs. J. A. Pendergrast, ! Property of J. A. Hill, Roberta, erect and decorate a Christmas ministrator of the NY A. He is a Further details will be an- dale, Ga I Reynolds, Ga. lea. tree on the public square. |native of Vienna, Ga. nounced later.