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"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS"
VOLUME 70
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 23, 1946
NUMBER 30
STEPHEN PACE
IS ENDORSED BY
COMMITTEE
/
Pace Urged to Continue His
Outstanding Service for People
Of This District.
Americus, Ga. May 15—Any can
didate who enters the Democratic
primary against Rep. Stephen Pace
will be branded as a CIO candidate
by the Georgia Farm Bureau, H. I.
Wingate, Pelham, president of the
group, told the Democratic Execu
tive committee for the Third Con
gressional district in session here
this afternoon.
His blasting of the CIO Political
Action Committee, which treatened
recently to purge the third district
congressman, came after a reso
lution was adopted unanmously by
the committee praising the work of
Rep. Pace. In part, the resolution
read:
“That we extend to Congressman
Pace, in behalf of the people of
this district, our sincere thanks for
the faithful and valuable service
had rendered to the district, the
state, and the nation.
“That we petition him to con
tinue to serve as our representa
tive in Congress and give us the
benefit of his great energy, effi
ciency, statesmanship, and the fine
experience which he has gained
and which is so important during
these critical days.”
Evan Mpthis, Americus, vice
chairman of the committee, read
Rep. Pace’s letter announcing his
candidacy for reelection and ac
knowledged receipt of the $500
qualifying fee. Mr. Mathis said Mr.
Pace’s check for $500 will be re
turned to him and that the $500
qualifying fee will be contributed
by the congressman’s friends in his
district.
While several members of the
committee spoke in behalf of Rep.
Pace and lauded his work in the
congress, it was the spokesman for
the farmers who was most seathing
in his denunciation of the CIO-PAC.
“The Farm Bureau is not in poli
tics,” Mr. Wingate declared. “We
are in business—and it is our bus
iness to keep Steve Pace in Wash
ington.”
In explaining his remarks that
any candidate opposing Rep. Pace
while not neccessarily of • CIO—
PAC ilk, if elected, will be a new
man in Washington without the
statute and prestige of the present
representative and by his very in
experience and political inaptitude
would serve the CIO which Mr.
Wingate described as “the spear
head of Communism in America.”
While making it clear he was
in no wise opposed to organized
labor and asserted “there are hun
dreds of thousands of good Ameri
cans in the CIO,” he declared a
strong minority group in the CIO
under the leadership if Sidney
Hillman as head of the PAC is try
ing to undermine our present gov
ernment to gain there own ends.
“We are interested in your
congressman,” Mr. Wingate said in
praise of Mr.' Pace, “he is a na
tional figure known in every state
in the union. He is called on by
more farmers than any other man
in congress
Others who spoke in glowing
terms of Rep. Pace include R. G.
Lumsden, Vienna; S. G. Pryor,
Fitzgerald; George Wiggins, Amer
icus, and J. B. Easterlin, Montezu
ma.
Mr. Lumsden said the Third
Georgia district was the most ably
and conscientiously served in the
entire nation, while Mr. Pryor
commended the noteworthy
achievement of Rep. Pace in re
storing a tobacco market in Ben
Hill county.
Mr. Wiggins said Rep. Pace is “a
recognized friend of the farmer”
and Mr. Easterlin suggested a ris
ing vote of thanks for what “Pace
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Rupert School to Hold
Closing Exercises
Tonight At 8 o'clock
Rupert school will have its clos
ing exercises and 7th grade gradu
ation Thursday night—tonight—at
8 p. m. A very entertaining pro
gram by the children of the school
is planned. The public is cordially
invited.
GARLAND BYRD BECOMES
CANDIATE FOR TAYLOR
COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE
Young Reynolds' Man Makes
Splendid Record While Serving
In World Wot II.
Garland Turk Byrd, son of Mr.
and Mrs. D. E. Byrd of Panhandle
this week announces his candidacy
for Representative in the General
Assembly of Georgia from Taylor
county.
Mr. Byrd, a veteran of World
War 11, recently established the
Reynolds Concrete Products Com
pany in Reynolds, with his brother
Mr. Thomas E. Byrd, also a vet
eran of World War II as co-owner.
Mr. Byrd is a graduate of Rey
nolds High school and Georgia
Southwestern College at Americus,
later attending William’s and
Mary’s College at Norfolk, Va.
In September, 1942 he volun
teered in the army and six months
later, after attending officers can
didate school at Ft. Belvair, Va.,
was commissioned second lieuten
ant in the corps of engineers. In
November, 1943 at Camp Van Darn
Miss., he was promoted to first
lieutenant.
He served overseas in the Euro
pean theater for two years during
which time he was promoted to the
rank of captain. He took part in
the initial landing on the French
coast and was company comman
der of an engineer combat com
pany. His company participated in
five major campaigns including
assault crossings of the Seine and
Rhine rivers.
He was awarded the silver star
by Secretary of War Patterson in
a special ceremony at Salzburg,
Austria for gallantry in action at
Maule, France and was also
awarded the bronze star for he
roism in action at Chateau Villian
France.
Following the German surrender
Byrd was enroute to the South
Pacific when the hostilities. ended
in that theatre.
Mr. Byrd was recently placed on
inactive military duty and is now
back with his friends in this
county.
His outstanding military record
proves beyond a doubt Mr. Byrd’s
splendid ability as a leader.
Rev. Hoats To Preach
Baccalaureate Sermon
At Reynolds Sunday
Rev. W. B. Hoats, pastor of the
Butler and Reynolds Baptist
churches will deliver the Bacca
laureate Sermon at the Reynolds
high school graduating exercises
next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
The sermon will be delivered at
the Reynolds Baptist church.
Mr. Armon Bazemore, ministerial
student, will preach at the local
Baptist church Sunday morning in
order that Rev. Hoats may deliver
the graduation message.
Rev. Hoats will be back at the
Butler church Sunday night to fill
his regular evening appointment.
REVIVAL
“The Effectual Fervent Prayer of
a Righteous Alan Availeth Much”
James 5:16.
If Ye Abide in ME and MY
WORDS Abide in You, Ye Shall
Ask What Ye Will and It Shall Be
Done.—John 15:7.
Beloved. If Our Heart Condemn
Us Not, Then Have We Confidence
Toward GOD . . . and Whatsoever
We Ask We Receive of HIM, Be
cause We Keep HIS COMMAND
MENTS, and Do Those Things That
Are Pleasing in HIS Sight—I John
3:21, 22.
And This Is the Confidence That
We Have in HIM, That If We Ask
Anything According to HIS WILL,
HE Heareth Us: And If We Know
That He Hear Us, Whatsoever We
Ask, We Know That We Have the
Petitions That We Desired of Him.
—I John 5:14,15.
Worship Services Held Daily at
the hour of S p. m., Taylor Mill
Baptist Church, beginning Sunday
morning, May 26, 11 o’clock. . . .
The Spirit and the Bride Say Come.
And Let Him That Heareth Say,
COME. And Let Him That Is
Athirst COME. And WHOSOEVER
Will, Let Him Take the Water of
Life Freely.—Rev. 22:17.
HARRISON URGE
CARMICHAEL FOR
NEXT GOVERNOR
Carmichael Reveals Tax In’
creases Proposed By Two
Former Governors.
Walter Harrison, Jenkins county
representative, mayor of Millen
and president of the organization
of Georgia’s 93,000 Rural Electrifi
cation Co-op members, urged the
election of James V. Carmichael
in a radio address that revealed
the close association of Carmi
chael’s two rivals, each of whom
is making his fifth race for Gov
ernor.
Carmichael disclosed, in an ad
dress at Alaeon to an enthusiastic
audience, that the proposed spend
ing plans of the two former Gov
ernors seeking a comeback on very
similar platforms would require
that the taxes of the state be in
creased to four times what they
now are. Both his opponents have
“promised” completion of 86,000
miles of paving, costing not less
than $860,000,000, an enormous
building program, and unlimited
increases in public services, re
quiring $250,000,000 additional rev
enue annually.
At Vienna, home of Senator Wal
ter F. George, Carmichael paid
tribute to the Georgia senior Sen
ator’s record of leadership, espec
ially in foreign affairs before a
large' audience.
The Carmichael schedule for
the week included an appearance
at Gainesville at a giant rally for
North Georgia veterans, attend
ance at the State Bar Association
meeting in Savannah, and a radio
broadcast'over Station WSB and a
network on Saturday at 12:30 p.
m., immediately after the close of
entries in the race for Governor.
The Carmichael broadcat was re
garded as especially important by
political observers, since it will
open the second phase of the
campaign.
Throughout the past week, his
two opponents have concentrated
their attacks upon Carmichael,
drawing from him the comment
that “as an old foxhunter told me,
they always snap at the lead dog
and not at the ones that are run
ning behind.” Maynard Smith,
Cairo attorney just returned from
service in the Navy to head the
Carmichael headquarters, revealed
that pledges of support were pour
ing in for the Marietta man’s can
didacy from all over Georgia.
Harrison, who was one of the
leaders in the fight for the “term
amendment” blocked by the joint
action of Speaker Roy Harris and
the two former Governors now en
gaged in joint opposition to Car
michael, declared the Georgia
campaign one of the most impor
tant national events of the year.
“The eyes of the nation are on
Georgia. They have seen us come
out of the muck and mire, regain
our lost name, and become a
shield against onslaughts of ene
mies of the South. We are carry
ing the fight, and the country is
learning of the injustices of our
rail rate structure; Georgia is the
spearhead in carrying this mes
sage of the South not only to the
East but to the West and the
whole nation” he said. “We are
proud of the comeback staged.
Those states that are well gov
erned will make progress. We can
not again turn over the reins of
Georgia to men who have made
headlines by acts of dishonest or
by sheer horseplay.”
“Our people are going to the
polls on July 17th in greater num
bers than ever before in history;
they feel that Georgia’s name is
at stake”, he predicted. “They will
keep Georgia’s name clean by
electing Jimmie Carmichael by the
greatest avalanche of votes ever
received.”
Talmadge to Speak
At Thomaston Next
Saturday Afternoon
Hon. Eugene Talmadge, candi
date for Governor of Georgia in the
primary of July 17 will address the
voters of this section in behalf of
his candidacy at Thomaston Sat
urday at 3:30 p. m.
His address will be delivered on
the court house square, and may
be heard over radio station WSB,
Atlanta, beginning at 4 p. m.
MR. FRANK POWELL
FOUNDDEADEARLY
SUNDAY MORNING
Physicians Attribute Death To
Heart Attack Suffered During
The Night.
Mr. Frank Waters Powell, 48,
was found dead at his home in
Reynolds Sunday morning when
members of the family called him
to breakfast. Death was attributed
to a heart ailment during the
night.
Mr. Powell had been suffering'
from heart trouble for seveial
years and had received medical
treatment early Saturday morning
members of the family stated.
Saturday afternoon Powell was at
his brother’s store meeting and
talking with friends as w'as his
usual custom.
Powell was known and loved
by many, especially the young
people. He was a regular attend
ant of Sunday school and [church
worship. Ruling the war he spent
most of his time writing to friends
in service.
He was a native of Reynolds the
son of Mr. W. I. Powell Sr., and
the late Mamie Sistrunk Powell.
He was a member of the Reynolds
Baptist church and was associated
with the Whitley Construction
Company for a number of years.
Funeral service were held at the
family residence in Reynolds Mon
day afternoon. Burial was in Hill
Crest cemetery.
He is survived by his father, six
brothers, Clarence, Ellaville E.E.
Americus; A. D., Charlotte, Mich;.
Harry, Reynolds; T. V., U. S. Navy
and W. I. Jr., Harlan, Ky.; four
sisters, Mrs. E. F. Boyd, Adel;Miss
Mortha Powell, Reynolds; Mrs.
Douglas Tye, Americus, and Mrs.
B S. Andrews, Waycross.
Out-of-town friends and rela
tives attending the funeral were:
Mr. and Mrs. William Powell,
Chevrolet, Ky.; Mr. and Mrs. E. F
Boyd, Adel; Mr and Mrs. Douglas
Powell, Charlotte, Mich.; Mrs.
Bland Andrews, Waycoss; Mrs. An
drews, Talbotton; Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Tye, Mr. G. A. Tye and
family, Mrs. W. R. Whatley, all ol
Americus; Virgil Powell, C.G.M.,
Miami, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. Clar
ence Powell, Allmond and Mattie
Will of Ellaville; Mr. and Mrs. El
bert Hill, Mr. J. B. Benton, Mr. J.R.
Lovings, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene:
Powell Jr., all of Macon; Mr. E. E.
Powell, Ellaville.
Services To Be Held
At Ht. Pisgah Baptist
Church Next Sunday
Services at Mt. Pisgah Baptist
church next Sunday will begin
with Sunday school at 10:30 a.
m. Good classes for all ages and
everyone is urged to be on time.
Preaching at 11:30. The pastor
will use as a subject, “What
Should be the Church’s Attitude
Toward This Generation?” This is
a most vitally important subject
for all our people to be thinking
about. We cordially invite all
friends and members of the
church to hear this subject dis
cussed.
Preaching again at 8 o’clock
Sunday evening.
We are planning and praying
for a great service Sunday. We
need the prayers and cooperation
of all our people. Come praying
for a good day in God’s Kingdom.
J. H. Stanford, Pastor.
Reynolds Golf Course
Officially Opened Sunday
By Lions Club
The Reynolds Golf Course,
swimming pool and tennis courts
officially opened Sunday for the
present season.
Members of the Reynolds Lions
Club will again be in charge of
this well known recreational cen
ter. This is the first time in sev
eral years that the golf course has
been open.
Season passes are now |on sale
by members of the Lions Club.
Prices for season are as follows:
Golf privileges $10 for first mem
ber of family; $5 for each addi
tional member of family. Tennis
and swimming passes $4.00 each.
STATE'S CHAMPION
SPELLER LEAVES FOR
NATIONAL CAPITOL
Mattia Lou Pollard, 13. of Upson
County, to vie With Nations Best
In Washington, D. C.
Atlanta, May 20—Thirteen-year-
old Mattie Lou Pollard, of Upson
County, Georgia’s blonde-haired
spelling champion, will leave At
lanta by train today for the Na
tional Spelling Bee finals in
Washington, where she will enjoy
four thrill-filled days.
She will be accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Nathan Pollard, of
Thomaston, and by her teacher,
Mrs. G. H. Phillips. Their expenses
will be paid by the Atlanta Jour
nal, sponsor of the spelling bee in
Georgia for 1946. A Journal re
porter also will make the trip.
Matetie Lou, a seventh grade
student in the Sunnyside School
in Upson County, spelled down
nine other district champions at
the state spelling finals held in
Atlanta May 4. The country school
she atetends has one teacher for
eight grades.
In Washington, she will compete
against 2g finalists from all sec
tions of the nation.
Entertainment of the orthograph
ic experts and escorts will begin
at 2 p. m. Thursday, with a spec
ial sightseeing trip through busi
ness and residential Washington.
Delux parlor busses will carry the
party by homes of notables, in
cluding late Presidents, and by the
Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials,
embassies and legations, the
Archives of the United States, and
the Cororan Art Gallery.
The group will return to their
rooms at the Hotel Wilard at 4:30
p. m. and prepare for the banquet
in the Willard ballroom at 7 p. m.
Aside from a few words of wel
come from John T. O.Rourke, edi
tor of the Washington Daily
^©ws,,^ there will be no speech-
making. r £»ne of the capital's ' best
magicians will furnish entertain
ment.
National spelling bee finals will
start promptly at 10 a. m. Friday
in the big auditorium of the famed
National Press Club. Pronouncers
and judges will be leading educa
tors.
Mutual Broadcasting System will
carry the finals, and it is also pos
sible that the National Broadcast
ing Company will televise the fi
nals for the first time in history,
feeding the broadcast into Phila
delphia and New York. Station
WATL in Atlanta will carry the
ifnals from 11:30 to 11:45 a. m.
Friday.
Awards of Victory Bonds will be
made immediately upon conclusion
of the finals, the first three prizes
of $500, $300 and $100 being
awarded in the form of bonds plus
cash. A total of $2,000 in bonds and
cash will be distributed.
Ellaville Legion Post
Sponsors Big Barbecue
Next Wednesday May 29
An eight-county Carmichael ral
ly is being staged on the court
house square at Ellaville Wednes
day, May 29. Speaking will begin
at 2:30 p. m.
The Thomas Edwin Wall Ameri
can Legion Post No. 191 of Ella
ville is taking advantage of this
opportunity to serve a barbecue
dinner between the hours of 12
noon and 2 p. m. Proceeds will go
towaids building a Legion home
at Ellaville.
Ellaville veterans extend a
special invitation to veterans and
their friends of Taylor county.
American Legion Post 124
To Meet Each Second
And Fourth Tuesday
Officers of the Amrican Legion
Post 124 wish to advise all mem
bers that there will be two regular
meetings of the Post each month
instead of one meeting as in the
past.
Meeting dates are the second
and fourth Tuesday’s in each
month.
All members are urged to attend
each meeting.
REYNOLDS SENIORS
TO GRADUATE ON
TUESDAY, MAY 28
Hon. Frank Gross, President of
State Senate Will Address
Seniors Thursday Night.
Reynolds High School makes
official announcement this week
of its commencement program.
The commencement will begin on
Friday evening, May 24, when Mrs.
J. A. Pendergrast, Music Teacher of
the Reynolds High School, presents
her pupils in a public recital. The
program will continue on Sunday,
May 26, with the Baccalaureate
Sermon, which is to be preached
this year by Rev. W. B. Hoats, Pas
tor of the Reynolds Baptist Church.
On Monday evening, May 27, at
the High School auditorium, the
grammar grades will present a pro
gram which is in the nature of
a reception honoring the senior
class. On Tuesday evening, May 28,
at 8:30 p. m. the commencement
program will be brought to a close
with the graduation exercises. Hon.
Frank Gross, president of the Geor
gia State Senate, will deliver the
literary address. The honor gradu
ates for the year are Carol Barrow,
Valedictorian, and Gene Polk, Sa-
lutatorian. The following will be
awarded a diploma:
Martha Wynelle Baker, Carol
Jean Barrow, Martha Jo Byrd, Thel
ma Cosey, Marsdelle Jacquelyn
Crooke, Mary Louise Fuller, Wil
liam Herschel Hollis, Sue Anne
Livingston, Russell Scandrett Mont
gomery, Felix Howard Nelson, Rich
ard Hoodman Parks, Jr., Sara Anne
Pool, Gene Lamar Polk, Stella Jane
Saunders, William George Wind
ham.
Hodges-Kirksey Post
American Legion Is
Organixed In Reynolds
An American Legion Ppst and
Auxiliary have been organized in
Reynolds. They held their first
Meeting Thursday, May 16, at the
Woman’s Club House.
Permanent officers were elected
at this time. The Post will be
called the Hodges-Kirksey Post in
memory of Lt: Hodges of the Air
Corps and Lt. Kirksey of the ar
tillery who were killed in action.
The officers of the Post are as
follows: Commandant, Garland
Byrd; treasurer, Ed Goddard; his
torian, Walton Hodges. The officers
of the Auxiliary are: President,
Mrs. Clifford Whatley; vice-presi
dent, Mrs. D. E. Byrd; secretary-
treasurer, Mrs. J. W Waters.
Farmers Reminded
To Make Application
For Gas Tax Refund
Farm operators who use tractors
for agricultural purposes, and other
engines that burn gasoline such as
pump engines, peanut picker en
gines, etc., should arrange to quali
fy for the gasoline tax refund that
will soon start coming back to the
farmers.
According to Charlie "Buddy”
Battle, representing the State Reve
nue Department, the first refund
checks will start coming to appli
cants early in July.
The first stop in qualifying for
the gasoline tax refund is to make *
application for a permit. So far, 35
Taylor county f armers have ap
plied for and received permits.
There are still a good many in the
county who are eligible but have
note made applicationc. These
should do so at once to be entitled
to the first refund.
Once a' permit is obtained, the
holder of the permit should submit
an application to the Revenue De
partment in Atlanta, between June
10-15 with the decision for tax re
fund should be sent paid invoices
for the gasoline bought durong the
period covered by the application.
Those who are eligible and
haven’t filed application for per
mit to apply, should do so at once'
so that they may be in position to
make the application of the act
ual tax refund by June 10-15.
RADIO SERVICE—10 years ex
perience. Pickup and delivery.
Prompt, efficient service on all
makes. Shop l Q cated at rny home.
FOY COX, BUTLER, GA-