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The Butler Herald
* * KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
VOLUME 70
BliTLKR. TAYLOK COUNTY. GEOKOIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 1, 1946
NUMBER 30
( Elizabeth McCants)
Not so long ago the average
housewife’s chief complaint was
about the rows and rows of ration
stamps in her books, and the
groceryman’s greatest perplexity
was keeping up with what was
what in ration news.
Now there is
Neither the
PRESIDENT TRUMAN MR. W. B. POSEY
ORDERS THOROUGH PROBE DIES AT HOME
IN MONROE KILLING FRIDAY MORNING IN 5 YEAR BONDS
SERVICEMEN MAY , mrs. Elizabeth foster
GET TERMINAL PAY DIES AT JUNCTI0N CITY
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
FBI OFFICERS NOW IN MONROE
INVESTIGATING THE MASS MIR
HER OF FOUR NEGROES SEVERAL
DAYS AGO.
Washington, July 30—Attorney
a diferent story. I aaid ^day tba *
nor
Funeral Services Held
Deceased at Turners
Sunday Morning.
for the Furlough Time to be Figured at
AMERICUS CHOSEN
SITE FOR 250-BED
VET. HOSPITAL
DECEASED WAS A NATIVE OF THIS,
COUNTY! FUNERAL SERVICES'
Chapel Rate of Two and One-Half Days
i Per Month.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Foster died
at her home in Junction City at
, IT .. ten o’clock Sunday morning, July
Washington, July 30—A “bottl- 2 1. She had been in ill health for
ARE HELD at the mauk baftist , Announcement by White House
CHURCH. Brings to Climax a 2-Year Fight
By Americus Citizens.
Americus, July 30—Congressman
Stephen Pace informed The
Mr. William B. Posey, 69 years
housewife nor the‘ President Truman has asked the of age, died at his home near ed-in-bonds” terminal pay bill for about six” weeks
grocer is bothered with rationing,, Justice Department “to proceed Butler at ten o’clock Friday morn- servicemen and veterans was M rs. Foster was born in Taylor 1 Americus-Times Recorder by tele-
it is true but a fear of inflation, vvith a11 lts resources” investigat- mg. agreed upon Tuesday by a Senate-1 county the daughter of the late ? hone T U { esday that he had T ust
far greater than that of rationing, in S the slayings of four negroes Mr. Posdy’s death was attribut- House Conference Committee. Mr and M rs. Green Wells . she had beea advised by the White House
has come since the disappearance' near Monroe, Ga., last Thursday, ed to a heart ailment. He had The five-year bonds in which made her home at junction City * bat Amer >cus has been selected as
of OPA controls ! “ l have talked with the president been in declining health for the the major portion of the payments for lhe past seV eral years and was thc Slte for the 25 °- bed tubercular
Takp . wnlk in almost anv town ! regarding this case and he has ex- past two years. would be made are non-negotiable a mem ber of the Baptist church. hospital to be erected in South-
lake a walk in almost any to !pressed tQ mg hig ho „ or at the Mr. Posey was born in Taylor but the Committee which worked; Funera i services were held at. West Geor S la b y the Veterans Ad-
L y H°Iv whi«nm of women here I crime and his sympathy for the county on December 23 1876 the out the final form of the bill pro-' tho Mauk. Baptist church Tuesday ministration in the near future.
^nH tWP ^thered for th^ morn 1 families of the victims.” son of the late Mr. and Mrs Mira vided that they would be used for aft ernoon, July 23, at three! , Pace . stated that the Presi-
and there, eathered tor the morn ^ ^ asked that the depart . Posey, he spent his entire life in payments on Government life in- 0 * c i 0ck . Rev . J. L. Whitley and, dent had the bill authoriz-
ment report its progress in the in- this county. , surance. Rev. Fred Johnson officiated. In- j in ® 5 e bos PHal and naming
Funeral services for the deceased An estimated $2,400,000,000 terment was in Pine Level cerne- A ™ encas as the site.
I Tuesday’s announcement from
Washington climaxes an intensive
and there, gathered
ing gossip session. You will hear
such remarks as these:
“And did you notice that butter
vestigation and proceed with all
u ...... -.. , , . . „ ™ — $2,400,000,000 terment was in Pine Level ceme-1
to investigate this ™ ere held . at w would be paid to P resent and for ’ tery.
day morning at 11 o clock. Rev. W. mer s erv i ce personnel in lieu of
up luu. * , and anv other crime of oppression J . , s mer service personnel in lieu of Pall bearers included Messrs s ,
you ever see such prices. Whm aS certain if any federal E ' Hl . gbt ° wer officiated. Interment f ur i oug h time they were unable to Addie and Willie Carnes, Homer two 'y®® r campaign by the Amen-
on earth are we going to do—wool-, so as to ascertain ii any ieu was in Turners Chapel cemetery, take during service Grants would Welte Arthur Foster Randall cus Chamber of Commerce to
en and cotton clothes are climb-. statute can be applied to the ap- Mr . Posey is survived by his b7 madron th e rasis of twrand n^nkin an^ Rohevt ll’len have Americ us selected as the
tnn?" : prehension and prosecution of the wif and nine daU ghters, Mrs. a ° , , Lumpkin and Robeit Allen. ' site for the veterans hosnital.
f]a 2nl S ^et^oihii^in the day, Clark said in' Jusb^Mr. ^eph^W Fosten | t'he ITjt™
age citizen is more than a little w y Mnnrne. Mr« Fdna Wain^riaht and Miss t0 60 da ys- Coffedge and Mrs. Clara Barnes;;JL,
men
in
is no
should not continue,
of either race commits a crime or
strays from the straight and nar
row, there is no call to condemn
all the rest.
Idle talk, voicing the inner fears
of people, is dangerous, and is no
doubt an added incentive toward
making things come to pass. For|
re-hashing I Atlanta, July 29—Rep.
shocking murders” in Monroe- Mrs. Edna Wainwright and Miss lu Coffedge unu mio. vmm ™‘“»'! the c it y> extending north several
He called upon “all our citizens Marie Posey, and two sons, The conference agreement went three sons Messrs Sam, Weaver,; hundred yards frorn Lester Street
to repudiate mob rule and to as- Messrs Elmire Posey and Henry ba ck to Senate and Houc^ for final Ermon and Clarence Foster; one and east from tbe highway to
approval. brother Mr. Lew Vs ells, 16 ® r and- j ackson street. A portion of the
j Enactment of the bill would put children and five great grand-chil- j and jj es within the city limits,
the enlisted personnel of the dren - The land is owned by the John
armed forces on somewhat the W. Edwards II of Edwards Sheffield estate, but the Cham
same basis as officers, who have * une ral Home, Butler, vvac m
been enjoying paid terminal charge of arrangements
! leave all along. The officers, how
ever, get paid in cash.
j The House originally voted for
„ , . r , , ,, 00 n , cash payments for enlisted men,
Columbus, Ga., July 28—Ground b ut the insistence of Treasury
was broken Sunday on the site of °°’ at ,_f ° lraasur /
the new $290,000 St. Luke’s Meth- bond * ’ ^ S te
apprehensive.
Then there is the so-called ra-|
cial problem, which is much dis- ; g . * authorities to bring these Wacter
C co U S jyMSUi H : was re - ■
■ pea Tea a s" n d jsttSst* and
Because one! their wives last Thursday.
" h ° Ground Is Broken For
$390,000 Church Edifice
Mrs. Helen Mankin Wins
Right To Place On State
Ballot In General Election
At Columbus, Ga.
odist Church building. Actual con- ■&,“ worted^ut “he
Helen struction of the main structure, to coriip „ jm)s „ under whi , jh the
while
Ellaviile Citizens
Moum Passing Of
Rev. C. D. Carter,, 74
her of Commerce holds an option
to buy it. The land has a high
elevation and slopes in all direc
tions. There are many tree^ on
the south side of the street.
The Americus Chamber of Com
merce, under the leadership of
J. W. Lott, president, began work
on the hospital project more than
two years ago. Since tnat time, the
organization has carried on a
talking, hashing and re-hasmngi Atlanta, Juiy ^ “““ . CO mp r0 mise under which the' Ellaviile, Ga-, July 27—Fu-
about a certain subject does tend| Douglas Mankin, the Fnth Dis- replace the auditor urn destroyed bondS( while not immediately neral services for the Reverand C.l^eady and vigorous campaign to
to make that subject a reality. | tricts embattled congresswoman, by fire in 1942, will begin Mon- cashablei could be used to pav D Carter 74 re tired minister and have the proposed hospital located
_ —-— round in her pro- day ---------- ’ ’ *- * 1 — ^ — — j -
Now is the time of testing. That won a major round n her pro aay. chairman of the P remium s on National Service Lite c i er k of the Schley county superior in Americus. Committees made
,st-war period of which we so longed contest for re-electmn to ^ A Turner Chairman of the Insurance or to convert it to per- C0U rt for the past 30 years, were , several trips to Washington to
day wben tbe .„l tat hL ^ manent policies. held here at the Baptist Church,, “nfei^ with• Veterans Admtauiti-a.
bert Thomas. Der^ocrot. Friday morning, July 26, with rhe17° r n oiticlals and others,
d of the Senate con- Reverand E. V. Dupree in charge, ast ..^ u ^’ Major W. R. Metz,
post-war period
often dreamed during the long,
hard war years is here. It is true
that peace is far from the Utopia
which our imaginative dreams
made it, but we have not so soon
forgotten the trust we have with
those brave men—loved ones and
friends—who made the supreme
sacrifice that we back home
might, as Churchill put it, ”...
come through the dark and dan
gerous valleys into a sunlight
broader and more genial and more
lasting than mankind has ever
known.” be declared the nominee, and a
There are problems, of course, special contest sub-committee to ' Methodist congregation in Colum
and big ones, in the post war 'day certified both^candiuates^^^ bug , having been organized in nrultiples,
both her and Judge J. C. Davis as the Sunday School, turned’ tlfc*
Democratic nominees in the No- first two shovelfuils of dirt, follow- Utah, nead « “* I from the Veterans Administration
vember general electiort. ed by Mrs. L. W. Cunningham, of f erees - conceded that the bonds- of the services. Mr. E» u pre e was, office in Washington inspected
The committee’s action throws lbe Woman’s Society of Christian for-insurance plan^held some as- assisted by the Reverand R. . propoged sites here ’ a i ong with
the contested race into the gen- Service, and C. Ed Gates, a mem- pe< ^ s of mflation. However, he Bivins, of Cusseta, the Reverand tbose in appr0 ximately 30 other
eral election, where voters will be r of St. Luke’s congregation, | old reporters it also has the vir- E. M. Palmer and the Reverand L -| Georgia ciUes and towns _ Early
decide the winner on a popular and a par t n er in the Williams Con- tue of good habit-forming in rela- M. Spivey, both of Lllaville. this year another inspection of
hacic will tion to thrift and insurance.” Interment was in the local ceme-1 giteg ,y herej at Albany a nd a few
r , i R . I other points in the state were in-
but trailed Davis 6 to 3 in county ciate p astor> delivered th e invoca- insurance policies have been con- tie, John Lightner Oren Dense, administration officer from
unit votes. She appealed to the tion in the abse nce of the Rev. verted to the permanent peace- Henry Hart, C. T. Battle and War- the Veterans Adminis t ra tion.
state committee, asking that she Mack Anthonyj who was on V a- time Federal policies. ren Battle. Honorary pallbearers | Thg Ust of proposed sites was
’ - ~“ J " th e oldest . The bonds, bearing 2 1/2 percent were J. R. Wall, J. C. Rainey, S. A-j finally narrowed down to Ameri-
in Colum- interest would be issued in $25 Manning, Dr. M. C. Gettys, J. J- CUSf A i bany , Waycross and Tifton
Duncan^ Ed- j and j ater jt wa s learned that only
vote basis. struction Company, which will
In the recent primary, Mrs. b uild the new church.
Mankin led in the popular votes The Rev> w R Woodall, Asso-
cation. St. Luke’s
He observed that only 276,000 of tery.
the 5,600,000 outstanding service Pallbearers were,
maturing five years Holloway, Raymond
world, but we should be optimistic j Mrs. Mankin, who v.as elected jg2g_ F i ve buildings have been after a given veterans discharge, gar DeVane, I. G. Moriem, E. L. > Am ericus and Albany were left on
gh to have faith in the basic i as t February to fill the unexpired tirected success j ve i y 0 n this same Amounts due under $50 would be Forrester, of Leesburg and Eugene i the list
term or tiep. Robert Ramspeck ^ including the first b rick Meth-
charged that the d ‘ s rlc . d odist Church in Georgia, built in
committee had unfairly changed
the rules from nomination on a
popular vote basis to a unit vote
basis, in an effort to defeat her.
The county committee was
Pittman of Tift
rules, all
by
common sense and judgment of a I term of Rep-
people who were sufficiently
strong to win such a great war as
the one just ended. Furthermore,
we should see this period through
which we are now passing as “a
dark and dangerous valley,” for it
is but if we and our leaders have j headed by Ross
the same cooperative spirit, the county. Under party
plyoyecMn *e P-oMems'lMankin hailed the com-
Rural Mail Men
Fight Diversion
Of Gasoline Tax
paid in cash. So would the Horn, of Ameiicus. i The Americus site held several
breakage in excess of $2d mul- Born in Schley county August, iifi p ort a nt advantages over those
teiples. Thus a veteran to whom 20, 1872, Mr. Carter was the son in the otbe r South Georgia cities,
$103 was due would receive $100 in of the late Jesse T. Carter and
bonds and $3 cash. ” Nancy Spivey Carter. He moved to
An estimated 15,000,000 veterans Ellaviile in 1898, and has lived
are expected to apply for the here since that time. Mr. Carter
payments.
not the least of which was the
much higher elevation above sea
level and the rolling terrain. This
city offered excellent transporta-
will be met and overcome,
we shall truly pass “into
light broader and more genial and ma j n * a f a j r fight.”
more lasting
ever known.”
“demonstra-
Atlanta, July 30—The Georgia
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
war, . - Then I m ittee’s action as a
tion of fair play,” and said ‘ now t oday went on record as stringent-
sun ' my opponents will have to meet j y opposing diversion of gasoline
and fuel taxes to anything else but
Contracts To Be Let
Aug. 1 For 450 Miles
served as pastor of Baptist ( (j on and p uhlic utility facilities,
churches in this section for more i a j SOi and these facts entered heav-
i than 35 years, retiring from the | ji y j n t 0 the consideration, as did
j ministry because of ill health. | the community’s outstanding phy-
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. sicians, surgeons and medical fa-
Lillie Battle Carter; three sons,
R r » |» ■ « ^ Earl Carter of Richland, Roy and
. L. A. Lines in 0 LOUIliiCJ Milton Carter, of Ellaviile, a
cilities.
Mr. Lott, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, today gave un-
than mankind has The 49-year-old “gentlewoman loads and urged enactment of a
Large
daughter Mrs. Mary Carter McElvie. stinted praise for the local citi
Cairo July 29—Contracts will be of Pelham; two granddaughters, a: zenry as a whole and for the un-
I from” Georgia” piled up a heavy s : at T to “ Drotect SUC h funds let Aug. 1 for 450 miles of ad- sister, Mrs. R. M. Derise Carter of! tiring efforts of committee mem-
| from Geoigia P _ . u i state law to protect suen iu a ditional REA lines in Gradyi De-, Richland one half-brother, Willi-, bers in particular for their co-
’ to am J. Carter, of Atlanta; a half-sis-j operation with the Chamber of
Commerce in its efforts to secure
the veterans hospital.
lead in populous Fulton (Atlanta) f rom straying.
I county, but trailed Davis in sub-| Resolutions adopted by the catur and Thomas counties M r Atlanta
urban DeKalb and rural Rockdale ou in convention at the Ans- serve 1,500 additional persons, ac- ter Mrs. L L. M-^Carvey,
‘counties. Fulton has only six unit f ey botel> also: cording to the REA Co-op in Cai- and a number of nieces and neph-
votes. DeKalb
Rockdale two.
also has six, and
PROVIDENCE CANYONS
ARE TO BE SUBJECT
OF RADIO BROADCAST
1. Backed Thos. G. Walters, of r °.
Toccoa, for reelection to a fourth . At present there are 423 miles of
■ vear as national president. Tine largely in Grady, Thomas and
2. Recommended pooling effort Decatur counties, with a few aniles
with the Georgia Farm Bureau “in in Mi . tchel i> Brooks and Colquitt y fonV&Ilt 0d
matters of mutual interest.” counties. These lines are now 10 JTfllC UWIYC1II1U1I
3. Advocated an increase of at serving 1,625 consumers.
According to the Co-op, orders
Taylor County Delegates
To State Convention
Announced by Committee
Sum Paid To
Seif Employed Veterans
In Readjustment Program
Washington, July 29—The Gov-
JSSS S—Rick,and Ga Juiy »e a jejjj,. 20, per .ent in and h ™° =
«» in , he re Si lus Bm en ot nSrs;s:ma?r«dT s. »rs ‘z-mng ^ s ,o mr ,. „ d
Veterans’ Administration annour.c-1 Stewart county recently ‘ & ruial carriers o - tracts are being let this week it , , . chosen
ed Sunday. ! the Providence Canyons and pre- years of service regardless of age- “f dts u 5 r *„°® In ® JZ o11 ' +v , 0 sentative-elect, have been chosen
The money
erans engaged
ness, the trades or professions
covers the period from September 8, at 6:15 p. m.
1944, start of the program, to June, The program
30, 1946
Messrs L. R. Adams, Senator-
: the Providence Canyons and pre- years of service regardless oi age- * sentative-eiect, nave uetii muacn
y ' . oennon vet ‘ oarine a 15-minute program about The convention selected Savan- will be some time be as delegates from Taylor county to
nCy a We n “™ '! hu i fws scenic spot. Ii will be broad- nah as lhe 1947 meeting place. Of- work is completed due to the thp State Demo cratic Convention
grades’or ov'er wi B on Saturday. Aug, Hears were reeiectod. , M «, Oe-.obcr Alrernatcs
CRASH INTO DOOR
: FATAL FOR CHILD
July
under the direc u r * |\
tion of Mark Toalson, will feature ^01116 tOmillQ Vdj
The bill provides a veteran may ihe° grandlu! Ta Rp Observed At
be paid the difference between his ° be south ’s most 10 DC TCU HI
Sedo e d a T g USt Te a ma°y draw phenomena! work of nature-the ^ PfOSpeCt AugUSt 11
allowance varies according to the Providence Canyons. i , Ul
time he spent in the armed serv-. Sunday, August 11, uill be ob- completed for more than a year, Johnnie Lamb, of Macon,
ices. The maximum is 10 2-5 HARROWING ! served as Home Coming Day at though scheduled to begin m^the
months if the veteran served 9 1/2, New prospect Freewill
months or more. If you want some harrowing or c hurch near Reynolds.
The Veterans’ Administration plowing done or some wood sawed j Every one interested
ers for the Cairo substation
suffer a 40-week delay in delivery . r nP r
and transformers for the Thomas “an cooper.
substation will not be delivered
for 60 weeks.
Delivery was promised for Au
gust, 1947, on district transformers. r
ordered last February. Accordingly; Macon , Vjd -’
are Messrs M- R. Williamson and
Revival Services Begin
At Pleasant Hill Church
Saturday Evening Aug. 3
Revival services will begin at
Pleasant Hill Freewill Baptist
Church in Schley county next
Saturday night.
Rev. J. F. Smith of Eastman,
will assist the pastor, Rev. J. B.
1 Lumpkin at Sunday’s service.
Sunday will be obseived as
Home Coming Day at the church.
A special invitation is extended
everyone to attend.
oraerea last reoru-iy. , ices were arranged here Friday
the work will probably not be ^ sQn Qf Mr _
DIPLOMAS FOR RECENT
19—Funeral GRADUATES LOCAL SCHOOL
NOW READY FOR DELIVERY
said “the vast majority” of veter- immediately see,
ans drawing allowances is engag- j
ed in agricultural activities. |
Emory Harris
Butler, Ga.
All members of the 1946 gradu-
near’Hitur^The^xDansion'of RE V wb0 died from in 3 uries received ateing class of Butler High school
BdP lineage te this^bettor^ !s expected when he crashed through a glass vvho have not already received
in the to be of great benefit, since it door. The child, playing in the bed-j lh eir diplomas are asked to call
church is extended a cordial in- will bring * electric power to 1,500 room of his aunts home, suffered by the office of County School
vitation to come and bring a bas- additional consumers in the rural two slashed arteries and died Superintendent E. H. Dunns office
ket dinner. [areas. shortly afterward.
| for same on Thursday, Aug. IsL