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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 1, 1946.
Talmadge Back Home
After Pleasant Trip
To Western-States
Atlanta, July 30—Eugene Tal-
made is back from the West with:
<1) a highly prized license to
hunt mosse and antilope in Jack-
son Hole, Wyo., (2) mixed views
on Mexican food, (3) the report
that he visited Los Angeles and
Pasedena without seeing a single
movie star for the reason that he
“didn’t look for any.”
“1 like our civilian peopie bet
ter,” quoth Georgia’s next Gover
nor.
Talmadge, who went to Cali
fornia three days after election day
to "rest up from the campaign
and get politics out of my syst
em,” said he came back “feeling
better than I’ve felt in a long
time” and was ready to settle
Oowii to "paying my debts, prac
ticing a little law and getting
things straightened out.”
But come September, he plans
to head West again to take ad
vantage of the license issued him
at Jackson Hole to huni moose,
antelope, bear and deer. He said
he may even journey into South
Dakota to hunt a few pheasants.
Talmadge is particularly proud of
his Jackson Hole license, which,
he said, is one of only SO issued a
year.
During his trip the Governor-
nominate paid his first visit to
Mexico. He attended the races at
Tia Juana and ate at the club
house where he found Mexican
food “fixed up nice” but he seem
ed a little dubious about the hot
tamales which were being ped
dled on the streets by skinny na
tive children.
Generally he summed up his
Impressions of the country south
of the border thus: "It’s a great
country wiih fine, hospitable peo
ple.”
They just weren’t bull fighting
the day he was there, so he missed
out on the fighting.
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BOARD SETS FUNDS
TO TRAIN FIREMEN
Albany, July 30—D. W Brosnan j
Albany’s nationally known fire
chief, who returned early this
week from a trip to Cleveland,
Ohio, and Atlanta, announced to
day that the state board of edu
cation had set aside a $10,000 ap
propriation for a firemen’s train
in'* program throughout the state.
Chief Brosnan is chairman of the
bon'd of directors of the Georgia
Fire College, which requested the
apprehension.
The program, which will begin
in 1947, will provide for an in-
s.j’. ctcr to go to the small towns
and the cities in Georgia to in
struct firemen in the use of fire
cqufi.i.-ent and in the latest de
velopments in fire fighting.
The State Department of Vet
erans Service Office located at
Talbotton, with Leonard G. Parker
Jr., manager has disclosed the
following information as released
by Mr. C. Arthur Cheatham, Direc
tor, State Department of Veterans
Service.
Terminal Leave Pay^ At Presi
dent Truman’s suggestion, the
Senate Military Affairs Committee
has substituted a five-year bond
payment plan for the cash pay
ments voted by the House last
month.
Terminal leave pay now owing
to millions of veterans will be
paid off in nonnegotiable, non-
transferable bonds which will not
mature until five years after the
date of issuance. Vets will be un
able to obtain loans on the bonds
at any time until after the ma
turity date.
The dope in Washington is that
the bond-payment plan is “rig
ged”—that it will be passed by
the Senate, accepted as a substi
tute for cash by the House and
signed into law by President Tru
man.
Actually, the President’s sugges
tion scuttles the high hopes of
veterans who were counting on
getting cash payments this year.
Amount due will be paid in
bonds in multiplies of $25—any
balance over—after amount due is
divided by $25—will be payable in
cash. Bonds cannot be sold,
pledged, negotiated, transferred.
Men separated before Jan. 1,
1943 men owed less than $50—
mental incompetents—survivors—
will be paid in cash. To settle es
tates, government will cash
bonds for estate or survivor of vet
who dies after receiving bonds.
Committee also provided that no
officer or man in service should
have more than 90 days leave to
his credit after August 31—pres
ent. limit is 120 days. Puts en
listed men on same basis as of
ficers with a vengeance by provid
ing that enlistment furloughs
hereafter are to be charged to
leave earned or to be earned.
Best present guess is that effort l
will be made to get next Congress
to amend law to provide for im
mediate payment—after threat of
inflation is eased—if it is eased.
Atlanta, July 22—Georgia has
moved out of the red, into the
black! i
For the first time in over a
hundred years—or since 1838—the
state government is out of debt.
The news was made bnown by
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher in
his audit for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1946.
At the same time, public serv-
icess have been expanding to meet
tb*' greater needs of the time,
school teachers have been ad- '
vauced in pay, new buildings con- I
structed.
When Governor Arnall took of- !
fice, the state’s annual provision
for public schools was $15,000,000
whereas now, including the re
cent 50 per cent increase for teach- 1
ers, it stands at $35,000,000, in
cluding one million for teacher re- j
tirement. The annual appropria
tion for the state university sys- |
tern’s colleges [was $1,900,000,
while now it is $4,400,000.
Many other services also have j
been expanded to keep abreast of
the times and meet public needs, j
Road building is high-on this j
list.
The audit shows that the state's ;
income increased from $58,893,568
in 1942 to $81,021,500 in 1946.
Thrasher estimated the State’s
income next year would be $78,- ;
375,000. However, he said, it I.
would cost $90,745,563 in 1947 to J j
carry on the present expanded
program of State government.
This means that either some of
the present services must be cur
tailed or an additional $12,370,-
563 be raised.
During the past year, spending
exceeded income by $5,525,305,
Thrasher asserted, and it was
necessary to dip into the state’s
reserve to make up the difference.
Retience at Monroe
Stalls Investigation,
GBI Chief Declares
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
SIX ME NHELD IN LASH
DEATH OF FAR MNEGRO
Lexington, Miss., July 30—A
vigorous prosecution of six white
Mississippi Delta planters charged
with murder in the fatal beating
of a Negro sharecropper was
premised tonight by Sheriff W. L-
Murtagh.
Murtagh said “it looks awfully
bad” for the men held without
bond in the death of Leon McTa-
tie, 35, who was beaten to death
for the suspected theft of a saddle
and whose body was found on a
bayou near Indianola, Miss., 60
miles from Lexington. The body,
clad in blue jeans, was discover
ed by a Negro fisherman.
Ironically, the sheriff said , two
young Negroes later confessed
theft of the saddle.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS
AND CREDITORS
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
All creditors of the estate of
Elijah McLendon, late of said
county, deceased, are hereby noti
fied to render in their demands to
the undersigned according to law,
and all persons indebted to said
estate are required to make imme
diate payment to me.
This 4th day of June, 1946.
LESLIE HICKS.
Administrator of estate of Elijah
McLendon, deceased; P. O
Address: Reynolds, Ga.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS
AND CREDITORS
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
All creditors of the estate of
Mrs. Emily Perry, late of said
county, deceased, are hereby noti-1
fied to render in their demands to .
the undersigned according to law,'
and all persons indtbted to said
estate are required to make imme
diate payment to me.
This 17th day of July, 1946.
G. C. Perry, W. C. Bussej
and T. H. Cromer, ,
Administrators of the estate ol 1
Mrs. Emily Perry, deceased.
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Monroe, July 27—The head of the
Georgia State Police told newsmen
Saturday “we just can’t cope” with
the local situation in the investiga
tion of the massacre of four Ne
groes near here Thursday.
“The best people in town won’t
talk about this,” the police head,
Maj. William E. Spence said.“They
have an idea who it is.
“When 1 get back to town (AT-
lanta) I’m going to ask the Gov
ernor to appeal to every Congress- 1
man to help pass Federal legisla
tion against mob violence.”
Maj. Spence met newsmen short
ly after the release of a man who
he said fitted the description of
the leader of the armed band
which waylaid J. Roy Harrison, a
prosperous farmer, and the Ne
groes on the banks of the Appa-
lachee River.
Spence said Harrison failed to
identify the men and said the
leader of the mob was "20 pounds
h -ei.
The State police leader said he
hau several other leads, but added
that he was getting no co-opera
tion from local authorities.
“We’ve been out on things like
this before, but never anything
lme this,” Spence said.
Shortly alter the shooting was
made public Friday, agents of the
Georgia bureau of Investigation
and the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation went into the county to
seek the man who committed the
act.
To spur the investigation, Gov.
Arnall summoned newsmen to his
office in Atlanta and announced
that he was offering on behalf of
the State rewards totalling more
than $10,000 for a solution to the
killings.
Grimly, the usually ebulliient ro
tund Chief Executive pointed to
newspaper clippings reporting the
crime on his desk. He said, “I am
directing the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation.
LeROY SMITH, FORMER
MACON TELEGRAPH EDITOR.
DROWNED IN CALIFORNIA
Macon, Ga., July 30—LeRoy
Smith, 40, former managing editor
of the Macon Telegraph and of the
Macon News, collapsed and
drowned in the surf at Newport
beach, Calif., yesterday according
to the Associated Press.
Mr. Smith was a copyreader on
the San Diego Tribune. He was
drowned on the first day of his
vacation. Fellow bathers pulled
him ashore and firemen attempted
unavailingly to revive him.
Mr. Smith served as managing
editor of the Macon News from
August, 1944, until May, 1945,
when he became managing editor
: of The Telegraph.
He left the Macon newspapers
I in August, 1945, to accept the
; position in San Diego because of
I the illness of one of his sons, for
j whom a physician had recom-
' mended a change of climate.
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