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THE BUTLER HERALD. Rim ***> GFORGT.4. AUGUST 1. 1946.
NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Kail shortage endangers loss of
$57,0000,000 peanut crop in Geor
gia.
Villa Rica reports the biggest
building boom in the city’s his
tory.
The 46th annual session of the
Third District Masonic Convention
will be held in Cordele Tuesday,
Aug 13.
$55 to $75 per hundred pounds
is being paid for South Georgia
tobacco crop, breaking a 25-year
record.
Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Brown
Kelley, 25-year-old former WAC,
was killed near Griffin Monday
when the car in which she was
Tiding overturned.
Harry Sommners, Atlanta auto
mobile dealer, said yesterday he
Isn’t interested in running as Re
publican candidate for governor in
the general election.
Chief Judge Nash R. Broyles, a
member of the Georgia Court of
Appeals for the past 32 years, has
announced that he will retire at
the end of his present term.
R S. Nickerson has been to the
faculty of the Grady School of
Journalism, Athens as assistant
professor to teach radio, effective
the beginning of the fall quarter.
The resources of 262 state banks
in Georgia increased $74,653,564
during the fiscal year ending June
30, State Superintendent of Banks
John C. Beasley announced Tues
day- J
John D. Hancock, father of Her
man Hancock, veteran reporter of
the Atlanta Constitution, died
Sunday morning at his home in
Savannah, folowing a long ill
ness.
Mr. Dan Smith, 81, prominent
retired Macon county farmer, was
found dead in bed early Thursday
at his home in Oglethorpe. He re
sided with his daughter, Mrs. Jim
Peters.
James D. Steen of Birmingham,
Ala., has purchased the Ellaville
Theatre from Paul Gill and W. H.
Vaiuanuingham and announced
Wednesday he would take charge
Aug. 1st.
Governor Arnall and Director G.
T. McDonald of the State Highway
depar.mem, advocate a 10-year
program for improvement of Geor
gia highways costing approximate
ly $400 000 000.
Two of Bibb county’s legislators
—Marvin Kempser and Horace
Vandiver—are in favor of merging
the city and county governments,
an issue now one of the things up-
pc.wio.s. ... the minds of city and
county officials.
The legally-recognized Republi-
an Party m Georgia is planning to
run a candidate for Governor in
the November general election,
and Chairman Roy Foster, of Wad
ley, may be that candidate ac
cording to report.
Purgason’s Grocery in Waverly
Hall was destroyed by fire of un
determined origin early Sunday in
spite of an hour-long fight by
scores of citizens who formed a
bucket brigade soon after the,
blaze was detected.
Fairburn, a small Georgia city,
has taken action to prevent pos
sible racial'or other riot disturb-
annces. The city council Monday
night passed an ordinance pro-
hibiteing a meeting of one or more
persons for the purpose of inciting
a riot.
Four warrants will be turned
over to the Colquitt county grand
jury tor investigation when it
meets the first Monday in October
as the result of a disturbance in
downtown Moultrie last Friday
night in which three tobacco ware
housemen were involved.
A fire of undetermined origin
one day last week which broke out
on the ninth floor of the Piedmont
Hotel resulted in the injury of two
elderly persons, nearly cost the
life of Fire Chief C. C. Styron and
caused damage to the hotel esti
mated in thousands of dollars-
Faced with the possibility she
would have to give up her seat in
the house of representatives, even
though she had polled the largest
popular vote in her district, Mrs.
Helen Douglas Mankin this week
won the right to run against her
opponent again. This time it will
be in the general election where
the popular vote rule prevails.
Congresswoman Mankin was op
posed on July 17 by Superior Court
Judge Jas. C- Davis of the Stone
Mountain circuit. Over the opposi- j
tion of Mrs. Mankin, the Fifth Dis
trict democratic executive commit
tee ruled that the county unit
Eystem would be in effect in the
primary. On that basis, Judge'
Davis won the nomination, though
Mrs. Mankin, carrying Fulton
county polled a larger popular ma
jority. 1
Farm Bpureau President
Urges Federal Aid in
Securing Nails for Farmers
Macon, July 30—“I feel that the
peanut situation in Georgia is of
sufficient importance that the Fed
eral Housing Program should be
slowed down or stopped if neces
sary so that nails may be secured
to save this important perishable
crop,” stated H. L. Wingate, presi
dent of the Georgia Farm Bureau,
in discussing the reported shortage
of this item which is so vital to
peanut farmers in harvesting the
thousands of acres in this com
modity.
Mr. Wingate stated that the
Georgia Farm Bureau has been
advised by the Department of Ag
riculture that nails in sufficient
quantities would arrive this week
and next week, in time for the
harvest, "but information reach
ing our Macon headquarters in
dicates. that much of the ship
ments coming into the state are
going into black market chan
nels.” The GFBF executive is in
constant touch with government
officials regarding the immediate
need for nails, and he has been
informed by members of Congress
in the peanut belt that every ef
fort is being made to secure an
adequate supply to insure prompt
harvesting of the entire crop.
The Georgia Farm Bureau lead
er has informed Congressman
Pace of the Third District that ap
proximately 12,000 kegs of nails
will be needed “within the next
week or ten days” for harvesting
the Georgia crop, and unless this
amount is forthcoming many
growers have advised Mr. Wingate
that the situation will be disas
trous.
For the past two months, the
Georgia Farm Bureau has con
stantly advised Washington of
ficials of the need for nails to
harvest this year’s peanut acre
age, Mr. Wingate states, and is
advising farmers that a sufficient
quantity would reach the peanut
area in ample time, “I was acting
on information which I considered
entirely reliable.”
“Only a small portion of the
amount of nails needed has
reached Georgia peanut growers,”
the GFBF president added, “but 1
am leaving nothing undone to in
sure immediate delivery of the
number of kegs required by those
who have planted thousands of
acres in this product this year.”
Georgia's Bethlehem
Destroyed by Flames
Bethlehem, July 27—Georgia’s
little town of Bethlehem burned
down Saturday.
Fire razed the whole business
block of the city, leveling stores,
the i -nt office and shops. The
churches still stand.
The small Spired Baptist
Church, in the heart of the busi
ness section, was unharmed. It
stands a lone sentinel in this once
picturesque namesake of Christ’s
birthplace.
The Methodist Church stands,
too, unharmed by the fire. There
will be services in both it and the
Baptist Church Sunday.
The little town, located in Bar-
row county, near the Walton
County line, was famous through
out this section as the namesake
of the Holy Land’s Bethlehem.
Each Christmas, thousands of per
sons would send their Christmas
cards and letters here for the Beth
lehem postmark.
The fire was discovered in Hen
drik’s store about 7 o’clock Satur
day morning. Its origin was unde
termined. The blaze destroyed
Hendrix’s, razed two adjoining
buildings, damaged Holloway’s
Store, the Bethlehem Radio Shop,
destroyed Major Bros., the old
bank and other structures. Only
one business concern, Yearwood’s
was undamaged.
Fire fighting companies from
Monroe and Winder were sum
moned to try to save the little
town. They were handicapped be
cause of a lack of water. Bethle
hem has not waterworks, so water
had to be pumped a mile away,
from Hendrix’s pond.
Hundreds of persons from the
surrounding countryside came to
witness the burning of the town,
to do what they could to help
save it.
Man Kills Wife In
Crowded Department Store
In Memphis Tenn.
Memphis, Tenn., July 30—As
horror-struck afternoon shoppers
looked on, a shotgun-armed man
killed his 35-year-old wife in a
crowded downtown department
store Tuesday and then fell, se
riously wounded, under the fire of
a traffic officer’s blazing pistol.
Four bystanders were wounded,
one seriously.
Detective Inspector Larry Fox
identified the man who fired the
shotgun blast as Robert Horner,
about 48. The dead woman, he
said, was the slayer’s wife, Ger
trude.
Fox gave this version of the
multiple shooting:
At lunch hour throngs pushed
through the big store, the man
walked toward the basement
lunch counter and opened fire on
his wife, a waitress there. She fell
fatally wounded. Patrolman C. R.
Love, on duty nearby, responded
to cries from panic-stricken pass
ers-by, and rushed into the store.
Spying Horner, he fired, dropping
the slayer with three bullets in
his chest.
The police official said Horner
was leveling his gun ate Love
when the traffic patrolman opened
fire.
Mrs. Fred Masden, 21, was
burned to death Friday night while
kindling a fire with kerosene oil
at her home at Hogansville.
A three-year $150,000,000 road
program to follow the present
$80,000,000 program in Georgia
was advocated Monday by S. W.
Ware, of Woodbury, president of
the Georgia Rural Letter Carriers’
Association.
Albany Post Office Clerk
Wins Fiction Scholarship
Albany, July 30—“I had hoped
to keep my writing aspirations a
secret,” explains mild-mannered
Mrs. Ruth G. Robinson, Albany
Post Office Civil Service clerk,
“until such time as it should be
proven—if ever—that I’m good
enough to be published.”
And had the publicity depart
ment of Indiana University not
mentioned that Mrs- Robinson was
in attendance at the annual writ
ers’ conference, held in Blooming
ton, Ind., the early part of July,
as a result of her having won the
coveted fiction scholarship with a
novel—it is unlikely that anyone
in Albany, excepting immediate
members of her family would be
aware today of her “sideline” oc
cupation.
ENGLISH BRIDE, WRITER OF
MOUNTAIN.S TO LIVE THERE;
HUBBY BUYS PAPER
Blairsville, July 27—Announce
ment has just been made of the
sale of the Union County Citizen
to Capt. O’Danald Mays, husband
of Mrs. Mary Roberts Mays, winner
of the recent “Know Georgia” con
test, conducted in The Atlanta
Constitution.
Mr. and Mrs. Mays are to move
to Blairsville and begin operation
of the business August first, it is
reported.
The Citizen was founded by the
late Charles Wellborn, former em
ploye of The Atlanta Georgian,
and was published by him until
his death in 1941. It has changed
hands several times since that
time the most recent owner being
Capt. Eugene Mitchell, ex-Marine
officer. Ill health is given the
reason for selling by Mr. Mitchell.
Jimmy McKay Carries
Out Plan Formulated
While in Hospitals
Macon, Ga., July 29—“Dream
come true” is what James W. Mc
Kay calls his Hobby Shop on Sec
ond street just off Cherry Street;
for Jimmie dreamed of a place
where he could provide the mak
ings for anybody’s hobby—dream
ed while he lay in bed in a United
States army hospital in England
for two months, and while he
spent a year in Lawson General
Hospital, undergoing one operation
after another in the hope of saving
his left hand.
Captain McKay he was then;
now he is Mister. He was given
his seperation papers a few days
ago and has just opened his shop
here .
Decorating the Hobby Shop are
a number of airplane models made
by McKay during convalescent
period in the hospital. One of the
planes has a 77-inch wing spread;
it is a B-17 rubber-powered mod
el which Jimmie worked on for
several weeks. Another McKay
model is play Boy Sr., Free Flight
plane, gasoline powered.
Jas. W. Smith, 71, one of Villa
Rica’s oldest merchants and larg
est farmers, died at his home ear
ly Monday night after a brief ill
ness. For almost 40 years he
owned and operated the Villa Ricq
Mercantile Co.
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PAROLED CONVICT SLAIN
AFTER KNIFING ATTACK
Eatonton, July 29 — Putnam
County Sheriff J. L. Paschal said
Sunday a paroled convict, Harrisor.
Johnson, was shot to death Sat
urday after he attacked Johnny
Holt, owner of a road-side inn 10
miles east of Eatonton, and Holt’s
wife and son with a knife.
Paschal said Holt shot the
lunging Negro six times with a
revolver and then had to strike
the Negro with the butt of his pis
tol before he could stop the en
raged man’s attack.
The Negro, Paschal said, stakked
Holt, Holt’s son, Johnny Jr., ana
a friend of the younger Holt, Al
vin Collis. None was injured seri
ously.
MAN'S BEST FRIEND
WORKS IN REVERSE
Atlanta, July 29—Several men
with rifles were trying, as a mat
ter of humanity, they thought, to
kill a dog trapped far below on
the side of Stone Mountain.
E.. B. Nour, 32, had another idea.
The dog was cowering Sunday
on a ledge near the abandoned
memorial to the leaders of the
Confederacy 400 feet below on the
vertical side.
With the help of two men, James
Street and W. J. Ashe, Nour took
200 feet of rope and made his way
by relays down to the dog.
The dog, a Boston terrier, was
nearly dead from thirst and ex
posure to the sun. How he got
there is a mystery.
2 BROTHERS KILLED, 2 SONS
HURT AS TRUCK OVERTURNS
Moultrie, July 30—Arthur and
Frank Mercer, brothers, were fa
tally injured Tuesday when a
pickup truck in which they were
riding turned over near Moultrie.
Franklin, 12, and Ferrell, 7, sons
of Frank Mercer, injured in the
same accident, are in a critical
condition in a hospital at Moul
trie.
City Motorcycle Patrolman M.
M. Murphy, who with State Police
investigated the accident, said the
truck was headed toward Tifton
and that the “boys were thought j
to have been riding in the back of
the truck.
Both o ft he men were brought
to the hospital where they died a
short time after arrival, hospital
authorities said.
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Rubber Gloves
Birthday Candles
Ice Bags
Bobby Pins
Cardui
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With Gun
10c
49c
10c
75c
10c
89c
35c
In an airplane-auto crash at
Millen the auto came out best in
the bout but the driver made a
narrow escape from being de
capitated.
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
“We find your product (K-R-O) most satis*
factory; dead rats laying all around the hog
lot this morning” . . . reports poultryman
E. J. Gdiner. K-R-O Powder is effective; and
being a red squill product, it’s relatively harm
less to humans and domestic animals—a def
inite rad squill advantage according to the
D. S. Bureau of Biological Survey. Get K-R-O
Powder, today. Generous 2-oz. can, only 75c.
MARKET
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Cured Ham - Hamburger Meat
Pork Chops ■ Bacon
Beef Liver
Oleomargarine ■ Cheese
A Nice Line of
Chocolate Candy
Chocolate Covered Peanuts
Peppermint Sticks - Fudge
Coconut Candy
Nice Assortment
Fancy Cookies
Sweetheart - Palmolive
Woodbury Soap
D.D.T. Qt 75c
Rubbing Alcohol Pt 23c
Retonga $1.09
Lydia E. Pinkham 99c
Mineral Oil Qt 49c
5 Lbs Epsom Salts 25c
S. M. A. Milk Can 94c
LARD
FAT BACK
STREAK 0 LEAN
Flat SARDINES
Can TOMATOES
RICE
Sure Jell
Cement . . .
DoyePs Coffee
Sunshine Krispy
Kerr Lids
Pickling Spice
Butter Scotch
and Chocolate Pudding 8c
Lids For Coffee Jars - Tuna Fish
2 Pkgs 25c
90c
2 Lbs 35c
Lb 19c
2 Doz 25c
Pkg 10c
Carnation Milk
Flour - Pig Feed - Horse Feed
Laying Mash
8 Lbs Kit Fish . . . $2.50
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General Electric Appliances
Maytag Washers
Hoover Vaccum Cleaners
Bendix Radios
Stewart Warner Radios
General Electric Radios
Eveready Radio Battery $5.19 Mirrors - Pictures
Baby Strollers, All Metal $9.95 Cook Stoves
Bath Towels ....
Portable Record Players
Electric Irons
Hot Plates
Lace Curtains
50c