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Tije Butler Herald
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KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS"
rtllLLh, TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946
NUMBER 32
BARRETT FREE
AFTER ARREST
IN CALIFORNIA
METHODIST YOUTHS
PUN "HI-NEIGHBOR"
PROGRAM SEPTEMBER 2
Former Columbu6 Hospital Official
Posts Bond of S500 in
San Francisco.
Columbus, Ga., Aug 13—Winslow
Ellis Barrett, 51, identified by fin
gerprints as the same person who
was acquitted here May 17 on
charge of embezzlement under the
name of Chauncey C. Burritt, was
arrested July 30 in San Francisco
as a fugitive from justice wanted
in Rochester, N. Y., according to in
formation received Monday by
Sheriff Ernest F. Howell.
Meeting to be Held at Columbus
And is the "Kick-Off" for
A "Youth Activities
Week".
REVIVAL SERVICES INDIAN SPRINGS taylor county negro FSA FARM TOUR
TO BEGIN AUG. 19 REVIVAL DRAWING W,NS F!RST PR| E HELD IN TAYLOR
__ ....
AT REYNOLDS
Rev. Joe H. Bridges of
To Assist Rev. Leon Edwards
During The Revival.
MANY VISITORS i S0IL BU!LD| M contest COUNTY AUGUST 1
I !
Chula rn»« D.,.,l..„ Period. H eid °prt" Und Fot Moki ”* ,he T °"
Land i Enjoyed A Delicious Barbecue
Each Day During The Famous
Meeting
A “Hi-Neighbor” sub - district n • , • .....
meeting of the Methodist Senior i S ^ v t 1 . C i !®'y ill p P egl " a ^. the
Young People at 7:30 p. m Sept Re y no ]ds Methodist Church Mon-
at St. Luke MethodL ehS; ? h a r y '„ 0 A h u ^‘ “ “" d
Columbus, will be the “kick-off” i tb ™ u £ b Wednesday, August 28.
for a “Yout
His Accomplishments In
Improvement Program-
th Activities Week,” Ed-L Rev> Jo0 + H ’ Brldg0S of Qua* will
ward Simpson, Columbus sub-dis-i be Present throughout the entire
trict publicity chairman announc-1 and , ass ' sts tbe . P asto . r - Rev
es . j Leon Edwards. Rev. Bridges is one
The “Hi-Neighbor” meeting will of tbe most outstanding preachers
rp, - . be patterened after the weekly !" the , Soutb , Georgia . Conference,
The former City Hospital admin- Hi-Neighbor day held in Columbus the pastor feels very fortunate in
Musco- owo ,.,, „ ; securing the assistance of Rev.
istrator was acquitted inMusco- every"'Wednesday,'''’which'“iTspomi aecaring . the(assistance of
gee Superior Court on 37^ counts sored by the Columbus Merchants E " dg f s _ in J hls m ?, etl , ng
Guests are invited
^ Dinner at the Noon Hour.
Indian Springs Ga \ue 12—Olrl Log Cabin - Ga -. Aug. 13—Ga’s ! FS , A far m owners of Taylor
time rpiicrirm ’ i’ g - Negro farmers were encouraged 5° Unty al ° n £ with several visitors
time religion, served piping hot Tuesday as they never had been * rom neighbonn g counties enjoyed
and in mammoth amounts, again before in this state to stay on the ^ most interesting and profitable
is drawing thousands of visitors to farm and work towrad better day last week studying soil build-
hstoric Indian Springs Holiness 'things. j| ng and conservation practices be-
amp Ground, where wary wayfar-! The occasion was the Drosram 1 ‘" g ., c . ari ' ied out b y several farmers
shadow o? r .hV 1 R m VV‘i e '““»«!»• >-»* “*” Negro community j ‘ “ Un,y '
shadow of the Rock of Ages. center in which prizes were awar-! „ The gl0U P met at the local FSA
Between 5,000 and 6,000 persons ded to Negroes who had made of , e 011 Aug. 1, 9:30 a. rn., and
came to the Sunday morning serv- j greatest jrogress in soil conser- ^ , e . Pl ans f° r the tour. At 10
ice. They strolled down the camp’s vation. 0 c * ock a procession of cars left
' .. Butler and made the following
Two services wil be held each
from the Columbus District, which day ’ one at e ^ even a ‘ m ‘ and an ‘
includes towns such as Cuthbert, 0 , er at . , p ‘ m '
here Lumpkin, Dawson, Waverly Hall,' A special song service
Hamilton, Butler, Buena Vista,
Talbotton, Warm Springs, Ellerslie
and their surrounding communi
ties.
Jimmy Callahan, 17, of Thomas-
will be
held at the begining of each ser
vice.
The public is extended a cordial tbe °ld. °1 ( 1 story,
invitation to attend-
School Budget Increase
In 1947 Seen By Allman
charging embezzlement of hospital Association
funds totaling $6,399.40 in a trial
that lasted three days.
Following the acquittal
Burritt was rearrested and return
ed to custody to be held for ex
tradition to New York to face
charges of grand larceny and for
gery under the name of Edward
H. Pulsifer. ville, a licensed preacher will be
He was released May 18 on a i be gue st speaker of the Hi-Neigh-
writ of habeas corpus at a hear- bor event. Callahan is the winner
ing before Judge T. L. Bowden in of the Melvin Jones Memorial
City Court- Burritt had departed Scholarship at Emory this year.!
from Columbus with his destin- T his scholarship was made possi- „ , „
ation unknown, when extradition ble by the Columbus sub-division I .Qartersville, Ga., Aug W-Geor-
papers signed by Gov. Ellis Arnall Qn{ j +ne citizens of Columbus Mr ' gla s P ubllc school budget for 1947
arrived here a few days later. j Callahan is also the president I wo J :ed . out on the basis of Cover-
The International News Service o£ the South Georgia Conference nr - Nor " inee t . Eug0ne . Taln ? adge s
Monday in a dispatch from San tor y0U ng people. He is a graduate! commRmants to sch ° o1 P e °P le > will
Francisco reported that “Barrett” of Thomasville high schoot.
was taken before Municipal Court “The purpose of the Hi-neighbor
Judge Milton Sapiro July 31 and meeting,” Mr. Simpson said, “is
released on cash bail of $500. to acquaint the leaders of the
The dispatch said that police re- Youth Fellowships in the Colum-
oords in the California city showed bus district with those of Colum-
that Barrett had stated his present bus and to exchange ideas of vvor-
residence at Antioch, Calif., and his ship a nd help serve the present
birthplace was New York. He gave age.”
his occupation as “superintendent.” A n Senior Young People in the
Ernest C. Britton, who with Columbus district and their
Robert Arnall acted as defense friends are cordially invited to at-
councel for Britton during the trial tend this District Rally. It is re- for the following other purposes:
here, stated Monday night that quested that those attending ar- [ vocational education, instruction
he knew nothing about the new, r i Ve about 6 p. m. ami proceed to|and equipment; vocational rehabi-
arrest - _ j the church as supper will he sitation; library and textbook im-
I haven’t known his (Barritt’s). served before the sub-district-provements; an equalization fund
whereabouts since he departed meeting
S ' d . N ,2T"J visits and observations!
The first practice called to the
attention of the group was the
erosion control establish-
roadside
winding walkways, covered with
fresh wood-shavings and found who lives near Butler, Ga.*He'"has
Iresh pieasure in the great oaks- a farm of 154 acres, largely de-
t J 1 Th ° weather-beaten cot- voted to rotated crops. Seven
ages- They overran the massive I acres are Kudzu and more than . , .
open-air tabernacle, where they 50 acres in cultivation- Sid, who ed by local SQl1 conservationist, M.
sang the old, old songs, and hearo j s 50 years old received a prize of.' Dean> the count y commission-
$100 for his accomplishments in ^ rs ’ Alfonso McCrqry and Tom
I Several hundred persons live \ improving Georgia’s farmland. Sec- ^pulers in 1941. A remarkable
throughout the 10-day meeting in,ond prize went to William Paul change was noticed in that old
i th p 75 cottages and the big ram- Perry, Newton County, and third erosion enemy, King Kudzu has
j bling hotel which make the 150 prize to Thomas Skrine, of Han- covered up many of his sins- A
short stop was made at Mr. Earl
Neisler’s improved pasture. This
total $39,000,000, or 64 per cent
greater than this year. J. J- All-
man, assistant state superinten
dent of schools said today.
Allman presented the figures at
a meeting of school leaders and
Parent-Teacher Association offi
cials, the first of ten such meetings
scheduled over the state.
Allman said that in addition to
acre campsite a small viiiage in cock County.
appearance. They live during this More than 300 Negro farmers, , /9 . -
period on warmly intimeae terms many of them with every appear- }*{?, a0re o past , ure was A seeded and
\\ ith their Lord. During the year ance of success gathered under the e • aL ™ l( lne , “ AAA specifi-
they may subside on religious pines in front of the Community £ atlons in , th0 spnng of 1945 and
snacks—but this is a full six- Center main building and listened ,«^ P °- d °^ e ™. lk cow and a
course dinner. to a series of songs and addresses. ‘ F * g pi ir ! C . 0 hat V.? 10 ,
Each day holds nine devotional j Among speakers were Chief Hugh , C J ln f mi ! group
periods, beginning with prayer H. Bennett, of the Soil Conserva- „ t0 .? farm ° f , L ' H> Pl0rce
service in the tabernacle at 7 a.m. tion Service, from Washington. . OV0ial Projects were ob-
There are three preachers: Dr. Jos-| “This Log Cabin program is out- p ierco to ^ d hov ® U h d ' e bad F J!nwn m.t
Pastor of the First standing proof,” said Mr. Bennett, ovei - 400 Parmenter R I g ReH mn*
Methods Church in Memphis; Dr. “that the farmers of the country i ets . These uullets were on Ln
John R. Church, of Winston-Salem,! are making long strides toward ran ge and aonarentlv tho mi„
N. C., general evangelist for the {real soil conservation and better shortaee had not affniLn th,i gt |
Methodist Church and Dr. T. M- An- living. Poor land makes poor peo- velopmenL The water svstem" on
derson, a teacher at Ashbury Col- pie, people with empty pocket- Mr Pierce’s farm attranos ih»
lege, Wilmore County, Kentucky. books, and empty stomachs, with tention of every one because every
The camp meeting is interde- 1 empty lives. Soil erosion is the out building, hog lot poultry vard
nominational, but there is a strong : surest and quickest way to make an d dwelling is supplied with
running yvater at no cost to the
a 50 per cent increase in teacher
pay, increases had been promised Methodist flavor, possibly because land poor.”
the camp ground was founded in
1,500-gallon tank
empty since thal
from Columbus,” Mr. Britton said.
Program State Press
Association Outlined
By Belmont Dennis
Youth Who Aspires
To Governorship in ’62
On The Air Tuesday Night
of G E A
I Columbus, Aug. 14—W. Barry
Savannah, Aug. 10—The pro- Phillips, 17-year-old gubernatorial
gram for the three-day convention aspirant, who broke into the news
of the Georgia Press Association, recently when he announced his
opening at Savannah Thursday, intention to “study” to be governor
was announced Saturday by Bel- o£ Georgia sometime in the 1960’s,
mont Dennis, Covington publihser was interviewed at the studios of M rs. Claude C. Pittman,
and association president. , WDAK Tuesday as part of the
The eritors’ meeting will open American Broadcasting Company’s
with a dinner at the DeSoto Hotel coast-to-coast “Headline Editions”
given by the Central of Georgia program.
Railway.The program will include The special interview with the
an address by the mayor of Sa- University of Georgia student was
vannah and T. M. Cunningham, conducted by Tommy Tucker, :
president of the railroad. WDAK announcer, and transmitted 1
Friday morning’s sessions will b y telephone wire to New York’s
open at 10 a. m. and will feature Radio City where the nation-wide
a talk by W. W- Neal, Atlanta ad- radio show originates. I _ , , _ _ . „
vertising executive. His talk will j- a recent Associated [Press dis-i Columbus, Aug- 11—James Allen
be followed by a discussion of patch reported that the teen-age Callahan - son of Mr - and Mrs - H
Know Georgia Better by Lee Trim- political ’climber, a resident of H - Callahan, of Thomasville, is the
ble, director of the program, S. L. Valdosta, is conducting a cam- first winner of the Melvin Jonc9
- - — • other Memorial Scholarship at
-.con u „ , . , pakin 6 P ar t ^ the program family. Mr. Pierce installed a ram
1890 by a Methodist minister, the j were soil conservation leaders and in his spring five years ago and
Rev. V>. A. Dodge. The camp key figures from the Extension states that his
ground, said to be the largest in service from Spartanburg, Atlqn- has not been
. a.,™.,,™ . . , . . . the South is owned by a corpor-.ta, Athens and other parts of the, time,
of $1,000,000 to help improverished ation and directed b y a board of state. ’ rw t „ , ,
school districts build better school trustees, headed by Dt. Leonard i The 150 Negro teachers enrolled th?^rSer hasTithS ta man.
SSTSuiS" VaSita 1 "' Meth i a ' the ,„ LOe Cabi " ST'”' Sch “°i a day was ha 5,e W 'rcr.^ =
oaist c^nurcn in Valdosta. I gave the program of songs and grazing on improved pastures with
Methodists predominate on the patomime. Dr. Ben Hubert, pres- the old mare (expectant any day)
board, which also owns the tab- ident of the Georgia State College with her one-year old daughter
ernacle and the camp ground ho- at Savannah, arranged the sched- grazing by her side and the
tel, and has recently erected a ule of activities which was de- father with his head stuck through
brick diningroom which will bede- signed to encourage the Negro the barn window nonchantly look
houses; increased payment to
school bus drivers to enable them
1o buy and maintain safe equip
ment.
Other speakers at today’s meet
ing included C. L. Pudcell, J. L.
Yaden and C. S. Hubbard of At
lanta; E. Russell Moulton of Lin
dale, president of the Georgia Ed- d i cated Wednesday to the memory farmer toward soil improvements ing on. Pepper, corn and cane pro
bation Association and Harold of M ’ Lang ’ of Pears °n, who ser- and to direct him toward a future duction were the next topics for
Saxon, executive secretary; Mrs. ved oa the board ‘Cottages are that will induce him to stay on discussion before the group left the
Fred Knight, state president of Pnvately owned by grant from the .the land. farm-
the Parent - Teacher Associations; board and s °/ ne owners spend the! Tuesday’s program at Log Cabin, A very thorough job of water
district summer ln tnem • , will receive publicity from as far'control was observed on the farm
president of the P T A and Miss The hoard holds a tight rein on away as Oslo, Norway- Rolf Ottessn'of Sam R. Bailey. Five years ago
Ruth Wiliams, Catoosa County su- the camp ground, however, A no- Norwegian student at Oglethorpe, Mr. Bailey stated, he planted kud-
perintendent and district director smoking rule is rigidly enforced, tooq copious notes of the preceed- zu along the roadside the entire
James Callahan Wins
Memorial Scholarship
No radios are permitted on the ings which fascinated him from length of his fqrm. The road banks
ground, no newspapers, ice or milk the standpoint of a foreign visitor.' (Continued to page 8 no 1)
(except to babies) can be sold or. He plans to writ several articles on b
Sunday. A certain wellknown soft what he witnessed here. t D II 4 C
drink cannot be sold on the ground DflllOl lOr
at any time. Lights are turned out
from a central switch at 11 p.m.
And there’s this admonition to the
young folks. “Petting parties in
automobiles or elsewhere in public
will be promptly handled by tb
officer.” j
Howard Block Company November Election
Products In Demand
All Over The State
Certified By Fortson
Akers, governor of Georgia Civi- paign of letter-writing to other M emoriai scnoiarsmp at Emory
tas, and Dennis, chairman of young Georgians. He says that the 1 College ’ ° xford > was announced
Know Georgia Better Committee, response to the thousand letters Sa i, arday ’ , . _ . . .
The afternoon meeting Friday he has already written has been The Melv . in Jones scholarship
will be devoted to the associa- gratifying i * und was raIsed as a living me-
tion’s business and reports by the His letters reiterate his inten-! y Tloria ^ to a Columbus youth who
various officers. Gen. G. A. Horkan tion to study to become Georgia’s intended to devote his life to the
of Washington, director of the me-, governor. church. Columbus citizens con-
morial division of the quartermas-1 “i think that the governorship is ^ but ^ d p G,90u for the endowment
ter department, Army, will speak a job that should be studied just ^ u ~ * '
on the return and burial of armed as any other,” he explains,
force personnel killed in World
Baptismal Services Will
Be Held At Antioch Church
Next Sunday Morning
The check was
ory June 19.
presented to Em-
Atlanta, Aug. 7—Secretary erf
State Ben Fortson has compiled
the official ballot for the general
Mr. Cason McCoy Williams, in election November 5, and turned
charge of sales, and Mr. Jesse the copy over to the state printer.
Jones, production and plant |man-; The state merely provides coun-
ager of the Howard Block Co., ty ordinaries with an official form
Howard, Ga., stated to a represen- to follow and the ordinaries have
itative of the Hrald this week printed the election ballots after
| that they are elated over the en- adding local contestants,
thusiastic response, which the con-| The official ballot sets up only
h tractors and home builders have | one contest—between Congress-
are giving their concrete woman Helen Douglas Mankin
War II.
Others to speak include T. H.
Hall III, of Macon, and Mrs.Leon-
ard Haas of Atlanta, president of
the Georgia League of Women
Voters.
The program Friday night will
be concluded by presentation of
WELLS. NOTED
WRITER. DIES
London, August 13—Herbert
George Wells, prolific author and
historian hailed as one of the great
men of modern English letters,
died at his London home today
trophies to winners in the annual after a long illness. He was 79.
newspaper competition by Dean J Wells, whose monumental books
E. Drewery, dean of the journalism popularizing history and science
school at the University of Geor- became wordi-wide best sellers,
gia. j “died peacefully” at 4 p. m. (10 a.
m- EST) his secretary said.
Simmons' Ginnery
Gins First 1946 Bale Colton
LOST
‘ |record-
Young Callahan, who ivor the
; , , ! scholarship for the school year
Liberal reward to finder of Black 1946 . 47> was a close fnend of
Billfolder lost Saturday night Aug. Melvin Jones and visited him here
Taylor county’s first bale of cot- 10 containing veteran’s identifica- severa ] times,
ton this season was ginned last tion card, drivers license, other im- ( He is 17 years old and a licensed
Friday by the C. R. Simmons gin. portant papers. Finder please no- minister. He graduated fiom Thom
The bale weighed 522 pounds, was tify-
grown by J. J. Bryan and brought ( Garnett A. Heath
36 cents per pound- Butler, Ga. Box 257 class.
All of the members of Artie
and Horeb Churches are urged to and ^
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones, attend the Baptisimal services to be building units in the surrounding and Judge J. C. Davis for Congress
the Jones youth lost his life in an held at Antioch Church Sunday cities. | in the Fifth (Atlanta) district. The
automobile accident last January morning at 10:30. The candidates The Howard Block Company is democratic state executive corn-
while on his way to Glennville, to for Baptism will please come pre- manufacturing concrete brick as mittee certified both Mrs. Mankin
attend a Methodist youth con- pared. We will preach at 11:30 on well as concrete blocks in various and Judge Davis as democratic
Victory through Christ for Every shapes and sizes- Starting in nominees, as the result of a con-
Christian . We have just closed a March of this year, the plant has test over the method of selecting
fine meeting in our church and we tripled its production and shortly , the winner. Mrs. Mankin won on
are anxious to gring a message wi 11 again increase its output, Mr. the popular vote basis and Judge
r^ 1 - • G S r<?a * be * p t0 aR Williams states. Davis on the county unit basis,
the Christian people. The public Their units have been used in [which is now under attack in fed-
is cordially invited to attend the homes, stores, warehouses, fac- feral court.
. . . Baptismal service and to hear the tories club houses, garages, foun- The name of former Governor
arship. Their decision was nased service and the morning message. dation s in Columbus, Americus, Eugene Talmadge is the only one
on the applicants interest in jf there are any who desire to Talbotton,, Howard, Geneva, June- listed as a candidate for governor.
_ b „ Ur . 0h WOrk and hlS paiit sch001 unite with the church Sunday, will tion City, Mauk, and other ponts.i There is one constitutional
you not come prepared for Baptism Mr. Williams states that he has 1 amendment to be voted on. It
and we will be glad to receive recently closed a block contract would make the state board of
you. Let the spirit of God have his for 55 houses in Columbus, which public welfare a constitutional
way and if you have felt moved will get underway shortly. board, like the state school board,
to take this step won’t you go all! Mr. Jones states that no order board of regents, board of pard-
the way and be an obediant child js too large and none too small to ons and paroles, and other state
of God. i receive the best of attention and boards-
........... , Pra Y for a11 our services and that all orders will be delivered! Secretary Fortson barred the
asviile High school L.st spnng and come expecting a blessing from the promptly. He further states that 1 Constitutional Christian
was president of the graduating Lord. i their maximum output at this from
I J. H. Stanford I time is 3,000 units daily. (Cook.
ference.
Part of the $6,000 was $500 he
had saved from his earnings as a
newspaper carrier and which he
intended to use to defray paFt of
his college expenses.
I The Board of Regents of Emory
selected the winner of the schol-
Attorney General
Party
Eugene