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A PAGE EIGHT THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 27, 1947. NEWS SUMMARY IF THE WEEK IN GEORGIA A volunteer fire department has been organized at Montezuma. The Civil Aeronautics Authority has given its stamp of approval for m new airport to serve Fort Valley and Peach county. Three of 10 negro convicts, who escaped Sunday from the Lowndes County stockade, were captured in a swamp near Lakeland yester day. Planting of Georgia’s biggest cash truck crop—watermelons—in the Moultrie area got well under way in the big producing counties this week. The State Senate unanimously passed a House resolution provid ing for a commission to provide an appropriate memorial for the late Governor Eugene Talmadge. Word has been received in Geor gia of the unveiling of a memorial tablet to American soldiers, in cluding the name of F. O. Burch, of Dalton, in Wallasey, England. The Georgia Senate Tuesday passed, 28-20, a bill to allow wom en to serve on juries in Georgia, after adopting an amendment that would excuse women from such service for any reason they may offer. School lunchrooms of nine Southeastern states including Geor gia hit another flavorsome jackpot when the Agriculture Department announced allocations of Chedder chees and canned fruits for lunch room use. Sunday school and church pro grams at Norman Junior College will be broadcast for the first time, beginning March 30, under ar rangements completed between the Moultrie radio station and Norman Park Baptist Church. The Bulloch County Citizens’ Temperance Committee presented the County Ordinary of Statesboro a petition signed by 35 percent of registered voters calling for a referendum on repeal of county’s law peimitting the sale of liquor. The Georgia Federation of Post Office Clerks will be honored by the preservance of National Legisla tive Representative E. C. Hallbeck and Congressman James C. Davis when they meet at the Ansley Hotel in Atlanta Saturday, March first. Dr. J. D. Gray, First Baptist C'.urch, New Orleans, and Dr Johr, L. Hill, Baptist Sunday School Loard Nashville, will be among the cutstanding speakers for the con ventions at Fitzgerald, April 28-29, fc.id at Thomasville, April 30-May Atlanta Mother Saves Infant Son But Loses Own Life By Flames Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 24.—Funer al services were held Sunday for a heroic Roswell mother who suf fered fatal burns Friday when she chose to carry her infant son to safety before trying to extinguish her flaming robe. The mother, Mrs. Ruby Mae Gentry, 24, died late Friday at Grady hospital, from third degree burns suffered when her chenile robe was ignited by a spark from a coal heater as she sat before it rocking her one-year-old son, Dar rell on her knee. According to C. C. Fisher, one of the first to arrive at Mrs. Gentry’s home following the accident, her efforts to carry the baby boy to safe ty probably cost her her life. He said she told him when he arrived that the robe burst into flame and almost completely en veloped her before she knew what was happening. He said she dashed for a nearby bed and placed her son upon it before making any ef fort to put out the fire with a small basin of water in another room. "I guess I lost my head. I didn’t think of trying to get out of the robe,” he quoted her as saying. 530,000,000 BONUS BILL BILL TO GO TO GEORGIA HOUSE Sears, Roebuck Company Plans New Store For Macon Soon A. L. SASSER SR. COUNTY COMR. HOUSTON COUNTY DIES OF BULLET WOUND Macop, Ga., Peb. 25—Plans for construction of a huge department store in Macon at a cost estimated to be well over a million dollars was disclosed here Tuesday by Sears, Roebuck and Company upon completion of negoations for pro perty in downtown Macon covering half a city block. Although details of construction plans and how much the Company plans to spend on the project were not revealed. Expenditures prob- baly will go beyond the million- dollar mark. The project will include outside farm equipment store and an au tomobile service station with an extended parking area. Architects are expected to begin drawing plans for the two story structure immediatelv. The Sears project is the Third largest postwar construction job announced for Macon.The others, a 810,000,000 paper plant for Meade Corporation and a $10000,000 pro ject for Armstrong Cork Company, already under construction and are scheduled to be completed by the end of this Summer. With the new Sears store, con struction in Macon soars well over the 25-million figure. 1 Perry, Feb. 23—Arthur L. Sasser Sr., a member of the board of county commissioners of Houston County, died in a Macon hospital late Saturday night after being found fatally wounded at his home at Bonaire. Sheriff C. C. Chapman said the death was listed as a suicide. Mr. Sasser, 65, had been a mem her of the county commissioners for several terms. He was a farmer and merchant at Bonaire and was widely known in this section. He was bom in Houston County Dec. 3, 1881, and had resided hefre all his life. NO. 1 PAGE ONE FROM AWNINGS & VENETIAN BLINDS Floriad Stripes and Solids in Famous * ARISTOCRATIC CLOTH AWNINGS Venetian Blinds, Steel and Aluminum—Installed Drop us A Card JOHNSON AWNING COMPANY * Box 3082 Baker Village O. P. Johnson, Mgr. Columbus, Georgia Atlanta, Feb. 25—A $30,000,000 bonus bill for Georgia veterans of World War II, was reported out of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee Monday and now will be sent to the House of Representatives for discussion on the floor. The proposed bill provides $10 a month bonus to Georgia veterans both men and women, who served overseas and $7 for those who saw domestic service. On the floor of the House, it was announced there will be an effort to change this bill into a constitutional amendment. In that case, it will go to the people of the state fo rapproval or disapproval in the election of 1948. The present plan calls for a bond issue to pay the bonus. Dr. Peyton Jacob has been reap pointed president of Georgia South western College at Americus by the Board of Regents, according to an announcement by Dr. Raymond Paty Chancellor of the University Sys tem. Dr. Jacob has held trie presi dency since January, 1933. cision of the United States circuit court in the “Primus King case.” This able decision by Judge Sam uel Sibley pointed out a way in which th Democratic party might restore and retain its white pri mary. , “Our love for Southern traditions and Southern history demanded legislation of this nature but this alone does not constitute our de fense of the white primary. The | necessity is much deeper and far i more consequential than mert tra- j dition and history. Without legisla tion on this subject the white peo ple of Georgia would have been denied their basic right of belong- ! ing to a political party whose prin- ■ ciplts and ideals, rules and regu lations, were to be dictated by them, rather than by the forces i which would destroy the white pri mary which are so largely center ed outside the state of Georgia.” Attention Builders WE HAVE f, Tylac Tile, Waldtex Plywood, (These items are beauties), Asphalt Roofing, Asbestos Siding, Gyplap Sheathing, Garage Doors, Windows and Frames, Unique Sash Balances, Plaster Lath, Plaster. Finish Hardware, Exterior Plywood, Medicine Cabinets, Glass Wool Insulation, Built up Roofing Felt, Ejector Deep Well Pumps, Ventilating Fans, Underground Garbage Cans, Beaver Board, Bathroom Accessories, Curtain Wall Vents, Paints and Masonite. C. A. TVE & SONS Americus, Ga. Dial 3141 AFTER HEATED CONTROVERSY DAWSON'S CHIEF OF POLICE IS REINSTATED IN OFFICE Dr. Annella Brown, young Laur ens county physician, who was the first woman ever to receive an ap pointment in surgery to the nation ally known Cleveland Clinic in Cle veland, Ohio, has been appointed one of the three resident surgeons to the clinic. Two hundred students from the Armed Forces Staff college, Nor folk, Va., first arrivals for the in itial presentation of the Ninth Air for air inductrination course, were at Lawson Field, Columbus, Mon day to see the “biggest air support show ever staged.” Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Forehand, of Doolv county, recently celebrated the!. - y-third wedding anniver sary They have five children, Dr. C. C. Forehand, of Albany; Mrs. J. W. Harrison, Macon; Mrs. A. C-Sut ton, Crisp County; Mrs. M. J. Ing ram, Lilly; Mrs. James Woodward Jr., Vienna. Three cases of alleged evasion of income tax are among twelve in dictments returned by a Federal Grand Jury in Atlanta Tuesday, with true bills, charging filing of fraudulent tax returns, naming Le on Beeber of 78 Decatur, St. James Ruben, of Augusta, and Henry C. Marke, of Albany. The latest fradulent scheme re ported in operation in Atlanta in volves a woman who is going from house to house, offering what she describes as “handmade, pure Bel fast linen.” luncheon sets. Examina tion of the sets, however, has dis closed they are made only of cot ton lace and that the purchaser has paid for them about $30 more than they are worth. Judge Walter C. Hendrix, of Ful ton Superior Court, was notified early Tuesday that his son Thom as, a Marine veteran and a stu dent at Purdue university, was among those injured in the grand stand collapse at the college Mon day night G. Wells, son of J. Wells superintendent of Fulton county schools, telegraphed his mother Tuesday morning that he was a- mong the spectators at the basket ball game during which the stands collapsed, but that he was not in jured. Young Wells also is a Pur due student. Dawson, Feb. 23—Howard L. Lee twice elected and twice suspended chief of police has been reinstated by Mayor H. A. Wilkinson as the last action in the controversy be tween the two. On Thursday Lee brought a peti tion against Wilkinson, individual ly and as mayor of Dawson, to keep the mayor from interfering with him in carrying out his duties as chief of police. Lee also was su ing Wilkinson for loss of salary | and for $10,000 damages, i Lee was elected to office in Jan uary by the city council, then Wil kinson suspended him. He was re elected and then suspended again. Wilkinson who is a Dawson lawyer and a veteran of World War II, reinstated Loe Friday after lawyers for both sides reached an 1 agreement suit. i Ferrice Bowden, six foot eight inch giant, who was charged with raping an 11-year-old Macon girl, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault with intent to rape in a non-jury trial before Judge Mal lory C. Atkinson in Bibb Superior I Court Tue sday and was sentenc ed to serve not less than nine and not more titan 15 years. I The War Department has drafted two leading Georgia educators to assist in developing a program of higher education for the American zone in Germany. They are Dr. Ray mond R. Paty, Chancellor of the 1 University System of Georgia, and Dr. aMrvin S. Pittman who retired last week as president of Georgia Teachers’ College at Statesboro and becomes president-emeritus of the institution. Sanders Camp, Managaing Editor of the Walton Tribunt, at Monroe, received a plaque awarded his pub lication for outstanding contribu tions in the field of agriculture dur ing 1946. Walter S. Brown, repre senting the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service which awarded the plaque presented the award to Camp at a special session of the Nineteenth Annual Georgia Press Institute meeting at Athens which adjourned Saturday. “Golden Rest”—The Fort Valley Methodist Church boasts of having more golden wedding couples in its membership than any other church in Georgia. The Rev. Lytle Jones, pastor, said a special service will be held in their honor in the near future. The oldest couple, Mr. and Mrs. . F. Young, really live up to their name, for they have been married 63 years and are still quite active. The other couples are Mr. and Mrs. W. Lee Houser, Mr. ana Mrs. Thomas J Shepard, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Orr, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Fagan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simisson, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. 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