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The Butler Herald “KEEPING EVER LASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS” VOLUME 73. BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH, ~24, 1949. NUMBER 23. Sidewalk Gleanings By OLD TIMER CREDIT IS BEING GIVEN SEN. RICHARD RUSSELL WINS SENATE BATTLE BY ACCOMMODATING SERVICE ncl close application to business our good friend, Otis Rowe, pro prietor of the City Cafe has brought that business out of a long period of red. In so doing he has had the best of assistance from Mrs. Roy Kirksey and Miss Bettie Sue Watson. The trio cannot be excelled in serving their customers ith a smile and full value for the ! amount invested. * V * " THERE ARE TWO MINISTERS Sin the community who come in •lose touch with our heart; «.ne, a Methodist, the other a Baptist. By name they are Rev. J. W. M. Stipe land Rev. J. H. Stanford respective Their sermons are always well (prepared and ably delivered while 1 their lives are fine examples oi •■vhat they preach. They are never Icntical ot indviduals no matter Jnow great their sins, or party 1o (political discussions and every ,day gossip. Another highly prized Virtue is their promptness in visit ing homes where there is sickness sorrow adding words of comfort Jmd engaging in a season of Bible jading and prayer. May their lumber be increased. * * * LIONS AND LAMBS will place (heir votes in the same ballot box April 5th and at this distance |ts a toss-up as to the winner. READING OF 50th anniversary If the first American woman pul death by electrocution by law Inforcement officers takes us lack to the time in Butler more lan sixty years ago when the ?cond and last public hanging in [aylor county took place before an stimated crowd of 5,000 people.The Ictim was a Negro by the lame of Jesse Cook, convicted of axe-slaying of his wife. It was len our love was kindled for the Earless, though deeply sympa- letic officer charged with enforc- |ig the law, the late Sheriff C. A. (Jack) Pope, who displayed /cry emotion of sympathy and |ve of humanity even to a Negro lowliest estate. Three genera- 5ns of Popes have come into ex- tance since those days all bear- |g the same virtues of Chriot-like preies possessed by “Uncle Jack.” * * * Jour s. s. teacher chose two ■tensely interesting themes for fscussion last Sunday. First, pray- ln this she separated s'entence sentence the Lord's Prayer and which instance she gave a most fscriptive version of their meaning Icondly, friendship, convincing her hfearers that the best way to get of an, enemy was to convert |m into becoming your friend, lere were thirty present to hear great message. Wish there id been more. * * * |ITS A REAL TREAT to have old |ends whom you have known and yod thrqugh the years to call ten least expected. Numbered among these during the past wile e k were: Mr. A. P. Tucker, who for many years visited Butin as traveling representative the Peeler Hardware Co., Ma- * cop; Hearn H. Lumpkin, communi ty development division of Georgia Power Co., now sponsoring the "G' To Church” campaign for the various Chambers of Commerce Ufr ughout the state; Editor J. C. Cox of the Georgian-Citizen, Mon luma; Judge T. Hicks Fort of Chattahoochee circuit superior | cojms; Raymond Duncan, Editor County School Superintendent |l llaville; Former State official, ittorney and former Editor .'ohn A. Smith of Talbotton; ■ v>' Preston, Editor Pike County ■Vnal, Zebulon; District P. O. i H tor E. R. McKay of Colum- xnd Hon. Adrian L. Anglin, tmaster, Lumpkin, Ga. * * * pENTIFY YOURSELF at the dd office and accept due-bill one dollar in merchandise at L. M. Doyel Store: mong those in the congrega- at the Methodist church Sun- —Lady wearing a black dress, 1 brim black hat trimmend in taler flowers; light tan topcoat lavender scarf tied in a bow; gloves; black pumps and j'“r hose. U REVOIR for this sitting. Georgia’s Senator Directs Fight Con. Pace Expects 1949 Lint Acreage Allotment Excluded Against Bill. President’s Proposed j Washington—To Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia, must go the lion’s share of the credit for the successful coup put over by a coa lition of Southern Democrats and Republicans in defeating Adminis tration efforts to tighten up the rules of the Senate against filibus ters as a means of passing the President’s controversial civil rights legislation. It fell his lot to direct the fight against the proposed change in the Senate rules. Southern Democrats chose the Georgia Senator as the floor lead er of their forces at the outset of the battle. He served in that ca pacity throughout the hectic period of the filibuster and later in the negotiations over the compromise proposal that was forced upon the Administration. And a highly effective floor lead er Senator Russell turned out to be, too. As such it meant that he had to remain in constant attendance on the Senate giving generalship to the moves and countermoves for keeping the filibuster going. He peiformed brilliantly in his role. Directing a filibuster over a pro longed period involves a lot of work and careful planning. Care must be taken to have someone ready at all times to take over the floor in case a gap appears. A fili buster, in order to be successful, must be well organized. Those who are out to break it up are con stantly on the alert to take a speaker off his feet for breach of some parliamentary procedure. Aged Mother of Prominent Talbotton Atty. Passes at Bowden Pace Hopes to Know Definitely About Cotton Acreage Within Few Days. Funeral services were held Wed nesday of la^t week at Bowman Baptist church, Bowman, Ga., for Mis. John Lindsey Smith, age 90, the former Miss Melissa Frances Hall. Interment was in the Hall family plot at Rehoboth Baptist church. The services were in charge of Rev. A. W. Bussey, pas tor of the Baptist church at Jas per, assisted by Rev. R. H. Gil more, pastor of the Bowman church and Dr. Herman Ihley, pastor of the First Baptist church of Elberton. Mrs. Smith was a direct descend ant of Turner Christian, a Revolu tionary soldier honored with a monument by the Elbert County DAR, and is survived by the fol lowing children: Mrs. Ida Rice and Miss Willie Smith, Elberton; John Andy Smith, Talbotton; Mrs. Edna S. Jordan, Mrs. Alice S. Seymour and C. H. S. Smith of Bowman; and Clarence Smith of Atlanta; also 14 grand children and 13 great grand children. Zach Sey mour of Talbotton, is one of the grandsons. Had Mrs. Smith lived until May 16th she would have been 91 years of age. Relative of Mrs. Steed Now Recovering from Auto Injuries Christmas Eve The following item from The Adel News bears interesting infor mation regarding recovery of Mrs. W. E. Steed’s sister-in-law from injuries she received in an auto mobile aepiden on last Christmas Eve: “Mrs. W. B. Wilkes will be able to go to her home from the clinic this week it is believed. Mrs. Wilkes was injured when an auto mobile struck the car in which she and Dr. and Mrs. Hutchinson were riding while on their way to Moul trie on Christmas Eve night and she has been in the clinic since she was injured. She is getting along right well now and is able to walk a little. Many friends are glad that she is improving now and hope that she will soon be all right.Mrs-. Wilkes greatly appreciates the kindnesses shown her by many friends.” Macon, March 19—Rep. Stephen Pace of Americus recently said he believed a final agreement will be reached soon with regard to ex cluding the 1949 cotton crop from consideration in determining fu ture acreage allotments. With the 1949 planting time drawing nearer, he added that he believed it will be “several more days before this can be accom plished,” Pace made the statement in a telegram to H. R. Yandle, public relations director of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation. The House has passed a bill ex cluding cotton and the Senate has passed one covering cotton, corn, wheat and rice. Final action on the subject has been delayed by the inability of the two houses to rec oncile their differences in a joint meeting. A controversial provision ' in the House bill says a farm on which cotton was not planted in 1947 or 1948 shall be regarded as having a 1948 acreage equal to its 1942 allotment. Both the secretary of agriculture and the American Farm Bureau Federation have recently urged the agriculture committees of the House and Senate to take action on the matter. The secretary is in agreement with the AFBF in ask ing for exclusion of the 1949 acre age. Capt. Gray fountain Welcome Home After Long Stay in Japan Captain T. Gray Fountain has re turned to tne states, having com pleted his tour of duty overseas. He was first stationed in Askiyo, Japan; later sent to the Medical General Dispensary, Yokohoma, Japan where he served on the medical staff until March 9th. Capt. Fountain was sent home by plane to Oliver General Hos pital where, he is recuperating from an illness which he suffered in Japan. July 1st he will go to Emory hospital, Atlanta, as resident doc tor in surgery. Upson County Fat Cattle Show at Thomaston April 12 The fourth annual Upson County Fat Cattle Show and sale will be held Tuesday, April 12, in Thom- aston. Approximately 40 steers will be exhibited by members of the 4-H Club and FFA from Upson, Lamar Pike, Meriwether and Talbot coun ties. Cash prizes will be awarded the winners in the exhibition and judging contest. Dr. M. P. Jaragin of the University of Georgia Col lege of Agriculture, Athens, will officiate as judge. The sale is set for 8 p. m. follow ing the all-day show. I "We are anticipating this to bo the best lot of steers ever exhibited in the history of the event,” C. A. Bryant, Upson County Agent, re ported. Mayor Frank Binford is General Chairman of the Show. He will be assisted by a committee of cattle men from the participating coun ties. Change of Office Dates Announced by Dr. Webb Dr. Willis L. Webb, local op tometrist, has announced the changing of his office day in But ler from Saturday to Wednesday. Dr. Webb also announces that he maintains offices in Fort Valley and Montezuma. miss Peggy varnadow, Reynolds Students Winners FREQUENT BUTLER VISITOR, J SIGNS MOVIE CONTRACT lst-2nd Places Spelling Contest The Young Lady Is a Grand- Da ug*v ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Vamadow. Miss Peggy Vamadow, of Athens Tenn., granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Vamadow, and niece of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Green recently has signed a contract with Uni versal-International Pictures, of Hollywood, Calif. Miss Varnadow, whose stage name is Peggy Dow, the Dow be ing the last syllable of her name, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Varnadow, of Athens, Tenn. Her parents state that on the same day the movie contract was signed con tracts also were signed fo; radio and television. She now has a 7- year contract and is to play lead ing parts in several pictures to be made during the next few months. The family moved to Athens, Tenn., three years ago from Louisi ana. Miss Dow is a charming young woman, a blonde with blue eyes, is 5 feet 7 inches tall, and weighs 123 pounds. She is a graduate of Gulf Park college, at Gulfport Miss., and received her B. S. de gree, w'ith speech major, from Northwestern University, last June After her graduation she was with radio station WWL in New’ Orleans La., and was invited to Hollyw’ooc for a screen lest in September, 1948. Miss Varnadow’’s grandparents and aunt are very proud of the progress the young lady has made and state that Miss Varnadow’ has a younger sister wvho is also very talented and plans to follow in hei older sister’s footsteps. Butler society has been high lighted by Miss Varnadow’’s nu merous visits to Butler as the guest of her grandparents and the J. S. Green family. Public Worship at Union And Wesley Methodist Churches Next Sunday Wesley Church: Worship 10:15 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school following morning w'orship; Mr. Addis Scott, superintendent. Union church: Sunday School at 10:45 a. m.; Mr. H. G. McCants, Supt.; worship at 11:45 a. m. Moral and religious forces in the nation have great confidence in J. Edgar Hoover. In a radio broad cast the urged family worship. Said the G-man: “If there is any hope for the fu ture of America, if there is to be peace and happiness in our homes, then we as a nation must return to God and tlie practice of daily pray er. Can we have eternal peace without morality; can we build homes without God; or have worthy parents who do not know’ and practice His teachings! Our nation is sadly in need of a rebirth of the simple life—a return to the days when God was a part of each household; w'hen families arose in the morning with a piayer on their lips, and ended the day by gathering together to place themselves in Hys care. “A godless home is built upon sands; it is inviting breeding ground for moral decay and crime. My hope for the future of this nation is perdieated upon the faith of God which is nurtured in the family.”—United Evangeli cal Action. Family worship will inspire public worship, and public worship should encourage everyone to go 1 out and put into practice a more God like spirit in all our dealings with our fellowmen. HEADLINES Am. Legion club house at Rober ta nears completion . . . Bessie Tift College million - dollar building fund campaign is started by Ga. Baptists . . . Ten t housand At lantans get rail wage boost . . . Four persons want to bid on Jekyll Island lease ... Its against the law, but Georgia has 1,348 slot machines in operation . . . Geor gia Glee Club will visit Montezuma tomorrow . . . Colorful ball club looms for Atlanta . . . Eight per sons admit thefts of 44 bales of cotton in Baldwin county . . . This is wedding week in Georgia if ever there was one . . . Post strength at Ft. Benning has increased from 15 to 20 thousand men . . . Thirteen- year-old pop is assured of job on his 14th birthday . . . Negro is nominated by grand jury for school post in Bibb county. . . . First and second class railway express rates will be hiked 13 to 15 percent in Georgia April 1st. No extension ol auto tag deadline beyond April 1st . . . Georgia was greeted by high winds and chilling rains on first Spring morn’ Monday . . . Resig nation of Miss Ethel Adams as GSCW dean is announced . . . Commerce Hospital is purchased by five Jackson county physicians . . . R. P. Balkcom is new' warden of Tattnall Prison . . . Construction will begin soon on a chapel building for Georgia Southwestern College at Americus . . . Tulip gardens in Atlanta expected to be at peak April 3rd . . . Cook county Chamber of Commecre registered 99 new members last week ... El Nasik Jr., is campaigning for sher iff in Newton county on horseback with 17 others in race . . . Warm Springs will be site for Boys’ State . . . India soils expect ob servers conservation methods in South Georgia • . . . 100 lew cost housing units will be erected in Macon . . . Indian Springs state park will open April 1 . . Emory University launches training for ministers’ wives . . . Georgia gains most business firms in Southeast since 1939 .... 28 "Wesleyan col lege art students are soon to tour Washington and New York . . . Margaret Truman is to sing in At lanta Oct. 13th . . . Forty percent of peach crop is said to have been damaged by cold . . . Georgians wrote checks for six billion dollars more in 1948 than in ’47 Mr. B. H. Bazemore Will Supply Sunday for Pastor at Mt. Pisgah Miss Sylvia Swearingen Takes First Plate; Will Represent County in District Meet. Championing over all other con testants in the Taylor County Spelling Bee which was held at the local court, house Thursday night, March 17, was young Miss Sylvia Swearingen, eighth grade student from the Reynolds high school and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sw'earingen of Reynolds. In addition to winning the county wide contest, she was also declared winner for the two eighth grades in the Taylor county school sys tem. Sylvia is now boning for the district final which will be held in Americus Friday, April 1st. The county winners for the grades listed are as follows: Fourth grade—First place, Fred Hortman, Wesley school; second place, Jackie Brady, Mauk school. Fifth place, Donny Lane, Rey nolds school; second place, Mary Ann Trussell, Reynolds school. Sixth grade—First Place, Eliza beth Hammock, Wesley school; second place, Wilma Freeman, Reynolds school. Seventh grade—First place, Arm Guinn, Butler school; second place Merrell Harbuck, Mauk school. ^ Eighth grade—First place, Sylvia Swearingen, Reynolds school; sec ond place, Shirley Trussell, Rey nolds school. To these winners and to all those who took part in the contest go the congratulations of the people of Taylor county. Chicken Dinner at Mauk School Friday Evening TIMBER WANTED I will buy yourstanding gum timber or. logs suitable for cross ties in any quantity of 5,000 feet. (324) W. G. Wallace, Butler. A chicken dinner will be served at Mauk school Friday evening from 6 to 10 o’clock; price, 75c per' plate. The chicken dinner is sponsored by the WSCS and Sunday school and the proceeds will go to paint ing Mauk Methodist church. Sunday school at Mt. Pisgah Baptist church 10:30 Sunday morning. Carrol Peacock, superin tendent. Bring the entire family to this Bible study. We have good classes for all ages. The pastor will he away Sunday and Bro. B. H. Bazemore will sup- | ply for the pastor. Please be in your places to hear this Godly layman bring a special message to r laymen on their responsibility to God and the church. The pastor urges your presence. The test of a good church is what its members do when the pastor is forced to be 1 away. We again cordially invite i every person in the community to j hear this message. The pastor will pray for these services and asks that you remem- , her him in your prayers. J. H. STANFORD, Pastor. Prominent Montezuma Businessman Is Injured In Head-on Auto Crash Montezuma, March 18—G. F. Bunn, prominent Montezuma busi nessman, is in Macon county clin ic as a result of injuries received Thursday in an auto wreck. Bunn’s auto was involved in a head-on collision with another car on the highway near Mossy Oaks in Houston county. He received a head injury, five broken ribs, a broken knee cap and internal injuries, according to clinic attaches. Bunn is engaged in an electrical supply business in Montezuma. Butler's New Dept. Store Sets Opening Date Friday, Apr. 8 ^ In conference yesterday with Mr Ellington, business manager ol Logue’s Thrift Store, we were au- [ thorized by Mr. Ellington to an- : nounce the opening date of tins new enterprise in Butler as of Fri day, April 8th. The large store building, next door to Walker's Grocery, has been completely remodeled and rewired for electric lighting, handsome fix tures and new plate-glass front with large display windows that at tract attention from the opposite side of the street. A stream line of trucks are ar riving daily at the new site bear ing wood-crating boxes, heavily laden with new goods, direct from the factories, and consisting of carefully selected merchandise of every kind usually handled by de partment stores in larger cities such as to please the ladies as well as men and children, in their wearing apparel. Those who have signed con tracts as salesladies with the Logue Thrift Store and assisting them in the arrangement of their new stock of goods include the fol lowing: Miss Nettie Bigbie, man ager and Mrs. R. L. Burns, as sistant. Plans Complete for W. 0. W. Convention At Macon April 11-12 Macon, March 21—The Heac Camp of Woodmen of the Work will hokl its state convention ir Macon April 11-12, according tc Head Clerk Arley D. Finley o: Hazlehurst. Prominent speakers to be presen for the session include Farrar New berry of Omaha, Neb., president ol the Society; E. D. Rivers, Lakelanc national director; Jno. B. Cobb Nashville, Tenn., national director and Dr. H. B. Kennedy of Omaha Neb., national medical director. More than 200 delegates from all parts of the state are expected tc attend. Macon Camps arc cooperat ing with Head Camp officers in ai ranging for the convention. Among the highlights of the twe day program will be a parade Apri 11 from Hotel Lanier to the Boys Club where a flag pole and flag will be presented to the club b> Newberry. City Court Solicitor O L. Long will accept the flag on be half of the club. Police Chief Ber Watkins will be marshal for the parade.