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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER. GEORGIA, MARCH 31, 1949.'
TO BOILER HERALD
Seventeen Hundred Copies.
Established in 1876
Entered at Tost Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of
Second Class.
Chas. Benns, Jr., Managing Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
SUMMARY OF TO NEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
N. Marion Reynolds, 75, veteran
Augusta lawyer, died Tuesday.
Milford Benton, Colquitt county
farmer is stung to death by bees.
The fourth annual Pine Tree Fes
tival will meet at Swainsboro April
28-29.
J. L. Jordan, fiormer Albany po
liceman, has been indicted on a
charge of burglary.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Lee of At
lanta, recently celebrated their 61st
wedding anniversary.
The week of April 4th has been
designated as Army Week with
April 6th as Army Day.
The 25th annual meeting of the
Georgia Forestry Association will
be held in Atlanta April 7th.
Mrs. A. J. Spillers of Roberta is
reported in serious condition at
Middle Georgia Hospital, Macon.
Two Atlanta lawyers, accused of
attempting bribery were cleared of
the charge in Fulton superior court
Monday.
A county-wide liquor referendum
has been called by Sumter coun
ty Ordinary Robert T. Hawkins for
April 19th.
The John Deere Plow Company
will begin work soon on its new
million-dollar plant at Chamblee,
near Atlanta.
A bill is signed by the President
giving Georgia a new Federal
judge, who will probably be lo
cated at Macon.
Doctors are alarmed over the
report that Georgians are using
sleeping tablets at the rate of 2,-
500,000 doses a year.
Homer Maddox of Barnesville,
was killed Saturday when the mo
torcycle he was riding arid an au
tomobile hit head on.
Alfred Perkins, 13, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. C. Perkins, of Macon,
is champion speller of the Sixth
Congressional district.
It will soon be time to replant ,
the corn and beans you planted in !
such a hurry during the warm
weather a few weeks ago.
A $64,000 park and fountain to
commemorate the founders of
Troup county and City of La-
Grange will be dedicated today.
John J. Jones, 53, one of the most
prominent insurance representatives
died at his home in Columbus
Saturday following a brief illness.
Men of Warner Robins Second
Baptist church are laying the foun
dation for their new church build
ing to be erected on Sixth Street.
Macon.
W. H. Ferguson, Roberta school
superintendent for the past nine
years, has resigned and will de
vote his time to his personal busi
ness.
Approximately 400 children from
various counties of this congres
sional district participated in the
annual music festival at Columbus
last Friday.
Rep. J. L. Sibley Jennings, of
Baldwin county said one doctor is
serving an entire building, housing
1,140 patients at the Milledgeville
state hospital.
Celestine Sibley, Atlanta Consti
tution reporter and columnist, won
top honors for feature writing in
the 1918 Georgia Associated Press
newswrifring contest.
Larkin Marshall, Negro publish
er of the Macon World, has been
found guilty of criminal libel and
sentenced to serve six months or
pay a fine of $500.00.
Some 1,500 hotel men from all
parts of the country will gather in
Atlanta Monday for the opening of
the three-day all-southern hotel ex
position at the murficipal audito
rium.
Gov. Talmadge, George Jackson,
president of the Civil Service As
sembly of the United States and
Canada, and other nationally
known figures will appear before
the Southern Regional Civil Serv
ice Conference set for today and to
morrow in Atlanta.
All the children and grandchil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Joe S. Bur-
gin met at his home at Buena Vis
ta Monday evening, March 21, in
celebration of Mr. Burgin's 76tb
birthday.
P. G. Davis, a patrolman of the
Columbus police department, suf
fered a broken back after leaping
from a second-story window of the
City hospital early Friday morning
police reported.
Six convicts, all described as
desperate, braved buckshot from a
guard’s gun on the night of March
24 to make good a get-away from
the Wayne county state prison
camp near Jesup.
Georgia’s colorful Representative,
“Air Marshal” Carl Vinson, is
Newsweek’s March 28 “cover man”
and the subject of an article 'pay
ing him tribute as “the father of
the modern Navy.”
The state of Georgia is losing be
tween $25,000,000 and $30,000,000
each year through failure to en
force its tax laws to the letter, Wm.
M. Lester, executive secretary of
the tax revision committee states.
74 divorce decrees were handed
down in Dougherty superior court
at Albany in one day, while at Co
lumbus a suit asking $6,000 of a
former Ft. Banning officer for a
breach of promise matrimony was
filed in Muscogee, by a Columbus
girl. Esther Green brought the ac
tion against Lt. G. L. Robson Jr.,
described as an officer at Ft. Ben-
ning last year.
Yesterday (Wednesday) was Doc
tors’ Day set aside by the Uni
versity of Georgia and observed
each year on the anniversary of
the discovery of anesthesia by our
noted Georgia doctor, Crawford W.
Long. On Doctors’ Day we pay
homage to Dr. Long, but we also
honor all other men whose lives
are dedicated to alleviation of pain,
said a university reporter.
During the first two months of
1949, the soil testing laboratory of
the University of Georgia College
of Agriculture, Athens, analyzed
1798 samples, according to Henry
j Perkins, soil analyst of the agro-
, nomy department. For the same
J period last year, only 665 samples
were tested. Mr. Perkins attributes
the increase to a greater interest in
scientific farming and agricultural
research.
Citizens of Georgia Are
Urged to ’Think’ and Vote
In Tuesday's Referendum
(Contributed)
As you know a referendum will
be held all through the state on the
subject of new taxes to provide new
services of various kinds for the
State of Georgia. The referendum
doesn’t say what kind of taxes
they will be, how high they are
to run or what percentage shall be
spent onwhat service. A general
sales tax of three to five percent
(with no exemption) is certain, an
increase in income taxes and pos
sible many other new taxes face
Georgians If the people of our
state vote favorably on the refer
endum next Tuesday.
If the referendum passes it will
be a mandate from the people to
increase the present State budget
of $108,000,000 by $46,000,000.—
This represents more than 40 per
cent and it must come, in the
largest part from those least able
to pay.
The last General Asemsbly made
no provisions for financing the
program and it merely gave its
approval and then asked the peo
ple of Georgia to write a blank
check in the passing of such taxes
as the Legislature desires and to
spend it as the majority votes.
Would you sign such a check?, of
course you wouldn’t, not unless
you were in the waiting line for
the next vacancy at the state hos
pital at Milledgeville.
Appropriations for the state of
Georgia in 1942 (just seven years
ago) totaled only $49,000,000—to
day, in 1949 they propose $154,-
500,000. How much more can the
people stand? We feel that we are
paying more taxes now than is
being used wisely. Those who
cannot afford to pay, or who do
not want to pay these tremendous
additional taxes will go to the
polls hext Tuesday and vote “No”.
If they don’t vote, it will be about
the same as voting for $46,000,000
additional taxes.
Let’s not be fooled; if the
referendum passes no one will be
exempted from taxes. Don’t get
caught in this net—go to the polls
Tuesday—Vote “Against.”
FOR SALE
Several fine springer milk cows
that will freshen in few days. Will
sell or trade. (324)
A. J. Payne, Reynolds, Ga.
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What a Favorable Me In The April
Referendum Will Mean to The Schools
W. H. ELLISTON, C. S. S.
As SuDerintendent of Tavlor County Schools, I feel that it
is my duty to present to citizens of this County the facts relating
to the increases in the amounts of school funds which will come
to Taylor County under the Minimum Foundation Pro era m for
Education Bill which was passed recently by the General Assem
bly and which is to be decided upon in the April 5th Referen
dum. In order to present a clear picture of the situation as it is at
present and of what it will be should the vote be favorable, the
following yearly comparisons and increases are listed:
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1. Salaries will be increased from $130,750 to $193,532 which
is an increase of $62,782.
2. Operating expenses will be increased from $18,848 to $26,-
100, or an increase of $7,252.
3. Transportation will increase from $23,863 to $33,452, or an
increase of $9,589.
4. Funds for building purposes will increase from nothing at
the present time to $17,400 under the new program.
5. The total Foundation Program needs for Taylor County
will increase from 8173,461 per year to $270,484 per year.
For the items listed above, Taylor County will receive un
der the Minimum Foundation Program for Education an addi
tional sum of $97,023 per year. :
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