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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 6, 1952.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
A portrait of the late F.M. Garner
chairman of the Upson County
Board of Commissioners 40 years
ago when the present-day court
house was built, has been present
ed to the present board.
Rev. Silas Archie McDaniel, 86,
retired Baptist minister, died
Thursday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. J. G. Tatum, near
107 forest fires have been re
ported this week in Georgia.
Macon county superior court will
convene at Oglethorpe next Mon- Richland, where he made his home,
day.
The Bulloch county hospital at
Statesboro is to be enlarged at a
cost of $600,000.
Armistice Day Thursday, Nov. 11,
many Georgia cities and towns are
planning big events.
Georgia bank deposits are said to
average $441.00 pe r person. In 1932
the average was $71.00.
He had been in ill health.
A Cherokee Indian and an at
tractive young woman were found
TIfton Soon To
Celebrate 80 Years of
Continuous Progress
Tifton, Ga., Nov. 2—As the har
vest season for 1952 nears an end,
Tifton citizens are conscious of the
enormous progress which the city
and county have made in the 80
Columbus, Ohio
Prison Bums as
Felons Riot
dead Friday in an automobile years of their history
parked on Pio Nono By-pass near
t-he Middle Georgia Colored Fair,
Macon, where
performers.
And while no parades have'been
they were carnival i P^ nned ’, the cit y is celebrating its
J SOth anniversary quietly.
The city remembers that it was
only a little more than a century
that the 266 square miles compris-
From Washington, D. C., comes
the announcement that Georgia’s
apportionment of federal aid forjing the
progressive,
known as
rectangular
The 36th session of the Georgia ! roads for the fiscal year beginning I area now known as Tift county
Fnv Hunters Association is in prog- July 1, 1953 will be $13,260,893—an was the home of the Creek In
fers this week at Americus. increase of $1,814,409 over the cur- dians
rent year. | The land where the red-skinned
warriors hunted the abundant deer,
Mrs. Nanny Haygood W illiams, 76'p earSj turkeys, squirrels arid other
J. W. Caldwell, longtime mayor
of Chipley, Ga., died Friday after
years old.
Mrs. Malcolm MacLean, of Sa-
vanah was elected last week as
president of the National Society
Colonial Dames of America.
Bishop John B. Walthour of the
Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, died
of a heart attack in a Cedartown
hospital a few nights ago.
E. W. Allman of Macon is happy
after recovery of his lost purse
containing $1,500; $1,000 of it was
scaid to have been in $50 bills.
Dr. L.* C. Cutts, pastor of the Vi
enna Baptist church, has been
elected moderator of the Houston
Baptist Association for the next
three years.
Traffic mishaps claimed 10 lives
in Georgia over the week end. Two
persons were killed in an airplane
crash and one Georgian was
drowned.
A Halloween night shooting on
the crowded floor of American Le
gion Post No. 72 at Macon Friday
night seriously wounded a Robins
Air Force Base airman.
Some 1,200 Southern florists and
representatives are attending the
four-day convention of the South
eastern Florist Association at the
Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta.
Mrs. Lynda Lee Bryan has been
named librarian of Talbotton
Woman’s Club succeeding Mrs. H.
W. Baldwin, resigned, after long,
faithful and appreciative service.
Charles F. Eppley, 78 and hi§
wife who is 80, were each serious
ly injured Sunday night near their
home in Fulton county while walk
ing up the highway enroute to
church.
Following a month-long strike,
Columbus buses are rolling again
on limited basis. New and locally
trained drivers are in the employ
ol the Columbus Transportation
Company.
A large dance hall near Balirs-
ville has been purchased for the
purpose of being used in the future
by the minister and members of
the local Methodist church for re
ligious services.
Former State Senator G. C. Land
of Dry Branch has been released
from Bibb County jail after serving
50 days for driving under the in
fluence of intoxicants, Sheriff E. J.
Peacock said Saturday.
Clyde Wilson, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Wilson of Ft. Valley,
won second prize at the Farmers
Bureau Convention in Savannah
Monday night, we are told. He was
in the Entertainers Program rep
resenting Peach county and this
area.
several months’ illness. He was 85 of Culloden, died in a Macon hos- wild animals, and where the be-
pital Monday where and when she jeweled squaws pounded into meal
was rushed for treatment when ma ize they had raised, was a
gas exploded while she was a t-1 vvilderness.' In this wilderness grow
tempting to light a small heater in the dense forests of pine , oa k, mag-
her home. nolia, poplar, gum, dogwood, cy-
Mrs. Mary Booth, who establish- j P r ® ss and other native trees,
ed her residence in Atlanta a year | 1836 the Indians had been
ago, coming from Valley Rd, N. W. j 7 love( to °*^ ier haunts, but even be-
is said to have just inherited one [°r e f^°y f^ e white man was
million dollars from the estate of, following animal trails into South
an aunt in California whose estate Georgia, where he built shanties
was valued at four million. and cleared land. Irwin County
| which embraced the area that is
The oldest living faculty member | now Tift, was created in 1818. Ber-
of the State Normal School and rien county, which comprised a
Georgia State Teachers College has ’smaller area, was formed in 1856,
joined with University of Georgia I and out of this county, Tift was
officials in inviting alumni of the created in 1905.
old schools to Athens for a house I Tifton has a kinship with the city
of Albany, which was founded in
1836 by Nelson Tift of Connecticut.
In 1869, Nelson Tift persuaded his
young nephew, Henry Harding Tift
to leave Connecticut and join his
operations in Albany.
Young Henry Tift, efficient and
alert to opportunity, was soon
made manager of his uncle’s man
ufacturing company.
However visualizing opportunities
in the pipey woods of the present
party and reunion in March.
Over 500 people attended the an
nual meeting of the Friendship
Baptist Association in Plains re
cently with the Plains Baptist 1
church serving as host to the
group. The assemblage heard out
standing Baptist leaders of Georgia
Baptist Convention speak.
Andrew College campus, Cuth-
bert, it is said, will soon have a
plaque of bronze and marker of Tift County, Henry Tift crossed the
native stone commemorating the flint River in 1872, bringing along
school as the site of a Confederate sawmill machinery. He bought
hospital during the Civil War. The land and set up a sawmillbeside
college building was used for hos- the Brunswick andl Albany Railroad
pital purposes at that time and which had been built in 1871. He
was kr.own as “Good Hospital.’’ erected a two-story frame building
i formidable for its time, which he
In Columbus, we are told, the used as a commissiary. Merchants
Central of Georgia railroad is con- from the nearby village of River-
verting-to Diesel engines altogether s ki e moved to Tift’s new saw mill
and the line is writing off the station. Houses were built and the
books its last 30 steam locomotives, town grew,. The Georgia Southern
G. W. Burke, master mechanic of and Florida Railroad was built in
the Central’s Columbus division, the latter Dart of the centurv
said 39 new oil burning behemoths j In the beginning, Tift nanJed his
will be delivered soon to replace village Lena, for his sweetheart, far
Mie 30 oldtimers that ran on a diet away in Connecticut, but one Geo.
of coal. | Badger, who worked at the sawmill
Out-of-State: Ohio prison rioter wanted to honor the founder of the
shot dead by police. Most of a $150- village, so he climbed a pine tree
000 fortune in jewels belonging to and nailed up a placard with bold
Mrs. Hill, 43, in California last letters, Tifton, a condensation of
week was recovered Tuesday. “Tift’s town.” (This version of the
Thousands of Tennessee acres were naming is given in the history- of
left in ruins by forest fires last,Tift County).
week. 1,6000 convicts were out of j
control in Ohio prison last week
doing alarming damage before be
ing controlled. Abraham Lincoln’s
old home at Springfield, 111., is said
to be “eaten up” by termites. A
fire Friday night swept through a
Ihree-story nursing home at Hills
boro, Mo., and 16 persons burned to
death.
Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 21—Twenty
five fanatical convicts, armed with
knives, held nearly 600 fellow pris
oners from their cellblocks in the
flying gasp of a million dollar riot
.and fire at Ohio penitentiary
J The back of the “bad food” mu
tiny among 2,000 penitentiary in-
| mates was broken by increasing
'pressure from 250 armed peace of
ficers amidst the gowing ruins of
eight prison buildings.
! In the light from the blazing
buildings, all but the holdout 600
began returning to their cells in a
steady, quickening stream. They
were afraid to face the open knives
of the fanatics.
j Gov. Frank J. Lausche disclosed
the menacing two score knife
|wielders just as he boarded a plane
in Cleveland to fly to the riot scene.
The state highway patrof told the
governor.
While the convicts flashed their
knives, prison officials sought for
*in unidentified guard hel hos
tage inside one of two cellblocks.
j They did not know if he was safe.
| Many of the major buildings of
the century-old prison burned to
' their last two-by-four while 1,200 ol
what started out as a crowd of 2,-
000 convicts huddled around small
bon-fires in the prison court-yard
j Three convicts were shot.
I One state highway patrolman, R.
W. Lawrence, mistaken for an es
caping convict, was wounded in
the head.
I
Mark Peterson Is
Found Shot to Death
In Fort Gaines Home
I
FOR SALE
115-Acre farm known as the JOHN ALLEN CARTER
FARM, located 18 miles north-west of Butler on U. S.
Highway No. 80. Price $10,000.00. Home could not be
replaced for $15,000.00. Two wells, three barns. Two
^ tenant houses in bad need of repair. All land under fence.
Pastures now keeping up fifty head of cattle.
Contact:
(10T6’7p)
C. B. KING
Americus, Ga.
Ft. Gaines, Ga., Oct. 30—The
body of Mark Peterson, 75, a well
to-do farmer of five miles north of
Ft. Gaines was discovered by
neighbors Tuesday in his home be
side a rifle which had been dis
charged. A coroner’s jury, headed
by J. C. Sanders, found death had
been caused by a self inflicted gun
shot wound.
Peetrson had lived alone for the
past two or three years since the
death of his invalid wife.
He had been in ill health for
more than a year.
Florida Officers
Seize Three-Gun
Maniac James Hill
HENS LAY
on Super Quality
LAYING MASH
ABSOLUTELY
NOTHING
BETTER
AT ANY
PRICE!
E. F. PARR ESTATE
Reynolds, Ga.
Three Georgians
Honored by Department
In Washington Friday
Washington, Oct. 31—Three Geor
gians, one now deceased, were
To the war widows and orphans among nearly 200 state department
you meet on the street, the little employees honored Friday by Secty.
red poppy you wear over your 0 f state Dean Acheson for out-
heart on Poppy Day is a silent standing performance in their re
message of thanks for hte wartime spective fields.
sacrifices they made to help keep The top employee citation, the de-
America free. So get a poppy from partment’s Distinguished Service
your Legion Auxiliary. Wear it Award, went to J. J. Reinstein, a
proudly—as a sign that you, too, native of Savannah, for his “out-
remember—and are grateful. standing performance” as alternate
--- - head of the United States delega-
VMAWWVWVIMWWWWWIMMMMAMAMIMMWIMMWWMVWMMIMWMZ tion to the Intergovernmental Study
Group on Germany from June 1950
to September 1951.
A member of the department
since 1936, Reinstein is special as
sistant to the director of the Bureau
of German Affairs.
The late B. H. Hardy of Barnes-
ville, who was described’ by Presi
dent Truman as the father of the.;
Point-Four Program, was awarded
posthumously with the Superior,
Service Citation.
Hardy lost his life in December
1951 in a plane crash in Iran
where he was participating in an
inspection of Point-Four missions,
i W. M. Rountree, a native of
Swainsboro, was awarded the de
partment’s Superior Service Award
for his part in achieving the ad
mission of Turkey and Greece to
the North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation this year.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 31—James
(Three-Gun) Hill ran into one too
many roadblocks Friday after a
two week crime rampage that ad
vanced him from an obscure hood-,
ium to top billing as a public ene
my.
The bespectacled, shrunken-cheek
ed highwayman surrendered meek-
iy to state troopers across his es
cape route to Georgia. He said he
would have shot it out with his
three guns except he feared a
young couple he held hostage
would get hurt.
Behind him lay a fantastic rec
ord of 26 kidnapings in four states
as many robberies, 10 car thefts
and a climatic “delivery” of four
Florida convicts from a prison road
gang—all in two kaleidoscopic
weeks.
NEW MUSEUM IS
DEDICATED TO CONFEDERACY
AT CRAWFORDVILLE. GA.
GIN DAYS
Our gins will operate on the
following days next week.
Thursday
Friday and Saturday
Your cooperation in bringing
your cotton on these days will be
appreciated.
PAYNE’S GIN
COCHRAN’S GIN
Butler, Georgia
Crawfordville, Oct. 29—Georgia’s
new State Museum of the Confed
eracy was dedicated today.
The $50,000 museum is located on
grounds of the old home of Alexan
der Stephens, vice president of the
Confederacy.
GROUCKO says’:
"Revolutionary?
It's the greatest thing
since 1776!"
See the New 1953 DE SOTO
COMING NOV. 13
. . and tell 'em Groucho sent you!"
SERVICE CONNECTION
AVAILABLE FOR MANY
VETERANS' ILLNESSES
I Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3—Veterans
who have been in service since the
Korean War should be alert for
symptoms of ailments which were
not detected at the time the were j
separated from the armed forces,'
Wm. K. Barrett, director of the
State Department of Veterans Serv
ice, said today.
Barret stated that many diseases
which cause disabilities within a
year after a veteran’s discharge
are presumed to have had their in
ception in the service, and thus en
title the veteran to medical care
and compensation.
Now Is the Tims to Plan Your Soil Conservation
Practices For 1953
Mr. Farmer, you have been or will be visited by your local
PMA Committeemen to assist you in planning your Soil Conser
vation Practices for 1953. The majority of farmers have District
Soil Conservation Plans on their farms now. May we suggest that
you see this conservation plan to assist you in getting maximum
benefits from PMA payments.
Your Soil Conservation Technicians are ready to help you
plan and establish these practices.
Practically all soil and water conservation plans call for
better pastures and more livestock, which give you added income
when you market them with—
Jones-Neuhoff Commission Company
AUCTION SALE EVERY THURSDAY MACON, GA.