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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY 22, 1953.
Columbus' Earliest
Days Are Beautifully
Depicted by Writer
Senator Russell Listed
With Outstanding Men
Now Serving Nation
Everyone Loses as
As Result of Useless
Fires in Our Forests
Fine Career of Alabama
Leader Ended Suddenly
By a Heart Attack
Washington, Jan. 14—Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell of Georgia has begun
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 18—During
the Civil War, Columbus was a war
boom city, an arsenal of the Con-
federacy. Soldiers in gray marched serving his 21st year in the U. S.
off to battle in Columbus-made Senate,
shoes carrying Columbus-made j
6words.
Sen. Russell first took the oath
I of office in January, 1933, a cere-
These are bits of information in- m0 ny that interrupted briefly a
eluded in a graduate school thesis filibuster by the late Huey Long of
submitted his month at Emory
University on "The Role of Co-
The South’s tree crop and values Columbus, Jan. 18—Mayor John
manufactured from it in 1948 added D. Harris, 45, of Phenix City, died
three billion dollars, or an aver- suddenly at his home of a heart
age of $16 for each forest acre, to attack. He was stricken while keep-
Ihe wealth of the region. This rep- ing watch at the bedside of his
tesented approximately 10% of the: critically ill mother.
South's total income, no including! Harris had been in ill health for
government benefit payments. You about two years but was active in
lumbus, in the Civil War.”
Louisiana.
One of the new senators elected
The research was done by Diffee,* n the Democratic landslide of
W. Standard, Cordele, who received ^932. Senator Russell got a sen-
gain directly or indirectly from the the political and civic life of Phe-
income produced by this tree crop, .nix City until his death. He had
Do you know how much you are served as mayor since 1950,
losing because people burn one out succeeding the late H. D. Cobb Sr.
of each 16 acres of forest land in | A member of the Phenix City
the South each year. , board of commissioners since June
Fire is a destructive agent and 1947, Harris was reelected mayor
Lion,” he writes. “Ordinance bu
reaus operated factories responsible
for the largest production of shoes
a master of arts degree in history.! ir°ity advantage by taking his oath the only time it can serve man ,and commission chairman on Jan.j
“Government industries in Co- ,0 f office in January, 1933, instead properly is when it is under com-|6 of this year. He was to serve in
lumbus became major units in the having to wait until March. This plete control. Wildfire in the woods,the post until 1954.
Confederate industrial organiza- resulted from the act that he was is not controlled and is a killer, j The mild-voiced, friendly Harris
elected to fill an unexpired term. This fact must be cearly understood was stricken at his home where his
Of the 20 new senators elected in ! by every man, woman, and child mother, Mrs Myrtle Shell Harris is
the Roosevelt landslide only three before this enemy can be defeated reportedly in very serious condition
and swords in the Confederacy, and —Russell, Byrd of Virginia and Mc-, anc l driven from th e southern .and under an oxygen tent. Harris
under the stimulus of wartime de- Carran of Nevada—are still mem-, woods. |was pronounced dead upon arrival
mands the modest manufacturing bers of the Senate. \ The woods are burned in various a t Cobb Memorial hospital,
city evolved into one of the Tnajor 1 Senator Russell is now the third ways and the percentage by causes! Born June 19, 1937, Harris was
industrial cities of the South.” (ranking member of the Senate and is as follows: Incendiary, 49.2%, known familiarly to thousands of
For his thesis Standard used is regarded as one of its most br V sh burning 17.1%, smokers 15%, j people here as "J. D.” in addition
Civil War files of three papers, The'powerful leaders. railroads 2.8 r o, campers 2.7% log-do bis job as city commissioner he
Columbus Enquirer Sun and Times, J The Georgia Senator succeeded
ging 1.7%, lightning 0.8%, all oth
also travel accounts general bis-1 th e i ate _ MaT"johri S Cohen lone GrS 10 ; 7 %- Pe °P le cause 99 out of
lories and such source as the ,• a^i f 3 ‘ t , Lonen, long every 10 o forest fires in the Smith-
s , ,, . 4 “ .time Atlanta Journal editor who nnlv n ___ lo „ an tv,*,™
memories, diaries or papers of Geo.' _ s cm . vintr „ n intprim term after on Jy people can prevent them
, _ _ _ „ was serving an interim term after, T
J. Barrus, T. E. Blanchard, R. A. ||j e death G f gen. Wm. J. Harris, '-rup G 0un t v Fnrestrv TTni/r nn
Hardaway, R. J. Moses and Maj. J. „ „ , lae County Forestry Unit reports
H. Warner.
The student points out that war
time travelers noted Columbus dif
had been a Russell county deputy
sheriff for more than 10 years.
Some 150 persons assembled at
the Fort Valley Baptist church
o , - . Friday to attend the preparation
Sen. Russell, altho elected in that it hasn’t had a forest fire the.meetjng for pastor and Sunday 1
November, 1932, waited until he last half of January; let’s keep School superintendents, which pre
finished his term as governor of this record all the month. Re- cedes the campaign for 1954 when
fering from other Southern cities in i G e o r fd a > before taking the Senate member when your woods burn you Southern Baptists expect more peo-
r\r*IVl /if 1 • /I n , 1 4 r
having an abundance of food and
clothing. There was less inflation
here, and morale was high.
“Columbus, like other Southern
cities, experienced initial enthusi
asm for the war, prospered, and
was confident of ultimate Southern
victory. When the Confederate
armies suffered reverses, enthusi
asm gave way to despondency and
the townspeople placed the blame
on maladministration. The local
press reflected this feeling by
shifting the theme of its editorials
from hatred of the Yankees to criti
cism of Southern leaders,” Standard
writes.
The thesis discusses wartime
changes in the social life of Co
lumbus, inflation, decilne of morale
and closes with a chapter on Wil
son’s Raid.
Wilson’s Raid, in April 1865, has
been called the last battle of the
war. About 2,000 local defense
companies and militia lined up in
Phenix City, on Ingersoll Hill,
against 4,000 Federal troops. ..The
battle itself was brief. It was fin
ished after three assaults and two
hours of fighting, and the next day
the city was plundered, and Con
federate industries were burned by
invading Yankees.
Butler Colored School
Receives Student Teachers
From Ft. Valley College
oath of office.
are burning Green Backs.
pie in the Sunday school.
We Are Hatching Four of the Very Best
Breeds for High Egg Production
BABY CHICKS
Sexed Pullets & Cockerls
Rhode Island Red
(Paramenter Strain)
FOR LAYERS
Sex-Link Cross for Layers
(BLACK PULLETS) (RED MALE)
(BARRED ROCK FEMALE
Barred Rocks for Layers
(PARKS STRAIN)
White Leghorns for Layers
(BABCOCK STRAIN)
All of these breeds have ben tried and proven and are
the very best in all of the egg laying contests.
GEORGIA AND U. S. PULLORUM PASSED
Our incubators are now running. Please' place your
orders early. We are only hatching as ordered for early
Spring delivery.
McCANTS POULTRY FARM
BUTLER, GEORGIA
Phone 1313 Butler, Ga.
Saturday, January 10th, student-
teachers of the Ft. Valley State
College Department of Agriculture
arrived in the Butler community to
spend three months of Student
Teaching at Butler Colored High
school. Each year during the winter
quarter the Fort Valley State Col
lege sends its qualified seniors to
various schools of Georgia meeting
certain standards to do a quarter of
student teaching. The College be
lieves that a student should be
given thi s experience in his im
mediate course of study to fully de
velop the individual.
The Agricultural Department of
the Butler Colored school program
has been studied and approved the
second consecutive time as being
both a training center for student
teacHing and an observation cen
ter for Senior College Students to
observe procedures of teaching, by
the State Department of Vocatioal
Education for Georgia and the Ft.
Valley State College.
During the school term 1951-52,
Butler High School Department of
Agriculture received one student
teacher.
For the school term of 1952-53
two teachers were sent which is the
present maximum. They are. Zett-
ler Clay Jr., of Macon, and Charles
Wilder of Forsyth.
Serving as Supervising teacher is
Charlie A. Hicks, local teacher of
Vocational Agriculture.
It is believed that the human and
natural resources of the Butler
community are capable in giving
the experiences needed.
Pofa
Jb* flic
MARCH
DIMES
JANUARY 2 TO 31
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