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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER. GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 5, 1953.
SUMMARY OF THE HEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
Negroes have been drawn for jury
service in Schley county for the
first time.
Seven persons were killed over
the past week-end in highway acci
dents in Georgia.
Andrew J. Watson, 77, Harris
county jailer for the past 20 years,
died Saturday night.
Three Lizella youths, ages 19, 16
and 15 have been arrested charged
with 31 thefts in Bibb, Crawford
and Monroe counties.
Directors of Methodist Public re
lations from over the U. S. were ex
tended a most hearty welcome at
Brunswick the past week end.
A shirt manufacturing plant
with a payroll of $600,000 yearly
will locate in Dublin and is slated
to begin operations at an early
date. I
State legislature has voted down
the bill requiring superior court
judges to wear robes while in dis
charge of their duties on the
bench.
J. B. Chism, Sr., Editor of the
Pelham Journal and State Senator
from his district, is said to be “im
proving” from a recent paralitic
stroke.
Drug firms reported they were
doing a booming business in influ
enza vaccine Saturday but in sev
eral sections of the state and nation
the disease was abating.
Plans for an $18,000,000 expan
sion program for the Central of
Georgia Railway were outlined re
cently by P. B. McGinnis, chairman
of the board of directors.
Dixon Oxford, of Terrell county,
was elected unanimously by the
General assembly to the post of
highway board member from the
Middle District of Georgia.
The state senate passed and sent
to Gov. Talmadge Monday a bill
fixing the Muscogee saalry of the
Chattahoochee Circuit Superior
Court judge at $4,500 a year.
Georgia’s 79 year effort to col
lect, $1,500,000 in back property
taxes from the Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company appeared to
have ended in failure Monday.
Agents of the U. S. Internal Reve
nue Bureau will open offices in 149
Georgia counties hetween mid-Feb
ruary and March 16 to help income
taxpayers prepare their returns.
An Americus telephone caller
who said he made the mysterious i
threat to run a Pennsylvania-born '
Christian Church minister out of
Americus, later called up and,
apologized. f \
Richard G. Miller of Atlanta,'
and Monroe S. Ruffner, of Barnes-'
ville, have been designated by Sen.
Dick Russell to receive appoint- j
ments to the nation’s military and
navy academies.
W. E. Barfield, owner of the
Barfield Furniture Company. Perry,
has been renamed district chairman
GOVERNOR'S WIFE CLAIMS
THAT SHE WILL DISCONTINUE
MINK RAISING BUSINESS
Atlanta, Jan. 20—Mrs. Herman
Talmadge has dropped out of the
mink raising business."
“They didn’t do very well,” Gov.
Talmadge said today. “Probably
due to a lack of essential vitamins
in their food.”
Mrs. Talmadge dropped any idea
of raising her own mink coat when
the last animals were pelted out
recently on their Lovejoy farm.
The Talmadge’s started with 20
minks and got up to 50 a year ago.
Figures on paper showed a sure
profit—if the animals reproduced
on schedule.
But they didn’t, and that’s what
ended the experimant, the governor
said.
Gay Gable, 40, charged with the
slaying of his 12-year-old son,
Clarke Gable, was found dead in
his prison cell at Buchannan, Ga.,
Tuesday of last week from self-
inflicted razor blade wounds across
his throat.
John Abram Boyt, 63-year-old
Yatesville constable and for many
years a court bailiff assigned to the
Upson County Grand Jury, was
killed instantly Thursday night
when a car struck him on the high
way near Yatesville.
Plans are under way to establish
a Negro dental clinic in the Ham
ilton, Ga., Negro school, the Harris
County Health Department an
nounced Monday. This clinic will
be similar to the clinic operated
I for white school children in the
'health department by Dr. Joe
Miller.
j Atlanta University will become
one of the centers of Lincoln lore
| next month when a room is opened
'to house the Anna Crittenden
Thayer collection. Mrs. Thayer, a
New Yorker, has donated her collec
tion of 350 Lincoln items to the Ne
gro University. It will be presented
j Feb. 10.
I While talking by trans-Atlantic
telephone to a brother stationed
with the Army in Germany, Mrs
Rufus Daniel of Brunswick, saw in
, her television set another brother
seated atop a motor car watching
the presidential inauguration in
Washington.
About 50,000 World War II vet-
jeran who are entitled to payment
| of $1.50 a day for time spent in
enemy hands under forced labor or
inhumane conditions have not yet
sent in claims for compensation,
I Wm. K. Barrett, director of the
State Department of Veterans
Service said this week.
The Marion County Patriot tells
us that “Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Lowe
Sr. of Buena Vista received notice
a few days ago that their son Wm.
H. Lowe Jr., who has been an of
ficer in the U S. Army for some
years, was promoted to the rank of
Major. Lowe, his wife and two
daughters are now stationed at
Leavenworth.”
The board of directors of the
newly-formed Southern Opera Co.,
met in Macon last week and in
dividually pledged $12,000 to get
Peach County Looks
Forward to Long-Time
Dream Coming True
Ft. Valley, Jan. 21—Progressive
Peach County is watching with
much anticipation the construction
| of its $400,000 hospital, which is
scheduled for completion in July.
| W. E. Green, chairman of the
Peach County hospital authority,
jsaid the project is a “dream come
true” for the population in and
| around Ft. Valley and such neigh-
i boring towns as Perry, Marshallville
Reynolds and Butler,
j Ambitious members of the au
thority have been working dili
gently on plans for the modern
l hospital since 1945 and appropriat-
j ed $100,000 right here in Peach
! county without aid of a bond is-
|sue, an accomplishment of great
merit in itself.
| Georgia House of Representatives
, Monday killed a soldiers’ bonus
I bill a measure to add 100 officers
to the Highway Patrol
Georgia to Have
Split Legislative
Session in November
Atlanta, Feb. 3.—In its busiest
day to date, the Georgia Legisla
ture Tuesday settled the split ses
sion issue by voting to reconvene
in November and completed action
on two of Gov. Herman Talmadge’s
bridge bills.
With administration forces crack
ing the whip, the Senate backed
down on its previous 25-23 vote to
hold the second half of a split ses
sion next January.
After the House had refused to
concur on the January session, the
Senate voted 41 to 8 to accept the
j governor’s compromise proposal,
| previously approved by the House
| That calls for adjournment Feb.
25 after 45 days, to reconvene next
Nov. 16 for the final 25 days.
The 71st birthday of the late
Franklin D. Roosevelt was com
memorated at the Little White
House, Warjn Springs, Friday.
with a New 1953
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of the Third District unit of the the company’s program under way.
National Federation of Independ-jP. L. Hay, one of the organizers of
ent Business Inc. the opera company, said “we are
| looking to Maconites and Middle
Allen Woodall owner of radio sta-1 Georgians to enlarge this amount to
tion WDAK, has been named a di-'
rector of the Georgia Association of
at least $25,000 to $30,000.
Broadcasters at a meeting in Ath
ens. S. J. Carswell, Thomaston, was
named president.
Elizabeth Anthony, high school
student at LaGrange, won first
honors in the YMCA-Atlanta Jour
nal sponsored contest for the best
reporting job done at the recent
Georgia Youth Assembly.
A 44-year-old Albany Negro worn-
Mrs. James G. Lowe, Sr. 72 years
of age, died Saturday at her home
at Buena Vista following a sudden
illness. She was born April 5, 1880,
daughter of the late R. E. and Mat-
tie M. Clements of Marion County.
Her husband died about 15 years
»go. Mrs. Lowe had been a life
resident of the county and was a
graduate of Cox College, College
Park, Ga. She was a member of the
an who freed herself from aj® a Pt* s t Church,
straight jacket and jumped naked] 0ut . of . S tate: 275 persons are re-
lrom a third floor hospital window ' ported dcad in Europe n floods dur-
was found huddled among a group, in the t week en d. Five or more : 5
of pine trees near the hospital. |persons lost their lives together'*
The death of Wm. H. Budd Jr.,|^ ith a da ™ a S e to at least 20,000 ]•
for many years a faithful and en-! homes resulted from a wind storm
ergetic employee of the Covington I l , hat s ^ ruck , H f ousto "’ Texas Satur- #
News, leaves a vacant place in the^ ay ’ Presldent and Mrs - Ensen-,#
staff of the Cnvinextern Npwc . hower were a ™ong 50 new members
staff of the Covington News that
splendid Georgia weekly states,
jwho joined the National Presby
terian church in Washington Sun-
Wm. P. Simmons, member of the' day morning. At Rosebury, Oregon
Macon Rotary Club and a promi-| Sunday - c - D - Burgoyne, a farmer,
rent Macon business man, has' was kill f d after a four-hour gun
been nominated as governor of Dis- Bcittle with 17 police in which 2,000
trict 241 of Rotary International for rounds of ammunition were fired.]*
1953-54. He was sponsored by Ma-1 53,000 American boys face military J
con Rotary Club. ] draft in March. Bank bandits in •
'Kansas City, Kan., captured $50,000 *
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Raleigh, 100-| a few nights ago. C. W. Seibels, of •
year-old member of a pioneer Chat-1 Columbia, S. C., has been re-elected *
tahooehee Valley family, resident ] president of the American Camellia J
of Lumpkin, Ga., for many years ] Society. Former bank president L., J
died a few days ago in the Atlanta ]R- Schelkat of New Kinsington, Pa.
home of a daughter, Mrs. John P. i' v as sentenced to 20 years in pris-
Irvin. on Friday on charges of embezzling
(about $600,000. A wild-cat strike
A bill has been introduced in the [idled 18,000 men at the Inland
Georgia State Senate to create a [Steel Co. at Indiana Harbor, Ind.
Bridge Building Authority to con-.plant Friday and halted the plant’s
struct immediately’ $30,000,000 worth output of 12.0000 tons of steel per
of steel and concrete biidges to re-
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