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‘KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OP SUCCESS**
VOLUME 77.
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MARCH 5, 1953.
NUMBER 23.
KEEP TAYLOR COUNTY GREEN EDITION
Annual Meeting Flint Electric
To Be Held At Reynolds
Gymnasium Friday March 6
Mr. Marshall Pollock, President, ^ Five Reynolds Gtizens
Georgia Electric Membership
Corp. to be Guest Speaker.
The Annual Meeting of the
members of Flint Electric Member
ship Corporation is heralded as one
of the most enjoyable occasion of
the year.
The fifteenth Annual Meeting is
Victims to Auto-Train
Crash at Warner Robins
Most of the five persons serious
ly or painfully injured Reynolds
citizens involved in an automobile
being held tomorrow—March 6—at ] train crash at Warner Robins one
Austin Guinn, Taylor County Forest Ranger, shown on one
of the County’s heavier pieces of Forest Fire Fighting
Equipment.
Olin Witherington, Third Dist. Forestsr
Highly Praises Taylor County Board
Georgia Forestry Commission City of Butler Receives
Ready to Help Local Forestry u H j_ TLa/*!# frnm th,
it * *Handsome lheck from tni
Unit at Any Time.
Georgia Power Company
10 a. m. in the Reynolds Gymnasi- j
um, at Reynolds.
The usual business session will 1
be held. Reports from officers will;
reveal that 1952 was the greatest
year in the history of the Co
operative. Three directors will be'
elected.
day last week remain patients at
the Macon hospital where they
have been given every service and
attention needed, according to re
ports received here yesterday.
I The injured persons included the
following: Mrs. Irene Whatley,
Mr. Marshall’ Pollock, President Messrs William Keen, A. F. Gen-
of Georgia Electric Membership; try, James Gentry and J. E. What-
Corporation will be guest speaker. ■ ley. Of these the greatest injury be-
On the lighter side of the day’s fel l Whatley, who was report-
activities will be the program of ec * *° ba be been internally injured
the Peachtree Cowboys, the award- i together with a number of broken
ing of door prizes that are an as bones ' He r condition was reported
sortment of beautiful small ap j at ^ rst as being critical, but is
pliances. A major appliance will be! now reported to be improving
j given as the GRAND PRIZE by the slowly but satisfactorily.
Olin Witherington, District Forester, dispatching fire" crew,
by radio to forest fire somewhere in Taylor County.
Taylor County Forestry Unit Offers
Wide Variety Of Service to Everyone
Special praise for the Taylor
County Forestry Board and its ef
forts to lessen fire damage in this
area this week came from Olin
Cooperative.
A check for $1021.38 was delivered
ai r ea v ™. “T to Mayor E. L. Harris for the City
Witherington, District Forester for J
hte Third District.
"Other counties in the Third Dis
trict," he said, “can gain much by
noting the efficient manner in
which thsi board is operating.”
Forestry Board members are W.
A. Jarrell, Butler; A. J. Fountain
and T. Whatley, Reynolds; J. R.
Worship at Mt. Pisgah
Church Next Sunday
Sunday School
of Butler by H. L. Russell, Rey
nolds, Local manager of the Geor
gia Power Co.
This payment represents three Sunday^ Carroll
. per cent of the gross receipts from Good c i asses for
the sale of electric power to com
mercial and residential customers
of hte company in the City.
| All others involved sustained
! painful flesh wounds in addition
to several of them suffering from
j broken bones. ;
The automobile in which these
'esteemed Reynolds citizens were
l traveling enroute during the early
j morning of Feb. 26th to their po-
a - m> - ^itions at Warner Robins Air Base
Supt. I was said to have been trav-
I eling at moderate rate of speed
by the and it was at the gate entrance to
Building Now Under
Construction to House
Flower and Gift Shop
Public tlrged to Call on Local
Forestry Dept. When It Can
Be of Service.
at 10:30
Peacock,
ail ages.
Preaching at 11:30 a. m.
This■ P astor - Please read the 9th chapter! the field ,the accident occurred
cum 1. w uaucj, nc,..u, UJ| „. ... . . , , mnn . . , of Acts. Our text will be the 5th j their car being knocked from 30 to
Wilson, Butler, and L. R. Pike of* 5 - J*. and feth verses of this chapter. We 40 feet by the impact and was de-
Mauk. partnership plan by which the the presen ce of the members molished.
three per cent is paid by the com-
Mr. Witherington said that the
board always has shown an ad-1 f ranc hise taxes. The plan permits ,
mirabie interest in preventing the City to share in the growth of Preaching, prayer and praise Sun- tunate mishap, reported that the
woods fires in this county. t h e electric business in the city, day evening at 7 o'clock. The automobile struck the rear of the
He added that pulpwood and saw The payment is made in addition church extends a most cordial in- j locomotive and damaged the steps
timber formed a major phase of to the company’s property taxes v it a b° n to all the people of the leading to the engineer's cabin,
the county’s economic life. paid to the county and city. The community to worship with us Sun-1 Mr. F. N. Jones of Macon was
which
L'ciu ia» uctiu by the wm- r ,, , . , , .
pany in place of occupation and of , th . e church to hear tbls message, Officials of the Southern Railway
and to bring some friend with you. ihe railroad involved in the unfor-
"Thi s problem of forest conserva- payment for 1951 was $955.67.
tion and forest protection from the The amoun t paid the city has in
ravages of fire, ’ he pointed out, ‘is ^-eased yearly since the first pay-
an acute one, therefore, not. only men ^_ amounting to $743.82 was
from the standpoint of maintaining p a j d j n 1947.
the livelihood of a large proportion
of the population, but from the
Similar tax checks are being paid
to other cities and towns in this
day in ail our services. j said to have been Engineer of the
We need your presence and train which was north bound for
prayers in these services. Come Macon when the collision occurred
with prayer for the pastor and his at 7 o’clock a. m., about a block
messages. I trom the main gate of Robins Air
J. H 1 . Stanford, Pastor, j Base.
standpoint of future generations as area Reynolds received $80 4.21 and
vve *• Roberta $645.33.
The company’s total tax bill for
The District
Forestry Board
Forester
members
assured
and the
citizens of this county the person- amounted to almost $17,000,000
ne] of the Third District Office, * n co m P a rison with $15,000,000 for
Georgia Forestry Commission, will ^51.
utilize “every means available” to Of the total taxes, nearly $1,300,-1
help our county cut down on losses 000 was paid to the communities ot j
from wildfire.
Free Healthiest
For Taylor County
March 16 to 21
Your local Health Department in
connection with the State Healh De
partment will offer every citizen of
the county a FREE health test,
March 16th thru 21st. ......
Two mobile units from the State w , lcb the compnay paid on
Georgia under the municipal part
nership plan. This was an increase j
of more than $100,000 over last
year.
The largest single item was fed
eral income tax which amounted to
over $11,300,000 in comparison with
$8,300,000 which the company paid
in 1951. city, county and state, real
and personal property taxes
amounted to nearly $3,250,000 for
1952 in comparison with three mil
lion in 1951.
The $17,000,000 total does not in
clude the Georgia 3% sales tax
ma-
Department of Public Health will l ® ria 1 s bought for operation during
be in the county for six days and the year -
will be placed in various sections -
the county to, one and two days yj ^
Each person who takes advantage
Begins at Reynolds Mar. 9
of this service will be given a
chest X-ray for TB, enlarged heart
and tumors; also a blood test fori
anemia, diabetes and syphilis will! The Middle Georgia Gold Medal
be made. It is hoped htat every | Tournament for athletics clubs will
person in Taylor county will avail be staged in Reynolds beginning
themselves for these tests. Monday. Games will be played
There is no undressing and all Monday through Friday, Mar. 9-13.
reports are strictly confidential. 1 Teams from Perry, Hawkinsville,
Station schedule for each unit will Unadilla, Plains, Byron, Montezuma
be found elsewhere in this issue of Roberta, Geneva and Reynolds are
the Herald.
A quota of 5,000 persons has been
set by the State. With almost 10,000
persons in the county, at least 7,-
000 should be tested.
entered.
This promises to be an annual
affair. We plan for it to be one of
the most outstanding in the State.
—Vance Childres.
One of the three Fire Towers located in Taylor County for
aid in spotting forest fires and other destructive fires.
Flowers, life Cleanliness, is next
to Godliness.
| This community being rich in the
two the former may proudly lay
claim to a considerable portion of
the latter.
With particular reference to
flowers at the present time the
community will ever feel its in
debtedness to Mrs. Julia Wilson
Dean and the late Dr. L. R. Dean;,
also to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Saun
ders in having first provided the
community with a flower shop
and nursery equal to any small
community in the state at the cost
of hard labor and considerable out
lay of money. Thanks for their ef
forts and may their enterprise con
tinue to flourish and prosper.
Realizing hte increasing demand
for flowers in this section, his
natural ability in their culture and
designing, training in these at the
best of such institutions it is
only natural that one of-our splen-;
did young men, Mr. Edward Allen,
is to give the community a florist
shop of which all will be proud in
deed.
A commodious building to be
used as a display and entertain
ment of business callers, together
with adjacent storage rooms and
pits, are now under construction by
Mr. Allen, who will open hrs new
enterprise as soon as these have
been completed. This building is
being erected just off the public
square of our city fronting on the
street leading to the Baptist
church.
Mr. Allen is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Allen, the former a
successful hardware merchant of!
Butler and the family one of the
city’s most prominent.
Following graduation from the
local high school, Mr. Allen at
tended and received a Bachelor of
Science degree—majoring in Flori
culture—from the University of
Georgia. He is also a graduate of
Harpers School of Floral Design
and atended the International
Convention and Design School of
the Florist Telegraph Delivery As
sociation in Montreal, Canada in
1949. Mr. Allen was employed as
head designer for Ray’s Flower
Shop in Lancaster, S. C. in 1949-50.
He recently was honorably dis
charged from the U. S. Army with
two years’ valued service in Ko
rea.
When the new Flower Shop opens
there will be for sale at lowest
prices: Cut flowers, funeral de
signs, corsages, potted plants, deco
rations of all kinds, etc. and gifts.
“The Taylor County Forestry
Unit has many services which are
I available to landowners, civic clubs
and citizens of the county free of
charge,” says Austin Guinn, Tay
lor County Ranger in an interview
with the Herald reprter today.
"Our important job is the sup
pression of wild fires throughout
Taylor County and naturally this
has priority over any other activi
ty,” he said.
“We would like to urge land-
owners to notify us a day or so in
advance when they plan to bum
brush, old fields, terraces, and the
like,” he stated, “as we then can
send a vehicle and crew of men tO'
standby in case the lnadowner
needs assistance.”
Other sei vices set forth by Mr.
Guinn are as follows: Films on for
estry may be obtained free of
charge from the Atlanta office for
any group notifying the Ranger a
couple of weeks in advance of the
lime it is needed.
During the tree planting season
instructions can be given to anyone
on the handling and planting of
seedlings from Commission Nurs
eries may be filed with Mr. Guinn.
The Forestry Unit also has edu
cational pamphlets for use by
schools, clubs, and other gruops
throughout the county.
“We would like to urge all of you
readers to drop by and see us and
avail yourselves of the services we
now offer” added Mr. Guinn. “If
you cannot come by, contact us by
phone at No. 8805 or drop a card
to Austin Guinn, County Forestry
Unit, Butler.
Thirty Taylor €0. Men
Leave for Ft. McPherson :
For Physical Exams
A report from the clerk of the
local Selective Service Board shows
that thirty Taylor county men left
Wednesday for Ft. McPherson for
physical examinations.
This is reported to be the largest
call for examinations required ot
the Taylor county board since
World War II.
Green Newsprint Stock
Unavailable for TMs Issue
We regret that we were not able
to secure green newsprint on which
to print this special “Keep Taylor
County Green” edition of the But
ler Herald.