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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MARCH 19, 1953.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
Georgia farmers report rains are
delaying spring planting.
A 100-acre tomato crop planting ■ sophomore
is said to be booked for Vidalia j Georgia and a
area.
State Game and Fish Commission
officials yesterday reminded the
public that March 31st is the dead
line for obtaining from their coun
ty authorities a 1953-54 fishing and
hunting license.
Uniform Pay for
Georgia Officials
I
Now Becomes Law
Fire Dangers at Peak
In Taylor County During
This Season of Year
Mary A. Bateman, 18-year-old |
at the University of
native of Sylvester, 1
will officially represent Georgia at
Atlanta, Ga.—Gov. Talmadge re
cently signed “with some reluc-
A special type of fire danger
warning comes this week from the
The 1953 rose show at Thomas-
ville is expected to be the largest
ever staged, it is said.
One of Georgia’s oldest citizens,
Mrs. John G. Morris, 101, died
Sunday at her home, Smyrna.
Georgia’s first annual poultry
festival is planned for Gainesville
May 16th. Some 10,000 people are
expected to attend the one-day
event.
Monroe County’s Selective Service
Board has resigned in a dispute
with the State Selective Board over
classification of an Emory Uni
versity student.
New mahogany pews have been
installed in the auditorium of the
Buena Vista Baptist church, a gift
of E. N. Murray Sr., chairman of
the board of deacons.
We are told that in ten years the
value of Georgia’s mineral produc
tion has increased from 14 million
dollars to 56 million dollars, An ex
pansion of 400 percent.
The Stewart-Webster Journal tells
its reader that “snakes, all kinds,
all sizes, may be sold in Richland,
as the city’s newest and most novel
industry gets under way.”
George T. Brantley, 50-year-old
father of six children and whose
home was in Wrightsville, drowned
Saturday as he prepared to drop
anchor and begin fishing.
jfEight persons were dead Monday
as result of week-end accidents in
the Washington’s annua!
Blossom Festival April 8-12.
oc-
Three separate shootings
curred at Macon Saturday leaving
one dead, William Carter, 32, and
tance” the uniform salary bill for Taylor County Forestry Unit. Rang-
cherry ma j or s t a te officials which he said | er Austin Guinn called attention to
would cost about $50,000 a year, j the fact that though in the past
The new act puts all of the top | few weeks we have had frequent
officials on a uniform salary basis rains here in the county, neverthe-
and eliminates a number of special j les s the fire danger has at many
emoluments by which they have
two others painfully wounded. The had their income increased in the
trouble is said to have originated 1 past.
from a dispute at a dice game. J in addition to the base salary the
act gives officials an increase of
“Highway officials,” says the'
Thomaston Times,
Upsonians that i , .
been made and no consideration the legislature. It provides up to a
has been given to re-locating U. S. maxl ™. um ba ? e pa ,f ° ^ ’,
Highway 19 to by-pass Thomaston.” official with 20 years of serv-
Remains of two of Georgia’s most
prominent citizens of the long ago
have been removed from their rest
ing place Macon county to family
lots in Montezuma cemetery. The
death of these occurred more than
a century ago.
times been extremely high and we
have fought four forest fires in the
past week.
After even a downpour of rain,”
said Guinn, “the woods can dry out
a year for each four years of j ver y ra pidly and lie exposed to de
struction by fire. Oftentimes > when
the rain stops and the wind' rises
only two or three hours are re
quired before the woods are very
dry and burning is dangerous. This
fools many people, continues Guinn
and fields without proper precau
tions of plowing around, without in
forming us at the County Forestry
Unit Headquarters, and without
having ample help on hand. “The
the
‘have re-assured service and allows them $240 a year
proposal has, for an extra duties given them by
' the legislature. It provides up t
for
ice.
Also each of the officials is given
$2,400 a year in lieu of the present
unlimited traveling expense ac-
j count. Out of this $2,400 ihe now
' must pay his own hotel and food
bill when traveling but will be re- resu it s jg a wildfire when the per-
Plans are in progress for the pre
sentation of the Thirteenth Annual
Daffodil Show, to be staged in
Shellman March 19 and 20 by the
Shellman Garden Club. The show " ava ?
will be in the Shellman High school^ 50, °
gym building as in former years'
and will be open to visitors from
2 to 8 p. m.
paid for his actual cost of transpor
tation.
State Auditor Thrasher said the
actual increase in salaries is about
$19,000 a year and that the gov
ernor was including the $2,400
Thirty of the more than 200
race horses in winter quarters at
Macon are said to be scheduled to
take the track in a series of heats
for the benefit of the Georgia
son starting the fire thought the
woods were too wet to burn.
Even tho the ground litter in a
forest may still be wet the under
story of vegetation and the tree
crown s themselves dry out rapidly
allowance in his figure of 1 a ft er a rain when there is wind and
will make a hot, fast moving fire.
It’s not like it is with plowing af
ter a rain, wildfires don’t have to
wait until the ground dries out.
We realize that when a landown
er wants to do a controlled burning
he in a hurry to get this done. We
want to let you know that we do
everything possible to get all our
Forrester Says Georgia
May Lose Congressman
If Hawaii Becomes State
PARMENTER STRAIN
RHODE ISLAND RED BABY CHICKS
Please place your order as early as possible, as we
only have a few open dates in March and April.
We carry and deliver, a complete line of Poultry, Dairy
and Hog Feeds.
CROWELL
POULTRY FARM & HATCHERY
E. F. PARR Estate—Phone 1355—Reynolds, Georgia
_ - , Representative E. L. Forrester of requests for control burnings as fast
Heart Association next Sunday af- ( be Third Congressional district of as we can get around. With all the
ternoon, March 22nd, 2:30 o’clock Georgia, a staunch opponent of the rain the ground is getting soft,
at the Macon Central City Park. The Hawaiian statehood bill, said in a causing us to mire equipment
races are set. to raise funds for the re cent letter to the Herald that down, which takes up valuable
Georgia. Five were victims of autoj work of combatting Heart Disease. Georgia could be the first state to time. The Forestry Commission
mishaps. Three, including a man | Admission will be $1.00 for adults i ose a congressional disrict if Ha- doesn’t like for u s to help with con-
f and 50c for children.
A news item in the daily news-
and his wife died of drowning.
The body of Thomas Methvin, 25 j
of Lumpkin, Ga., who it is said
left two or three notes to loved lthat Superior Court Judge T Hicks
ones and friends,was found Monday Fort he]d Talbot County sheriff J.
in his room at Miami Beach, Fla. H , Ferguson in conte mpt of court
Tuesday and fined him $101. Judge
Fort declared that the fine was
waii enters the Union. (trol burns when the wind is over
He is one of nine Georgia Con- 5 miles per hour, so that limits us
gressmen who voted against the to some extent, but we will try to
invpd P apers of the state yesterday stated Hawaiian bill . Rep . Sidney Camp of get to everyone as soo* as pos
1UVCU ii n i r P TTinlrn • L 1 _
Newnan voted for it.
sible.
The Methodist parsonage at Lex
ington was recently destroyed by
DEATH SENTENCE GIVEN
IN ATLANTA THEFT CASE
fire at a very early hour in the I levied after Sheriff Ferguson did
morning. All contents of the build-, not apologize for what the jurist I
PEACH GROWERS MAY
SUFFER LOSS CAUSED BY
WORM-PRODUCING PESTS
Atlanta, March 12—Howard L.
ine were also lost Cause unknown ! called “unseemly conduct” during a Booker, 33, was sentenced yesterday 1 Athens, March 16 Bright season
ing were lost. Cause unKnown., ^ ^ ^ M&y 1 . p the electric chair prospects for Georgia’s peach grow-
Mrs. A. P. Passmore, 96 years of jTalbotton. The incident occurred be- for a robbery that brought him ers were clouaed somewhat today
age and Webster county‘s oldest jf 0 r e noon and at a time when the‘only $1.50 and two streetcar tok-, by a report on the first peach cur
citizen, died last week at the home ^ cour t room was crowded.
Out-of-the-State:—A prominent
Indianian born Friday, the 13th, 28 jangled
years ago, was killed in an automo
bile accideiti last Friday, the 13th.
A Texas storm killed 12 and injured
of her daughter, Mrs. T. H. McGar
rah at Weston, where she made her
home.
A 25-story bank and office build
ing will be constructed in the
heart of the Atlanta business dis
rict on the site of an old Atlanta j scores Friday the 13th. The writing
city hall and federal customs j of a check in %vhich an
error was
bouse - i made of two million dollars was
Dr. Edgar R. Pund has been elect- to have been written b Y a
ed as successor to Dr. Lombard Kel-|^ blcago ban *' cashier the day be-
ly as head of the Georgia Medical | f ore the 13th - Dr - F - D - Patterson
College in which he has been a i bas res * gneb as president of the
teacher for 30 years. He is a native j Tuskegee Institute effective June 1
ens- culio of the season.
Mrs. Sarah Babbitt, 28, testified; The curculio is a weevil type in-
the defendant dragged her into a sect laying eggs that produce
thicket, “beat, stomped worms in peaches. The first of this
and cut” her and fled with her season was a female taken from a
with a New 1953
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| purse containing the small sum of peach tree in full bloom Friday in
I
CONSOLIDATED A GAS COMPANY
to become educational director of
the Phelps Stokes Fund in New
York. At Birmingham, Ala., Sunday
Joseph Stalin, godless Russion dic
tator was given a Christian funeral,
de Leon Park, tRev. Wayne Dehoney preached over
Atlanta Crack-j an empty bronze casket that was
of Augusta.
Georgia baseball fans will have
an opportunity of watching some of
the major league’s biggest stars
perform at Ponce
Atlanta, when the
ers return home from their spring j placed before the shining gold
training camp at Miami Beach, \ cross on his pulpit. More than 2,000
Fla. The regular season is schedul- j worshippers heard the sermon in
ed to open April 10th. i the Central Park Baptist church.
money and the two tokens.
the South Georgia area.
Butler Ga.
Phone 54
4 powerful reasons, why you
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get more of What you want..
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Now on Display
The New 1953
NASH RAMBLER
Country Club (The Hard Top)
See This Beautilul New Car
Compare the Price
and The Features
Childres Service Station
Butler, Ga.
more engine power!
Advanced Loadmaster engine-
standard equipment cm 5000 and
6000 Series heavy-duty and for
ward-control models, optional on
r 4000 Series heavy-duty trucks.
more braking power!
In 1953, all Chevrolet trucks up
to 4000 Series heavy-duty models
have “Torque-Action” brakes.
5^ ies 4000 and above use extra-
Wge “Torque-Action” brakes in
front, “Twin-Action” type in rear.
more staying power!
Now, heavier, stronger, more du
rable frames increase rigidity,
add to ruggedness and give more
stamina than ever to all 1953
Chevrolet trucks.
The new stamina of Chevrolet
trucks, plus extra gasoline econ
omy in heavy-duty models with
improved Loadmaster engine, re
duces hauling costs per ton-mile.
(Continuation of standard equipment and trim illustrated is dependent on availability of material.)
Taylor County Motor Co.
.Reynolds} Ga.