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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, APRIL 9, 1953.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS Spanking of Children
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA By Georgia Teachers
Demands Removals
The 1954 Georgia turkey show
is planned for Thomasville.
Already Florida watermelons are
being placed on Georgia markets.
President Eisenhower plans to
spend next week at his favorite
golf course at Augusta for a week
of rest and golfing.
Coffee county voted 2 to 1 Satur
day to outlaw the sale of whiskey.
Easter week end traffic deaths in
Georgia totaled eight. ^
The Hall county jail is in better
condition than the Flowery Branch
school, a group of irate citizens of
that community charged Monday.
Easter Sunday marked the 60th
wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Akin, former residents
of Vienna but now residing in
Florida.
The Georgia Livestock Exposition
opens in Atlanta April 13 featuring
a statewide fat cattle show-sale, an
Angus show-sale and a Shorthorn
show-sale.
Georgia will pay an estimated
$800,000,000 to the federal govern
ment in this fiscal year, a Bureau
of Internal Revenue source estimat
ed last week.
More than 2,000 American Le
gionnaires from all parts of Georgia
are expected to convene at Macon
tomorrow and Saturday for their
annual spring meeting.
Miss Rhoda Lee Burdeshaw, 18,
former Macon girl waitress, was
brutally murdered at Jesup Tues
day. Damon Brooker, 24, is said to
have confessed to the crime.
The Rose Festival at Thomasville
is schduled for April 24th. Up to
the past week a total of 20 floats
and ten bands were listed to par
ticipated in the annual event.
Flames from a grass fire near
Rome a few days ago engulfed Will
Haygood, 73-year-old farmer, burn
ing him to death and seriously in
juring his wife, 70 years of age. ;
The Georgia branch of the Na
tional League of District Postmas
ters will meet in annual session at
Macon April 23-25. Gov. Talmadge
will speak at a banquet Friday.
night, April 24. |
I
Allison W. Ledbetter of Rome,
has been elected chairman of the
board of directors of the Central of
Georgia Railway. He succeeds P.
B. McGinnis of New York who re-,
signed last month. j
In separate auto wrecks a Cal
houn, Ga., mother and her son
were seriously injured the same
day and almost the same hour re
cently. Each were traveling in an
opposite direction.
Rev. Joe Thrailkill, 57, widely
known Methodist church leader in
Georgia, died Tuesday in an At
lanta hospital of a t heart condition
He was a member of the North
Georgia Conference.
FT. BENNING PRISONER
DIES FROM WOUNDS
IN ESCAPE ATTEMPT
Flowery Branch, Ga., April 2—A
school teacher has resigned and a
petition was circulated demanding
dismissal of three school officials
for the spanking of a fifth-grade
pupil.
Mayor Otto Hudgins told news
men Miss Alice Stevens turned in
her resignation at the demand of a
"factional group” angered over her
punishment of an 11-year-old girl
in the village school.
Former Mayor Royce Brown is a
member of a Citizens’ Committee
supporting the public petition call
ing for the removal of Principal V.
E. Haynes, a school trustee, and a
member of the Hall County School
Board who lives near Flowery
Branch.
The citizens’ committee said 250
persons have signed the petition
and a community meeting has been
called for April 13 to consider it.
! As a cooperative beautification
project, members of the Oglethorpe
and Montezuma Garden Clubs have
planted quantities of bulbs, nan-
dinas, spireas, flowering quince and
other hardy flowering shrubs at
the Travelers’ Rest on the Ogle-
thorpe-Andersonville highway.
| Traffic Capt. Ed S. Moncrief, vet
eran of more than 25 years of police
work in Columbus, was named
chief of police Friday by the Co
lumbus board of public safety.
Moncrief was chosen from a field
of 10 candidates to succeed J. G.
Newberry who retired April 1.
Today at Bainbridge two new
buildings will be dedicated at the
Georgia factory for the blind. The
factory, which manufactures mat
tresses, brooms and mops, is operat
ed by a force of 160workers, 117 of
whom are blind. Last year the fac
tory did a total of a million dollars
of business.
Construction projects totalling
more than $16,000,000 are under
way at Fort Benning. Contracts
awarded by the Infantry Center and
district engineers amount to $16,-
249,236 of which $311,027 i s being
spent for the construction of the
Upatoi Creek Bridge and approaches
near Outpost No. 1.
j Out-of-State: — A Morrison, 111.,
couple, who had planned marriage
but separated due to a lover’s
quarrel on Easter Sunday 63 years
ago, were married Easter Sunday
this year. A North Carolina mother
I now cries for the three little girls
she drowned last week to prevent
"poor upbringing”. A 26-year-old
New Augusta, Miss., mechanic cut
off his left arm with a pocket knife
last Wednesday to free himself
from an automobile wreckage. Mrs.
I Elaine Hagedorn, a Nellsville,
1 Wise., 25-year-old farm woman, re
cently gave birth to her fourth set
of twins in six years A handsome
Dubuque, Iowa Marine being held
for five slayings calmly told au
thorities last week “I was in love
and needed money,”
Columbus, April 6—A Ft. Benning
prisoner, Pvt. A. B. Clark, Cairo, Ga.
died Sunday of gunshot wounds
inflicted Saturday when he at
tempted to eecape from a prisoner
work detail, the Public Information
office reported.
The 22-year-old soldier was
wounded by a shotgun blast which
struck the back of his neck and
pierced his skull. PIO officials
identified the guard who shot him
as Pfc. C. W. Chance.
Pvt. Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Clark, Cairo, and husband
of Mrs. Josephine Clark. Ft. Myers
Fla., was serving time on desertion
charges, PIO said.
U. S. POST OFFICE
DEPT. CLOSES GROUP OF
OFFICES IN NORTH CAROLINA
North Wilkesboro, N. C., April 1
—The post office department closed
19 rural post offices and discontinu
ed 9 star routes in Wilkes county
recently in the first of a series
of nationwide economy moves.
Some confusion was apparent as
a result of the change. But Post Of
fice officials said was only tem
porary and that postmasters and
RFD carriers were doing their best
to get mail delivered without de
lay.
It was reported in Atlanta yester
day that State Revenue agents de
stroyed 122 illegal moonshine stills
during February—and had a part
in the destruction of 33 others.
"MYSTERY NOVEL” WRITTEN
BY WIFE OF ATLANTA
NEWSPAPERMAN RELEASED
Atlanta, April 2 — A mystery
novel, "Killer Loose” written by
Mrs. Charles Pou, wife of the Atlan
ta Journal’s state capitol reporter,
was released this week.
Written under the name of Gene
vieve Holden, it is the author’s first
book. It is being published by
Doubleday & Co. and already has
been chosen by the Detective Book
Club as one of its monthly selec
tions for the summer.
Mrs. Pou is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Long of Tupelo.
During World War II, while her
husband was overseas, Mrs. Pou
worked on the Tupelo Dailey Jour
nal.
Love of Humanity Wins ;
Award for Mrs. Glover
Georgia's 'Mother of Year*
Newnan, Ga., April 6—Mrs. How*
ard Glover Sr., of Newnan, wai
named this week as Georgia’s
mother of the year.
A plaque and a scroll were pre«.
sented to the 73-year-old mother ot
nine children in ceremonies at New--
nan. Mrs. Stewart Colley of Grant**.,
ville, chairman of the selection,
committee said:
"The award was given of her?,
spiritual character and her gen-1
uine love for humanity in every
area of life.”
A two-story home for President
Eisenhower is being planned at the
Augusta National Golf Club.
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Funeral services were conducted •
at Ellaville Methodist church Mon
day for Mrs. E. R. Cowart, 80, wid
ow of a widely known Methodist
minister, who died at her home
Saturday following a long illness.
Two Washington, Ga., High
school (Negro) seniors were
drowned and a third was rescued
Friday, police said, when two boats
in which they were rowing on
Schennault Lake in southwest At
lanta capsized.
Jess Starr, Negro, convicted of
the assault of an 18-year-old white
girl near Rome, has been resen
tenced to die in the electric chair
at Reidsville, Ga., on April 16th.
His latest appeal to the State
Board of Pardons and Paroles was
turned down. i
The Peachtree Street Expressway
(Atlanta) bridge is practically
completed now, but may not be
opened until sometime in the sum
mer because, it is said, the present
detour moves traffic faster than the
bridge would in the present stage
of Expressway construction.
While on a visit to Atlanta last
week it was stated by Dr. Irving
P Filderman, of Memphis, Tenn.,
that two thousand partially blind
persons have been fitted with the
recently developed clear image lens
Since the middle of January. Dr.
Filderman, an optometrist, took
part in the original research work
on the lens.
Among the 53 beauties who will
vie for the crown of cherry blossom
queen in Washington’s annual festi
val will be Georgia’s own Mary A.
Bateman of Sylvester, a sophomore
at the University of Georgia. The
City of Albany will sponsor a float
in Thursday’s big illuminated pa- ■
rade. The floats will be rated fori
excellence. Miss Bateman and her!
court will ride on the float. (
ord Held 6 Hours
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You Want The News WHEN IT HAPPENS!
These three newspapers were delivered in yonr
community on the same day, Friday, March 6.
There’s nothing strange about this but TAKE A LOOK
IT THE HEADLINES!
Only the Columbus Ledger and the Columbus
Enquirer carry the news of Stalin’s death. The
other paper has Stalin "Sinking Fast". YET
ALL THREE PAPERS WERE DELIVERED JN
YOUR COMMUNITY ON THE SAME DAY!
When you buy the Columbus Ledger or
the Columbus Enquirer you get the news
WHEN it happens . . . NOT THE DAY AFTER
IT HAPPENS!
When you buy a newspaper, why not get
the one which gives you what you pay for . . .
UP-TO-DATE NEWS.
Call Thomas Mathews, phone 83 and have your
Columbus Enquirer, Columbus Ledger and
The Sunday Ledger-Enquirer . . .
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