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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 20, 1953.
I A Macon news dealer Monday FIVE GEORGIANS
asked the Georgia Literature Com- 'ON NEW LIST
rrAltfl 1 mission to declare J. D. Salinger’s OF POW DEAD
utvIHJlA best seller, “The Catcher in the!
j Rye” obscene and take steps to
■ I prevent its sale in the state.
Polio danger is reported to be the, A ^n^rted effort by State Sen-
wane in Georgia. | ator Herbert Moon and other
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
THROUGHOUT
Washington, Aug. 15—The De
fense Department today made pub
lic the names of 210 more Ameri
cans—all army men—reported by
, the Communists to have died while
Only one of every 15 auto wrecks Sumter county persons to keep tnq {n Korekn prison camps .
In Georgia is said to be due to d ^<^ l f n s !: a *ES’S'ta. totted I 11 was the Jour,h such llst an< ! of'a giant aerial freighter? after
fective automobiles. I office in Americas open has failed ralsed , 0 56g , otal number oI ^ ^ ^
Huge Cargo Plane
Has as Its Captain
Young Montfcello Man
San Antonio, Tex.—The Air Force
took the “X” from its designation
and the office closed it doors last
week
It is generally understood that
Gov. Talmadge will not call a
special summer election.
Crawford county will observe dramatically
Soil Conservation Week this week rllo „ olinM , hl
as proclaimed by Gov. Talmadge.
Talbot county board of education 1 than three hours Saturday, Musco- case,
and
first trana-
sent the airship on its
Atlantic flight.
The huge cargo plane, after five
last week set a school
$259.3% for operations
coming year.
budget of gee County Fier Chief Loyd Booth
during the reported.
The Woman’s Missionary Union
President B. Joseph Martin of of the Georgia Baptist Convention
Wesleyan College, Macon, an-|is negotiating for the purchase
flounces that four
driving
Bridge near
fire.
struck
Cochran
and
names made public. The Reds have
furnished names of 1,022 Ameri-
Sam Adams of Columbus and his jeans they said died in captivity,
two sons, John and Bradley, were rhe Defense Department, releasing
rescued from the | the names in instalments, empha- „ . ,, , , ... T _ ,
Chattahoochee River after clinging J sized that the Communist reports f ear ^.° f p*!. 1 ” 8,
to their capsized boat for more'have not been verified in a single Air Base wl ^ h o , 61 ’ 00 °
men eapo , 6 pounds of vital cargo and 23 pas
sengers. The first leg of the 9,000-
mile circuit to Rhein-Main, Ger
many and back, will be 1,400 to
Bermuda. The second lap is to the
Azores, thence to Rhein-Main, near
Frankfort.
Sgt. H. W. Day, son of Mrs. L. Known now as the C-99 the
M. Day. Stone Mountain. world’s largest landbased plane
Cpl. Frang D. King, grandson of was commanded by Capt. J. R.
Mrs. Ella Jj King, Waycross. j Pittard, Monticello, Ga. who has
Sgt. 1-C C. C. McCrary, husband more than 1,000 C-99 flight hours,
of Mrs. Hattie P. McCrary, Colum-
of
The fourth list included:
Cpl. L. L. Carter, son of Mrs. Re
becca Carter, Jesup.
Sgt. J. B. Cheaten Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Cheaten Sr. Doe-
bus.
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additions to [a 25-acre island, 10 miles South of run -
Wesleyan for the new school year, i Brunswick, on which it plans to
l build a summer camp for Royal
Herman J. Mullis, 23, of Cochran, J Ambassadors.
„,s killed When an | The body o( 18 . ye ar-old Douglas
caught Roper of Columbus was recovered
from Bartlett’s Ferry Lake near
John Syfrett’s Fish Camp in Mus-
Fire insurance rates will go down cogee county Friday night, almost
in Georgia Oct. 1 on more than 20 six hours after a boat in which
types of buildings, State Insurance he was riding capsized.
Commissioner Zack D. Cravey an-, DeKalb county police Friday
nounces. were questioning all known ac-
Mercer University, Macon, will quaintances of two women whose
confer 105 degrees on under-gradu- j bullet-riddled bodies were found
ates and graduate students at the | late Thursday night in an attrac-
summer commencement during the tive brown bungalow in the out-
week end. j skirts of North Decatur.
Thirteen persons met violent! The Central of Georgia Railway
deaths in Georgia over the week- announced Tuesday an increase in
end. Eight were victims of traffic round-trip, five-day coach fares,
accidents. The other five were | The price increase will become ef-
drowning victims. fective Se ^ L increase of 15
per cent on present rates will make
Dr. J. Samuel Guy, 69, former ' the new amount approximately IV2
chairman of Emory Univedsity’s de- ! cents per mile,
partmentof chemistry died Sun- Funera l was conducted Monday
day at Emory University hospital thfi Ellaville Baptist church for
of a heart ailment. j Mrs. R. N. Chapman, 84, former
Georgia farmers produced the Ellaville citizen who died Thursday
bulk of the nation’s pimiento sup- night in Vidalia after a month’s
ply in 1952, selling 9,800 tons of, illness. A native of Marion County,
the coolring and seasoning peppers! Mrs. Chapman was the former Miss
for a total of $784,000. Anna McCorkle, daughter of J. T.
land Louisa McCorkle.
Individuals and business firms in
Maj. J. O. Sanders, Columbus, Ga.,
Is navigator.
Macon Loan Office
Looted Saturday by
Masked Negro Man
Macon, Aug. 15—A masked Ne
gro armed with a pistol took $1,175
from a loan company in Macon af
ter threatening to kill an employe
and ; locking him in a closet, police
6aid.
The robbery was carried out dur
ing mid-afternoon at the EZE Loan
Company office city detectives re
ported.
Geo. W. Ray, who was in the of
fice alone, told officers he was
talking on the telephone when the
Negro entered with a white hand
kerchief covering the lower part of
his face and drew a pistol.
The Negro told Ray “not to
holer or he would kill/ him,” police
True Spirit of Loyalty
Shown Editor Stovall
By Friends of Press
Greenville, Aug. 14—R. K. Stovall
editor of the Meriwether Vindica
tor, is ill.
However, the Meriwether Vindi
cator came out as usual this
week.
Ralph Rice of the Manchester
Mercury, Leon Smith of the Thom-
aston Free Press, and Quimby Mel
ton of the Griffin Daily News set
type. Hugh McWhorter, former
president of Georgia Press Associa
tion, and Shed Carswell of the
Thomaston Times and Free Press,
printed the paper.
Harvey Walters secretary-man
ager of Georgia Press Association,
is assisting Mrs. Stovall in the
the illness of Mr.
reported. Ray said the robbers then
forced him to open a safe located | work during
in a closet, but the same was'Stovall.
empty. I Mr. Stovall, editor of the Meri-
The man after again warning | wether Vindicatior, who has been
Ray not to make a sound, police seriously ill in an Atlanta hospital
said, locked Ray in the closet with has been moved to his home here,
a padlock. He is confined to his bed.
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the Augusta area were victims to
safe breakers during the week end.
Their loss is placed at $13,000 and
$16,000 with no arrest made.
Ellis Arnall declared
Three armed white men a few
nights ago are said to have en
tered a small grocery store on the
Athens highway near Elberton and
brutally beaten a lady attendant
about the head with a blackjack.
Ex-Gov.
yesterday that state finances are One of the men held the woman
“in a mess” and plot is afoot to captive for 20 minutes while the
dump valuable state property to other two robbed the store of more
stave off “a financial debacle.” than $1200.
Rich’s Inc., Atlanta, Monday pre- j An Innovation In the educatlon-
sented to the public a completely al program of Montezuma will be
redesigned fine fashion third floor
which features an unusual con
cept in specialty shop arrange
ment.
a Business Education Day to be
spo/isored Aug. 27 by the Chamber
of Commerce, it is reported. Twenty
teachers of the Montezuma school
and 12 Montezuma firms as hosts
will exchange ideas to supplement
textbook theories with realities, ac-
Eleven hundred Mexican cotton
pickers are said to have arrived in
Georgia this week to gather the CO rding‘ to" the “program'
cotton crop ni South Georgia par-1
tcularly in Dooly and adjoining
counties.
Mrs. Mittie E. M. Thomas, 81,■
widow of Rev. G. W. Thomas, a
Confederate veteran, died Monday
at Wilson Convalescent Home, Co-
Mrs. Emily P. Smith, 76, native
of Talbot county and widow of
Prof. E. B. Smith, who for many
years was head of the Department
of English at the University of
Georgia, died in her home in Ath-
, . ,,, . ens Aug. 13. She was the daughter
umbus. She had been ill for more |0f the late Henry person and Mrs
than a year. j Emily Persons of Talbotton. She
Lt. Gov. Marvin Griffin will be the' was a member of one of Talbot
speaker at Bowdon’s Century of t c °u nt y’s most prominent families.
Progress celebration Wednesday.The| <, T . . . _ _ .. e *•
- . . , It is by no means the fashion
day has been proclaimed a legal 1 * . . . , .
* „ , , to shoot your mother-in-law in
holiday for Bowdon by Mayor J. W.
.Watts and the city council.
these parts,” says the Thomasville
I Press, but continues the Press, “Joe
A self-styled preacher who dis-j^eys * s * n jail and mother-in-
appeared from Dublin under cir- j l avv Susie Johnson in the hospital
cumstances indicating suicide, was! with a bullet wound in her shoul-
found picking cotton in an ad- ^er as the result of a family fuss
joining county. Laurens County down at the Key home on the Met-
Sheriff Carlus Gay said Thos. A. ca lf Road. The Sheriff’s office says
Wilkins, 42, had picked 71 pounds! l ^at reports from the hospital are
of cotton when he was arrested in that the woman will not be seri-
a Dodge County cotton field.
If You
Want
More
than temporary relief from those
headaches, don’t just try to deaden
the pain, but have the cause lo
cated and corrected with
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Americus, Ga.
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jously inconvenienced.”
gomery County, Ala., who has
been missing since Friday. At
Scranton, Pa., Tuesday a string of
16 coal cars ran wild for 27 miles
through the city of Scranton and 9
other towns, passing 25 grade
crossings. Mrs Winifred Ferdarko,
40-year-old Miami bank teller, re
ported voluntarily to officials of
the Central Bank and Trust Co.
Tuesday that she embezzled $13,798
over a four-year period.
Out-of-State: A New Yorker re
cently paid off on 80 traffic tickets
to the tune of $2,200. At Garfield,
N. J., a few days ago a war-buf
feted refugee, discouraged in his
struggle to make a newt fortune in
America like the one he lost to the
Nazis killed his pretty daughter
and himself. The season’s first ma
jor hurricane, which battered the
Atlantic coast from Florida to Cape
Cod. turned out to sea Saturday,
leaving in its wake seven persons
dead and some $1,300,000 in dam
age. Joseph Francell, 57, execution
er for 14 years during which time
he conducted 137 executions at
Sing Sing prison, Ossining, N. Y.,
resigns Saturday and 40 persons,
including one woman have ap
plied for the post. A gunman Tues
day held up a New York bank of
ficial and escaped with $191,280. A
search i^ underway for Frank Ten-
mile, state legislator from Mont-
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Friday &
Saturday
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lb 39c
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