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THE BUTLER HEREADL, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY 21. 1954.
SUMMARY Of THE HEWS
The State Pardon and Parole THREE MINISTERS AND WIFE
Board has rejected a plea to com- OF FOURTH DIES IN HIGHWAY
_ * FAIW .|. mute the death sentence of Doyle WRECK IN ILLINOIS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA Scott, 31 year old man convicted of.
slaying Mrs. Ruby Mae Daniels in
Brunswick last May.
Edward D.
Pittsfield, 111., Jan. 15—Three
ministers of the Nazarene' Church
North Georgia rivers have reached Edward D. Smith Atlanta at- 1 kjiifed 1 Jan. 14* when* thei^alito^oN
S stages with further rains ex- jtorney, h* ^en^ted^resident ^ auto^ol
P 6 *® 4 Santa. He succeeds R. C. Williams, 36 at Plttsfield -
Many banks in Georgia observed w ] lf) waR pievated to the position of j —
Tuesday as legal holiday in mem- v j ce chairman. I The fifth annual Georgia Girls’
ory of the birthday of R. E. Lee. _ 'Guest Assembly is announced for
The University System Board of Pr S ld “ nt Eisenhower sent 'greet-
Regents last week re-elected Dr. in gs to Andrew College, Cuthbert, while' at Athens “e
Harmon W. Caldwell as Chancel- as the C0 ]lege made preparations sevens
lor.
Jack Wilson has been elected
president of the Thomaston Coun
try Club succeeding John Eden-
field.
2,199 babies are said to have
* , , .. .. _ annual conference on
for celebrating the l(0th anniver- .Teacher Education will be at the
sary of its charter. University of Georgia Jan. 20-22. -
Gov. Herman Taimadge Monday | p^ank Hawkins, 93. retired finan-
installed members of five new cier native of Mississippi, died at
state commissions. appointed a Emory hospital> At]anta> Saturday.
or. — count y s ° llc »or and named a new He suffered a brokcn hip in a fall
bepn born at Ft. Benning U. S. ; member to the Dudley Hughes Me- j two weeks earlier. Mr. Hawkins was
Army Hospital, Columbus, during monal Commission. [the founder of the old Third Na-
1953. | A 28 year old Negro janitor’s ti° na l Bank and served as its
; "brush” with the law ended last 1 President until it was merged with
1 ivt 3 , cn(in ? n . . a f th I week with Macon police saying he Citizens and Southern National
eon Monday for J a r took his job too seriously and lit < Bank and was one of the founders
Charles Lee Wright, of Fitzgerald, “cleaned out” the Mabel, of the Atlantic Steel eo.
died of a heart attack. _.....
White Baptist church. | jr ro m Fort Valley comes word
James A. Culverhouse, age 3. of * ka ^ the recent cold added a most
near Thomaston was satisfactory number of cold hours
9 o 9 , t F h killed Friday afternoon troopers re- * or required rest of the peach
ported. He stepped off a curb into treea - The number of hours required
the path of an auto. The accident carries from 750 to 1,250, according
occurred in Silvertown. j^° varieties. Compared with a 17-
year schedule, the present num-
The Columbus post office for her of 752suificiently cold hours is
Date for holding the annual
Americus and Sumter County Ca-
mellia Show at Americus, has been
changed from Jar
13-14.
Sen. R. B Russell will be guest
speaker at the dedication of a new
Institute of Law Building at the
University of Georgia May 1, it is 1953 showed receipts of near unto above the past axerage of 741
learned.
Funeral for Mrs. Sallie M. Mc-
Corkle Baugh, who died at Roanoke
Va., was conducted Sunday at
Geneva Baptist Church in Talbot
county.
Mrs. Mary Reid Chandler. 101,
Savannah’s oldest citizen, died a
week ago today. Her right to the
distinction was confirmed this year
in a contest.
Thomasville’s annual camellia
show is planned for Saturday. 2 to
10 p. m. and Sunday, 1 to 6 p. m.
The Thomasville high school gym
is scene of the event.
Horace Schell, 25, veteran of the
Korean War. was killed when his
one million dollars and a little less hours at this time, of the winter,
than for 1952. However, the Macon I
post office for the sarrte period Out-of-State: Mrs. Margaret. Clark
showed a four per cent gain. y ea r old ex-beautyqueen, died
Saturday after gulping some sleep-
The Retail Promotion Committee ing pills, her death being due to
of the Columbus Merchants Asso- asphyciation by accident it was
ciation has voted to continue the claimed. At Hollywood last week
Greater Columbus Day promotion Actress Susan Ball whose fight
established last year, dates being 1 against cancer captured the na-
announced this year as Feb. 12-13. tion’s heart lost a leg by amputa
tion in a strong cancer fight. Mrs.
A party of nine Macon wholesale Dovie Dean, a grandmother who
druggists are supposed to have "couldn’t cry” died at Columbus, O
left yesterday for Indianapolis, Ind., W ith no show of emotion re-
where they will tour the plant of’ ce ntly in the Ohio penitentiary
1 y and Co., one of the na- electric chair for the rat poison
tions largest manufacturers of slaying of her husband> Hawkins
pharmaceuticals. |Dean, 68. Four young children
burned to death a few mornings
Said to have been one of the
ago when their baby-sitter, a 15-
automobile overturned on the Ea- bounty ^in ^recent 8 years^as ‘ year " oId sitter of three of the vic-
tonton-Miyedgeville Highway two 1 5een completed with the^ Interna- 1 H™ 5 s „ pp ? d out t0 the comer
miles south ot Eatonton. tional^^ Company’s purchase retired
Twelve persons were said to have; of 3> 5B9 a ® res of land from B. Lowe b urned to dea th Saturday in a fire
been killed and at least eight oth- ^ d Ro * ? a pnce re P° rted which swept through the home in
ers, including six children narrow
ly escaped death in early week-end
Georgia traffic accidents.
in excess of $175,000.
105-
which he had an apartment
The Griffin Lions Club has won Marianna . Fla., woman
the National Merit Award for its . ie . ^ r °rp burns when left alone
work for physically handicapped ’ n *? er Pome members of the
Two white men and a Negro were —**, famiiv An p<atimatr>ri sr mor,
tailed at Ameriru-s last weekiP eo P le - The nomination was made a Aa est ™ a -ea 85 men es-
by President Eisenhower’s National c . aped death at ° ttuma - Iowa, when
without charges pending investiga- py President Eisenhower’s National th secon d Door of
Committee in connection with the L ,, sec ° na i !oor ot
tion of an attack on a Negro iden
tified as W. C. Ross, 35
Six persons are prisoners in the
Fitzgerald jail following indictment
on burglary charges by the Ben | * n Georgia.
Hill county grand jury in a re
ported $123,000 safecracking.
club’s work in locating two fac- ^ a ^ collapsed,
tories for the blind in Griffin. This
is said to have been the first Na
tional Merit Award ever presented
the Masnoic
The 47th Infantry Division is to
The State Pardon and Parole
Board in a unanimous decision re
fused to commute the death sen-
be transferred from Camp Rucker, fences of two Negro youths convict -
Ala., to Fort Benning, near Colum- cd in Upson county for the slaying
bus next spring, the Department of an elderly white man. The
of the Army has announced. j youths, Joe Lee Jones, 16, and
| Charles L. King, 17, had repudiated
Monday Gov. Taimadge repeated confession's of guilt attributed to
his determination to maintain ra-, them in signed affidavits accusing
cial segregation in Georgia schools'a white man. of connection in the
even if it is necessary to use “the crime. It was on this new material
FUN NIGHT
Benefit March of Dimes
BASKETBALL GAME
Band Concert
Crowning of Miss Taylor County
March of Dimes
I
Ball game will be all-star game be
tween west side and east side of
county. Men and women, ages 50
years and down.
»
Band concert by Talbot County
High School Band.
Entire proceed will go to Taylor
County March of Dimes.
Thursday
7:30 P. M.
Admission
Night, Jan. 21
Butler Gym
militia and State Patrol” to do it.
Jamse Phillips, 40 year old Negro
has refused for 15 days to walk out
of the Cobb prison camp a free
man to return home to his wife
and 10 children, it was learned this
week.
The First National Bank of Co
lumbus has announced plans for a
modern building to be constructed
on the northeast corner of First
Ave and 13th St
President of the First National
Bank said construction on the new
building is expected to begin with
in 60 or 90 days.
that the board conducted a hearing
on their ple a last Dec. 11.
Says The Thomaston times: “Two
more mysterious letters from At
lanta with payments of old debts
have been received by Upsonians.
Ezra Johnson this week received a
plain white envelope from Atlanta
addressed to him in Thomaston.
Enclosed in the letter were three
dimes which the anonymous
writer said was in payment for an
John B. Key, old debt. Horace Pharr, Silvertown
received the third mystery letter.
Comparison with the other two let
ters indicates that all three came
from the same person.”
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