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THE BUTLER HEREADL, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY 28, 1954.
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SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
Mercury dropped in Atlanta 18
degrees in four hours Friday.
A three-story addition to the
Thomaston Mills is soon to be
added, it is announced.
* 225 divorce cases have been dock
eted for hearing in the February
term Muscogee superior court.
John Kersey, Upson’s oldest citi
zens at 96, passed away recently
after an illness or several weeks.
Dr. James Lee Pittman, 52, prom
inent Atlanta urologist and asso
ciate professor of urology at Emory
University died Jan. 21.
Site has been purchased for a
$100,000 National Guard Armory to
be constructed at LaGrange with
in the next few months.
The E. H. Harriman Safety Award
has been presented to the Central
of Georgia in recognition of its
outstanding safety record.
Bishop Moore dedicated the new
$45,000 James M. Couch church
school building of the Hampton
Methodist church Sunday night.
Four large cannon balls, relics of
the War States, are said to have
been unearthed on the grounds of
a local industrial plant in Savan
nah.
David G. Price, 19-year-old ex-Ma-
rine received a sentence for the
mutilation murder of Betty Bagby,
a 22-year-old crippled Atlanta
neighbor.
The largest poultry exhibition in
the South was opened in Atlanta
Monday. More than 2,500 delegates
from New England states to Cali
fornia were in attendance.
The State Highway Department
calls for five bids on Feb. 5th on
10 road jobs included in which is
5.273 miles of grading and paving
on Ellaville-Andersonville road.
The University of Georgia, At
lanta observed its 169th birthday
anniversary yesterday. Robert Frost,
Pulitzer prize winning New Eng
land Poet, was principal speaker.
At Thomaston last week Charlie
L. King and Willie L. Jones were |
resentenced to death in the electric
chair by Judge Chester Byars who
fixed the date of their execution
for Feb. 5.
Emory University, Oxford, cele
brated its 117th anniversary Mon
day night. Emory was chartered as
a college in 1836 at Oxford, Ga.,
and was moved to Atlanta in
-915-16.
Rev. G. N. Rainey, pastor of Ft.
Valley Methodist church, will leave
Monday for Miami, Fla., it is re
ported he will join about 100 other
ministers from South Georgia and
Florida in a briefing and consecra
tion service.
Plans are announced as about
completed for the laying of the
corner stone by the Grand Lodge of
Masons of the beautiful Eugene
Talmadge Memorial Hospital at
Augusta Tuesday.
The 29-year-old Atlantan and two
women arrested for the holdup
slaying of a filling station opera
tor, were indicted on murder
charges by the Fulton County
Grand Jury late Friday.
Speaking at Jacksonville, Fla.,
Monday Gov. Talmadge said the
South faces the brightest prospect
in its history for sound and sub
stantial growth and called it the
lop area for industrial opportunity
in the nation.
It is said that the school dispute
in Stewart County is not a feud
between the towns of Richland and
Lumpkin but is a contest over
“whether a building program rec
ommended for the county by the
state school authorities shall be
carried out,” states R. S. Wimberly,
Lumpkin attorney.
Some 1,000 long time employes of
the Central of Georgia Railway
meeting in annual session at Ma
con last week end elected
officers, named five honorary mem
bers and presented approximately
150 bold-engraved lifetime passes
to those who have 40 or more years
service with the company.
State School Supt. M. D. Collins
last week asked for the resignation
of the two officials at the State
Academy for the Bli;<*d, Macon,
who are held responsible for the
whipping—claimed to have been
brutal—of 12-year-old Lewis Thom
as. The two officials asked to re
sign are Supt F. G. Nelms and
Principal Bob Long.
Louisville-Hawkinsville
Road Mishap Sunday Cost
Lives of Eight Persons
! Macon, Jan. ^25—Three Savannah
men and woman were killed nine
miles north of Louisville when
their car left the highway, cut a
power pole in half and careened 200
feet into a tree Sunday.
Three cars were involved in the
Hawkinsville collision which also
killed four persons.
Killed instantly in the Louisville
crash were Hubert Lee Gibson, 36,
Jas. L. Green, 35, and Ben. Smith
Leakway, 35, all of Savannah.
I Ella Grace Parker, also of Savan
nah, died police said, about three
hours after the wreck occurred.
: Mrs. Bessie Leakway was critically
injured.
| Sheriff . B. Stanley said 'he had
1 not learned "which of the five was
driving. He said the car was, speed
ing an dthat intoxicnats were
I found in the wreckage.
I Killed in the Hawkinsville col
lision were three members of a
Cochran family and a Hawkinsville
man. The dead were Jas. W. Mullis
27, Clinton Mullis 30. and Leonard
Mullis. 25, all of Cochran; and D.
Mims of Hawkinsville. With these
Georgia’s highway death toll
soared to 12 for the week end.
Governor Wants
Nominations For
American Medals
Gov. Herman Talmadge called on
the public today to help him find
two deserving Georgia youths to
nominate to the U. S. Department
of Justice to receive Young Ameri
can Medals for Bravery and Serv
ice.
Each year the Justice Depart
ment awards four of the medals
two for extraordinary heroism and
two for unselfish .service. The win
ners are picked from nominees
recommended by the 48 states, and
Attorney General Herbert Bronwell
has asked Gov. Talmadge.to rec
ommend two Georgians this year.
Nominations for the 1954 awards
must be submitted to the Justice
Department before April 30. They
must be accompanied by formal
recommendations, supporting state
ments by witnesses or persons
with knowledge of the\facts, a cer
tified copy of the candidates’ birth
certificates and the biographical
sketches.
Letters should be addressed to
Governor Herman Talmadge, State
Capitol, Atlanta.
Pelham Couple Recipients
Of Many Honors on Their
76th Wedding Anniversary
A young Ejbert county woman
grabbed a cane-bottom chair and
put a man armed with a double-
barrel shotgun to flight one
night recently and thereby saved
her father’s neighborhood grocery
from being robbed. The incident' Pelhanii Ga.—Hundreds of friends
occurred within a stone’s throw of ca]1 £ d at the home of Mr, and Mrs.
Rock Branch school and was wit- K B Spence Sunday afternoon to
nessed by the young lady’s mother extend to them congratulations
and father.
(and best wishes on their 76th wed
ding anniversary.
| Mr. Spence who will reach the
century mark in his life in August
sat close to his wife who is four
years his junior, gazed at her with
admiring eyes as he attributed his
A series of criminal charges py
ramided Friday against four Rome
men linked in what police de
scribed as an interstate car theft
ring. Miss Marv Luna Cheek,
daughter of Hon.* and Mrs. H G ufe to the wonderfu i car e he
Cheeks of Butler, was one of the ha * received since the d he took
vnetjms of the gang last Oct. She Raw]s fQr hig bride
recently had the good fortune of,
“The Wonderful City,” a radio
reclaiming her car after being re- m originat ing in New York
painted and every mark of identi■ ; Qt over the Mutual ne twork, re
flation possible removed. | cen tly devoted a portion o£ the ,
Out-of-State: An elderly Boston, show to the anniversary of Mr. and
Mass., spinster who lived so frugal- Mrs. Spence, giving a brief account
ly in a cheap flat that neighbors their long married life, and an-
believed her penniless was found in nounced that the sponsors of the
death to possess $36,000 stuck program were sending them as an-
away in her bosom. The printing niversary gifts, a diamond ring for
plant of Ypsilanti, Mich., Press was Mrs. Spence, a gold band for Mr.
damaged by fire Sunday to the en- Spence and for both of them a gold
tent of $250,000. A Buck Hill, p a . ;ke yj*> the cit y of New York and a
Methodist church official says the | TV Set.
i mobility of Americans has resulted |
So,Star Officials
'ZTaSTSZ E£?S'Xfr state and 0ther 6uests
SrbfoneS^h^SeT/anKilAre Honored at Ashbum
houses in the United States. J, P.
(Thomas, a New Jersey former con-[ Fairburn, Jan. 23—Mrs. Ethel D.
gressman who was jailed for cheat- Moncrief of Columbus, worthy
ing the government by padding his grand matron, Order of the Eastern
office payroll, has announced he Star, P. G. Sexton of Atlanta, wor-
will run for Congress again this thy grand patron and several other
year. A Waseca, Minn., jury award- grand state officials were present
Heavy Damage Suit
Filed Against Perry
Man by Floridians
Macon, Jan. 23—Three members
of a Florida family filed damage
suits totaling $82,118 at Macon in
U. S. District Court against E. M.
Beckham of Perry.
The petitions claimed Beckham
recklessly or negligently drove his
car into a vehicle occupied by Wm,
N. Jones, Ellis M. Jones and Mrs.
Estelle Jones, all of Avon Park, Fla.
The petition stated the Florida
family was traveling on U. S. High
way South of Perry on Sept. 5, 1953
when the mishap occurred.
Wm. N. Jones, through his father
as next friend, is asking $25,000.
The father, Ellis M. Jones filed
suit for $26,939 for the loss of a $1,-
500 automobile and injuries which
prevented him from working for
one month, the petition showed.
He is also asking $5,179 for the
loss of services of his wife.
Mrs. Estelle Jones filed a peti
tion seeking $25,000 for injuries.
The 30th annual meeting of the
Georgia Masonic Secretaries is an
nounced for Feb. 10 at Macon. A
program is being arranged for the
meeting which will open in Macon
Lodge No. 5, Cotton Ave., at 10
| In his address Monday night
dedicating the $578,000 ultra-mod
ern YMCA addition at Columbus
the speaker stated that the
j addition was “to the glory of God
and to the building of great and
noble character.”
25 CHKKS fREE
WITH PURCHASE OF 50 lbs.
Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter
Saturday, January 30
Bring your own box. These are Leghorn cockerels
and make fine eating.
Peed Bros. Feed Store
Your Ful-O-Pep Dealer
Butler, Georgia
ed $3,000 to Arnold Kopischke, 62,
who charged a roomer at his house
with trying to steal his wite. An
at the meeting.
Ashbum Chapter No. 287 in co
operation with Osceola Chapter No.
Thomas Lee West, youthful ex
policeman at R.becca, Turner , Elgin, 111., tom cat was willed $2,-[431 of Ocilla, Blanch Chapter No
county, has been acquitted by the
county superior court at Ashbum of
murder in the recent fatal shooting
of Cecil Doster, a soldier just back
from Germany.
000 by its master who left a $188,-, of Tifton and Adah Chapter No. 15
000 estate to cancer, she being a of Fitzgerald were hosts to Eastern
victim of the disease, was destroyed Star members from all over the
last week suffering from cancer of district as visiting state officials
the jaw. were honored
l
Mrs. Gilbert, 83 Widow
Of Former Chattahoochee
Court Qrcuit Judge, Dies
Bring Your Cottonseed to Us
For
Delinting and Treating
Have installed three gin stands
for good and prompt service.
Cochran’s
DELINTING PLANT
Butler, Georgia Phone 86
| Atlanta, Jan. 23—Mrs. S. Price
i Gilbert. 83-year-old widow of a
[former Georgia Supreme Court Jus-
^ tiee, died unexpectedly Saturday at
St. Simons Island.
She wds visiting at the Georgia
resort with her son, S. P. Gilbert
^ Jr. when she suffered a heart at-
”, tack.
j Barn near Seale, Ala., Mrs. Gil
bert was the former Mary Ella
I Howard. She married Gilbert in
11895 in Columbus where they lived
until 1914 when they moved to
Atlanta.
| Mrs. Gilbert was active in the
j Methodist church and she and her
[husband who died in 1951, were in
strumental in having historic Fort
, Frederica on Sea Island preserved
as a national monument.
Mothers March
Fight Polio
I
Turn On Your Porch Light
Friday Night, Jan. 29
7 to 8 P.
Let Your Light Shine When You
Hear the Siren
MACON COUNTY MUST
SOLVE ITS OWN SCHOOL
TANGLE, STATE ADVISES
Atlanta, Jan. 21—a dispute be
tween Montezuma and Oglethorpe
! over location of a proposed new
! county high school is back in the
1 hands of the people of Macon
! county.
j The State Board ot Education re-
J | turned the school building proposal
(g to the Macon County Board of Ed-
n j ucation, requesting that it be put
M j at the bottomt of the priority list.
gjjThe proposed school for white stu-
‘ dents would be built in Oglethorpe.
Reynolds * Butler - Crowell
Central