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NUMBER 28.
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Shooting:
Home
Tuesday Night.
Occured at Negro’s Mr. Mac Marchman of Mercer
Near Charing Early j University Accepts Position
As Coach at Local School.
BUTEEB, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY APRIL 8, 1954.
Keep Tay lor County Green
Second Annual Keep Taylor County
VOLUME 78.
Deputy Sheriff Mott;Hartwell Weaver Jr.
Kills Negro Man J Elected Principal
In Self Defense Butler High School
FIRST SECTION
UTLER H
Austin Guinn, Ranger, points to the growth of a 5 year
year old Slash Pine on the Butler Naval Stores land, illustrating
the rapid growth that Pine Seedlings make in Taylor County.
Wmser Heath, 75 year cld Negro Mr. Hartwell Weaver Jr., of Mad i-
9 If/*”®' community wa s instant- 1 son High school has accepted the
ly killed early Tuesday night byjp OS Hjon as Principal of the Butler
Deputy Sheriff J. W. Mott. I high school for the 1954-55 term ac-
According to a coroner’s jury cording to Mr. W.H. Elliston, Coun-
under the direction of County ty School Superintendent.
Coroner J. D. Cooke, Deputy Mott: Another change in the local
shot the negro in self defense. TheigphoQj faculty is that of Mr. Mac
coroner s . jury . which made a Marchman who has accepted the
thorough investigation of the shoot-, position as coach. He has had sev-
ing was composed of the following era l years experience in coaching
gentlemen: Murray Walker, fore- high school basketball and base-
man; Ollie Bazemore, J. A. Stevens ball teams. He is completing post-
Ed Davis and Dave Harbuck. i graduate work at Mercer University
Details leading up to the shoot- j this spring,
ing were given as follows: j These men were selected at a re-
Sheriff W. E. Henson of Marion cent meeting of the local trustees
county and his deputy called of Butler school and approved by
Deputy Mott Tuesday night the County'Board of Education at
and asked him to meet them at their |regular meeting Tuesday
Charing as they were looking for night.
a negro charged with assault and The local school faculty has|
attempt to murder and who was been selected and will be notified
said to be hiding at a negro house officially by the County Board of
Revival Services at Methodist Church
Will Begin Next Sunday Morning
Rev. David- A. Duck of Dawson Modem Methods Used
Will Assist Pastor During the By tOCdl Forestry Ullit
To Restrain Fire Lossse
Series of Services.
(Hoke Hatcher. Pastor)
Holy Week Services
will be
Washington, D. C.
Neva Jane Langley,
Much of the twentieth century
-April 11 to 18 forest fire fighting is performed
with mechanized equipment, Rang-
Palm Sunday — next Sunday— er Austin Guinn of the County For-
Rev. Swoll Sawyer, District Superin- ostry Unit Reported this week.
tendent of the Peach District i ,He especially cited the use of, .. , #
YMCA will be speaker at 11 a. m. tractor and jeep plows in fighting KTIOWfl 3S MlSS AltlCTICS
and 8 p. m. The local Hi-Y and forest fires, pointing out a report! . «... '
Tri-Hi-Y organigations will have issued this month showed the aver-i.Tg||c Yoijm AHnilt fvfWI
charge of the evening service. age plow unit replaced 12 to 20 '
These two services will mark the. men with hand tools on the fire
opening of the Holy Week series. ,Iine.
Monday through Friday, 10 a. m. • The local Forestry Unit plows its
near Charing. ^Education. Their names
Upon Mott’s arrival at Charing published at a later date,
all three men went to the home of t
thought to be hiding a his home. Local Feed Merchant
Deputy Mott knocked on Heath’s r n .« u»i ^
front door and Heath asked who it Ml. LlfllllcTT WIISOIl
was. Mott replied that it was the' m b t la i
Deputy Sheriff and for him to open D6C0ITI6S I 111*1113 vCdlCr
the door and met Deputy Mottl _____
the door nad met Deputy Mott! ~ .
..,5,1, „ oo . . / . . t Mr. Emmett Wilson,, owner of
with a 38-calber pistol in his hand F armerK cp rvipp rp„tp r i n
pointed at Mott. The deputy then u l 1 T
nnpnpd firp uiiipH ,u. announces that he has been
Entlv negro named the dealer for Purina Cjiows
‘n., si . , in this area. ,
C a K ge 0t th p Mr - Wilson has received large 1
§32 u W t ab vf en f e of supplies of all types of Purina
Sheriff Charlie Wright who has a chotU for Uvestock poultrv, dogs'
months leave of absence and rab5its . He wlll . h H ave Unities
Travis Albritton, Forest Fire Patrolman for the Taylor
County Forestry Unit plows a fire break to protect this young
growth of pines from an on-coming destructive forest fire.
Taylor County Forestry Board Praised
By Olin Witherington, District Forester
Mr. Walter J. Butler,
Local Peach Grower,
Named on Committee
three
f.'Si"! ™„ Tr ^ ,ning Sch001 ln of the Purina Research Farm an"
I the company’s extensive research
, laboratories at his disposal in help-
j ing to solve feeding and manage-
jment questions of his farmer and
! feeder customers. ,
j All farmers of this area are in- j
, vited to visit his stove, Mr. Wil-.
i son said, to become acquainted |
- ' ! with his new line of merchandise I
Macon, March 31—Neva Jane [and service. I
/u i r „ua XVJ a a,. „ r Langley, who araveled 100,000; Mr. Paul Thompson will be man-j
and 8pm Rev ^David Duck of fire lines with a John Deere tractor! miles and made 322 public appear- ager of the Farmers Service Cen-1
•the Dawson Methodist church will and fire plow, also a Wiliys Jeep ^nces in her year-long reign as Jer and will be glad to assist farm-,
be the speaker. The pastor will with plow. Other equipment in-, Mi ss America of 1935, is off again ers of this county. ,
close the series with an Easter eludes three fire towers, all i But fnis time the appearances — —
message on Easter Sunday, 11 a. equipped with two-way radios with; &r ? a iittle different. iDCRIOCrdtS HdVC Set
m. 'all equipment outfitted with two-| Bhe * s busy telling young people •
Every person in the community way radios, enabling the crews to all aver the country about God. ^gu 25th 3S U3te for
is invited and urged to attend and get to fires when they are first! S ”ce December the Wesleyan ,WI
hear these messages and worship sighted. I^Jege coed has made four out-of-
with us. Monday night will be I Despite the advantages of,® tat / ips 9° sp f ak at . r * llg i ous ,
church official night and all the mechanized equipment, however, | gatwo to . Tex ' I , „
officials are asked to sit in a much hard, difficult hand labor / s and , ° ne each to Miami and | Atlanta, Ga.—The State Demo-
group. Wednesday night the ladies’ still is often involved in suppress- ; Gr ®" sb ?„ . . . , eratic Executive Committee will
organizations are invited to be ing a forest fire. Fire lines which I " “ sae returned to the Wesley-;meet in Atlanta May 25 to adopt
honor guests. Fridav night- will be mechanized equipment plows still an cam pus from the most recent, rules for the Sept. 8 primary.
Youth Night and ail the youth of .must be improved and protected by i ° ne j w /? k 7" ta f ker f IaSl Peters > committee chair-
the community are urged to be raking inflamable matter away ! esk P lled high with invitations to man, announced the committee
j Adopting Primary Rules
present.
Come and
you.
bring someone with
Instructions Pro and Con
Relative to cutting Usable
Trees on Timber Areas
from the line and suppressing
flames too near the line with flaps.
Most forests are started or re
newed by natural seeding. The
seedlings must be protected from
fire,
Seedlings are planted on aban- (
doned farm land and large open- country,
ings in the woods to start a ne*/
forest. They must be protected from
fire.
The seedlings cost about $3.00 a
thousand and one or two men can
plant them- in a ddy. Planting ma
chines are now a vailable for pur
chase or rent which can plant 8,000
or more a day.
Spacing of planted pines usually
ranges from 6x6 to 8x8 feet apart,
“This county,’’ said Ranger titions willi lngly if she can
Guinn, “is fortunate in that its for
estry unit has . modern plowing
equipment, which greatly reduces
acreage burned in areas in this
vicinity where the tonography per
mits their use and where the best
method of controlling forest fires
is to construct a line, around them
as rapidly as possible.”
The average plow unit can con
struct three miles of Jire line an
hour in level land one and half!
miles an hour or more in mountain
speak on other reliigous programs, will meet in Senate Chamber of
Misses Langley accepts the invi- the Capitol at 10 a. m. on that
date.
Washington, April 1—The ap
pointment of 8 members and al
ternates to the industry committee
which will administer the amended
marketing agreement and order
program regulating the handling
of fresh peaches grown in Georgia
during 1954-55 was announced to
day by the U t S. Department of
Agriculture,
The period covered by these ap
pointments is March 1, 1954 to Feb.
28, 1955.
Members and their alternates
are: J. R. Clarke, Marshallville and
S. A. Frederick, Ft. Valley; J. F.
Duke, Ft. Valley, and W. J. Butler,
Butler; J. P. Brown and D. M.
Rumph, Montezuma; Bennett Rig-
don and E. L. Duke, Jr., Ft. Valley;
J. R. Gay, Ga; and T. J. Glover,
Newnan; T. H. Carroll, Woodbury,
and L. B. Chambers, Madison; J. C.
Woodson and Hubert Hancock,
Thomaston; C. W. Hood Jr., and W.
N. Harden, Commerce.
YOU CAN HELP
Local Citizen Takes
Part in Approaching
Druggist Convention
depending upon the soil and other!
conditions.
Trees in old fields plantings,
when protected from fire, are fre
quently large enough to be thinned
Dr. L. W. Theus of Butler has
been appointed Taylor County
“booster committee” chairman for
the 79th annual convention of the
Georgia Pharmaceutical Association
which meets April 19-21 at the Bilt-
more Hotel in Atlanta.
A large delegation from this sec-
“ w » i o iiwin (.itto at-v.
for pulpwood when if to 15 years tion is expected to be among the
old. Annual growth of from 1 to 2
cords per acre may be expected, de
pending upon soil treatment, and
location.
approximately 1,000 persons an
ticipated for the event, according to
Henry A. King, Atlanta, convention
general chairman.
Fire crew of County Forestry Unit in front of new head
quarters building are from left to right, James Stringficld, Thos.
Mathews, Bobby Wainwright, Travis Albritton, Ranger Guinn.
Dependent crippled children can
become independent adults—WITH
THE HELP OF EASTER SEALS.
Georgia’s Seal campaign is
sponsored annually by the Georgia
Society for Crippled Children as
part of a nationwide effort to help
the handicapped.
It is headed this year in Taylor
county by Mrs. John 1 Peterman.
District chairman is Howell Hollis,
Columbus, and Mrs. J. F. Sikes is
treasurer.
Date of the drive is from March
18 thru April 18.
Seal funds will be used 3 ways in
Georgia:
1. Research to develop better :
means of coping with physical
handicaps.
2. Treatment given at crippled
children’s Centers throughout the
state.
3. Training of therapists, doctors
and teachers to staff the Centers,
through scholarships. Funds are
also used for equipm^t such as
braces, wheel chairs and crutches
and for parental instruction so
treatments may be continued at
home.
Georgia has 100,000 handicapped
children.
Local Forestry Board Ready to
Assist In . Tree Planting as
Well as Fire Prevention.
Special praise for the Taylor
County Forestry Board and its ef
forts to lessen fire damage in this
area this week came from Olin
Witherington, District Forester for
the Third District.
“Other counties in the Third Dis
trict,” he said, “can gain much by
noting the efficient manner ini
which this board is operating.”
Forestry Board members are W.
[A. Jarrell, Butler; A. J. Fountain,
and T. Whatley, Reynolds; J. R.
Wilson, Butler, and L. R. Pike
of Mauk.
Mr. Witherington said that the
board always has shown an ad
mirable interest in preventing
woods fires in. this county.
He added that pulpwood and
saw timber formed a major phase
of the county’s economic life.
“This problem of forest conserva
tion and forest protection from the
ravages of fire,” he pointed out, “is
an acute one, therefore, not only
from the standpoint of maintaining
the livelihood of a large proportion
of the population, but from the
standpoint ot future generations as
well.”
The District Forester assured
Forestry Board members and the
citizens of this county the person
nel of the Third District Office,
Georgia Forestry Commission, will
utilize “every means available” to
help our country cut down on losses
from wildfire.
Two Sisters Win
First and Second Place
In Vocabee Contest
Miss Janette Trussed, member
of the Senior Class, Reynolds High
School, won first place in Taylor
county in the recent “Vocabee Con
test’’ sponsored jointly by the But
ler Herald and the Columbus
Ledger-Enquirer.
The second place winner was
Miss Mary Ann Trussel), sister of
the f irst place winner and a
member of the 10th grade of Rey
nolds High school.
| These two, young ladies are
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Sanky
j Trussed, well known Reynolds citi
zens.
Miss Janette Trussed will repre
sent Taylor county in the district
final Vocabee contest in Columbus
around the first of May.