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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, APRIL 15, 1954.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS Rev. McTier, Cancer
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
May 1st is deadline for Georgians
to register for the 1954 elections.
Bessie Tift College’s modern
$500,000 library was dedicated at
Forsyth Tuesday.
President Eisenhower and Mrs.
Eisenhower arrived in
yesterday for a brief stay.
Jesse E. Mercer, 95,
Victim Prepares to Die Noted State Figure,
From Dreaded Malady Is Claimed by Death
Waycross, April 11—Two mes- Harlem.-
Augusta
die by the Bible. ed at 4 p. m. April 7,
He has lived the first to the full- side services at Leary.
'est during most of his 56 years Mr. Mercer was the
and now with cancer bringing descendant of Jesse Mei
The week of April 19-24 has been cleath nearer each day he is pre- of Mercer University,
set apart as clean-up, paint-up pared to follow the second,
week at Buena Vista. i Rev. McTier was a vigorous fig-
Fielder 85. passed away ure in Borgia Methodist circles for
4 rl/\nn until Ln iiton et n
Mr. Mercer was a
senator and became
head of the
L. P.
Bibb county schools are said
have suffered a $141,500 loss when retirement last October.
then just enacted.
the storm
13th.
hit this section March
Dr. Robert S. Lambert was for-
Now confined to his bed and able
to talk only in a barely audible
voice, he says-. “I urge the support
of the American Cancer Society.The
mally inducted as president of the (j rea( j ra g e Q f cancer
Berry School and
Ga. Friday.
College, Rome, concern anc j effort to curb this
stealthy killer are in the service
of the Senate Committee on 1
cation and Labor had him ap-
universa 1 P ointed secretary of that commit
tee.
He returned to Georgia in
as an internal revenue agent
on March 13.
A plane-load of chattering mon
keys arrived in Savannah Monday
from Manila for use in polio vac
cine experiments.
Dr. James Harden Crawford, 75,
Atlanta physician for more
years, died Sunday night at
home in Atlanta.
Cl W w U 1 1 C/ U L V—J v VI1 X Q | C-O L/C- V- X CX I I y III , • .
South Georgia Conference where he tio „ n r al P rohlbltlon law. _
served for 28 years. I Mr - Mcrcer was born ln Webster
county, a son of Wm. H. and Mary
All records of Georgia FHA M ^ cer - , wh ° had moved
provement loans were
under lock and kev in
than 50 7“ e l day + ° n im:lrnCtion
hig Washington.
Perry Johnson
ordered a > oun £ man
houn County Courier at Leary.
'***'- rvriy jounson of Roberta has ■■ *>, 1 I L
Hundreds of Georgians will gath- g° n <* Oakland, Calif., for over- 110136 JllOW 3l tOlUUIDUS
Is Announced for May 1;
Tickets Are Now on Sale
er at Kingston April 26th for the seas duty. He received his basic
S9th Annual Confederate Memo- training at San Antonio but for
rial Day program.
-several months was stationed
(Moody Field Air Force Base.
Mrs. Eula J. Parks, 66, native of
Macon county, died at her home at
Montezuma Tuesday alter an ill
ness of several months. (Georgia by the Fc
I in carrying out
H. G. Tinker of Macon yesterday | gram of na ti ona ]
submitted the apparent low bid of De j 0( j f r0 m Julv 1
$1,198,482 for
Construction contracts valued at
$102,116,060 have been awarded in
defense in the are on sa ] e at
Meriwether county school building
program.
Rr ™ e ° f If 5 - J 7 - C t hildree besides the boxes will be sold.
Brady and her son, crash victims in, Points earned at the show
1C/JI redLIltU til I. WJllit; Ullt- j i i . . oillij Lldooco Illcly LH ex'
person died from drowning this T ‘ * r - .... , .°™ p Is in ward national credit and
being 8-year-old James B. Kinney was also kllleri in the acci ‘ The individual receiving
of Ashburn. ‘ |show credits in the natio
Cuthbert’s sixth annual Spring acclaimed at the end
Flower Show is announced for year - the . fmest showman or i
on a national level.
Local entries in the show
At a special ceremony by Wood
men of the World Camp No. 497,
of
Roberta, Sov’reign P. W. Spillers Wednesday of next week and will.
was presented ..Mr. Woodman ofb e based on the recognition of the
1953” plaque. I 1 ™? anniversary of the founding £“*£* *“'"the 7hm
of Andrew College which is being J n,ei ‘ est the sho\
Farmers in Crisp county have the:celebrated this year. j ,s at a nigh peak,
most promising outlook for a crop! ' Gne of the most
they have had in many years, ac-i Winners in the UDC-sponsored the spring social
cording to those interviewed during Sidney Lanier essay contest at *be big horse show
the past week end. jThomaston have been announced May 1 at the Chatet:
land Barbara Warner of R E Lee Fair Grounds.
It is said that almost 400 CTO High School will read her winning' There wiH be 17
telephone workers walked out at ossay at the Confederate Memorial show , including sotr
Southern Bell Telephone offices in p a y exercises April 23 Tennessee walking horses in the
Atlanta Tuesday in protest over the " " world, the pleasure class, three-
“firing” of an employe. | The names of 93 Mercer University gaited, five gaited. roasters, and 5-
All members of the Schley coun- ? a f Vfc * pen placed on lhe Featured event f
tv consolidated school faculty have d s * for 1he winter quarter, will be exhibitions of jumpers and
Im, o 1 Frank Cla rk, university registrar, town showmen.
This is the first local show since
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of Fdueatinn announces l To at,ain ,h e academic honor a stu
dent must maintain an A average 1948 when the Junior League spon-
Dr. Raymond Walters, president for lh e quarter’s work. sored the event in Columbus. The
of the University of Cincinnati and ! program will begin at 7 p. m. and
the inaugural speaker warmly Eighty-five percent of Talbot is expected to last about three
praised both Lambert and Martha coun * y s l and area is in forests it hours. Most of the participants for
Berry founder of the schools. i 1 ? said, a factor that makes promo- the local event were entered in the
|tion of forestry management an fashionable Orlando Show recently.
A headon collision between two important task in the county, ac-1 Scheduled events will take place
automobiles Friday on U. S. high- cord mg to Soil Conservationist J.R. regardless of weather conditions,
way 41 south of Maccn resulted in ^ ond - Talbot’s forest area covers Individual riders and trainers are
the death of James Ilyler of Ma- 219,000 acres acording to the re- planning their own original acts
con, and serious injury to five P ort - for the program,
others. j I Winners in each class of the 17-
| lhe old I once de Leon, Atlanta class show will receive trophies
From Buena Vista comes an an- borne of Mrs. Asa Candler purchas- and ribbon awards. Two grand
nouncement that plans are being ed recently by the Roman Catholic championship trophies will be
formulated by Buen a Vista Lions organization is soon to be re- awarded. Local merchants are do-
to commemorate the 20th anniver- modeled and converted into a com- nating the trophies and awards
sary of the Club. The Club Presi-1 mun ! ty of Nuns of the Visitation, a'
dent B. C. Dickinson has appointed 1 religious order which lives se-
A. S. Boyett, Buena Vista postmas- c ^ uded from the world, moving MlrfHIP ftPflrniA fiiflc
ter and Marion county farmer and, there this summer from Toledo, O., W vvviijia Ulll)
Among GSCW Students
Awarded College Honors
property owner, as chairman of the < „
committee in charge of arrange-f oss (j ° rd y- 24 year old Alabama
ments. Polytechnic Institute senior died
early Monday from a cerebral hem-
" orrhage in an ambulance enroute
If You Are in Irom Lumpkin to Atlanta. Son of
(Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Gcrdy of Lou-
vale, young Gordy was active in
j church andother community activi-
Doubt
Milledgevillt, Ga.—Seven seniors
at Georgia State College for Wom
en have been named to I’hoenix
ties. He also was active in Auburn , hl f best scholastic honor socie-
organizations. ty on the campus.
ty on me campus.
Chosen solely on the basis of
Considerable dam- their academic records, the new
this science has done for them. age " as re P orted from a small tor- members of the organization will
as to whether or not Chiropractic! 0 . _
gets results, kask our patients what’ Uut -°f-State:
be recognized officially on May 6,
when parents of GSCW students
They have tested its merits and ? aa ° str uck Russell county,
know whether it gets results "better a ” Tuesda y. An attractive young . ,
than anyone who has not tried it * ayetteville, W. Va.. mother is re- and ° ,her £ uests asemble on the
ported to have burned to death cam P u s to spend the day at the
fHIROPRAPTiP ' last week her tw in sons that she colle £ e and pay tribute to a dis-
veiiiivj might get married. The governor of tin S ulshed Georgian, a GSCW
will stand the most careful investi- Florida has suspended seven mem- alumna, and student leaders,
gration. It will cost you nothing to b ers of the state’s road board for' ° ne of the honor ees is a resident
find out whether it is applicable to not having respected his orders, it of th ? Re P u blic of Panama and
your case and this investigation said. John L. Beall, who is cele- tWo live in Marshallville.
may mean health and happiness to brating his 100th birthday today at 1 The division of business adminis-
Louisville, Ky„ has app'lied for a tration - headed by Dr. Donald Ful-
;marriage license to marry a 69- lor ’ led the othcr sub Ject areas at
iyoar old widow in the same com- thecolle S e wdt h three majors while
imunity. An unexplained explosion the science division, Dr. James
iMonday blew up a two story brick chairman, was runner-up
store at Goldsboro, N C killing- 5 wdtb two.
—' ” 6 One of the
Carlton, is the moth
er of a 12-year-old son and has had
you.
Delays are dangerous.
Bring all you health troubles to
DR.
ELMO W. DAVIS
’or perhaps more persons A picture Une of 1he to P- ra nking seniors,
.postcard showing the “new' Plaza MrS ' LiIla L- Carlton
! Hotel” in New York City has arriv- ...
ed at the nearby Mount Gretna Wlde ex P enen ce as a teacher and
127 S. JACKSON ST.—PHONE 2566 N ‘ Y ” post office alter a trip of coun * sel o r ia Georgia schools. She
Americas. Ga. ™ ore lhan 40 years. Deoositors of r ^ tarn ® d to GSCW this year tc-com-
|fhe defunct Clio Ala 'bank are pletP her work ln En & ]i sh history
said to have received’ half lhe before returning to the teaching.
Berring Taylor and Surrounding
Counties Since 1937
This is the end-
—of manual shifting
-of clutch expense
—of fuel waste
-of shock loading
-of skimpy power
-of stodgy looks
-of driver discomforf
Why be behind times and pay the penalty of
working with an outmoded truck? The new GMC
light-duty models-with Truck Hydra-Matic
Drive,* 125-horsepower high-compression
, * D** wiii|/i VOOIVIIJ
engines, smart styling and luxury cabs-cost very g fffl
■ • | . * w ue r V l J
little more to buy and much less to run than old
style trucks. For your pride, your convenience
and your pocketbook, come see and drive a
OMC first! * Standard on tome model:; optional at extra toil on other:
Be careful-drive safeU
(money they feared lost.
profession.
BYRD PONTIAC COMANY
Butler, Georgia
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