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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, APRIL 22, 1954.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS j Safety Rules to Observe
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA During Lightning Season
Which Prevail in Summer
Modern physical education build
ing costing $258,000 is now under
construction on grounds of La-
Grange high school.
Crisp County Power Commission
has adopted a resolution authoriz
ing a cut of 10 per cent in the
power rates to all electrical users
in Crisp county.
A 39-year-old 3rd Army lieuten
ant colonel hung up his uniform
last week and immediately as
sumed new duties as general man
ager of the Southeastern Fair
Assn, in Atlanta. He is E. L. Car-
teron, a native of Madison, Wis.,
and Gen. MacArthur’s intelligence
officer in 1950-51 for Southeast
Asia, now the world’s No. 1 trouble
spot.
Joseph D. Jones, 38, of Macon
was sentenced to four years in
prison by Judge Hoyt Davis in fed
eral Court at Macon Monday after
pleading guilty to a charge of
breaking into Bonaire jost office
last February. Three other Macon-
ites entered pleas of guilty to
charges of attempting to pass
forged money orders and were sen
tenced by Judge Davis.
Officials oft he Georgia Pardon
and Parole Board said this week
that L. F. Meadors, Macon auxiliary
policeman convicted of manslaugh
ter last year, will be released
from prison Saturday. Meadors was
convicted of voluntary manslaugh
ter in Bibb Superior Court in
February, 1953, following his trial
on a murder indictment. The jury
fixed his sentence at one to three
years.
Chicago, April 16—The Journal
of the American Medical Assn. Not
ing the thunderstorm season is
here ha<s issued four general rules
for safety of wayfarers caught in
lightning storms.
“One of the safest places during
a lightning storrn is in some metal
enclosure, such as an automobile
with a metal top, a steel railway
coach or a steel building,’' an edi
torial said. “A dangerous place is
in the middle of a field away from
all trees or in a wooden boat in a
large expanse of water.”
It listed these safety rules for
persons caught in thunderstorms:
1. Do not go out of doors. Stay in
side away from Chimneys, fire-
! places, Stoves and other metal ob
jects.
2. Chose shelter as follows. Metal
or metal-frame buildings which are
protected against lightning, and
large or small unprotected build
ings.
, If you must stay outside, keep
away from small sheds, isolated
trees, wire fences, hilltops, and
wide open spaces.
I 4. Seek shelter in a cave, de
pression, valley or canyon, dense
woods, foot of a cliff or in a grove
of trees.
!
I B. C. Bennett, 74, conductor, on
the "Man o’ War”, died suddenly
in Macon last week. He had been a
Central of Georgia Railway em
ploye for more than 52 years. Hte
died shortly after asking a friend
to telephone his employer that he
was ill and could not report for
work.
Dinkier Plaza
Will Erect Huge
15-Story Annex
Atlanta, Ga.—A handsome 15-
story addition to the Dinkier Plaza
i hotel to cost an estimated $2,000,-
000, is to be started immediately.
The announcement was made
Saturday by Carling Dinkier Sr.
president of the Dinkier chain of
hotels, following the placing of
the contract with Byck-Worrell gen
eral contractors.
The new building will be located
directly behind the existing hotel
which faces Forsyth St. The ad
dition will be at the southwest
! corner of Fairlie and Williams St.
Eleven of the floors of the new
structure will be devoted to rooms
providing accommodations for 260
persons.
Each of these 11 stories is to be
connected with the existing hotel
by a crystal bridge. This will form
a veritable "curtain” of glass 30
feet in width to 125 feet high,
which will become a landmark for
that part of downtown Atlanta.
City and state authorities grant
ed permission for bridging over
Fairlie street several months ago,
when the plans were first being
formulated.
Petite Mary Jane Donar waltzed
and sang her way to Miss Macon
title a few nights ago on the first
leg of a trip she and other Ma-
conites hope will end with a Miss
America title in Atlantic City later
this year. She is a freshman at
Wesleyan College, the daughter of
Lt. Col. and Mrs. L. H. Donar, Ft.
Bragg. N. C. She graduated from
Fayetteville, N. C., high school last
year.
Middle Georgia Area
Is Lashed by Storm
One Day Last Week
Tornadic winds hit two Georgia
towns Friday afternoon and torna
do warnings hung over most of
Georgia and part of Florida and
Alabama.
Five other small twisters hit
Florida and Alabama towns.
A sketchy report from Eastman
said a small tornado struck that
South Central Georgia, causing
! widespread property damage. No
injuries were reported,
j Storm winds also down on a
ifarming community near Ft. Val-I
I ley Friday afternoon.
! The roof was torn form at least j
! one house in the Ft. Valley storm
but no one was reported injured.
Extensive property damage re
sulted from the high winds, the
State Patrol said.
—
! Baptist "messengers” from every
part of the state will travel to Sa
vannah for the 1954 session of the
Georgia Baptist Sunday School
Convention April 26-28
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Out-of-State: Thousands of wind
shields are being mysteriously
damaged in the West. The Secret
Service in Washington announced
this week it has arrested three men
for passing $20 bills stolen from
the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing in a daring crime last de-
cember. The names of more than
100,000 women have been added to
the voters lists in Alabama, but
men still outnumber them at the
ballot box by more than 5 to 3. N.
E. Isaacs, managing editor of the
Louisville Times said Monday that
American wire services and news
papers have been notably free of
bias in reporting war news. Pope
Pius XII is said to have conferred
the title of Knights of Saint Freg-
ory the Great upon two Augusta,
Ga. men, Alvin McAuliffe and John
McDonald. From Mobile, Ala.,
came announcement Friday that
tornadoes, gales and violent thun
derstorms bad hit five southern
states wrecking a vessel and con
tributing to one death and at least
six persons injured. It is said that
R. E. Stolbun, vouthfu] Chicago in
dustrialist has purchased practical
ly the entire town of Lake Park, 5
miles north of Palm Beach, Fla.
plus thousands of adjacent acres
an d miles of frontage on the ocean •
bay and Highway A-l-A. as well as
several good sized islands.
Eisenhower Family
Attends Easter Services
And Egg Hunt at Augusta
Augusta, Ga., April IS—Smartly
dressed President and Mrs. Eisen
hower attended traditional Easter
church worship Sunday after
watching their three grandchildren
hunt gaily colored Easter eggs.
The President later got a big
kick showing off what he called
the "little stunt” he had taught
6-year-old grandson, David.
Standing in the bright sun on
the lawn in front of the Little
White House at the Augusta Na
tional Golf Club the President
clapped his hands briskly and
called to David: "Now we’ll do our
stunt.”
GRIFFIN MAN KILLED
IN FREAK ACCIDENT
ATOP WATER TANK
More people are buying Ford cars than any other make because
they have found that Ford gives them more of the things they want
—and at the price they want to pay.
National new car registration figures* for the latest six-month
period available show Ford out front by thousands.
Griffin, April 17—E. H. Shumak
er, 27, structural steel worker from
Newnan, was electioeuted acciden
tally Saturday on top of a 75-foot
water tank in downtown Griffin.
He and his employer, E. W.
Brown of the Brown Steel Construc
tion Co. of Newnan, were measur
ing the tank as a perliminary to
tearing it down.
Brown said a steel tape in Shu
maker’s hand was blown by the
wind across a high voltage electric
wire beside the tank. The tape con
ducted electricity from the wire to
Shumaker’s hand. He was knocked
to the floor of a catwalk around
the tank and his clothing was set
on fire.
Brown was burned in trying to
beat out the fire with his bare
hands.
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