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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 6, 1954.
PAGE SIX
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SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA FOR ALL PAST 70
PENSION IS URGED
Four persons were killed in traf-
Washington, May 1—Rep. J. W.
Mother of the Year
Leaves Columbus for New
York and Washington
fie accidents during the past week Byrnes, (R.Wis.) proposed Saturday
end. that the government begin paying
$30-a-month old age benefits to all
H.
Eleven Persons
Reported Killed in
Western Storm
Oklahoma City,
Georgia’s current sound economy
is said to be reflected in figures on retired persons over 70 regardless of
retail sales for the first two months need,
of 1954.
retired under
Jas. B. Foreman, S4 ' for liberalizing the Social Security by the American Mother’s Com-' storm fury in Mississippi; six in au
farmer na< Jlchallville Act, retired persons over 65 draw mittee of the Golden Rule Founda- t crashes, one when a power line
S&’SSuSU !^ d age. insurance benefits only if U<m. „ . , snaDDed and elee.rocu.ed him. and
died Saturday. Jthey have paid
Atlanta has recorded its 21st traf- f 0r at least a year and a half. I
compared ,
On the flight to Ne wYork and re- injured in
Building program applications of turn she w jjj be the guest Q f capt tering tornades out of the south-
nine more local school systems g d Rickenbacker, head of EAL, west swept northeast across the
were approved Monday by the State who hag p resen ted the tickets for state causing hundreds of thous-
Board of Education. The largest of t ^ e tr j p ands of dollars damage,
these applications was for the| g^p w j] j be accompanied on the | The tornadoes ripped 23 Okla-
Muscogee county program estimat- trip }-,y ber niece, Miss Katherine homa towns. But the brunt of the
ed to cost $5,894,007. It will provide McDuffie, woman’s editor of the winds was light in Meeker,30 miles
151 new class rooms for white chil- Enquirer. Miss McDuffie will re- east of Oklahoma City’, where 26
Columbus, May’ 1—Mrs. W
Tolbert of Columbus leaves today deaths were attributed Sunday
for Washington and New York for
a week of activities to be climaxed
Under existing law, as well as Friday when she is acclaimed the ing downpours.
Pres. Eisenhower’s program 1954 American Mother of the Year Eight persons died as result
May 2—Eleven
to
wisters, high winds and flood-start-
of
SEE
Sikes Insurance Agency
For
tion.
social security tax Mrs. Tolbert starts her trip at drowninB in his back yard
and a half. |the Muscogee County Airport when on f ot drowning in nis ^acK yara.
year,
a corresponding
fic facility of the
with IS deaths for
period last year.
Chicken of Tomorrow’ Day will be
observed at the University of Geor
gia in connection with a broiler
short course today.
she boards an Eastern Air Liner. Three persons were killed and 39
On the flight to Ne wYork and re- injured in Oklahoma where bat-
Clay County Post No. 118, Ameri
can Legion has voted to again ob
serve Veterans’ day at Ft. Gaines.
The date w'as set for Aug. Sth.
Boy Scout units from 12 counties
In the Georgia-Alabama Council
will assemble at Ft. Banning May
14-16 for their annual spring camp.
dren and 115 for Negroes.
Mr. Harry W. Baldwin, 84. native
of Talbot county, died Monday
night at his home in Talbotton. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mittie
Lou Baldwin; a daughter, Mrs. John
McCarthy of Atlanta; a son and a
i port the week of activities for the persons w'ere injured and 30 homes
readers of Columbus newspapers. destroyed.
In Washington Mrs. Tolbert will
be met by two of her five sons and
representatives of the Mother’s
Committee and the Golden Rule
Foundation.
Fire, Windstorm and Hail
Life, Hospital, Auto mobile,
Farm Liability And
Crop Hail Insurance
BUTLEB, CA.
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The annual May Dav at Mercer, ’ grandson, Harry Baldwin Jr. and I
Macon April 29th featured a nauti- Stanley Baldwin, both of Pensacola
cal theme with the university gym
turned into a shipboard floorshow’.
The 165-room scenic Lookout
Mountain Hotel between Trenton,
Fla., and
nephew’s.
several nieces and
■It is said that the first of a se
ries of tests ever conducted in the
Ga., and Chattanooga, Tenn., w'as nation, streptomycin is being used
sold at public auction Tuesday for
$215,000.
A tank maintenance w’orker fell
an estimated 120 feet to bis death
at Waycross Tuesday w’hile work
ing on a standpipe in the center of
the city, police records reveal. •
Maj. Gen. E. T. Williams deputy
commanding general, Third Army
will he an honor guest at Mercer i
University during Mercer’s fifth an
nual ROTC Day on May 12
by U. S. field w'orkers in the treat
ment of pecan trees infected with
a bacterial disease. The tests were
instituted last week in a pecan
grove of H. S. Jennings near Albany
by John Cole pathologist, and J. Hi
Hunter chemist of the U. S. Pecan
Field Experiment Station.
Honor Conferred on
Eight Southwestern
College Students
Americus, May 2—Barbara Cham
bers, Americus, was elected chief
marshal at a student election at
Georgia Southwestern College Fri
day.
Other marshals chosen were Sam
Davis, Colquitt; Dorris Barnes,
Americus; Neal Crotwell, Leesburg;
Peggy Smith, Lithonia; Nancy
Murray, Columbus; Jerry White,
Americus, and Anne Davenport,
Out-of-State: Bandits are said to
have bound New Orleans police-
J* men Monday night, opened a 2-ton
j6afe and took away $175,000. Birth-|
day candles were lighted April 291 Ameri CUS .
Weekend burglaries at Buena at Oxford, Pa., for the world’s old- i -phe mars hals are student host-
Vista were reported Monday by the est Negro University founded 100' esses 0 f co ]]ege and are pres-
following places of business: C. E. j years before slavery was ended in ent on public occasions. The
Hugler and W. J. Harbuck, mer-phis country. In New York City last young women who are freshmen at
chants, and Williams Construction j Wednesday a Puerto Rican Na-j t h e co n e ge, will first serve as mar-
Co. |tionalist is said to have been sen- S B a ] s during the May Day festivi-
! fenced to three years in prison for.ipc Mav 12
Y. Davis, 16, of Marietta, was threat on the life of President Eis-
shot to death on an Atlanta street en hower. Tornadoes swept Texas for
Saturday night. The bullet is said )B ree straight days last week,
to have been fired from a stalled ] as hj ng a i so Mississippi and Ten-
automobile Davis had offered to as-'>essee injuring many persons and
pist ’ damaging property to the value of
The grand Commandery Knights]millions of dollars. A $2,265,000 bid
Templar, of Georgia will convene 1 was n^de By the Edwin Lamb En
in Columbus Wednesday for a two-, terprise, Inc., for a TV radio station
day convention with St. Aldeman at St. Petersburg, Fla., last week.
Commandery as host for about 500 ' While prison guards watched a
visitors. I baseball game at Atmore, Ala.,
'Sunday afternoon 19 convicts are
Milton Beckerman, 37, editor of reported to have cut their way to
the Claxton Enterprise, and Cand-! liberty. At Hollywood last week
ler Rogers, 50, Evans county Sheriff movie producer Fred Packard won
were convicted in Claxton city'a divorce and $500,000 settlement
court Monday on charges of from Sheiagh Rank, 31, daughter of
fighting. I British film mogul J. A. Rank, on
, , . . _ ! grounds she called him "stubborn
Parents and friends of the young j and pigheaded .”
boys and girls who compose the'
Terrell High Chapters of the FFA
and FHA were honored at theii an
nual banquet a few nights ago at
the American Legion Clubhouse.
A hit-run driver plowed his car
intoa family group on the road
side near Homerville Sunday, kill
ing, two children outright, fatally
injuring the mother and causing
serious injuries to two other chil
dren.
A battle royal is assured in
Georgia politics by the entrance of
Agriculture Commissioner Tom Lin
der into the race for governor, and
even so should Gov. Talmadge
seek Linder’s office mentioned as
likely yesterday.
Clerk of Walker County Superior
Court T. W. Bryan. 66, of Lafayette
was killed near Gordon Tuesday
when the car in which he was rid
ing overturned as the driver at
tempted to dodge a dog in the road
state troopers said.
From Washington comes the an
nouncement that Cordele has been
added to the Labor Department’s
list of areas with "substantial” un
employment, making it eligible for
special treatment in getting certain
government contracts.
Dr. J. B. Kay ofByron was chosen
Tuesday by the Medical Assn, of
Georgia through its annual session
at Macon for the honor of being
called “practicioner of the year. In
his 35 years of practice Dr. Kay is
said to have delivered more than
3,500 babies.
The holder of a federal gambling
tax stamp was arrested at Macon
Friday after lottery tickets and
money was found in a box under
the running board of his car, police
said. Lonzi Bradley was charged
with participating in a “bug” lot
tery operation.
Carl Rountree,editor and publisher
of the Dawson News, was awarded
an honorary membership in the
FFA Chapter for the outstanding
contribution of the newspaper to
FFA activities. The award was
voted by the chapter and the pres
entation by Ed Laing, a former
president and charter member.
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