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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JULY 14, 1955.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
The U. S. Secret Service observed
its 90th birthday last Tuesday.
Construction work in Columbus
last month was reported at $325,-
754.
Crop conditions throughout Mid
dle Georgia are reported greatly
improved by recent rains.
Some 375 applicants are taking
the annual bar examination in At
lanta being conducted yesterday
and today.
The Montezuma Kiwanis Club
will sponsor their third water
pageant at the city swimming pool
in August.
Grover Lee Thames, 66, a re
tired Fort Valley mail clerk, died
Friday at a Ft. Valley hospital
after a brief illness.
The Georgia Board of Education
voted Monday to automatically
revoke license of any teadher who
instructs a mixed class.
Georgia’s accident toll stood at
12 Monday. Traffic accidents took
the lives of 7 persons, with four of
seven killed in Atlanta.
It is gratifying to learn that a
broiler processing plant, employ
ing about 30 persons, will be open
ed at Buena Vista Sept. 1.
Miss Annie Mae Britt, 60 years
old, was hit by a train and killed
in the Gloster community near
Lawronceville a few days ago.
E. A. Davies of Augusta, has
been elected to succeed A. A. Wise
of Decatur, as President of the
Georgia Association of Letter Car
riers.
Widespread interest is being
shown in the West Georgia beau
ty contest being conducted at
Lakeview near Carrollton this
week.
The National Senate and House
appropriation of $3,000,000 on the
$90,000,000 Hartwell dam on the
Savannah river 15 miles northeast
of Elberton.
Charlie S. Phelps, native of Tal
bot county, died Monday at Macon
where he had made his home for
a number of ^ears as an outstand
ing electrician.
Five persons died in Georgia
traffic accidents Saturday, the
State Patrol reported. Four others
were killed in other type accidents
during the week end.
Ex-Gov. Talmadge will be guest
speaker at a county-wide rally
planned by the Turner County
Chamber of Commerce to be con
ducted at Ashburn on Aug. 2nd.
It is stated that rated civil
ian employes at Fort Banning will
receive an estimated $366,000 ad
ditional pay a year as a result of
the recent Civil Service pay hike.
An Atlanta police officer and a
17 year old boy were fatally in
jured and one of two escaped con
victs was shot during a desperate
chase through Atlanta’s southside
Saturday night.
Postoffice inspectors in Atlanta
reported the arrest of two men
Monday. The arrest clears up an
Elko, S. C. post office robbery that
flooded 15 states with bogus pos
tal money orders.
Bank accounts and home build
ing are the barometeers of unpre
cedented growth in Georgia and
the State Department of Commerce
reports Georgians have $2,198,875,-
000 in the bank.
Seaborn P. Collins, national com
mander of the American Legion,
will be featured speaker Saturday
night at the Georgian Dinner for
1,000 state Legionnaires meeting
for their 37th annual convention.
Mayor Marion Allen of Ft. Valley
has designated July 21st to receive
national recognition for its coveted
safety record now being already
having half through its fifth
straight year without a traffic fa
tality.
Out-of-State: Six persons — four
girls, a boy and a man—were
drowned at a Modesto, Calif.,
family picnic Saturday. A South
ern Pine, N. C., girl was willed
$22,500 by a rich California child
hood sweetheart of 30 years ago.
A three state alarm went out from
Montgomery, Ala., Saturday for
recapture of four convict gospel
singers who literally sang them
selves out of Alabama’s Kilby
Prison. Greta Patterson, 18, has
won the reputation of having
been the first person to swim
across Lake Erie from Angola, N.
Y. Detroit has the reputation of
producing and selling for the July
September quarter 1,800,000 new
automobiles. Using only two
pieces of boiled string and scissors
Edwin Davy, 31, of Milwaukee,
recently delivered his fourth child
in an unassisted birth at his home.
Produce dealers at Louisville, Ky.,
are receiving a *‘peach price” for
peaches, $7.50 for a 10-pound bas
ket, or $37.50 a bushel.
Indian Springs Holiness
Camp Ground to Open
Annual Meeting Aug. 11
The Indian Springs Holiness
Camp Meeting, at Flovilla, Ga..
which will open its 65th annual
meeting Aug. 11th, for ten days,
offers the following preachers:
Dr. R. V. DeLong, Kansas City,
Mo.; Dr. King Vivon, Macon; Dr.
John R. Church, Winston-Salem
N. C.; Rev. C. B. Cochran, Deca
tur; Rev. C. I. Armstrong, Hough
ton, N. Y., and Dr. J. H. Paul,
Dr. Paul will preach Saturday
afternoon, Aug. 20th, the 50th
anniversary of the first preaching
at Indian Springs. At that time,
Dr. Paul was the youngest evan
gelist ever to preach at the Camp.
Since then, he has served in ap
proximately one-fourth of the
meetings. No one else can boast
such a record.
Dr. Armstrong and Dr. DeLong
have both recently returned from
trips out of the country. Dr. Arm
strong from six weeks of Intensive
missionary evangelism in Hondu
ras, Central America, and Dr. De
Long from a world tour which
took him to Hawaii, Australia,,
India, Palestine, Greece, Italy,
France, Belgium, Holland, Ger
many and Great Britain.
The nursery for children is un
der the direction of Mrs. E. B.
Lewis, Girard, Ga. Mrs. Reginald
Edenfield, Macon, directs the pro
gram for children above five years
of age.
Mr. Marvin G. Dean, professor
of voice and director of choral
groups at Asbury Col lege,Wilmore,
Ky., will supervise the music for
the meeting.
The public may secure further
information about the Camp by
Writing W. S. McKibben, Social
Circle, Ga.
Houston Liquor Issue
Termed as Responsible
For StrongPolitical Fight
From Macon Telegraph:
Houston County Commissioner
H. J. Walker, leader of a pro-legal
ized liquor move in Houston, will
oppose Incumbent C. C. Chapman
for sheriff next year. Walker re
vealed to the Telegraph his plans
to run.
Sheriff Chapman also said from
his Perry office he would seek re-
election in 1956 “if I’m living.”
The sheriff, however, did not
want to comment on Walker’s sur
prise announcement.
“I am definitely going to be a
candidate for sheriff in 1956,” said
Walker.
“And,” added the Houston com
missioner, “I’m accepting Chief
Hawkins’ (Perry Police Chief, J. B.
Hawkins) challenge to clean up
the county of bootlegging.”
(In his heated fight for a county
wide vote on legalized liquor,
Walker asserted Houston “already
is illegally as wet as it can get.”
Following this statement, Chief
Hawkins challenged Walker to
“go ahead and clean (the county)
up. He said he would.Why doesn’t
hego ahead and do it,” Hawkins
said-.
Walker has written Atty. Gen.
Eugene Cook for an official ruling
on whether he must resign his
commission post to make the sher
iff’s race.
Chapman was elected sheriff in
! 1942 after having joined the Hous-
1 tan sheriff’s office in 1926 and
serving as a deputy.
Walker said “many friends have
approached” him to run “and it
looks like I’ve got a lot of support
throughout the county.” •
The two county officials already
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disagree widely on the amount of
bootleg liquor in Houston. Walker
cited a report labeling Houston as
“one of the worst bootlegging
counties in the state” but Sheriff
Chapman took direct issue with
such a report.
A Dougherty county coroners
jury last week ordered U. S.
Marine Corps Sgt. Jas. . Brawley
held for September Grand Jury ac
tion in fatal beating of his year-
old son. Brawley is being detained
in the Douglas county jail on an
open murder charge.
! ESTIMATE OF SEVENTEEN
MILLION ACRES OF COTTON
NOW UNDER CULTIVATION
Washington, July 8—The Agri
culture Department reports that
17 million acres of cotton were un
der cultivaation July 1. This would
be enough to produce 10,257,600
bales if yields are about normal.
The department i s forbidden
to issue any cotton production es
timates until August to prevent
possible speculation. But growers
[last year produced 13,679,000 bales
from 19,791,100 acres in cultivation
[on July 1.
DRIVE AGAINST MENTAL
ILLNESS BEGAN IN ATLANTA
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Atlanta, July 9—The nation’s
first regional campaign against
mental illness was launched this
week in Atlanta with organization
of the Southern Regional Council
an Mental Health Training and
Research.
An outgrowth of a request of the
1953 Southern Governors’ Confer
ence to its Southern Regional Ed
ucational Board, the council will
act in an advisory capacity to the
board.
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