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THE BUfLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, JULY 21. 1955
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
| George D. MeCranie. recently
i arrested at Macon being identified
1 by finger prints disclosed that he
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA is a " esca P ed prisoner 14 years
■vwwi vw 'ago from Parchman Penitentiary
in Missouri.
Final plans for -huge hospital
at Albany have been completed.
Bountiful crops are in prospect
for Georgia this Summer and
Fall.
A 36-year-old Pierce county
mother gave birth to her 14th child
on June 25th.
A 14-year search between
Chatham, Mass., brothers neither
of whom had ever seen the other
ended last week at Ft. Benning at
the office of Capt. Murray E. Hor
ton one of the brothers.
Acting Postmaster Thomas E.
Sikes, of Columbus has been mov
ed nearer to permanent postmas-
,tership in Columbus after having
James Len Clark, a 49 year old : been raised from third to first
Columbus man shot himself to | p ] aC e in Civil Service eligiblity
rating.
death Monday
Order has been signed against
the lighting of beer signs on Sun
day in Georgia.
Twenty-one Georgians met trag
ic death the past week by traffic,
drowning and fire.
Thirteen persons lost their lives
during the week end in highway
accidents in Georgia.
The second bad check artist is
reported to have been operating
in Thomaston last week.
Two Atlanta women, ages 56 and
26, were burned to death Monday
when their home was destroyed
by fire.
Miss Minnie Lee Carmack, 73, of
Columbus was killed a few days
ago while on a trip to Atlanta,
intersection.
The Chatahoochee Valley
Assn, has been organized at Chip-
ley to promote tourist trade in
West Central Georgia.
W. A. Enloe Pr. has resigned his
position as postmasters at La-
Fayette, Ga., to head a cotton mill
he established in his home town.
Bibb county’s estimated 868
school teachers will each receive
an increase of salary of 250 begin
ning with the coming Fall term.
The Muscogee County Commis
sioners last week authorized the
purchase of seven Shoup Voting
Machines at a total cost of $117,- I h ^ s Postmastership has been
HO changed. Congressman E. L. For-
The University System Board of
Regents has voted to separate the
Atlanta Division from the Uni
versity of Georgia Sept. 1, and re
duce its program of arts and
and sciences to the junior college
level.
This is of interest to all produc
ers of live stock in Middle Geor
gia: “A mid-year sales report
from the Sumter Livestock Assn.
Inc. revealed that 850 hogs and
530 cattle sold during the past six
years.
Georgia’s American Legion elect
ed World War I veteran Leon
Hobby of Moultrie commander and
deferred action on important reso
lutions involving Macon and Cor-
dele before the state convention at
Macon Sunday.
Mrs. Elsie Mae Lathan, a 37-
year-old Habersham county wom
an, mother of ten children, sen
tenced to life imprisonment for
the murder of he r husband, has
,been granted a new trial by the
Georgia Supreme Court.
Judge G. P. Martin, 81, Judge of
the City Court of Jefferson and
father of Harold Martin, Atlanta
Constitution columnist and asso
ciate editor of the Saturday Eve-
nning Post died July 14th, climax
ing an illness of long duration.
It is rumored that the rating of
three applicants for the Colum
bus Postmastership has been
Montezuma Woman
Writes Colorful Story
State’s Past History
John Burney, 64, shot his es
tranged wife three times and then
killed himself with a 32 caliber
pistol at their Dexter home Sunday
night.
Rev. A. W. Reese, 77, native of
Columbus, retired members of the
South Georgia Conference, died at
Savannah Sunday ending a long
illness.
Mrs. J. L. Mims, the former Miss
Mary Phillips, who was president
of the Georgia Federation of music
Clubs, died last week end at her
Hawkinsville home.
Johnny Luster, four years of age
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Luster of
Houston county, was accidentally
shot to death by his brother, 8
years of age Monday.
Agents of the State Revenue De
partment, assisted by Atlanta and
federal officers arrested more than
150 persons on bootleg charges
during the past week end.
David R. Brook of Columbus, is
being sued to the amount of
rester has been asked by the State
Commander of Disabled American
Vets to make investigation of such
remarks.
President Lloyd A. Moll an
nounces the resignation of Dr. Tra
vis Kirkland as head of the busi
ness education department of the
Georgia Southwestern College,
Americus. He is reportedly accept
ing a position as member of the
business administration depart
ment of East-. Carolina College,
Greenville, S. C.
Out-of-State: Four persons were
recently killed in an auto wreck
near Camden, S. C. Wall Street
has pulled out of a 25 year de
pression, it is claimed. Twenty-two
persons died in an airline crash
near Chicago Sunday. Three un
wed mothers, testified Saturday
that they gave their babies to
New York and Chicago lawyers for
adoption. Rev. V. Yates, 43, a well
known Alabama Baptist minister,
plans to follow his two sons, Billy
19, and Charles 17, into the U. S.
Air Force in a few days. A big
“tanker” plane caught fire in the
Montezuma, Ga. — Two memo
ries of the 60’s are still clear in i
Mary Boyd’s recollection.
The prisoner-of-war camp at An
dersonville, as it appeared when
her mother, Mrs. Wm. Guerry ahd
other Americus matrons drove
down in thetr buggies and wagons
to take baskets of food to the men
there, and the day when the long
delayed news arrived that her 17-,
year old brother had been killed at'
Gettysburg are still vivid in her
memory.
Mrs. Boyd, who will be 97 on
Sept. 3, do es not, however, live in
the past. Her conversation is full
of sprightly ancedotes concerning
the manners and morals of today,
as it of yesterday’s way of life.
Associated with Americus for
most of her adult life, she now
lives with he r daughter, Mrs. B.
H. Barwick in Barnesville. An
other daughter, Mrs. James How
ard, also lives in Barnesville.
At present she i s visiting Miss
Hazel Christopher in Montezuma
and "boning up” her Guerry kin
folks in this town on their French
Hugueot ancestry which begins in
this country with the emigration
of a "nobody knows how many
great grand fathers from France
around 1685.”
The name was originally Guerri
said Mrs. Boyd to a group of in
terested Guerry’s at the Christo-
phe home the other night, and all
the ’’Georgia Guerry’s are descend
ed from three brothers, James, Le-
Garnde and William who came
down from Edgefield District, S.
C. in the middle 1800’s”
Mrs. Boyd wears proudly a pin
of French Huguenot Society of
South Carolina.
Mr. Boyd holds no brief for the
"good old days.” She is convinced
that the world has grown to a
better place to live since she was
a child. “There are more evidences
of man’s humanity to man,” is the
way she puts it.
One thing does “surprise” her
about young moderns. She has
never become quite used to the
present matter of course educa
tion of daughters for earning their
own living. “I used to be interest
ed oin reading a wedding an
nouncement in the newspapers
to learn that the groom was as
sociated with such and such firm,
or he was entering the practice of
this or that profession. But I never
grew used to reading that the
bride is employed at Jones and
Co.”
Asked to comment on the inte
gration of the races, Mrs. Boyd
smiled and said, “I’m afraid
neither race is ready for it yet. It
reminds me of the young married
pair who fought day and night.
One day the wife noted the dog
and cat lying peacefully at either
end of the hearth and groaned,
‘Why can’t we get along as well
as they do?’ The husband answer
ed, 'tie them together and see how
they make out’.”
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$38.75 per month for support of- ] air, 1500 feet above the earth
niQ Pdlifnrnin 1 , I i o , « . , „ . . .
his California mother who desert
ed him at the age of four years.
Completion of a multi-million
dollar office building under con
struction at the southeast comer
of Peachtree and Baker Sts. N-E,
Atlanta is expected by Aug. 1,
One of two DeKalb county felony
prisoners, whose escape attempt
resulted in the deaths of two per
July 13 at Mercel, Calif., sending
its 10-man crew to their death. An
airliner carrying many service
men struck a signboard while at
tempting to land Sunday in a fog
at Midway Airport, Chicago, crash
ed killing 22 persons and injur
ing 21 others. Four persons were
electrocuted Monday night when
an electric wire fell across an au
tomobile in a rain storm near
Alexandria, La. Mrs. Sallie S.
sons had been supplied'wim 1^- who ’ wouW^Tlrui, fbJTiS
before “ C ° Umj ' ‘ he ^ «°° a snatch thief os
| she stepped from a street car.
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Mark Ethridge, Jr.
Native of Macon, Ga.
Named Raleigh Editor
Raleigh, N. C. — Mark Ethridge
Jr. son of the publisher of the
Louisville Courier-Journal and a
tested newspaperman in his own
right, today was named editor of
the Raleigh Times.
Now editorial page editor of the
Pulitzer Prize-winning daily News-
day of Long Island, the 31-year-
old Ethridge also h as -had news
paper experience in North Carolina
Washington and London.
He will begin his duties h ere
July 25, General Manager Frank
Daniels of the Times Publishing
Co., said.
Ethedridge attended public
schools in Macon, Ga., Washing
ton, and Louisville, and was grad
uated from Phillips Exeter Acade
my and Princeton University.
FORT BENNING TO GET
TEN MILLION DOLLARS
BY RECENTLY PASSED
Washington, July 15—With a
flourish of his pen, President Ei
senhower has signed the
billion dollar construction pro
gram at U. S. Military bases
around the world. Many of the
P projects are secret.
Georgia projects in the bill:
Army
Camp Stewart, $967,000, Ft. Ben-
ning, $10,392,000 Camp Gordon
$261,000; Atlanta General Depot
$84,000. ’
Navy
Ordnance plant, Macon, $3,800,-
: 000; Air Station, Glynco, $1,886,000
Marine Corps supply center Al-
jbany, $3,157,000.
Air Force
Dobbins AFB, Marietta. $758,000;
Hunter AFB, Savannah, $4,115,000;
Moody AFB, Valdosta, $4,322ioOO;
Robins AFB, Macon, $3,375,000;
Turner AFB, Albany, $3,744,000.
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