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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, APRIL 12, 1956.
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65-Lbs. Charlton Grey
WATER MELON SEED
$2.00 per pound
Germination, 95%; May be Purchased at
PAYNE’S WAREHOUSE, Butler, Ga.
W. O. WHITLEY, Mauk, Ga.
K. W. Dunwody, Bibb
Commissioner, Is Invited
To Washington in May
Macon, Ga.—Kenneth W. Dun
wody of Macon, has been invited
to join 3,000 other leaders in busi
ness, labor and agriculture at the
President’s Conference on Occupa
tional Safety May 14-16 in Wash
ington.
President Eisenhower will ad
dress the opening session. Speak
ers and clinics will demonstrate
ways of cutting down work in
juries.
The conefrence will conclude
with a report to the President by
Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell on the voluntary action
needed to prevent job accidents.
May 13 to 19 has been proclaimed
Job Safety Week by the President.
Dunwody is a Bibb county com
missioner and president of Chero
kee Brick and Tile Co.
DEATH CLAIMS WOMAN
MAYOR WHO MADE
ISLE JAIL FAMOUS
Anna Maria, Fla., April 3—Mrs.
Frances Warttig, 75, one of the few
women ever elected mayor of a
southehrn community and who
was the only person to put anyone
in jail here died Monday.
She was stricken at an Easter
Sunrise service.
Mrs. Warttig served as city
commissioner and mayor of the is
land town in the 30’s. Later she
served as postmaster and built the
present small post office with her
own funds. She leased the building
to the government.
He who governed the world be
fore I was born shall take care of
it likewise when I am dead. My
part is to improve the present
moment.—Wesley.
Oil Survey Being
Made in Several Central
Georgia Counties
Americus, Ga.—An official of Lee
Oil and Natural Gas Co. says the
firm is making surveys in three
Chattahoochee Valley counties and
added “we are still convinced that
we are in an oil province.’
The official, H. E. Austin, vice
president for Lee in the Southeast
reported that “as soon as financial
arrangments can be made we will
start a drilling program .”
Surveys are under wary in Web
ster, Sumter and Stewart counties.
‘:‘Ihave been spending the last
several days interviewing oil well
drilling contractsrs and inspecting
their drilling equipment so that
we may be able to have a more
satisfactorry drilling arrangement
made when we resume drilling op
erations in Georgia,” Mr. Austin
said.
Lee Oil and Natural Gas Co. re
cently suspended drilling opera
tions on the Joe Burgin Farm in
Marion County after hard rock
was hit.
“We do not consider the work in j
Burgin Well No. 1 (referring to j
drilling on the Burgin farm) at all
lost,” Austin declared. “The drill
ing enabled us to reevaluate our
own findings.”
ROBIN LAKE, LOCATED
NEAR CHIPLEY OFFICIALLY
OPENED SUNDAY P. M.
Chipley, Ga.—An j afternoon of
festivities marked the opening Sun
day of Robin Lake Beach, the
world’s largest inland sand beach
for the summer season when
Georgia’s swimming season of
ficially gets under way. Robin
Lake is part of the non-profit Ida
Cason Callaway Gardens located
on U. S. 27 near Chipley.
"Faith in Tomorrow"
Pronounced as New WSB
Was Dedicated Sunday
Atlanta, April 9—“White Col
umn” new home of WSB-Radio
and TV was formally dedicated
Sunday afternoon and this prom
ise was broadcast to radio and TV
audiences:
“Our faith in in tomorrow is as
stout as our record in the past.”
The ante-bellum style mansion,
sitting high on an oak-studded
hill overlooking Peachtree Street,
was hailed as a symbol of the Old
South.
Dedication of the new home
went on the air at 1:30 p.m. TV
audiences saw a panoramic view
of towering oaks and structure it
self. Eight bars of the theme music
from the motion picture “Gone
with the Wind” introduced master
of ceremonies Don Elliott who an
nounced:
“This is ‘White Columns’ ....
symbol of the tradition, the prog
ress, the prosperity of the South.”
Mayor Hartsfield pointed out
that the building stood on the site
o fa Southern plantation that pre
dated the City of Atlanta itself.
“It typifies the Old South,” he
said.
Speakers on the impressive 30-
minute ceremony, held on the
porch of the mansion behind its
massive columns, were J. Leonard
Reinsch, executive director of WSB
radio and TV and WHIO-Radio
and TV in Dayton, Ohio.
DR. WILLIS L. WEBB
OPTOMETRIST
Fort Valley, Ga.—Phone 611
Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Except Wednesday
SUMMARY OFTHENEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
The first class in Rose Culture at
Emory University was conducted
Monday night.
Terrell county’s centennial pan
orama has been set for April
15-16 at Dawson.
President Eisenhower Is spend
ing this week at Augusta relaxing
and playing golf.
A -dust storm that caused one
million dollars in damages in the
southwest has left a dusty haze
over four states.
The Lockheed Aircraft Corps
will erect a multimillion dollar in
stitution at Dawsonville in North
Georgia in the near future.
The State Toll Bridge Authority
said recently the new Sidney La
nier Bridge near Brunswick will be
opened to traffic on May 18.
Carol Jane Burton, 14, of Atlanta
died a few days ago from the ef
fects of a baseball bat with which
she was struck on the head acci
dentally.
Wmhile visiting his daughter,
Mrs. T. L. Underwood at Hawkins-
ville, Mr. James L. Sparks, 89,
prominent Americus citizen, died
a few days ago.
The Crisp county board of com
missioners last weekautborized the
issuance of revenue certificates for
construction of the new $2,250,000
hydro-electric power plant at Cor
dele.
The State Board oi Education
this week authorized 3?5 teachers
for Georgia school system where
average daily attendance has in
creased more than 4 per cent over
last year.
Champs of every weight class!
New '56 Chevrolet Task-Force Trucks!
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New 3000 Series truck, Model » New 3 A-ton Forward Control
3104, a Vi-ton pickup. chassis, Model 3442.
Model 3803, 1-ton, shown with
refrigerator body.
Model 3805, handsome new
1-ton panel.
New 6000 Series truck pictured
with van body.
Husky new 5000 Series L.C.F.
with platform body.
New 6000 Series Task-Force
school bus chassis.
New 4000 Series Chevrolet
stake truck.
mT-nwar raUTT^Tnunn riumune I
Having been denied a sanity
plea by the Governor, Willie G.
Cochran, convicted murder of a
Rome, Ga., teen-age is scheduled to
died in the electric chair at Reids-
ville tomorrow.
Some 4,000 pastors, Sunday
School superintendents, teachers
and officers are expected to attend
the Georgia Baptist Sunday School
Convention of First church in
Atlanta in April.
Extension of fishing time has
been granted due to the fact that
there has been a delay in obtain
ing the fishing license forms from
the printer. The 15-day grace per
iod will end Sunday.
A four-alarm fire almost de
stroyed a two-story business biuld-
ing in downtown Atlanta April
4th but firemen from 11 compa
nies kept the flames from spread
ing to surrounding structures.
Another new project soon to ap
pear on Atlanta’s ever-expanding
business and industrial scene will
be the office and warhouse of Cru
cible Steel Company of America to
be constructed at a cost of $400,-
000.
Leighton Drilling Co. has sus
pended operations in searching for
oil on the John Dana farm near
Hawkinsville and moved on to
Coffee County with hopes of re
turning to Pulaski county in the
late summer.
State Highway Department
spokesmen stated Monday that
some work will be done on prac
tically all of the state’s main
highways in a $34.5 million con
struction and improvement pro
gram for the next year.
A goal of $1,003,000 has been
set by the Atlanta Jewish Com-
t munity for the annual welfare
campaign. The Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund is a central fund
raising organization for collecting
and distributing funds to the vari
ous Jewish agencies in this coun
try and overseas.
Members of the 77-year-old Wo
man’s Society of Christian Service
of the South Georgia Conference
were surprised by the presence of
an Americus woman who had at
tended the first Columbus meeting
of the group 71 years ago. She was
Mrs. Geo. H. Walker, Americus re
tired school teacher and widow of a
South Georgia pastor.
New 10000 Series truck with
Triple-Torque tandem.
New 9000 Series L.C.F. cab
and chassis.
New 10000 Series truck illustrated
with concrete mixer unit.
New 8000 Series model shown
as tractor with semi-trailer.
NEW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPS S
This is just part of the new Task-Force fleet!
They’re rated as high as 32,000 lbs. G.V.W.,
50,000 lbs. G.C.W.! Come on in and look ’em over.
Anything less is an old-fashioned truck!
Taylor County Motor Company
Reynolds, Georgia
Out-of-State: In the death of
Mrs. E. C. Worrill, Eufaula, Ala.,
lost its oldest citizen last week at
the age of 95. Mysterious explosion
a few days ago at Sarasota, Fla.,
was felt 25 miles. A Chicago man
who spent 16 years in prison for
a $50 robbery he didn’t commit
tested his first day of freedom
April 5 and found it good. Fire of
undetermined origin a week ago
destroyed a hotel, theater and two
stores at Daytona Beach, Fla. Nine
persons died and ten were in
jured Sunday in a Chicago fire
which swept a four-story apart
ment building. Charlie Stewart, a
Tulsa, Okla., Negro 100 years of
age married a woman half his
age a few days ago. Five U.S.
Marines [were drowned Monday
night in the swamps near Parris
Island, S. C.