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The Butler Herald
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VOLUME 81.
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OBSERVATION^
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BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1957.
NUMBER 20.
1
The numerous local friends of
Charles C. Wall Sr. of Ellaville,
wi» be interested in this story by
Mrs. W. H. Vanlandingham ap
pearing in a recent issue of the
Ellaville Sun:
“C. C. Wall, Sr., who retired
Jan. 1, as Superintendent of the grounds.
Ellaville Methodist Sunday School j According to
Buys Home for
School Principal
The Taylor County Board of
Education has purchased the J. T.
Cox residence property adjoining
the present local High School
Mr. W. HP. Ellis-
ton, County School Superintendent
the recently acquired residence
will be remodeled and enlarged
and used for a dwelling for the
principal of the local high school.
Mr. Hubert Payne
Praised for His
Farming Ability
Macon Telegraph Publishes
Interesting Story Regarding
Mr. Payne’s Farm.
Susan Myrick, Representative,
Macon Daiily Newspapers
Hubert Payne who runs an au
tomobile agency at Butler and
The residence is located near the farms “on the side,” likes farming
High School building and Gymna- j “more fhan anything else,” he
torium and will make an ideal • said. Then, he laughed and add-
location for the home of the' ed:
principal and his family. j "But it’s a poor way to make a
The additional land area is also living..”
needed for school purposes. Payne bought 300 acres of land
a few miles from town in 1951,
Vl O rl n PAll
Porterville Negro
Youth Shot to Death
Monday Afternoon
P. F. Stewart
Dies Suddenly
At Nashville, Tenn.
Husband of Former
Lady Dies of Heart
Tuesday Afternoon.
Watson Family
Home Burglarized
Articles Recovered
Butler While the family of E. G. Wat
son was away at school and Mr.
Attack Watson had just left his home for
l a short time, their home was en
tered and ransacked on the after
noon of Jan. 31st.
When the children returned
from school they found dresser
drawers emptied on the floor and
clothes closets were well picked.
Ladies clothes as well as costume
jewelry were missing.
Sheriff Charlie Wright and
G.B.I. Agents found the clothes
stuffed in bags and left in a
mile from the Wat
son residence Monday afternoon.
at I Altho rain had damaged some of
Mr. Frank Muster
Pinned in Truck
For 21 Hours
Flint Electric Employe Spends
Hectic Day and Night Before
Being Located by Rescuers.
John Robinson, colored, about 18
C. C. WALL, Sr.
pastures
I Common bermuda, Coastal ber-
. ^ , muda and Bahia grass make up
years of age was fatally shot , his permanent pastures. Last fall,
Monday near Potterville by Robert , using a Pasture Dream he
Miller, .24, living in the same com- !
munity.
The two men were alleged to
after 36 years and two months of have been squirrel hunting on the
loyal and devoted service, was
honored with a testimonial dinner
in the recreational hall of the
church Monday evening. The ex
pression of love and appreciation
showered on “Mr. Charlie” and
“Miss Lila” came as a complete
surprise to the couple who thought
they were attending the regular
monthly meeting of the Home
Builder’s Class.
After a delicious covered dish
dinner the members filled the
church auditorium and joined in
singing some of Mr. Charlie’s fa
vorite songs. Mr. H. McMath, the
incoming superintendent, led in
voicing the high esteem felt by
the entire church for the man who
has so faithfully and willingly
property of Miller’s father, ex
tensive land owner in the southern
part of the county, when the acci
dent occurred.
According to the report a shot
gun load entered Robinson’s head
causing instant death.
Miller is lodged in the county
jail here pending investigation.
Mr. Polk Farrar Stewart, 46
years of age, died almost sudden
ly of a heart attack Tuesday, 3:00
p. m., at a Nashville, Tenn., hos
pital.
Mr. Stewart was superintendent
of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company at Nashville
and had occupied this position for; wooded area
the past five years.
He was born and reared
Haddock, Ga„ and after complet-! artidesfTll “recovered!
had a soil conservation plan made ! ! n S n ls colle ge education enlisted Further investigation is under
on the farm and started plans for j in the Army where he served for i way by 0 ffj c j a ] s
raising beef cattle and hogs. The severaI y ears - He later was em- J
farm was eroded and “worn out” Pl°y ed by the Bell Telephone Co.
cotton land, and with a bulldozier with headquarters in Atlanta and
to fill gullies and clear sprouts more recently moved to Nashville,
and scrub oaks, he began building I Tenn - He was a member of the I
Belle Meade Methodist Church of
Nashville.
Funeral services will take place
at the Belle Meade Methodist
over- Church, Nashville this afternoon— j
seeded the common bermuda with Thursday—2:30 o’clock, interment Commissioner of Labor Ben
oats and crimson clover The graz- wd l be at Nashville. Huiet reports that this area helped con, Peach and Crawford counties
ing is good -now, and his 35 regis- 1 Survivors include his wife, | th e state of Georgia establish sev- the State Patrol, company em-
tered Aberdeen Angus brood cows Mrs - La urette Fickling Stewart, 1 eral Tiew records in the field of ployes and about 50 citizens from
are fat and sleek. two sons, Bill and John, ages 10 employement and job insurance Ft. Valely ended at noon when
Twenty acres were developed in and 12 • also cne brother and one during 1956. The information is re- Negroes found him.
Coastal bermuda, now three years sister. I vealed in the Commissioner’s 20th The officials said Dr. Willis
old, and 30 acres planted to Bahia Among local citizens attending Annual Report to Gov. Griffin and Webb of Ft. Valley spotted Hester
“The Bahia gives wonderful graz- the funeral services in Nashville th e General Assembly. from a private' plane about the
ing,” he said. “And the Coastal ‘ ’ " " "
Hon. Ben T. Huiet
Makes Annual Report
To Governor Griffin
Numerous local friends of Mr.
i Frank Hester, 49 years of age Te-
; gretted to learn of his misfortune
Saturday which is recorded thus:
i A Ft. Valley man spent 21 long,
trying hours yesterday and today
trapped between a tree and the
door of a truck deep in a wooded
section of Macon county,
j Altho the truck was equipped
with a two-way radio, he couldn’t
reach the microphone with his one
free arm to inform leaders of a
large searching party of his where
about.
Identified as Frank Hester, 49, of
Ft. Valley, a meter-reader for Flint
Electric Corp., he was admitted to
Peach County hospital where at-
j tendants listed his condition as
j “fair”.
! Officials of the Co-op said at the
| organization’s headquarters, Rey
nolds, the search for Hester by
T. sheriffs’ offices from Houston, Ma-
Atlanta
promises
given of his time and love in the requested $200 a year salary in-
Lord’s service. After a -number of crease and told educators, *‘T11
impromptu testimonials given by j work just as hard for that second
members of the various organiza- $100 as you do for the first $100.
tions of the church from kinder- j He expects to provide the first
garten to Youth Fellowship. The $100 by removing the freeze on
Home Builder’s Class announced Minimum Foundation Program
bermuda gave good grazing and
made four to-ns of hay per acre.”
Payne has 20 acres planted to
* oats for grazing. “The area had
been planted to fescue and clover.
The fescue was about gone and I
* turned the land and planted it to
oats. I applied about 500 pounds
of 4-12-12 and, just before Christ
mas, put on 100 pounds of ammoni-
j um nitrate. The oats are fine.”
Starting with grade beef cattle
Payne sold out and bought regis-
teachers $100 of a re- tered brood cows and a registered
bull. “I have found out it makes a
will be Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brown, I The Department of Labor’s em- same time and landed in a nearby
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Watson Jr., ployment service office serving this field. Dr. Webb and t-he Negroes
Mrs. O. M. Martin and Mr. Harold county is located at 925 Broadway, placed him in the plane and the
Brown.
Gov. Griffin Promises
Teacher of This State
$100 Salary Increase
Hon. H. G. Cheek, Local
Legislator, Joined Effort
To Kill Home Rule
Jan. 30—Gov. Griffin
Chattahoochee "bailey Legisla
tors voted as follows on the home
great deal of difference in feeding rule measure in the House:
out calves,” lie said. “The regis
tered cattle put on weight faster
Columbus. It also serves Chatta- doctor flew to the Peach County
hoochee, Harris, Marion, Musco- hospital.
gee, Quitman, Stewart, and Talbot j S. J. Tankersley, general man-
counties. and A. C. Borders, supervisor of
This office, managed by James I Flint Coop gave this version of
L. Lawrence, assisted employers in Hester’s ordeal:
filling 7762 non-farm jobs in 1956. j The Ft. Vall-ey man was read-
The statewide farm placements ing meters along the company’s
hit an all time peak of 198,700. lines about 3 p. m. Saturday when
During the year job insurance he parked his truck on an incline
payments totaling $19,171,751 were near an artificial lake. The truck
made to unemployed Georgians, b'egan rolling and an open door
This is $7,000,000 less than was pinned Hester to a tree,
paid out in 1954, which was the About 6 p. m., the time he should
peak year. Over 14% of all pay- have been home from .work, he
ments made in the State were to could hear a broadcast of his dis-
Voting for the measure were
Muscogee Representative J. Nilan
J. Gordon Young a-ncl Mac Pick- ! workers for whom employers filed appearance on the truck radio, but
ard, Sumter Rep. Jack Murr and claims because full-time work was couldn’t reach the microphone, an
Troup Rep. C. O. Lam. not available and for which the arms-length away, to report his
^ __ Voting against were Troup Rep. workers received wages less than predicament.
Salyman’s “Life of Christ as a notice to the educators that he ex- spring. ”1 have the feed necessary” Frank Birdsong, Chattahoochee their weekly job insurance He blew the hoin on the truck
lasting reminder of Mr. Wall’s de- pects their help in repealing an be said f<A1 j j bave to buy is a R ep> j oe King, Clay Rep. J. P. amount. Payments ranged from $1 until the battery went dead in an
and the market price is much bet
ter. ”
He is feeding out 15 steers,
t-he hanging of the lighter picture | chargeback a-nd his comment was plans to market them in the late
votion to his church
In conclusion Mr. McMath pre
sented to Mr. and Mrs. Wall a
lovely silver service as a gift of
love from the entire Sunday
School.
Note: More than 100 local
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wall at
tended and participated in
act freezing the chargeback at the little cotton seed meal and I think Neese, Meriwether Rep. H. S. Pe- to $30 per week. Some 30,000 effort to attract attention.
1952 level. it is worthwhile to put a few more ters and G. W. Hardway, Randolph workers were laid off by employers A widespread search was organ-
The second $100 of annual in- pounds on the calves.” Rep. J. M. Wooten, Stewart Rep. S. | in large groups because of plant ized
crease will be granted,* Griffin said p ayne likes the 10 acres of se- S. Singer, Sumter Rep. T. M. Jones shut-downs for various reasons: Mr. Tankersley said six of the
if state income is sufficient this r j cea lespedeza he has for grazing. Talbot Rep. Chris Callier, Taylor Over-inventory, fires, completion of organization's trucks, all equipped
year. Meaning a level of approxi- j <<n- gives excellent early grazing”, Rep. Hugh Cheek, Webstar Rep. J.
he said. “I have not saved seed L. Black, Schley Rep. B. E. Pel-
from the field but I may do so this ham.
delightful affair, it is learned
* *
The Spires of Oxford
Winifred M. Letts
mately $310 million or higher.
The governor met today with a
this group of representatives of various
educational organizations, the De
partment of Education and mem
bers of the Legislature and reach
ed general agreement on various
matters of financing public
schools and the University Sys
tem.
—I —
Forty-Eight Persons
Killed in Ten Plane
Crashes in Recent Days
I saw the spires of Oxford
As I was passing by
The gray spires of Oxford
Against a pearl-gray sky;
My heart was with Oxford men
Who went abroad to die.
The years go fast in Oxford
The golden years and gay
The hoary colleges look down
On careless boys at play, Atlanta, Feb. 3 — Five more
But when the bugles sounded war! American planes crashed Saturday • three-quarters of a cent more for
They put their games away, ‘ ’
year—if the demand for seed is as
good as the forecasters think.”
Payne’s corn yield on 80 acres
was 62 bushels last fall. “First
crop I’ve made since I began in
1951,” he said. I hit some tough
weather problems; the drouth of
’54 and the freeze of ’55 and ’56
Last year’s corn was the first good
crop I’ve had.”
He follows the oats with hegari
or millet, utilizes the crop for
grazing, leaving the Coastal
muda for hay crop. j
Payne has 13 brood sows, Durocs
and Spotted Poland China, and
uses a Beltsville No. 1 boar. “The j
Atlanta market is now paying
Not recorded were Harris Rep.
W. D. Sivell, Marion Rep. E. W.
Perry, Quitman Rep. J. J. Hurst
and Terrell Rev. S. M. Cocke.
The House killed another at
tempt to give Georgia cities home
contracts and such. with two-way radios, searched all
During’ 1956, $17,348.00 were paid night in the four-county area,
to unemployed workers in Taylor j
County. At present there are 50 un
employed workers drawing job in
surance on claims filed in Taylor
county.
Business and industrial expan
sion and the extension of job in
rule. A House Committee also surance coverage to employers of
shelved two tax reduction bills
which are expected “never to be
heard from again.”
Ber- Taylor County ASC
Committee Announces
Dates for Allotments
They left the peaceful river,
The cricket field, the quad,
The shaven lawns of Oxford,
To seek a bloody sod
The County ASC Committee an
nounces the following closing
dates are in effect:
March 1: Final date for filing
Third District
Congressman Praised
By Columbus Dailies
four _ or more workers brought the
number of workers in insured em- |
ployment to the three-quarter mil
lion mark. State-wide insured
Columbus, Feb. 2.—The Enquirer
notes with interest the fact that
Congressman E. L. Forrester’s
wages totaled $2,182,111,355 in the name appears in the list of Geor-
fiscal year 1956. gians voting for the Eisenhower
“Georgia’s economy is on the Doctrine resolution that was
march. The 1956 report of the De- passed by the House by a vote of
partment of Labor indicates that 355 to 61.
Georgia employers and workers Mr. Forrester’s action is certain
are keeping pace with that to meet with the approval of a
march,” Huiet concluded.
Letter to the Editor
Sunday, Feb. 3rd.
at home and abroad, increasing j the meat type hogs,” he said. “I
the death toll in a three-day series n ke the Duroc but I decided I’d
of air tr agedies to at least 48. try Beltsville, since it is consider -
Nearl y 150 persons were injured. j ed a leaner type.”
Ten planes, ranging from single ; Two things Payne likes particu-
seater jet fighters to a huge air- larly on his farm: A home-made for new grower cotton allotment.
They gave their merry youth away liner carrying 101 persons were 0 ji er and back scratcher for the Feb. 15: Final date for filing for Dear Charles:
For country and for God. destroyed in eight unrelated acci- cattle, and a Nelson hog waterer new grower peanut allotment. ! I’d like for you to write this in
j dents. Two of the crashes involved ; f or the pigs. The watering device March 15: Final date for plac- the Herald. I’ll give facts and more outspoken in
God rest you, happy gentlemen in-flight collisions. j makes easy cleaning of the wat- ing acreage in 1957 Conservation you can write as you see fit. ] to Communism than Congressman
Who laid your good lives down Three of the planes fell in cities 1 ering tank and provides clean wat- Reserve. I was in Butler this afternoon Forrester, and his vote for the Ei-
Who took the khaki and the gun and this spurred a mounting de- er continuously for the swine. March 1: Final date for placing and went up to my house; as I senhower resolution certainly oc-
The back scratcher is home cotton in 1957 Acreage Reserve went in, I found three teen-agers casioned no surprise among those
vast majority of his constituents in
the Third District and Georgians
generally will applaud his support
of the President's request to give
him standby authority to use
armed force in the Middle East if
necessary to prevent aggression by
the Communists.
There is no member of Congress
his opposition
Instead of cap and gown mand for government action to
God bring you to a fairer place prohibit or restrict test flights and
Than even Oxford town.
« * •
Have you read the highway
casualty total for 1956? Just 40,000
people killed on the highways. If
” r Dill a/T in O
training
area.
operation over each
who jumped out of the house and who know him
day is so full of storm and cold
t^Tm^rpeople were “killed in a that every living thing fall back
war we would be up in arms in dormacy. February has
sleepy Americans a habit ol opening the door to | hree years ag0 p ayne sct out
80 acres in pines. “I cleared out
made; Payne took an old junked Program.
fuel pump from a car and rigged The committee states that the ran. I saw them but could not
up a device which triggers a sup- qualifications for obtaining new tell who they were as I do not
ply of medicants when the cow grower allotments for cotton and know the children there, but they jell'd (181111011
rubs her back under a lenth of peanuts are very restrictive, but looked like children from some of
rope stretched between two posts, any farmer desiring an allotment the good families there. One was f*0nini|CC|Ang(| [qTr|
“Cost me about two bucks,” cVmuiH phopi/ tho nimUfipations at wearing a greevi plaid sbirt.
about it. But
w don’t get shocked by safety Spring, and then suddenly slam-
just aon _ l _.f nv th(i wav go ming it shut. But for all its
moods
appeals any more. By the way, t»u *>- the blackjacks, using a Ford trac-
aPP of the fatalties and caprices, February has much 1 a nd a rotsmr cutter” ho
that endears it to humankind. It tor and a rolary culler -
percent, or 24,000
were caused by Drink Alcohol be
ing enthroned. What a shame!
should check the qualifications at wearing a green plaid
the ASQ Office prior to the closing
dates shown above.
Leo Aikman to Speak
he said
gives us Valentine Day, Grouhd I Payne’s friends have tried to ar- ^ .
Hog Day and the birthday of idtd H«*e at PTA MeetlM
tv riv a week ago we entered *George Washington. The camellias his beef her e sai . ut I ™
th e iSnd mo“h of *e year, the and peach tree? bloom, and the
shortest and in many respects tte sun makes tentat.ve^eftorts at f.°^^ ln a wWIe Sfere ls a BoS
They had ransacked the house,
broken locks and broken into
Aunt Maggie’s trunk and scatter
ed things all over the floor and we
found other things in
Vital Statistician
Mr. Leo. Aikman, humorist and
A change in Vital Statistics
the yard. Registrars for Militia District Nos.
Elizabeth Wilson and Walter came 737, 743, 757, 853, 1071, 1659 and
up. I sent for Mr. Wright and told 798 in Taylor County was an-
the Marshal about it. Mr. Wright nounced today by Georgia Depart-
was not in town. ment of Public Health officials.
The children should have had Miss Sara Harmon has been of-
Atlanta Constitution columnist 1 scratches as they had to run thru ficially commissioned as Local
most eventful of the year Febru- wjfnjng the earth February.is seagon and an oversupp i y 0 f feed, 1 will be guest speaker at the next ! briars and two of them fell and Registrar to succeed Mrs. Charles
ary j S t f chirpV'and th^chfntUlies makes up her mind She has her bdt . ™ th the drouth and freezes PTA meeting February 21st. It is should show bruises. Benns and Mr. C. D. Lucas who
CT n He L? ISosJ the valley. There faults, but most folks see only her ^ hich normally come I could not
cail rings ?f r0 f 8 J h ^ a “ n y d dan . gentle ' r side) and love her just the i kee P my cattle fat lf 1 had more
are kites in the sky
delion grins at the sun. The next. same.
of them.”
meeting February
urged that everyone keep this
meeting in mind for no one would
want to miss the occasion.
Just write this as a news item.
Thanks,
Mrs. Jeanette Oilplant.
recently resigned.
Miss Harmon’s commission was
effective as of Feb. 4, 1957.