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VOLUME 81.
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BUTLEILTAYLOR~CdUNTYrGEORGlA, THURSDAY] MAY 16, 19577
NUMBER 34.
OBSERVATIONS
The definition for a pedestrian
is, “one who has tailed
the last payment on his
to make
car.”
It is noted with interest that the
members of the graduating class
of Eli&ville are expecting to
leave June 19th on a post-grad
uation cruise of several days to
Cuba and the Bahama Islands.
Dr. Pierce Harris’ 'Mrs. Montgomery
Condition “Fair”
Following Accident
Wins Honors in
Recent Flower Show
Lets all pay cheerful homage to
the Goddess of Spring, the month
that brings the roses and lovely
birds that sing, the month of mirth
and music when all the world is
gay, and nothing’s quite as gor
geous as gentle fragrant May.
Dr. Pierce Harris, pastor of Atlan
ta’s First Methodist Church was
killed and he was seriously injured
in an auto wreck near Eatonton.
Mrs. Harris, the former Mary
Smith of Waco, was thrown from
the car as it left' the road on a
curve and came to rest on a dirt
fill. She was found 15 yards from
* • I the demolished car and died en
Altho he has caught up with ro ute to a hospital,
much of his big jobs, Friend | Dr. Harris received a broken
George Hammack is still one of shoulder, several fractured ribs
NOTE: Hospital authorities at i Show Sponsored by Garden
Eatonton stated a few days ago
that Dr. Harris was still in “fair’’
condition and that he would at
best be hospitalized for two weeks.
Eatontcn, May 7—The wife of
Club, Staged at Community
House Thursday Afternoon.
Mrs. Clifford Montgomery was
Sweepstakes winner at the Annual
Flower show staged here last
week. She received the Garden
Club’s Silver Cup and also for the
best arrangement in the Show she
received the Purple Ribbon
Mrs. T. B. Joiner was runner up
and Mrs. Hugh Cheek won the
Mrs. 0. A. Taunton
Dies ft Her Home
Near Fort Valley
Funeral at the Montezuma
'Methodist Church Thursday,
3 P. M.
Mrs. O. A. Taunton) years of
age, died at her home near Ft.
Valley ar 2:30 a. m. Tuesday.
Mrs. Taunton was born in Sum
ter county Feb. 15, 1905, daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Tye
Williams.i
Mrs. Taunton’s death was at
tributed to cerebral hemmorhage.
H. D. Council
Sponsors Traffic
Safety Campaign
and a hip injury. His condition
was described as fairly satisfac
tory today at the hospital after a , w , „
restless night during which he I b 7 er * went ]° MrS- W- L- Webb Ft.
bordered on unconsciousness from I and runner-up was ^ rS-
pain and shock. I Blanford Jarrell.
Just after the accident, Harris | Mother s Garden, setting for
told the Sheriff he bright lights ofi* he Sbo ^ a s a beautiful garden
an approaching car blinded him.
The driver of the other machine,
the sheriff added, apparently was
unaware of the fatal mishap and
continued on toward Atlanta.
The Harrises were en route to
Brunswick where the 60* year old
clergyman one of Georgia’s most i
widely known, had a speaking en
gagement.
May 26 to June 2
Designated as Soil
Stewardship Week
the busiest men in town. He tries
to get around to everybody’s call
but sometimes it looks like he just
can’t make it. We know that he
has a hard time, but is doing the
best he can under the circum
stances.
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Sunday was a day of great in
terest at the local Baptist church.
The 11 o'clock worship hour was
devoted primarily to honoring the
35 graduates of the local high
school who are to receive diplo
mas. Pastor of the church, Rev. J.
M. Carmichael, was in charge of a
splendid program. Mrs. Sara Poole
and Miss Nancy Childs presented
a program of music. The beautiful
flowers were donated by Rev. and
Mrs. E. H. Dunn in memory of Mrs. I
Dunn’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. j
Ledford. Dinner was served the j
seniors in the Sunday School an- |
nex. The evening service was de-1
voted to the Coronation Service I
presented by the Intermediate ] -
Girl’s Auxiliary of the church. j Athens, May 12—GoV Griffin
• • i has proclaimed May 26 to June 2
Throughout America Sunday, j as Soil Stewardship Week in Geor-
special tribute was paid to Moth-lgj a . His Proclamation urged Geor-
ers. The tongues of orators and gians to cooperate in every way
the pen of countless editors ex- j possible to aid what he termed a
hausted all superlatives in prais- j worthy movement,
ing mother of men. We can think Citing soil as one of the most
of no better words for fhese important natural resources, Grif-
mothers than the last verse of Ona fi n said good soil is a first re-
Freemans Lathrop’s, “A Mother’s I quisite for successful farming. “It
I is essential that soil conservation
j be emphasized and practiced if we
“The nights I watched beside your | are to continue to maintain and
cr jb ( ! improve good land.”
The years of love and care 1 The State Soil Conservation Corn-
Will amply be repaid if once mittee and the State Assn, of Dis-
1 see you standing there— trict Supervisors are co-sponsoring
An upright and an honest soul the special week.
On whom success has smiled,
That I may say with humble pride
That is my child.”
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Out of the Past
Items of interest appearing in
the Herald May 3, 1903:
The com tassel market opened
with lively interest last Tuesday
when Prof. Richardson exhibited
two tassels fully developed.
“Imogene,” a play which has
been successfully rendered on the
stage, will be presented here Thurs-
special Award for the Best Corsage I ,, W ,faw 01 ]i? ^ * 6W ^P Ur ^ n
for Mothers Dav buneral for the deceased will be
Mrs. AI Fehring won the Purple ! coducted at the Montezuma Meth-
Ribbon for the best horticultural
specimen in the Show.
The award for Non-Club mem-
featuring flowers of yesterday and
today. Three lovely young ladies,
Misses Mary Ellen Allen, Linda
Barfield and Elaine Posey, dressed
as belles oi> the Old South, added
much to the beauty of the oc
casion.
Butler Senior Class
Plans 8-Day Vacation
To Nasau, Bahamas
About 30 members of the Senior
odist Church of which she was a
member, at 3 p. m. Thursday. Inter
ment in the Montezuma cemetery.
Survivors include her husband,
3 step-children and one sister,
Mrs. Helen McCorkle.
Edwards Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
L
Traffic Safety Program
Is Launched by County
Demonstration Council
Traffic Safety is in the spotlight
of the local County Home Demon
stration program this Spring. Real
izing that many death and
maimed bodies are caused by traf
fic accidents the H. D. Council de-
icided to help stage a safety cam
paign.
, Mrs. Grady Fuller is chairman of
Class Butler High School will go; the campaigu Wlt , h
on the class outing to Nassau
Reward”:
E. H. Thomas, soil conservation
ist, Agriculture Extension Service,
said county groups have been furn
ished a list of 14 suggestions for
use during the week.
Deaths from Cancer
Declining Medical
Experts Report.
Steady progress is being made
. .in the medical fight against can-
day night May 21, by the loca , cer a repor { issued recently said.
Chapter of Daughters of Con
federacy. v
Mr. K. L. Mclver, the recently
elected pastor of Butler Presby
terian church, stopped over here
Friday to get acquainted with oth
er people. He is a young gentle
man and altho young in the min
istry has met success on every
hand, and gladly received by his
congregation.
Perhaps the most brilliant so
cial events of the past week, was
the entertainment • given Saturday
evening at the home of Miss Nettie
It also stated the death rate from
certain forms of cancer is steadi
ly decreasing.
The optimistic report came from
L. S. Rockefeller, president of the j ship.
Memorial Center for Cancer and
Allied Disesaes and Dr. C. P.
Rhoads, scientific director of Me
morial Center and director of the
Sloan Kettering Institute for Can
cer Research in New York.
Rockefeller’s biennial report for
1954 and 1955 covered the activities
The party will leave Butler June
4th and arrive back home on
Tuesday, June 11.
Itinerary of the tour is arranged
by the Columbus Travel Bureau
and includes:
Tuesday, June 4
Leave Butler at 8 a. m. via
greyhound bus and proceed down
the west Coast of Florida—lunch
eon stop enroute—to Clearwater.
Overnight at Ft. Harrison Hotel.
Wednesday, June 5
Leave Clearwater after break
fast thru St. Petersburg and cross
Tampa Bay on Sunshine Skyway
continuing along the West Coast
to Ft. Meyers and then thru the
Everglades to Miami and Miami
Beach and the Atlantic Hotel on
the ocean. Dinner on arrival.
Thursday, June 6
After breakfast leave from the
Greyhound Terminal on 3 hour
sightseeing trip covering Miami
Beach, Miami Springs, Interna
tional Airport, Hialelah and Ven
etian Islands. Afternoon at leisure.
Dinner at the hotel.
Friday, June 7
Breakfast at the hotel. In early
afternoon, bus will leave for pier
to embark on SS Florida and sail
at 5 p. m. Dinner on board ship.
Saturday, June 8
Arrive at Nassau at 8 a. m.
Ship will be used as hotel. While
in Nassau, will be taken on a 2-
hour sight-seeing trip covering all
points of interest. Overnight on
Swearingen Polled
Hereford CatHe Sale
Date Set for Saturday
Sunday, Jdne 9
At leisure, till time for the
Florida to sail at 6 p. m. an
return trip to Miami.
Monday, June 10
SS
the
campaign with a committee
composed ot Mrfs. Pauline Bembry
Mrs. W. C. Sheee, Mrs. Walter
O'Neal, Mrs. Gerson Waller and
Mrs. Frances Cochran.
The traffic safety committee
urges you to use the following tips ...
to protect yourself and others! activities to be
against accidents.
Safe Driving Tips
1. Be sportsmanlike on every
drive.
2. Obey all traffic regulations.
3. Keep speed leasonable. Start
earlier and drive slower.
4. Don’t drive when you drink.
5. Remember, danger increases
with darkness; at sundown, slow
down your speed so you’re with
in range of your headlights.
6. Stay in line—don’t weave.
7. Don’t pass unless there’s
plenty of room—and NEVER on
hills or curves.
8. Allow sufficient stopping dis
tance between you and the car
ahead.
9. Be extra alert at intersections.
10. Always signal your intention
to turn or stop.
11. If the weather is bad, don’t
drive unless you must. If you drive
double your care.
12. Check your brakes, lights,
windshield wipers, tires and steer
ing.
Safe Walking Tips
1. Qross streets only at cross
walks.
2. Before crossing, look both
ways.
3. Cross only on proper signal.
4. Watch tor turning cars.
5. Never go into the roadway
between parked cars.
The Taylor'County Home Dem
onstration Council has been stag
ing a Traffic Safety Campaign in
the county during recent months.
Mrs. Grady Fuller, Council Safety
Chairman, says that the campaign
has been so successful the
achievements will be entered in
the Regional Traffic Safety Con
test, sponsored by the National
Home Demonstration Council.
The accomplishments listed by
Mrs. Fuller include:
A written driving test given to
each person attending the April
meetings of the five H-D Clubs in
the County and distribution of
safe walking tips and safe driving
tips at each of these meetings;
traffic safety slogans written by
each person attending the H.D.
Clubs and selection of the group of
a winning slogan; selection by
the H.D. Council of a County Slo
gan from the slogans submitted
by the H.D. Clubs - . Safety movies
shown to the 7 4-H Clubs in the
county; - interview of County School
Superintendent who assured the
safety committee that the one high
school that doesn’t offer a Driver
Training Course will have it in
cluded in the curriculum at the be
ginning of the next term of school;
the Health Department of the State
Highway Patrol was contacted
and booklets and pamphlets se
cured which were distributed to
H.D. Clubs by the Safety Chairman
of each Club; Safety Handbills
were placed in cars parked in But
ler and Reynolds on a Saturday
afternoon; Safety Billboards with
Safety Slogan, Drive -Carefully,
The Blood Bank Needs Your Blood
not the Highway, were placed near
the busiest lanes of traffic in But-
j ler and Reynolds.
Mrs. Gerson Waller is Chairmn
j of arranging the scrapbook of
entered in the
contest. Mrs. M. B. Pittman Jr.
will assist her.
1 Soldier Killed
2 Hurt in Auto
Crash at Roberta
Accident Occurred Sunday
When Automobile Overturned
Several Times.
Macon, May 13—A Ft. Benning
soldier, Pvt. Mack J. Stallworth,
25, Macon, was killed Sunday in
an autb crash near Roberta, Craw
ford county, the Associated Press
reports.
Stallworth, of the 515th Trans
portation Truck Co. was fatally in
jured when his car went out of
control and turned over several
times, State Highway Patrol re
porter.
Two other Benning soldiers in
the car, Trueville Black of Shelby
Miss., and Robert Moore Jr., Win-
terville Ga., were injured in the
wreck.
Sheriff L. R. O’Neal of Crawford
county listed Black as the driver.
East Coast of Florida to Daytona,
and accomplishments of Memorial iSp'end the night at Riviera Hotel.
Center. It also covered the work of
Ward Frierson in honor of ^ 1SS .Memorial Hospital, the James Ew-
Berta Little, of Macon. Many j ing Hosp j ta j D f the City of New
games were indulged. , 'York, the Strange Cancer Preven-
The union picnic at Ficknng s , tian ciinie and the Sloan-Kettering
mill last Friday has been the sub- Itnstitute
iect for discussion since that day.
** - t _ _ U.. 4- f/Mi r 1 i \r a nn-
casions for many years attended "■ Mrs. Ruffin's Recital
^ m Sa™e aS wa S a en«S.; h Lro"NeXt TUCSC^ NHe
ten by the pleasure of the trip. ,
Every child found amusement from Mrs Lewis Ru ffj n w jjj pr e-sent
departure until return and seemed ( Senior Students in a Piano
to have thoroughly enjoyed every | y 0 j ce Recitad Thursday eve-
moment.
PTA Will Meet Tonight
At School Library
The P. T. A. will meet Thursday
(tonight) 'at 8 o’clock.
Due to a Piano Recital in the
Cafeteria at this hour, the PTA
will meet in the School Library.
Installation service will be fea
tured at this meeting. Officers for
the ensuing year will be installed.
is important that all officers
and members attend this meeting.
6. When walking at night, wear
j or carry something white to help
. . x • o on * t.m . drivers see you.
Arrive at Miami 8:30 A. M. and i ? Wait * on sidewalk _ no t in
board Greyhound bus for Jnp up | street _ for green light (or wa lk)
or for gap in traffic if corner has
no traffic signal.
8. Cross streets in cross-walks—
don’t cross intersetcitons diagon
ally.
9. After getting off bur or
street car, don’t go around it, front
or rear. Wait until it leaves be
fore crossing.
10. Walk on left facing traffic
where there are no sidewalks.
11. Don’t play in or run into
street.
Safe Bicycling Tips
1. Observe all Traffic Regula
tions.
i 2. Keep to the right and ride
The Fourth Quarterly Confer-J single file,
ence of the Howard Methodist | 3. Have white light on front and
Charge will meet at the Mauk ganger signal on rear for night
Church Sunday. District Superin- riding.
tendent Roy McTier will preach at j 4. Give pedestrians the right of
the morning worship hour which j way.
begins at 11 a. m. | 5. Look out for cars as you pull
The business session of the Con- |out into street,
ference will convene in the after
noon at which time new officers
will be chosen and the budget set
Swearingen Hereford Farm,
owned by R. L. Swearingen Sr. and
R. L. Swearingent Jr. will conduct
its first production sale in its new
sales pavilion at the farm located
a mile south of Reynolds on high
way Saturday, 1 o'clock p. m.
Featuring in the sale will be
the get of their $5 000 herd sire C
Woodrow Mischief 4th and the
service of 1954 Georgia State Re
serve Champion Advanced Domino
60th. Fifty-five lots including 9
bulls, 42 bred females and four
cows with calves at side will sell.
A six months old registered calf
will be given away to the holder
of the lucky ticket. All that is
-necessary is to register to get a
ticket.
Bill Would Grant Medal
Of Honor to Unknown
Soldier of Korean War
Tuesday, June 11
Leave Daytona after breakfast
for return -to Butler arriving in the
early evening. v
Mrs. Willis Garrett and Mrs. Ed
McCants will accompany the
group on the trip.
Fourth Quarterly
Conference at Mauk
Church Next Sunday
ning, May 16th, beginning at 8
o’clock in the local High School
Cafeteria.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this recital.
Musical Recital Program
Next Tuesday Evening
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock in
the High School Cafeteria, Mrs.
Ruffin will present her class in aithe Howard Charge are especially
present at this con-
up for the next year.
All members of the churches on
Piano ar.d Voice Recital.
The public is cordially invited.
urged to be
ference.
6. Never hitch on other vehicles.
7. Never carry other passengers.
8. Be sure your brakes are op
erating efficiently.
Washington, D. C.—The House
Armed Service Committee has
unanimously , approved a bill to
grant the Congressional Medal of
Honor to the unknown soldier of
the Korean War.
The unknown soldiers of that
conflict and of World War II will
be buried in Arlington Cemetery
May 30, 1958, next to the unknown
soldier of World War I. The Medal
of Honor already has been author
ized for the World War I and II
representatives.
Marine Officer to Visit
Butler Twice This Month
Marine Recruiting Sergeant R.
M. Turner will be in Butler on the
7th and 21st of May from 9 a. m.
to 10 a. m. He will be located at
the post office to interview young
men interested in obtaining infor
mation about the Marine Corps.
The Marines are accepcting men
from 17 to 28 for first enlistment.
Periods are open for 2, 3 or 4
years. Boys unable to see Sgt.
Turner when he visits this city may
Mr. J. S. Goodman
Died in Alabama
Sunday Night
A message was received by
relatives here Monday of the
death of Mr. J. S. Goodman 67,
which occurred at his home in
Childersburg, Ala., Sunday night.
Mr. Goodman succumbed to a heart
attack from which he suffered only
a short time.
Mr. Goodman was an uncle of
Mrs. J. B. Adams of Butler. He is
survived by his wife, five children
and a number of nieces and
nephews.
Funeral took place at Childers
burg Tuesday afternoon.
Those from Butler attending the
funeral were Mr and Mrs. J. B.
Adams and Miss Jamelle Adams.
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Butler-Reynolds and
All Taylor Looked as a
Fairy Land Past Week
Yes indeed, all Taylor county
looked like a fairy land last week
—flowers like we never saw be
fore. The season was superb.
But did you ever see a dream in
this fairyland of flowers, walking?
Well you and I saw many of them
last week. Taylor County was no
exception for it was the same all
over the nation. However, this
Middle Georgia section, especially
in this county, is dearer to us be
cause they are ours.
Delighted! Dolls or Bells and
Beauxs, should we call them? Yes,
the Junior-Senior Proms in high
schools, colleges and universities
of the state. Floating like a misty
dream in tulle and taffeta;
crinoline petticoats. Yes, three
and four of them made of tulle,
net, etc. Dainty feet in satin and
even Cinderella glass slippers.
Seems that Heaven does step
down on earth in Springtime; and
there were no more beautiful
sights than our young people
amind spring flowers. God gave
them all to us. They are all God’s
creations and how we should
cherish, guide and protect them.
Nurture them with the spiritual
food to strengthen and promote
Christian life for one is just as im
portant as the other.
Yes, the girls were beautiful,
annd the boys dislike for us to say
this: They were just as handsome
and charming as each presented
herself or himself at the Baptist
church Sunday morning and at che
Methodist church the previous
Lord’s Day.
9. Slow down at all street in-j write him at Marine Recruiting
tersections. Station, P. O. Building, Columbus
10. Always use proper hand sig-.for full information on the U.S.
nals. Marines.
Home DemonstraHon
Dress Revue Today
At Community House
The Annual Home Demonstra
tion Dress Revue will be staged in
the local Community House begin
ning at 2:30 Thursday (today). A
short demonstration of freezing
foods will be given by Miss Nelle
Thrash, State Extension Specialist
preceding the Revue. Everyone
cordially invited.
The 4-H Club Dress RevOe has
been postponed to the latter part
of June when other girls’ project
competition will be conducted.