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\ PAGE EIGHT THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER GEORGIA. DECEMBER 4, 1958. SUMMARY OF NEWS THROUGHOUT GEORGIA Mercer University will observe j Mission Emphasis Week this week. Congressman Forrester Speaking at Cordele Raps Preachers, Press Mrs. J. M- Moore Says Long, Fascinating "Montezuma Is Outgrowing Story Lies Behind Downtown Trains" Georgia Capitol Cordele, Ga. — Third District Thanksgiving spirit lingers ii nation. is over but i this part of the By Miss Ella May Thornton NOTE: Miss Thornton is hocior- “Sooner or later,” says Mrs. th Rep. E. h. Forrester in a speech be- Moore, “every newcomer to Mon- fore a joint meeting of civic clubs tezuma gets around to asking some said the 311 manifesto ministers of native the same old question ‘How ary State Librarian for life, receiv- ! Atlanta were unrealistic m their come two sets of railroad tracks ivig her emeritus status in 1954 W E Dozier prominent Schley belief in token integration. 'run thru your main business sec- after 45 years of service to the county farmer ’died Sunday after Forrester said he read in last tion here, hooting and chugging state. In 1951 she was chosen an illness of six weeks. 'Sunday’s Atlanta Journal-Consti- and tiei-ng up traffic day and Woman of the Year in the profes- tution “to the effect that 311 min- night?” Ision.—The Herald. G. F. White, former U. S. Court j sters j n Atlanta prefer token in- | "And he gets the same old weary I The Georgia capitol now under- Clerk at Macon, died in Miami, tegration of public schools to the answer, ‘Brother, there was a rail- going its $1,250,000 renovation, has closing of our schools.” j road here before there was a town.’ provided me with a lifelong hobby. He said that as the only Geor- | ‘‘And so there was. When the Its history and expansion have gian on the Judiciary Committee, Southwestern railroad extended Its fascinated me more because I was Fla., Friday after an extended ill ness. A teen ager borrowed the gun with which he is alleged to have killed two Houston, Texas men and a youth Sunday. !“it becomes my duty to tell you tracks through swamp and farm bom in its shadow, on Capitol Ave. that may that no matter how honest they land to the already thriving young and when I retired as state librar- be in their thinking, how tow n of Oglethorpe in 1851, enter- ian in 1954 I had spent the ma- phrase “token integration” | prising planters and regional en-,jority of my daylight hours for al- Eighteen floats have entered the'comes into the picture I will never trepeneurs of the day began to set- most 50 years within its walls. Cordele-Crisp County Christmas pa- know. It,p around the railroad on the ea«. thece voar T learn, rade which was staged Wednesday —yesterday—afternoon. ‘During these year I learned tie around the railroad on the eas- “There is simply no such animal, j tern sied of Flint River. |from time to time many facts Anyone believing there can be to-I “There was a vogue at the time,about the Capitol which perhaps ken integration under the Supreme Ifor names reminiscent of the war,will interest Georgians today. I An Atlantan charged with slay- .Court decision believes in fairies, j with Mexico and so, before long a !learned for instance, that during The question is, will it be total or ! burgeoning new settlement was in-j the construction of the Capitol, •none—it is that simple. corporated as Montezuma. 'from 1887 to 1889, thousands of He added that the Atlanta min- | “The A.B.C. Railroad came to > bricks salvaged from the walls of ister “also made a recommenda- Montezuma in 1903, laying another the old Atlanta City Hall which tion that no private schools be set of tracks parallel to the first j was built on the site in 1853 and allowed to use facilities of our and just a city block away. |was demolished to make way for horses 'churches.That will be decision for | “There was a spurt of industrial the state building. | the deacons and stewards of the expansion in this area at thetime J “Therefero, tho the Capitol is various churches to make,” he that coupled with the peach boom | nearly 80 years old, portions are A tornado early Friday night' said. "However, I know at least one established Montezuma nationally j over a century old. It‘s architects damaged homes, uprooted trees!church where the facilities will as a monied small town. This sec-.were Edbrook and Burnham of ing his estranged wife and father in law, says he did it because he couldn't pay alimony. Fourteen saddle horses were de stroyed late Saturday night in a fire which swept thru the Ft. Ogle thorpe riding stables. No were saved. MISS NANNIE EDWARDS, 74, the figure of a woman holding a caduceus with an anchor lying be side her. The caduceus was the emblem of Mercury, god of com merce, travel, and, hence, ships shipping. The twin rattle snake staff also suggests the science of medicine. “The next figure is that of a man, wielding a hammer to sug gest labor and industry. Another man, in helimet, sword in hand, would typify law enforcement, and the guardianship of liberty. The last figure is a woman supporting , . . , a horn of plenty, which pours out Mrs ' °‘ S ‘ Edwards ‘ Americus, and the products of the soil, and may i a nephew, O. S. Edwards, Ella- represent Peace.” I ville. DIED FRIDAY AT ELLAVILLE Ellaville, Ga. — Funeral services occurred in the County Line Bap tist church Saturday for Miss Nan nie Lou Edwards, 74, who died at her residence Friday. Interment was in Mt. Vernon cemetery. Survivors include a brother W.L. Edwards, Ellaville; two nieces, Mrs. P. J. McMikle, Richland, and and toppled power and telephone i be completely available, the Lees- ond route is now the poles in the central and southern j burg Baptist church of my home the ACL. part of the state. town, of which I am a member.” j “Through the decades relations | He also said the Atlanta news- between Montezuma and her two The Georgia House of Represen- papers are 100 per cent integra- railroads have been^ on the whole tatives will operate more like thie tionists and evited two paragraphs amicable.” U. S. Congress under plans formu-|£ rorn a Journal-Constitution edi- • —— lated by Speaker-designate G. L. torial on Nov. 23 entitled, "A New Approach is Needed” and attack- Smith II of Swainsboro. A drive to let Christmas find its big Southern solons’ stand on in way to the homes and hearts of 10,000 Atlanta children — who otherwise might be passed by — will be launched Sunday. Preston J Moore of Stillwater, tegration of sehools. The editorial dealt chiefly with the proposed fed eral anti-bombing bill. He concluded by saying he would never endorse decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court "which Macon Traffic Among Persons Hurt During Holidays From Friday’s Macon Telegraph: property of i Chicago. “I have- never been able to learn who designed and executed the the monumental marble carvings over the west entrance of the Capitol. The specifications for the building, still preserved, call for the State Coat of Arms and figures signifying Justice, Peace, Law and Liberty. “The actual carving shows the Georgia Seal in the center of the field with the word “Justice” properly inscribed thereon. At the left from the viewer’s viewpoint is Want to Buy PECANS We pay highest market price for all varieties of Pecans. Will buy in large or small quantities. We Buy in Butler Each Saturday Afternoon We Buy at My Residence Every Day in the Week A. S. JAMES & SON REYNOLDS, GA. Phone: TI. 7:3272 Okla., national commander of the l have made a shambles of our Con- j A Macon traffic officer was j American Legion was guest of the ( stitution.” Statesboro Post No. 90 of the American Legion, Statesboro, Tues day night. At Augusta Sunday President Eisenhower reaffirmed the United States’ determination to refrain from any course which would abandon West Berlin to Russian domination. New S & S Cafeteria Costing $130 Thousand Planned for Columbus The secqnd half of the dove sea son in Georgia is now over. The State Board of Education authorizes committees to draw up- 0 f ( be ca feteria chain’s home of- proposals for incentive pay rates jfj co for Georgia teachers. among three persons injured in automobile accidents through early Thursday night in Bibb county. For the most part, Thanksgiving Day was quiet. Officer Newman suffered a frac tured left leg when his motorcycle was hit by a car. He was admitted | to the hospital. _ , , ~ „ . .. _-J. F. Weeks, 27, was identified by Columbus, Ga. — Construction of Hce as driver of the car whic £ a now $130 000 S & SCafetena , th said ran a red light at an ln . building in Columbus is to begin j ter / ectira . The driV er was charged n °n^ Ve T H M with at raffle violation. C. E. Johnson, Macon, an official The Good Samaritan official' or gan of Bethany Home, published monthly at Vidalia recently report ed the death of its president, Mr. M. C. Everett, which occurred Oct. 101 h after an illness of a year. News item says serious short age of fall and winter feed sup- 250 persons and that off-street parking facilities will handle be tween 60 and 70 cars. He noted a description of tho building is difficult to describe,but plies for middle and south Georgia ( termed the structure of "unusual dairy farmers may cause them to ( design.” An architect’s rendering seek federal aid. About 60 drought!of the building is expected to be | In another accident J. W. Nichols ,. , .. . 170, was injured when a Bibb Tran- confirmed the new structure it Co smashed broadside int0 his wili be located on property at Third car u repo rted. Ave. and 13th St. - former site of D( J uty Br0 £ n quoted the bus {driver as saying Nichols pulled ... . .. . , . , , suddenly into the path of the bus ty of the one-story building will be , cc-n „ . .u . n . and he was unable to avoid strik- Vnf) nprsmis arwl thnt nff ctroot . , . ing him. Nichols was quoted as saying he blacked out after making a pur- St. Paul Methodist church. Johnson said the seating capaci chase in a grocery store and get ting in his car. He said he didn’t know what happened. stricken counties are reported af fected. Dr. J. C. Bonner, director of the Department of History at Georgia State College for Women, Milledge- ville, was elected president of the Ga. Society of Historical Research Saturday. He succeeds Miss Ida Williams of Swainsboro. The Session, governing body of First Presbyterian church, Colum bus, was dissolved Sunday and its duties assumed by a seven-man judicial commission headed by Rev. F. C. King, pastor of First Presby terian church of Valdosta. I completed soon, he added, and will 1 be forwarded to Columbus. Only 16 years old, but a preacher for five years and a leader in eight revival campaigns, is the record of Jerry McCant, a Dexter school junior, who has been an Peanut Growers Save $12 This Harvest AT AUCTION TWO VALUABLE PIECES OF BUSINESS PROPERTY Georgia Gains 128 Persons- Day According to Census Atlanta, Ga. — Georgia’s popu lation gained by an average of 128 persons a day between July 1957 Tifton, Ga. - Georgia peanut 1 f nd Ju ' y , 195 ^ ff aCCOrd , ing to It ^ e growers netted a saving of $12 mil- anta E ' e ^ d Office of the U.S. De lion in 1958 by combine harvesting P 3 *™ 11 * of Commerce. 95 per cent of their 500,000 acres of I The state s population growth the important crop, according to j. lover the p , astyears has aver ' L. Shepherd, agricultural engineer aged I ? ea f ly 128 dady ‘ t , with the Ga. Coastal Plain Expert- In civilian population (total pop- ment Station I ulat ion includes the Armed Forces Shepherd said the net savings ' statloned within the st£de) - the represent the diference between the P^up was an average of nearly average costs of the new mechan-1 159 dady betwe *" 195 7 aad 1958, high , ical harvesting method and the old 1 and ^ 9 dunn S the eight year per- method which lod. Thomaston, Ga- Dec. 10,10 am. Potterville, Ga. Dec. 10 r 2 p.m. involved stacking nounced first place winner in the and threshing with stationary ma- 1958 Laurens county soil conserva- chines. tion essay contest. Georgia Couple The engineer pointed out that, weather in 1958 was favorable for MOliey fOf The five men charged with new and old methods of harvest- | bombing the Atlanta Jewish Tern- 1 ing but said there was little in- ThilfTc OnPrfltinil pie were scheduled to go on trial ( terest in stacking peanuts after the ' W,,,U * vpcmilvil in Fulton Superior Court before experience with weather during 1 Judge D T. Pye Mcnday.The five the Autumn of 1957. I Hollywood — A Hogansville cou- Wallace Allen, George Bright, Ken-1 Contrary to the beliefs of many,' pie was given $1,300 recently on a neth Griffin, Robert and Richard it appears that the experience of national TV program to finance Bowling, have been detained in j peanut growers in 1957 from bad surgery on the eyes of their blind jail without bond since their ar-j weather might have served as a rest- blessing in disguise, the specialist I said. Sen. Herman Talmadge remains convinced that the so-called pri vate school plan is sound and that itis better than integration of schools. The senator who has just returned from a NATO conference ici Europe also said Saturday he is still wholeheartedly o pposed to any surrender in the segregation controversy. MUCH HONOR PAID CARTERSVILLE, J. C. YOUNG PEOPLE FORM YOUTH FELLOWSHIP 6 months old son. S-1C and Mrs. Jimmy Caldwell were given the money for a cata ract removal operation on Ralph Edwards’ “It Could be You” pro gram, seen in the Atlanta area on WSB-TV. Sgt. Caldwell is in the Air Force stationed in California. His mother, Mrfs. B. G. Caldwell was flown from Hogansville to be on the program with the couple. In all of our experience says. Editor M. L. Fleetwood, while dealing with organizations of many a-nd varied kinds we have never worked with a group of civic lead Baptist young people between the ages of 13 and 24 in six counties have banded together in a Youth Fellowship for the Rehoboth Asso ciation electing Miss Louise Bush,! a junior at the Montezuma High FULTON COUNTY 4-H MEMBER School, as their president. Louise WINS CONGRESSIONAL AWARD is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bush. Chicago, 111. — Fulton county’s Other officers are Sally Saliba, Marcus Mansell has become Geor-! Byromville, vice president and!gia’s third national 4-H winner as Lynn Russell, Reynolds, secretary. j the 37th annual National 4-H The group meets monthly at the {Club Congress shifted into high j individual churches participating, and following a program, a social . hour is enjoyed. The churches in- ers who have done and are doing eluded: Reynolds, Roberta, White- watwer, Oglethorpe, Ft. Valley, Perry(, Marshallville, Salem, By romville and Montezuma. a more satisfactory job than the members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Cartersville. gear. The naming of Marcus added to those of Mrs. Mays Venable of Jackson county and Lyrm Ewing of Walton County gave Georgia a | head start on leadership of nation al awards. Thomaston Property Wednesday, Dec. 10 10 o’Clock A. M. Located at Ave. H, East Thomaston, Georgia The property of Mr. U. S. Underwood, going for the high dollar. Property known as the SIKES SUPER STORE since 1927. Mr. Underwood has told us to sell as he wants to retire from public business. This property is located on a 120xl91-ft. lot and the store building is of brick construction, plate glass front with 5,720 square feet of floor space. Equipped with A-l Modern Sprinkler System. The store is 65x88-ft. with plenty of parking facilities on property. This property could be used for grocery store, warehouse, furniture store, auto agency, restaurant, parts house, etc. Also four-room dwelling now rented. Be sure to attend this sale. Also At AUCTION POTTERVILLE, GEORGIA PROPERTY Wednesday, Dec. 10,1958 — 2 P. M. The brick store building known as the SIKES SUPER STORE, size 40x90-ft. situated on an acre tract of land at Potterville, Ga. Mr. Underwood has been in grocery and mercantile business since 1914. He has instructed us to sell him out to the bare walls. However, until his retirement, he has enjoyed a profitable business. Mr. Underwood has an exceptionally clean stock of up-to-date merchandise, consisting of hardware and a complete meat and grocery department. This would be an excellent opportunity for someone to go into business EVERYTHING GOES! ATTENTION MERCHANTS: Complete Line of Shoes & Dry Goods 2 Meat Display Boxes, Walk-In Cooler - 6x8 Feet, Meat Saw, Steak Tenderizer, 2 Meat Blocks All Kinds of Equipment to Make Up Super Market TERMS: !4 Down on Day of Sale Sale Conducted by: PEARCES’ REAL ESTATE as Agent JAMES PEARCE, Broker — Residence Phone Fa. 2-6252 HAROLD COHN, Auctioneer — Residence Phone Fa. 2-7190 Office Address: 1018 4th Ave., Columbus, Ga. Phone Fa. 2-6576 Let Us Figure with you if you are planning an Auction! PLEASE VISIT PROPERTY AND ATTTEND SALES. FOR FURTHER INFORMA TION PLEASE CALL THE ABOVE PEOPLE.