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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 19, 1959.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
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Most Middle Georgia barbers
have increased haircuts to SI.25.
Four persons died in traffic ac
cidents last week end in Georgia.
The Madison Methodist church
has begun a drive to raise $18,000
for a new parsonage in Madison.
Four persons were injured, none
seriously in an automobile pileup
involving four cars Saturday in
Cobb county.
A $1,500,000 office building is to
be erected at 3324-3332 Peachtree
Rd, Atlanta on the site of the old
C. L. Elliott home.
Fort Valley officials have an
nounced that a Nursery Loan Fund
has been set up in that city by a
prominent local citizen.
Fire tragedies in the United
States and Canada early Saturday
cost the lives of at least 16 persons
and injured many others.
Ben G. Lambert, who introduced
air conditioning and TV to Georgia
county prisons, died last week at
the age of 54, at his home in New-
nan.
A search is underway at Warner
Robins for a dozen or more attrac
tive and talented young ladies to
compete for the title, Miss Warner
Robins of 1959.
L. H. Griffin, a Jacksonville su
permarket owner and brother of
the former Governor of Georgia,
was found dead in his burning
store one day last week.
A 38 year old Atlanta woman—
the mother of six small children—
has been given another chance to
care ofr her family in being
sentenced to alcoholic cure.
Emory scientists are studying
some heretofore neglected little
animals whose presence or absence
may bear heavily on the future of
some better known creatues.
Gen. R. E. Wood, midwestern
Republican and retired board of
chairman of Sears Roebuck & Co.
has attacked the Supreme Court
as the "worst we have had in 100
years.
Two tolquitt county white pris
oners, both about 40, died mys
teriously after complaining of se
vere pain and nausea and authori
ties Saturday were seeking the
cause.
The Georgia House has decisive
ly defeated a measure introduced
by Muscogee Rep. Harry Dicus
to suspend licenses of teen-age
drivers convicted of moving traffic
offenses in one of the liveliest
debaters of the session.
Between four and five' thousand
camellias were on exhibition at the
city auditorium in Macon Saturday
and Sunday. These flower were
shown by growers from all parts
of the state and other Southeastern
States, as well as those in Middle
Georgia, the heart of the camellia
growing south.
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Court Voids Ruling
Which Might Release
1,000 Prisoners in State
Atlanta, Ga. — The Georgia Su
preme Court has reversed a lower
court decision which a Pardon and
Parole Board official said might
set 1,000 Georgia prisoner free.
The high court said Cherokee
Circuit Judge J. L. Davis erred
when he ordered the release of
Clifford Reese from Whitfield Pub
lic works camp.
Reese had been sentenced to 4-6
years on two different felony
counts in 1953. He was paroled in
1955 before serving his minimum
time.
But after he was convicted on
an arson charge in 1956 and sen
tenced to 3-5 years, the Parole
Board revoked his parole and spe
cifically ordered that Reese must
serve the remainder of his old term
as well as the one for arson.
GEORGIA-FLORIDAY TOLL
BRIDGE EIGHT MILES LONG.
PLANNED BY OFFICIALS
Georgia and Florida highway
chiefs disclosed Sunday they are
planning as a joint effort the con
struction of an 8-mile bridge link
ing St. Harys, Ga., and Fernandi-
na Beach, Fla.
Georgia Highway Board Chair
man Jim Gillis and Florida High
way Dept. Chairman Joe Grotegut
said they had reached an agree
ment on the "desirability” of the
bridge but that much more plan
ning is needed before any firm ar
rangements can be negotiated.
Old time religion revived as
Methodist campers continued to
pour into Epworth by the Sea as
sembly ground to fill its facilities
to capacity and work amid the
simple beauty of this golden isle.
Postmasters in north and central
Georgia sent themselves a big
batch of mail recently. In fact,
within a two week period they
mailed more than 19,000 letters to
each other. They are checking up
on their own efficiency.
The Ft. Valley Youth Council, or
ganized following an outburst of
juvenile delinquency last fall to
study ways and means of furnish
ing wholesome activities for young
people, has been dissolved on
recommendation of its steering
committee.
Denmark Groover Jr., president
of the Macon Bar Association, ex
pressed disappointment at Bibbs
legislators’ deferral of a third
judgeship proposal. He said the bar
association will again seek pass
age of the measure at the 1960
General Assembly session.
From Jacksonville comes this in
teresting information: “A dollar
just won’t go anywhere” is the
lament of Mrs. Lawson Pearson, 34
who gave birth to her sixth'' set of
twins and 15th and 16th children
last Sunday. Eleven are living. The
couple has been married 19 years.
Miss Cornelia Lowe, daughter of
Mrs. W. H. Lowe, was elected
president of the Columbus Pilot’s
Club last week. She will be In
stalled May I to replace Mrs. Geo.
Mrawner, out going president.Miss
Lowe is director of the extension
service for Bradley Memorial Li
brary.
Report comes from Washington
that Secretary of State Dulles has
again been stricken by cancer,
raising grave doubts that he can
continue a s chief architect of
President Eisenhower’s foreign
policy. The grim news was an
nounced Saturday by the President
after he personally talked to the
venerable cabinet officer at his bed
side.
This is the final week of the
1959 Georgia Legislature.
U. S. capital’s new face is com
ing from Georgia marble quaries.
The Capitol’s original sandstone
face — aged, weathered and scar
red — has become emaciated. At
least that’s what some folks said
and they won the controversy over
whether the face should be sub
jected to make up.
Horace Braswell, Macon
Youth, Fourth Fatality
This Year in That City
Macon, Ga. — A motorist hit
and killed a six year old boy in
Macon Friday. The child, Horace
Braswell was the city’s second
traffic fatality this year.
The city’s first traffic death
just a few hours earlier when T. C.
Bennett died at a local hospital
where he had been treated since
Feb. 3rd for wreck injuries,
Police Officers L. M. Brown and
J. J. Adams investigated the fatal
accident.
Four persons have died in Bibb
and city mishaps this year; two in
the county and two in the city.
Police said the child had started
across the street and waited until
one car passed, then ran in front
of the death vehicle, according to
witnesses.
Korean Yets Reminded
Of Mustering Out Pay
Atlanta, Ga. — Georgia Korea
veterans were reminded this week
by Pete Wheeler, director of the
State Department of Veterans Serv
ice that the deadline for their mus
tering out pay is July 16.
“It may surprise you,” Wheeler
said, “But there are many Korea
veterans in Georgia who still have
not gotten their mustering out
pay.”
Some missed it because they had
been discharged before the law au
thorizing payment to them had
been enacted in 1952, Wheeler
said.
The Korea GI Bill authorized
mustering out pay for those with
active military service after June
26, 1950. In 1955, the application
date was extended to July 16,
1956. Then, last August, the appli
cation date again was reopened
and extended to July 16, 1959.
The mustering out pay rate is
$100 for veterans with less than
60 days of service; $200 for those
with 60 or more days service with
in the continental United States,
and $300 for those with 60 or more
days service plus overseas time.
Application should be made to
the branch of the armed forces in
which the veteran served.
Wheeler said offices of the State
Department of Veterans Service
will be glad to advise and assist
veterans in filing their applica
tions if they are eligible.
Fulton County Official
Indicted on Theft Charge
Atlanta, Ga. — In Fulton County
Grand jury indicted a former sen-
| ior State Revenue Dept, accountant
on felony charges last week of
stealing and falsifying state tax
, records.
I Fischer Mauney, who is also un
der a previous indictment charg
ing him with embezzling $1,165 in
state funds, was accused of alter
ing and falsifying certain entries
on a ledger record.
A second count in the new in
dictment charges Mauney with
“wrongfully and fraudulently”
stealing nine monthly sales tax
reports.
Mauney was one of 215 Revenue
Dept, employes fired early this
year by new Commissioner Dixon
Oxford.
The first count of the new in
dictment charges that Mauney al
tered the ledger record in the name
of "Douglas Neon Sign Co., O. T.
Walker, Rt. 2, Douglas, Ga.”
FALSE TEETH MAKERS
LOSE TO DENTISTS
Atlanta, Ga. — There has been
a lot of false information spread
about false teeth, according to both
sides in a lengthy and heated pub
lic hearing before the House Hy
giene and Sanitation Committee.
But the committee unanimously
killed a bill to give a group of in
dependent dental technicians vir
tual control of false teeth making
in Georgia.
$5,000 Reward Posted
For Slayer of Alabama
Trolley Operator
Atlanta, Ga. With virtually no
clues to work on Atlanta police
pressed an investigation on the
slaying of a 43-year-old trolley
operator shot to death just before
midnight Saturday. The Atlanta
Transit System offered a $5,000 re
ward for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of the mur
derer.
The motive for the murder of the
operator, Elmer Randall Lewis, Rt.
1, Stockbridge, was the big ques
tion mark in the investigation. He
was shot down at the end of his
trolley line in a rain-soaked yard.
“We are determined to protect
our men,” said R. L. Sommerville,
transit company president. In an
nouncing the reward he also an
nounced sweeping changes in
trolley night operators.
“Whatever we have to do to keep
them from being attacked, we will
do,” Sommerville said “even if
it means the entire withdrawal of
night service on certain lines.”
SUITFILED AGAINST DOG
OWNERS FOR BITE
Columbus, Ga. — A big hound
dog that doesn’t take kindly to
postmen, an dallegedly nipped a
small carrier on the leg, is the
cause of a $2,500 damage suit filed
in Columbus.
Postman Jesse Dubose of the Co
lumbus post office filed suit in
City Court Friday thru his lawyer.
Peyton Anderson, published of
The Macon Telegraph and News
has been appointed to a two-year
term as a member of the Interna
tional Development Advisory Board
by President Eisenhower. — The
Wrightsville Headlight.
The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
has approved a change in the de
sign, construction and location of
proposed interstate highway inter
change in Macon, Urban Engineer
Sam Allison of the State Highway
Dept, said Monday.
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Dry Goods and Notipns. Also Equipment and Fixtures
for immediate operation.
Low overhead; excellent location and potential. Will
sacrifice all or part. Call UNion 2-2495 or write Box
316, Butler, Ga.
FOR SALE
Several thousand H & N Started Pullets, 13 to 20.
weeks old; fully vaccinated. Free delivery on 1,000 or
more. Contact:
C. E. ELLARD, Red Hat Feed, Box 1321, Columbus, Ga.
or:
WALTER O’NEAL, Crowell Poultry Farm
Phone: TL 7-5127, Reynolds, Ga.
Phone: FA 3-4523, Columbus, Ga.
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