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The Butler Herald
"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET
OP SUCCESS"
VOLUME 83.
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959.
NUMBER 22.
Lincoln is alleged to have be
longed to no church but worked
hard at religion.
Mr. J. G. Adams
Taylor Co. Native,
Dies in Japan
Mac
The first issue of .Milves
County high sclbept. oI " , hrar y
Rambler,” is off General JGa.
If Russia's Lui u «»i..^>‘'~rtTe
sun, can the U.S. budget be far
behind, asks the Montgomery Ad
vertiser.
High School girls from all over
Georgia assembled at the Georgia
State Colilege for Women Friday
for a week end preview of college
life.
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A man has reached middle age
when at the end of the day he
wonders what has happened to his
pep.
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The fact that one out of every six
persons in the U.S. is on a govern
ment payroll is indicated by the
U. S. Department of Commerce’s
latest statistics.
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This bit of ancient history will
be of interest to many Georgians:
“Any good Georgia history book
will tell you of the sad fate of
the once thriving town of Marion.
“Marion was a town in Twiggs
County. It was the county seat. In
those early days it even rivaled
Macon as a population center and
regional economic and trading cen
ter.
"Came the railroad. Marion resi
dents refused to grant right-of-
ways. Marion died. Macon wel
comed the railroad, grew and
prospered.
“The modern counterpart of the
railroad is the Federal Interstate
Highway System. It will bring
prosperity wherever it goes. A
strip city between large towns will
border it. In Bibb county alone
$37 million is expected to be even
tually spent on the various pro
jects.
“Macon is fortunate that the su
perhighway will come so near to
the heart of the city (yet will not
have its thru traffic patterns dis
turbed.) But, like the railroad, the
Federal Interstate Road must be
welcomed. Citizens must cooperate
to gain its benefits. Landowners
must be fair in asking compen
sation for the right of ways grant
ed. There must be no attempts to
milk the government just because
the government wants land for a
road.
“Let us all remember the lesson
of Marion.”
nge was received here Sun-
the death of Mr. Joseph
tdams who died of a heart
n Japan Saturday,
dams was born in Taylor
county Jan. 8, 1905, son of the late
Mr. John H. Adams and Nettie
Smith Adams.
Mr. Adams had been located in
Japan for the past nine years
where he was employed by the
Civil Service.
Funeral plans were incomplete
at time of going to press with this
issue of Herald.
Survivors include a wife, one
son, two daughters, and two sis
ters, Mrs. Sam Walker, Waycross
and Mrs. Luke Adams, Butler; two
brothers, Guy Adams, Cocoa, Fla.;
and Eld. Bentley Adams, Thomas-
ton.
State Senate Passes Bell
Assuring Teachers of Their
Salaries If Schools Close
Georgians Opposed
To Gas Tax Hike
A bill assuring teachers they will
continue to get paid if their schools
are closed was passed last week by
the Georgia Senate.
It now goes to Gov. Ernest Van
diver, who had recently assured
the Georgia Education Assn, that
teachers’ contracts would be hon
ored.
The measure provides that if a
school is shut down by guberna
torial executive order — as any
forced to integrate might be — the
teachers will be paid for the rest
of the school year.
It would also allow the governor
to renew teachers' contracts for an
additional year if he sees fit.
Senate Floor Leader Carl San
ders said the bill is “further evi
dence that the Vandiver admini-
station stands behind public edu
cation.”
Sen. Douglas Carlisle raised the
question of whether such an ar
rangement might be troublesome
in view of some court decisions in
Virginia.
Sen. Sanders said the matter
had been considered. But he said
“some rather eminent legal minds
in the state” have decided the bill
was all right.
Buffington Found Guilty
In Death of Former Wife,
Sentenced to Prison
Former State fldm.
is Charged with
Embezzlement
Auditors State That $80,000
Is Missing in Motor Fuel
Unit.
Georgians should welcome the
position taken by Gov. Vandiver
and State Highway Board Chirman
James Gillis in opposing any in
crease in the Foderal gas tax.
In his statement, Gov. Vandiver
pointed out that gasoline tax long
have been largely “reserved” to
the states and boosting Federal
levies may have the ultimate ef
fect of pre-empting this source of
revenue to the states.
In line with the Governor’s
statement, Mr. Gillis noted that
proposed tax increase “would not
necessarily benefit Georgit high
way construction” since the State
still must come up with its prorata
share of the construction costs with
money which “normally comes
from state gas taxes.” Mr. Gillis
urged a return to the pay as you
go plan in constructing the Inter
state Highway System.
Assembly of God Church
Sponsoring Chicken Supper
Saturday evening at the local
Community House, 5 to 9 o’clock,
the Assembly of God Church will
sponsor a Chicken Supper for bene
fit of church building.
Adult plate, $1.00; children’s
plate, 50c.
The public is cordially invited
to come out Saturday evening and
enjoy a fine supper prepared by
the youth of the Assembly of God.
J. B. Weldon, Pastor.
Bank's Phone No. Changed
The Citizens State Bank of Butler
notifies the Herald that their tele
phone number has been changed
to UN. 2-2015. The public will
please make note of this change.
Atlanta, Ga. — The director of
the State’s Motor Fuel Tax Unit
during the Griffin administration
Saturday was accused of embez
zling more than $80 thousand in
state funds. He was charged with
setting up three dummy corpora
tions and funneling gas tax re
funds into them.
Gov. Vandiver, making public
the charges against J. E. Jones, a
former GBI agent, directed Atty.
Gen. Eugene Cook to seek recovery
of the money and prosecute the
offenders ... to the fullest extent
of the law.”
Jones, 40, was not available for
comment. With his wife and two
adopted children he had lived in
Atlanta. But neighbors say he re
cently sold the house and left the
city.
The disclosures about the alleged
embezzlement came in a series of
letters — from a Revenue Depart
ment auditor to Revenue Commis
sioner Dixon Oxford, from Com
missioner Oxford to Gov. Vandiver
and from Gov. Vandiver to Atty.
Gen. Cook.
W. C Werner, senior auditor for
State Revenue Department reported
to Oxford that in May, 1956, Jones
set up accounts in two Atlanta
banks in the name of fictitious
truck lines. Later, he said, Jones
was depositing state gas tax re
funds to the account of still anoth
er corporation.
“In connection with the transfer
of funds to the Jones personal ac
count,” said the Werner report, “It
was found that in about 17 in
stances, checks were first drawn
payable to a relative of the Joneses
deposited in the relative’s account
and then, on thes ame day, a check
drawn for a slightly smaller ac
count . . . was deposited in the.
joint checking account of Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Jones located at the Trust
Co. of Ga.
Macon, Ga. — R. A. Buffington
found guilty of murder in the New
Year's Eve slaying of his ex-wife
and was sentenced to life in pris
on by Judge A. M. Anderson.
A Bibb Superfior Court jury re
turned the verdict, with a recom
mendation of mercy, at approxi
mately 9:15, after deliberating for
several hours.
A recommendation of mercy
makes a life sentence madatory.
Judge Anderson imposed the sen
tence immediately.
The jury went out at 3:35 p. m.
after the charge by Judge Ander
son. When they reported they had
not reached a verdict at 7 p. m,
they were taken to supper and be
gan deliberation again at 8:30.
Boys of Woodcraft
Sponsoring Barbecue
Supper for Feb- 26
The Boys of Woodcraft Sports
men Club No. J-1428 will sponsor a
Barbecue Supper Feb. 26, 7 to 9 p.
m. at the local Legion Hall.
These boys are selling tickets to
this event throughout this week.
Proceeds from the supper will
go toward buying Base Ball Uni
forms for the boys.
It will be apperciated by these
lads if you will buy a ticket from
them and attend this delightful so
cial affair.
Remember the time and place:
Feb. 26, 7 to 9 p. m. at the Legion
Hall.
C- T. Battle Elected
Schley School Official
Chas. T. Battle, Jr., was elected
Schley County School Superinten-
tendent in and un-contested race
Feb. 17, to fill the unexpired term
of the late Raymond Duncan.
New City Hall
Now Completed
At Fire Station
New City Hall Office Will be
Open Each Day from 9 a.m.
To 5 p.m.
One of the first new City im
provements under the new City
administration headed by Mayor
Alfonso McCrary, is the construc
tion of the new City Hall located
at the local fire station.
The office is very attractive and
all local citizens are welcome to
call by and inspect same. Office
hours are 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. each
day except Thursdays which will
be 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Mrs. Elmer Swain, City Clerk
will be at the office during these
hours.
All city taxes and water bills
will be payable at this office. Mrs.
Swain notifies the Herald that
the new phone will be installed
within the next few days and that
the phone number will be 2-2455.
Please make note of number as
it will not appear in your tele
phone directory until the new
publication is printed.
Important Meeting
Next Wednesday Nite
At Methodist Church
Handsome Checks
Received This Week from
Georgia POWER CO-
Checks were delivered to city of
ficials in Butler, Reynolds and Ro
berta this week by H. L. Russell,
local manager of the Georgia
Power Co. Butler received $1,772.17;
Reynolds, $1,453.27 and Roberta,
1,998.84.
They represented three per cent
of the gross receipts in 1958 from
the sale of electrical power to com
mercial and residential customers
of the company under the Munici
pal Partnership Plan. The three
per cent tax is paid by the com
pany in place of occupation and
franchise taxes and in addition to
the company’s property taxes
which totaled $5,270,000 last year.
More than $2,135,000 is being
paid to the communities of Georgia
for 1958 under the Municipal Part
nership Plan. This is an increase of
more than $117,000 over 1957.
The company’s total tax bill for
1958 was $26,600,000. This does not
include the sales tax which the
company collects from its custo
mers for the State of Georgia nor
the sales tax which the company
pays on materials used in its op
erations.
Highway Speed Limit
Raised by Legislature
T * 65 Miles an Hour
Atlanta, Ga. — The House has
voted to raise the maximum high
way speed to 65 m.p.h. by day,
and 55 by night.
Proponents beat down an amend
ment which would have delayed
the effective date a year. They
sent the bill to the governor as ap
proved by the Senate.
Among those voting “no” was
Rep. W. P. Trotter, director-desig
nate at the Public Safety Depart
ment and author of the delaying
amendment.
The bill applies only to passen
ger cars and not to trucks. It also
gives the Public Safety Department
power to set minimum speeds on
certain highways.
Natl. FFA Week
Observed in Co.
During This Week
Future Farmers of America
throughout the nation are schedul
ing special activities to focus pub
lic attention on the work of their
organization during National FFA
Week, Feb. 21-28.
Membership in the FFA is made
up of farm boys who are students
Mrs. Alice Peterman
Died Early Sunday
After Short Illness
Funeral Services at the Butler
Methodist Church Thursday
Afternoon, 2 o’clock.
tionary War General and our first
President, Washington’s first love
was the farm he called Ml. Vernon.
A special meeting of all mem
bers of the Butler Methodist church
is Announced for Wednesday, Mar.
4, 7:30 o'clock.
Purpose of this meeting is to dis
cuss and decide whether or not to
build a new parsonage or whether
or hot to remodel the present par
sonage building.
It is the desire of official board
of the church that all members be
present to discuss and vote on this
important matter.
Loyal Order of Moose
Will Honor Lt. Gov. Byrd
Atlanta, Ga. — Georgia lodges
of the Loyal Order of Moose will
honor Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd at
what they expect to be the largest
class of initiates in history Feb. 26
and 27.
Twin classes and cremonies are
planned in Atlanta at 8 p. m., the
26th at the Biltmore hotel for north
Georgia, and in Macon at 8 p. m.
the following day at the Shrine
Temple for South Georgia.
Fifty or more members of the
National Supreme Council of the
order are expected to attend both
programs. Byrd is a member of the
Macon lodge.
Sen. Talmadge Lauded for
His Amendment Proposal
Washington, D. C. — Sen. Her
man Talmadge has received a
heavy flow of letters and tele
grams in support of his proposed
constitutional amendment to as
sure state and community control
of schools.
His office has had hundreds of
communications, mostly from the
South. A check showed 55 letters
from outside the Southern States.
Of these, all but one backed Tal-
madge’s measure.
Jerry Jarrell Selected to
Play in Ail-State Band
Jerry Jarrel, senior clairnet and
v-president of Butler High School
Band has been selected thru com
petitive audition to play in the
Georgia All-Star Band in Atlanta
March 18-20. This is his second
year in this band.
Jerry, with the director of Taylor
County Bands, Mr. R. Lee Knowles,
will attend the Georgia Music Ed
ucation Convention of which the
All-State Band is a part.
Congratulations, Jerry Jarrell!
Notice to YFW Members
Mrs. Ira Alice McCants Peterman
. .. . . .... died at the local hospital early
° f . VO r at ^ nal agriculture ln high Sunday morning. Her death was
sc ool. he organizations activi- ; a ttrib u teci to cerebral hemorrhage
ics are designed primarily to help suffered only a few hours earlier,
develop rural leadership and good I Mrs. Peterman was a life-long
citizenship and stimulate the boys' cR j Zon 0 f tliis county, born March
to better achievement in their study . 24j 1882 daughter of the latc Mr .
and work toward successful estab- , Brantley McCants and Hie late Mrs.
lishment in farming. i Alice McCants. She was a widow
lie local H< A t hapter has 84 0 j Mr. Charlton J. Peterman, who
members. Mr. Harold J. Ragan, preceded her in death Sept. 5, 1957.
vocational agriculture instructor in Mrs. Peterman was a member of
the local High school, serves as ad- j the nion Methodist church,
visor of the FFA Chapter. j Funeral will take place at Butler
u ^'oor, 1 ^ 10113 9 1Ranizatl0n ' Methodist church Thursday, 2 p.m.
has 389,000 members with 9,000 lo- | wit , h Rev . Ted Grilier officiating,
cal Chapters in the 49 states, Ha- I ass } s t ed by Re v. Tegler Gieer and
wan and Puerto Rico. Membership Rcv . E H Dunn> i nlen ncnt in
!" 9 fi 7 e ° rgia t0tals a PP rox * ma tely , Memorial Park cemetery, Macon.
^ , , I Survivors include seven daugh-
^Future Farmers choose the week ters: M rs. Nina Willingham, Mrs.
° f 9^ 0rge Washingtons birthday g p. Gray, Mrs. Oliver Herrington,
each year for the observance of Macon; Mrs. Harper L. Hardage,
National FFA Week. Although Columbus.... Mrs. N. E. Adams, Mrs
ua^a^y a f„,, a ^ aV °. lu , Gordon Bloodworth, Butler; Mrs. R.
S. Nicholas, Germany; two sons,
Mr. Hugh Peterman, Roberta; Mr. C.
,J. Peterman Jr., Zebulon; one sis-
There he was one of the first in the t er, Mr s. C. W. Foy, Atlanta; nine
nation to practice contour planting I g rand children and two great
crop rotations, fertilization, and j grand children,
other soil conservation and im- j Nephews of deceased will act
provement methods. It was more as pa u bearers, namely, Franklin,
than a century after Washington s A sbury, Ralph and Edward Mc-
death before general use was made cants, Ernest Foy, Bernard and
of many of the sound agricultural Alfred p etermni W iley Young and
practices he advocated. Richard Sewell.
Honorary pall bearers include:
Elie Peterman, James Spillers,
Charles Shine, Thelmon Jarrell,
Julian Edwards I, Paul Montgom
ery, Willie Rob Cosey, Walter
Wainwright, Bill Bazemore, Leon
Theus, Bernard Walker, Owen
Cochran and Grady Cochran.
Lithonia, Ga. — FBI agents ar- Edwards Funeral Home was irt
rested a 32 year old Texan and his charge of arrangements.
27 year old wife Sunday and!
charged them with being the cou- ^ . ,
pie which took $6,800 in cash at Hill'd yUdriCrlV
gunpoint from the People’s Bank *
of Lithonia Saturday.
N. R. Johnson, special agent in
charge of the Atlanta FBI office,
said his men nabbed Bernice H.
Dunn of El Paso, Tex., and Martha
Dun of Arkansas, when they were
returning to their present home at
Palace Lake, Ga.
Texas Man and Wife
Are Captured, Charged
With Bank Robbery
There will be a Bar-B-Cue Sup
per at the Post Home on Saturday
Feb. 28th at 8 p. m. Come and
bring your guest.
Conference Sunday
For Howard Charge
The Methodist churches of the
Howard Charge set their Third
The Dunns were arraigned before Quarterly Conference for Sunday
a U.S. Commissioner in Atlanta, at the Charing Methodist church.
Dunn is being held on $10,000, his Rev. James R. Webb Jr., District
wife on $5,000 bond. Superintendent is expected to lift
A bandit robbed the People’s up several matters of concern and
Bank Sturday and escaped in a,challenge Sunday as the preachers
late model car which was parked presides over this meeting which
outside the bank with an attrac-, ushers in the last three months of
tive woman at the wheel. (the Conference year.
The two appeared to have made j The Conference begins at 11 a.m.
a clean getaway but later aban-jand will include the preaching
doned their car.
Half Million Dope
Haul Made in Atlanta;
Is Arrested
Negro
Atlanta, Ga. — A Negro arriving
on an airliner from New York was
arrested in connection with half a
million dollars worth of heroin
found in luggage at LaGuardia
Field in New York.
Police arrested Richard Alston Jr.
44, of Jamacia, Long Island, at the
request of New York authorities.
The heroin was found by officers
who searched planes after receiv
ing phone tip that a bomb was
aboard an airliner outbound from
the New York field.
Authorities awaited receipt of a
warrant from New York before de
termining whether Alston would
resist extradition.
Angelo Zurlo, Bureau of Narcotics
supervisor said Alstan “won’t tell
us a thing” other than denying
that the luggage holding the drug
was his or that he had anyting to
do with it.
Notice to Butler Residents
A motion was made and carried
to establish an Ordinance requir
ing all Sanitary Sewer Service pipe
be not less than 4 inches and
to recommend that 6 inch pipe be
used if possible, also all pipe joints
be made with either “slip joints”
or poured “mastic joint” material
and that each sewer service con
nection be inspected by City In
spector before pipe in ditch is cov
ered.
service and the Quarterly Con
ference, after which dinner will be
served on the church grounds.
Reports will be read at this
meeting from the pastors lay lead
ers and treasurers only.
Cordial invitation is extended
everyone to attend this conference.
March 2 Is Final Date
For Filing New Cotton
Grower Requests
The final date for filing a re
quest for a new grower cotton al
lotment is next Monday, according
to Roy Jones, County Office Man
ager.
The provisions for new growers
cotton allotments apply only to
farms on which no old grower cot
ton allotment has been established
and the operator will not operate
another farm that has a cotton al
lotment. In addition, a farm is not
eligible for a new grower allotment
if the owner of the farm is owner
of another farm with a cotton al
lotment.
The forms needed to file an ap
plication for a new grower cotton
allotment are available at the ASC
Office.
Bend Practice at Gym
Friday, 7:30 P- M.
There will be a full band prac
tice at the Butler Gym Friday,
7:30 p. m.
All parents of band group are
urged to attend.