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The Butler Herald
•’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
VOLUME 83.
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1959.
NUMBER 37.
OBSERVATIONS
Graduation
Dept, of Archives
ii General Library
Universitv of Ga.
..tie
Revival Services
jlune 21 at
lC.M. Church
Mr. H. G. Fuller
Dies Suddenly
Monday Afternoon
Mrs. Susie Cotney
Dies at Macon
Sunday Morning
Lt. Gov. Byrd
Addresses U. D. C.
Meet at Irwinville
Planning Group
For City of Butler
Named by Mayor
(Wesleyan Christian Advocate)
These are graduaton days for a
lot of young people. Many are
graduating from high school, oth
ers from college, some from pro
fessional schools all over the state
southland, and nation. It marks
a time of the endivig of one era
and the beginning of another. Of
course, the wish is that all of the
high school graduates will con
tinue their studies. This will be
the wisest thing that might be
done.
A college education is needed
•nowadays if for no other reason
than that of living the best one
knows. In this time of radio, TV,
mass media of communication a
college education is essential to
everyday living. Certainly everyone
who is thinking at all for himself
knows that competition is perhaps
keener than ever before. There is
more and more need for training
in every walk of life just to make
ends meet.
In the world today in the battle
of idealogies more and more edu
cation is a necessity. Our colleges
are showing larger enrollments
than ever before. People are think
ing in the right direction. The
number of graduates this year will
bear out this act.
This is a day of specialized
skills. More and more college
graduate schools. This is certainly
a good sign. It is hoped by many
in the church and elsewhere this
trend will continue. Certainly
there is no greater challenge fac
ing us in the free world today
than in the field of specialized
training. Our finest and most tal
ented young people should be en
couraged and given every incen
tive to pursue their studies in the
field where they are best suited.
In almost every instance the
field is wide open for trained lead
ership. The scope of choice is,ljoth
wide and varied. There was never
a time when dedicated persons
were badly needed as now. Almost
anyway one might turn the way is
wide open.
The big question is what are you
going to do with your life. In
whatever field one chooses to enter
there must be always uppermost
in his mind that no matter how
much education one might have it
is not the best unless it prepares
the person in the process of receiv
ing it to really live. Life at its best
is short. Preparation for it requires
hard work. The choices made
along the way help to determine
what may be expected from it. No
matter what you decide to do with
your life make the best you can
out of the choice you make. You
may succeed if the desire and the
will to do it are there. There is no
ball-bearing route to success. It is
usually reached after thorough
preparation by hard work. There is
no substitute for hard work. It is
perserverance that counts.
Upson Beauty Queen
Chosen Maid in Court
Thomaston, Ga. — Another beau
ty honor has been won by Miss
Patricia Carter, Thomaston student
at Emory University and sweet
heart of Sigma Chi there, when
she was selected as a maid of hon
or in the court of Georgia’s Peach
Queen.
Miss Carter was one of the final
ists in he Georgia Peach Queen
contest in Newnan and won a trip
to the Kiwanis International Con
vention in Dallas, Texas, on June
14. Miss Carter, the Peach Queen
and the remainder of the court will
distribute free Georgia peaches at
the Kiwanis Convention.
Mrs. DeArmond Carter, also of
Thomaston, but not related to the
Thomaston winner, kwas named
official chaperon of the six Geor
gia Peach beauties at the Dallas
convention.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation to those whose kind
acts of sympathy will always re
main with us. We shall forever
treasure your prayers, floral gifts
cards and all other deeds of kind
ness shown us during the caused
by the loss of one so dear to us.
Mrs. W. Ferrell Bone & Son
Mrs! J. M. Bone & Family
There will be revival services at
Bethel Congregational Methodist
church beginning Sunday morning
June 21, and contining thru Friday
night, June 26th.
The evangelist for this revival
will be Rev. M. J. Wood of Alma,
Ga., who is well known in this
area for his work in connection
with the Taylor County Holiness
Camp Meeting.
We invite everyone to attend the
services which will begin each eve
ning through the week at 7:45
o’clock.
Rev. Charles Hartsfield,
Pastor.
4-H Conference
Attendants will Visit
Nation's Capitol
Four of Georgia’s finest 4-H’ers
—Steve Brown of Taylor County,
Melanie Mathews of Colquitt
county, Mary Frances White of
Harris, James Harris of Cobb—
have won the honor of representing
their 144,653 fellow 4-H Club mem
bers at the 1959 4-H National 4-H
Club Conference in Washington D.
C., June 13-19.
Being chosen to attend this
conference is the highest delegate
honor a Georgia 4-H Club member
can receive, according to T. L.
Walton, state 4-H club leader for
the Agricultural Extension Service
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture. Delegates are selecter
for their leadership and all-
around achievement in 4-H Club
work.
Steve, 19 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl W. Brown is solely re
sponsible for all the work at their
farm. “He has set out grass,
loked after the cows and also
cleaned up land,” his father re
ports. "The training he has re
ceived from County Agent Reddish
has made Steve more self-reliant.
Chief 4-H projects of this Taylor
County 4-H boy have been soil
conservation, forestry, and land
judging. He is a member of the
State 4-H Land Judging team
which placed in the National Land
Judging Contest at Oklahoma City
this month. Steve considers fores
try his first “real” project which
began when he planted 38,000
slash pines. He became interested
in soil conservation at 4-H fores
try camp and since has won dis-
trist honors in soil conservation
twice: In 1956 and in 1957.
Steve, who is a freshman at
Southern Technical Institute was
first president of the Howard Com
munity 4-H Club and reporter for
the Southwest District4-H Club
Council. Mr. Reddish has this to
say about his 4-H work: “Steve
Brown is a leader in his church,
school, community and 4-H Club
and has been an inspiration to
other 4-H’ers. He is a leader who
can take charge of any situation
he is assigned.”
Larry Sutton, Perry
Youth, Accidentally Shot
On Graduation Day
Perry, Ga. — Larry F. Sutton, 15
who would have graduated from
Perry Junior School Monday night
was killed accidentally by a rifle
bullet Monday morning.
A jury summoned by Coroner
Watson Tuesday decided that Sut
ton was killed by a shot, fired by
Martha Mobley, 14, as the two
were shooting at snakes and frogs
in a small pond near the Marshall-
ville Road. The jury said the bul
let apparently ricocheted off the
water and a standpipe and struck
Sutton just under the heart.
Martha Mobley, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Mobley testified at
the inquest that she and Sutton
went down to the pond Monday
morning. They packed some sand
wiches and candy. Both carried
their fathers’ 22 rifles to shoot
snakes. She said they were on op
posite sides of the small pond
shooting at a snawe when Larry
shouted he was shot.
“I thought he was joking at first
but he started walking toward me
kind of stiff like and I helped him
lie down. I could see a spot on
his shirt. He dropped his rifle as he
fell.”
Funeral Services for Mr.
Fuller Were Conducted at
Crowell Church Wednesday.
Mr. Henry Grady Fuller, 67,
died suddenly of a heart attack
at his home in Crowell community
Monday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
Mr. Fuller was born in this
Countty Nov. 15, 1891, son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Fuller. He
was a life long citizen of Crowell
community and a member of the
Crowell Methodist church. He was
also a member of Fickling Ma
sonic Lodge in this city.
Masonic funeral rites were con
ducted at Crowell Methodist
church Wednesday morning at ten
o’clock. The pastor, Rev. Charles
Hillis, pastor of the church officiat
ed. Interment was in the Crowell
cemetery.
Active pall bearers were Messrs
Herman and Walter O’Neal, Hu
bert and James Young, Bernard
Fuller and Russell Montgomery.
Nephews of the deceased were
honorary pall bearers.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Louise Barron Fuller; two sons
Major Grady Barren Fuller of
Oklahoma City, Okla.; and Lt.
Commander Jack O Fuller of St.
Simons; three daughters, Mrs. H.
P. Kennedy, Chamblee; Mrs. Thos.
L. Perkins, Macon and Miss St.
Francis Camelle Fuller of the Uni
versity of Georgia, Athens; two
sisters, Mrs. A. S. James of Rey
nolds and Mrs. W. I. Horton of
Macon; two brothers, Mr. Herbert
O. Fuller, Columbus; and Mrs. J.
C. Fuller of Reynolds.
Goddard Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Forrester Addresses
Plains High School
Graduating Class
Plains, Ga. — Segregated people
are people with a purpose, with a
will, with a conviction, the gradu
ating class of Plains High School
was told recently by E. L. Forres
ter, U. S. Representative from
Georgia’s Third Congressional Dis
trict.
He told the graduating seniors
and their guests that the early
settlers of this country worked
hard to establish what he referred
to as “God’s last experiment with
man to determine whether ... he
is capable (of governing) himself.”
“But,” he said, referring to the
early pioneers, “they were ’not
taught the fool theory that segre
gation was un-Christian; nor were
they taught the spurious doctrine
of the “Brotherhood of Man”. The
riff-raff did not want to be inter-
grated then because there was
work to do. — a new country had
to be carved out of the wilderness
and the idler and the ignorant did
not think it was a propitious time
to talk about human brotherhood.”
Forrester also said, “I can well
remember the time when it was
not considered smart and exceed
ingly proper to say that our Con
stitution means one thing today
and another tomorrow, and to say
that the outburst of nine men, po
litically inspired and politically
appointed without grounding in
the law, can be asserted as the
law of the land.”
In emphasizing the importance
of their heritage to the Plains
students, the speaker said “South
ern leadership made this nation
and it is going to require Southern
leadership to save this nation.”
Feed Grain Supply
Diminishes Rapidly
Feed grains from the record
1948-59 supply have been disap
pearing in recent months at the
heaviest rate in recent years, ac
cording to information received at
the County ASC office.
Department of Agriculture fig
ures show that 82 million ton of
feed grains were consumed do
mestically during October-March,
largely as the result of inchreased
livestock production and liberal
rate of feeding per animal. This is
10 million tons more than a year
earlier. In addition, more than six
millions tons were exported, up
nearly a fourth from exports in
the same months of 1957-58.
Funeral for Mrs. Cotney Took
Place Monday Afternoon at
Mt. Olive Church.
Mrs. Susie M. Cotney, 74, died at
a Macon hospital Sunday morning,
5 o’clock. She had been ill for
about six months, however, her
death was attributed to a heart
attack.
Mrs. Cotney was born in this
countty Aug. 27, 1884, a daughter
of the late Mr. Franklin I. and
Mrs. Mary E. Windham Millirons.
She spent most of her life in the
Taylor Mill community of this
county. However, she moved to
Macon several years ago to make
her home with a daughter, Mrs.
Lorene Campbell. She was well
known in Taylor county having
contributed many interesting and
informative articles to the Herald
and to the Macon Telegraph in
former years. She was a member
of the Church of Jesus Christ Lat
ter Day Saints.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cotney
were held at the Mt. Olive Baptist
church, Taylor Mill, at 3 p. m.
Monday. Elder J. D. Parker of
Macon officiated. He was assisted
by Eld. Henry C. Carroll also of
Macon. Interment was in Mt.
Olive cemetery.
Pall bearers were Messrs Noel
Houston and Charles Cotney, J. C.
Smith, Jack Ham and Taylor Har
ris.
Survivors include two sons, Mr.
Wm. Franklin Cotney, Butler and
Mr. Douglas Cotney, Reynolds;
two daughter, Mrs. Lorene Camp
bell of Macon and Mrs. Lois Bear
den, Sumter, S. C.; one brother
Walter Millirons, Buena Vista; and
one sister, Mrs. Beulah Harmon,
this city.
Goddard Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Death Deals Heavy
Blow to Forsyth Countians
Death has laid a heavy burden
of grief and sadness across the
spirits of a Forsyth county farm
family.
Twice bereaved within four days
and with their mother still serious
ly ill at Grady Hospital, 11 chil
dren of the McKinzie family strug
gled manfully this week to shoul
der their load of sorrow, z
But the mysteries of death al
ready had made them a “pathetic
group” said the Baptist minister
who is trying to lessen their bur
den.
An infant sister of the 11 Mc
Kinzie children was buried earlier
in the week.
Moments later the children were
gathered with other relatives near
the graveside of the infant and
were told that their father also
was dead.
1200 to Receive Degrees
At University of Ga.
Athens, Ga. — The University of
Georgia will award degrees to
more degrees to more than 1200
students at its 156th commence
ment.
Ceremonies were in Sanford Sta
dium beginning with the academic
procession and closing with the
awarding of more than 1100 under
graduate degrees and 80 graduate
degree.
The speaker will be Dr. C. R. An
derson, professor of English at
Johns Hopkins University. He is a
two time alumnus of the University
of Georgia, having received both
his bachelor’s and master’s de
gree here. The valedictory will be
given by Mrs. Patricia Ivy, 22 year
old Athens housewife, who has
majored in English. Included in
graduates will be more than 40
who are finishing with honors.
Mrs. Bessie S- Shirley Dies
Mrs. Bessie Streetman Shirley,
formerly of this county, died of a
heart attack Tuesday afternoon at
Columbus. Funeral arrangements
were incomplete at time of going
to press with this issue of Herald.
Members of the Gordon-Carson
Chapter UDC who attended the
16th Annual Pilgrimage to the
Jefferson Davis Memorial Park
near Irwinville were Mrs. W. T.
Bankston, Mrs. F. M. Carson, Mrs.
S. J. Tankersley, Mrs. Herman Hill
and Mrs. C. E. Whatley. Miss
Melody Hill was a paige on this
occasion. The Gordon-Carson Chap
ter sponsored Lt. Gov. Garland
Byrd to receive a Cross of Mili
tary Service, which was presented
by Mrs. L. H. Lyle, President of
the Georgia Division, UDC, as
sisted by Mrs. W. T. Bankston, Re
corder of Crosses of the Gordon-
Carson Chapter. Lt. Gov. Byrd
gave the priciple address. He was
introduced by Mr. Geo. P. Don
aldson, President of ABC College,
Tifton.
Others invited to attend this
ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. D. E.
Byrd, Mrs. Garland Byrd and Mrs.
C. E. Whatley.
Gas Peril Acute
When 2 Gas Tank Cars
Were Derailed at McRae
McRae, Ga. — Three diesel units
and 19 freight cars of a south
bound Southern Railway freight
train derailed in the downtown
section Sunday night. No casual
ties were reported.
E. L Blume, McRae police chief
said two of the cars contained
chlorine gas. No evacuation is un
derway as yet he said but au
thorities are checking to determ
ine if gas is escoping.
L. D. Crawford of Macon, con
ductor of the 66-car train, said an
open switch appeared to have
caused the derailment. He said
the main line would be blocked
several hours,
Mr. Herbert Riley
Receives Superior Service
Award from Ag. Dept.
Mr. Herbert Riley of Winter Ha
ven, Fla., son of Mrs. Alice Riley
of this city, recently received the
U.S. Department’s Superior Service
Award from Secretary of Agricul
ture Ezra Benson in special hon
or award ceremonies i>n Washing
ton, D. C.
Mr. Riley has been connected
with the U.S. Agricultural Depart
ment for a number of years.
He is head of the fruit inspec
tion division in the Southern
States. ,
Sharp Peach Price Drop
Reported at Ft. Valley
Ft. Valley, Ga. — A weakening
market nine days after the first
fruit began moving in volume is
spreading discouragement through
Middle Georgia’s big peach produc
ing belt.
A market sag came just before
mid-season in 1958, but brokers at
Ft. Valley said this was Ihe ear
liest market depression they can
remember during any season in
the history of the industry.
They said choice fruit of two
inches and larger is *now selling as
low as $2 per half bushel at termi
nal markets. There is a limited de
mand for fruit and only the select
is being sold at Ft. Valley before
it rolls to New York and other ma
jor markets.
Buyers are reported unusually
discriminate and everything ex
cept top grade fruit is rolling on
consignment to be sold at the mar
ket for whatever the grower can
get.
County Agent to Attend
Kansas Regional School
According to Mr. Joseph Acker
man, of Farm Foundation, County
Agent Vernon Reddish was award
ed a scholarship to attend a three
weeks course on Agriculture Poli
cy. While at the University of Ar
kansas he will have an opportuni
ty to take other courses in Agri
culture Extension work.
His office in the court house will
be open as usual and anyone de
siring to contact the Contact the
County Agent is requested to con
tact the clerk.
Committee Will Work with City
Officials in Planning for
Future City Improvements.
.nV
Mr. R. B. Symonette, a rep
resentative of the Georgia Power
Company spoke to the Mayor and
Council avid a group of local
business men and women here
Monday night.
Mr. Symonette was introduced to
the group by Mr. Hoot Russell,
local representative of the Georgia
Power Co. His talk was on bene
fits derived from a City Planning
Committee and representatives ot
such a committee.
It was moved and second and
voted on by the group that the
Mayor and Council of the city ap
point cuch a committee to work
with the city officials.
Those appointed to serve cn the
local Planning Committee include:
Messrs H. H. Payne, J. E. Bone, H.
W. Vanlavidingham, Lester Peed
and Charles Benns Jr.
These men will meet with the
Mavor and Council at an early
date to discuss plans for the bet
terment of this community. Mr.
Symonette will assist the commit-
in its work. ?
Columbus Pastor
Is Dismissed in
Racial Wrangle
Columbus, Ga. — A Presbyterian
pastor was dismissed from his pul
pit here Sunday, climaxing a bit
ter racial dispute of several years?
duration.
Rev. R. B. McNeill, whose views
on racial matters, have been
classed as “liberals,” was dis
missed as pastor of the 1,200-mem
ber Columbus First Presbyterian
church by an eight-mam judicial
commission of the Southwest Pres
bytery, which has been supervising
the church’s affairs since dissolu
tion of the session (governing
body) last November.
The commission’s statement was
read by Rev. F. C. Kinb, Valdosta
chairmavi. After the Sumday serv
ice Rev. King was accosted by sev
eral members who protested the
commission action.
Rev. King said that the dismis
sal was “in no sense a requke to
Mr. McNeil. We are just trying to
make progress and feel more can.
be accomplished this way.”
He urged all church officers to
continue im their posts avid said
“this concerns no one but Mr. Mc
Neil.”
Butler High School
Classes of 1932-33-34
Plan Reunion Sunday
Last year at the avinual class re
union of the class of 1933 it was
voted to make it a joint reunion
of the classes of 1932, 1933 and
1934.
Notices have been mailed to
some and others have been con
tacted by phome. The mailing list:
has been lost and we are hoping
if you have not been notified that
you will see this notice. Last year
we were honored by the visit of a
former teacher, Mr. James J. Sea-
gars who has never attended be
fore.
We are hoping a number of our
former teachers will be present
this year. Mr. Claude Rickman
has promised to be here this year.
We are sure you will all wamt to
come and see this former teacher
and his lovely wife.
Last year the class of 1932 had
seven members present; the class
of 1934 had eight , while our own
class of 1933—the largest ever to
graduate from dear old B.H.S.—
had only 15 present.
Lets make this the best reunion,
yet.
The time is next Sunday at IT
o’clock and the place is the Com
munity House to Butler.
POOL HOURS
Week Days: 11 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Suvidays: 1:30 p. m. to 6:30 p. m.
Butler Pool Room, Butler, Ga.