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VOLUME 84. ~ BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA,"THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1960. NUMBER-49.
Three Candidates
Announce General Library
Clerk {superior CL
r
Thelmon Jarrell
trial Fund
Is Well Endorsed
Three Members Of
Jarrell Family
Injured in Wreck
State Primary
To Be Held Next
Wednesday, Sept. 14
Pvt. John Ritter
Killed In Auto
Accident - Augusta
Taylor Co. Citizens
Plan Mass Meeting
Tuesday, Sept 20
Entries Close Saturday After-
Noon, Sept. 10 at 6.0’Clock.
Primary Set for Sept. 20th.
Three Taylor county citizens have
announced their candidacy for the
Office of Clerk of Superior Court
in the Special Primary of Sept 20th.
These candidates are W. B. (Ben)
Guined; Fred S. Jarrell and C. F.
(Fred) Rustin.
Closing date for candidates to
qualify with the County Demo
cratic Executive Committee to enter
the race for Clerk has been set as
6 p. m., Sept. 10th. Fee for the of
fice is $350.00.
Due to the fact that the name of
the party nominee must he certified
to at least 45 days prior to the
November General Election, the
County Executive Committee has
ruled that in this particular in
stance the candidate receiving the
highest number of votes cast will
be declared the party nominee. In
fact there will be no run-over Pri
mary in the race for Clerk of Su
perior, only.
Miss Willis Recipient
Of Scholarship Award
Congratulations are in order to
Miss Margaret Willis of Reynolds,
recipient of Teacher’s Scholarship
sponsored by the State of Georgia.
Miss Willis was notified of this
honor on Friday by Dr. Claude Pur
cell, State School Superintendent.
The scholarship covers her Sopho
more, Junior and Senior years of
college. This program is sponsored
by the State to encourage gradu
ates to enter the teaching profes
sion.
Miss Willis is the 19 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Gaultney. She graduated from Rey
nolds High School in 1959 and has
completed her Freshman year at
the University of Ga. where she is
majoring in Home Ec.
Macon Brothers
Killed in Plane Crash
As Wives Look on
Danville, Ga. — A Macon busi
nessman and his brother were
killed Monday as their wives looked
on when their light plane crashed
and burned on a small South Ga.
landing strip in Wilkinson Coun
ty.
They were identified as R. L.
Davidson, 52, owner of the Dixie
Bag Co., Macon, and his brother,
James, 42, of Danville, a retired
soldier who worked at Warner
Robins.
Police saidLloyd Lavidson, an
amateur pilot had taken his broth
er up for a pleasure ride at his
4-D ranch about a mile north of
Danville.
Notice to Hunters:
Dove Season Opens
FIRST OPEN SEASON: The law
ful open season for hunting doves
will be Sept. 15 through October 1.
Shooting hours will be from 12 noon
until sunset of same day. Bag
limit 12 daily, possession limit, 26.
SECOND OPEN SEASON: The
lawful open season for hunting
doves will be Nov. 23 through Jan.
14, 1961. Shooting hours will be
from 12 noon to sunset of the
same day. Bag limit, 12 daily;
possession limit, 24.
Butler WOW Camp
Sponsoring Quartets
Butler Camp No. 1428 WOW will
sponsor three outstanding quar
tets on Sept. 23rd, 8:00 p. m. at the
local High school gym.
The proceeds will go toward com
pleting a project in the county.
Full details will be announced in
next week’s edition of Herald.
The committee in charge of the
Thelmon Jarrell Memorial Fund re
ports that response has been un
usually good.
Many out-of-county friends of
the deceased Superior Court Clerk
are participating in this project.
A plaque will be placed in the
local court house in memory of Mr.
Jarrell who served as Clerk of
the Superior Court for 28 years.
The remainder of the Memorial
Funds will be used to purchase
pews for Union Methodist Church
in memory of Mr. Jarrell.
Persons contributing tp this
fund are asked to make checks
payable to Union Methodist church,
Jarrell’s Memorial Fund. The com
mittee has asked that all con
tributions be reported by Sept, 15.
Places designated for receiving
gifts for this fund in Butler include
Butler Drug Co., Smith’s Pharmacy,
W. H. Trussell’s Store and Walker’s
Barber Shop.
Any of the committemen listed
below will be glad to accept your
contributions:
Butler: Rev. Walter Doggrell,
Rev. Ted Griner, T. L. Fountain E.
E. Jarrell, Charles Benns, Jr.
Reynolds: Mrs. Blanche Brunson
Mr. J. W. Windham.
Carsonville: Mrs. Ethel Blasche.
Charing: Lewis Watson.
Daviston: Clyde Wilson.
Mauk: Mrs. L. R Pike.
Howard: Mrs. Carl Brown.
Potterville: H. S. Gates.
Rupert: J. Ran Cooper.
The colored citizens of County:
R. L. McDougald.
Boy Fined $8,000
In Cigarette Theft
State Revenue Commissioner Dix
on Oxford has imposed an $8,000
penalty on an Alabama youth—$25
per carton for the approximately
400 cartons of cigarettes the youth
was charged with illegally -possess
ing and transporting. .
The commissioner took the action
after a hearing for Terry W. Dale,
19, who gave his address as Clan
ton, Ala.
Dale was arrested in Pickens
County by Pickens Sheriff Bill Raye
Sheriff Raye said the youth’s 1957
car contained about 400 cartoons of
cigarettes, none of which bore Ga.
tobacco tax stamps and for which
Dale had no bill of lading.
Seven Persons Safe
After Boat Sinks
Seven Georgians aboard a cabin
cruiser which sank Saturday off
the northwest Florida coast were
rescued Sunday.
The Coast Guard reported that the
boat captain, identified as Tommy
Vickers, was picked up in a raft
and the other seven persons were
rescued later in another raft by a
fishing boat.
No rtames or addresses were im
mediately known, but at least one
man from the Atlanta area, T. G.
Boggs 36, East Point, was believed
among the rescued. The other six
rescued were also believed from
the Atlanta area.
Merit Given 10 Years
In Bank Holdup
John Merit, 28, has received a 10
year sentence for a bold daylight
robbery of the Buckhead branch of
the Trust Co. of Ga.
Merit, a former Army sergeant
and former resident of Silver
Springs, Mo., and Alexandria. Va.,
had pleaded guilty to taking $8,335
from the bank branch during the
afternoon rush hour April 11. In
giving him the stiff prison term,
U. S. District Judge Boyd Sloan or
dered forfeited, to help cover the
bank loss, a $450 gold watch and
$2,454 recovered from Merit.
Atlanta Woman Victim
Of Legal Court Order
Rupert Club to Serve
Lunches Wednesday
The Rupert H-D Club ladies will
sell plate lunches, sandwiches,
cakes and pies at the court house
Wednesday — Election Day. Come
and buy, and help keep up the
Community House.
An Atlanta woman is being
sent to the state penitentiary on
the basis of a court order nine
months old.
The court order is based on a re
voked probation — and the revo
cation was based on a charge of
which the woman was later found
innocent.
nhiect of this strange application
of the law is Mrs.Margaret Parris.
Accident Occurred Friday Even
ing Near Columbus. All Taken
To Hospital For Treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Gorman Jarrell
and Mrs. Fred Jarrell were serious
ly injured in an automobile acci
dent a few miles east of Columbus
on highway 80 about 7 o'clock
Friday evening.
All three persons were carried to
the Medical Center in Columbus
and are reported to be improving
nicely.
Mr. Jarrell, the most seriously in
jured of the three, suffered a brok
en neck, severe cuts on the head
and internal injuries. Mrs. Gorman
Jarrell suffered a fractured pelvis
and bruises of the body and head.
Mrs. Fred Jarrell sustained severe
cuts about the head and body.
The Jarrells were traveling in a
pick-up truck taking a load of
produce to the Farmer’s Market in
Columbus. They were struck on
the left side by a car which came
into the highway from a side road
at a high rate of speed. The car
which struck the Jarrell pick-up
was driven by a Negro soldier of
Ft. Benning. The Negro is reported
to have fled on foot from the acci
dent but was arrested later by Co
lumbus officers. He was not in
jured, according to reports.
Both the automobile and the pick
up ttuck were badly damaged.
Georgia Revenue
Rises $2,069,631
State revenue collections for the
month of August showed a $2,069-
631 increase over the same month
last year, Revenue Commissioner
Oxford reports.
Total net collections were $26,-
448,894, compared to $24,379,263 for
August of 1959, he said. T .
Collections for the first two
months of the current fiscal year
were $4,242,264 ahead of the same
period for 1959 fiscal year, the
commissioner reported. At that rate
of increase, 1960 collections would
top last year’s by something over
$25 million.
August collections reflected a $2,-
458,000 increase in income tax col
lections most of the jump being at
tributable to the state’s new with
holding plan for personal income
taxes.
Talmadge Urges
Medical Program
Lovejoy, Ga. — Sen. Herman Tal
madge said Saturday he hopes the
Ga. General Assembly will act in
January on a medical aid for the
aged program approved by the ex
tra session of Congress which
closed recently.
Calling the meicare bill “the only
worthwhile piece of legislation
which Congress passed,” in the spe
cial session, Talmadge said:
“I hope the General Assembly of
Georgia will take action in its
session next year so that the bene
fits can be brought to Georgians at
the earliest possible time.”
Methodist Camp
Meeting Underway
The 53rd annual Methodist Camp
Meeting is underway at the Little
Rock Campgrounds between Alamo
and McRae in Wheeler county.
H. F. Williams of McRae and Hen
ry Watson of Macon, camp meet
ing committee co-chirman, said
the meeting will continue daily at
11 a.m. and 7 p.m. thru Sept. 11.
Sept. 14 has been set as home
coming day and lunch will be serv
ed on the church grounds. Special
services at 3 p. m. will be conducted
on Sept. 11, designated as Memo
rial Day.
Singing at Mauk
Sunday, Sept. 11
Gospel singing at Mauk Com
munity House Sept. 11th, 2 o'clock
p. m.
Featured at this time will be Lit
tle Troy Lumpkin and his Trio of
Atlanta; Family Trio of Thomas-
ton and Spiritual Singer, Miss Bar
bara Anderson of Shiloh.
Public is cordially invited to at-
I tend this delightful affair.
Several Local Races Creating
Much Interest In Primary
Large Vote Expected Wed.
Voters of Taylor County as well
as throughout the state of Georgia
will go to the polls next Wednes
day to vote on a slate of officials
to serve in various State and County
offices during the four-year term
beginning next January 1st.
A special referendum is included
on this ballot whereby the voters
will be given an opportunity to
say whether they prefer "Free Presi
dential Electors” or “Pledged Pres
idential Electors.”
Names appearing on the ticket
and the various offices to which
they aspire are as follows:
METHOD FOR SELLvJTING
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
For Free Presidential Electors.
For Pledged Presidential Electors.
• UNITED STATES SENATOR
RICHARD B. RUSSELL
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER
CRAWFORD L. PILCHER
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER
(Vote for One)
FRANKLIN RODGERS
BEN T. WIGGINS
JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT
CARLTON MOBLEY
JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT
JOSEPH D. QUILLIAN
JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT
(Vote for One)
VANCE CUSTER
BENNING M. GRICE
AL HENSON
FRANK B. STOW
JUDGE COURT OF APPEALS
JOHN SAMMONS BELL
JUDGE COURT OF APPEALS
JULE W. FELTON
JUDGE COURT OF APPEALS
JOHN E. FRANKUM
JUDGE COURT OF APPEALS
J. M. C. TOWNSEND
CONGRESSMAN FROM THIRD DIST.
E. L. FORRESTER
JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT
(Vote for Two)
HUBERT CALHOUN ,
J. R. THOMPSON
SOLICITOR-GENERAL
(Vote for One)
JOHN H. LAND
JOHN NILAN
REPRESENTATIVE IN GEN. ASSEMBLY
(Vote for One)
HUGH G. CHEEK
RALPH UNDERWOOD
TAYLOR COUNTY ORDINARY
(Vote for One)
MRS. BUSSEY CHILDS
THOMAS F. MATHEWS
WILLIAM H. NEISLER
TAYLOR COUNTY CORONER
(Vote for One)
HENRY PEACOCK
JAMES ROYAL
KEITH TRAPP
District Training
School at Mulberry
Church, Macon
Mulberry Street Methodist church
will be host for the annual Macon
District Christian Workers Training
School with Rev. G. N. Rainey, as
sociate pastor of the host church
serving as dean.
| Rev. Shannon Holloway, chair
man of publicity for the week-long
school which begins on Sept. 25,
said Miss Ann Maria Domingos will
be director of the laboratory.
A planning session at 3 p. m. on
j Sunday, Sept. 25, will open the
j school. A laboratory for workers
j with kindergarten and junior age
I groups will be conducted daily, 7
to 9 p. m. thru Friday, Sept. 30.
Mail to be Delivered
In 15 Seconds
Chicago, 111. — The Post Office
Department is preparing a pilot op
eration to transmit mail between
Chicago and Washington in 15 sec
onds.
Carl W. Schroder, Chicago post
master, said that the service prob
ably will be made available next
month with a fascimile scanning
current for transmission of govern
ment mail.
Later, when the kinks, if any,
are ironed out, and Congress ap
proves, the public can make use of
the TV transmission service for a
7e letter rate.
Details of the development were
outlined in the October issue of
Science and Mechanics magazine
which said that the equipment for
initial operation has been obtained
by the department, and phone
microwave circuits for the 600-miles
operation have been leased.
Pvt. John V. Ritter, 20 years of
age, was killed instantly in an au
tomobile accident near Augusta on
Sept. 1st.
Pvt. Ritter was born in Dooly
County, Vienna, Feb. 19, 1940 the
son of Mr. James E. and Mrs. Mary
Currington Ritter. He spent most of
his life in Taylor county and was
a member of Moore’s Chapel
church. He was serving in the U. S.
Army and stationed at Ft. Gordon,
Augusta, when the fatal accident
occurred.
Funeral for Pvt. Ritter was con
ducted at Moore’s Chapel church
Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Chaplain Johnson of U. S. Army
stationed at Ft. Benning, officiat
ed. Interment was in the family
lot, Pine Level cemetery. He was
buried with Military honbrs.
Survivors include his wife Mrs.
Iva McC. Ritter of Hanceville, Ala.;
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Ritter, Grand mother, Mrs. Eunice
Currington of Mauk; four brother,
James of Maxwell Field, Ala.; Rob
ert E„ Henry D. and Charles L., all
of Taylor county; and one sister
Mrs. Nellie Fae of Taylor county.
Edwards Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Half-Way House
Reported Robbed
Early Monday A. M.
Mrs. Ed Mills, operator of the
Half-Way House, located 12 miles
north of Butler at the intersection
of Highways 19 and 80, reported
that Jier place of business was
robbed of $1,032.00 at five o’clock
Monday morning.
Mrs. Mills reports that the cash
register was robbed while the two
attendants on duty at the time
were out of the building for a few
minutes.
No one is reported to jiave seen or
heard the robber enter or leave the
establishment.
The loss consisted of cash, checks
and courtesy card receipts.
The Half-Way House is open 24
hour per day, seven days a week,
serving the public as a Bus Termi
nal, Cafe and Filling Station.
Macon Man Denied
Bond on Charge of
Strangling His Wife
Macon, Ga. — Wealthy Chester
A. Burge has been denied bond
while he awaits trial on an indict
ment charging that he strangled
to death his wife, Mary.
Supreior Court Judge Oscar Long
refused at the end of a brief
hearing to order the release of the
real estate owner and operator de
spite his statement under oath that
he had nothing to do with Mrs.
Burge’s May 11 death.
Burge, under prompting by his
attorneys, swore that he was in a
Macon hospital under sedation at
the time his wife was strangled in
their fashionable home.
The prosecution countered Burge’s
statement with testimony implying
that he slipped away from the hos
pital long enough to take his wife’s
life.
Sol. Gen. W. M. West passed up
an opportunity to question Burge
under oath but put on the stand an
identification expert who told of
finding his finger-prints on a door
frame near his wife’s upstairs bed
room.
Peach County Sheriff
Raps Oxford for Stand
On Whiskey Sales
Ft. Valley, Ga. — Peach County
Sheriff W. H. Beelarid has strongly
criticized statement made by State
Revenue Commissioner Dixon Ox
ford concerning the sale of tax-paid
whisky to private clubs.
Oxford had said State Revenue
Department policy allows private
clubs in Georgia’s 132 dry counties
to sell Georgia tax-paid whisky—
if they can get it into the clubs
without having it seized by law
enforcement officers.
However the sheriff countered:
“Peach county happens to be one
of those 132 dry counties. It's as
much against the law to sell tax-
paid whiskey in a dry county as it
is to sell tax unpaid whisky there.
Plans To Be Discussed Whereby
County May Secure Desirable
Industry.
Each citizen of Taylor County
will agree ihere is no better place
to live. Yet we all know many of
us must leave the county each day
to secure the necessities of life. It
is a hard fact that the yearly vol
ume of production of a community
determines the yearly income of
that community.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could
work where we live? To be able to-
offer our young people local op
portunities? To have an unlimited!
supply of jobs? To be able to af
ford even better schools, churches,
public utilities and recreational op
portunities? In other words, make
Taylor County a more perfect place
in which to live.
On Tuecday, Sept. 20th, there
will be general meeting of all the
capable and determined citizens of
the county. Beginning at 10:30 a.m.
in the Butler Gymnatorium you
will be given an opportunity to
learn how you may give your in
dividual support to a program of
action to secure desirable indus
try for the benefit of the county.
A team of experts from Ga. Tech,
a committee from the State Capi
tal including members of the La
bor Department, the Education De
partment, the Commerce Depart
ment and the Executive Branch and
also representatives from the Ga.
Senate Committee for Industrial
Development will present a series
of talks to let us know what we
must do. Dinner will be served.
Industry performs its magic with
the use of two very simple ele
ments: Human beings and nature.
Taylor county has 9,800 human
beings and 200,000 acres of na
ture.
Make your plans now to atttend
the most important meeting here
In quite a while. Together we can
make magic! - , ,
;
Talbotton Citizens
Shocked by Death of
Mrs. O. D. Edwards
Talbotton New Era:
Monday, Talbotton citizens were
shocked at the unexpected death of
Mrs. Oscar D. Edwards, which oc-
ccurred at 8 a.m. in the Edwards
home.
Mrs. Edwards was the former MiSs
Pearl Cook, only child of the late
Sidney and Mary Cook of Talbot
county, successful farmers ar.d in
dustrialists.
Reared in an atmosphere of pros
perity and educated in the Wood
land and Talbotton, school, she
was prepared on marriage to Os
car Edwards, which occurred in
early youth to love beauty and ele
gance, also plan for a home of ex
quisite charm. By united effort and
congenial tastes, evolved one of the
loveliest residences in Talbotton.
none passed but to praise. As in
material things with “one heart,
one soul and one mind, they did
their task and together they be
came members of the Missionary
Baptist church.
Summary of Bills
Passed by Congress
Washington, D. C. — Here is a:
summary of major legislation en
acted during the post-convention,
session of Congress which convened
Aug. 8 andjourned on Sept. 1st.
Health aid for elderly persons —
passed in modified form.
Appropriations — Five bills ap
propriating more than $12 biilion
sent to Pres. Eisenhower.
Antarctic treaty — Ratified by
Senate, House action not required.
Foreign Affairs — $600 million
economic aid program approved' for
Latin America. Bill authorizing cut
in Dominician Republic sugar im
ports shelved.
Radio-TV Controls to prevent pay
ola voted, along with easing equal
time provision applicable to poli
tical candidates.
Housing — Home improvement
loan, college dormitory construction
and public facility loan prn"-'-
extended.
Minimum \
minimum war
erages aband
mise efforts f;