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The Butler Herald
VOLUME 85
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Fire at Macon’s Miller Jr. High School
Saturday Night Was Definitely Arsonry
According to Investigating Officers
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1960
NUMBER 9.
Rev. M. Kilpatrick
Guest Speaker at
‘M’ Night Services
Farm-City Week
Observed Friday
By Kiwanis Club
Georgia to Play Host Next Week to Top
Industrialists Who Will Tour the State
Seeking Industrial Expansion Sites
Third Serious Fire in Macon’s
Public School Buildings This
Year.
MACON, GA. —Saturday’s fire at
Miller Junior High School “definite
ly was a case of arson in the opin
ion of investigators working on it’’,
Fire Prevention Chief R. T. White
said yesterday.
Investigator H. A. Gober of the
Fire Prevention Bureau and City
Detective J. W. Powell have been
assigned to the case and are now
making a detialed check on all
angles of it.
Chief White said the opinion
that the fire was set, is based on
the nature of the blaze, discovery
of several boxes of matches and a
candle at the corner of the building
and other factors.
This is the third damaging blaze
in a public school building here
this year, officials confirmed last
night. Arson has been a possible
factor in all of them.
At Lanier Junior High School a
blaze in the principal’s office on
Oct. 10 damaged school records but
was extinguished before it spread
through the building. An 18-year-
old Negro youth was arrested and
jailed soon afterward by Macon
detectives, after admitting that he
set that fire to destroy fingerprints
he might have left in burglarizing
the office.
In July of this year before the
beginning of the school term, fire
damaged a new rear wing uf Eu-
con city limits. Arson was also
suspected in that blaze.
In addition, a drink machine in
the gymnasium of Lanier Junior
High and drink machines at Lanier
Senior High were set afire after
burgalires in October. No building
damage resulted in those cases, and
city detectives obtained confessions
on both cases, they said, during
questioning of the 18-year-old Ne
gro they arrested.
Saturday’s fire at Miller Junior
High apparently began in the office
of the school principal, Miss Clara
Nell Hargrove,, about 3:40 p. m.,
according to Fire Chief B. H. Brown
Records in that office and many
in an adjoining general office were
damaged or destroyed, and the
blaze also damaged the library and
one classroom. However, classes
were held bout as usual Monday
and will continue without interrup
tion.
Opelika Pastor
Found Slain
Near Columbus
COLUMBUS, Gai, Nov. 27—The
knife-gashed body of a man, found
in a wooded area near Columbus
by two boys, was identified Satur
day night as Rev. J. P. May, 31-
year-old minister of Opelika, Ala.
Police Chief W. F. Tuggle said
May was last seen drinving a 1960
Buick automobile with a Lee Coun
ty, Ala., license tag. He said the
car is missing.
Coroner C. F. Davis said the
victim, found in early afternoon
near a creek, had 29 stab wounds
in the chest, a cut throat and a
severe gash in the palm of his
left hand. He estimated death had
occurred about 12 hours earlier.
The death weapon, Davis said,
apparently was a narrow blade
knife, six inches or longer. From
evidence at the scene, the coroner
said he doubted the minister was
killed there.
Davis said robbery appeared to
be the motive for the murder. The
victim’s pants pockets were turned
out and the only money found on
the body were two $1 bills.
May’s relatives are en route to
Columbus from Alabama, police
said.
Fickling Masonic
Lodge Gathering Toys..
For Co. Children
Members of the Fickling Masonic
Lodge of Butler are collecting toys
for the needy children in Taylor
County for Christmas.
Anyone having toys that they
would like to donate to this cause,
are asked to contact one of the fol
lowing gentlemen: A1 Fehring, O.
C. Keen, Jr., or W. B. Guined. They
will be glad to call for such toys or
if you prefer, you may bring toys
to the Clerk’s office in the Court
House at Butler.
Judge Opens Entry
Records at University
To 2 Negroes
MACON—A. U. S. District Court
judge Monday directed the regis
trar of the Uinversity of Georgia
to make available to two Atlanta
Negro students all records pertain-
to the admission of undergraduates
presently enrolled at the school.
The students are seeking admis
sion to the all-white school.
Attorneys for the Negroes obtain
ed the directive in U. S. District
Court in Macon.
Attorneys for the university B. D.
Murphy and Freeman Leverette,
both of the attorney general’s off
ice, argued before Judge W. A.
Bootle that the plantiffs’ attorneys
already have spent several days
going through student records at
the school. They asked denial of
the motion unless the plaintiffs de
signated specific records which they
wished to examine.
However Bootle said in his rul
ing that "justice can be more eas
ily dispensed if the court can find
out all the facts in a case even
if the defense sometimes must
play host to the plaintiff.”
The judge ordered that the ap
proximately 7,000 records be made
available to the Negroes beginning
Tuesday.
Trial of the suit which seeks to
break the color bar at the Univer
sity is set for Dec. 12 in Athens.
The Negroes, Hamilton E. Holmes
and Charlyne Hunter, had asked
for a temporary restraining order
which would have prevented uni
versity officials from delaying their
applications for admission to the
university.
However, Bootle ruled Sept. 25
that the students had failed to ex
haust all their administrative re
medies and denied their plea for
an injunction.
The suit to obtain the records
was filed Nov. 25.
Meeting in Revnolds
Sunday to Plan
For Christmas Tree
A public meeting has been sche
duled for 2:00 P. M, Sunday, Dec.
4, at the Reynolds City Hall to dis
cuss plans for a Christmas tree for
unfortunate children in this area.
The meeting is sponsored by the
churches and city officials and all
citizens interested in brightening
the Christmas season for unfortu
nate children in the Reynolds and
adjoining communities are urged
to attend.
There are a number of children
in this section who will have no
Christmas unless the public parti
cipates in providing gifts at Christ
mas
Now is the time to make plans to
see that no child is neglected at
Christmas and these plans can
best be made through an organized
Community effort.
The meeting Sunday will begin
promptly at 2:00 P. M. and every
citizen in Reynolds is urged to at
tend and help make plans for this
event.
Lester Halley Wins
Thanksgiving Day
Golf Tournament
Lester Halley of Reynolds, Ga.
was presented a trophy and other
prizes by Curt Hammond, Pro., for
his first place win of the Champ
ionship Flight in the Thanksgiving
Day Tournament played on the
newly opened semi private Rey
nolds Kiwanis Golf Course.
Other winners were B. G. Bickley
of Marshallville, Ga., runner-up,
third place won by Phil Malonson
of Marietta, Ga. Ed Goddard of
Reynolds won first place in the
First Flight followed by Donald
Wainwright and Dr. E. C. Whatley,
third.
Legion Auxiliary
Will Meet Friday
The American Legion Auxiliary,
will meet with Mrs. W. M. Mat
hews, Friday afternoon at 3:30 Dec.
2nd.
The Auxiliary will also have
their Christmas party at this meet
ing and each member will please
remember to bring a wrapped gift
for exchange.
—Reporter
The annual M night for the Bap
tist Training Union for the Reho-
both Association will be held this
year at the local School Gym next
Monday, 7:30 p. m. Rev. Melvin
Kilpatrick from the Glenwood
Hills Baptist church in Macon will
be the speaker.
Due to the fact that “M” Night
is being held in Butler, the sur
rounding churches are especially
urged to Isupport this meeting
100% in attendance.
Holiday Weekend
Boosts Highway Death
Toll To Record 376
Atlanta, Nov. 28—Two traffic
deaths Sunday brought to nine the
number of persons killed in Georgia
traffic during the long Thanksgiv-'
ing holiday weekend.
The State Highway Patrol had
estimated that 18 persons would
die on Georgia highways in the
102-hour holiday period ending at
midnight Sunday. The national
traffic toll rose to 376 Sunday night.
The State Patrol said Roy Stan
ford Griffin, 32, of Rte 1, Mari
etta, was killed when a car went
out of control on a curve, plunged
down an embankment and over
turned. The wreok occurred four
miles south of Woodstock in Cobb
County.
Another Sunday victim was 17-
year-old Johnny Newt Smith of
Rte. 3, Statesboro. The patrol said
the car in which he was a passen
ger overturned three miles east
of Stilson on Ga. 119 in Bulloch
County.
Mrs. Alma Cofield, 53, of Rte.
3, Fayetteville, died Saturday night
when the car in which she was
riding hit the rear of a pick-up
truck on Ga. 279 and Flat Shoals
Road in Fulton County, officers re
ported.
Also killed Saturday was a hitch
hiker who was riding in a truck
thaf ran into a ditch about six
miles west of Valdosta on Ga. 31.
The patrol identified him from
papers on the body as Eugene C.
Moneypenny, about 45, of Clarks
burg, W. Va.
Seven-months-old Donna Lynn
Ricks was killed in a collision
south of Leland on U. S. 78 in Cobb
County, the patrol said.
Roy Loggins, 20, of the Lula'
area, was the victim of a hunting
accident Thursday. Coroner Henry
O. Ward of Hall County said Log-
gins was hunting with a brother in
the Skid Mountain Road area near
Gainesville.
Terry Baker, 12, of LeFayette
was killed in a two-car crash a-
bout a mile west of Summerville
on Ga. 48.
William J. Starks, 39, of Ellijay,
died after his car ran off Ga. 52
and smashed into an embankment
about two miles west of Ellijay.
William Russell Haygood, 27, of
Rte 4, Canton, was injured fatally
when his car struck a bridge 11
miles north of Jasper on Ga. 5.
Michael John Falcon, 2 months
of Memphis, Tenn., was killed
when a car went out of control
on a curve and overturned about
four miles east of Dallas on U. S.
278.
Miss Gloria Joyner
Vidalia’s Queen In
Santa Claus Parade
Miss Gloria Joyner, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Theron Joiner of Vi-
dalia and granddaughter of Mrs.
Eva Bigby of Butler was chosen
Vidalia’s Queen of the Christmas
Santa Claus Parade last week.
Miss Joyner as queen will reign
over the festivities being planned
in connection with the annual
Christmas Parade to be held at
Valdosta Friday afternoon, Dec. 2.
Miss Joyner was selected from a
group of 72 beautiful young ladies.
James H. Draughan,
Native of Reynolds
Receives Top Award
Mr. James H. Draughan, long
time Civil Service employe, receiv
ed a special “Outsanding Employe”
award from the Army Bolistic Miss
ile Agency at Huntsville.
This is the highest award the
ABMA makes.
Draughan is a senior civilian as
sistant to the chief of the ABMA
control office. He is a native of
Reynolds, son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. James H. Draughan, Sr.
The Reynolds Kiwanis Club con
ducted a special Farm-City Week
observance last Friday at the
Bethel Congregational Methodist
church. This group met in Central
community in honor of the mem
ory of the late Hon. Thelmon Jar
rell and the Jarrell family was
honored guests of the Club. The
Central Community Home Demon
stration Club was host for the
meeting.
Dr. Geo. P. Donaldson, President
of Abraham-Baldwin College, de
livered the principal address. Dr.
Donaldson paid tribute to the Jar
rell family and to the students
from this county that have attend
ed his college.
In his address, Dr. Donaldson
stressed the importance of farm
family life and he stated that no
democracy had ever survived when
farming was delegated to a minor
role in the country’s economy. He
stated that we now have more
people living in the slums than on
farms. He reminded ‘ his audience
that this country is one hundred
and eighty-eight years old and no
democracy has ever lasted to be
200 years old.
Dr. Donaldson stated that we
needed to return to the policy of
being friends to our neighbors. He
stated that he feels instead of vis
iting the moon we should be vis
iting our neighbors.
As a special event of Farm-City
Week, the group toured the Mc-
Cants Hatchery & Poultry Farm
and were impressed by the size of
this operation and the extent of
automatic machinery employed.
Ga. Association of
Soil Conservation
Meet In Atlanta
Taylor County, - member of
Ocmulgee Soil Conservation District
will be represented at the 17th an
nuel meeting of the Georgia Asso
ciation of Soil Conservation Dis
trict Supervisors in Atlanta Decem
ber 4-6, by C. F. Carson, local su
pervisors.
John S. Wilder, President of the
Tennessee State Association will be
principal speaker at the opening
session Monday. Joe K. Hawkins oi
LaGrange, President of the Georgia
group, will preside.
Also on the program Monday will
be four panel discussiins dealing
with watersheds, supervisors’ res
ponsibilities in soil and water con
servation, financing, and projects
and activities for soil conservation
districts.
Dr. Pierce Harris, pastor, First
Methodist Church, Atlanta, will be
the after dinner speaker at the an
nual banquet Monday evening. J.
Marvin Strickland, Waycross, will
preside. Annual awards will be pre
sented at the banquet.
Highlight of the Tuesday session
will be talks by C. W. Chapman,
State Conservationist, Soil Conser
vation Service; W. A. Sutton, Direc
tor, Georgia Extension Service; A.
Ray Shirley, Director, Georgia Fo-
Monk of Batchelor, La., Treasurer
of the National Association of Soil
Conservation Districts.
Also on Tuesday, Russell Blan
chard, President, Georgia Bankers
Association, will present an $800
college scholarship award to the
state winner of an essay contest
on soil and water conservation.
A Goodyear award for outstand
ing district work will be presented
Monday afternoon at a business
meeting, at which officers for 1961
will also be elected.
Registration will begin Sunday
at 3 p. m., at the Henry Grady
Hotel, headquarters for the meet
ing.
Thomas Leon Theus
Chosen Class Officer
A Butler student at the Medi
cal College of Georgia has been
elected treasurer of the Junior
Class.
He is Thomas Leon Theus, son of
Dr. and Mrs. L.'W. Theus of But
ler. Thomas is a graduate of But
ler High School, and attended the
University of Ga. where he received
a B. S. degree in 1958.
The medical college, located in
Augusta is a unit of the University
System of Georgia. It offers de
gree programs in medicine, nurs
ing, and medical art; and in con
nection with the University of Ga.
offers courses which lead to a B.
S. degree with a major in Medical
Technology.
Minister Dies
While in Phenix
Holding Revival
Columbus, Ga., Nov. 29—The Rev,
Bruce W. Clenney, 56, of Colquitt,
Ga., who was conducting a revival
at Phenix City’s St. Mark Freewill
Baptist Church, died Saturday
morning after a heart attack.
Rev. Clenney was taken ill Fri
day morning and was rushed to
The Medical Center, where he died
at 8:30 a. m. Saturday.
A former resident of Columbus he
had conducted revival services in
several local Baptist Churches.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Eva Darley Clenney, Colquitt;
eigth children, Mrs. Doris Grant,
Mrs. Nadine Barron and Rudy
Clenney of Columbus and Mrs.
Gwendlyn Brooks, Mrs. Elsie Will
iams, Mrs. Edward Kimbrel and
Randy and Lavon Clenney all of
Colquitt; his mother, Mrs. Janet
Clenney, Colquitt; four sisters, Mrs.
Effie Avery, Bainbridge, Mrs. Sue
Shiver Camilla and Mrs. Clark
Dunn and Mrs. Grace Dison, Co
lumbus; two brothers, John F. Clen
ney, Colquitt and Randall L. Clen
ney, Columbus; and several grand
children.
Geneva-Howard
Charge to Conduct
School this Weekend
A Christian Workers’ School will
be conducted this weekend for the
people of the Geneva Charge and
the Howard Charge. The Junction
City Methodist Church is host to
the school which meets Friday
and Saturday night and Sunday
afternoon at 7:30-9:30 both night
and 3:00-5:00 Sunday afternoon.
The courses offered cover all areas
of Christian work.
Rev. Ted Griner of Butler in
cooperation with Rev. W. J. Erwin,
Columbus District Superintendent,
will teach the course “Working in
the Local Church,” covering mis
sions, evangelism and finance. “The
Christian Education Program of the
Church’’, emphasizing the Sunday
School, will be led by Rev. Fred
McLendon of the Edgewood Metho
dist Church of Columbus. Rev. Ro
bert L. Herrington, pastor of the
Marion County Circuit will teach
‘‘The Meaning of Christian Disci-
pleship”, dealing with personal
Faith and Witness..’’
The program of the sesions pro
vides for two 50 minute periods
with a "Coffee-Break” in between.
The last period on Sunday .will be
used for reports from each class
and to share ideas for future action
resulting from the school.
There is no registration fee but
there will be a small charge for
the textbook for those desiring one.
Anyone wishing to attend the
school is cordially invited. The
youth of the church are especially
urged to attend.
Supper at Cross Roads
Community House Sat.
Night December 17th.
Menu: Chicken and dressing
with all the trimming or fried chic
ken plates and everything that
goes with it. Desert, tea or coffee.
Plates, well filled $1.00.
Hot dogs 15c. Cold drinks 10c.
Proceeds go for Well being repair
ed and repairing Community
House.
Everyone come and enjoy a good
hot supper. Also entertainment.
Serving from 6 o’clock until 8
o’clock.
WiL be looking for you Saturday
night, Dec. 17th.
—Reporter
Pole-Sitting Disc
Jockey Sets Record
THOMASVILLE, Ga„—Disc jock
ey Billy Hicks hit the dirt Friday
asking for a bath, a shpve, and a
haircut, and claiming a new flag
pole sitting record of 123 days.
Hicks received a heor’s welcome
as he descended from the 40-foot
pole where he spent the past four
months. He was presented a new
car.
Hicks said he broke the 1931 re
cord of Charles Pepito of Cleveland,
Ohio, by six days. He said he
doubted reports that others had
stayed on flagpoles up to 200 days.
State Officials and Business
Leaders Will Accompany the
Visitors on Inspection Trip.
Atlanta, Ga.,—Georgia plans to
roll out the ‘‘Red Carpet” next
week for some 40 top industrialists
from over the nation who will tour
the state to observe areas of poss
ible industrial expansion here.
The first Red Carpet Industrial
Tour next Monday through Wednes
day is the joint project of nearly
a dozen statewide firms and or
ganizations and Gov. Ernest Van
diver and the Georgia State Cham
ber of Commerce.
State officials and business lead
ers will accompany the visitors on
their trip, said L. W. (Chip) Robert
Jr., chairman of the Chamber’s in
dustrial department.
While none of these companies
may have imminent plans for ex
pansion, we hope to lay the ground
out for serious consideration of
Georgia whenever they do contem
plate additional facilities,” he said.
“The top-level executives • wh®
will be looking at our potential
here in Georgia represent some of
the most famous and best known
manufacturing names in the world,
said Mr. Robert.
About 30 Georgia business and
government leaders will welcome
the visiting industrialists on their
arrival in Atlanta Sunday night,
said Mr. Robert. Red Carpet tags
will be attached to their luggage
and a “red carpet” runner in the
lobby will await the guests as they
check into the Hilton Inn, he said.
On Monday they will tour Atlan
ta’s industrial, commerce, and resi
dential districts, and research cen
ters, said Mr. Robert. A trip is also
planned to Lockheed. Later in the
day, the group will make a two-
hour flight over industrial and min
eral centers in north Georgia.
Tuesday the party will visit the
Bridgeport Brass Co. in Moultrie,
tour Albany, and visit several
south Georgia farms. After a visit
to Brunswick, they will stop over
night at Sea Island.
Savannah and Augusta will be-
toured on Wednesday, with the
trip winding up after a flight over
Macon and several other middle
Georgia cities.
Man Facing Murder
Count Hangs Self
In Bibb Jail
Macon, Ga. Nov. 27—A Macon
man, facing trial next month on a
murder charge, was found dying
in his Bibb County jail cell yester
day morning after he had apparent
ly hung himself with his own belt.
John Curtis Holmes of 1368 Third
Street Lane was discovered by fel
low prisoners in the cell block and
they summoned jailers.
The jailers found Holmes hang
ing from his cell window with a
leather belt around his neck. He
was still breathing when taken
down but died before medical aid
could arrive.
The 24-year-old man was charg
ed with the fatal shooting last
month of Booker T. Gary of Moore’s
Motel and was scheduled to go on
trial the week of Dec. 5 in Bibb
Superior Court.
Chief Jailer Earl Peavy said
Holmes apparently committeed sui
cide, but did not know whether
a coroner's inquest would be held.
Peavy said Holmes had been
despondent and that several days
ago he told an assistant jailer he
would “rather be dead than stay
in jail”. Holmes had been jailed
since his arrest on Oct. 26.
Butler Garden Club
Christmas Party
Wed., December 7th.
The Butler Garden Club will
have their Christmas party, Wed
nesday, Dec. 7th., 3:00 o'clock at
the Community House. Every one*
is requested to bring a package*
for the Christmas tree. A gift will
be presented to the one having the-,
most attractively wrapped packages
Also, please bring a package for
a disabled Veteran to be sent t®
the Veteran’s Hospital.
Hostesses, Mesdames Luke Ad
ams, Earl Haywood, Lewis Beason,
R. D. Waller, J. R. Gray, Fannie-
Bone and J. S. Green, Jr.
—Publicity Ohm.