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THE BUTLEB HERALD, BUTLER. GEORGIA. DECEMBER 15, 1960.
The Butler Herald
Entered at Post Office in Butler
Georgia as mail matter of
Second Class
Chas. Benns, Jr., Business Mgr
Chas. Benns, Jr., Managing Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
Phone: UN. 2-4485
Timely Topics
By Carry Williams
We still have rugged individual
ists. They sit for hours on concrete
seats in a stadium watching a
game.
A small town is the place where
they know who the preacher is
hitting at in his sermon.
A politician tries to make politi
cal hay even if the sun isn't
shining.
The underprivileged nowadays
are those who have football seats
behind the goal posts.
Fable: Once there was a man
who didn’t mind frankly admitting
when in the wrong.
There was a time when a man
married it was expected that ho
was to quit going around with oth
Can You Tell Me
What Taylor County industry
furnished the sand for the beauti
ful beach around Robin Lake at
Ida Cason Callaway Gardens?
Which Taylor County utility,
owned and operated by those it
serves, has immediate plans for
an office building that will Ire one
of the finest of its type in the
state?
Without looking it up, do you
know for whom Taylor County is
named?
How many people travel from
Taylor County to Robins Air Force
Base and back to work each day?
Where in Taylor County is locat
ed one of the largest depositis of
kaolin in Georgia?
The names of 6 high-school gra
duates of either Taylor County
school over a period of the last 3
years who are now living and
working in Taylor County?
What recreational facility was
put into operation by the Kiwanis
Club of Reynolds on July 4, 1960?
What muchly-needed public ser
vice is being provided by the Ame
rican Legion Chapter through the
Taylor County Public Health Ser
vice?
How many acres of timber are
growing in Taylor Coumty?
Why increased mechanization on
Tavlor County farms is creating,
right now, a dire need for an indus
try that would employ un-skilled
or semi-skilled workers?
Traveling Through
Georgia
The City of Roses
By Glenn McCullough
Thomasville is recognized as the
City of Roses” and it deserves
that lofty slogan!
For nearly 30 years, the garden
clubs of Thomasville have staged
a mammoth rose show and the in
terest in the cultivation of roses is
immense. They talk about other
things, of course, but the prime
subject over morning coffee is ros
es. The bankers, the doctors, the
cafe owners, the merchants, the
service station owners — all dis
cuss their own progress in growing
roses.
The city’s interest in and love for
beautiful flowers has given rise to
a new industry in the area. There
are several large nurseries engaged
in the propagation of roses, ca
mellias, azeleas and other orna
mental shrubs. And the city streets
like private gardens, form a lovely
tapestry of color in the blooming
season.
But roses are not all Thomasville 1
offers.
In the forests and on the farms
around Thomasville you’ll find in
abundance quail, doves, wild tur
key and deer. President Eisenhow
er heads the list of well-knowns
who have come to Thomasville for
hunting.
er women.
Then (here is the type of man
who will buy most anything if it
can be easily financed.
This will bo Recalled as an era
when wages are higher than a sal
ary.
It seems that every time a main
gets his mail he is getting a notice
that the premium is due on an in
surance policy.
Evangelists Billy Graham says
that the end of the world is near.
Maybe that's the solution to all
of the world’s problems.
It would be easy to make a bet
tor world if only enough people
would work at it.
When you learn something the
hard way you don’t easily forget it.
Experience is what enables a po
litician to get on both sides of a
question.
People with money have their
troubles, but we believe people
without money have a great many
more griefs.
Customer Slaps
Waitress, Fires Gun
Then Walks Out
Columbus, Ga. — A waitress at a
Columbus night spot ran afoul of
a rough customer who slapped her
face, took a pistol from her, fired
it and then walked out.
Police were searching Saturday
for the man after waitress Doro
thy Black at the Rainbow Inn re
ported what happened to her.
She said the man was drinking
and cursing and she told him to
quiet down or get out
Apparently offended, the custo
mer slapped her.
Then she got a 38 caliber pistol
from under a nearby counter and
ordered the man out a second
time. He calmly walked to her,
grabbed the gun, fired it once at a
door and then put the weapon in
his pocket and walked out.
GAME
AND
FISH
By FULTON LOVELL
Predatory animals, peculiar to
the area, are also plentiful. On
several large lakes within the
I Thomasville area, wild ducks and
Canadian geese may be shot in op
en season. On these same lakes
and streams, one may find the
best in fresh water fishing for
bream, perch and bass. For salt
water fishing, the Gulf of Mexico
but 50 miles away, is the answer.
So, while the city is ,most fam-
our for her beautiful roses — you
don’t have to wait until the
rose show in April to enjoy Thom
asville.
And if you like beautiful drives
and lovely, palatial homes, Thom
asville is for you. Magnificent es
tates, some of which include beau
tiful ante-bellum homes, are show
places. These estates have some of
;the finest original growth, long-
jleaf yellow pine timber to be found
■in the nation. The forest lands are
l unusual. And for the loveliest
country drive in the state, try
Pine Tree Boulevard, surrounding
the city. Here you’ll find not only
the graceful long-leaf pine, but
trees of every kind.
And bring along the camera -
you’ll want pictures to prove that
the big Oak really exists. This
giant live oak has a top spread of
170 feet and is 55 feet high. The
trunk circumference at four feet
above ground is 22 feet. Estimates
Federal Crackdown
On Slot Machines
Sought by Legislature
WASHINGTON—The Justice De
partment wants to intensify its
crackdown on operators of one-arm
ed bandits and other coin-operated
gambling devices.
An FBI spokesman said the Jus
tice Department is seeking legisla
tion to strengthen enforcement of
the Anti-Slots Act, passed in 1951,
and to extend the reach of the law
to include certain types of pinball
machines. The move may be made
in the January Congress.
The spokesman said most slot
machine operations have been ef
fectively limited since the launch
ing of a federal crackdown nearly
a decade ago. But he said further
legislation was needed.
Since enactment of the Johnson-
Preston Anti-Slots Act, the FBI has
seized 14,991 slot machines and
won court convicitions. High-point
in the drive was 1952 when the
FBI seized 13,906 machines across
the nation.
An FBI spokesman said very
few locatities any longer have slot
machines. Last year only 75 such
devices were seized under the John-
son-Preston Act, which is aimed at
inter-state transportation of coin-
operated gambling devices.
Actually, slot machines are not
a major domestic problem. Most
of them are found in Nevada,
where gambling is big business—
and legal—and Maryland, where
they are permitted as a matter of
local county option.
But the foreign trade in slots is
anolher matter. Henry Preston, a
veteran in the Justice Department’s
criminal division, said the mach
ines are becoming increasingly
popular in other countries, includ
ing Japan and Germany. Only last
month, agents seized 420 slot ma
chines consigned to London cn
grounds the shipper failed to regis
ter them for overseas delivery.
In an effort to block such over
seas shipments, the justice depart
ment has had to attack the prob
lem through registration laws. It
would like more specific authority
such as a law making it illegal to
ship slots in foreign countries.
Instead of worrying about where
the next inter ational crisis will
occur, we might concentrate on be
ing ready to meet one.
place the age of the tree at 270
years - and nobody doubts it. For a
thing so lovely and stately as the
Big Oak, even for nature, all agree
that it would take a long time to
make it so.
Plan a weekend soon in Tho
masville. Your neighborhood ser
vice station dealer will gladly as
sist you in marking the best’ roads.
New Pecan Butter
Developed at Ga.
Experiment Station
EXPERIMENT, Ga.—Pecan butter
which will lend the pecan flavor
to everything from cakes to salads,
has been developed at the Univer
sity of Georgia College of Agricul
ture’s experiment station.
Dr. J. G. Woodroof, who heads the
food processing department at the
Georgia Experiment Station, de
scribes the new product as an ex
cellent flavoring ingredient for
many kinds of foods. He says the
butter shows great promise as a
new pro-duct of the Georgia pecan
crop, which has averaged over 35
million pounds for the last 10 years.
This year’s crop is expected to ex
ceed 44 million pounds.
Dr. J. G. Woodroof, describes the
new product as an excellent flavor
ing ingredient for many kinds of
foods. He says the butter shows
great promise as a new product of
the Georgia pecan crop, which has
averaged over 35 million pounds
for the last 10 years. This year’s
crop is expected to exceed 44 mill-
ion pounds.
Woodroof added that while pecan
butter is not yet in commercial
production, several firms are inte
rested. He said he believes that
with a little imagination pecan but
ter one day will achieve the econo
mic importance to pecan growers
that peanut butter now has for pea
nut producers.
Although too astringent to use
as a spread for bread, pecan butter
is excellent as a flavoring and a
source of unsaturated fat in milk
shakes, cream frostings, chiffon pi
es, bread, hot cakes and cookies
and confections, Woodruff says.
He adds that pecan butter has
more aroma and flavor than coar
sely ground pecans and has dis
tinctly different uses in milk pro
ducts, bakery items and confect
ions.
DR. WILLIS L. WEBB
OPTOMETRIST
THOMAS L. WEBB
OPTICIAN
Announce the location of their new offices on North
Macon Street, next to the Coca-Cola Building
Practice includes contact lenses
Same Phone — TAylor 5-2621
Fort Valley, Georgia
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS
AT NEW LOCATION!
i We are open for business at our new
| location on the Marshallville Road.
We invite you to visit us and register
for prizes to be given away Saturday after
noon, December 10th.
Opening special for Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, only:
Slash Pines in gal. cans, 35c each
BARTLETT’S NURSERY
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
HOW TO BE A SPORTSMAN j
Consideration for his fellow man has always '
been characteristic of a true sportsman.
No sportsman would be guilty of mistaking a
farmer’s cow for a deer, or letting his campfire get.
out of control and destroy timber on the farmer’s '
property. J
Yet there are hunters and fishermen hiding
behind the cloak of the true sportsman who are
gradually but surely destroying the amicable
relationship between the fjjrmer and sportsman.
Many of use remember the time when we could
go almost anywhere and hunt or fish as we pleased, j
Farmers were glad to have us and even recommended ,
the best place to drop a hook or flush a covey of
quail. But now, some of them have become leery of
allowing anyone near their land.
Not long ago, I read where a South Georgia
farmer lost thousands of dollars when some of his
cattle strayed into a field that had been poisoned.
Someone had left the gate open. There have been
numerous cases where the farmer spent hours round
ing up loose livestock because a "sportsman” had
been careless,
A fisherman takes his family to a farmer’s
' pond for a day of recreation and a picnic. Then, .
after their picnic, they rush back to their an
gling, leaving the grounds littered with paper
and trash.
There are more than 40,000 farm ponds scattered
throughout the state. Most of the pond owners
prefer to have someone fish them, for steady fishing
keeps the pond from becoming overpopulated with
fish. Also, most of the pond owners charge one
dollar for fishing privileges which helps pay for
fertilizer. But when it becomes necessary for the
pond owner to act as a garbageman after the rec-
reationists leave, he feels it’s no longer worth while.
There arc a few basic rules of common cour
tesy which, if used, will re-establish the fine
relationship we once had with the farmers and
landowners. \
1. Never hunt or fish on any man’s property un
less you ask his permission.
2. Be careful not to damage any crops or en-
< danger any livestock.
3. Close all gates so livestock will not escape.
4. If you are hunting, aim carefully before you
shoot, for a good sportsman always knows what he
is shooting before he pulls the trigger.
I 5. Don’t be a litterbug. Clean up all trash and
' paper before you leave.
6. Be careful with campfires and cigarettes. .
Clean up all paper and trash before you leave.
7. Always make sure your fire is out before leav
ing an area, and use the old Army technique of field
stripping your cigarettes.
8. Be courteous to the landowner and his family.
Treat his property as if it were your own.
THEY WORK
HARDER
RIDE EASIER!
Because they ride easier they last longer, too. They take better care of
payloads and they make a long day’s work a lot more pleasant for the
driver. All that—primarily because of Independent Front Suspension
(I.F.S.). If you think it’s stretching a point to attribute that many advan
tages to a suspension system, you haven't driven a new Chevy with
I.F.S. Take the wheel and feel its road-leveling ride, its almost total
absence of shimmy and wheel fight, its ease of steering even in the
big rigs. Spend hours behind the wheel and you^e not nearly as tired.
You're not and neither is the truck. That independent suspension soaks
up the worst shock and vibration—the kind that can twist sheet metal
apd loosen joints and increase your maintenance costs. That’s why
Chevy trucks keep on working and saving for extra thousands of miles.
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CHEVY
See the new Chevrolet and Corvair 95 trucks at your local authorized Chevrolet dealer’s
Taylor County Motor Co.
Reynolds, Qeorgia