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VOLUME 85
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1960
NUMBER 12.
137 Persons Killed When Two Planes
Collide In The Air Near N. Y. Air Port Sat.
Cause of Tragedy Now Being Investigated
History’s Worst Air Disaster
Claims 128 Lives of Passeng
ers and 9 Losses on Ground
New York, N. Y. — History’s worst
air disaster took on an added note
of heartbreak Saturday as investi
gators began a sweeping hunt for
the elusive error—or malfunction
—that caused two planes to collide
in the air.
Only a few fragmentary hints
emerged.
As they did, new grief struck.
Of the 128 aboard the two doomed
planes, one passenger, Stephen
Baltz, 11, Wilmette, 111., had clung
to life for more than 24 hours.
But he died Saturday, of burns
and inhaled flames. And Friday’s
thanksgiving of his parents, who
had stood watch over his hospital
bed turned to tears.
The overall toll of death thus
rose to 137 from that collision that
rained fiery | destruction on the
city. All aboard both planes per
ished, along with nine others on
the ground.
Police said more bodies may lie
in the wreckage and torn build
ings.
As the broad rapid-fire inquiry
preceded, these inklings of what
happened were indicated:
One plane was being watched on
radar. The otther apparently was
not. One must have been off
course.
Both planes, a United Air Lines
DC8 jet and a Trans World Air
lines four engine Constellation,
were descending for a landing
when their paths inextricably
crossed..
A top federal aviation official
said that under such circumstan
ces, “if both planes were under
positive control at the time one was
off course.”
Phillip Goldstein, chief of the
investigating division of the Civil
Aeronautices Board, also said the
TWA plane was being traced at
the time on radar scopes at La-
Guardia Field, its destination.
Georgia Power Co.
Presents Tax Checks
To City and County
Taylor and Crawford counties
were presented checks Monday by
H. L. Russell, local manager of the
Georgia Power Co. in the amounts
of $11,441.32 to Taylor County and
$9,384.02 to Crawford County.
vThese checks covered property tax
of the Georgia Power Company
for 1960 taxes. City property taxes
included the following: Reynolds
$244.30; Butler $229.83 and Roberta
$170.28.
The total amount of the Ga. Pow
er Co. property tax being paid
throughout Georgia this week
amounted to $6,121,734. Mr. Rus
sell reported the amount compares
with a total of $5,683,400 paid by
the Company for its 1959 property
Of this amount, $3,047,142 goes
into general county funds, $2,056-
598 to school districts, $970,658 to
cities and towns and $47,335 to
Georgia and adoining states.
Earlier in the year, municipal
partnership tax payments totaling
$2,922,797 were paid by the com
pany to the 392 cities, towns and
communities in which the firm’s
partnership franchise agreement
was in effect. Under this agree
ment, the company pays each mu
nicipality in which it operates
three per cent of its gross revenue
from the sale of electricty for resi
dential and commercial use. These
municipal partnership tax pay
ments.
The Ga. Power Company official
pointed out that more than 20 per
cent of the company’s revenue goes
to pay taxes, including federal and
state income taxes, municipal part
nership taxes, and others.
Christmas Service
Junction City Church
Nazarene Giving
$142 Per Person
For **, 0 f Moines
Dept- o' f,\\irary
Gene rs tv of Ga
Per unwetst. ^ a42-37 set
a denominational record in 1960 in
the Church of the Nazarene. The
increase was nearly $7 per person
over the preceding year.
Giving for all purposes climbed
to a record $45.3 million an in
crease of more than $3 million. The
total was $42.1 million in 1959.
The annual statistical report re
leased by Dr. S. T. Ludwig, Kan
sas City, general secretary, showed
that membership increased to 318,-
588. This was a net gain of 7,289
persons.
The demonstration started one
new church a week or a net gain
of 45 during the year and a total
of 4,741 churches on Jan. 1, 1961.
Gains in membership also were
recorded for 1960 by the Sunday
school, Foreign Missionary society
and the Young People’s Society.
American Samoa and Denmark
were among world areas in which
new Nazarene work started in
1960. At year-end, the denomina
tion had more than 450 full-time
missionaries in 42 world areas.
Special offerings for world mis
sions at Thanksgiving and Easter
exceeded $1 million.
Commenting on the report, Dr.
Ludwig said: “Total giving for all
purposes during 1960 anything we
have done as a demonstration. The
$143 per capita figure also was a
church record.
“The membership gain of 2.34
per cent, while not quite up to
1959, was better than we had ex
pected in view of our quadrennial
world assembly last June in Kan
sas City.
Georgia Casts
Her Twelve Votes
For Kennedy
Atlanta, Ga. — Georgia’s 12
electoral votes went to Sen. John
Kennedy for president and Sen.
Lyndon Johnson for vice president
of the U S. in Monday’s official
balloting.
Gov. Vandiver said the vote was
unanimous and no other candidate
was mentioned as the 12 Georgia
electors gathered in the governor’s
state house office to vote.
Vandiver said the electors fol
lowed “the mandate of the peo
pie,” and he said Georgia should
take pride in the fact it produced
“a greater majority (for the Dem
ocrats) than any other state in the
nation.”
Electors in Alabama and Mis
sissippi had hoped Georgia elec
tors would join in supporting Vir
ginia Sen. Byrd in a maneuver to
throw the election into Congress.
Several Ga. electors said they
had received much mail asking
them to support Byrd, but con
sidered the writers just a small
minority.
The governor will carry the elec
tor’s certified ballot forms to Con
gress where they will be opened
Jan. 6.
Local Stores Close
Entire Day Monday
Of Next Week
Reynolds Policeman
Seriously Injured
By Negro Prisoner
Mr. Howard Lowe, night marshall
for the City of Reynolds was se
riously injured by a Negro person
about 2 o’clock Monday morning.
According to City officials, Mr.
Lowe arrested the Negro, Lewis
Montgomery, in the act of bur
glarizing Mclnvale’s Service Stat
ion in the City of Reynolds and had
taken him to the jail and was in
the process of locking him up when
the prisoner turned upon Mr. Lowe,
taking his gun and struck him over
the head several times. The prison
er then locked Mr. Lowe in the cell
and fled. Fortunately he did not
take the keys and Mr. Lowe was
able to free himself and call for
help.
Mr. Lowe was taken to the Sams-
Whatley Hospital and is reported
improving although his condition is
serious.
The Negro, an ex-convict was ap
prehended near Reynolds Monday
afternoon. He still had Mr. Lowe’s
pistol in his possession at the time
of his arrest.
Taylor Co. Superior
Court to Convene
Tuesday, Jan. 3rd.
The Taylor County Superior Court
Will open Tuesday morning, Janu
ary 3, 1961 at 9:00 A. M. Judge Hu
bert Calhoun, Cattahoochee Judi
cial Circuit Judge will preside at
this term of court.
Listed below are Grand and
Traverse Jurors to serve during the
January term:
GRAND JURORS
A. S. James w. E. Jarrell
James Saunders Herman O’Neal
E. H. Perkins
J. A. Payne
Walter O’Neal
Benny L. Waller
B. W. Hinton
Benjamin H.Neisler
Harold Lovvom
Jack Peed
T. E. Tante
Franklin McCants
Grover Mott
Clarence Barfield
The Geneva Methodist Charge
ill have a Christmas service Sun-
ty beginning at 11 a. m. at the
inction City Methodist church
wording to an announcement by
;v. Jas. T. Pennell, pastor.
There will be no Sunday service
Pine Level Church Sunday eve-
ng.
The public is cordially invited to
me and worship at Junction City
ethodist Church on Christmas
Stores and places of business
named below will be closed for the
entire day next Monday (Dec. 26)
Wilson’s Super Market
Peed Bros. Feed Store
Peed Bros Milling Co.
(Mon. & Tues.)
Suggs Machine Co.
Community Barber Shop
Butler Auto Parts, Inc.
Mrs. Bertha Bazemore
Western Auto Store
Coolik’s Store
W. H. Trussell
Mclnvale T-V Shop
J. E. Bone Bldg. Sup.
Nu-Way Cleaners
Willis’ J & E Clothing
Willis’ Grocery
Walker’s Grocery
Byrd’s Cleaners
City Barber Shop
S. W. Wall
C. .& S. Grocery
E. L. Harris & Co.
Hart’s Garage
Payne Motor Co.
Allen’s Flowers
Maxwell’s 5 & 10c Store
H. E. Allen Hdw.
Citizens State Bank
Hammack Electric Sup.
J. C. Haywood
Guy Windham
Herman W. Blckley
R. C. Barrow
E. E. Jarrell
Blanford Jarrell
Bernard J. Fuller
John Man'*.am
J H. McRee
C. E. Marshall
Ell Garrett
Carl L. Turner
Guy Windham, Jr.
TRAVERSE JURORS
Mrs. Miriam C. Nelson Hollis Blckley
Carrol Peacock Erwin Jones
Kenneth Barrow John R. James
Harold Locke L. T. Peed
O. C. Keen, Jr. R. C. Brooks
R. C. Kirksey C. G. Elder
Elmer Rodgers Elmore Walleh
Sam Bailey Elmore Waller
William Keen Joe Goodroe
John 8. Montgomery C. F. Carson
Gene H. Whitley J. S. Musslewhlte
Mr. H. G. Phillips,
Son of Local Family
Dies in So. Carolina
J. A. Strlngfellow
GV W. Hath
C. P. McDaniel
Herman Hill
J. L. Wilson
Arnold Griggs
B. M. Montgomery
Roy Kirksey
Wanza Carpenter
C. F. Bennett
Alfred Kennon, Jr. Robert Wilson
Willard, Brunson Mrs.Ann H.Marshall
H. E. Allen, Jr.
James Weldon
Kay Cosey
W. M. Gee
James L. Splllers
A. H. Harrell
Charles L. Ayers
B. R. Dent, Jr.
J. T. Amos
Donald luassee
George Hammack
S. W. Wall
Wm. C. Parks
Fred Jarrell
Hubert Young
E. T. Shealy
C. H. Clarke
C. B. Byrd
Bobby Brooks
Jackson Elliston
William Woodall
James C. Smith
M. Harris
J. B. Clarke
B. H. Theus
W. G. Nelsler
L. D. Gordon
O. E. Cox
L. R. Pike
L. A. Adams
R. C. Rogers
Walton Nelsler
H. T. Gilee
Howard Kendrick
John Mims
Alton Heath
T. A. Robbins
Dick Windham
W. R. Lawhorn
H. L. WUchar
Prather Hammock
W. S. Payne
Jewel Smith
Robert H. Poole
Lewis Blair
William V. Guy
M. E. Burdeshaw
A. E. Locke
Herman Grady Phillips, 67,
church and civic leader and busi
ness executive, died Dec. 13th at
Winnsboro, S. C. after an extended
illness.
He was born in Delta, Ala., the
son of Mrs. Helen W. Phillips and
the late Jas. W. Phillips. He moved
to Winnsboro in 1933.
Mr. Phillips was a retired or
dained deacon of the First Baptist
church, Winnesboro, served as
Sunday School Superintendent,
church treasurer, church clerk,
chairman of the board of deacons,
chairman of the building commit
tee for the education building and
pastorium. On the occasion of the
Baptist Church’s Centennial Cele
bration on Oct. 2nd, the Centennial
History was dedicated to Mr. Phil
lips in these words: “His Christian
faith, Integrity, generosity and
loyalty to the church, his family
and community have been a
source of inspiration to many
others who have worked with him
to make the dream of this church
a reality.”
Mr. Phillips was president of
the Phillips Granite Company, past
president of the Bank of Fairfield,
past president of the Fairfield
County Chamber of Commerce,
and an honorary director of the
board and a director of the Fair-
field Development Corp. He was a
Rotarian, a Mason and a Shriner.
Survivors 1 include his mother,
Mrs. Helen W. Phillips of Butler;
his widow, Mrs. Lucile Phillips of
Winnsboro; two daughters, Mrs.
Sam W. Washington Jr., of Con
way and Mrs. Robert M. Hamilton
of Winnsboro; one son, Herman G.
Phillips Jr., of Winnsboro; four
sisters: Mrs. W. T. Rustin and Mrs.
Lester Roberts, of Butler; Mrs. H.
G. Wilkes of Hamilton; and and
Mrs. Gladys Montgomery of
Douglas; five brothers, Shelley A.
Phillips, Atlanta; Ernest J., Thom-
aston; Cecil R. of North Charles
ton; Blanchard of Walterboro and
O. C. Phillips of Palatka, Fla.;
eight grand children and a num
ber of nieces and nephews also
survive.
Funeral services were conducted
from the First Baptist church by
Dr. R. E. Lattimore, pastor, Rev. H.
F. Surles, of Columbia and Rev.
Jack Roe of Greensboro, N. C. In
terment was in the A. R. P. ceme
tery, Winnsboro.
Swearingen Named
To Board of Directors
Cattle Association
Cily of Butler to Hold Election Saturday,
Jan. 14 To Name Mayor & 5 Councilmen
For a Two Year Term Beginning Feb. 1,6T
Paul Sinclair Elected
Macon County Solon
in Recent Primary
MONTEZUMA, Ga.—Paul Sin-
clear, Montezuma lumber concern
manager and a member of the Ma
con County School Board, has been
elected as representative from Ma
con County to the state legislature.
Sinclair polled 1,295 votes to win
over J. T. Coogle, Oglethorpe busi
nessman, who polled 1,177 votes.
The returns were complete from
the county’s seven precincts, but
unofficial.
The election was held to fill the
term of the late J. Lester Souter
who was re-elected in the Demo
cratic primary but died shortly be
fore the general election.
Carbon Monoxide
Kills 4 Persons at
Columbus Drive-in
Sen. W. T. Jones ,
Is Named Chairman
Appropriations Com.
Atlanta, Ga. — Senator W. T.
Jones of Roberta has been nameiT
chairman of the Senate Appropria
tions Committee, Lt. Gov. Garland
Byrd announces.
Senator Jones represents the 23rd
Senatorial District which includes
Taylor, Crawford and Peach coun
ties.
The Lieutenant Governor also
announced that Sen. Jones will be
member of the Educational
Matters and Public Utilities and
Transportation Committees for the
Senate.
Senator Jones, who was elected
in the November General Election
will be sworn in for a two year
term when the General Assembly
convenes Jan. 9th.
Kansas City, Mo. — R. L. Swear
ingen of Reynolds, prominent
Polled Hereford breeder, has been
elected to the board of directors of
the 12,000 member American
Polled Hereford Association.
Swearingen, owner of Swearin
gen Hereford Farm has been a
lifetime member of the American
Polled Hereford Association since
1950. National headquarters are lo
cated in Kansas City, Mo.
He is one of three newly-elected
directors of the national beef cat
tle breed registery and promotion
organization who were installed at
the association’s annual member
ship business meeting at Chicago.
They are elected to four year
terms.
The district epresented by Mr.
Swearingen is made up of the three
states: Georgia, Alabama and
Florida.
Christmas Cantata
At Methodist Church
Columbus, Ga. — Four persons
two young couples were found
dead in their car parked in a Co
lumbus drive-in theater Sunday
morning, police reported.
In other additions, at least four
persons died in Georgia and two
other men were reported dead after
a Texas accident.
The Columbus couples apparent
ly died of carbon monoxide poison
ing as they kept a heater going
to warm their car in the freezing
weather, police said.
The asphyxiation victims were
identified by Columbus police as:
Mrs. Helen Crook, 19, Columbus;
Miss Estelle Ratcliff, 18, Griffin;
Specialist FC Jack Sumner, 22, of
Ft. Benning, and G. M. Bishop, 20
of Virginia, a recent Army dis
charge who police said was await
ing a re-enlistment at Benning.
Dect. Lt, Coulter said the two
couples were discovered by a the
ater attendant who looked into the
parked car and discovered the vic
tims as he prepared to close the
(heater for the night.
Of the four traffic connected fa
talities in Georgia, all victims were
women. Two of them died in spec
tacular accidents in which both in
nonconnected accidents were pas
sengers.
Forty-Four Killed,
Scores Hurt in Fire
Aboard Carrier
Prospective Candidates Must
Register 10 Days Prior To
Election With City Clerk
The Mayor and Council election
date for the City of Butler is an
nounced for Jan. 14th.
The election of Mayor and five
Councilmen is for a two-year term
of office. The election will be
conducted at the court house in
the Office of Clerk of Superior
Court.
Candidates desiring to seek the
office of Mayor and Councilmen
must qualify by registering with
the City Clerk at least ten days be-
ore the election.
Those eligible to vote in this
election, must be a qualified vot
er in the past general election and
a resident of Butler for at least 30
days prior to the City election.
Present Mayor and Councilmen
are: Mayor, Mr. Alfonso McCrary;
Councilmen: Messrs W. W. Hort-
man, James T. Smith, Alfred Ken
non, Marvin Peed and H. D. Taun
ton.
Methodists Need
64 Uew Churches
In Atlanta Area
Wednesday night, Dec. 21, at 8
o’clock a Christmas Pageant-Can
tata will be presented at the local
Methodist church by the Bethel
Congregational Methodist church.
Members, friends and neighbors
are cordially invited to attend this
impressive service.
Ted Griner, Pastor.
Reynolds Stores
Places of Business
Closing Monday
Reynolds business establishments
which will be closed for the entire
day Monday include:
G. H. Goddard & Son
Aultman’s Super Store
E. T. Shealy
BradyDry Goods Store
Taylor Co. Motor Co.
Goodroe Appliance
C. B. Hicks
New York, N. Y. — Fire fed by
jet fuel exploded thru the Navy’s
largest aircraft carrier at a Brook
lyn pier Monday trapping scores of
the nearly 4,000 workers aboard
behind red-hot bulkheads and
forcing others to leap for their
lives into the icy East River.
At least 44 persons were killed
in the nine-alarm blaze aboard the
as yet uncommissioned USS Con-
stelaltion, the Navy’s newest flat
top and a high ranking fire offi
cial estimated the death toll might
soar to 100.
George David chief of the city’s
fire department said there were 30
known missing in the smouldering
heart of the carrier. The fire de
partment said at least 225 persons
were injured.
Firemen battling the flames in
smoke and a snow storm that
forced the use of huge searchlights
in mid afternoon, boarded fire
boats and cut holes in the side of
the $275 million vessel to reach
trapped men desparately tapping
on the bulkheads for help as fire
raged overhead.
The constellation, a fifth of a
mile long and believed the largest
movable mechanical object ever
built was in the last stages of con
struction.
Columbus Preacher
Convicted of Larceny
Given Prison Term
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 19—Methodists
need to build at least 64 new chur
ches in metropolitan Atlanta dur
ing the next decade, according to a
study made by the Candler School
of Theology at Emory University.
While the study showed that
churches in the inner core of Atlan
ta have been losing membership -
quite rapidly in some cases — me
tropolitan area churches have gain
ed 20,000 members since 1950.
The study investigated past chur
ch membership, growth, expected
population increases and geograp
hic area coverage by Methodist pa
rishes in a six county area.
“While some of the new church
es recommended are urgently
needed now, others will not be re
quired for several years," the re
port said. “In the latter cases, the
purchase of sites while land costs
are reasonable is desirable.”
While much stronger in the At
lanta area than in the nation as
a whole, Methodism “has been de
clining as a percentage of the
population” the report said.
Covered in the survey were 179
churches with a total membership
of 89,160, an increase of 29.2 per
cen over 1950.
The report also called for more
detailed studies cf Methodism’s
“inner ring” churches, where tran
sitional populations are creating
"social problems.” — Jim Bentley.
Big Tobacco Increase
Seen For Georgia
COLUMBUS—A preacher from
Fort Worth, Tex., who told of “liv
ing in sin,” was sentenced to two
five years in prison this week.
The Rev. William E. Lewis, gray
ing, slightly built 31-year-old Con
gregational Methodist minister, was
sentenced after a Muscogee Super
ior Court jury convicted him of a
larceny from the house charge.
The charge involved the theft
and sale of furniture valued at
$1,000 taken from a house he rented
here in September.
Washington, D. C. — An increase
of nearly 25 million pounds in
Georgia’s 1960 fluecured tobacco
crops has been estimated by the
Agriculture Department.
The department yesterday esti
mated the total 1960 flue-curred
crop at 1.25 billion pounds, an in
crease of 19 per cent over 1959 but
slightly below the 10-year average.
For Georgia the estimate was
129.150.000 pounds as compared
with 104,880,000 pounds in 1959.
The Department said the average
yield of flue-cured tobacco per acre
is indicated at a record high of 1,-
800 pounds, well above the previous
high in 1958 of 1,601 pounds.
The department also estimated
that Georgia production of type 62
cigar wrapper this year will be
l,976,00z pounds as compared to
1.668.000 pounds last year.
He Was Just Playing
His Own Santa Claus
Miami, Fla. — He was wearing a
white apron, he looked very effi
cient and for about two weeks
everyone thought he was an em
ploye of the big supermarket.
But police report John Young, 48
has been packing boxes with gro
ceries and carrying them off oi sell
to customers in nearby bars.
Someone in the store became su
spicious and called police. Young
was arrested while he was carry
ing off a box loaded with about
$70 worth of merchandise, police
reported.