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VOLUME 85
Pres. Kennedy
Appoints Duncan
Asst. Farm Secty.
Quitman Man Resigns Pres.
Of Georgia Farm Bureau To
Accept New Position
Ik” Butler Herald
"KEEPING EVER LASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS"
BUTLER, TAYLOR, COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1961.
NUMBER 17.
Quitman, Ga. — President John
Kennedy picked another compara
tively young man Saturday for an
important post in naming J. P.
Duncan, Jr., of Quitman as an as
sistant secretary of agriculture.
Duncan, 43, has been president
of the Ga. Farm Bureau, largest
Geo. L. Smith
Represents Indicted
U. of Ga. Student
ATLANTA — One of the Univer
sity of Georgia students indicted
on charges of participating in the
Jan. 11 riot on the campus paid a
visit to the State Capitol Monday.
Tommy Cochran of Buler, who
has been suspended by the univer
sity, said his attorney in the Clarke
County case will be George L.
Smith, speaker of the House of Re
presentatives.
Smith emphasized that he is rep
Mr. Ben Griffin To
Be Guest Speaker
At Howard Sunday
Mr. Griffin’s Address Will Be
The Main Feature of The
Howard Charge Lay Rally
Mr. Ben H. Griffin of Hawkins-
ville, Georgia, speaks at the Ho
ward Methodist Church Sunday/
January 29. Mr. Griffin’s address
^ ^ ^ _ is the main feature of a lay rally
resenting the youth as an attorney | which the Howard Charge has set
and not as House Speaker. ] f ° r Sunday. People from each of
My main interest is not only the S1X churches of the charge wi
New Approach
To School Problem
Gains Momentum
Ihvy. Nineteen
To Be Widened
Through Taylor Co.
Mrs. Tom Boswell
Dies Suddenly
Saturday Afternoon
Legislative Leaders P r e d i c 11 On January 10th Taylor County Funeral Services Held At Butler
I Commissioners, Messrs Murray Jar
rell, W. R. Turner and Julian
Whatley with the County Repre
sentative Mr. Ralph Underwood
met with the State Highway Board
in Atlanta to discuss new Highway
maintenance bill.
Swift Passage of Governor’s
School Package
Methodist Church Monday
Afternoon 3 Q’Clock
Mrs. Retha Rochelle Davis Bos-
It will be of much interest to the wel1 dle c d ° f , a heart attack at 4:45
p. m. Saturday.
Mrs. Boswell suffered
farm organization in the state, for, to re p rese nt a boy I think is inno-|g ather at Howard for the 13. o’clock
tho n9Qt thrpn vonre Tn£» Wnroan’c L ^ ' nAnrinn nvi/1 nnirnm/l dieVi rlinrov fnl.
the past three years. The bureau’s
headquarters are in Macon.
Duncan is a dirt farmer with a
professional and university back
ground. He operates an 850-acre
farm near Quitman. He is a gradu
ate of Emory and studied at the
University of Georgia’s College of
Agriculture.
He served in Washington in 1943
as administrative assistant to the
old agricultural adjustment admin
istration. The net two years he
was with the Department of Agri
culture in Georgia. His assignment
included posts at Carnesville, and
Statesboro and Athens.
cent and one of the finest young , service and covered-dish dinner fol
men in the state, but to the endi lowln ®-
that the entire situation is quieted , Mr. Griffin is a leader in his own
down.”
Cochran was seen in Capitol cor
ridors with Augusta segregationist
of Gainesville, also a student were | Stewardship he assumes the res-
charged with taking part in the iponsibilty for all the financial mat-
riot and with exhorting other stu- jters in his church. In addition, Mr.
dents to make assaults on the dor- I Griffin is a member of the South
citizens of the county to learn
that the Commissioners and rep
resentative were assured that
highway 19 would be widened from
four to six feet and completely
resurfaced all the way through the
county. This work is scheduled to
be let in June or July of this
year.
Also the Commissioners were
the fatal
attack while working at a fruit
stand in Butler Saturday afternoon
and was rushed to the Montgomery
hospital where she died about a«
hour later.
She was born in Taylor County
April 20, 1895, the daughter of the
late Mr. J. Henry and Mrs. Josie
Atlanta, Ga. — The Vandiver ad
ministration’s new approach to the
race-mixing problem in Georgia’s
public schools, which Gov. Vandi
ver outlined to the General Assem-
by at its recent unusual night
session, appears to be gaining mo
mentum in the legislature.
Almost immediately after his
speech on “The Fate of Public Edu
cation in Georgia,” delivered on
what he described as “an occasion- v „„
church, the Hawkinsville Methodist jal history, will pudge,” Vandiver’s j able to obtain 3.2 miles of paving ■ ! 4 ’ n i, on ', s P ent en
Church, presently serving as the lay legislative leaders went into action |from Taylor Mill to Cross Roads tlre ife , in Taylor County and was
member of the Annual Conference | in an effort to implement his pro-j school- This contract is now being a me 5 n )ar of ,lie ocal Methodist
Roy V. Harris. When a newsman!from Hawkinsville and as the tea- Iposals aimed at meeting the advertised in these columns. church. She was married in early
attempted to talk to the youth, Har-1cher of the Senior Young People’s ischool crisis I jy 011 ’?® womanhood to Mr. Alex
ris interrupted and steered Cochran j class. Also his special interest and j Taking their cue from the Gov- |_. .... _ _ I avls 0 ls roun ^ w 10 P rec,c<(
away and down a hallway. .most unique contribution is in the|ernor, who said federal courts have;Sheriff S Salary
Cochran and Ernest Parks Davis field of stewardship- As Director of voided the state’s existing segrega
tion defenses and new laws are
now needed, administration leaders
introduced four measures which
would:
1. Amend the State Constitution
to “guarantee freedom of associa-
mitory where Negro student Char-
Ga. Farm Bureau in 1957 after
serving two years as president of
the Brooks County Bureau.
He is president of the Farm Bu
reau Insurance Co. set up by the
Georgia Conference Board of Lay
Activities and is the Associate Dis
trict Lay Leader for the Americus
gro student, were suspended from District.
TT . . , ., . . ,, • layoe Hunter was quartered. Hunter
He was elected president of the | ai f d Hamilton H olmes, another Ne .
the university as a result of the
demonstration and were re-admitt-
ed under court order Jan. 16.
Smith, who confirmed that he
Farm Bureau to provide lower life, was CochralVs counsel said ^ do
auto and fire insurance rates to ; believe j viole , nce . i do not
farm bureau members He is on j condone violen ce. Many errors have
the board of directors of the Inter- ! been mad b b the faculty (of
The serivee Sunday is part of our
observance of the “Ten Weeks For
Christ” crusade now underway in
Bill Hits Snag
In State Senate
her in death about twenty-five
years ago. Later she was married
to Mr Tom Boswell of Talbot
county whose death occurred only
a few years ago.
| Funeral services for Mrs. Bos-
The Senate Judiciary Committee I well were conducted at the Butler
postponed action on the non-[Methodist church at three o’clock
tion” to children who do not' wish I compulsory statewide sheriff’s sal- Monday afternoon- Rev. Ted Grin-
to attend integrated schools. ar y bil1 a£ler some committee er officiated and was assisted by
2. Provide “an effective system of
grants in aid based on valid prem-
members raised objections.
The objections, however, may be
ises rather than contingencies met h y Senate President Pro Tern
Rev. Walter Doggrell, pastor of the
local Baptist church. Interment was
in the family lot, Butler cemetery.
our conference. With the pastor [which are legally impossible un-l^ ar£ Sanders of Augusta—one of | Pallbearers were Alex Davis, Eu-
preaching on regular preaching der existing laws” the PrH’ s authors who said he will .gene Kirksey, Hoyd Brewer, Rob-
days, lay speakers take over 5 of | 3. Provide "adeouate ieeal ma. I go before the committee Wednes- I ert Cooper, W. W. Hortman and
national Cotton Council and a
member of the board of the Ga.
Southern & Fla. Ry.
Duncan called the appointment
an "opportunity to improve the lot
of the farmer in the entire na
tion.”
In his new post Duncan will head
all marketing and foreign agricul
tural services of the vast U.S. De
partment of agriculture.
He will be charged with moving
some of the surplus farm commo
dities, and this, he said, “will be
quite a challenge.”
“I expect to be traveling to
many of the foreign countries un
der this program and also trying
to mprove our export markets,
which will be my responsibility
too,” Duncan explained-
“My only desire” he said, “is to
help President Kennedy carry out
his campaign promises to the
farmer.”
Macon Man Slain
During Argument;
Father Is Accused
the university) and some students.
I regret that the grand jurors in
their wisdom saw fit to indict this
young man ”
Assembly of God
Revival Will Begin
Sunday, January 29
The revival will begin on the
evening of Jan. 29th at the Assem
bly o God Church, Butler, with
Evangelist Bob Cole of Austell,
conducting the revival.
The public is cordially
to attend-
REV J. B. WELDON.
3. Provide "adequate legal ma-
the pulpits of our charge each week |chinery, which does not now ex-
so that in so far as possible for ] ist, for suspension and reopening
ten weeks there will be no silent j public schools.”
pulpits. j 4- Provide "new and effective”
day and attempt to get the bill out 1C. G. Wainwright.
of the committee. | Survivors include four sonsr
Smooth sailing in the Legisla- Messrs, Ernest, Edward and Wan-
ture has been previously predicted jzie Davis, all of Butler, and Mr.
Members and friends of the Ho-1 procedures for appealing local |£or tbe wb * ch * s backed by I Harold Davis of Boston, Mass;
ward Charge are welcomed to the I rulings on school admissions to the the Ga. Sheriff’s Association and three sisters, Mrs. Mintie Wain-
rally Sunday. Each family attend
ing is asked to bring a covered-
dish with the host church arrang
ing for plates, coffee, tea, etc. The
service begins at 11:00 a. m. with
the dinner following.
ACP Sign-Up
Ends January 31
Two Persons Die
In Columbus Fire
Milledgeville, Ga. — Albert
Crawford shot and killed his son
Albert, age 40, in Macon while the
dead man’s son looked on, accord
ing to Baldwin County Sheriff
Buford Lingold.
Crawford fired three bullets from
a pistol into his son’s body, appaf-
enly killing him instantly, Lingold
said.
The younger Crawford’s wife,saw
the shooting, the sheriff said. The
couple and their daughter, lived
in Macon.
The shooting occurred after an
argument between the two men,
the sheriff said.
Lingold said Crawford is being
detained on an open charge until
an inquest-
Mr. Theo Pledger,
Uncle of Carl Hobbs
Died Sunday A. M.
Mr. Carl Hobbs, postmaster, was
called to Panama City, Fla., Sunday
morning, due to the death of his
uncle, Theo Pledger.
Mr. Hobbs returned to Butler
Wednesday.
Columbus, Ga. — Week end
fires left a 2 year old negro girl
and elderly woman dead at Co
lumbus.
The girl was Mary Brown. She
died at a hospital Sunday from
burns received when her clothes
caught fire from an open fire
place at the home of her grand
mother the day before.
The elderly woman was Miss
Mattie Rowland. Her clothes
caught from an open heater in her
home Sunday. Neighbors smoth
ered in flames with a sweater but
only after she had been fatally
burned. She died Monday.
“Know Your School’’
Farmers desiring assistance un-
invnted der the 1961 Agricultural Conser
vation Program are urged to apply
for the assistance by next Tues
day, according to Mr. H. A. Sealy
Chairman of the ASC County Com
mittee.
Mr. Sealy states that cost-shar
ing under the ACP is designed to
enable farmers to carry out needed
soil and water conservation meas
ures in addition to the conserva- [maintained.
(Sponsored by the Butler High
Student Council and the Future
Business Leaders of America)
Harry Lovvorn has been chosen
STAR student under the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce program.
Sandy Harris was runner-up. Con
gratulations.
Several of the local faculty mem
State Board of Education — a key
to completing “local control” of
class room mixing.
“The amendment and bills,” Gov.
Vandiver told the legislators, “are
intended to be culmulative to all
effective and subsisting school
legislation on the books and to
augment and supersede those en-
has the endorsement of Lt. Gov-
Garland Byrd. Among other things
the bill is considered a way of
combatting speed traps — where
sheriff’s get fees.
One of the objections was one
which has been anticipated by the
bill’s backers — the bill does not
provide a way for a county to re-
actments which are now ineffec- tu ™ to the fee system if it wishes
tual as enabling legislation for our
constitutional provision authoriz
ing grants in aid.”
Legislative leaders predict swift
passage of the Governor's school
package.
Vandiver, in bringing what per
haps was the most difficult speech
he has ever made, declared:
“Public education will be pre
served. Our Georgia school children
will be protected. Local adminis
tration and autonomy will be
tion measures they would carry
out without this assistance. Some
of these practices are the establish
ment of permanent grass and le
gume cover for soil protection or as
a needed land use adjustment,
liming farmland now in legumes
or to be seeded to a legume, plant
ing forest trees, improving t stand
of forest trees, terracing farm land,
and constructing farm pond dams.
Requests for ACP cost sharing
according to Mr. Sealy, that are
filed after the initial sign up can
be considered only if funds are
available and for this reason he
urges every farmer to file a re
quest for assistance by Tuesday.
$ 100-Million For
Highway Repairs
Atlanta, Ga. — With dazzling
swiftness, Gov. Ernest Vandiver's
$100-million highway repair pro
bers are planning to take the Na- [gram has been written into law.
tional Teacher Examination at Mer- iThe Governor signed the two com-
cer on Saturday. This will meet panion bills necessary for the pro
part of the requirement for a six- [gram after they sailed thru both
year certificate. [houses with virtually no opposi-
The Junior Class has selected jtion. This was his No. 1 project
May 5 for the star-studded night of
the Junior-Senior Banquet. Rumors
are flying that this will be the
greatest production yet.
The last two home games for
for the current session.
Under the program, which will
be financed thru a bond issue,
approximately 6,000 miles of Ga.
roads will be widened and resur
Local Board Seeking
Address of Persons
If you know the correct address
of anv of these men, please notifv
your Local Board No. 137- This of
fice is located on the first floor of
the Taylor county court house ar>d
is open all day on Mondays and
Tuesdays and Wednesday morn
ings.
Lawrence Eugene Hawkins
Leonard Carter Gray
Hugh Dorsey McDaniel
Richard Eugene Hinton
Little Henry Joiner
Eddie Thomas Troutman.
Butler will be February 7 and 10; faced. Highway officials have been
quoted by the bill’s sponsors
and Friday we play Cuthbert. This
Friday night we journey to Forsyth;
this will be a home game. Butler
will receive half the gate receipts.
The boys’ tournament will be in
Fort Valley, February 16-17, 20-21.
Butler boys meet Ellaville at 7:30
on the 17.
Girls’ tournament will be here
with our girls receiving a bye for
the first game- They are in top posi
tion and will play Reynolds or Ma
con County on February 27 at 8:45.
Report cards were sent out to pa
rents Friday. All cards should be
signed and returned by Friday of
this week.
saying the program can be com
pleted in two years.
Earl J. Bodiford
Serving in Army
Recruit Earl J. Bodiford, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Parr Bodiford,
of Rupert, is assigned to Company
D, 6th Battalion, 2nd Training
Regiment of the U.S. Army Train
ing Center, Infantry, at Fort Jack-
son, S. C., where he is undergoing
eight weeks of Basic Combat
Training.
Grants will be authorized. The
public schools, the very centers of
our community life and activity,
will be strengthened. The right of
your child and mine to an adequate
education to fit
to do so.
Sen. W. C. Long of Nahunta
raised that question. So did Sen.
Chas. E. Dewes of Edison.
Dews said it is comparatively
easy now for lawyers to get pro
cesses served on suits they file
wright, Butler; Mrs. Dorcas Ault-
man, of Reynolds; Mrs. Lucy
Brannon of Columbus; two broth
ers, Messrs Charlie and Edward
Hinton of Louisville, Ky. Also
eleven grand children.
Edwards Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements-
Three Persons Killed
On Georgia Highways
During Last Weekend
Atlanta, Ga
At least four
because the sheriffs "want the Georgians met death in traffic con
nected accidents last week end.
costs.” But what can a county do
if a sheriff, after going under the
salary plan, gets lax in his duties?
Butler Baptist Church
Presents The Northcutt
Family Week of Feb. 5
creasingly competitive world will
be enriched and guarded as are
other sacred rights.”
At another point the Governor
said: “Segregate education —
segregated facilities
The Butler Baptist Church will
them for an in- ihave the privilege of being host,
objectives — first, last and always.
Giving our people an effective and
legal means to protect themselves
in light of present conditions, pub
lic sentiment will see to it in prac
tically every community that sepa
rate education is continued in Ga.
—on a voluntary basis.”
In calling for immediate action
by the General Assembly to meet
the situation, Gov. Vandiver had
this to say:
“In the final analysis, the ques
tion — the issue — presented to
me and to you, is whether we want
to rest our defenses entirely on ex
isting statutes, many of which are
identical to those which have fal
len in other states, or whether we
shall rebuild our defense to with
stand these onslaughts in the
courts.
“Gentlemen, in lawing a breast
works, it is elementary tactics not
to rely on a single, alread vulner
able line, which when once pierced
the hordes would be upon us—The
time is at hand, therefore, to seek
new and better defenses — to per
fect alternative plans — to act
with courage and resolve — to act
decisively — to determine to carry
on legal resistance with every
means available to us.
“We must discard rusty and de
fective safeguards. We will follow
the principle laid down by the Gen
eral Assebmbly and the people of
Georgia in 1954 at the beginning
of this struggle, that, in our com
mon weal, weutilize to the fullest
every leal means and every legal
resource at our command to main
tain seaprate education in Geor
gia”
the week of Feb. 5, to the Northcutt
family of Columbus; missionaries
to Peru for the past year.
The church will have two services
daily 10:30 A. M- and 7:30 P. M. it
our is hoped that as many of the coun-
Pedestrians Willie Mack 51, of
Augusta, and Emmett Newham, 32
Rt. 3, Hazlehurst, and vehicle pas
senger Harold Burnett, 48 of Co-
lummbus, and LeRoy Bacon, 20,
Glenville, in nonconnected acci
dents.
The state palrol said young Ba
con met death when th ecar in
which he was riding crashed into
a utility pole in an accident Sun
day morning six miles from Eu-
lonia, near Darien in McIntosh:
county. Another Gainesville man,
Thomas C. Padgett, 20, was in
jured in the accident.
ty’s Baptist Church members and
other denominations will too count
it a great privilege to come out and
hear this fine couple that have so
willingly given themselves to the
Lord’s work in foreign fields.
Baptist, please pray for this week
and invite your friends of other
faiths from all over the county to
avail themselves of this week of
Missionary emphasis.
Rev. Walter Doggrell, pastor
Fred Brown Attends
Training Meeting
The Executivee Council of th
southwest District 4-H Clubs of
Georgia met at Rock Eagle on Jan
uary 20-22. The Council includes
the following members who were
elected last summer.
President, Susan Eddy, Bibb Coun
ty-
Vice President (boys), Claude Da
vis, Houston County.
Vice President (girls), Gloria Dol
lar, Grady County.
Parliamentarian, Fred Brown,
Taylor County.
Secretary-Treasurer, Mary Moody
Clay County-
Reporter, Mike Tabb, Baker Coun
ty.
These officers were elected last
year while at District Project Ach
ievement Meeting at Rock Eagle.
The council met to plan the 1961
program for the 8,000 4-H’ers in
Southwest District. The officers at
tended and took part in several
meetings, pertaining to the duties
and responsibilties of each officer,
Bank President’s
Wife Confesses
Taking Bank Funds
Sheldon, Iowa. — A bank presi
dent’s daughter, a “friend of ev
erybody” confessed she took
more than $2 million from her
father’s firm in possibly the na
tion’s largest bank embezzlement
authorities have disclosed.
The disclosure closed the Shel
don Bank and rocked the small
Iowa Dutch community of 4,251.
If the $2 million figure should
be proved accurate by an audit of
bank books, federal authorities
said, the embezzlement would be
the biggest loss involved in a case
in which a bank failed because of
a theft.
Ladies Marching
Monday Evening
The ladies participating in the
March of Dimes Monday night in
the City of Butler will include:
Mrs. Earl Haywood
Mrs. Jewel Gray
Mrs. L. R. Adams
Mrs. Hugh Cheek
Mrs. Eva Halley
Mrs. Sara Pennington
Mrs. Wilma Gibson
Mrs. Nelly Taumton
Mrs. Vernon Reddish
Mrs Frank Riley
Mrs. Clifford Adams
Mrs. Charles Benns
Crowell & Fielding- Mill
Mrs. J. C. Fuller, Chm.