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VOLUME 85
The Butler Herald
‘’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
Lt. Governor Byrd
Proposes Giant
Highway Program
All Rural Mail and School
Bus Routes In State To Be
Included In Program.
JEKYLL ISLAND, GA.—Lt. Gov.
Garland T. Byrd revealed Tuesday
that he is working up a long range
plan to implement a continuous, un
interrupted program of county road
building.
The Lt. Gov. Made the project
known in an address before the
47th Annual Convention of the
Georgia County Commissioners As
sociation on Jekyll Island.
Byrd said his plan would place
priority on paving school bus routes
and mail routes throughout Georgia.
“It will be a pay-as-you go pro
gram,” he said, "with a specific a-
mount earmarked annually from
the highway appropriation.”
Byrd said the program will be one
in which from 4 to 5 miles can be
paved for the same amount of mon
ey that previously has been spent
on 1 mile with bond financing.
“In other words”, the Lt. Gover
nor said, “if your county received
15 miles of paving under the au
thority financed program, you will
receive 100 miles for the same cost
under this program.”
Byrd said that with proper bud
geting and with an increased an
nual highway appropriation, his
proposed program can be carried
out cm a large scale basis. He said
it can be accomplished with greater
efficiciency and economy than any
authority financed program.
The Lt. Governor cited figures
showing that of 73,000 miles of
county roads in Georgia, only 13,-
000 are paved. He said his program
is designed to take care of the re
maining 60,000 miles which need
paving.
Byrd indicated also that his pro
gram will call for county contracts.
“It has been the experience of
the Highway Department over the
years”, he said, “that the most ex
peditious and economical method
of improving county roads is by is
suing county contracts. This is
sound business for the State and,
likewise for the counties.”
He said he was not presenting
the new road program for the pur
pose of “currying” the favor of the
County Commissioners, nor with the
intention of "impressing any parti
cular group.”
“I ask it,” Byrd said, “because it
is right, it is needed and it is es
sential to the growth and economy
of our counties and our state.”
The Lt. Governor also endorsed
Governor Vandiver’s plans to re
issue some 13 million dollars in ru
ral roads authority bonds, a move
which will raise the rural roads in
debtedness back to the authorized
100 million dollars.
“Because of the urgent need for
improvements to county roads, -
until such time as a better pro
gram, such as the one I am now
developing can be implemented,
then I say, by all means, resell the
bonds and let’s pave some more
county roads,” Byrd said.
The Lt. Governor also cited the
need for immediate work on hund
reds of bridges on county roads
which were destroyed by recent
floods. He said some counties have
lost as many as 25 to 30 bridges.
River Yields Body
Of Marietta Man
Drowned Saturday
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961.
NUMBER 26.
Easter Sunrise
Services To Be Held
Methodist f’k—eh
Dei* JtKS,
General l '" r V Ga .
Gnlver ^ me Church of the
lNazarene and of the local Baptist
church will join the Butler Metho
dist church members for their an
nual union Sunrise worship at the
Butler Methodist church Sunday
morning at 7 o’clock.
All invited to attend.
Sunrise Worship
Sunday Morning
At Turners Chapel
Turners Chapel members will ob
serve Easter Sunday with sunrise
'worship. The Spring Revival for
j church will also begin at that time
land continue throughout the fol
lowing week.
; Evangelist W. J. Owens of Rey-
jnolds will bring the message at 11
I a. m. and 7:30 p. m. each day.
! The public is cordially invited
| to attend each service.
W. R. Lawhorn, Pastor.
Easter Worship
Sunday Morning on
; Howard Charge
The churches of the Howard
charge announce the schedule of
services for Easter Sunday. This
: will be the conclusion of the “Ten
I Weeks for Christ” program, during
I which there have been lay-speak
ers in the pulpit of most of these
I churches.
Sunday’s schedule will be:
! Charing: The Pastor,
j Howard Sun. Nite): The Pastor.
Mauk: P. M. Preston
Rupert: The Pastor
Union: J. C. Bridges
Wesley: Frank Riley.
It is further announced that all
night meetings now and through
out the summer will begin at %
p. m.
A cordial welcome is extended
everyone to attend one of these
services on Easter Sunday.
Tegler Greer, Pastor.
Preaching Easter
Sunday Morning
At Mt. Pisgah
Marietta, Ga. — The body of a
young father of three children was
dragged from the Chattahoochee
River Sunday by Cobb county and
Marietta rescue workers.
James Ray, head of the Cobb
County civil defense rescue unit,
said the body of J. C. Vaughn was
discovered Sunday afternoon after
a search which started late Satur
day.
Vaughn of Conyers drowned
after a small fishing boat capsized
a mile below the Roswell road
bridge, police said.
Chicken Barbecue
Supper Sat. Evening
Saturday, the swimming pool
committee will sponsor a chicken
barbecue supper on the court house
square at 5:00 P. M.
Plates will be S1.25 each.
Come out and enjoy a good meal
and help your swimming pool.
An invitation is extended every
one to attend preaching at Mt.
Pisgah Baptist cht ■vh Sunday, 11
o’clock a. m. — Easter Sunday.
The sermon will be brought by the
pastor, Rev. Z. L. Perdue.
After services the community
will meet for a picnic meal at
Cross Roads Community House.
There will be an egg hunt for the
children in the afternoon.
The public is invited to bring
well filled baskets and join in the
fellowship.
Prosperity Church
Home-Coming Day
Sunday, April 9th
All members and persons other
wise interested in the Prosperity
Primitive Baptist church are re
minded of the Annual Home-com
ing which will be observed at the
church on the Second Sunday in
April.
This is an important event as it
is on this day that the details for
the upkeep of the "emetery are
worked out for the ensuing year.
All who are interested are urged
to be present on April 9th.
Gospel Quartet
Coming to Mt. Olive
Church April 1st
The Favorite Melody Quartet
will appear at Mt. Olive Church
(Potterville) Saturday night, April
1st, 8 o’clock.
! The public is extended a special
: invitation to come out and enjoy
(this splendid service in Gospel
i songs.
Three members of this quartet
are objects of pity, being con
fined by affliction to wheel chairs.
The only charge will be a free
will offering on their behalf.
Sponsors of the event express
the sincere belief that all who at
tend will enjoy hearing these
talented people.
JIM L. GILLIS, JR.
Co. Commissioners
Name Gillis Jr.
“Citizen of Year”
Jim L. Gillis, Jr., of Soperton, son
of Georgia’s highway chairman, has
been named “Citizen of the Year”
by the County Commissioners Asso
ciation.
Known as Jim L. by his friends,
young Gillis has gained wide recog
nition for his work in agriculture
and conservation. He has served as
chairman of the State Soil Conser
vation Committee for almost 20
years, and was named last year as
“Outstanding Conservationist of
Georgia” at the annual Governor’s
Awards Banquet.
A farmer, timberman, cattleman
and banker, Jim L. is president and
a member of the board of directors
of the Bank of Soperton. He is a
vice-chairman of the board and
chairman of the executive commit
tee of the Gulf American Fire and
Casualty Company, chairman of the
agriculture committee of the Geor
gia Bankers Association, a director
of the Georgia Forestry Association
and has served as director of the
American Turpentine Association
since 1940.
He is a member of the Georgia
Development Authority, area direc
tor of the Georgia Hereford Associa
tion, and, with his brother, operates
an automobile agency in Soperton.
He is a member and past president
of the Lions Club, a Moose, an Elk,
and is active in Boy Scout work.
He served for two years as finance
chairman for the Pine Forest Dis
trict of Boy Scouts and is on the
National Boy Scout Council.
Politically, Jim L. has served one
term in the State Senate, was mayor
of Soperton for five years, and has
also been a member of the city
council. He is now chairman of the
Treutlen County Democratic Exe
cutive Commitee, and headed the
Farmers for Kennedy Club in Geor
gia during the recent campaign.
Bom October 2, 1916 in Treutlen
County, Jim L. attended high school
in Soperton and received a BS de
gree in Forestry from the Univer
sity of Georgia in 1937. He is mar
ried to the former Miss Katherine
Hudmcn, and they have three dau
ghters and one son.
Zero Hour Near
For Renewal of
Driver License
ATLANTA—The zero hour is close
at hand for driver license renewals
in Georgia. And those who haven’t
done it by midnight March 31 will
be out of luck.
Reason: There postively will be
no extension of time for renewing
them this year, according to Col.
William P. Trotter, director of the
Georgia Department of Public Safe
ty.
“Those who fail to renew their
driver’s licenses before April 1 will
have to undergo a re-examination”,
declared Capt. F. M. Davies, super
visor of the State Patrol’s Driver’s
License Division.
Saturday Is Dead Line
To Release acreage
Idle Funds Earn
$629,184 Interest
For State of Ga.
University System Has More
Than $20 Million Invested In
Bonds and Time Deposits
Atlanta, Ga. — Nine state agen
cies have reported interest earn
ings of $629,184 on deposits of idle
funds the state treasurer’s office
reports.
The earnings were reported by
the Treasury, Parks, Defense,
Highway, Health and Welfare De
partments and the state Merit
System, Forestry Commission and
Public Service Commission.
The state highway department
reported earnings of $501,431 which
included earings of $497,775 which
Secty.-Treas. Benton Odom turned
over to Gov. Vandiver Friday.
The state health department now
has $,900,000 invested in time de
posits. E. B Davis, head of the fi
nance and administraion division
of the department, said division of
the department, said all money is
either on interest earning time de
posits or is in working accounts.
None of it is held in non-interest
earning he said.
State Treas. G. B. Hamilton re
ported he has $10,940,200 on time
deposits in banks around the
state, but has $12,600,000 in “com
pensatory” deposits in the same
banks.
He said the policy of giving
banks equal amounts of compen
satory deposits compared to time
deposits is to compensate them for
the free services they are render
ing to the state.
J. A. Blissit, treasurer of the
University System said the system
now has more than $20 million of
its funds invested in either U.S.
Government securities or in time
deposits.
Supreme Court Kills
Unsworn Statement
Section of Ga. Law
Man Arrested Here
Facing Worthless
Check Charges
William P. Banker, address un
known, was arrested in Butler last
week on bad check charges.
Mr. Banker purchased a quantity
of merchandise from the Thomas
Mathews Dry Goods Store here acid
gave Mr. Mathews a check on a
Florida firm for a larger amount
than the amount of goods.
Mr. Mathews, already suspicious
of Banker gave him the difference,
some sixty dollars, in cash,
j Mr. Pat Patterson, local express
agent, delivered a shipment of
merchandise to the Mathews Store
[while the transaction was in pro
gress and also became suspicious
of Banker. Patterson walked out of
’the store, alerted police officers and
[returned to the Mathews Store and
'waited until the customer had left,
j Banker was stopped before he left
town and upon investigation offi
cers found a check writing machine,
typewriter and a number of blank
checks in the automobile.
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Ga. Peace Officers
Plan Meeting
At Fort Valley
Governor Vandiver and Other
Leading State Officials Will
Take Part on Day’s Program
Funeral Services For
Mrs. Emily Hall
Held at Talbotton
The U. S. Supreme Court Monday
knocked out the section of Georgia’s
unique "unsworn statement” law
that prohibts attorneys in criminal
cases from questioning their clients
on the witness stand.
The ruling came as the high
court set aside the murder convict
ion of Billy Homer Ferguson, who
was given a death sentence in the
1958 slaying of a Douglasville tele
vision repairman, Luke A. Brown.
Ferguson will get a new trial.
Two Supreme Court justices want
ed to knock out the whole provi
sion of unsworn statements by de
fendants but the majority of the
court restricted the action to the
part barring guidance by lawyers.
Georgia law permits a defendant
to make an unsworn statement to
the judge and jury but denies di
rect examination by his counsel un
less specifically allowed by the
judge. The prosecutor is not per
mitted to cross-examine any part
of the defendant’s unsworn state
ment. And defendants are not per
mitted to make a sworh statement.
TALBOTTON, Ga., March 27-
Funeral services for Mrs. Emily
Ingram Hall, 88, lifelong resident
'of Talbot County, were held Sun
day at Matthews Chapel Methodist
Church, where she was one of the
oldest members.
| Mrs. Hall died Saturday at her
home.
She was the widow of Seaborn
I Hall, a well-known Talbot County
[farmer and lumberman before his
I death.
She moved to Talbotton in 1958
after the family farm home in the
[O’Neal section of the county was
destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Hall was long active in the
Matthews Chapel Methodist Church.
Friends said Mrs. Hall saw to it
that many of the needy in the O’
Neal district did not go hungry
during the depression of three de
cades ago.
Mrs. Hall is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. Francis Adams,
iLake City, Fla.; Mrs. Sam Jones,
[Talbotton, Mrs. J. W. Richardson,
[juniper and Mrs. R. L. Harris, Sar-
jdis; a sister, Mrs. Earl Mitchell,
Corinth; two daughters-in-law, Mrs.
| Rollins Hall, Talbotton, and Mrs.
|Jessie Hall, Atlanta; nine grand-
;sons; a granddaughter, and 10 great
grandchildren.
Turkey & Dressing
Supper at Butler School
[Lunchroom Fri. Night
Hope Fading For
Finding Telfair Co.
Ordinary Alive
The ASC Office advised that the
final date for releasing 1961 pea
nut allotment acreage is Saturday.
Farm operators who will not
plant all or part of the 1961 allot
ment are urged to release the acre
age that will not be planted. The
acreage released will be reappor
tioned by the County Committee to
other farms in the county request
ing additional acreage.
Farm operators desiring addi
tional acreage from the released
acreage are urged to file a request
[not later than Saturday of this
week.
McRAE—Some cut bushes and
a shoe heel print on the edge of
Gum Creek was about all that spur
red any hopes Monday that Telfair
County Ordinary Eli Wilcox would
be found, dead or alive.
Telfair Sheriff John B. Walker
reported the extensive search for
Ihe mysteriously missing official
extended Monday to a lake near
Gum Creek in Gum Swamp.
Wilcox has been missing since
early last Thursday and his aban
doned car was found the next day
stuck in a mudhole in the swamp
with a small shovel nearby as if
he had tried to dig the auto free.
Sheriff Walker said "nobody
knows” whether Wilcox may have
been murdered or killed accident
ally, as “one fellow’s guess is as
good as another’s.”
The sheriff said a man drowned
in the same creek several years
ago and it took about 13 months
to recover the body. He said the
creek was “mighty swift.”
About 20 National Guardsmen
from Eastman continued the search
Monday, the sheriff said, and plans
are to keep looking for the missing
official at least several more days.
I The Butler School Lunchroom is
sponsoring a "Turkey and Dressing”
supper in the school cafeteria Fri
day night, March 31st at six o’clock.
[This is to make up,some of our re
cent loss so that we may continue
to maintain the quality of our lun
ches for the children of our school.
Many donations by the various
wholesale dealers have been made
and the lunchroom staff, headed by
Mrs. C. H. Moore, have volunteered
their services to prepare the food.
We will also provide some musi
cal entertainment at seven thirty
which will consist of our contest
ants for the Region literary meet,
which will be held April 8th at La-
Grange College.
Tickets will be sold by students
and we hope that each student will
be able to sell at least one ticket
per family.
Make your plans to eat with us
on Friday night. Tickets will be
priced at $1.25 and the menu will
consist of the following:
Turkey and Dressing
Giblet Gravey
String beans
Hot rolls and butter
Potato souffle
Strawberry Short Cake
Milk, Coffee, Tea
Talbot Co. Child
Killed, 7 Injured
In Auto Accident
FT. VALLEY—Final plans are be
ing completed for the annual spring
meeting of the Peace Officers Asso
ciation of Georgia which will be
held here on April 26.
A large number of State leaders,
headed up by Gov. Ernest Vandi
ver, are scheduled to appear at the
meeting and speak to the lawmen.
In addition to Vandiver, the day
long program includes addresses bjr
Peter Zack Geer, executive assistant
to the governor; Lt. Gov. Garland;
T. Byrd; Jack Minter, director of the 1
State Chamber of Commerce; Col.
W. P. Trotter, state director of pub
lic safety; Special Agent C. E.
Weeks, agent in charge of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation in At
lanta; and Macon Circuit Court So
licitor, William W. West.
Macon Police Chief L. B. McCal-
lum, president of the association,
will preside and Rev. Jimmy Wat
ers, pastor of the Mabel White Bap
tist Church in Macon, will serve as.
master of ceremonies.
Also slated to appear before the
j enforcement officers and their
j guests are Mayor Irving Rigdon of
iFt. Valley; E. S. Burke, past presi-
i dent of the Association; Cap. E. D.
|Mink, secretary treasurer of the
j group; William J. Wilson and J.
Fred Daniel of the association.
Following the day’s activities of
business and addresses the officers
will be guests of Ft. Valley and
Peach County at a barbecue supper.
A special program for the ladies,
including a luncheon and a talk by
Mrs. Garland T. Byrd, has been
planned by the Ft. Valley officials.
As a part of the morning portion
of the program the visitors wilt at
tend a devotional service at the’
First Methodist Church with the
pastor, Rev. Vernon Robertson, and
[ Dr. Homer Avera as speakers.
After the devotional program
they will attend a convocation at
Ft. Valley High School where they
will hear an address by Claude
Purcell, stale superintendent of
schools. Purcell will be introducedi
by Ernest Anderson, Peach School/
superintendent.
Committee chairmen and co-chair
men who are making preparations
for the affair include, Moyar Rigdon
program and arrangements; Clinton
Hutto and A. L. Hutto, food com
mittee; Officer Billy Tribble, proper
ty and equipment; Bennett Rigdon,
reception committee; N. W. Jordan
and Ft. Valley Folice Chief Grady
W. Cochran, local finances; and
Mrs. Ray Scofield and Mrs. C. B.
Almon, ladies’ arrangements com
mittee.
Seven Killed
In Traffic Accidents
Last Week End
A 2-year-old Talbotton girl was
killed Sunday afternoon iinan acci
dent that injured seven other per
sons.
The baby was Eula Mae Norris.
She and the .seven injured were all
passengers in a car of which the
driver lost control. The vehicle spun
off the Line Creek Road clear the
Haralson and Coweta County line.
Atlanta, Ga. — A pair of wrecks
eraly Sunday and a mptprcycle-car
collision later in the day boosted
Georgia’s week end traffic toll to
seven.
Eston Metts, 16, was killed short
ly after noon Sunday when the mo
torcycle he was riding swerved
into the path of an oncoming car,
the State Patrol said.
The patrol said Metts was hold
ing on to another motorcycle and'
lost control of his machine when 1
he turned loose. The crash occurred
near Lakeland. Metts was a resi
dent of Lakeland the patrol said.
The State Patrol said Eula Mor
ris, 2, of Alvaton, was killed Sun
day and seven other persons were
injured when a car ran off a road
near Haralson and overturned.
Also willed Sunday moaning wac
William Pike of Jesup. The patrol
said his speeding car failed to
make a curve and overturned northt
of Darien.
Two men from Alapaha were*
killed Saturday when their car
overturned north of Nashville. They
were Bobby Brumley, 27, the driver
Aulton Calley, 35.
Nora McKinnish, 75, of Holly-
Hill, Fla., was injured falatlly
when a car went out of control or*
a curve and overturned south of
Lyons.
Sara Johnson, 21, Tampa, Fla.,
was killed when a car tell into a-
creek after striking the side of a
bridge south of Cairo.