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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. I l 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.