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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA APRIL 6, 1961.
Rock Eagle Site For
Baptist Student
Spring Retreat
ATLANTA, April 1 — More than
500 Baptist students from the 50
colleges and universities in Georgia
are expected to attend the 1961
Baptist Student Union Spring Re
treat April 21-23 at Rock Eagle
State Park, Eatonton.
The retreat, an annual event in
Baptist student life, is designed to
provide inspirational sessions for
students as well as to provide me
thods training sessions.
The Baptist Student Union seeks
to keep students in colleges related
to their church life while away from
home, and to provide religious
training and environment at coll
ege.
Speakers for the retreat include
Dr. Searcy S. Garrison, Atlanta,
Georgia Baptist Convention execu
tive secretary-treasurer; the Rev.
James Smith, Southern Baptist Mis
sionary to Israel; Jay Durham, pro
motion secretary for the Southern
Baptist Convention Home Mission
Board, Atlanta; Maurice P. Willis,
Jr., Montgomery, Ala., secretary of
the Alabama Baptist Convention
department of student work; and
James C. Shelly Jr., Monte Vallo,
Ala., Alabama college student di
rector.
Registration begins Friday after
noon, the 21st, and the retreat con
tinues through noon Sunday. Rod
Nave, Atlanta, state president, and
Tech student, will preside over the
sessions.
Election of officers is scheduled
to be a feature of the retreat Sat
urday. Retreat director will be the
Rev. Aubrey L. Hawkins, Atlanta,
Georgia student secretary.
SPECTATORS DELIGHT—Speedy racing boats, powered by fast, “souped-up” engines will show
spectators plenty of action during the outboard classic, the North-South Championships, on April
15-16. The race will be held on 65-acre Robin Lake at Ida Cason Callaway Gardens, Pine Moun
tain, Ga. This is the first time the North-South race has been held in Georgia. —
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PAGE THREE
Thieves Successful In
Mich. Safe Robbery
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Thieves
stole an estimated $200,000 in raw
gold and jewelry from eight safes
at the H. R. Terryberry Co. Sunday.
Police said the intruders failed
in attempts to open three other saf
es but touched off a tear-gas trap
on one of them. Six more safes in
separate offices on the ground floor
and in the basement were untouch
ed.
A. P. Terryberry, president of the
firm which is a leader in the man
ufacture of school rings, pins and
specialized jewelry, said the theft
was partly covered by insurance. He
also said the large inventory of
gold—most of it in sheets—was on
hand for his firm's busy season.
The loot apparently included 300
pounds of gold, police said, but fi
nal figures wait an inventory.
Detective Louis Vandermeer be
lieved it the largest haul in Grand
Rapids criminal records. “We are
looking for a bunch of profession
als”, he added.
The only clue police reportedly
have was a green sport shirt— ]
smelling of tear gas—which was
found in an alley near the scene.
Apparently well planned and
swiftly executed, the break-ins was !
discovered at 3 a. m. by Richard j
Pennell, 48, an employe of the Sarl-
es Merchants’ Police & Inspection
Service, Inc.
The building has no burglary a-
larm system. Pennell discovered the
cylinder lock on the building’s front
door had been pulled out, then re
placed to conceal evidence the door
had been opened.
His duties require him to enter
the building every hour, according
to police. Pennell said his key fail
ed to work the lock about 3 a. m.
and he notified his office which in
structed him to ’skip the regular
check temporarily.
Chicken Barbecue
Supper Sat. Evening
Saturday, the swimming pool
commitete will sponsor a chicken
barbecue supper on the court house
lawn at 5:00 p. m.
Plates will be $1.25 each.
Come out and enjoy a good
meal and help your swimming pool
at the same time.
Education Vital
To Better Road
Safetv — Trotter
USDA Recommends
Watermelon, Sweet
Potato Acreages
Georgia growers have been ad-
ATLANTA—Predicting that by vised to plant the same acreage
1975 the number of motor vehicles c - watermelons as last year and to
in Georgia will be doubled (last 1 increase swe et potato acreage by
I year more than 1.5-million cars tra- i +• ,
,kt.;2 Bi t & Fr r
! for teal improvement in traffic sate- £* ,or ,rcsh a " d waM -
•'L * 1 Vu l bl°c g * 1<!dUCatl0,,0(lhedrlV 'l Go- Stowers planted
' 45,000 acres to melons and 11,000
| * ia l causes traffic accidents? acres to sweet potatoes, according
yar u }! lere so man y ? Ito the guides. Melon production
We believe that the answer can amounted to 3,825,000 hundred
th found in two words - human er- weight.
lor, the safety director said. “It i c. D. Spivey, horticulturist at the
has been proved repeatedly that ac- University of Ga. Cooperative Ex-
cidents (ion t just happen, but are tension Service, explained that the
caused ■ caused by mistakes of hu- USDA acreage-marketing guides
man beings at the wheel of the are designed to help growers plan
car; mistakes either in actual ope- their production so that the re-
ration of the vehicle or in the exer- suiting crops will be in balance
cise of good judgment. with market requirements. Compli-
' In addition to our regular pro- ance with the guides is voluntary,
gram of strict enforcement of traf- altho any USDA surplus removal
fie laws, we have initiated various assistance will be conditioned on
educational campaigns through per- compliance wd' 1 the "Hides
sonal contacts and the media of For the 11 early summer melon
radio, televisions and the press, try- states, Spivey said, the guides call
ing to acquaint the public with the for five per cent less planted acre-
importance of their recognizing age in Te'-as an-' ‘he same as last
their individual responsibility to- year for other states,
ward the promotion of safety. | With this acreage, at average
‘‘But we know that many thou- yields, the USDA estimates produc-
sands of people have not been tion would be about 18 million
reached, or, if they have, they have hundredweight this year, compared
not reached the point where they with 18 million last year,
will cooperate through improving: Guides for sweet potato acreage
their own traffic habits. cal lfor increasing the plantings by
“There is a dire need for dirver 10 P er cent in the 18 Principal pro
education in our high schools We du( ' in g states, except in Virginia
feel this education of our young w,lere ,he samo acrca K e a « last
people will be the ultimate means year ls recommended, he said,
of eliminating driver mistakes Acreage guides for other Georgia
which cause 95 per cent of all traf- ve K etal,le s and melons call for in
creasing the acreage of early sum-
j,mer cantaloupes by five per cent
land for planting the same acreage
as last year for summer lima beans
summer snap beans, cabbage and
early fall cucumbers.
• A detailed report on 1961 acre
age-marketing guides for summer
and fall vegetables for fresh mar-
ket, summer melons and sweet po
tatoes, AMG-18, may be obtained
CALHOUN, Ga.—A spectator was from the University of Ga. Coop-
killed and 10 persons injured Sun- erative Extension Service. x
Did you know Gasoline
isTaxed at a Rate
5 Times as High
as Diamonds?
IN GEORGIA, YOU PAY $ 12§ TAX
ON 10 GALLONS OF GASOLINE
Gasoline taxes will be lowered —
if the latest temporary
Federal gasoline tax increase
expires on June 30th as scheduled by
the 1959 Federal Highway Act.
Along with all good citizens, we are in favor of
building the roads that the motoring public needs.
But, in the last 10 years alone, Federal and State taxes
nationwide on gasoline have skyrocketed 51 % — sky
rocketed to a point where gasoline, a basic commodity,
is actually taxed at a rate five times as high as luxuries
like diamonds and mink coats.
Must gasoline taxes be so high? Most people believe
that gasoline taxes are high because the money is needed
to pay for our national highway program. This is not so.
The fact is that out of every highway-user tax dollar
collected last year by the Federal government, more than
40 cents was diverted to non-highway purposes.
If these highway-user tax revenues were spent for high
ways—as they should be—gasoline taxes could be lowered,
and the highway program given a boost.
In fact, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959 provides
that when the added temporary Federal gasoline tax ex
pires on June 30th, 1961, as scheduled, some $802 mil
lion a year in highway-user taxes—now diverted to the
U. S. Treasury’s general fund—will instead be deposited
in the Highway Trust Fund.
As a result, if the latest Federal temporary gasoline tax
increase expires on June 30th as scheduled—the national
highway program will actually get $225 million moie
each year than it now receives from the latest Federal
temporary gasoline tax increase.
In January of this year, after an exhaustive 2-year sur
vey of national transportation policy, a special U. S.
Senate study group confirmed the wisdom of this decision.
This will be good news for you. You will be able to
enjoy a steadily improving highway system, at a lower
gasoline tax-rate.
HERE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT
TODAY'S HIGH GASOLINE TAXES
• In Georgia, you pay $1.05 tax on 10 gallons
of gasoline.
• You pay 10.5g tax a gallon —4^ in Federal
taxes plus 6.5£ in State taxes.
• Gasoline is taxed at a rate 5 times as high as
diamonds.
• The average Georgia motor vehicle owner
pays $90 a year in gasoline taxes.
• Since 1951 there have been three increases
in the Federal gasoline tax alone.
• In the last 10 years, gasoline taxes nation
wide have skyrocketed 51%—yet the national-
average price of gasoline itself has risen only
5.5% during the same period.
The Gasoline You Buy IsTaxed Too High!
Presented in the public interest by the Gasoline Tax Education Committee, 575 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N. Y.
fic accidents.
Man Is Killed
As Drag Racer
Hits Crowd
C. T. KECKUM, Jr.
County Agent.
Pair Uses Ruse, Free
day when a car driven by a woman
went out of control during a drag
race and plunged inlo an Easier
crowd.
Sheriff Hughdon W. Davis said ... —, •
Deward Lee Duncan, 23, of Box 8, Ware County Prisoner
Chatsworth, was killed when the j
car swerved off the drag strip about SAVANNAH, Ga„ April 3 (API-
two miles north of this southwest Southeastern law enforcement offic-
Georgia city. ers we re alerted Monday morning
The sheriff said about 1,500 per- after two white men at gunpoint
sons were watching the weekly freed a prisoner from the Ware
drag race when a car'driven by County jail at Waycross.
Mrs. Virginia Quarles of Rome, Ga. I A ruse was used to gain entry
collided with three spectator cars and effect the freedom of the
and a group of people about 150 prisoner, Adrill Clisby Strickland,
yards from the start of the race. Bwhite, according to Charles W.
Mrs. Quarles and her husband Brown, special agent in charge of
Frank, who was in the car with the Savannah office of the Fedral
her, were both injured, the sheriff Bureau of Investigation,
said. He quoted her as saying the ( Ware County Sheriff Robert E. Led
car began to fishtail shortly after gave this account of the jail break,
the start of the race and she was About 2 o’clock two white men
never able to get it under control. appeared at the jail entrance. One
Banks Fuquea, 40, of Rte. 2, Cal- appearcntly was handcuffed. The
houn; Jay Stewart, 36, Rte. 3, Cal- 0,her was carrying a 30-30 rifle,
houn; Reba Terrell, 16, Rossville; Th e two guards on diily got the
Bobby Orr, 17, and Frank Dowin, 31, impression a prisoner was being
both of Ringgold; Kenneth Stewart, brought to jail.
23, Calhoun; Tommy Patterson, 21, Instead, when the jail door was
and C. W. Himphil, both of Chats- opened the gun was pointed at the
guards. The second man was not
handcuffed ai all. The prisoner,
Strickland, was brought out and
[went off with the two men in a
dark aii t opn , ' ,,n .
I Strickland, 32, was born in Atlanta
He was being held on a charge of
interstate transportation of a stolen
automobile. He was to have been
According to information received prosecuted in federal court by agents
in the County ASC Office the Sec- of the FBI.
retary of Agriculture has set the
national average support prices Lynette Harrell
for feed grams at the following
levels, W. H. Willis, Office Man- Named Southwest
ager of the Crawford ASC Com
mittee announced today.
Corn, $1.20 a bushel.
Barleyi: 90c a bushel.
Grain Sorghum: 1.93 per ewt.
Oats: 62 a bushel.
Rye: $1.02 a bushel.
worth were injured.
’61 Feed Grain Price
Support Announced
District Agent
| Miss Lynette Harrell, Blecgley
county H-D Agent, has been ap
pointed district H-D Agent for the
Southwest District of the Universi
ty of Ga. Cooperative Extension
'Service, effective April 1, Director
To be eligible for support on any W - A ' Sutton ann «unced this week,
of the feed grains from 1961 pro- Mlss Harrel ) ha « been Agent in
duction, corn and grain sorghum Bleck *ey County for the last nine
producers must reduce their acre-, years ‘
age at least 20 per cent from their 1 , As dlstrlct a * ent she will super
average acreage of 1959 and 1960. vlse tbe work of H D Agents in the
Payment in the form of negotiable count i es °f the Southwest Dis-
certificates redemable in grain or trI 5^: 8ut t° n said,
the cash equivalent will be made 1 M ,ss Harrell is a graduate of
to compensate farmers for partici
Rhine School and received her BS
pating in the program. The di- rteR ree ^ rom Berr y College in 1952.
verted acreage must not be har-, She ha 1 also done graduate work
vested or pastured, and must be! ln c j 0,l bi n S and textiles at the Unl-
diverted to a soil conserving use. | ve r si( y Ga.
„ . , , For the last four years she has
Corn and grain sorghum produc- served as vice president of the Ga.
ers who cooperate in the emer- H -D Agents’ Assn,
gency feed grain program will be | In Bleckley County she has or-
eligible for price support on their ganized two now H D Clubs and
normal production from the acre- worked with the home economics
age planted to these two crops and department of Middle Ga. College
for support on barley, oats and rye ln teaching special classes. She
a the announced levels. Producers bas a regular ra dio program and
of barley, oats and rye who do wr jt es a weekly column in the
not produce corn or grain sorghum Cochran Journal
be e lte ible for « u PP° rt on t he ir An outstanding phase of her
1961 produc ion of these crops. work has been the leader training
Producers of corn and grain sor- pr0 gram for H-D Clubs and 4-H
ghum who do not cooperate in the clubs Sutton said
j emergency feed grain program will, H er’parents live in Eastman and
not be eligible for support on any her siste r is assistant H-D Agent
I of the five feed grain crops. in Colquitt county