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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA,, APL1L 20, 1961.
PAGE THREE
Local
Happenings
Mrs. Ella Foy Richards visited in
Atlanta recently.
Mrs. D. M. Harris spent last week
end with Mrs. T. B. Green.
Mr. Ralph Underwood is in Atlan
ta this week on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fountain spent
Monday and Tuesday of this week
in Albany.
Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Whitehead
of Macon spent Sunday with Mrs.
Irene Peed.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Harris of Tho-
maston visited Mr. and Mrs. D. M.
Harris, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Newberry of
Lizella, were guests of Mrs. A. L.
Waters, Sunday.
Mrs. M. E. Everette, Mrs. Bob
Frierson, Macon, visited Butler
friends Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Turner of
Columbus were Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hobbs of Vero
Beach, Fla., are visiting with Mrs.
Warren Childs for several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Borom of
Charleston, S. C. were the weekend
guests of Dr. and Mrs. Eli Garrett.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Thrasher of
West Blocton, Ala., are spending
this week with Mrs. H. B. Thrasher.
Mr. and Mrs. Noea Lee Lumpkin,
Thomaston, visited friends and re
latives Sunday in Lebanon Com
munity.
Mr. H. H. Gee was stricken ill
Monday A. M. His condition Wed.
A. M. was reported to be somewhat
improved.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. McGee of Bir
mingham are expected this week to
be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter Suggs.
Mrs. Florence Gordy spent seve
ral days last week in Talbotton,
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John
Andy Smith.
Mrs. J. R. Pound of Swainsboro
spent last week in Butler guest
of her sisters, Mrs. H. E. Allen and
Mrs. T. A. Robbins.
Mesdames Sara Poole, J. E. Poole
and Martin Chapman visited with
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Powell at Warner
Robins, Sunday afternoon.
Rev. Ted Griner is spending this
week at Richland, Georgia where
he is assisting Rev. Roy Adams in
a series of Revival Services.
Mrs. B. H. Bazemore, Mr. Harol
Bazemore and Pat Clark spent Sun
day in Albany, the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Griffin and daughter,
Terry.
Mrs. John Pennington underwent
surgery at the Medical Center, Co
lumbus, Tuesday A. M. She’s ex
pected to be hospitalized all this
week.
Miss Sylvia Maxwell, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Maxwell,
Butler, has been named to mem
bership in the Wesleyan College
Chapter of Kappa Delta Epsilon
national education honorary society.
Miss Maxwell is a member of the
sophomore class at Wesleyan.
Mrs. H. G. Cheek, Mrs. E. D. Me-
Corvey, Mrs. Mosley Childres and
Mrs. H. E. Allen attended the Dis
trict Conference of the W.S.C.S. in
Columbus Tuesday.
Mrs. L. R. Dean broke her right
arm Tuesday in a fall in the back
yard of the Dean Hotel. She was
treated at the local hospital. Friends
of Mrs. Dean hope for her a speedy
recovery.
Mrs. J. C. Griggs was accom
panied to Jacksonville, Fla., recent
ly by her cousins, Mesdames Arch
Windham, of Atlanta; R. L. Peugh,
i Thomaston and Cecil Carroway,
IWaycross. The group reported a
[very enjoyable trip.
I i
jMickey Northcutt
(Circle Met with
Mrs. E. H. Dunn
The Mickey Northcutt Circle met
in the home of Mrs. E. H. Dunn
Monday evening with 12 members
and two visitors. Visitors were Mrs.
Cadet Harden and Miss Ellen
Locke.
Mrs. Robert Griggs presided over
the Circle. The program was
brought by Mrs. P. B. Childs which
was most interesting and informa
tive.
The meeting closed with a musi
cal program with Miss Ellen Locke
as soloist, accompanied by Mrs.
Robert Griggs at the piano.
The hostesses, Mrs. Jimmy Smith
and Mrs. E. H. Dunn served the
group a salad plate with iced tea
and coffee.
Mr. Williams To Show
Film & Speak To On
So. Woodlands ....
Andrew Carnegie
Was Renowned
Donor to Library
Andrew Carnegie’s first gift to
his home town, Dunfermline, Scot
land was a public bath. His second
gift was a public library. Don't ask
us which comes first, the bath or
the book, but the free public library
is now as important a part of
America as the bathtub.
America, in over 300 years, has
produced two great educational!
ideas: The use of public money for
universal education and the use of
public money for free librarries.
The first of these “revolutionary"
ideas — that it was the duty of the
States to give, at public expense,
education to every boy and girl —
made headway slowly, but it did
dominate even the Colonial Era in
New England. Thomas Jefferson
'considered it essential to the sur
vival of Democracy. The second
[ “revolutionary” idea — the diver
sion of popular funds for free li-
,braries — is much newer, being
[only around 60 years old, but it has
I grown well in its few years.
This week is National Library
Week, and it is good for us to
consider the value of our local li
brary to our community. Sixty
years ago the free public library
did not exist; today we cannot
conceive of an enlightened com
munity without one.
The theme for 1951 Library Week
is “For a Richer, Fuller Life —
READ!" We can think of no better
salute to National Library Week
than for every one of us to go to
our library and check out a book
we have been wanting to read for
a long time — and read it.
Bond Vote Set
For May 16th
At Thomaston
Everyone Urged
To Join in Observance
Of Library Week
Davis to Head
Miller Schools
l All ladies have a chance to at-
[tend a special program on South-
jern Pulpwood Conservation in the
| Taylor County Courthouse on April
125 at 3:00 p. m. The meeting will
j last approximately 30 minutes with
[slides and discussion on the im-
iportance and care of our woods
[and the role pulp and paper plays
i in our home.
1 Everyone who has an interest in
this is encouraged to attend.
Mr. Tante Qualifies
For Free Trip to Camp
Mr. Thos. E. Tante of this city,
local field representative of Wood
men of the World Life Insurance
Society, qualified for an all-ex
pense trip to the Ga. Head Camp
Convention May 21-23 in the Ral
ston Hotel, Columbus.
He qualified for the trip by ex
ceeding the goal of membership
applications written in a Head
Camp campaign that ended Jan.
31.
Birth Announcements
Lt. and Mrs. J. J. McCarthy of
Ausburg, Germany, announce the
birth of a fine daughter on April
17th. Mrs. McCarthy will be re
membered as the former Connie
Wainwright, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Wainwright.
THOMASTON—May 16 has been
set for the $250,000 bond election
to establish the Upson Area Voca
tional School.
County commissioners set the
date and called for the bond elec
tion which, if passed, will provide
local matching funds for a $400,000
ouilding to house the school and
funds for acquiring a site.
County Commissioner J. E. Presley
has pointed out that all of the
$250,000 will not be used unless it
is needed but that the figure was
set in event a maximum amount
is required. The state has already
appropriated $200,000 as its share
of the school building project.
In the meantime, the first meet
ing of the newly created Upson
Area Vocational School has been
heid and within the past few days
the city and county officials, in
separate meetings, have agreed on
a joint contract for establishing and
operating the school.
Know Your School
Citizens of this county cannot af
ford to Ignore their libraries this
week. April 16-22 are the dates for
National Library Week. The pur
pose of this nationwide observance
is to encourage the support and use
of libraries of all kinds.
Here in Taylor County we have
several good libraries all with dif
ferent purpose. Besides these, per
sonal libraries are found in many
homes. These libraries are full of
a variety of books, magazines,
pamphlets, records, films, etc. for
all ages.
Georgians cannot afford to do
without the fun, facts, aid, know
how, and ideas to be found in
these libraries.Reading can achieve
a richer, fuller life for all. Some
j people dread to enter a library’s
door, but they should remember
that there is a librarian or library
assistant on duty to assist them.
That librarian is just as willing to
help someone as people are eager
to be waited on.
Local citizens cannot afford to
neglect their libraries, either. In
dividuals have contributed to these
libraries — through gifts, sub
scriptions, or taxes. It is up to the
public to see that their money is
well spent. Anyone dissatisfied
with a library’s service or collec
tion should see that the proper
governing authority — school
board, city council, county com
missioner, library board — hears
your constructive criticism. Any li
brary should be alloted enough
funds and enough personnel to op-
[erate on a business-like basis. Oth
erwise somebody’s contribution of
1 time, money, or efforts may be go-
' ing to waste. And if public mon-
ley is being used for the libraries,
[can the public afford to waste it?
Use your library, support your
library, READ because you can't
afford not to do so.
Colquitt, Ga. — An agriculture
teacher, Harry L. Davis, was elected
school sueprintendent of Miller
County Saturday in an orderly spe
cial election during a driving rain.
1 Davis, about 40, and described
as a political novice, defeated Fe-
lixl. Bush, an elementary school
principal and chairman of the Mil
ler County Democratic Executive
Committee.
Ordinary C. A. Williams said
Davis received 1118 votes and Bush
402. He said there were 3,080 names
on the voting list and described it
as a pretty good turnout consider
ing the bad weather.
I The special election was held to
name a successor to G. P. Callan
who died March 18. The ordinary
said 1 he expected the unofficial re
turns would be certified about the
middle of next week,
i Williams said the special elec
tion "went off without any trou
ble and that everything was very
peaceful.”
i The ordinary reported earlier in
the week there was a lot of feeling
about the special election. He said
he recently took out a permit to
carry a pistol and was determined
to have an orderly election.
Supporters of both candidates
were harassed by annonymous tele
phone calls in recent weeks, he
said adding that he received sev
eral such calls himself.
! “I started being bothered by an
onymous calls as soon as I called
the election,” he said.
, Some local citizens charged
earlier the voters’ registration list
contained names of persons ineligi
ble to vote.
Bones Found at Blast
Believed to be Human
Gray, Ga. — The Macon Tele
graph learned' recently from an au
thoritative source that fragments
of bone and tissue found at the
scene of a rock quarry explosion
are reported to be human.
However, .Tones County Sheriff
Hawkins said later in the day that
he has not received any conclus
ive report on fragments.
The sheriff indicated he might
know something definite Friday.
Since the fires and explosions at
Weston-Brooker Co. quarry, which
authorities; say were intentional
last month, probers have been in
vestigating whether a missing
quarry worker was blown to bits
in one of the blasts or hurriedly
left town.
He is Robert Seabrooks, 23 year
old Negro of Gray, missing since
about four hours before the first of
five explosions rocked the area
around the quarry.
Probers had sent to the State
Crime Lab in Atlanta slithers of
bone and small particles of tissue
to try to determine whether they
were human o r animal.
The Items came from*an area
near where the quarry magazine
with about 8,000 pounds of dyna
mite blew up.
Sheriff Hawkins and GBI Agents
James Carnes of Eatonton and Ar
thur Hutchins of Atlanta have
conducted an intensive investiga
tion into the case.
Hawkins has offered $300 in re
wards in connection with the case
$100 for information leading to the
conviction of the person or persons
guilty of setting the fires and ex
plosions.
i “Miss Sumter”
Title Sought by
Ten Beauties
Americus, Ga. — Ten contestants
are entered in the 9th annual “Miss 1
Sumter County” beauty pageant
scheduled for the Martin Theater
at 8 p. m. Friday.
Those competing in the annual
Americus Jaycees’ affairs include
ten of Sumter most beautiful la-
died who are students at Americus
High School or Ga. Southwestern
College.
Preceding the pageant the sec
ond annual Little Miss Sumter
County Beauty Pageant is also
scheduled. Participants include first
graders from the city and county
school systems.
Thursday afternoon a special
downtown parade was scheduled
with contestants in both divisions
riding atop convertibles.
(This column is sponsored by
the Butler Student Council and the
Future Business Leaders of
America.)
Registration sheets for 1961-62
first graders have been passed out
to students with younger brothers
or sisters. Any who has a child
that has not been registered, please
notify the school office.
CARD OF THANKS
Bank Money Orders
Hit The Mark...'
L
Send them swiftly and safely, I
through the mail, to any spot you ’
choose. Bank Money Order rates
are low. You can buy them here
in any desired amounts. j
THE CITIZENS STATE BANKS
BUTLER, GEORGIA REYNOLDS, GEORGIA
(Members Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Wednesday, the students were
given the opportunity to see the
Senior Play presented to the pub
lic last Friday night. It was very
well received.
There will be an FFA Banquet at
the school cafetorium Friday night.
The Dance Recital date has been
changed to May 9th instead of
,May 5th.
i Frances Wainwright will go to
Macon for the state shorthand fin-
jalsthis week end. She won first
^ place in the Region.
Mauk H. D. Club
Met April 11th
I Mauk Home Demonstration Club
met at the Community Buildingon
April 11th. Mrs. Gerson Waller, vice
president, called the meeting to or
der. The devotional was given by
Mrs. Amy Gill. The roll was called
wdth 12 members present. Minutes
of last meeting read and the treas
urers’ report was given by Mrs. L.
R. Pike, Secretary-Treasurer. Dona
tions collected from members for
the Crippled Children's Drive. Old
and new business was discussed.
The members decided begin an
other attendance contest between
the Blues and the Golds. A work
day was set for May 3rd, 1:00 p.m.
Miss Wicker gave an interesting
demonstration on covering lamp
shades. Also Miss Wicker met with
six local 4-H girls for their session
at 4 p. m.
Refreshments were served by the
hostesses, Mrs. Amy Gill and Mrs.
E. H. Morrison.
—Reporter.
According to TV, a kitchen is not
o nowadays, but a food
preparation center. Also, a baek-
( >0..u tias changed into an outdoor
living and recreation center.
Messrs W. H. Vanlandingham,
treasurer and H. C. Bond, chair
man of the Easter Seal campaign
for this county wish to express ap
preciation for the excellent re
sponse from the people of the coun
ty in contributing to this worthy
cause.
They report that $354.00 was
contributed this year and they
wish especially to thank the
schools for their concerted efforts
during the drive.
CARD OF THANKS
DEAN THEATRE
Butler, Georgia
MONDAY & TUESDAY, April 24-25
(Show Time: 8-00 P. M.)
“THE MARRIAGE GO-ROUND”
SUSAN HAYWARD
(The Spouse
JAMES MASON
(The Louse)
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, April 26-27
“BUTTERFIELD 8”
The most desirable woman in town and the easiest to
find .... just call BUTTERFIELD 8
ELIZABETH TAYLOR — LAURENCE HARVEY
EDDIE FISHER
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, April 28-29
“WHERE THE BOYS ARE”
(Metrocolor)
DOLORES HART - GEORGE HAMILTON - YVETTE
MIMEUX - JIM HUNTTON - BARBARA NICHOLS
PAULA PRENTISS
We extend our sincere apprecia
tion for all assistance and expres
sions of sympathy shown us during
the recent illness and passing of
our dear mather, Mrs. T. J. Spillers.
May God bless each of you.
The Family of
Mrs. T. J. Spillers
CARD OF THANKS
Please accept my sincere thanks
to all of you who were so kind
and thoughtful of me while I was a
patient at the Montgomery hos
pital.
Your cards, flowers and visits
j meant more than I can express in
words.
* I want to say “thanks” to both
[the doctors and all the nurses for
the kindness shown me.
May God's richest blessings be
with each of you is my prayer.
BOBBY BARROW.
Special Notice to All
Garden Club Members
The Butler Garden Club will
meet April 13th at the Communi
ty House at 2:30 p. m. The ladies
will go from there to Ft. Valley to
attend the Flower Show and tour
of homes sponsored by the Feder
ated Garden Clubs of Ft. Valley.
The admission is 50c per person.
Refreshments will be served in the
Murray home.
Cars will be pooled. Everyone is
invited, especially Club members.
—Pub. Chm.
waiting
my daddy
to call
long
distance”
The hidden excitement that
people feel when receiving a
long distance call, is always
apparent with small fry.
They seem to bubble over
when the call comes through.
Everyone appreciates being
remembered. And one of the
nicest ways of remembering
is with a long distance
telephone call. /
Long distance telephone
service is economical, too.
Especially if you call after
6 p.m. or on Sunday when low
rates are even lower.
Public Service
Telephone Company