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The Butler Herald
•’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
VOLUME 85
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1961.
NUMBER .12
Spaceman Shep" 0 ^».;h School
Gets Hero Welci C uj lv ^.i°iiienccment Set
State Hwy. Board
To Receive Bids
In Nation’s Capital
President Kennedy
Medal of Honor to
First Spaceman.
Presents
Nation’s
For Tuesday, May 231 On 42 Projects
Washington, D. C. — America’s
first spaceman harvested a hero’s 1
reward in this unashamedly wor
shipping capital Monday.
His wife who has seen him sel
dom in recent weeks, kissed him.
His president, J. F. Kennedy,
clasped him by the hand and pin
ned a medal on him.
A quarter of a million Americans
lined the streets to cheer and cry
as he rode from the White House
to the Capitol. On Capitol Hill
members of Congress paid him
tribute.
In the state department auditori
um 500 reporters rose an dgave him
an ovation a thing reporters sel
dom do.
But Cmdr. A. B. Shepard Jr., pilot
of the spaceship “Freedom 7” re
fused to accept at all for himself.
To the President, to the Congress,
to the reporters he said it was not
he but "we” who did the thing
they were praising him for.
“I am acutely aware” he said,
“of the hundreds of individuals
who made this flight possible.”
It was true of course, that Shep
ard of East Derry, N.H., was not
alone responsible for last Friday’s
“perfect space flight” from Cape
Canaveral, Fla.
But as R. R. Gilruth, director of j
the Mercury man in space project, |
said, it was Shepard “who really I
broke the ice for all of us” and
showed America the way into the j
great new frontier of space. |
So it was to Shepard that Presi
dent Kennedy gave the Distin
guished Service Medal of the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration, NASA’s highest
award. And it was to Shepard that
this capital city gave its heart
Monday.
Friday morning, Shepard rode a
rocket boosted Mercury capsule on
a 15 minute trip which carried him
115 miles above the Atlantic Ocean
and 302 miles down the Atlantic
missile range.
If vou believe Shepard, it was
strictly a "no sweat” operation.
Everything had been planned out
to the last detail. There was a
moment of "apprehension” — a
four syllable word for fear — be
fore liftoff, but everything worked
fine, and there were no bad mo
ments during the flight.
Flying with him were the other
six Mercury astronauts. At An
drews Air Force Base in nearby
Maryland, where they landed,
Shepard was last off the plane.
At the foot of the ramp, waiting
to meet him was his wife, Louise,
his parents of East Derry; his sis
ter of North Attleboro, Mass., and
his wife’s faher and mother of
Kennett Square, Pa.
The citation read by the Presi
dent said Shepard’s “flight as the
first U.S. astronaut was an out
standing contribution to the ad
vancement of human knowledge
and space technology and a dem
onstration of man’s capabilities in
suborbital space flights.”
Beef Cattle Field Day
Set for Next Tuesday
at Experiment Station
Experiment, Ga. — A beef cattle
field day to bring Georgia beef
cattle growers up to date on the
latest developments in beef cattle
production is announced for next
Tuesday at the Experiment Station.
The meeting of the Ga. Cattle
men’s Association is staged in con
junction with the field day. The
program will begin at 9:30 a. m.
following registration at 9:15 a.m.
The cattlemen’s meeting will open
at 2:30 p.m. folowing a tour of the
station’s beef cattle farm.
Revival in Progress
At Revival Center
The Butler High School an
nounces calendar of events in con
nection with the 1961 Graduation
Exercises.
The 1961 Class of 53 students is
one of the largest in the history
of the school.
May 14th Guests of Nazarene
Church.
May 19, 8 p. m. Class Night.
May 21, 8 p
Sermon, 8 p. m.
May 23, Commencement,
p. m.
CLASS ROLL
Bids on Road Construction
Work to be Received by
Board on Friday, May 19th.
Recent Tornadoes ! Lt. Gov. Byrd Raps
President Kennedy’s
Latest School Plan
Funeral Services
Friday Afternoon
For Mrs. Leila Foy
That Sweep Across Nation.
Olin Albritton
Milton Albritton
Roscoe Albritton
* Ellen Allen
* Lynda Barfield
Clifford Barfield
Mabry Barrow
Jerolene Blackston
Johnsolene Blackston
Jo Ann Brewer
Bernice Brown
Freddie Brown
* Jesse Carroll
Bob Cochran
* Pat Cooper
Jimmy Cosey
Marshall Dean
Harvey Duncan
Peggy Fincher
Rannie Gaultney
Betty Jean Gee
Billy Gray
Lessie Harbuck
Sandy Harris
Glennis Harris
Brady Humber
Glenwood James
Carol Jinks
* Carolyn Joiner
Carol Kendrick
Alice Koring
* Deborah Lancaster
Ralph Lawhorn
Harry Lovvorn
* Bonnie Layfield
Ellen Locke
Evelyn Montgomery
Frieda Mclnvale
Ralph Mclnvale
* Wilhelmina Neisler
Frank Oliver
Betty Ann Peed
Wynelle Posey
* Elaine Posey
Bernard Prince
Nancy Shelton
Cleve Spillers
Allan Spillers
Douglas Turner
Shirley Wainwright
Evelyn Wainwright
Frances Wainwright
Hershel Whitley
(*) Honor Graduates
| Atlanta, Ga. — Highway Board
I Chairman Jim Gillis has an
nounced that bids totaling an es-
m. Baccalaureate [timated $12,600,000 wil be received
! by the State Highway Department
8:30 on 42 new road construction pro
jects in 40 Georgia counties on
May 19.
The coming letting will include
four Interstate, one Federal-aid
Primary, two Federal-aid Urban,
five Federal-Aid Secondary and 30
state-aid contracts, Chairman Gil
lis said.
The largest single contract will
cover paving on 10.794 miles of
Interstate Route 75 in Crisp
County, beginning at the Turner
county line and extending north to
the intersection with State Route
In Western States
Kill 12 Persons
Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois! Atlanta, Ga. — Official Georgia Mrs.
„ , , , didn’t like President Kennedy’s i
Hardest Hit by Tornadoes proposed legislation to speed j
school desegregation and said so I
forcefully Monday.
Gov. Vandiver ran afoul of fog
Atlanta, Ga., May 8—Tornadoes 1 in a Hight back from the Kentucky
swooped out of thunderstorms from Derby at Louisville and was'f r i ends W ere deeply saddened at
Texas to Kentucky Sunday, leaving | grounded at Knoxville much of the,f be passing of Mrs. Leila McCants
a trail of broken bodies and touch- t da y- But others took up the cud- iFoy. Her death in Atlanta on the
ing off disastrous flash floods. j gels speedily. evening of May 3rd was attributed
At least 12 persons died in Arkan- i Th * Kennedy administration pro- to the infirimaties of age.
sas, Missouri, and Illinois. Two died I Mrs. Foy was the widow of the
in Oklahoma from injuries received
in an earlier twister.
Funnel clouds chewed a path
from Stamford, Tex., to Madison-
ville, Ky., injuring at least 36 per
sons. At least 80 families were g^bmitting program,” Lt^Go'v. couaty - .
routed from homes in Kansas and Byrd sa j d am hopeful it won’t Though Mrs. Foy was the eldest
Illioeiis by floods. ; b * enacted. ! of flve children - she was the last
A 15-foot wall of water churned j He said ' enforcement of such to P ass awa y a * the a 8 e of 86 -
through Harrison, Ark., killing five jaws would create chaotic condi- I In keeping with her wishes her
and leaving most of the 5,500 resi-: ticffls in the South. 'body was brought back to her
dents homeless. At one time water \ « As far as j am concerned,” Byrd dearly loved home. The funeral
covered the tops of buildings in ladled, “I will not now or ever lend was af Butler Methodist church
myself to carrying out the pro- 1 Friday afternoon with the follow-
visions of the proposed legisla ing ministers taking part: Rev. J.
tjon. 'M. Guest, Atlanta; Rev. Thos.
House Speaker Geo. L. Smith ex-;Dens, Thomaston; Rev. Ted Griner,
Foy’s Death Occurred in
Atlanta Last Wednesday
After Lingering Illness.
Taylor county relatives and
submit a desegregation plan to the j Co , c w F who preced ed
secretary of Health, Education and,. , n death about 10 ago .
We fare within six months She wag the daughter of K B . Mc-
hope the members of Congress- Cants and Mrs Allce Gardner Me
will a least exercise better judg-; Cant ioneer citizens of the
ment than the President has in
the main business section. Proper
ty loss was estimated in millions
90 east of Cordele. The grading
and bridges on this project were'of dollars.
let in February of last year. , National guardsmen patrolled the
Other Interstate work in the j streets of Harrison, Ark., and Pine- ,p ressed violent opposition to all, Butler.
May letting consists of: |vine, Mo. phases of the Kennedy civil rights; Soloist, Mrs. Sullins of Atlanta,
ville, Mo.
The erection of directional and Two drowned
informational signs and stripe
painting on Interstate Route 20 in
DeKalb County, beginning 1300
feet west of Candler road and ex
tending easterly 10.57 miles to U.
S. 278 near Lithonia.
7.639 miles of paving on Inter
state 75 in Dooly and Houston
counties between a point 7.7 miles
couth of the Dooly-Houston county
line and extending northward to a
point 200 north of the Dooly-Hous-
ton line.
The construction of grade sepa
ration structures at Ashby Street,
Lee Street, McDaniel Street, Winsor
Street and Whitehall Street on In
terstate Route 20 in Southwest At
lanta.
County contracts of local inter
est include:
Marion County: 12.219 miles of
grading and paving as follows:
5.285 miles on the Tazewell to
Five Points Road, beginning at
Tazewell and extending west and
north to Five Points school; 5.288
miles on the Bob Jernigan-L. G.
McMichael Road, beginning at
in Missouri and
, program.
, r ._ 0 was accompanied by Mts. Jim Gib-
a woman was killed in a Cairo, 111., „j d on't believe the people of son of Butler.
traffic crash during a heavy down- Georgia will agree with forced in- . Pal j boarers nenhews of the de-
pour A woman was killed at Mid- jtergrltion and that is what this is” ^dudcd?EdXd, i^aVd,
i<„.„ nt I be said- Franklin and Asbury McCants,
vJivnL P Irt h State Sch001 Supt PUrce11 f a , W Hugh and C. J. Peterman.
Yellville, Ark. Ithe legislation as a threat to fed- | ,
Tornadoes also raked Chetopah, era] aid to education, feeling that “er bo ? y was tender,y laid
Leavenworth and Columbus, Kan.; WO uld alienate Southern mem- rest amidst a profusion of flowers,
Dexter and Willow Spring^, Mo.] , L^otc^n^onthatl^ Iattended by her many loved ones
Midway, Oil Trough and Clark Rid- i Purce ii said t he desegregation wh o„“had gone the last mile of the
ge, Ark.; and Kansas City and J le g is i ation would mean the aban- way Wlth her '
Moorman, Ky. Idonment of the principle of state 1 The remains now rest in the old
Funnel cloud sightings were re- and j oca i control of education. |Camp Ground cemetery (Union)
ported from the southern Plains ,.j bope a u 0 f our members of where her ancestors for more than
through the mid-Mississippi Valley. | Congress V ote against it,” he add-
Oklahoma was under a severe i ed
Secretary Frank Hughes of the
Ga. Education Assn, was another
who saw the new program as en
weather alert for the fifth conse
cutive day.
The storm center churned clouds
of dust ahead of winds up to 53 mil
es an hour from New Mexico throu
gh west Texas. Snow fell in the
southern Rockies. Severe hail was era j a j d „ be sa j d .
reported from the southwest to the
Tennessee Valley.
It was the third straight day of
injury and death-causing funnel j iroi A
clouds in the midlands. Oklahoma | Is State r BLA
storms Friday night killed 15, in
jured 56 and left 250 families home
a century have been buried.
Survivors include: children, Miss
Viola Fay, Mrs. W. R. Phillips, At
lanta; Ernest W. Foy, Thomaston;
grand children, Mrs. Jack M. Or-
Fort Valley College
Sets Military Day
... ening and resurfacing on U.S. 80
Ft. Valley, Ga. — The fifth an- , in xalbotton, beginning at the
nual military science field day at |At]antic Coast Line Railroad Un-
Ft. Valley State College will t ake i d erpass and ending at the city
place Friday. , limit.
The Warner Robins Air Force Talbot c . 3124 miles of
Base will send a helicopter and a and in d
a $i million electronic equipment |* ridge g on the Tazewell-Geneva
shop. Ft. Benning will send thr ee lRoad beg i n ning at State Route
ar ™ y ° ff ’ cers ' ... . i96 in Geneva and extending south-
The 165 man ROTC uhi.at the, the Marion County line,
college will conduct sq d and ^ ioc aed on BlacR CreeR
platoon drill competition in the af
ternoon. Sarah Rebecca Frink of "
Statesboro, military qlieen and her „ « o* .
lady in waiting, Evelyn Jordan of|DrOtHer, olStCr
State Route 41 in Buena Vista and less. Five were hurt late Saturday I
extending Southwest; 1.646 miles night when tornado-force winds I
on State Route 103 — State Route J ripped northeast Indiana. |
26 Road, beginning at State Route |
26 northeast of the Chattahoochee
county line and extending north
east on State Route 103.
Marion County: 2.514 miles of
gradig and paving city streets in
Buena Vista.
Ed Goddard Receives
Honored Appointment
[dangering chances of federal aid tojmond of Thomaston; W. W. Phil-
' education being approved. I lips, Swainsboro; Miss Janie Phil-
“I’m afraid it will hurt our fed- |lips of Atlanta; seven great grand
children and a large number of
nieces and nephews. All of these
descendants “rise up and call her
blessed.”
Edwards Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
—Written by a Friend.
Three Georgians Killed
In Hwy. Accidents
Over Week End
Fred Brown
'Speaking Champ
The Georgia State Chamber of
Talbot County: .664 miles of wid-j Commerce announces that Edward
’ ! — M. Goddard has been appointed a
member of the Industrial Develop
ment Council.
The Industrial Development
A revival is in progress every
night through the remainder of
the month of May at the Taber
nacle Back to the Cross Revival
Center, three miles north of Fattier.
The Evangelist is Rev. Lewis Kelly
and Rev. R. E. Barnette is pas
tor.
Athens wil be presented in the af
ternoon.
Manchester To Get
Third More People
MANCHESTER, Ga., May 5—
Manchester will be twice as large
in area and a third larger in pop
ulation Jan. 1.
Won Honor Places
At Literary Meet
At the State FBLA Convention at
IRock Eagle on May 5-6, Fred
Brown of Butler FBLA Chapter 1206
won first place trophy in the pub
lic speaking contest. He will rep
resent Georgia in this event at the
National Convention in Washing
ton, D. C., June 11-13.
Others attending the state con
vention at Rock Eagle were:
Wilhelmina Neisler: President
and Miss FBLA .
Lynda Barfield: Secreatry.
John Childs: Treasurer.
FBLA.
Alice Koring represented the
Chapter in Spelling and won sec
ond place.
Ellen Allen: Exhibit, 3rd place.
Betty Gee: Exhibit.
Mrs. B. H. Neisler and Mrs.
Edyth Guy, sponsor, accompanied
the group to the Convention.
Miss Angharad Carmichael and
Jimmy Carmichael, daughter and
son of Rev. and Mrs. James M. I bring industry to This county are
Council of the Georgia State Cham
ber of Commerce is an organization
composed of 100 business, industrial
and professional leaders in the
state with the objective of supply
ing experienced management and
leadership in developing Georgia
industrially and economically.
Mr. Goddard, a Reynolds mer
chant, has long been prominent in
business, civil and religious activi
ties in the county. He is County |
Red Cross chairman, superintendent j
of the Reynolds Methodist Church ;
Sunday School and served as the|wi* i pv .i
first president of the Reynolds Ki- DlgnWay DeatnS
wanis Club.
The leaders in this county who
have been working diligently to
Atlanta, Ga., May 8—A pedistrian
and a boy on a bicycle were killed
on Georgia highways this weekend
and another Georgian died in an
out-of-state tragedy.
James McAdams, 62, Rte. 2, Buch
anan, was killed Saturday night
seven miles noth of Tallapoosa on
Jimmy Cosey: Reporter and Mr. State 100 when he was struck by a
car.
Wayne McKinney Baskett, 13, of
Scottdale, was riding his bicycle
was riding his
on U. S. 29 about two miles north
of Decatur, Thursday night, when
he was struck by an auto. He died
a few hours later at a hospital.
B. T. Asbome, Albany, was killed
Saturday south of Greenville, Fla.,
when a truck ran off a highway.
Downward Trend
Continues in Georgia
Carmichael, former Butler citizens I p i eas ed that the Chamber of Com
now residing at Richland, won imerce bas a ppointed a Taylor
top honors recently at the State j County citizen to this council.
Reynolds P. T. A.
To Install Officers
The Reynolds P.T.A. will install
new officers at the final meeting
of the school year.
This will be a covered dish sup
per on May 15th at 7:30 p. m.
Near Waycross Sunday
Waycross, Ga. — A Waycross
man and two of his young daugh
ters drowned Sunday when their
12 foot boat containing seven
members of the family overtunned
in Brantley County between Ho
boken and Blackshear.
P. E. Griffin, 51 year old carpen-
AU parents, teachers and friends |ter, and daughters, Norma, 11, and
of the school are invited to attend. Bernice, 9, were the victims.
Mrs. Ruffin’s Pupils
An extension of the city limits'Literary solo competition at Mercer,
was approved in a referendum'Angharad won first place in the #
Wednesday by an almost two to Ig^s’ voice solo. Jimmy won second Recitals May 15 for
one vote—614 for, 322 against. The j Place in boys’ solo voice and also
annexation will be effective Jan. 1. jin piano.
Some extension of water, sewage | Butler is proud of these two
and natural gas lines will be neces- talented young people and extends
sary to serve the annexed areas, .congratulations to them and their
which are on all sides of the pre- j splendid family,
sent city boundaries. ‘
With the new territory Manchest- o d pv
er will have a population of slight- !«5 rerSOIlS Drown
ly more than 6,000.
i Spanish War Vets
I Meet in Annual Session
jin Fitzgerald, Ga.
Atlanta, Ga. — Traffic deaths in
Geaorgia continue to show a down | Fitzgerald, Ga. — The Depart-
ward trend. ment of Ga. of the United Spanish
Three of the first four months of i War Veterans and Auxiliary is
this year, including April, showed |meeting in annual convention this
a substantial decrease in the num- |week in Fitzgerald with headquar-
ber of fatalities compared with ajters at the Lee-Grant Hotel,
year ago, according to Ihe latest j Soldiers who fought 63 years ago
consolidated statistics compiled by'are reminiscing on their experi-
the Ga. Department of Public Safe- j cnees and enjoying being together
ty, just released by Col. W. P., once more, tho many familiar faces
Trotter, director. are misisng.
Accident victims during the first)
four months of the year totaled
Next Monday evening at 8:00
, , , , 'lour mom ns 01 me jeui loiaicu ¥ - . r-* 1 r\ •
odockin the high school cafeteria j265 compared with 320 last year, Heart Fund Drive
Mrs. Ruffin’s pupils from the Ele- decr ease of 55 deaths, or 17 per'
mentary School will be presented (he records show .
in a Recital.
Then on Tuesday evening 8:00
o’clock students of the High
School will be presented .
The public is cordially invited to
attend each of these Recitals.
Death Notice
Mr. Cook Named as
Cattle Assn. Member
'In Tavlor County
Goes Over the Top
Two hundred and eleven Hereford
Breders over the nation recently
named to membership in tho
American membership in
American Hereford Association dur-
Mr. Walter W. Mitchell, Sr. of'ing; March. The additions to tho
Musella, died May 4th. Funeral official roster boosted the Associa-
rites occurred Saturday at Rober- tion’s total membership to an all-
ta. ‘ timehigh of 39,413.
Mr. C. H. Adams, chairman of
the Taylor County Heart Fund
drive reports that the county has
gone over its quota in the recent
campaign.
Mr. Adams and hi*» co-chairmon
tho wish to thank the citizens of Taylor
County for their contributions and
assistance in helping to make this
drive a success.
Taylor County quota $841.00. Tay
lor County contributed $862.0-1.