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Local Woodmen ve -° f *
Camp Members
Will Attend Meet
Georgia Head Camp Convention
Of the WOW Will Be Held
Next Week In Columbus.
The Butler Herald
•’KEEPING EVERLASTIN GLY AT IT IS TH E SECRET OF SUCCESS”
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 11)61.
NUMBER 33.
s Workers Butler High School
Will Call on Citizens {Commencement Set
Friday Evening j For Tuesday, May 23
Messrs C. E. Willis
The Red Cross Fund Raising 1 Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday
workers will call on you tomorrow
—Friday—night.
Let me suggest that you support
your Red Cross fund drive. To
those living in this city, we would
Night 8 O’Clock Local School
Gymnasium by Rev. Griner
appreciate if you will leave your
~ front porch light burning, and
Griggs of Camp 1428 and Mrs. Wil- to those who are not
ba D. Tante of Court No. 1605 will
be delegates to the Ga. - Head
Camp Convention of Woodmen of
World Life Insurance Society Sun
day thru Tuesday of next week at
contacted:
We would appreciate your send
ing your contribution to Ed God
dard at Reynolds or Clifford
Adams at Butler.
„ , , „ , _ , , . , , The short while I acted as
Ralston Hotel Columbus, it is an- chairman of the Red Cross for
nounced by Mr. Alfonso McCrary
and Mrs. Mildred Peed, secretaries
of the local WOW Camp and WOW
Court.
More than 225 delegates and of
ficers representing 32,000 Ga. mem
bers will attend, according to H. D.
Salter, Thomaston, the head con
sul.
Speakers will include Woodmen
President J. R. Sims; W. H. Martin
national treasurer; and Miss Ern
estine Adams, director of women’s
activities, all of Omaha, Neb.; Na
tion Directors H. C. Fabian, Atlan
ta; and Richard W. Ervin, Talla
hassee, Fla., who is Florida’s at
torney general; Ga. Lt. Gov. Gar
land Byrd; Zack Cravey, state in
surance commissioner, and Colum
bus Mayor Ed Johnson.
Following a Sunday luncheon for
candidates of the men’s and wom
en’s “President Sims classes,’’ in
itiatory rites for each class will be
conducted by degree teams exem
plifying the Protection Degree for
the men and the Ceremony of i
I The Butler High School an
nounces calendar of events in con
nection with the 1961 Graduation
Exercises.
I The 1961 Class of 53 students is
one of the largest in the history
of the school.
< May 19, 8 p. m. Class Night.
n. , . T ,i May 21, 8 p. m. Baccalaureate
Taylor county I saw many good Serm " g £
noonc annnmnlictnnH • in tno moir , ’ r
May 23, Commencement, 8:30
deeds accomplished; in the way
of loved ones being contacted and
messages being relayed to many, ’
parts of the world thru the service j
of the Red Cross. May I urge you I
again to support this very worthy I
cause. |
Respectfully,
CLIFFORD ADAMS, Chm.
Western Section of County
2 Day Old Baby
Girl Abandoned
In Atlanta Sunday
Atlanta, Ga.—A baby girl, esti
mated to be about two days old,
was found sleeping in a cardboard
box early Sunday in hallway of
a southeast Atlanta apartment
house.
Doctors at Grady Hospital examin
ed the child and found her to be
in good condition.
Police officers found the infant
Presentation for the members of i a fter an unidentified woman called
Women of Woodcraft. Director Er- .police headquarters and told them
vin will address the classes. .the baby had been abandoned at
Dr. J. M. Branch of Tifton and J. ,1570 Memorial Dr., Southeast.
P. Blanchard, both past head con- i Radiod operator Ed Daniel imme- j
suls, will conduct a memorial serv- jdiately sent Patrolmen J. E. Tallent j
ice Sunday night in tribute to de- {and C. E. Shepherd to the apart- j
ceased Woodmen members. ment building to investigate.
Miss Adams will preside at a la- | Residents of the building told the |
dies breakfast Monday preceding {officers they did not know who the
the opening of business session. {baby was or how she got there.
Mayor Johnson will welcome the j She will be kept at Grady until
Wodmen to Columbus and Paul | sbe can be transferred to a state
Jones, Macon. W. O. W. State Man- institution, officials said. The child
ager of Middle Ga., will respond | wi ll be a ward of the Fulton Coun-
and present a bronze plaque May- |ty Juvenile Court.
ors Award to Mayor Johnson.
Another highlight of the pro
gram will be the presentation of a
Conservation award to James Gillis
head of the State Highway Board
by Mr. Blanchard and a major ad
dress by President Sims, who will
be introduced by Director Fabian.
President Sims will give his re
port on the Society’s activities and
progress Monday afternoon preced
ing a program at the Columbus
Orphans Home for the presentation
of a gift, followed by a tour
Tom Houston peanut plant.
The woman who telephoned the
police was probably the baby’s mo
ther, officiers said.
She did not tell the radio opera
tor why she abandoned the child.
Howard Ladies
Make Big Catch
As told to the Herald. Last Fri
day Mrs. Carl Brown and Miss Mary
of {Parks put aside their house work,
land nursing and went fishing.^ ) Honor Graduates
A musical program arrange by ,Mary hung a big one and called
CLASS ROLL
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
Gler.nis Harris
Brady Humber
Glenwood James
Carol Jinks
* Carolyn Joiner
Carol Kendrick
Alice Koring
* Deborah Lancaster
Ralph Lawhorn
Harry Lovvorn
* Bonnie Layfield
Ellen Locke
Evelyr 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
Reynolds Hi School Mr. Carl Harvard
Graduation Set
For Monday Night
To be Guest Speaker
Sunday at Howard
Basketball Game
Saturday Night
Will Close Season
Reynolds Baptist Church.
Intra-squad Games At
Local School Gymnasium Be
ginning- At 8 O’Clock.
Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday ! Mr. Carl Harvard, a layman from j Two
. ,, , i the Sherwood Methodist church in
Morning 11 O C lock at The Columbus will be speaker at J
i Howard Sunday. This service |
(scheduled for 11 a. m. is a con- j
itinuation of the lay- speaking.
... , . , Iprogram in which many Methodist
noun««flh» iin H gh SC i hO0 a ^ churches participated recently. The I D Tbe Butler Bears will end Spring
evenK in nonnii? 18 ^ 'Howard church asked that the .Basketball practice Saturday night
PrnHnatTn ^ -° n th he 1961 ' services be continued with one ™hen two intrasquad games, the
1 Miv 91 11 ii XCrtlSeS r i t speaker in April and one in May. * irst be ft'nning at 8 p. m. will pit
; . Ph T Mr - Harvard has served as the ,he black a £ ainst the gold.
M 99 8 n District Director of Lay-Speakers The girls game should prove to
ercises ’ 8 P- m - Gradua Hon Ex- and has been direct i y responsible be a close contest. Starting at
inci o • for the success of the recent pro- 'guard for the Black will be vet-
e class roll of 1961 Seniors | snp9 |,i nnr Trur-h mom. erans Dondra Peed. Marv Le<
consists of:
Actor Gary Cooper
Funeral Services
Tuesday in Calif.
gram of lay speaking. Each mem- ,erans Dondra Peed, Mary Lee
ber of the Howard church is cor- Oliver and freshman Lynn Taylor
dially invited to attend this serv- .while the forward posts will be
ice. 'anchord by veterans Ann Benns,
Also of interest to Methodists of Elaine Bryant and freshman Gail
the entire Howard charge is the Moore. The Gold will start vet-
Fourth Quarterly Conference com- erans Doris Peed, Sue Peed and
ing up a week from Sunday. This Linda Taylor at the guard positions
final business session of the year and Kay Dunn, Marilyn Spillers
will be at the Union Methodist and Brenda Gassett at forward,
church May 28th, 11 a. m. j When the boys take the floor,
starting for the Black will be Jerry
Aptrti- f.arv fanner lAllmonand Bill Gibson at guard
Steve Bazemore at center, and
i Dwight Harris and Thomas Gas-
sett at forwards. The Gold will
start Richie McCants and John
Childs at guard, Gary Gassett at
Beverly Hills, Calif. — Final center, and Hillery Bone and How-
rites of the Roman Catholic faith ard Locke at forward,
began Monday night for actor Gary Biggest surprises of the Spring
Cooper, 60, whose death from can- on the girls team have been Gail
cer brought tribute from the great Moore, Lynn Taylor and Doris
and humble all over the world. Peed. The first two girls have
The star’s widow, Rocky, and shown signs of giving the veterans
their daughter, Maria, 24, were in performers a battle for their jobs
seclusion prior to the saying of the next fall. Bolh are adept at either
Rosary Monday night at the mor- guard or forward and their addi-
tuary. Hon to the varsity should greatly
Solemn requiem mass were re- I strengthen I he team. Doris who has
The ASC office will begin meas- j cited at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the been selected to replaec Fredia
uring certain crops Monday, accord- ,Church of the Good Shepherd Mclnvale at the important pivot
ing to Roy Jones, County Office I where Cooper received his first guard post, has done remarkable
Manager. |communion after his conversion to {well at her new position.
Mr. Jones states that the acreage 'Catholocism in 1959. | Boys who have progressed be-
Nancy Virginia Archdeacon
Blanche Annis Brunson
Leila Belle Byrd
Lawrence Wyche Cook, Jr.
Sandra Mabelle Gentry
Harry Ellison Hicks
Lewis Clark Hortman
Betty Jane Johnson
Dorothy Lee Manning
Brenda Faye McDaniel
Gerald Dalton Mclnvale
Clopers Montgomery, Jr.
Trena Ann Nelson
Margaret Agnes Parr
Tommie Diane Powell
Evalyn Alice Reynolds
Henry Clinton Sams
Audrey Elizabeth Willis
James Dorsey Brown
Earnest Daniel Guined
Rodney Stephen Montgomery
ASC Office
Begins Measuring
Acreage Next Mon.
of allotted crops will be measured
and on farms having land in the
conservation reserve all of the land
Cooper died Saturday after a 4- yond expectations include veteran
month battle with cancer. Carey Gassett, rising sophomore
Six close friends, among them Hillery Bone, and Jerry Allmon.
planted to soil bank base crops {the most prominent in Hollywood, .Gassett, who will probably wheel
will be measured. The acreage served as pall bearers. jand deal on the pivot for the
planted to corn or grain sorghum I One of the two Oscars won by Bears next Fall, is sparkling in
will be measured on farms partici- {Cooper for the best acting was for I practice, particularly on defense,
pating in the feed grain program, {“High Noon’’ in which he played Bone who needs only more weight
as well as the acreage diverted a sheriff faced with the classic, and speed to become a starter, has
from corn and grain sorghum. inevitable showdown with the vil- made tremendous strides in his
Every effort will be made to! Ian. He also won an Oscar for Sgt. j defensive play. Allmon, who first
complete performance at the earli-|York’’ and nominations for other {came out for basketball this year
est possible date, according to Mr. roles including “Pride of the,is exhibiting the potential of a fine
Jones, and he asks that every farm .Yankees.” He played the late Lou'guard with excellent defensive
operator give all assistance possi- {Gehrig in the latter — a role work.
ble to the reporter in order that ac- {which found him playing the Yan- I Admission to the game which
{will be referred by officials
| from the Ft. Valley Association
will be 15c for students and 25c for
adults. A “B” game will begin at
6:45 p. m.
curate and complete measurements kee baseball star, faced with in
may be obtained.
.curable illness.
Five Million Bu.
Peach Crop Is
Forecast for 1961
M. J. Lee, J. D. Watkins and J. D
Brown of Woodmen Camp No. 3,
Columbus, will open the session
Monday evening. National Treas
urer Martin will speak and reports
will be received from head camp
officers, national delegates and
state managers Jones, Middle Ga.;
I. L. Knight, North Ga., of Gaines
ville and R. E. Cullom, South Ga.
of Albany.
Lt. Gov. Byrd will be the princi
pal speaker Tuesday. Officers and
delegates to the society’s national
convention in Los Angeles, will be
elected and installed.
Another highlight of the final
session «vill be the presentation of
awards in “Operation Scrapbook",
a contest between Ga. camps and
courts for the scrapbook that best
tell the story of their many fra
ternal, social and civic activities.
Dixon Olive of Talbotton.
Fish Fry at Reynolds
May 25: 7:00 P. M.
(Jury Finds
for help. One cranked while the
other pulled on the line and landed
the seven and one quarter pound | R. A. Griffin
bass. In a few minutes it happened j»»
again and this time it weighed ]lNot viUlltv
five and one half pounds. They put
them in the car for safe keeping
and soon it began to thunder. They
thought the rain would stop their
fishing but they finally found that
the thunder was the fishing jump
ing in the car. They quit for lunch istration.
Atlanta, Ga.—R. A. (Cheney) Grif
fin was acquitted Saturday after
noon of charges that he sold to the
state and profited from the sales
during the Marvin Griffin admin-
A fish fry for the public is
planned for Thursday, May 25th,
7 p. m. at the Reynolds Golf
Course and Swimming Pool. The
purpose of this affair is to pub
licize the opening event of the
Swimming Pool and to provide
an outing for families of this
section.
The Reynolds Kiwanis Club is
sponsoring this fish fry. Fresh
water fish donated by members of
the Club will be served. The fish
and hush puppies wil be cooked
by professionals and served hot.
All families in this section are
invited to come to this fish fry and
enjoy a good meal and good fel
lowship.
Serving will begin at 7 p. m.,
on May 25th.
and got on the march to show their
prize After lunch they purchased
thirty dollars worth of new fishing
gear and headed back for a really
big catch. They hung exactly ten
monsters. We wonder if there were
really ten fish or one fish biting
ten times.
The secret of the story is “In
What Pond did these Ladies Fish?”
Miss Maxwell Honored
By Wesleyan College
Macon, Ga. — Miss Sylvia Max
well, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
S. Maxwell, Rt. 2, Butler, has been
elected publicity chairman of Kap
pa Delta Epsilon, national pro
fessional educational sorority at
Wesleyan College.
Miss Maxwell is a member of
the Junior Class at Wesleyan.
Macon Police
! Arrest 4 Youths,
Seize Arsenal
| Macon, Ga. — Police arrested
ATHENS, Ga.—The Georgia Crop f our teen-age Macon youths Mon-
Reporting Service Saturday estima- day and broke up a burglary ring
ted the state’s 1961 peach harvest | responsible for the theft of 45
at five million bushels, tying last guns and 0( her articles the past
year’s as a record-breaker over the | three months.
last 10 years. ; chief of Detectives W. H. Bar-
The all-time record, set in 1928, geron identified two of the youths
Tommy Martin
Otustanding
At Mercer
was 10.4 million bushels.
The state’s 1961 wheat crops was
forecast about the same as last
year’s below-average level, slightly
above 2 million bushels. This fore
cast was one per cent below the
1950-59 overage.
The yield per acre, on the other
hand, was expected to equal the
all-time high of 23 bushels which
was set in 1958 and matched again
Boys of Woodcraft
Will Attend Camp
A Fulton Superior Court jury,
which applauded after it managed
to break its deadlock, returned the
the not guilty verdict after delibe
rating the case approximately 13
hours.
A hush fell over the courtroom
as the jury filed back in shortly
after 5 p. m. to return its findings.
Judge Jeptha C. Tanksley had in
structed spectators, most of whom
were Cheney’s friends to “be re
strained and remember it’s still a
courtroom” while the verdict was
read.
After Asst. Sol. Gen. Walter Le-
Craw had received the verdict from
foreman Frank A. Forrester of 5595 {average for April milks pounds.
Glenridge Drive, NE, it was read
to the court. The jury was thanked
for its labors and dismissed and the
five-day trial came to a close.
Cheney’s attorneys, William Hall We extend to our parents and
and Ellis Barrett, and his friends friends a cordial invitation to
congratulated him, shaking his j come and enjoy an hour of fun
hand and clapping him on his Monday night at the Butler School
back. Lunchroom where the 5Hi grade
Tommy Martin of Reynolds is
iprovipg to be an outstanding stu
dent at Mercer University. He was
electedas vice-president of the Stu
dent Government Association last
week in an election that proved the
name of “Tom” as being a winner.
At the same election four other
winning officers of various organi-
last year. The 1950-59 average yield
was 18.4 bushels per acre.
Egg production for April totaled
207 million, only four million be
low a record high set last March.
Egg production for April of last
year was 194 million.
Milk production for April was
estimated at 90 million pounds
Rep. E. L. Forrester
Will Speak Sunday
compared to 84 million pounds pro- * At Americus Airport
duced in April of 1960. The 1950-58 j
as David Walton and John Sut-
tles, both 17. He said the other
two were 16. Their names were
withheld under the Ga. juvenile
law. i
Bargeron said the four admitted '.zations are named ’Tom . Besides
30 burglaries, one attempted burg- It>eing president of his fraternity,
lary and one larceny of a car in .Kappa Sigma, Tommy recently
the Macon area. {coached his fraternity team to
The detective chief said investi- ichampionship in intra-mural bask-
gating officers recovered 45 guns Iett> a ll. This week he was tapped for
including rifles, shotguns and pis- {honorary membership in Blue Key
tols hidden in the homes of the {Fraternity along with 14 other un
youths as well as TV and radio Idergraduates in a special chapel
sets and hub caps. {ceremony. He *1 Presently coaching
{baseball at Bellevue Grammar
School in Macon. Tommy, a Junior
at Mercer, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Martin Sr.
Piano Recital
Look! Look! Look!
rites including N. E. Hallaby,
Mrs. Griffin, who had been rest- {will present “Those Jolly Final Washington, D. C., Federal Avia-
Americus Ga. — u. s. Rep e.l. , Thursday Evening
| Forrester of Leesburg will fly to j *
;Americus from Washington to I ~ .. ,
speak at the formal dedication ex-| Th e public is cordially invited
'ercises for the improved Southern j t0 attend the P lano recltal of the
Field Airport scheduled at 2 p. m. , Pupils of Mrs. C. E. Marshall on
Sunday .Thursday (this) evening at
A host of prominent officials ^8:30 o’clock,
will be present for the impressive ! Students who will appear in the
Boys of Woodcraft Club
J1428 will attend encampment
June 1st thru 7th at Middle Ga.
College.
The Woodcraft Boys will meet
on the afternon of May 25, 5:30 p.
m. at the local Masonic Hall. All
boys who plan to attend Camp are
urged to be present at this meet
ing.
ing at an Atlanta hotel during the Exams and Closing Program at
long deliberations, rushed to the Beanvill eSchool.”
No. i courthouse to join in the celehrat- ' Some of the characters: Teacher,
ion. She said she couldn’t recall Miss Cherry Blossom, Shirley Smith,
“going Ihrough anything like this Professor Smart, Steve Barrow. The
before.”
Cheney Griffin, brother and poli
tical strategist for his brother form
er Gov. Griffin, was charged with
conspiring with H. Candler Jones
to sell tractors to the state and
share in the profits.
pupils will entertain you with ans
wers to Prof. Smarts questions, re
citations, sonsg and definitions
such as economics, soil conserva-
tionalists and others. No admiss
ion.
Mrs. Lock’s Fifth Grade
tion Agency administrator; George
Garanflow, Ft. Worth, Tex., FAA
division engineer; Herbert Spen-
rccital include: Donald Keen, Jo
ann Peed, Charles Hart, Bucky
Reddish, Murray Walker, Helen
Rodgers, Lynda Barfield, Shirley
Rodgers, Joan Wisham, Jane Ter-
cer, Atlanta,FFA district engineer | rell, Doris Peed, Phil Walker, Glo-
and Jack Lynch, Atlanta FFA depu ria Cooper, Pat Clark, Alma Dora
ty district engineer. Barnett, Allen Smith, Sandra Al-
In addition other air officials britton, Janet Turk, Jimmy Minor,
and pilots from throughout Georgia .Dawn Pennington, Carolyn Joiner
have been invited to view the $100- {Betty Jo Hammack, Charlene
000 improvement program at I Hobbs, Dcnna Minor, Eugenia Hort
Souther Field financed by the city 1 man, Tippie Minor, Terry McCants
county and FAA. and Betty Ann Brewer.