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VOLUME 85
The Butler Herald
■’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
JUNE 29, 1961.
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY,^GEORGIA, THURSDAY.
NUMBER 39.
Senate Votes Hike ! MiHedgeville Wins
In Social G . t0 E( I ui P
Pay For N Rehabilitation Site
Taylor County Road
Paving Contract
In June Letting
Men Could Retire At Age 62
On 80 Percent of Full Retire
ment Benefits
Washington, D. C. — The Sen
ate passed President Kennedy’s
Social Security bill Monday after
Democratic leaders had promised
to bring up a medical care for the
aged bill later this year.
The vote on the Social Security
bill was 90-0.
The bill would allow men to re
tire at 62, increase the minimum
monthly payment from $33 to $40 i
a month, increase widow’s benefits, j
and add 160,000 persons to the bene i
fit rolls.
Some Republicans- had proposed !
an amendment adding a medical j
care program for persons over 65. :
But they dropped this when Dem- j
ocratic leaders assured the Senate j
that it would consider such a bill
later this session—the first such
assurances.
This surprised some observers
who had predicted that the admin
istration would postpone until 1962
any campaign for a medical care
program tied to Social Security.
Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, D-N.M.,
chief sponsor of such a health care
plan under Social Security, an
nounced that the House Ways and
Means Committee now plans to
start hearings on such legislation
around July 15 and complete them
by July 31.
Anderson said it i# his strong
hope the Senate will deal with
this matter in the 1961 session.
The Social Security bill passed
by the Senate differed in some res
pects from the one passed earlier
by the House. The bill now goes
to a Senate-House conference com
mittee to iron the differences.
It is estimated that the bill would
give 4,420,00 people new or increas
ed Social Security benefits of $780
million during the first year of the
program. . ,, ,
The increased benefits would be
financed by a boost in the Social
Security payroll tax' of 1/8 of 1 per
cent on each employer and em
ploye and 3-16 of 1 per cent on
the self-employed. The tax would
go into effect next Jan. 1.
These are the key provisions of
the Senate bill which also were
in the House version:
The increase in the minimum
benefit to $40, which will mean
bigger monthly checks for about
2,175,009 people.
Extension to men of the 62 re
tirement privilege now allowed to
women. The limit for men now is
65. A man retiring at 62 would re
ceive for life 80 per cent of the
monthly benefit he would get at 65.
An increase in the widow’s bene
fit to 82 V 2 per cent of her husband’s
payment. It is now 75 per cent.
This would boost benefits to about
1,525,000 people.
A liberalization of the coverage
test so that a person could receive
Social Security benefits if he were
in covered employment for one out
of each four quarters since 1950
instead of one out of three as un
der present law.
First Cotton Bloom
Brought to This Office
The first cotton bloom of the
1961 crop in Taylor County was
brought to the Herald by Mr. E. B.
Swearingen of Reynolds Monday
morning.
Mr. Swearingen is one of the lar
gest cotton farmers in the county.
For the past several years he has
qualified as a member of the
State Bale and one-half per acre ,
Cotton Producer. , .
He states that the outlook for a \
good yield this year is available.
second cotton bloom brought
to the Herald Office this season
was presented Tuesday by Mr.
Raymond Johnson. He is cultivat
ing one of the Edwards Bros, farms
on the Red Level three miles south
of town.
Mr Johnson reports good pros-
nects for an abundant crop, not
withstanding unfavorable weather
conditions which have prevailed
during the spring season.
Food Processing Plant
Open 3 Days a Week
The Food Processing Plant in
Butler will be open Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays of each
week until further notice.
Atlanta, Ga. — Georgia got pre
liminary approval Monday of a fed
eral grant for equipping a voca
tional rehabilitation center at
Milledgeville State Hospital.
Dr. I. H. MacKinnon, Milledge
ville superintendent, said the fa
cility, to cost $500,000, will repre
sent the first comprehensive voca
tional rehabilitation program ever
undertaken by a state mental insti
tution.
The program, designed to assure
employment for mental patients
after their discharge, also will
emphasize occupational threapy.
Reeves Construction Co. Of
Americus Awarded Contract
For Local Paving Job
Dem. Committee
May Set Georgia
Primary June 6th
Lt. Gov. Byrd and Former Gov
ernor Griffin Almost Sure
Candidates for Governor
Dr. Venable, director of the State
Health department, said his depart
ment had applied for the federal
grant on a matching fund basis.
A. P. Jarrell, head of vocational
rehabilitation for the State Depart
ment of Education, said he will
send three more rehabilitation spe
cialists to the hospital July 1 in
anticipation of an expanded pro-
Igram at the hospital. Jarrell’s of-
June 23,—A total apparent low,
bid of $11,252,608.62 has been re
ceived by the Highway Department
on 28 new road contracts for work
in 27 Georgia counties, according
to Highway Board Chairman Jim
L. Gillis.
Mr. Gillis added that this letting,
the fifth for 1961, raises to $49,612,-
865.03 the amount of work let to
'contract during the year, exclusive
of that done under county contracts
or by state maintenance forces. The
June letting included two Inter
state, four Federal-aid Primary, one
Federal-aid Urban, ten Federal-aid
Secondary, and eleven State-aid
contracts.
One of the Interstate contracts
provides for grading, paving and
bridges along a 3-182-mile section
fe i.t**** ^ \ .7 . . , Driuges aiung a a
fice has two specialists working at ■ f Intersta t e Route 85 running west-
the institution with hospital per- ward from Lavonia in Franklin and
sonnel. Hart counties. An apparent low bid
of $1,728,134.14 was submitted on
Taylor County Loses
Two School Teachers
In Recent Weeks
, Mr. Harold Ragan, who has serv-
jed, for the past three years, as Ag
riculture teacher in the Butler
High School, resigned this posotion
last week.
Mr. Ragan has accepted a simi
lar position in the Dawson High
j School, Terrell county.
Mr. Ragan and his wife, Marjo
rie, have taken an active interest in
church and civic affairs as well as
in the school. Mr. Ragan has serv
ed on the board of-stewards of the
Butler Methodist Church for the
past two years and is the imme
diate past president of the Butler
Lions Club. Mrs. Ragan has served
! on the faculty of both Reynolds
! and Butler High Schools for several
terms.
Mr. W. H. Elliston, Taylor County
School Supt., advises The Herald
that no one has been appointed
to succeed Mr. Ragan at this time,
but that an agriculture teacher will
be employed for the county at an
early date.
MISS JANE HASTV
Miss Jane Hasty, Home Econom
ics Teacher in the Butler High
School for the past two years, has
also resigned her position here.
Miss Hasty has accepted a simi
lar position with the Peach County
High School in Ft. Valley. She, like
the Ragans, has taken an active in
terest in church and civic affairs
while in Butler. She is an active
worker in the Youth Department
of the Butler Baptist Church.
Mrs. Verna Griggs has been ap
pointed by the County Board of
Education to replace Miss Hasty as
Home Ec Teacher in the Butler
High School.
this work by Lothridge Bros., Gain
esville, Ballenger Paving Co.,
Greenville, S. C., Southeastern Hwy
Contr. Co., Gainesville, Ga. (Joint
bid.)
The other Interstate contract co
vers signing and traffic markings
along 37.362 miles of Interstate 75
in Cook and Lowndes counties, be
ginning at the Tift-Cook County
line. The apparent low bid on this
project was $103,013.04 submitted
by Southern States Decal and Sign
Company, Augusta, Georgia.
Chairman Gillis said that two
lettings were scheduled for July,
the regular letting on the 28th and
another on the 27th for opening of
the first bids under the Vandiver
administration’s $100 million dol
lar State Highway Authority bond
program.
Taylor County contract in the
June letting with the aparent low
bidder was:
4.608 miles of paving on the But-
ler-Ficklins Mill Road, beginning
at U. S. 19 approximately 3 miles
north of Butler and extending
northeast to Old Wire Road. Appa
rent low bid: $35,292.20, Reeves
Construction Co., Americus, Ga.
Atlanta, Ga. — After peering
deeply and intently into the crystal
ball, political observers have come
to the conclusion—at least for the
time being—that the 1962 Demo
cratic primary election will be set
for June 6th.
That would be three months ear
lier than primaries have been held
in repent years under a law which
fixed the big climax to Georgia’s
political show as the second Wed
nesday in September.
The 1961 Legislature repealed
that law, passing a new statue
giving the State Democratic Com
mittee the authority to fix the date
any time between June 1 and Sep.
15. Customarily the committee is
made up of friends and supporters
of the incumbent governor.
Gov. Vandiver, who is ineligible
to seek a second successive term
under the Constitution, hasn’t had
anything to say officially on the
date of the 1962 governor’s derby.
But sources close to the execu
tive are talking nothing but an
early June election. The same
smoke is being blown out by men
high in political organization of
Lt. Gov. Byrd, who will be one of
the contenders for governor. Only
other major candidate being talked
consistently is former Gov. Mar
vin Griffin.
Some politicians forecast with a
great show of eagerness that Van
diver will let Byrd, already backed
by those in high places in the Van
diver administration, pick the date
for the primary. The 120-member
State Committee probably will be
called into session in March.
Mr. A. C. Royeton
Reynolds Citizen
Dies Wed., June 21
Funeral Services Held Friday
Afternoon at The Reynolds
Methodist Church
DENNIS WAYNE BREWER
Dennis Brewer
Gets Appointment
To West Point
North Ga. Methodist
Conference Held In
Atlanta This Week
Rev. Bert Wheeler
Retained as Pastor
Church of Nazarene
Mrs. Verna Griggs
Local Reporter for
Daily Newspapers
Mrs. Verna Griggs of Butler is j
now reporter for the various daily '
newspapers coming into this sec
tion.
Persons having marriage an
nouncements, obtiuaries, sports or I
general news articles for publica
tion in any of the daily newspa
pers will please contact Mrs.
Griggs.
State’s Traffic Kills
5 During Weekend
Three persons lost their lives in
weekend traffic accidents in Geor
gia, two others died by gunshot
and another was an apparent
drowning victim.
George Page, 19, of Wrightsville,
was killed Sunday morning when
the car in which he was riding hit
Rev. Bert Wheeler, pastor of the
Butler Church of The Nazarene, re
signed his position as pastor of this
church several weeks ago. However, , — — — -
last Sunday, as result of a peti- l a tree on a Johnson County road,
tion signed by the members of his!eight miles north of Wrightsville,
church, Rev. Wheeler reconsidered J the State Patrol said,
and will remain as postor of the j Robert Lee Hall of Calhoun, was
Church of The Nazarene in Butler, killed Sunday in a headon collision
Rev. Wheeler’s many friends four miles north of Calhoun on
throughout the county are glad to U. S. 41 in Gordon County.
ATLANTA, GA.—Some 700 North
Georgia Methodist ministers and
laymen opened the annual confer
ence Monday afternoon at Atlanta’s
First Methodist Church,
The sessions began at 3 p. m.
with a service of Holy Communion
and a memorial service. At 8 p. m.,
the first business of the week be
gan with roll call. Bishop John
Owen Smith presided over the five
day conference.
Dr. J. Claude Evans, chaplain at
Southern Methodist University, Dal
las, Texas, was conference speak
er. His first sermon followed Mon
day night’s business session.
In the business transacted dur
ing the week was a report from the
conference’s committee on district
lines. Many Methodist in the north
Georgia conference feel that the
division lines should be changed
to keep pace with the shifting pop
ulation.
Plans for a home for the againg
was brought before the conference
for discussion, along with a propos
ed fund-raising campaign in 1962
that would raise $3 million for
church extension in the conference
and the home for the aged.
The reading of pastoral appoint
ments Friday at noon will close the
conference.
Mr. Dennis Wayne Brewer, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Brewer of
Washington, D. C., received an ap
pointment to West Point in June,
1961.
Dennis was born Dec. 4, 1942 in
St. Petersburg, Fla. He attended
schools in Virginia, Texas, Wash
ington, D. C., and Germany and
graduated from Oxon Hill High
School, Oxon Hill, Md„ in June of
last year. He enlisted in the Army
June 29, 1960 and took basic train
ing at Ft. Jackson, S. C. He ap
plied for and was accepted al the
U. S. Military Preparatory School
at Ft. Belvoir, Va., for the term be
ginning Sept. 1, 1960. His appoint
ment to West Point in June was de
termined by a series of competitive
examination. He wil report July 5.
Dennis is the son of Herschell E.
Brewer, Chief Warrant Officers,
stationed in the nation’s capital, a
grandson of the late Mr. Marvin
Brewer, former resident of Butler,
and a great grandson of the late J.
E. Brewer, who was Treasurer of
Taylor County for a number of
years.
Tornado Rips
Cochran, Spares
Girls at Party
Mr. Alton Curtis (Uncle Joe)
Royeton, retired merchant, died on
June 21st, 5:30 p. m. at the Plains
Convalescent Home. He had been
in ill health for about two years
and was known throughout the
county, having made his home in
Reynolds for the past quarter of a
century.
Mr. Royeton’s parents were Mr.
John A. and Mrs. Martha Keith
Royeton and the date of birth is
given as October 4, 1875 in Cow
eta county.
Funeral was conducted Friday
at the Reynolds Methodist church
with Rev. Virgil Culpepper, the pas
tor officiating. He was assisted by
Rev. J. R. Whiddon. The deceased
was a member of the Reynolds
; Methodist church and a Mason.
| Interment was in Hill Crest ceme-
itery.
| Pall bearers included members
of the Masonic Lodge. Pall bearers
I were members of the Men’s Bible
'Class of the Reynolds Methodist
| church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Gussie S. Royeton: one daughter
Miss Thelma Royeton, Toledo,
Ohio; one son, Jack Royeton,
Strugis, Mich.; one step-daughter,
|Mrs. Juanita Griffin, Americus;
and a number of grand children,
j Goddard Funeral Home of Rey
nolds was in charge of arrange
ments.
Cochran, Ga. — A tornado roared
thru Cochran Monday, destroyed
an unoccupied house, ripped the
roof off a feed mill and tore
down power lines and telephone
wires.
The twister jumped over the
home of Cochran Mayor Jimmy
Dykes where 16 young girls were
attending a birthday party for
Dyke’s daughter, Cathy 8.
They didn’t even know what
happened” Dykes said. “They
were out on the porch playing
bingo. And it started to rain so
they ran inside.”
After destroying the home of An
drew Churchwell, the winds cut a
path thru Dykes’ pecan orchard
and came within 300 feet of his
home.
The tornado leap-frogged Dykes
home and landed on top of the
Colonial Feed Co. about a quarter
of a mile away.
Dykes, part owner of the firm,
said the twister ripped the roof on
the feed company and caused be
tween $15,000 and $20,0000 worth of
damage.
learn that he will continue his work
j here.
|
i Sunmmer Session
Reynolds Hi School
The third traffic victim was iden
tified as 25-year-old Richard L.
Larkin, of Macon. The patrol said
Larkin’s car sideswiped another ve
hicle, veered off the road and hit
la utility pole just outside the Ma-
! con city limits Saturday.
j A 54-year-old Walton County far-
Mr. W. H. Sasser advises the i mer, J. W. Saxton, was fatally
Herald that summer school session ; wounded in the Walker-Park corn-
will be held at the Reynolds High munity near Monroe Friday night.
School. j Sheriff Doc Sorrels said Mrs. Mary
Registration for this session will jMaffett, mother of four, told him
be held on Saturday, July 8 from ; Saxton entered her home without
8 to 10 o’clock A. M. knocking and she shot him, think-
Classes under the direction of I ing he was a burglar.
Mr. Roy Lynn will begin on Mon- | In Savannah^ a young Negro was
Funeral Services For
Mrs. Whittington ■'
Held Tuesday P. M. 1
Mrs. Emma Eugene Cleveland
Whittington died Monday, 3:30 p.
m. at the Montgomery Hosp. The
cause of death was attributed to a
cerebral Hemmorage. The deceased
was the widow of the late Francis
Early Whittington,
Mrs. Whitington was born July
30, 1878 in Taylor County. Her
mother was Tamzie Braid. She had
made her residence in Byronville
approimately ten years.
Funeral service was held Tues
day, 3:00 p in. at the Edawrds Cha
pel Funeral Home in Butler with
Rev. E. H. Dunn, pastor of the
Mauk Baptist Church officiating.
Interment was in the family lot,
Mauk Cemetery. Mrs. Whittington
was a member of the Freewill Bap
tist, New Prospect Church.
Pallbearers included Sidney Rus-
tin, Hinton Woodall, Carl Turner,
Gersham 'Waller, V. G. Walls, L. R.
Pike.
Survivors include two daughters,
Mrs. G. A. Gentry of Byronville,
Ga., Mrs. C. B. Heath, Junction City;
two sons, E. L. Whittington, Co
lumbus, Ga.; Pershing Whittington
of Anniston, Ala.; and eleven
grandchildren. '
Edwards Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
day, July 17
Students can earn up to one and
one-half units.
Classes each day from 8 to 12
o’clock for 1 unit.
Classes each day from 1 to 3
o’clock for one-half unit. Cost of
session, $25.00 for 1 unit or $35.00
for one and one-half units. Plus
cost of work books necessary.
shot to death Friday night, by Mrs.
Lessie Bragg, 45-year-old housewife.
Mrs. Bragg told police she shot the
unidentified Negro when he tried to
raise the screen of her bedroom
window.
Jerry J. McRee, 60 of Valdosta,
died Saturday when he fell from a
boat while fishing in a farm pond
near Lakeland.
Infant Son of
Mr. and Mrs. Parks
Undergoes Surgery
Walter Thomas Parks, Jr., infant
son born June 17th at the Mont
gomery hospital to Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas T. Parks, underwent
surgery Sunday afternoon at the
Macon hospital.
Latest reports are that the in
fant is doing as well as could be
expected.
Local friends remember Mrs.
Parks as the former Miss Lou El
la Maddox, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. F. (Red) Maddox of this
city.
FFA & FHA Chicken
Barbecue Friday Court
House Square
There will be a chicken-n-que
Friday, June 30th on the Court
House Square in Butler. The time
is set for 5-7 P. M.
The public is invited to come out
and enjoy a fine supper plate at
$1.25.
Your patronage will indeed be
appreciated.
Favorite Melodv Group
To Appear At Mt.
Olive; Revival July 3
The Favorite Melody Quartet of
Macon will be at the Mt. Olive
Free Will Baptist Church, Potter-
ville, Ga., July 1 at 8:00 o’clock
P. M.
Three members of this quartet
are in rolling chairs. Two sisters
and a brother. It’s a blesing to any
one to hear them present a program
in song. The public is cordially in
vited to come and enjoy the even
ing with us. There is no admission
charge.
On July 3rd., our revival will be
gin with Rev. D. E. Bias, Jackson
ville, Fla., gospel preacher. Ser
vices each evening at 8 p. m.
The pastor and Church say come
receive a blesing. A welcome ex
tended to all.
REV. FRANK WILLIS,
Reynolds, Ga
Change of Date for
Commissioners Meet
The Taylor County Commis
sioners will meet next month on
July 5th since their usual meeting
dates falls on the Fourth (Indepen
dence Day) this year.
Funeral Services For [
Mr. Jim Johnson
Held at Americus
Funeral services for Mr. Jim
Johnson, 74 years of age, were held
at Americus Wednesday afternoon
at 4 o’clock. Burial was in the Ame
ricus Cemetery.
Mr. Johnson died suddenly of a
heart attack in his room at an
Americus hotel about 9 o’clock
Tuesday morning.
Mr. Johnson was a native of Tay
lor County, son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Johnson.
He had made his home in Ame
ricus for a number of years where
he was engaged in the Barber
business.
Survivors include two daughters,
Mrs. Hugh Lloyd of Americus and
Mrs. Willie Maud O’Connor of
Tampa, Fla. 2 grandsons, also one
sister, Mrs. C. F. Butler of Junction
City.
Cemetery Work Day
July 4th has been designated as
clean-up day at Bethel Primitive
Baptist cemetery two miles south
of town. All who have lots or
loved ones buried at this ceme
tery are requested to come out and
help with this work next Tues
day. i