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The Butler Herald ‘'KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SE^C RET OF SUCCESS” VOLUME 85 W. C. Edmondson Dies Wednesday Of Bullet Wound nent. of ATCtt'ves , ° General T= ix'FSim Suspected In Recent Fires At Smith’s Farm BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY^GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961. NUMBER 43. Tragedy Occurred at Marion County Public Works Camp, Buena Vista. Mr. W. C. Edmondson, well known Taylor County citizen, died of a pistol wound in the head about 4 o’clock Wednesday morning. Mr. Edmondson was employed as a guard at the Marion county Public Works Camp, Buena Vista. He was found dead in bed by an other guard at the Marion camp at 6 a. m. Doctors set the time of his death as 4 a. m. No one is reported to have heard the shot. A report of the coroner’s inquest was not available at the time of going to press with this issue of the Herald. Mr. Edmondson is survived by his wife of Butler and three sons Merrs Melton of College Park, Cla rence of U. S. Army, stationed in Texas and Jerry of Butler. Funeral arrangements will be handled by Edwards Funeral Home in Butler, however plans for the last rites are incomplete at this time. Expressway, Macon To Miami by 1964 Tallahassee, Fla. — The Turn pike Authority said Monday that it is determined to extend the Sun shine State Parkway to the vicinity of Wildwood even if the federal government refuses to shift the proposed route of Interstate high way 75 to meet it there. But turnpike chairman John Hammer said he fully expects the U.S. Bureau of Roads to agree to the relocation because it will “bet ter serve’’ Florida and the South east. He said the authority expects to be able to disclose within a week or 10 days definite plans for the 156-mile extension from Ft. Pierce to Wildwood, including a start on validation of bonds to build it, a date for sale of the bonds to build it, a date for sale of the bonds and a date for start of construc tion. Hammer and other authority members met with newsmen late in the day after a series of private conferences with Gov. Farris Bry ant from the press was barred. Mauk Revival Begins Next Sunday Night The Mauk Baptist church will begin its annual revival Sunday night. Rev. Jimmy Cook, pastor of the Morningside Boptist church, Co lumbus, will be the evangelist. There will be two services daily: 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. thru Friday night and eveiyone extend ed a cordial welcome to come wor ship with us. E. H. Dunn, Pastor. Mrs. Gray Windham Died at Thomson, Ga. Arson is suspected in the fire last week end that destroyed all the buildings on the James Smith farm eight miles north of town on the WesleyHoward highway. Dr Smith was first called to the farm about midnight Saturday when fire was discovered in a tur key house. This building was de stroyed along with all the contents which included feed, tractor and other equipment. About 5,000 turkeys had recently been moved to the range and were saved from the blaze. About two hours after returning home Dr. Smith was called back to the farm to another blaze. The main house, unoccupied only since Friday, was completely ablaze when help arrived. The house and nearby pump house were destroyed along with Mrs. Smith’s china, crystal and some furniture she had there while her house in town was being remodeled. The fire occurred only 10 days after the loss of a large bam and several hundred dollars worth of feed in another blaze supposedly started by lightning. This one, too, was discovered at night after every one had left the premises. Enroute to the scene of the fire several weeks ago, Dr. Smith wrecked his new pick-up truck. He was not injured in the acci dent but the truck was completely demolished. Butler MYF Sets Week of August 7-11 For Youth Revival Rev. Wm. Flournoy of Geneva, Will be Guest Preacher During Revival. The Butler Methodist Youth Fellowship has set the date for their Youth Activities Week for August 7-11. Speaker for the week will be Rev. William Flournoy, assistant pastor of the Geneva Charge. The order of worship from Mon day through Thursday of the re vival week will be: 7:30, Fellow ship; 8-00, Worship; 9-00, Refresh ments. On Friday the group will begin with a spaghetti dinner at 6:30 p. m. Worship hour will begin at 8 p. m. The young people are looking forward to having all of their group in this area to attend these services from evening to evening. Byrd Blasts Memo On Postal Outing Mr. Carl Harvard Named Lay Leader Columbus District l Laymen of the Methodist Church Assist Pastor in Carrying Out Program. Nominees for ASC Election to be Made By Farmers Petition Carl Harvard of Columbus was appointed Columbus Methodist Lay Leader at the recent South Ga. Methodist Conference in Co lumbus. He makes these appoint ments: M. D. Hughes of Sherwood Meth odist Men is the District Director of Lay Speaking. He and his com mittee will be in charge of the Lay 35 Persons Hurt In Train Accident j Near Macon Mon. The Nancy Hanks, Passenger Train Runs Headon with Freight Train. Macon, Ga. — At least 35 per- ing community committees in carei 50 / 15 we J’ e injured Monday night of the ASC County Office by Aug. | w ” e J 1 'he Central of Georgia’s It was announced this week by the Taylor County ASC Office that the slate of nominees will be se lected for this year’s ASC Commit- jtee elections by petition of voters. Farmers throughout the county wil be asked to furnish nominees by petition to the presently serv Highway Deaths Drop Sharply First 6 Months Atlanta, Ga. — Even in face of an increase of more than 110 mil lion miles of motorized travel on Ga. roads over a year ago, traffic deaths throughout the state de clined substantially duripg the first six months of 1961 compared to last year. This encouraging news is re vealed in the latest consolidated statistics of the Ga. Dept, of Pub lic Safety, just released by Col. W. P. Trotter, director. The 1961 six month score: 44 lives saved. Fatalities dropped from 475 to 431, a nine per cent decrease. z A breakdown of the total showed Lt. Gov. Byrd charged the Post Office Department’s acting region al director with “flagrant abuse of theauthority vested in him,” Mon day. Byrd denounced Acting Regional Director J. W. Askew for telling 1 his staff to stay away from a segregated outing of postal clerks. “The citizens of this state have a right to social freedom and this memorandum (by Askew) is an outright denial of that freedom,” Byrd asserted. “It is typical of the irresponsible attitude of numerous federal offi cials who seem intent on destroy ing our basic freedoms and our sovereignty as a . state.” Byrd said Askew issued a memo randum July 12 instructing offi cials and employes in the regional headquarters to stay away from a barbecue scheduled Tuesday at Grant Park by the Georgia branch of the Federation of Post Office Clerks. Askew’s memorandum said he was invited to the barbecue by J. B. Haney, president of the Georgia branch. As quoted by Byrd, Askew said in the memo that he checked with city officials and found that 4th. Petitions must be signed by 10 or more eligible voters. Commit teemen now serving may be in cluded. After all petitions have been received, the respective com munity committees will make such additional nominations as are , necessary to complete the slate, jficials commandeered private cars to transport other victims to Ma con from the wreck scene. The Macon hospital said the Nancy Hanks, collided head-on with a freight train on a "blind siding” near Ma con. Every available ambulance in Bibb county was called to the scene and later Civil Defense of- The community committees will meet in the County ASC Office on or before Aug. 10 for the purpose of completing the slate of nomi- Inumber of injured might total as nees. I many as 50. The county office will mail outl. hospital said the extent of ballots to all known eligible vot- in 3 u y ies ranged from very seri * ers on or before Aug. 15th. Com-]° uf ’ to , joint cuts and bruises, plete instructions will accompany A hospital spokesman said, how- the ballots furnishing information | ever - 'bat most of injuries appear- on how they should be marked and e,c * '° be minor, returned to the county office in I passenger cars left the track postage free envelopes by Aug. 25. but the engines careened off the trains hit. The engineer of the Hanks, G. B. Wheeler of of both trains rails when the Youth Activities Week to Begin Sunday at Geneva Sympathy is extended Mr. _C. Gray Windham of Thomson, for mer citizen of Butler, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Windham due to the sadness caused by the death of his wife last Saturday evening. Funeral was conducted at Thom son Monday afternoon. Mrs. Windham is survived by her husband, one son and a grand daughter. Taylor County Rabies Clinic Set for July 29 328 persons were killed in rural area accidents this year compared j Grant Park “does not permit in- with 376 last year, a drop of 48 |tegrated picnics at the pavilion or a 13 per cent decrease. Urban j where the affair is to be held.’’The area deaths totaled 103 against 99 memo added: a year ago, an increase of four, or four per cent. There were 12 few er pedestrians killed throughout the state, the comparative totals being 69 and 81, a 16 cent reduc tion. What makes this downward trend in Ga. traffic death toll even more newsworthy is the fact that 50,300 more motor vehicles travel ed 110,379,196 more miles over Ga. roads in the six months period of this yeear than in the same per iod last year. The comparative mileage totals 8.4 billion miles in 1961 and 8.3 billion in 1960 the re port shows. As result of this sharp fatality reduction in face of a record in crease in road travel, Georgia’s Washi t D c . _Th e H ouse death rate which is based on the pogt Q{f f ce ’ Committee all but CARL HARVARD A Taylor County Rabies Clinic is scheduled at the local court house July 29th from 10 to 11:20 a. m. and at Reynolds from 10:30 a. m. to 1 p. m.; south side of the street from Goddard’s Store. Date for each clinic is July 29. The cost for this service will be $1.50 for each dog. 59 Counties Eligible For Federal Aid Washington, D. C. — The Com merce Department announces the designation of 468 rural counties and 48 Indian reservations in 42 states as redevelopment areas eli gible for federal aid. Speaking program of the District. The Methodist Men plan to have every church in the District with at least one service each Sunday. Ralph George of the South Co lumbus Methodist church, is chair man of the every member visita tion. He and his committee will plan for this visitation in every church in the Columbus District. The Columbus District Methodist Men, under the leadership of Har vard, plan to organize the Metho dist men in every church and as sist all Methodist men clubs in every possible way. "We hope,” said Harvard, “to se cure a permanent camp ground site which will be as near central in the district as possible. If any one can help in finding such a place, please let me know.” “We expect to maintain it the year round as a camp and re- "I told Mr. Haney I would make i treat, so our Methodist men, our this inquiry before I could accept I MYF, our WSCS and Sunday his invitation. Schools may have a place for spir- “Based on the information now|itual retreats, camping, fishing and Nanc# Savan nah, was taken to Macon hospital with undetermined injuries. The engineer of the freight escaped in jury. He was identified as T. G. “Youth Seeks” will be the theme Madison of Savannah, of the Youth Activities Week July The Nancy Hanks was enroute 31 to August 4 sponsored by the from Atlanta to Savannah when Geneva Methodist “Larger Par- |the crash occurred at 8:50 p. m. ish.” Monday in a remote section of Activities will get under way .Jones county. The freight was ert- each evening at 7:30 o’clock at i route to Macon. Geneva Methodist church and will j Both trains were moving at a end at 9:30 p. m. Periods of dis-i “pretty good clip,” according to a cussion, worship, and recreation witness when they approached a will be included in the program “blind siding.” available the above affair is being held at a place where certain mem bers of the minority groups are not permitted to attend, and because of this it is my instructions that no official or emploe of this region al headquarters should accept an invitation or attend this affair which is scheduled July 25 at Grant Park.” Postal Rate Hike Shelved number of persons killed to each 100-million miles traveled, dropped from 5.7 to 5.1, an 11 per cent drop. Not only that, but the improve ment in Georgia’s over all traffic safety picture has been pretty consistent. For example, four of the six months recorded substan tial decreases while only two (Mar. and June) showed increases. N.Y. Firm Buys Montezuma Mill Montezuma, Ga. — Montezuma Knitting Mills Inc., will be pur chased by Flagg-Utica Corp., a New York-based textile firm. Officials of the two companies announced the move, stating that the Montezuma mills will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Flagg-Utica under the name Mon tezuma Knitting Corp. The com pany has been locally owned since its founding in 1922. R. C. Collier Jr., secretary- treasurer of the local firm, will be come president of the subsidiary corporation. His father, the founder of Montezuma Knitting Mills, will be chairman of the board of direc tors’ executive committee. Flagg-Utica operates three di visions at Florence, Ala., and one at Grantville, Ga. killed the postal rate hike Presi dent Kennedy was counting on to offset part of the defense spending deficit caused by the Berlin crisis. It was the second top-priority Kennedy proposal to be shelved this week. The House Rules Com mittee has pigeonholed his $2.5 billion public school aid bill and two related bills. The post office committee virtu ally ruled out any postal rate boost this year by voting 13 to 19 to postpone further consideration to Aug. 17. Supporters and oppo nents alike agreed that this meant the measure would be lost in the adjournment rush. Cordele Driver Charged with Murder Cordele, Ga. — A 27 year old Negro has been charged with mur der in the hit and run death of a West Cordele woman. Arthur Brown of Cordele was ar rested Monday and turned over to Crisp county officials. Bertha Lee Johnson, 48, of West Cordele died Sunday as a result of injuries received when she was hit by a car Saturday night. Three other persons, including two children remain with injuries from the accident. picnics. Assisting the District lay leader are Associate District lay leaders, viz: Bob Betts, Claude Mitchell, J. Q. Davidson, Roscoe Thompson, Hugh Landrum, Ralph George, E. L. Massey and Lonnie Hale. Presidents in the subdistricts are: Albert Sealy of Cuthbert, president of the Pautaula sub-dis trict Methodist Men; Felton Har- buck, Buena Vista of the star sub district; and Carl Harvard of Co lumbus and the Muscogee Sub- District. Mrs. Fitzsimmons Employed on Faculty Local High School Mrs. Sanford Fitzsimmons signed a contract with County School Superintendent Herman Elliston Monday, to occupy the vacancy in the Home Ec. Department of the local school caused by the resig nation of Miss Hasty. Mrs. Fitzsimmons has taught 12 years at the Butler high school prior to making her home in Co lumbia, S. C. where she taught in the City schools for one year. She later moved to Macon where she taught at Lanier High for boys for a period of four years. Numerous local friends are de light to have Mrs. Fitzsimmons as a member of the school faculty as well as a citizen of the com- muniay. Commissioners Meet Tuesday, August 8th each night. Rev. John Quillian, pastor of the Buena Vista Methodist church, will be guest speaker for the week. The topics each night will be: Monday: “Youth Seeks: To be Christian.” Tuesday: “Youth Seeks: A Solu tion to Personal and Social Prob lems.” Wednesday: Picnic and Galiliean Servicse. Thursday: “Youth Seeks: A Better Knowledge of God.” Friday: “Youth Seeks: To Know God’s Will for Life.” Both trains braked but were un* able to stop before colliding. An unidentified fireman on the Nancy Hanks jumped clear before the crash, but the engineer stayed with' the locomotive until the point of impact. Passengers in the long train were thrown helter-skelter about their cars. In some cars, every passenger suffered some injuries. The impact sheared part of the covering off one engine. Several freight cars were derailed and splintered. The Nancy Hanks has been op- The churches on the Geneva erating out of Atlanta for the past 15 years. It has derailed three times previously but all derail ments were considered “minor” a Central of Ga. official said. Georgia Gains 49 Industries, r Report Shows Atlanta, Ga. — Gov. Vandiver in a report double checked and guar anteed safe from political chal lenge, Monday said Ga. gained 49 new industries during the first six months of the year. State Commerce Department Di rector Jack Minter, who did the checking and guaranteeing, said Due to the fact that the first Tuesday in August falls on the 1st day of the month, the Board of Commissioners of Taylor County hospitalized have postponed their date of meeting to Aug. 8th. "Larger Parish” include: Bethel, Box Springs, Geneva, Junction City Juniper, Olive Branch and Pine Level. Rev. J. T. Pennell is pastor and Rev. J. T. Trice is associate pastor. All young people in the sur rounding area between ages of 12 and 21 are cordially invited to at tend. All State Banks To Be Checked Atlanta, Ga. The State Depart ment of Banking expects to com plete examination of all Georgia’s 312 chartered banks and 44 branches within the year, Supt. W. i the report showed a net gain of D. Trippe announces. 'two industries for the first quarter Trippe said this will mark the j after striking six entries that had first time in “10 or 15 years” that been challenged, all these banks have been examin- | Former Gov. Griffin, a candidate ed by the state. Lack of adequate for governor in in 1962, charged personnel to staff the department the original first quarter report of has prevented completion of the 27 new industries was padded and examination of all banks in the Sen. Carl Sanders, a candidate for past lieutenant governor, second the However the staff of departmen- . charge, tal examiners was recently in-1 Minter admitted the repore acci- creased from 12 examiners and dentally included some companies one credit union examiner to 20 ex- that had simply moved from one aminers and two for Credit un- location to another in the state but j ons promised he would discover enough The expansion was made pos- new entries to make up for them, sible by a 1960 legislative act to! Afther striking six disqualified increase examination fees. This in- entries, Minter found eight others creased the department’s appro- that had been overlooked in the priation to provide examiners sal- original first quarter report, boost- aries comparable to those paid by ing the first quarter number to 29. other state and federal agencies. Trippie, who was appointed by pj rg f Showing Oil Gov. Vandiver, said the additional 1 irsi , B ~~ funds “enabled us tp staff our de- | Communism Here partment with adequate help and j .-p C* ' * to operate on a current basis.” | 1 OlllOrrOW LVeiling Trippie also announced that his j department has completed the“best Every man, woman and child in consolidated statement” of the con- the entire community is invited to dition of Georgia’s banks that has I see the “First Showing on Com- ever been made. | munism” here at the school gym The consolidation shows total as- 1 Friday — tomorrow — 8 p. m. sets of all state chartered banks on I The showing last only an hour June 30, was $1,474,741,345, an in- or so and there is no admission crease of more than $86 million j charge. This showing is endorsed since last year. There were 312 by local churches, Legion Post and banks and 44 branches on June 30 Butler Lions Club, this year as compared to 313 banks Remember time and place: FrL- and 34 branches June 30 last year, day, 8 p. m. at the school gym. ±