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The Butler Herald
‘’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
VOLUME 85
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY,, GEORGIA^THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1961.
NUMBER 45.
Russians Orbit 2nd
Man into 24-Hour
Flight in Space
Revival Services
At Antioch Church
To Begin Aug. 20
Spaceman Eats
While Making 17 Ti v G e
(Earth.
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>• 0 t G* -crvices will begin at
0 '-‘i Baptist church on August
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Moscow, Russia. — The Soviet
Union’s second astronaut was rock
eted into space around the earth
W evS zUth.
Rev. Worth Huckaby, pastor of
Valley Grove Baptist Church,
Thomaston will bring the Gospel
messages twice daily: 11 a. m. and
8 p. m.
If you heard Bro. Huckaby last
summer you will want to hear him
Mr. J. Clyde Mott
Died Thursday Nite
After Long Illness
Funeral Services Conducted
Friday Afternoon at Mount
Pisgah Church.
Sunday and continued his flight, in If have not heard M
Monday after lunch, supper and a | u shoul ^ be the flrst that makes
nights sleep aboard his space plans to attend these serv ices.
c a ’ ' The public is cordially invited to
He had been scheduled to land at attend
2 a. m. Monday (Atlanta time) af- j
ter 24 hours aloft and 17 trips I
around the earth.
E. H. Dunn, Pastor.
The spaceman, Maj. Gherman S. (Boys and Girls
Titov, 26, and the father of two
who calls himself “the Eagle’’ said
goodnight by radio to his friends
at 6:30 p.m. Moscow time Sunday
9.5 hours after blast-off time and
said he was settling down to sleep
thru the night.
Moscow radio said he awoke at
2 a. m. Monday — 6 p. m. Atlan
ta time) Sunday — after 7.5 hours
of sleep and that his craft was
Participate in 4-H
Projects at Americus
July 15th, five boys and seven
girls with leaders and agents
left Butler for a day of competition
in Americus with approximately
200 other 4-H’ers.
All boys and girls represented
.. , , their county well. Terry McCants
th nT.t SPm around jand Merita Barrow were nominat-
T,./,,,, ‘ . , . . ed for officers. Janice Peed was a
™ ovs “ Urs f him , acr ? ss first place winner with her laven-
every continent of the globe in- L . jt . . . ,
eluding the U.S. where his craft , , wmte cneck dress and
solld etching jacket with petal
was seen at Charleston and his
voice heard “clear as a bell” at
Pittsburgh.
Butler Completes
Low Cost Modern
Sewerage System
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
By raising water bills $1 a month
it has been possible for this city
to complete and put into operation
a sewerage system capable of
'handling any new industry that
might come to the thriving Middle
Georgia city.
This is another improvement
planned to entice industries into
the area to employ more of the
population at home. At present,
many of the residents are forced to
commute towns such as Warner
Robins, Thomaston, Ft. Valley and
others for employment.
Plans for the sewerage system
were laid in 1957 when the late Dr
Lewis Beason headed the city gov
eminent. The present Mayor, A1
fonso McCrary, was mayor pro
tern and two of the present coun
cilmen, Wanza Hortman and Jas
T. Smith helped with the planning
A bond issue was passed by a
good majority and approximately
$180,000 was borrowed.
Work was begun in the fall of
1958 by the J. B. McCrary Co. of
Atlanta. To save money, the town
bought the materials and paid for
the labor and did not give a con
tract for the job. Six months later
in the summer of 1959, the first
houses were connected to the line.
With the amount of the bond
issue it was impossible to give the
entire town service at this time.
About two-thirds of the
hat of self material.
Those attending were: Martha
Clark, Cathy Guinn, Linda Jarrell,
Elaine Clark, Janice Peed, Joy Mc
Crary, Merita Barrow, Frank Riley
Jr., Bucky Reddish, Gordon Shehee
and Richard Allen.
Most-Wanted
Criminal Captured
Funeral services for J. Clyde
Mott, 70, were conducted in the Mt
Pisgah Baptist church with Rev.
E. H. Dunn officiating. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
Mr. Mott died Thursday night in
Forsyth.
A son of the late Everett Mott
and Doxie Cox Mott, he was mar
ried to the former Iva Bartlett
who preceded her husband in
death a number of year ago. He
was a lifetime resident of this
county and a member of Bethel
Primitive Baptist church.
Survivors include one daughter,
Mrs. Avie Nell Manley of Mobile,
Ala.; two sons, Ralph Mott of Fort
Valley and Clinton Mott of Thom
Farmers to Vote on
ASC Committeemen
August 15th to 25th
Bailots Will be Mailed to All
Eligible Voters; Five Persons
Will be Elected.
15 Georgians Die
In Traffic Accidents
During Week-End
Voting time for ASC Committee
men to serve during the coming
year is nearing and will be in
progress during the period of Aug.
15- to Aug. 25, Mr. Roy Jones of
the local County ASC Office states.
Ballots will be mailed to all eligi
ble voters on record, on or before
Aug. 15. Voters will be informed
to vote for five persons from the
list of nominees who were selected
by former petitions and present
community committees and placed
on the ballots.
The person found to receive the
most votes will be elected com
munity committee chairman and
delegate to the county convention,
Mr. Jones said. The person receiv-
aston; one sister, Mrs. J. J. Bone of ing the second highest number of
Butler; and four grand children
Governor Proclaims
Week of August 20
Civil Defense Week
Gov. Vandiver has proclaimed
the week of August 20 as Ga.
Civil Defense Week.
Special activities designed to
votes will be both Vice-Chairman
of the Community Committee and
alternate delegate to the county
Week end traffic claimed the
lives of 15 Georgians, including a
Meigs father and all three of his
children who were killed Sunday
in a collision in Florida.
Killed when a conpact car col
lided with a heavier car near Tal
lahassee Edward Ricter of Meigs,
and his three children, 8, 6 and
4. The mother was reported in a
critical condition at the hospital.
Earlier Sunday a Roswell teen
ager Bruce Kirk, was killed when
he lost control of his car and it
crashed just outside Atlanta.
At least one person drowned in
Georgia during the week end.
Charlene Simmons, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Buddy Simmons of Ath
ens, drowned Saturday. Her body
was found floating in Lake Lanier
a short distance from shore after
she disappeared from the Holly
Park area.
Sylvester Cooper of Atlanta, died
Sunday when his car overturned
in Atlanta, police said.
Jerry Dean Pruitt, Toccoa, died
Sunday when he lost control of
the car he was driving and over
convention. The regular member tunned near Toccoa, State Patrol
Mr. G. T. Jarrard
To Become Screven
County School Supt.
Mr. Jarrard Began His Career
As Teacher in Taylor County
Schools Several Years Ago.
and the first and second alternates
will be chosen likewise by the
number of votes which are received
by the nominees.
Following the community elec
tions, the chairman of the newly
elected community committee will
meet at the county convention be
said.
A Macon man, Arthur Rogers, was
killed Saturday when he lost con
trol of his car and it left the road
near Macon.
Norcross, Ga. — Desperado James
Meriwether, Georgia’s most wanted
criminal was captured without re
sistance at a hdme in Norcross
Tuesday night the FBI announced.
C. E. Weeks, special agent in
charge of the Atlanta FBI office,
said eight heavily armed agents
surrounded a house in Norcross
after receiving a tip that Meri
wether, 47, was there.
Weeks said agents outside the
house yelled for Meriwether to
surrender. He was told to back out
of the house with his hands up.
Weeks said Meriwether replied:
All right, all right. He was found
to be unarmed when agents quick
ly searched him but Weeks said
a 38 caliber revolver was found in
a bed in the home.
The FBI refused to identify any
other occupants of the house.
The well known criminal, want
ed for numerous holdups, armed
robberies and escapes, had netted
almost $3,000 in recent super mar
ket robberies in Atlanta but when
captured had only $19 and some
change on his person.
Meriwether was being questioned
by Atlanta police Tuesday night
and was to be booked at Fulton
county jail. He will be arraigned
before a U.S. Commissioner in At-
make Defense materials and infor- j tw< - e J 1 Aug ’ 28 and 31 to elect the
mation available to all Georgians committee *°r the coming
will begin at 2 p m. Sunday, Aug. I y ’
20 at Ponce de Leon baseball park ! The county committee, which
in Atlanta The Ga. Civil Defense ! also consists of three members and
Association, an organization of Di- jtwo alternates, serves as a Board
rectors from all over the State, will l of Directors for the county office
be represented. Models of fallout!and has general responsibility for
shelters will be displayed, along I administering the various agricul-
with actual rescue trucks, a Massitural programs enacted by Con-
Feeding unit, and other items nec|6 ress - These include the Agricul-
essary to Civil Deefense. Free in., jtural Conservation Program, Pro-
formational materials will be'duction Adjustment, Price Support
available to everyone there. i Soil Bank and the Feed Grain
Everyone is invited to come to i Programs. Since the Committeemen
iponce de Leon Ball Park on the af- will assume important responsi-
ternon of Aug. 20th at 2:00, for the , bilities, close consideration should
Civil Defense Week — and ( be given in the matter of voting.
the baseball game at 2:30 be- j
tween Georgia’s two Southern As- j
sociation baseball teams,, Atlanta Cannon
and Macon.
Mr. George T. Jarrard was the
only person who had qualified as
a candidate for the office of
County School Superintendent of
Screven County at the time for
closing entries Aug. 3rd, at 12
o’clock noon. This assures him of
election without contest.
Mr. Jarrard, a native of Chaun-
cey, Ga., has served for the past
two years as principal of Screven
County High School. Prior to that
time, he served as principal of the
Odom High School and Sanders-
ville High School. He began his
career as a teacher in the Taylor
County Schools about twenty-five
years ago. He is a member of the
Methodist church and is now serv
ing on the Board of Stewards at
the Sylvania Church of which he
is a member. He is also a Rotarian
and a member of several profes
sional organizations.
Mrs. Jarrard is the former Miss
Irma Gill of this city and and is
employed as a member of the fac
ulty in the Sylvania Elementary
School. They have two children,
Returns After
Teaching Abroad
A 13 year old College Park girl, Truett, a member of the senior
was killed Saturday when a car class of the University of Georgia
driven by her mrother went out of and a daughter, Mary Bess, two
control and overturned on a Ful- .and a half years of age.
ton county road. | Mr - Jarrard will assume the of-
LeRoy Dietrich, 38, of Warner A ce County Superintendent of
Robins, was killed Saturday when I Schools as soon after the election
the motor scooter he was riding as permissible. He succeeds Mr.
collided with a car at an intersec* , Sidney Jenkins who resigned to
tino in Warner Robins. His 5 year accept a field position with the
old daughter, a passenger on the,State Department of Education,
scooter was hospitalized in serious
condition.
Mrs. Jeane Burks, 32, her son,
8 and daughter, 6, were killed
Saturday when struck by a car
near Lawrenceville.
Crosby Henderson, 40, of Hull,
died Saturday when the car in
which he was riding collided with
another vehicle near Comer, the pa
trol said.
A 32 year old Marietta man M.
R. Givens, died Saturday when his
car rammed into the rear of a
tractor-trailer at Marietta.
U.S.Man in Orbit
Still Far Off |
i Mrs. Elizabeth Foy Cannon,
1 * c former Butler citizen, spent last
i Washington, Aug. 6—Ihe chiet , ... , ’ r
of the space a E en<y s manned there> w.th he r aunt, Mrs.
flight program said Sunday it will
be “quite some time yet” before the ” "
lanta on a federal charge of un-
town | lawful flight to avoid confinement,
could be serviced by the one pump- [The latter charge was brought
ing station. However, due to the : against him after he was identified
necessity of another pumping sta- J as the man who robbed a super-
tion at the end of Oak Street, | market in Daytona Beach, Fla.
which could not be financed at the
time, none of the area below the
high school received service.
About $15,000 left over was placed
in the bank to draw interest until
such time as enough money was
available to complete the job. With
this interest and the extra revenue
coming in, it was possible in 1961
to resume work. The same com
pany returned in May and in six
weeks had completed the second
pumping station and laid the nec
essary mains to give all the town,
except a few houses in the Byrd
Subdivision west of town. «f*wer-
age service.
This sewerage system along with
Butler’s ample water supply from
a water system improved a few
years ago and the planned larger
water mains, are the work of a
busy city council, including be
sides those already mentioned, H.
D. Taunton, Alfred Kennon and
Luke Adams and the interested
citizens of the town.
Cannery Opens Only
Two Days Each Week
Georgia’s traffic problem can be
better understood from statistics
released by the U. S. Department
of Commerce showing the motor
vehicle registrations almost doubl
ed in the state in the past de
cade. Last year’s total was 1,512,-
118, the nation’s 16th largest in
number.
The increase in registrations
from 1959 to 1960 alone was 79,259
vehicles. There is now an average
of one motor vehicle to every 2.6
persons in Georgia. More than ever
the state’s economy is on wheels.
This is all the more reason of
course, that the state proceed with
all possible speed on its road con-
The canning plant will be open struction program. The cost to a
next week on Tuesday and Thurs- | large extent will be offset by im-
day, Aug. 15 and 17. jprovements in movement of traffic
Thereafter the local cannery will and goods, reduction in accidents
be open only two days a week: less expense in operation of ve-
Wednesdays and Thursdays. hides and less wear and tear on
H. B. PARKS. I them.
Meriwether escaped from the
maximum security Buford Rock
Quarry Prison early in July with a
companion by driving a prison
truck through the gates.
Soon after his escape he was
charged with robberies in Florida
and Georgia, including two in At
lanta.
Here’s Why the State
Has Traffic Problem
U.S. can hope to duplicate Russia’s
latest space achievement. And he
added, there’s no way to speed the
U.S. program.
G. M. Low declined to estimate
whether the catch-up time would
be less than a year, a little more,
or considerably more.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration did say the
Soviet feat of lofting a man into
a relatively long-sustained orbit
has been expected by American
space officials.
Low told a reporter the Ameri
can program is "being pushed hard
and has been pushed hard,” but
that it can not go faster than it
already is.
Asked how long it would take
the U.S. to match the Russian ac
complishment of putting a man in
prolonged orbit around the earth,
Low said that would depend on Homerville, Ga. — Mrs. Marshall
this country’s success in the initial jStalvey, who lives with her family
Mrs. Cannon, an Atlanta science
teacher, was given a leave of ab
sence to teach one year in Formosa
and one in Turkey. She was sent
as one of the Fulbright exchange
teachers for creating better foreign
relations.
She now returns to the States and
to her former position in Atlanta.
Her stay abroad was interesting
and exceedingly novel. One of her
foreign students is now in Atlanta
under Mrs. Cannon’s supervision
and will be a Junior in Oglethorpe
University this Fall.
Rattler Bites
Homerville Woman
While in Bedroom
orbital flights of the Mercury man
in space program.
NASA officials have told Con
gress they are still hoping to loft
the first Mercury astronaut into a
more than 100 mile high orbit be
near Homerville was hospitalized
after being bitten by a rattle
snake.
According to reports, Mrs. Stal-
vey arose in the morning and im
mediately stepped on the snake
fore the end of this year. However (inside her home. After giving first
unofficial thinking is that the first aid to her, her husband killed the
attempt will not take place until
early next year.
Land Purchased for
Electric Sub Station
snake which measured over three
feet and had eight rattles. He
then rushed his wife to the hos
pital.
Bookmobile Route
For August 10
Montezuma, Ga. — The Ga. Pow
|er Co. has purchased the land op- |
iposite the McKenzie Packing Co. i pjne Mountain Regional Li-
( for a new sub-station, to be com-j brar ^ summer Bookmobile sched-
j pletely modern in equipment and | ule for Taylor County is for a visit
|design. to the co unty today (Thursday):
Present plans include running a 8:45 to 9:45 Junctio n City.
110,000 volt line from Fields Cross- | 10 to 10:45 Mauk Post office,
ing to the site of the sub-station. I n to 11;45 Charing p os t Office.
There the voltage will be reduced | 1 to 1;30 Rupert a t Cooper’s
to 12,000 to serve the freezing place
plant and Montezuma proper. This | 1:4 j to 2:15 Cross Roads at Old
wil be accomplished with a new
type of transformer incorporating
three phases.
School Building.
2:30 to 3:30 Butler Library
local High School building.
Home Coming at
Pine Level Church
Next Sunday
Local Street Markers
Have Been Set Up
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
Reinforced concrete markers
made by the Melton Vault Co. of
this city, have replaced the old
wooden street signs erected at the
time the streets were named.
The city maintenance men di
rected by Chief of Police R. C. Pea
cock placed the signs, with the
name of the street stenciled in
easy to read black letters on each
side at every corner inside the city
limits.
The wooden markers were placed
in position in 1953, when the local
Garden Club entered a better home
town contest and used this as an
improvement project. An old city
map was secured which gave
names to only those streets around
the square. This map was revised
new sub divisions added and all
un named streets were named by
a committee selected by the Gar
den Club.
This Club and others that year
won an honorable mention plaque
from the Ga. Power Co.
Winter Hat Workshop
Planned for Oct. 27th
The Pine Level Methodist Church
of the Geneva Charge will observe
Home Coming Sunday at 11 a. m.
After morning worship there will
be dinner served on the grounds
and fellowship singing in the af
ternoon.
Home coming will mark the be
ginning of the revival which will
feature services each evening at
8 o’clock through Friday evening.
The pastor is Rev. J. T. Pennell and
the Associate Pastor is Rev. J. T.
Trice.
Pine Level Church is located in
Taylor County five miles south of
Junction City, a mile to the right
of State Route 90. The public is
cordially invited to attend both
the home coming and revival.
Butler Cemetery
Cleaning Is Set for
Thursday, Aug. 10
A hat workshop for making
winter hats is planned for Oct. 27.
The exact time and place will be
announced later. If you are inter
ested in learning how to make
new hats or redecorate your old
one to save money, contact me
right away so that definite plans
can be worked out.
Elizabeth Wicker,
H. D. Agqnt.
Dykes Considering
Race for Lt. Gov.
State Sen. Jas. M. Dykes says
he is “considering” running for
Lieutenant Governor in 1962.
Dykes, who also is mayor of
Cochran declined to elaborate on
the statement except to say that
he will make “another announce
ment soon” concerning the lieu
tenant governor’s race.
Wives of the Councilmen, City of
Butler are sponsoring a clean-up
day at the local cemetery on the
afternoon of Aug. 10.
These ladies urge all persons
who have friends and loved ones
buried at this cemetery to please
come and assist with the work. If
impossible to come, please send
someone to work for you, or send
a cash contribution to help pay for
the extra hired help to do the
job.
Send contributions to Mrs. Al
fred Kinnon, Butler, Ga.
Revival Will Begin
Sunday at Trinity
A series of revival services will
begin Sunday, 11 a. m., at Trinity
Freewill Baptist church. Theme of
the messages will be the “Second
Coming of Christ. The first topic
will be, “What Will Take Place
When Christ Comes Back in the
Sky.”
We urge everyone to come and
hear these messages because we
feel sure they will be most inspir
ing and helpful.
Rev. R. B. McFaddin.
Worship at New Life
Saturday Evening
There will be regular services at
New Life Freewill Baptist church
near Mauk during week e«id. Sat
urday night worship begins at 7:45
o’clock. The evening’s message
will be brought by the pastor, Rev.
J. B. Lumpkin.
The public is cordially invited.