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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. .A\N' j *9 >• 0 t G* -crvices will begin at 0 '-‘i Baptist church on August \3" 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.