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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
GEORGIA, OCTOBER 5, 1961.
The Butler Herald
Entered at Post Office in Butler
Georgia as mail matter of
Second Class
Chas. Benns, Jr., Business Mgr
Chas. Benns, Jr., Managing Editor
■O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
Phone: UN. 2-4485
Watch for School Bus!
Accidents in farm homes killed
2700 persons in 1959, reports the
National Safety Council.
Turkey production in Georgia is
expected to be 670,000 head this
year, a 56 per cent increase over
last year.
No man ever sank under to
day's burdens. They become un
bearable when tomorrow's burdens
are added.
(Dawson
News)
advice for
We have some advice for our
readers that we have given from
time to time at this season of year,
but we offer no apologies on this
score, since we feel it bears re
peating.
Now that schools have started
In hilly areas, in poor visibility,
or on curves, cars traveling at to
day’s high speeds are often hard-
pressed to stop if they do not see
a standing bus a good distance
ahead. Although school buses are
supposed to show blinking lights,
ior stop signals, in the form of a
These clear beautiful Autumn raised sign, or in some other fash-
The Common Cold
The common cold continues to
be the largest factor contributing
to the absence of Georgia school
students, according to a leading
pharmaceutical company.
The first onslaught to colds
strikes the schools almost as sooci
as children re-assemble for the
Fall term. Research scientists re-
all over the country and the fall | port that spread of colds like other
weather is approaching, it would | v j rus . caU sed infections is accele-
be well for drivers to remember | ra ted by the mixing of population,
that darker days and poor visibility |j n stable groups which are not ex-
often add up to tragedy involving I p 0se d to strangers, cold infections
school buses. tend to die out and do not reappear
■Jnder the law in practical!) until there is contact outside the
every part of this country drivers group.
are required to stop when school Prevention, of course, is the best
buses are discharging or taking on j rlefense against the common cold
passengers. This means that driv- , p u t since it is impossible for the
ers approaching or following a| stu dent to avoid contacts with
school bus are required to stop. others he should take certain pre
cautions to guarantee a certain re
fills are affording the farmers of
this section a golden opportunity
to harvest a bountiful crop.
Some insecticides a>: d pesticides
arc dangerous and should be han
dled with extreme care, health and
medical authorities advise.
An exchange says one nice thing
about sport cars: If you flood the
carbureter, you can put the car
over your shoulder and burp it.
Hybrid seed corn was used in I
planting 88 per cent of the corn
acreage in Ga. this year, according
to the State Crop Reporting Serv
ice.
Hidden vision problems are
among the major causes of school
failure, accordicig to Dr. G. M.
Thomas, Athens, President, Georgia
©ptometric Assn.
ion, these signals are sometimes
flashed dangerously late by the
driver, and oncoming cars given
very little time to stop.
Therefore, we take this occasion
to call the attention of all drivers
to the fact that, as days get short
er and fall weather increases its
He Knew The Horse
He was a huge cowboy, ribbed
with muscle. He had fists like
chunks of oak. He liked to fight,
drive cattle, and hobnob with the
Indians. His fame, however, rests
on the way he could paint breath
taking pictures. And his story is
of a woman’s love -- wone and che
rished against bitter odds.
His name? Frederic Remington,
America’s most renowned painter
of the Old West.
He was bom 100 years ago, Oct
ober 1, 1861.
Today Remington’s paintings of
Indian fights, covered wagon treks,
and other frontier subjects are
worth up to $50,000. But in 1884,
he rode out of the West, discour
aged and broke. His saddlebags
were crammed with drawings that
wouldn’t sell for $10. Behind him
lay four rough years as ranch hand,
sistance to infections. Perhaps most I sheepherder, gold prospector, and
important in the child’s health pat- j scout -- from Canada to Arizona. A-
tern is a well planned diet.
child who is to resist colds and
other diseases must have plenty of
healthy food.
So it is doubly important that the
student have a substantial break
fast before going off to school. The
breakfast food will give the child
strength to fight off contagious dis-
| eases as well as giving him a feel
ing of well being which is neces
sary if the learning process is to
be effective.
Along the resistance to cold line
The head, only poverty and more fail-
Judging by the large size of
a large percentage of the weekly
publications reaching our desk
from various sections of the State,
many areas of Georgia are experi
encing a welcomed wave of pros
perity. More power to each of
them!
The death of U.N. Secretary-Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold has in
creased the troubles of an already
troubled world. Russia is certain to
make capitall of the death of the
exceptionally competent Sweed
who has served so effectively
since 1953.—Jeff-Davis Ledger.
Chairman Harry Flood Byrd of
the Senate Finance Committee, has
predicted on the basis of his con
tinuing study of the nation’s fi-
nances that Kennedy spending will
reach the sum of $137 billion for
fiscal 1965. Nor will the Federal
budget be balanced in the foresee
able future unless the spending
rate presently indicated “is pru
dently and effectively curtailed,”
| he declared. What a pity that
more of our Senators and Congress
men could not catch the vision
of Chairman Byrd and be ex
tremely cautious when it comes
,to appropriating national funds.
intensity, eyes should be kept too, is clothing. The student should
peeled for school buses, especially be dressed in adequate clothing to
in the early morning and late after -
'noon, in an effort to avoid what
I could be the worst possible tragedy
on the highways.
| And, we might add, just a word sickly child,
of caution to drivers in the towns'
and cities to be ever watchful for
the school children who walk only
a few city blocks to school. In their
youth and eagerness to get to
school they will not be as cautious
as they should be at crossings and
street corners.
fit the weather conditions. Health
isn’t an accident. Give the neces-
ure as an artist.
But Frederic Remington was stub
born. A New Yorker who had play
ed football at Yale, he had turned
his back on easy Eastern life. One
night, at. a campfire in Montana,
he had heard an old wagoner tell j
of Sioux scalpings, buffalo hunts, I
and other episodes of a vanishing i
life. The wagoner had sighed, “In I
,a few years the railroad will come. I
Then the frontier will be finished.” |
Then and there Frederic Reming- |
ton had decided to immortalize the j
Golden West in oil and crayon. |
He went on painting. Eva Caten,
the gentle New York girl whom he
sary attention to your child. Les-;had left behind on his first trip,
sons cannot be learned by the joined him. The newlyweds moved
Bartow Herald.
An Appeal to Parents
When people live beyond their „ r . , . . .
means they are likely to be calling . Wlth J unlor or sissy, just start-
on friends or the Government for school, this is the perfect
time of the year to appeal to all
parents for restraint and good
judgment in dealing with school
teachers and administrators. No
doubt junior and sissy will encoun
ter some difficulties during their
new school year.
However, the teachers and ad
ministrators who are attempting to
drill a bit of informationinto your
sweet things’ heads have troubles
of their own, and unless there is
an obvious need for a protest, par
ents would do well to remain in
the background and see at least,
A cafe in our city has this motto f or r a wbi,e ~ how thin ^ work out
posted in a conspicuous location ! before the y , ask for s P eclal treat '
on the wall: “This is a non-profit ™5;J P *fI ! f;L Care ° f special atten '
organization altho its proprietor
did not plan it this way in the be
ginning.”
help before they get much older.—
Sparta Ishmaelite.
Pine gum production per crop of
10,000 trees increased 15 per cent
Jhis year over the 1955 production,
according to an Extension Forestry
Marketing Specialist.
A good mixture for winter graz
ing is three bushels of oats or rye
20 pounds of ryegrass and 20
pounds of crimson clover seeded
within the next few days.
Importance of English
The Herald heartily ascribes to
the thought expressed in the fol
lowing editorial appearing in a
recent issue of the Spartanburg (S.
C.) Herald.
The head of the physics depart
ment of a large university, who
presumably would prize scientific
training above all, says flatly:
“English is the most important
subject in the entire course of stu
dy.
You could get a strong second
from dozens of men of similar
status in the teaching of science
and techincal subjects. For precise
language is the means of commu
nication of ideas — be they liter
ary, philosophical or scientific.
Yet the evidence is piling up
that English is among the worst
taught subjects in U5. schools.The
poor English teacher is to be pit
ied. More than ever before, detri
mental forces are forever under
mining proper English. TV, with
its sometime imaginative corrup
tions, makes fractured English
seem more acceptable than good
according to the head of Extension
Health Department.
Just been reading about a man
who preached his own funeral on a
phonograph recording. That might
not be a bad idea on saving your
preacher considerable embarrass
ment.—Bartow Herald.
Leading Georgia businessmen say
that Georgia’s industrial develop
ment program is suffering because
of taxes levied on manufactured
products held in inventories and
taxes imposed on purchases of
production machinery.
Taylor county is justly proud of
the large number of fine boys and
girls from various sections of the
county who are attending colleges
located both in and outside the
bounds of our own state.
The average family grocery bill
today is reported to be only about
a fifth of its take-home pay com
pared with a fourth shortly after
World War II, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The Herald concurs with the
Sparta Ishmaelite in this thought:
**ln the old days people did not
have the nerve to ask their news
paper to do them a favor and have
their printing done elsewhere.
tion for junior.
It will also be well to remember
that the nation’s schools must be usaga ‘
based upon generally accepted av-' Colloqoial language threatens to
erage standards and that special ,b ecorn . e the foundation, rather than
operations cannot be undertaken reasonable and logical departure
for you, or any small group, no ^ rom formal rules. Rules are taking
" back seat to convenience and
into
About 1150 person died from
posonous gas last year in the
United States; 800 of these deaths how . .. a uat-K sear xo cor
occured in and around the home, now good tbe idea may de. Misuses
. - — . . It should also be remembered, by curTupuun. misuses
creep
parents, that their support of' the | ! hese newspaper columns, perhaps
school, its teachers and administra- j into ^ ls very editorial itself. They
tors, is vitally important to the ! P ass unnoticed except for an occa-
happiness and astisfaction of their 1 Slc ^ ia l stickler for proper language.
Every subject in school suffers
unless English is taught well. Yet,
children.
In a surprisingly large percent
age of cases, where students fail to ! bere a vi ew that some of the
do satisfactory work, the reasons
can be traced to parental neglect,
attitudes or incapability. A helping
hand for junior, a consistent policy
of aiding him and requiring him
to do his lessons, will pay large
dividends for him in future years
even tho it requires some time to
day. It's worth the effort. — Ex
change.
News item: “Some schools in the
nation are lightening the paper-
correcting load of the teacher by
employing home-bound mammas
with bright minds and college de
grees to correct themes and make
notes on the margin about how the
next paper could be better. Bright
idea."
To those of our readers who may
not have been to town recently,
you may not know just where you
are when you go into the newly
remodeled hardware store of Mr.
H. E. Allen. This building has
been completely modernized and is
now one of the show places o-n the
square.
to Kansas City. There they endured
terrible poverty. Within a year, Re
mington had to send his wife back
to New York to recover her health.
The desperate artist followed. In
a Brookly boarding hoqse, he and
Eva started again. Remington took
art lessons. Dressed in worn cow
boy gear, he shouldered his way
into editor's offices. Again and a-
gain they turned down his draw
ings. At last, Harper’s Weekly
bought a sketch. Then a publisher
took two more. The payments for
all three totaled $30.
Within a year, the Remingtons
were meeting expenses. Eventually
the plainsman-artist received $1,000
for the illustration rights to a paint
ing - and then sold the original
canvas.
Once Remington gained popular
favor, he never lost it. Everyone
from art critics to saddle tramps
recognized his genius. He was a
stickler for detail. On his canvases,
the tomahawking redskins had to
be wearing the correct feathers and
paint for their tribes. The bucking
mustangs had to be kicking their
hooves in just the true, wild fash
ion.
Year by year, Remington gather
ed a vast collection of frontier re
lics -- knives, pistols, arrows. They
served his passion for authentic mo
dels. He built a studio outside of
New York City big enough for a
horseman to drive into. He worked
there 10 hours a day.
Celebrity and fortune arrived. But
the muscular ex-cowboy kept his
love for rough-hewn living. Each
year he revisited the West. His keen
eye picked out scenes to paint in
his studio 2,000 miles away. In the
next quarter-century, he produced
2,800 paintings and drawings, 25
bronze statues, 13 books and hund-
less prepared teachers can be as
signed to English with the least reds of magazine illustrations.
jeopardy to education. Most ap
praisers of the field think writing
composition is vital to command of
the subject. Still, only two of every
five colleges require prospective
teachers to complete advanced
composition courses.
Better teaching of English is at
the very core of the nation's “edu
cational problem.” We should not
expect much improvement, how
ever, unless those of us who know
good English decide that we will
use it — even if it doesn’t conform
to the latest utterances in vogue.
Milledgeville State Hospital is
establishing a clothing facility for
the patients. A building has been
set aside for this purpose and is
being converted into a typical
loking clothing store. Racks, show
cases, mirrors will be provided, and
there will be dressing rooms for
both men and women. This infor
mation was disclosed in a recent
news release.
Acute appendicitis took him at 48.
The woman he loved - and had
struggled to win - gathered up his
art. Today it is enshrined at the
Remington Memorial, Ogdensburg,
New York. It is a priceless heritage
to Americans who want to know
the real hues of the pioneer West.
It is a monument to the genial, bar
rel-built painter who once asked
that his epitaph read simply: “He
Knew the Horse.”
One of our exchanges says: Some
automobile owners think their
horns are jump signal when they
drive up to a store or other places
where they wish to buy. Unfor
tunately Taylor county has a few
of this type of drivers.
Veterans who were disabled or
survivors of those who were killed
in accidents on the way home from
separation centers prior to 1957
were made eligible for certain
benefits by recent action of Con
gress, the VA announces.
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Where service to the community
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Here the small depositor receives
the same service as the larger
depositor, and his account is just
as welcome.
If you like this kind of a- bank,
come in. You'll enjoy your assd>\
ciation with us.
THE CITIZENS STATE BANKS
BUTLER, GEORGIA REYNOLDS, GEORGIA
(Members Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
When you’re in the living room relaxing and the tele
phone rings, what happens in your home? Is there a
mad scramble to answer before the caller hangs up?
Or do you reach instead of run?
An extra telephone in the kitchen, living room, or
bedroom will give you real step saving convenience.
And the cost is so low you’ll wonder why you waited
so long to get one. You can choose your extra telephone
in a lovely decorator color, too.
Call our business office today for full information on
an extra telephone for your home.
Public Service
Telephone Company
Monday
Tuesday,
Wednesday,
Thursday,
Friday,
Oct. 9th
Oct. 10th
Oct. 11th
Oct. 12th
Oct. 13th
GATES OPEN
Judging begins in
White School
Negro School
—
all departments.
Children’s Day.
school children and
CROWNING OF
All school children
teachers admitted
THE QUEEN
and teachers admit-
free until 6 P. M.
AT 8:30
8 P. M.
ted free until 6 P.M.
Shows and rides
JOIN YOUR
Macon County
Shows and rides
reduced until 6 P.M.
FRIENDS AT
Spelling Contest . . .
reduced until 6 P.M.
THIS EVENT
20 Contestants
*
Negro Fashion Show
Admission Prices:
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35c — 15c
35c — 15c
35c — 15c
35e — 15c
35c — 15c
SPONSORED BY MACON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION, Inc
Saturday,
Oct. 14th
ALWAYS A
BIG DAY AT THE
FAIH. COME
AND JOIN IN
THE FUN.
Admission Pi ices:
35c — 15c