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"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET
VOLUME 86
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY,. GEORGIA, THURSDAY,
Weekend Accidents
Kill 13 Persons
Over the Sta
Mr. Bennett Stewart
Died in Atlanta
Of Heart Ailment
—
One Killed by Drowing, One by 1 or
Accidental Shooting; Other
11 Killed in Auto Accidents.
Thirteen Georgians lost their
their lives in varied accidents dur
ing last week-end.
The accidents included a drown
ing and an apparently accidental
fatal shooting. The other 11 deaths
were traffic mishaps.
The drowning victim was E. L.
Hardy of Avondale Estates. The
AP said Hardy fell off a rock at
Lake Lanier where he had been
fishing.
Craig Donaghy, 15, Columbus,
died Saturday of a rifle wound, ac
cording to the Associated Press.
Coroner C. F. Davis said marks in
the earth indicated the boy who
was turtle shooting may have
fallen or slipped as he stepped or
jumped from a boat.
Traffic deaths listed by the pa
trol were:
Jesse Foster, 25, Experiment,
killed when his car hit a tree and
overturned Sunday at the intersec
tion of Highways 18 and 35 in
Barnesville.
R. L. Wilcher, 28, Mitchell, fa
tally injured Sunday when his car
crashed at a deadend east of
Mitehell.
Thomas R. Lucas, 20, Decatur,
died Sunday when he lost control
of his car and it hit a tree south
of Butler on U. S. 19.
Bennett Leaptrot, 43, Macon,
killed Saturday night when his car
overturned several times on a city
street in Macon.
Randall C. Mull, 17, Blue Ridge,
died Friday night after his car
skidded on wet pavement and over
turned two miles north of McCayes-
ville.
Robert E. Sams, 19, of Atlanta,
killed Friday night when his car
hit a utility pole in Atlanta.
Oliver Holmes, 24, Ben Jackson, 41,
and Elmer Lang, 18, all of Wood
bine, died in a head-on collision
Saturday near Kingsland.
Wm. F. Slappey, Sylvester, killed
in an accident two miles south of
Shingler on a county road.
The AP also listed Perry Paul
Graham. 74, of Columbus, who was
hit and killed Friday when he
stepped in front of a car on a Co
lumbus street.
State Prater Band
Convention In Ft.
Valley Nov. 9 & 10
The 7th Annual State Prayer Band
Convention of the World Gospel
Mission will be held at the Metho
dist Church in Ft. Valley on Thurs
day and Friday, Nov. 9-10.
The World Gospel Mission is an
inter- denominational missionary-
board, having 193 active missionar
ies serving in 13 different fields.
From time to time, workers from
these fields speak in Ft. Valley
churches.
Business sessions of the conven
tion will be held on Thursday and
Friday mornings with missionary
addresses in afternoons at 3:00
Night services will be held at 7:30
with the missionaries speaking and
showing colored slides of the mis
sion work in the Urundi and India
fields.
The public has been cordially in
vited to attend any or all of the
services.
Dudley Eubanks
Forward On B. Parker
Basketball Team
r , .ennett Stewart, broth-
of M’A. /Cochran Sr., and Mrs.
L. R. Adams' died after suffering a
heart attack two days earlier at the
St. Joseph Inf., Atlanta., Oct. 25th.
at 2:00 A. M.
Mr. Stewart, 63 years of age, was
born in Taylor County the son of
Edgar and Eve Jones Stewart. He
was married to the former Pearl
Maxwell Stewart of Elberton, Ga.,
who survives him. Mr. Stewart, a
retired employee of the Campbell
Coal Co., in Atlanta, after 45 years
Highway No. 19, Thomaston to Butler
Resurfacing-Widening Work to Begin
In Near Future, State Officials Report
Second Phase of Multi-Million
Dollar Project Will Improve
Butler-Ellaville Highway.
Highway No. 19 from Thomaston
to Albany, running through Taylor
County, is scheduled for vast im
provements in the near future. The
State Highway Department has call
ed for bids on this work.
Bids will be received on Decem-
of service with the company, lived !^ er ^ f° r a number of contracts to
in Atlanta. I improve U. S. Highway 19 from
Funeral services were held Oct. Thomaston to Albany.
27, 4 p. m. at Pattersons Spring
Hill Chapel with Dr. Dow Kirkpat
rick, pastor of the St. Marks Me
thodist Church, officiating, of
which the deceased was a member.
Interment followed in Westview Ce
metery.
Pallbearers consisted of the Shrin
ers Oriental Band of Yaarab Temple
of which Mr. Stewart was a mem
ber. He was also a member of the
Elks Club.
Survivors include his wife, three
sisters, Mrs. W. A. Wood, Ft. Valley;
Mrs. Tom Cochran Sr., and Mrs.
L. R. Adams of Butler and an
Aunt, Mrs. J. H. West, also of But
ler. A number of neices and nep
hews.
Martin Chapman
Is Chosen Director
Gordon Alumni Assn.
The work, to be part of the first
contract in the second increment of
the $100,000,000 Highway Authority
road improvement program, will ful
fill a promise made to Taylor Coun
ty representative, Ralph Underwood
when he voted for the gigantic
highway improvement program that
Taylor County’s part of Highway 19
would be improved.
Upson and Taylor are included on
one project for which bids have
been invited. The Taylor-Upson pro
ject calls for 26.23 miles of widening
leveling and resurfacing on U. S.
19 beginning at the north city li
mits of Butler and extending to
Thomaston.
A Schley-Taylor project calls for
24.7 of widening, leveling and re
surfacing from Butler to Ellaville.
The Highway 19 project will
jump from Ellaville to Dougherty
county with bids invited on “U. S.
19 in Dougherty county.” This pre
sumably will be north of Albany.
Bonds in the amount of $35,000,-
Mr. Martin A. Chapman, well j 000 will be sold by the Highway
known insurance man and tax con- Authority on November 16 to finan-
sultant of this city, was distinct
ly honored during home coming ac
tivities at Gordon Military College,
Barnesville, on October 28th.
Mr. Chapman was the reviewing
officer at a military review during
the afternoon in honor of his class.
He is a graduate of the class of
1911.
ce Highway 19 and some 23 other
projects on the December 14 letting
and finally to provide improve
ments to a total of 1287 miles of
primary and 912 miles of secondary
roads in 118 Georgia counties.
The curb on U. S. Highway 19 in
Upson has already been knocked
up and broken parts of the pave-
At an alumni meeting later in ment have been patched to get it
in readiness for the improvements.
the day, Mr. chapman was elected
as a director of the Gordon Alum
ni Assn.
Home coming was of particular
interest to alumni of Gordon,
throughout the South this year,
when an unusually large crowd as- Valley EffS' Farm
sembled to participate in the ac- 3 55
tivities for the day.
Mr. Chapman had been pre
viously honored at Gordon last
June when Col. C. T. B. Harris
presented him with an award nam
ing him an Honorary Colonel in
the Corps of Cadets.
Large Turnip Grown
Without Rain, Peach
With the dry spell in Taylor
County, it seems that all anyone
could raise was "sand” until last
week when Mr. Albert Guinn came
into the Herald Office with a tur
nip weighing 4 lbs., 16V 2 in. in cir-
Mrs. Chapman accompanied Mr. cumference and thirty inches high.
Chapman to Barnesville for home
coming activities.
Co. Soil Fertilitv
Kick-Off Meeting To
Be Held Monday Night
Among the thirteen boys remain
ing from a group of 34 that answer
ed the opening day practice whistle
was Dudley Eubanks, 6’ 3” from
Butler and son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Eubanks. The remaining thirteen
include 9 frosh and 4 sophomores,
all of whom are lettermen. Dudley
of course, is one of the returning
forwards, who doesn’t lack for
height, being one of the tallest.
The Brewton Parker College bas
ketball team will play their first
game of the 1961-62 season which
begins with the Alumni game, Nov
ember 18, in the new Jim Parker
Gymnasium on the campus. The
Barons will be in their second sea
son under Coach Don Harbin and
will be striving to improve on the
record posted last season (19-14)
even though the Barons finished in
3rd place in Georgia Junior College
play.
This turnip grew from an
where seeds were sown last year,
thus, it came from a volunteer seed
this year, which adds more impor
tance to the product. Mr. Guinn
states that he plowed this acre un
der and kept it irrigated from a
creek and had a good crop of tur
nips without a drop of rain.
Mr. Guinn assists his mother, Mrs.
The first meeting to inaugurate A. E. Guinn Sr., on what is known
the Soil Fertility Program in Taylor jin Taylor County as the “Peach
County which can increase net in- Valley Egg Farm.” The thought
come over a million dollars will be]just occurred, “Wouldn’t it be nice
told by two outstanding agrono-|if eggs grew that size?”
mists. Mr. Frank Boyd, Agronomist
for Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
pany will be one of the main speak
ers. Mr. Jim Bergeaux, Extension
Agronomist will appear on the pro
gram, along with Mr. Boyd.
The four basic steps and primary
aim of the Soil Fertility Program Revival services will be held at
in this county is to focus attention Ruilh Baptist Church beginning
on the use of the right kind andl on M °uday, November 20th with
amount of fertilizer and lime for | Evan geiist, R. L. Davis of Thomas-
more profitable crop production. Be- j t° n . Ga. delivering the messages,
ginning this fall, the program willr^ r - Carl Bronford will lead in the
continue through late Spring. It §T° s Pel singing,
will emphasize four basic steps to I Night services only, begins at
Faith Baptist Church
! Revival November 20
more farm profit through product
ion of increased per acre yields of
basic crops. These steps are: (1)
Soil Test; (2) Lime; (3) Mixed Fer
tilizer and (4) Nitrogen.
VERNON R. REDDISH
County Agent
W. JEROME ETHREDGE
Asst. County Agent
Butler Baptist Church
Revival Shows Interest
& Good Attendance
The Butler Baptist Church Revi
val which began Sunday at 7:30
P. M. got off with good attendance
at both morning and night servic-
this week. The messages deliv
ered by Rev. Claude B. Love Jr., of
Manchester and the music depart
ment have been most inspiring.
The revival will come to a close
Friday night.
7:30.
The pastor and membership in
vites ail who will, come out and
worship.
T. H. BROWN, Pastor
Faith Baptist Church
17 Conferences
Will Draw 1500
Athens, Ga. — More than 1500
persons are expected to attend 17
conferences this month at the Uni
versity of Ga. Center for Continu
ing Education.
A variety of subjects will bo dis
cussed and studied by the groups
meeting in Athens, ranging from
the obligations and responsibilities
of the industrial editor to services
to the blind thru the vending stand
program and from a short course
for florists to a work conference
for clas room teachers.
AIRMAN HENRY D. RITTER
Ariman Ritter Stationel
Airman Ritter
Stationed in Alaska
Airman Henry D. Ritter, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Ritter, has
completed his basic training and
after a 30-day leave at home he’s
now stationed at Anchorage, Alas
ka.
Ritter joined the Air Force July
18th and was trained at Lackland
AFB, San Antonio, Texas. He at
tended Butler High School.
Sweeping Revision
Of State Budgeting
Proposed by Byrd
ATLANTA—Lieut. Gov. Garland
Byrd suggested Monday that the
General Assembly throw the con
tentions or “political promises” sec
tion out of future appropriation
bills and limit the governor’s emer
gency funds to one per cent of the
total state budget.
Byrd, an unannounced candidate
for governor in 1962, also recom
mended that pre-legislative forums
be held to acquaint the legislators
with the details of the governor’s
budgetary recommendations. He
added that drafts of appropriations
bills presented by the governor to
the General Assembly should be
simple enough so that a legislator
need not be “an expert analyst or
economist in order to understand
it.”
The lieutenant governor made
the recommendations in a letter to
Murray County Rep. Charlie Pan-
nell, chairman of the special bud
get study committee. Pannell had
invited Byrd’s views on the state
budgetary problems.
Highway Treasurer,
Benton Odom, 49,
Died From Stroke
Atlanta, Ga.—Benton Odom, 49,
treasurer of the State Highway De
partment and former executive se
cretary to the late Gov. Eugene Tal-
madge and former Gov. Herman
Talmadge, died in an Atlanta hos
pital three hours after suffering a
stroke at his home Monday morn
ing. He lived at 4855 Long Island
Drive, NW.
Mr. Odom, who also served terms
in the State Senate and House of
Representatives, had been treasurer
of the highway department since
March 1, 1950. A native of Newton,
he had been active in Georgia po
litical affairs for more than 20
years.
Shedrach Barnett
Selected as Leader
Butler FFA Chapter
Shadrach Barnett, a Senior, has
been selected to lead the Butler
Chapter of Future Farmers of
America. The son of Rev. and Mrs.
R. E. Barnett, he has been active
in FFA work all thru high school
and won second place in the FFA
public speaking contest in 1960.
Others selected were: Jerry All -
mon, vice president; Wayne Cox,
secretary; Ronnia Parker, treasur
er; John Purvis, reporter; Larry
Bell, sentinel. Those elected to as
sist the last four were: Milton Lay-
field, secretary; Derrell Kendrick,
treasurer; David Joiner, reporter
and Billy Blasche, sentinel.
OF SUCCESS"
NOVEMBER 9, 1961 ~ NUMBER 6.
Two Men Arrested
In Dawson, Charged
With Fla. Murder
Dawson, Ga. — A massive man
hunt for the slayer of a Florida
state trooper ended in Dawson
with the arrest of two men, one of
whom gave police an account of
the killing.
The two men, both with long
prison records were arrested by
Dawson officers at a gas station
after the robbery of a drug store in
Albany.
Albany Police Chief Laurie
Pritchett said Rudolph Pavlas, 46,
signed a statement accusing his
companion, Dewitt Addison, 33, of
firing the shot that killed patrol
man Ed Gasque, 30, in a woods
near Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 28.
Gasque had stopped two men to
question them before a Duval
county deputy had been over pow
ered near Jacksonville. The deputy,
who wanted to know what the two
were doing in the wooded section,
was hand cuffed by the two and
one fired a shot at him but missed.
FBI agents questioned the two
men in Albany Friday in connec
tion with a series of Atlanta area
bank robberies, including one in
which Guard Warren Strickland
was shot and killed.
The FBI also arranged a lineup
to enable 16 witnesses to the At
lanta area holdups to look at the
prisoners. The witnesses included
bank tellers and cashiers.
The FBI spokesman declined to
reveal the results of the lineup but
did say that nothing definite has
developed so far to tie the two
men to the robberies.
After the questioning and the
lineup, the prisoners waived ex
tradition and were turned over to
representatives of the Duval county
sheriff’s office and the Florida
Highway Patrol to be taken to Jack
sonville by car.
Butler FHA Ranked
11th at District Meet
Butler Future Homemakers, with
thirty-five members present, ranked
eleventh among the eighty-one
chapters represented at the fall
meeting of District I, FHA in Al
bany last Saturday.
The backdrop for the program
was a huge tree, the taproots of
which were our two national pro
jects, “Family Unity” and “Family
Fitness.” The leaves of the tree
were characteristics which will lead
to the realization of our project.
They are physical, social and spiri
tual unity, cooperation, security, j
understanding, love, faith and emo
tion.
The principal speaker was Mr.
Bill Hearn, Minister of Music, Tho-
masville Baptist Church. He em
phasized the need for LOVE in
American families today. He urged
each FHA girl to begin family de
votions in her own home as a
means of strengthening family ties.
Miss Effie Pullen, recently retired
supervisor of homemaking educat
ion in this district, was presented a
plaque of appreciation, a princess
ring and a watch as a gift from the
girls in the district. The presenta
tion came at the conclusion of a
“This Is Your Life” skit.
Mrs. Janet Barber, state advisor of
FHA and Miss Frances King, new
ly appointed district supervisor each
brought greetings to the group.
Mr. E. A. Welch drove the bus.
Mrs. Imogene Garrett, chapter mo
ther and Mrs. Margery Fitzsim
mons, advisor, accompanied the
group.
186 Homes Burn When
Fire Hits Hollywood
LOS ANGELES—A wind-lashed
brush fire, exploding at times into
a dreaded fire storm, swept through
an exclusive section of the Holly
wood Hills Monday—causing un
precedented damage.
By official count 186 homes —
many mansions belonging mainly
to entertainment figures in the
$100,000 and up class—were destroy
ed by midafternoon. At least an
other 100 were damaged.
Former Vice President Richard
Nixon was ordered away from his
home while he was watering down
his roof.
Mauk Church Urges
Sun. School Attendance
All members of the Mauk Baptist
church are urged to attend Sunday
School, Sunday. There will be a
special meeting for the purpose of
appointing a pulpit committee.
F. S. U. Student
Killed in Auto
Wreck Near Here
Two Other Students Critically
Injured; Accident Occurred
Early Sunday on Hwy. 19.
An automobile accident near But
ler early Sunday morning claimed
the life of a Florida State Univer
sity student and left two others se
riously injured.
Tlie accident occurred about two
and one-half miles south of Butler
on Highway 19 at approximately
3:50 a. m. The car a 1956 Chevrolet
was traveling north when it left the-
highway and ran directly into a
tree.
The students, it is learned, were
enroute from the Florida Univer
sity to Decatur, Ga. where they
were to have spent Sunday with
friends and relatives.
Thomas R. Lucas, 20, of Decatur,
driver of the car, was killed in
stantly. He was the son of Mrs.
Frances Lucas Greenfield of Deca
tur.
Carl K. Bucklow, of Tampa, Fla.
was critically injured and was tak
en to a Columbus hospital.
William D. Munroe, also of Tam
pa, Fla. was taken to the Sumter
County Hospital at Americus.
Both men are listed in serious,
condition.
Joint Meeting Legion &
Auxiliary Friday Night,
Poppies Sold Friday
In commemoration of Veteran’s
Day and as a kickoff for member
ship drive, Butler Post 124 and Aux
iliary Unit will hold a joint meet
ing at the Legion Home Friday
night at 7:30 o’clock. The State
Chaplain and District Pres, of the
Auxiliary have been invited. Alsot
the District Judge Advocate and
District Post Commander of the Le
gion. A covered dish supper will be
served.
The Poppy Chairman, Mrs. Jo
seph Harmon, announces that Pop
pies will be sold in Butler and
Reynolds Friday by the Unit. The
Poppy sales force in Butler will
meet Mathew’s Store at 9:30 Fri
day morning to begin the sales.
Mrs. C. S. Sawyer will have charge
of the sales in Reynolds.
Overseas Mail
Deadline for Christmas
November 20th
Atlanta, Ga. — The deadline for
mailing Christmas gift packages
to men serving overseas in the
armed forces is nearing, Ga. Vet
Director Pete Wheeler reports.
November 20th is the final date
set by the P. O. Dept, for mailing-
packages to points outside the
United States for delivery before
Christmas.
December 1st is the deadline for
mailing holiday cards or letters to
foreign bases, and for sending
packages by air mail outside the
United States, Wheeler said.
Packages to be mailed inside the
United States but outside Georgia
should be in the Post Office not
later than Dec. 5th, he said, and
letters and cards going outside
Georgia should be mailed on or
before Dec. 10th.
All packages, both outside the
United States and within, should be
packaged in strong corrugated box
es and cushioned against shock by
paper or other material inside.
Packages containing liquids or
breakables should be so labeled on
the outside.
Recent changes in postal regula
tions also allow packages going to
servicemen to be sealed on the out
side for additional protection, and
need not be opened for postal in
spection.
BASKETBALL
Friday Night, Nov. 3rd.
Butler High Boys
And Girls Teams
Defeated Unadilla Teams
Butler Boys—66
Unadilla Boys—45
Butler Girls—49
Unadilla Girls—39
Next Game Friday Night
November 10
Butler vs. Crawford County
At Roberta