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The Butler Herald •’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OP SUCCESS” VOLUME 86 BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1961. NUMBER 10. State Association Free-Will Baptists Met at Mt. Olive Cotton Quota Voting Places Are Announced The Georgia State Association of Free Will Baptists met in its 25th annual session with Mt. Olive church, near Reynolds on Nov. 14, 15, and 16 Dear Brethren and Christian Friends: As I attempt to perform the duty that you have enjoined upon me, I approach the task with gratitude and gratefulness. I am thinking of God's mighty command to Iseiah as is found in chapter 8,I verse 1 (moreover the Lord said! unto me, take thee a great roll and write in it with a man’t pen). Like the great prophet, I humbly seek God’s guidance in the use of my hand and directing of the pen as I proceed in the composition of this article. The accomplishment of this meeting fills a page in religious and denominational history that will long remain a challenge to surpass, is marvelous beyond the realm of our expression to here relate the harmony and fellowship that prevailed in our midst during our sojourn together. There was an attendance of 51 ministers and 190 delegates and visitors, from the Chattahoochee to the Savannah Rivers. The Georgia State Associa tion is composed of 7 District As sociations throughout middle and southern Georgia: Namely, the Chattahoochee, being the oldest was organized in 1836 and conduct ed the 126th session in October, 1961. The Georgia Union, the Lit tle River, the Midway, the South Georgia, the Union and the Martin which was named in honor of the late Rev. C G. Martin whose im mortal work in the field of his chosen profession remains a monu ment to his memory and his life of service to God and man will per petuate his living on earth and survive beyond his day. The above named Associations constituting the Georgia State Association has enabled us to advance in progress of developments that we are so deeply grateful. Located in Turner county seven miles north of Ash- burn, Ga., on Highway 41, is Camp Mt. Bethel, where summer ses sions are held yearly for the Youth Training and Minicsters as well. Like many other denominations our missionaries have tread the sand on foreign shores and are de livering the gospel to people in distant lands. The official staff of the Wom an’s Auxiliary, S. S., etc., were the opening of the first day’s session. The report of the various branches of the work was impressive and informal. The conference was en tered the second day with Rev. C. R. Houston of Colquitt, Ga., presiding as moderator; Rev. D. C., assistant Moderator, Savannah; Rev. S. T. Shutes, Clerk, Colquitt; Rev. E. C. Morris, Rev. J. B. Lovering, Assis tant Clerk, Blakely, Ga. After transacting all business, the body elected for the new year Rev. J. R. Davidson, Moderator, Cordele, Ga., Rev. D. C. Dodd, Asst. Moderator, Savannah; Rev. James Pelt, Clerk, Glennville; Billy Ray Amerson, Assistant Clerk, Chester, Ga.; Rev. Mance R. Carson pro motional secretary, Moultrie, Ga. After the 11 o’clock service Thursday, a delicious lunch was served, as was on each day of the meeting. After participating in loving class, the hand-shake was taken in joyful proclamation with the Psalmist, David: “Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. We part now to enter our work in the field, The call of our Saviour is Great, We part with each other with cour age and zeal; That soon we shall enter the Gate. Afar in the desert some wanderer has gone; Away from the sheltering fold, The call of the Saviour, "Go bring them home. j,nto the beautiful mansions gold.” Wm. J. Childree, Reynolds, Georgia. (Free to all publishers) Cake Sale Sponsored By Howard WSCS On Dec 22nd at the Brown Elec tric Co., in this city, the WSCS of Howard Methodist Church will sponsor a cake sale. P piace your orders early by call ing UN. 2-5661 or UN. 2-4247. Referendum Next Tuesday Will Give Growers Chance to Vote on Allotments. Reynolds Citizen Tapped for Blue Key National Honor Blue Key, national honor fra ternity, tapped nine new members during chapel program Nov. 21st. On the Mercer campus since 1928, Blue Key bases its selection of brother members on these standards: Good character, definite Polling " ' c n\v«s» yl° r [qualities of leadership, participa te* 1 Oept , i \praty tion in various extra-curricular ac- ttle Ge« eta ' «.« of in S‘tivities which show a willingness 9 uot v)ni ve< -»>iand cotton ■ t 0 se rve, completion of two-years «° P » 'c. -“ 1I ‘ ounce d today by Mr. l Q f co llege, and the maintenance 17 u,'„ chairman, Agricultural f or th e preceding quarter, or for the Stabilization and Conservation Com [cumulative average an average mittee. The referendum is an-i^jg^g,. than the all men’s average nounced for next Tuesday. The pollirig places are: ASCS Office: Butler District. Peacock’s Store: Panhandle Dist. F. C. Jarrell’s Store, Carsonville- Daviston Dist. of Mercer. Some of the activities and areas in which Robert L. Swearingen Jr. served are: President of Student Government Assn.; Walter George School of Law; Mercer Law Re- j ™ e ”. St0re: ^ edar Creek. view, editor-in-chief, special pro- jjects editor; Phi Alpha Delta, legal and Rustin Dist. Reynolds City Hall: Reynolds and Potterville Dist. Chairman Sealy explained that every effort has been made to in- foim farmers fully about the allot ment quota program, so that the fraternity, president, treasurer mar shall; Associate Justice on Court of Honor; recipient of the Geo. B. Connell award, spring, 1960, fall, 1960; scholastic ranking of first in senior class in the Walter George Reynolds High Homecoming Date Set For Dec. 8th Barbecue Supper, Basketball Game and Dance Will be Features of Occasion. outcome of the referendum may School of Law; Dean’s list: Win represent the considered opinion of ter 19 59 ; spring, 1960; fall, 1960; all the voters. Farmers eligible to |winter 1961; spring, 1961. cast ballots are all those who en- j gaged in the production of the up I 1 land cotton crop in 1961. Approval!Observe by at least two-thirds of the grow ! ^ auanan8 WDserve ers voting is necessary if the j Forty-Fifth Wedding quotas are to go into effect. A * r> 1 "7 Issues to be decided in the Tues-1 Anniversary L>eC. 1 / day referendum are: 1. Quotas or | no quotas; and 2. The level of price | „ . TT , __ „ _ support to be available for the ■ ^ r ' ^ r \’ 1962 upland cotton crop. | Dr - and Mrs - Dan Callahan and If the vote is favorable, quotas i^ r ' Callahan, children of Mr. will be in effect for the crop — l and Mrs - Frank Callahan, will con- with penalties on any “excess” cot- i duct open house for their parents ton produced on a farm, and price (Sunday, Dec. 17th This year at the Reynolds High Homecoming there will be a great treat in store for all the alumni and public who attend. There will be a barbecue supper, basketball game, and dance afterward for all. The date, Dec. 8th, being so near Christmas, will surely put every one in a festive mood for the holi days. As in the past two years, the Reynolds High Key Club is spon soring the home coming. The bar becue supper will be served at the Reynolds High cafeteria, starting at 5:30 p. m. Ticket for supper will be $1.00 each and can be purchased by calling the principal’s office at Reynolds school or from any of the Key Club members. After supper, a basketball game with Unadilla is planned. The “B" team will start at 5:45 p. m. while the Varsity games start at 7 p. m. Since this is one of the seven re gional games our hopes will be high for winning. Between the boys and girls games, the Homecoming Queen of 1961 will be crowned. After the game, there will be a dance for all in the gym with re freshments being served. All in all, those who attend the home coming festivities will have something to remember and something to look forward to next year. Key Club Reporter, James Hinton. of support to growers who comply with their farm allotments will be available at a level of 65 to 90 per cent of parity. If the vote is not favorable, there will be no quotas or penalties applicable to the 1962 upland cot ton crop, and price support to co- operators will be at 50 per cent of parity, as directed by law. Death Date Set For Trio in Assault The occasion of the festivities will be celbration of the 45th wed ding anniversary of this prominent Taylor county couple. The numerous friends of the family are invited to call between the hours of 2 and 4:30 p. m. on the afternoon of the celebration day at their home in Rupert. No formal invitations will be issued. Know Your School Farm-City Week Reynolds Kiwanis Observed Friday (By Mrs. Verna Griggs.) Last Friday at the Howard Com munity Center the Reynolds Ki wanis Club held their annual Farm City Week observance. The group meets in a different community each year to aid Kiwanis members Mrs. H. R. McLean Died Wednesday at Convalescing Home Local Methodist Sunday School Class Was Named in Her Honor. Mrs. Henry R. McLean, well in studying the interdependence of known and beloved Butler citizen, farm and city communities. jdied Wednesday morning at 6:30 President Hinton called the | o’clock in the Ebenezer Convalesc- meeting to order and introduced jing Home, Cochran, Ga. special guests from throughout the I Mrs. McLean was the daughter county. He then asked President- of the late Robert A. Scandrett and elect Roy Jones to introduce the'Jennie Wallace Scandrett and had speaker of the day. lived in Butler all her life with the District Governor Myles Cook of | exception of 25 years’ married life Douglas, proved to be an informed i in Brooklyn, N. Y., where her late and interesting speaker on the | husband, Mr. Henry R. McLean, problems of farmers. Born on a!was employed by the Central Rail- tenant farm in the red hills of i way. Georgia, Mr. Cook became interest-1 Although Mrs. McLean had been ed in alleviating the load carried j in declining health for several by farmers because of his birth, j years she had only been ill a few because So far, 31 students from Butler LaGrange, Ga. — Three young and surrounding schools have reg- Negroes face death in the state’s' istered to take the College Board electric chair Dec. 15 for the rape Test at Butler, of a white woman more than two years ago. Troup County Superior Court There were 30 students from But- T , * .. . . . ... , .. , ler and surrounding schools who Judge Lamar Knight set the death .. ° _ . . e, „ t- took the College Board Exam last date for the three, George Alford Jr. 18, of Dayton, Ohio, and Brannon Epps, 24. and Clifford Johnson, 22 both of LaGrange. Knight’s action followed the U. S. Supreme Court’s denial of a hearing Oct. 9 for the three who have bene twice convicted of rap ing a 20 year old white woman on Aug. 1, 1959. Petty Officer Purvis Serving on Carrier Saturday. The results of the College Exams the Seniors took last Saturday prob ably will not be in until late in January. Bookmobile Schedule For December 13th The Bookmobile will be in this county next Wednesday. Its sched ule is as follows: 9 to 9:30: Mauk Post Office 9-45 to 10-15: Charing at Waller’s Store. 11 to 11-30: Central at Five Points Service Station. 11-45 to 12-15: Crowell Communi ty at Peacock’s Store. 1:30 to 2: Potterville at Mclnvale Store. 2- 45 to 3-15: Howard at Vanland- ingham’s Store. 3- 30 to 4: Junction City at Lump- kin’st Barber Shop. Reynolds Homecoming Queen to be Chosen Friday (tomorrow) night the homecoming queen for Reynolds High school will be chosen. The two candidates for the title are seniors: Rebecca Culpepper and Ann Avera. The queen’s court will be made up of these girls: Fresh- On Tuesday and Wednesday of man Diane Hill; Sophomore, Gayle this week the Ga. Department ofl.Mathis; and Junior, Rita Wilson. I Labor gave an aptitude test to in- 1 jterested Reynolds and Butler High School Seniors. Later the rep resentative will return to interview jeach student who took the test and | help them decide for which career jthey are best suited. Navy Chief Petty Officer Wm. D. | Purvis, son of Mr. Walter Purvis of | Report Cards will go out Friday Butler, has been serving aboard of this week. the Super Carrier U. S. S. Kitty Hawk. Teacher-parent conferences are Chief Purvis is electronic main j available by appointment. The tenance chief in the Jet fighter j conferences must be arranged after squadron which recently broke the ( school hours in order not to inter speed record from Los Angeles to,fere with classes in session. Ap- New York. pointments may be made by call- Mr. and Mrs. Purvis, the former ling High School Office — Union Frances Wall of Ellaville, and chil- !2-2111. dren, Steve, Michael and Linda are residing in Escondio, Calif. They plan to spend the Christmas holi days in Butler and Ellaville. Auto Tag Number Changes Due to Drop In Population Count Tax Commissioner GttMord H. Adams has received •announcement of the new tag number fo Taylor county for next year. With a drop in population figures from 9313 in School wil be dismissed for the holidays on Dec. 20th. Students and teachers will return on Thurs day, Jan. 4th. Good Gospel Singing Taylor Mill School 8 P. M„, Dec. 8th Local WOW Group Presents Appliance To Butler School Monday morning in a brief cere mony at the Butler High School Cafeteria, t he Woodmen of the World Camp 1428 presented a Sun beam Mixmaster to the school for use in the cafeteria. Bobby Gean Swain, Consul Com mander of the local camp, present ed the check to Principal M. J. Marehman. Mr. Marchman and Mrs. Cassie Moore, cafeteria super visor, accepted the gift on behalf of the school. (Congressman’s Office | At Americus Closes |On December 6th education, vocation and he is a Kiwanian. Highlights of his speech includ ed the tremendous advances made in agriculture in the last 50 years —from a method of farming little better than the Egyptians used in Biblical times to the mechanized system of modern day. Boys decid ed to enter the field of agriculture in the 30’s because they didn’t have enough education to enter other fields. Now a boy may fly a jet, teach school or work for the government because he cannot af ford to farm. Agricultural training is expensive and to set up a modern farm operation today may be com pared with setting up a medical practice. When the Federal Land Bank was set up, the limit was $10,000 in 1933 it became $50,000; in 1949, $100,000; 1955, $200,000, and in 1960 the limit was removed. Farm ers may borrow as much money as necessary for operating their business. In the last ten years, farmers' expenses have doubled, yet his in come has declined four per cent. They produce two thirds of all raw materials used in the United States, yet in a shirt selling for $2.99 there is approximately 14c worth of cotton and in a 21c loaf of bread, 3c goes for the wheat. In the U. S., one farmer feeds feeds himself and 26 other people. In the U.S.S.R., one farmer feeds himself and three others. When Nikita Khruschev came to visit the U. S., he didn’t want to see a rocket launched at Cape Canaveral he wanted to see a typical farm— he wanted to see how our agricul tural people operate. We must all back our farmers in their fight tor an improved mar keting system because upon the farmer depends the future defense of our nation. The two greatest dangers facing us are ignorance and apathy. Let us learn how we can help the agricultural sections and then get behind them with our votes and our aid. Upon the farmer depends freedom and free dom is not John Doe’s responsibili ty but our own individual respon sibility. Miss Lola Ham Died Saturday A. M. At Rest Home You won’t want to miss this op portunity of hearing splendid gos pel singing featuring the Seago Bros and Naomi and the Journey- 1950 to 8287 in 1960, a loss of 1026 (man’s quartet of Macon. persons, this county dropped from number 106 to 110. New auto tags bearing this number will go on sale here January 1st. Mr. Adams also reminds the property owners that Dec. 20th is the deadline for paying taxes. He states that in the 14 years he has The Church of God of Prophecy is sponsoring this program at the Taylor Mill School auditorium on the evening of Dec. 8th, beginning at 8 o'clock. There will be an admission charge of $1.00 for adults and 50c for children. Congressman E. L. Forrester an nounces that his office in Americus will close Dec. 0th and the staff and files will return to Washing ton. Correspondence should be addressed to him in Washington at 1110 New House Office Building. Beginning Dec. 7th, Mrs. Laura Moss will be in Mr. Forrester’s Of fice in the courthouse at Leesburg, Ga., Phone is 759-6537. Speaking of discount buying, you get top quality Treasury Bonds at 25 per cent discount where you work or where you bank. Ask for an E Bond. Price $18.75 for each $25. worth. days prior to her death. Private funeral services will be conducted in Butler cemetery this afternoon at 4 o’clock with only relatives and close friends of the family present. The family requests no flowers. Rev. Walter McCleskey, pa^or of the Butler Methodist church of which the deceased was a member, will be the officiating minister. The Young People’s Bible Class at the Methodist church was named “The Heard McLean Class” in honor of their teacher. Pall bearers include: Messrs Wanza Hortman, Lovick Anthony, Harris Hortman, Frank Riley, J. R. Wilson and Emmett Wilson. Survivors include three sisters: Mrs. Mary Persons Sims, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Mrs. Helen Dun- wody, Butler; and Mrs. Carile Saunders, Hawkinsville, Ga.; two nephews, Ben Persons, Atlanta, and Fred Sanders, Jr., Goldsboro, N. C.; two nieces, Misses Helen and Ruth Dunwody of Butler. Edwards Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mr. Frank Brown Died Suddenly at Eastman Saturday Miss Lola Ham, 87, a lifelong resident of this county, died Sat urday, 8 p. m., at Mocking Bird Rest Home, Geneva. Death climaxed a lingering illness. Miss Ham was born in November of 1874, daughter of the late Bert and Laura Ham. Funeral was conducted at 11 a. m. Monday at the Bethel Primitive Baptist church with Rev. Bentley Adams, pastor, officiating. Inter ment was in the cemetery nearby. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Olivia Rustin; and several nieces and nephews. Edwards Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Butler Camp Christmas Program Planned for Dec. 15 J. Frank Brown, Sr., 58, died of a heart attack in Eastman Saturday morning. Born March 19, 1903 in Taylor county, son of the late Sidney and Lena Brown, Mr. Brown had re sided in Eastman for a number of years. He was employed by a Con struction firm in that city. Funeral occurred Monday, 3 p. m. at Edwards Funeral Home in this city. Rev. E. H. Dunn, pastor of Antioch Baptist church, was in charge of the service. Interment was in Butler cemetery. Survivors include three sons: J.F. Brown, Jr., and Bobby Brown, both of Columbus and Wayne H. Brown, Orlando, Fla.; and eight grandsons. Edwards Funeral Home was In charge of arrangements. City of Reynolds Election Date Set For January 2nd There will be an election for the purpose of electing a Mayor and two Councilmen for the City of Reynolds on the first Tuesday in January, which is the 2nd day of the new year. Any qualified voter desiring to run for any of these offices must register with the City Clerk, City of Reynolds, on or before Dec. 26, 1961. The annual Christmas program of Butler Camp No. 1428 is an nounced for Dec. 15th, 6 p. m., at the American Legion Home. This year the Ladies Court No. 1605 will co-sponsor this event. A fine program has been ar ranged and a large crowd of chil dren are expected. BASKETBALL Dec. 2 Warner Robins Boys 55 Butler Boys (B team) ... 47 (Here) Warner Robins Girls ... 57 Butler Girls 60 Dec. 5 Talbot Boys 25 Butelr Boys 41 (Here) Talbot Girls .... 58 Butler Girls 60 Next Gaines Dec. 9 Warner Robins vs. Butler At Warner Robins Dec. 12 Buena Vista vs. Butler At Buena Vista