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The Butler Herald ‘’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS” VOLUME 86 BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1962. NUMBER 15. Future of Farm Mechanization To be Displayed Gen. Presentments Rendered by Recent Grand Jurors n t of Arctvtves Farm Materials Handli De £ enera i Library r County Be Featured at At! —January Term Court, 1962 January 18-19. Machinery that will do everything from unloading stored feed facili ties to mixing feed and feeding animals will be among the displays at Farm Materials Handling Days on the University of Georgia cam- [pus Jan. 18-19. A list of erhibitors released this week shows over 50 diferent firms and organizations who will have equipment on display at Stegeman Hall. This will be the most compre hensive display of farm materials handling equipment ever assembled in Georgia, according to Dr. C. C. Murray, dean and coordinator of the University of Ga. College of Agriculture. More and more automation is the outlook for farming, and this dis play has been organized to give farmers an opportunity to see the latest equipment developed by a large number of companies, Dea Murray said. Much of the equip ment is being brought to the event from manufacturing plants and is not available for demon stration at local dealers. Mr. C.F. Carson Nominated Georgia “Man of the Year” To the Honorable J. Alan Davis Judge of the Chattahoochee Circuit Court Taylor County. > The Grand Jury for the January, 1962 term of Taylor County Su perior Court, convened on the 2nd day of January, 1962 at 9 o’clock A. M. The members of the Grand Jury elected Mr. H. S. Gates as Foreman, with Mr. Bill Bazemore as Clerk. General conditions affect ing the welfare of the county were considered. This Grand Jury has tried to fulfill its duties and re sponsibilities to the Superior Court and the citizens of Taylor County in a manner consonant with their best interests. We wish to express appreciation to Judge Davis and Sol. Gen. Land for their splendid services rendered the county during this term of court. Committees were appointed to in vestigate and inspect the various County Officers, County operations, and County property. The reports of each of these committees have been considered carefully by the entre Grand Jury. Each of the recom mendations contained in committee reports has been adjusted by the Grand Jury as a whole and is to be considered a recommendation of County Agent and Soil Unit Technician Name Reynolds Citizen for This Honor. „ . Mrs. Myrtle Jones Died Tuesday P. M. At Jacksonville, Fla. Deceased Had Suffered from Heart Ailment for Past Two Year. Farm Materials Handling Days is being sponsored jointly by the this body. The reports and recom- College of Agriculture and the Ga. I mendations of these committees, Farm Electrification Council. which follow, are therefore incor- For the dairyman and livestock porated and made a part of these producer, the manufacturers will Presentments. show equipment that unloads silos, l. We the Grand Jury of January mixes feeds and feeds animals au-,1962 Superior Court firmly recom- tomatically. Similar shipment for mend to the State Legislature thru poultry production will be shown, | the County Representative for the 'as well as such equipment as egg j consideration of a study concerning washers and heating and ventila- i the illegitimate child birth. The tion equipment. 'support of these children are very Among the long list of displays i burdensome to the tax payers thru are such things as fuel handling [ the welfare departments and some equipment, time controls, buildings, means of punishment should be feed bins, farm interphone sys- made law thus tending to prevent terns, lighting equipment, milkers, canning machinery and shop equipment. The displays will be open to thepublic both days, Jan. 18-19. Any interested persons in attending the meeting, please contact the County Agent’s Office. —County Agent. Fickling Lodge Observed Festival At Masonic Hall (By Verna Griggs) Fickling Masonic Lodge observed Saint John’s Festival with a amily night barbecue at the Masonic Hall Wednesday night. Mr.M. G. Allmon served as Master of Ceremonies and Miss Margaret Tante presented special music. Mr. D. Warner Wells, Peach County Representative, was the featured speaker of the evening. He presented a 50 year pin to Mr. James Edward Locke. It was ac cepted by his son, Mr. A. E. Locke, because the elder Mr. Locke was unable to attend. Another guest of the evening was Mr. Tom Bat eman of Ft. Valley, Who was born in Butler and lived here for a number of years. The 1962 officers were introduced by Mr. Allmon prior to adjourn ment. Know Your School One half of the school year is about over. Semester examinations are scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday — Jan. 17, 18 and 19. Basketball games for this week will be played with Gordon on Tuesday night and with Macon County on Friday night. The game with Macon County will be played in the local gym. Students have been admiring the new trophy which was added to the collection by the Girls Basket ball team at the Christmas Tourna ment. The Annual Staff is busy pre paring copy sheets in order to meet its first dead line on January 24th. If you have not yet purchased your annual, the staff urges you to do so at once. The program for this month’s meeting of the Future Business Leaders of America will feature an old-fashioned spelling bee. illegitimate births. 2. The committee on the county books reports they are neat, well kept and in good order. 3. We wish to commend the Pub lic Health Department for their un tiring efforts in rendering health services to the county. All persons are urged to corporate with this de partment. 4. The committee on the county buildings report the jail facilities are in a rather bad condition and the following improvements are rec ommended to be made immediate ly: ‘ (a) Replace or rework the bed ding in each cell, and provide fire proof covers for the mattresses. (b) The cleanness of the jail is very much neglected and we rec ommend a thorough cleaning and that this be maintained on a daily (c) Recommended the sewage in side the jail be repaired. 5. Recommended the county pro vide funds to construct a new jail at the earliest possible date. 6. Recommended all offices in the court house be replastered where necessary and painted, and be equipped with a portable bulletin board so the use of the wall will not be necessary for this purpose. The offices need a more adequate lighting system. Also a new board is needed in the court house lobby. 7. Recommended the curved por tion of the steps leading to the sec ond story be straightened with the hand rail extended conveniently. 8. Recommend the county provide additional storage facilities for the county records. These are now lo- cated in the basement and create a fire hazard. 9. Recommended the Tax Commis sioner’s ofice be provided with an additional cabinet. 10. Recommend the concrete posts j around the court house square be repaired and a more presentable handrail be installed on the north- side walkway steps of the lawn. 11. Recommend that necessary repairs be made to the heating system. Several steam leaks are noted and are hazardous. 12. Recommend the wood steps leading into the basement be re placed with metal steps. 13. Recommend the camp metal buildings be painted to prevent fur ther deterioration and necessary repairs and painting for other buildings. 14. We recommend the Butler : Herald be paid $20.00 for publishing these Presentments. H. S. GATES, Foreman BILL BAZEMORE, Clerk (Mrs. Verna Griggg)„ Mr. C. F. Carson of Reynolds, bas been nominated lor Georgia Farmer of the Year honors by Taylor Coun ty Farm Agent Vernon R. Reddish and SCS Work Unit Technician M. P. Dean. The Taylor County general farm er operates 1900 acres, owning more than half of this acreage with the remainder in partnership and rent ed. Most of the area is in forest, with 238 acres in crops. Mr. Car- son will compete with nominees from other Georgia counties for the award made annually by the Geor gia Farmer Magazine. Judging in the competition will be based 40 per cent on progress in agriculture, 35 per cent on soil and natural resource conservation practices and 25 per cent on con tributions to community and state. Judging the contestants will be J. W. Fanning of the University of Georgia; Dr. Harry L. Brown, president of the Ga. Farm Bureau Federation; Ga. Crop Improvement Association President Jimmy Car ter, Plains; Georgia Livestock As sociation President R. B. Curtis, Farmington; and Ga. Poultry Fed eration President Max Ward, Gainesville. President of his county Farm Bu reau Chapter and a supervisor of the Ocmulgee River Soil Conserva tion District, Mr. Carson is a Rey nolds city councilman and execu tive director of housing authorities at Butler, Reynolds and Roberta. Since starting to farm in 1954, he’s adopted such new practices as flame cultivation and parallel ter racing. Some land-leveling has been accomplished. Cotton and oats yields have improved considerably and his pimiento pepper yield has doubled. Announcement of the Georgia Farmer of the Year will be made in conjunction with Farm Materials Handling Days Jan. 18-19 at the University of Georgia, according to Elmo Hester, editor of the inde pendently-owned magazine. 16 Deaths Listed Last Week End on Georgia Highways Mrs. Myrtle Jones,, jnother of Mr. Roy Jones of Reynolds, died in Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday after noon. Mrs. Jones had been in ill health approximately two years suffering from a heart condition. Mrs. Jones was a widow of the late Mr. Bailey Pope Jones and al though a Taylor countian, she had made her home in Jacksonville for the past 15 years. Funeral will be conducted today (Thursday) at the Lucy Chapel, Goddard Funeral Home, Reynolds, at 11 a. m. Elder John Mangham will be the officiating minister, as sisted by Rev. Virgil Culpepper. Interment will be in the Hill Crest Cemetery, Reynolds. The deceased was a member of the Methodist church. Pall bearers include Henry Hick, William Parker, Cliff Windham, Eric Newsom, Reginald James, James Gray, Ernest Childre, Jim Brewer and C. B. Hicks. Survivors include two sons, Roy Jones, Reynolds, and Edwin Jones of Tampa, Fla.; one daughter, Miss Virginia Jones, Jacksonville, and one sister, Mrs. Eva Royal of Thomaston and a number of grand children. Goddard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. W. D. Gill, 93 Year of Age, Dies at Thomaston Mr. Charlie Stone In Charge of New Local B.T.I. Office Business Training Institute is in its 21st year of operation under the direction of Mr. C. F. Rustin, lowner. The principal offices have been in Macon since its beginning, but its activities have included the territory about the vicinity of Ma con. For the past two years, a class has been conducted in Taylor Coun-y for those young people who aspire to a higher and more thorough education particularly in business. Mr. Rustin reports that this group of students has been one of the most thorough in their studies of any group, with which he has ever worked. The number of students here has grown to the point it is necessary to provide ad ditional facilities to adequately and satisfactorily take care of them. An office is being opened in the Edwards Building between Smith’s Pharmacy and the Washomat Butler. In addition to the classes being held there in business sub jects, a bookkeeping, accounting, and tax service will be offered. Mr. Charlie C. Stone, who has recently become associated with Business Training Institute, will be in ’charge of this office. He invites your patronage. An announcement appears else where in this issue of the Herald. William J. Brand Serving in Greenland U. S. Forces, Greenland (AHTNC) Army Specialist Five Wm. F. Brand, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Brand, Butler, recently arrived in Greenland and is now assigned to the 55th Artillery, a Nike-Hercu- lese missile unit. Brand, a senior radar operator in the artillery’s Ba. C, completed basic training at Ft. Benning. The 22 year old soldier is a 1958 graduate of Butler High School. Funeral services for Mrs. W. D. Gill, 93, of Thomaston were con ducted an. 5, 3:00 p. m. at Trinity Baptist church near Charing. Rev. W. J. Childree and Rev. R. B. McFadden officiated and inter ment followed in the church ceme tery. Mrs. Gill died at her residence. She had been a resident of Thom aston and Upson county for 25 years. Survivors include: one daughter, Mrs. G. H. Watson, Thomaston; threesons: Messrs B. T. Gill, Thom aston; M. E. Gill, Warwick; and Flem Gill, Dadeville, Ala.; 17 grand children, 33 great grandchildren, and 12 great great grandchildren also survive. Pasley-Fletcher Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mr. Dale Parks Is Worshipful Master Local Masonic Lodge Sixteen persons, including a young mother and her infant son, were killed in a series of traffic accidents on Georgia highways last week' end. The victims included Atlanta’s first and second fatalities of the new year. The large number of fatalities for a week end period was blamed on hazardous driving conditions in some areas of the state. Two wrecks killing five persons, occurred dur ing rainstorms. Mrs. Ralph Armour, 18, Alto, and her son, 8 moths old, were among three persons killed in a head-on collision of two vehicles Sunday in Habersham County. The third per son, Deroy Welborn, 34, Hollywood, 'Ga., was identified as one of the drivers. The vehicles collided near Baldwin Sunday afternoon. In a two-car smashup south of Statesboro, Mrs. Grace Green, 67, of 'Casselberry, Fla.; Mrs. B. M. Eaton, 60 of Jacksonville, Fla.; and Mrs. Sarah Gotshell of Darby, Pa., were killed. The cars collided during heavy rainfall. Near Thomson Saturday, a train crashed into a wrecker, killing the two occupants, listed as Alf Wheeler, 42 and Jack Reece, 52, both of Thomson. This accident, too was blamed on not being able to see the approaching train at a grade crossing during a rainstorm. A 30 year old soldier was killed at Columbus, Billy Cobb, of Fort Benning, Saturday. The soldier was at fish bait shop when a car parked nearby started rolling. He ran and grabbed a door handle, at tempting to stop the car. It rolled down an incline and hit an em bankment crushing the soldier be tween the car and embankment. Other week end fatalities in cluded: Horace Ruffin, 21, Negro, of Atlanta, killed in car accident; Albert Wigley, 40, of Trion, died from injuries recelvqd-.Sandaj in an accident north of Summerville; Al bert Davis, 65, Hatley, injured Sat- Mrs. Lewis Watson Claimed by Death Friday Morning i i _ Death Climaxed an Illness Several Months; Funeral Trinity Church- of at Mrs. Lena Robertson Watson, wife of Mr. Lewis Watson, Sr., of Charing died Friday morning at the local hospital. She had been ill for several months. Mrs. Watson was born in Craw ford county, the daughter of the late Emmett and Sally J. Robert son, on August 24, 1896 and had spent her married life as a highly esteemed citizen of Taylor county. In Charing community where she- reared her family she was always ready and willing to lend a help ing hand and a pleasant smile for those who were less fortunate. She was a member of the Eastern Star- Funeral services for Mrs. Watsom were conducted at Trinity Baptist church, Charing, Saturday at 3:00 p. m. with Rev. E. H. Dunn of ficiating. He was assisted by Rev. Robert Woodall. Interment was in the church cemetery. Pall bearers included B. L. Wal ler, Douglas Purvis, Charlie Wright Willis Garrett, Harold Erown and James Welch. The deceased is survived by her husband, Lewis Watson, Sr., Char ing; one daughter, Mrs. Carl C. Hobbs, Butler; one son, Lewis Wat son, Jr., Howard; five grand sons, two grand daughters; one brother,. Clem C. Robertson, Oglethorpe. Edwards Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Lions Observe Ladies Night (Mrs. Verna Griggs) The Butler Lions Club observed its mbnthly Ladies’ Night Wednes day night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Giles. The members, their urday afternoon when a car struck j wives and invited guests were a bridge near Cordele; Charlie H. served a covered dish supper be- Tucker 32, of LaGrange died Sat urday from injuries received in a wreck east of LaGrange; Donnie Estridge of Atlanta and New Or leans was dead on arrival at an fore the meeting. Frank Riley presided over the meeting. A report was made on the Christmas project — taking baskets of fruits and candy to families in Atlanta hospital following a collis- town. One new member, Sheriff ion of an auto and tractor-trailor j Charles J Wright, was welcomed before dawn Saturday; Billy Lee, into the Club. 23, Hoboken, was killed in an ac cident Friday night east of Way- cross; Tom J. Hinson, 37. of Am brose, fatally injured Saturday when he was thrown from a ve hicle that went out of control east of Douglas. Harold Mayo, 26, of College Park was killed Saturday in Alabama when a car in which he was riding skidded offrain-slick highway. Neisler Is Vice-Pres Univ. of Ga. Group For Third District (By Verna Griggs) Mr. Dale Parks has been elected Worshipful Master of the Fickling Masonic Lodge No. 129 in Butler. Others elected to serve with him are: Clay Griggs, Senior Warden. Ben Guined, Junior Warden. O. C. Keen, Jr., Treasurer. M. G. Allmon, Secretary. Jason Elliston, Senior Deacon. Roy Kirksey, Junior Deacon. James Bazemore, Chaplain. Luther Spillers, Senior Steward. Cecil Kendrick, Junior Steward. William Poole, Tyler. Soil Testing Is Important Soil samples can tell you four times about your soil. The labora tory technicians can find out and then pass on to you the PH, tex ture, available phosphorous, and available potassium of your soil. Nitrogen is not determined in routine soil testing procedures. The reason for not analyzing for nitro gen is that it would not be of any value. Total nitrogen can be ob tained on samples but no sure method has been devised to de termine the amount of available nitrogen that is in the soil. Speaking of soil tests, now is a good time for you to take those soil samples and get them in to the labs. Avoid the rush later on by pending ni yours now and get back the desired information sooner. Mr. J. Howard Neisler of Rey nolds is the 1962 vice president of the University of Ga. Alumni So ciety representing the Third Con gressional eDistrict. Mr. Neisler, Taylor County chair man of the Ga. Alumni Society for the past three years, has been one of the Society’s most active work ers. Taylor county has been a con sistent leader in percentage of al umni supporting the University. The new vice president received the A.B. degree from the University of Ga. in 1908. He is a member of Sigma Chi, Masons, Shriner, and an active leader in the Methodist church. Mr. Neisler succeeds W. D God win of Columbus, who served as Third District vice president last year. Recruiting Officer Here Each Thursday Sgt. Edward C. Pearce, local air recruiter, announced he would be in Butler Selective Service Office each Thursday at 11 A. M. and in Reynolds each 1st and 3rd Thursday to nterview young men and women who are interested in enlisting in the air force. At ihe pit-sent lime the Butler Club has eye-saving cases pending in the National Lion’s sight preser vation project. Miss Gloria Gilson In One-Act Opera Sponsored by College Miss Gloria Gilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gilson, Jr., of this city, will portray the role of the secretary in the Consul and will also be a memebr of the chorus in the one-act opera, Riders to the Sea, to be presented in connection with the Eleventh Annual Fine Arts Festival sponsored by Wes leyan College in the evening of Jan. 20th. Miss Gilson, a junior, is major ing in church music. She is active in several organizations at Wesley an including the Wesleyannes and Sigma Alpha Iota, national hon orary music fraternity. Revival in Progress During This Week at Church of Nazarene The revival is now in progress at the Church of the Nazarene. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Mills, Jr., are the evangelist and musician. Rev. Mills is the pastor of River side, Atlanta. Mrs. Mills plays the accordian and they sing together.. A cordial invitation is extended everyone to attend these services. Assembly of God Revival Begins Sun. HELP WANTED Want to make $2.50 or more per hour in pleasant route work? Can use man or woman part or full time. Write Mrs. Edna Leonas, 400 Magnolia Lane, Ft. Valley, Ga. —County Agent. | (lH’2p) The Assembly of God Church on highway 19 will begin a Laymen Revival Sunday. The message Sunday night will be brought by Woodrow Winters. Monday night’s message will be by Jerry Weldon, beginning at 7:45 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to attend. J. B. Weldon, Pastor.