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The Butler Herald
"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OP SUCCESS**
VOLUME 86
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1962.
NUMBER 21.
Highway 19 Listed Dr. W. L. Walker
As One of Georgia’s Noted Missionary,
“KillerRoads” ,P |n \chHere
— —
Ten Persons Die in A
Between Here and Thomaston
Last year, Report Shows.
Highway 19 rates second in
Georgia as one of the state’s “killer
roads” with highway 41 taking sec
ond place in 1961.
Between Thomaston and Butler,
last year, ten persons lost their
lives on a hazard highway, U.S.19;
between Americus and Albany
seven were killed; between Albany
and Camilla seven more were
killed. Killer Highway 19 has
been resurfaced in sections — with
narrow bridges dot its length
above Albany. Shoulders are nar
row; pavement is rough and rocky
and curves are poorly marked.
Dr. W. L. Walker, Missionary to
the Philippines, who is home on
furlough, preached at the local
Baptist church last Sunday morn
ing. At the evening worship hour,
Dr. Walker showed slides depicting
the work among the Felipenas.
The church is fortunate in se
curing the services of Dr. Walker
again for next Sunday to occupy
the pulpit and upon request he
has agreed to show slides at the
evening hour.
The public is cordially invited
to attend each of Sunday’s serv
ices.
Ordination Service
Sunday, Feb. 11th at
Mt. Olive Church
Outstanding Young
Georgians Named
By State Jayces
Macon, Ga. — The Georgia Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce has
named Five Outstanding Young
Men of Georgia for 1961 at a spe
cial ' banquet in the Dempsey Mo
tor Hotel with over 600 Jaycees in
attendance.
Included among those receiving
the FOYM award was Malcolm
Reese, 33, of Perry.
Others honored were John C. Bus-
bin, 32, Smyrna; Walter M. Cheat
ham, 29, Atlanta; G. C. Ingram, 31,
Marietta; and Henry Levy, 34, of
Savannah.
Reese, from Perry, was honored
as one of Georgia’s Five Outstand
ing Young Men for his “vast record
of leadership and service to his
community and state. ’ He is man
ager of the Perry Savings & Loan
Assn, and serves as president of
the State of Georgia Federal Sav
ings and Loan League.
He is president of the Perry Club
Council, chairman of several Com
mittees and is active in charitable
organizations and church affairs.
Reese is a former mayor protem
of Fitzgerald and was cited by Gov.
Vandiver as a Georgia Industrial
Ambassador” for his efforts in be
half of the development of Ga.
industry.
Judge for the FOYM program
were Furman Bisher, sports edi
tor of the Atlanta Journal; Ben Fort
son, Jr., Secretary of State; and
C. J. Thurmond, president of J. D.
Jewell, Inc.
Former Montana Congressman
Orvin Fjare was guest speaker at
the awards banquet.
Miller A. Dial of Walnut Grove
was named earlier as the Outstand
ing Young Farmer of Georgia by the
Jaycees.
Ordination service for ordaining
deacons was conducted Feb. 11th, 3
p. m. at the Mt. Olive Free Will
Baptist church, Taylor Mill.
Two persons were ordained to the
ofice of deacon at this time. They
were Messrs W. T. Williams and
Willis Windham.
Rev. Larry Williams, of Pine-
hurst; Rev. H. L. Knighton, Thom
aston; and Rev. Frank Willis, Mt.
Olive pastor served as ordination
council.
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of this
church meets on the first Monday
night in each month.
The Teenagers meet on the first
Thursday night in each month.
The men meet Friday night be
fore the third Sunday in each
month.
2-Car Crash
Kills 6 Persons
Near Seattle
Seattle, Wash. — Six persons were
killed in a shattering two-car col
lision early Sunday near Seattle.
Five of the victims all in one car
were young people homeward
bound to Tacoma. The mother of
one of the girls witnessed the crash
but was not aware her daughter
was involved and had lost her
her life.
There was only one survivor, the
son of a Seattle man who died in
the mishap.
The dead: J. L. Kinsley, 22, and
Patsy Lou Kinsley, believed to be
his wife; J. M. Kinsley, 20, a bro
ther of James; J. R. McClellan, 21
and J. A. Klockner, 18 of Tacoma
and Russell Nyland, 48, Seattle.
Flash Fire Turns
Men Into Torches
$11,000 Taken from
Columbus Bank Is
Recovered by FBI
Two Arrested, a Third Person
And $13,000 Still Sought in
Bank Robbery.
Columbus, Ga. — Special FBI
Agent Charles E. Weeks and Detec
tive Capt. Clyde Adair announced
Monday that $11,000 has been re
covered from an Atlanta Safety
Deposit box rented by Donald In
gram, detained in a $24,000 bank
robbery at Columbus.
Ingram, a Ft. Benning soldier,
was arrested Saturday for the Val
entine’s Day robbery of the Five
Points Branch of the First National
Bank of Columbus. Also arrested
was Mrs. Mildred Krebs, wife of a
soldier on overseas duty.
Still sought is Dominick Costello,
an absent without leave soldier,
whose home is in Brooklyn.
At the time of Ingram’s arrest at
a downtown Atlanta hotel he had
$1,700 with him. Mrs. Krebs, picked
up here as she was getting off a
bus from Atlanta, had $150.
Mrs. Dan Hicks
Honored on Occasion
Of 103rd Birthday
Mrs. Dan Hicks, Macon county’s
senior citizen, was 103 years old
Feb. 9th and her daughters, Misses
Gladys and Annie Mae Hicks, and
her son, Morgan Hicks, held quiet
open house” for friends and their
mother. A two tiered birthday cake
was cut, and Mrs. Hicks, whose
life time spans one of the most ex
citing periods historically since the
recorded beginning of man, was
able to enjoy the visits, f lowers,
cards, gifts and a bit of the refresh
ment that came with the day.
Among visitorswere Mr. and Mrs
Dan Hicks and their sons, Greg
and John, of Ninety Six, S. C.; and
Mrs. George Brady and Caroline
Brady of Reynolds. Mr. Hicks and
Mrs. Brady are grandchildren of
Mrs. Hicks.
Interior Decorator
Is Guest Speaker
At Dress Revue
Guest speaker at the Annual
Dress Revue sponsored by the Home
Demonstration Council this after
noon will be an interior decorator
who has been decorating for 20
years. She is now working out
from Ft. Valley.
“Fashions to Beat the Band” will
be modeled by various members
of the Clubs. Everyone has an in
vitation to attend this meeting at
2:30 p. m. in the local school cafe-
Minor Damage
Reported from Area
Hit by Storm
Macon, Ga. — Hail peppered
several sections of Middle Georgia
early Monday but apparently in
flicted little if any damage.
In Houston County, a 30-minute
storm hit Centerville near Warner
Robins. Tom Collins, a resident,
said hail stones a half-inch in ri-
ameter piled up several inches
against fences and buildings. No
damage was done.
The hail piled up at least two
inches deep on a 200-yard strip of
the Ft Valley Byron highway ac
cording to the weather bureau at
Cochran Field.
Hail ranging from a half inch to
three-fourths of an inch in di
ameter pelleted Powersville for
about five minutes, damaging sev
eral rooftops slightly, Rev. James
Langston said.
Powersville is a community be-
tweeen Byron and Ft. Valley in
Peach county.
In Ft. Valley, blustering winds
overturned a house trailer and dam
aged a roof of one house, but no
one was reported injured.
Worship Sunday
At Mauk Church
Rev. J. T. Mims of Columbus will
be guest speaker at the Mauk Bap
tist church Sunday morning at 11
o’clock.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the Sunday’s worship at the
Mauk church.
Hawkinsville, Ga. — An Empire
man and his son were virtually
turned into human torches Monday
when a freat flash fire hit a new
home they were helping to build.
Herbert Cranford, in his 40’s, was
severely burned and suffered third
degree burns. He was in serious
condition at Taylor Memorial hos
pital.
His son, 17 year old Douglas, re
ceived minor burns and was also
! admitted.
An attending physician said the
Ison was burned when he ran into
the partially constructed home to
'get his father.
| Meantime, Cranford’s daughter,
Mrs. Lovett Newnan of Eastman,
was involved in a two-car wreck
j at Hawkinsville as she sped with
her husband to the hospital to see
about her father,
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Press Institute
Opens Wednesday
Athens, Ga. — Leaders in journ
alism will address the 34th Ga.
: Press Institute at the University of
Georgia this week. The event, spon-
j sored by the Ga. Press Association
land the Henry Grady School of
I Journalism of the University, will
begin with a dinner Wednesday
evening.
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teria.
Saturday Mail
Cutoff Rejected
Washington, D. C. — The admin
istration studied the idea of cutting
off Saturday mail deliveries last
year but feared public indignation
might hurt its request for postal
rate raise.
This was disclosed in congres
sional testimony made public Sun
day night.
The subject came up in closed-
door he arings by a House appro
priations subcommitte in mid-Jan
uary when Chairman J. Vaughn
Gray, D-Va., and Rep. S. O. Conte,
R-Mass., noted such a move would
save the government more than
$100 million a year.
Postmaster General J. E. Day
told them an "intensive” study of
the whole question had been made
last year.
Berry Scholarship
Cites Americus DAR
Americus, Ga. — A $7,000 schol
arship fund at Berry College, Rome,
has been established in honor of
Mrs. S. M. Merritt of Americus,
state regent of the Daughter of the
American Revolution.
The announcement was made
thru Mrs. Merritt’s home town DAR
group, Council of Safety Chapter.
Mrs. Carl DeLay is regent.
Establishment of the scholarship
fund was in recognition of the out
standing services rendered to the
DAR by Mrs. Merritt.
John Glenn Rockets
Around the Earth
3 Times Tuesday
President Kennedy Will Fly to
Cape Canaveral Friday to
Congratulate Hero.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Astro
naut John H. Glenn, Jr., flashed
triumphantly around the earth
Tuesday in America’s first orbital
flight and landed smack in an At
lantic Ocean bullseye as the nation
erupted in joyous celebration.
Blazing a three-orbit spaceway
around the planet in four hours
and 56 minutes, the 40 year old
Marine and his Mercury capsule
landed in the sea not far from the
waiting U.S. destroyer Noa in the
prime recovery area about 800
miles southeast of Cape Canaveral.
A few hours later he was trans
ferred aboard the carrier Randolph
for a physical examination, some
rest, and a dinner of fillet mignon.
Then Tuesday evening he was
flown from the Randolph to Grand
Turk Island in the Bahamas where
Project Mercury officials waited to
hear his account of the great voy
age into space.
Glenn is expected to spend two
days in Grand Turk in a special
hospital at the Air Force’s Atlantic
tracking range station. Two of his
fellow astronauts flew there to
greet him — M. Scott Carpenter,
and Donald Slayton, who is sched
uled to make the next orbital flight
possibly in two months.
President Kennedy immediately
phoned his congratulations to the
freckle-faced, grinning pilot and ar
ranged to fly to Cape Canaveral
Friday to pay personal homage. The
President also publicly expressed
the nation’s great delight at
Glenn’s successful trip.
Even before emerging from his
cramped space capsule, Glenn re
ported: “My condition is excellent”
Climbing from the cabin where he
had been strapped down from early
morning to mid afternoon, his first
words were: “It was hot in there.”
Senators Quartet
Coming to Butler
There will be a featured program
of good clean entertainment March
16th, 8 p. m. at the local school
gym. This program will consist of
the personal appearance of the
Senators Quartet; Wally Fowler,
the all-night singing man, and The
Travelers Quartet. .
This entertainment will be spon
sored by the Cross Roads H. D.
Club
Preaching at Trinity
Sunday Morning
Trinity Freewill Baptist church
will have their regular preaching
service Sunday morning at 11
o’clock. The church and pastor ex
tend a cordial welcome to everyone
to come worship with them.
We are planning some good gos
pel singing, so come and bring
your friends.
R. B. McFadden, Pastor.
Negroes Sue
Bibb Transit Co.
Macon, Ga. — Two Negro min
isters charged this week that they
suffered great humiliation and em-
barassment in being ordered to
move from front to rear in a pub
lic bus. They sought $10,000 dam
ages.
Rev. B. W. Chambers and Rev.
Cameron Alexander filed a joint
damage suit in U.S. District Court
against Police Chief L. B. McCallum
and the Bib Transit Co.
They alleged that their constitu
tional rights were violated in their
efforts to integrate seating on the
bus last week.
A Negro boycott is now in force
against segregated seating on the
city buses.
Athens Man Elected
By National Jaycees
Macon, Ga. — Tom Lloyd of Ath
ens was elected Sunday as a
vice president of the National Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce. He was
elected at the business session
which ended the annual winter
meeting of Ga. Jaycees.
“No Silent Pulpit”
Campaign Begun in
Reynolds Church
Thomaston Negro
Seeks to Withdraw
His Damage Suit
In cooperation with the Commis
sion on Promotion and Cultivation
anl the Board of Lay Activities of
the Methodist Church, the Reynolds
Woman’s Society of Christian Serv
ice as action from a program, en
titled “This Is My Church” have
undertaken to promote the “No Si
lent Pulpits” campaign in the local
church. In doing this, they are
sponsoring an “Open Door Serv
ice” on the third Sunday evening
of each month, this being the only
vacant time when the pastor is at
another church.
Last Sunday night, the service
was presented by the Men’s Bible
Class under the direction of the
class teacher, Prof. E. H. Joiner.
Others taking part in the service
included Messrs James E. Ricks,
J. H. Brewer, R. C. Brooks and W.
M. Hollis.
Mr. Joiner used as his theme,
“Keeping One’s Identity”, pointing
out how difficult this is for an in
dividual under the pressures of
present day complexities of popula
tion explosion, automation, man
into space, etc stressing the
fact that we must remain aware
that God does care. The song "His
Eye Is on the Sparrow” was used
as an illustration of the worth and
significance placed on each indi
vidual.
He urged that we would not
give up easily, to the pressures that
would seem to deal with programs
rather than people, but for both
young and old to ask ourselves the
question, “Who Am I?” and to hold
on to faith in ourselves, faith in
God, and to think and move ahead
with "Rights in the Background and
Duty in the Forefront,” and the in
dividual question “Who Am I?” an
swered with, “I’m a Child of the
King.”
Tom Poole Is not Police Officer
As Stated in Suit Filed by
Johnny Bentley, Jr.
A Thomaston Negro, Johnny
Bentley Jr., has asked the U.S. Dis
trict Court, Georgia Middle District
at Thomaston to dismiss a damage
suit he filed in November, 1961,
against a Thomaston white man
for alleged brutality.
Bentley filed suit here Nov. 2(7 r
against Tom Poole, who he identi
fied as a Butler police officer who'
beat him and cursed him without
provocation in a traffic arrest at
Butler April 8th.
In an answer, Poole said he was
a resident of Thomaston employed
at Old Thomaston Mill and has not
served as a Butler law enforcement
official.
In a motion for dismissal filed
in the office of U.S. Commissioner
H. O. Parker, attorneys for Bentley
said “information has come to the
attention of the plaintiff to the ef
fect that Tom Poole is no the person
against whom the plaintiff intend
ed to prosecute.”
Bentley alleged in his bill of
complaint that police trailed him as
he drove away from a Butler serv
ice station, stopped him and hit
him over the head.
Later, the bill of complaint said:
Bentley was released from police
custody without a charge being
placed against him.
Bentley asked for damages total
ing $10,115.
Miss Gloria Gilson
Selected for Tour with
Know Your School
(This column is sponsored by the
Butler Chapter of Future Busi
ness Leaders of America.)
Monday, 11 a. m., there will be a
Jungle Wonders Show presented
by Gus and Carey Agspur in the
school gym.
This program is the third in a
series of four sponsored by the
Southeast School Assemblies. The
charge will be 15c per student.
A team composed of five girls,
Katrina Cheek, Roger Ann Street-
man, Ellen Guinn, Mitzi Towson
and Barbara Mashburn, will rep
resent the Butler Chapter of Future
Business Leaders of America in a
Parliamentary Procedure contest at
the State FBLA Convention in
April.
Each team participating in this
contest will be given an objective
written test on the basic principles
of parliamentary procedure. The
scores for the five members of the
team will be averaged to determ
ine the team’s score.
The three teams with the high
est average score on the written
test will give a demonstration of
parliamentary procedure which will
not exceed 10 minutes. In this per
formance test, the president will
call the meeting to order and pro
ceed with the order of business, in
cluding adjournment. Each mem
ber of the team, except the presi
dent and secretary, will be required
to speak at least once for or
against each debatable motion. The
four classes of motions — main,
subsidiary, privileged, and inciden
tal — must be introduced and at
least one rule demonstrated that
might be applied to each of the
motions.
Mrs. Margery Fitzsimmons and
Mrs. Ruth Jones, homemaking (
teachers in Butler and Reynolds, at
tended a study meeting of home
making teachers in Ashbum Sat
urday. The subject studied was
"How to Teach Foods in 55-Minute
periods.
Wesleyan Glee Club
Miss Gloria Gilson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gilson of this
city is one of 46 students selected
to go on tour with the Wesleyan
(College Glee Club during the week
| of Feb. 18-24. The Wesleyan Glee
Club has toured the South extens
ively and has been acclaimed one
of the finest Glee Clubs in the area.
(Membership is determined by au-
jdition, and participation in this
vocal group is an extra-curricular
activity. This year’s group consists
of an equal number of liberal and
fine arts students who are required
to maintain a high scholastic aver
age in order to go on tour.
Under the direction of Dr. Leorr
J. Villard, the Glee Club will per
form in towns throughout east Geor
gia, South Carolina, and North
Carolina. The tour program in
cludes sacred anthems, folk songs
spirituals, novelties, and modern
compositions which are presented iiu
both solo and ensemble form.
Miss Gilson, a junior, is treasurer
of the Glee Club and a member of
Sigma Alpha Iota, national music?
honorary fraternity. A member of
the Wesleyannes, a select vocal
group, Miss Gilson is aiso the pro
ject chairman of the Wesleyan
Chapter of Music Educators’ Na
tional Conference.
Lovejoy Pastor’s Wife-
Killed Monday in
Train-Car Crash
Atlanta, Ga. — The wife of ar
Lovejoy pastor died when the car
she was driving was hit by a Cen
tral Railway train near Lovejoy.
The state patrol identified the
victim as Mrs. J. G. Wallace, 27,
wife of the Lovejoy Baptist minis
ter.
Mrs. Wallace, formerly of Ala
bama, had lived in Atlanta 20 years
before moving to Lovejoy two years
ago. She was a graduate of the
Southern Baptist Seminary and a
member of Grace Baptist church, of
which her husband was pastor.
When spring comes a young
girl’s fancy turns to ... . among
other things new hats. Each girl
enrolled in home making is de
signing her own hat. Ridiculous
ideas, yes, and ridiculous out
comes we can expect. In fact, that’s
the whole idea. Hats can be fash
ioned from anything other than
old hats. From, shall we say, kitch
en utensils to baby diapers.
Saturday the FHA girls will go
to Albany for the Spring District
Meeting. About 40 girls are expect
ed to attend from here.
Heart Fund Drive
Begins Feb. 28th
The heart fund drive will be
launched in this city on the eve
ning of Feb. 28th. The hour of be
ginning for the drive is 7 p. m.
Local citizens are requested to
show their willingness to give by
leaving their front porch light
burning. The chairman and co
workers of this worthy cause will
appreciate your cooperation.
Clifford Adams, Chm.