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The Butler Herald
‘’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
VOLUME 86
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 29, 1962.
NUMBER 26.
Sunday April 1st
High Point in Drive
Chapel All Faiths
Dept, of Archives
General Library
University of Ga
(pUUV)VUU
Reynolds Banker
Among Delegation
To Visit Europe
Georgians Will Raise
To Build Chapel of All Faiths
At Milldegeville Hospital.
Next Sunday will mark the high
point in the Chapel of All Faiths
state wide campaign to raise $800
thousand to build churches for the
12,000 mental patients at Milledge-
ville State Hospital.
Designated earlier by Gov. Van
diver as Chapel Day throughout
Georgia. This final phase of the
Chapel Drive will get under way
early Sunday moorning and will
continue during the afternoon and
evening, so that, “Every church
group, every civic and social organi
zation and every citizen of Georgia
will have an opportunity to con
tribute to this vital cause,’’ as Mrs.
Vandiver, State Campaign Chair
man has explained.
Chapel Day campaigning will be
divided into two areas of direct so
licitation, but under the single
theme of "Buy a Brick in the Chap
el of all faiths. The state’s churches
will accept special collections for
the drive during 'the morning serv
ice, and various volunteer groups
will make house to house canvasses
throughout the day.
In many areas of the state, mem
bers of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce will be serving as volun
teer house to house canvassers. In
others, the house to house canvass
will be under the direction of vol
unteers from the United Church
Women of Georgia.
Practically every church group,
Catholic, Jewish and Protestant
alike, every civic and social organ
ization and many of the Sates
leading citizens including a num
ber of legislators, have voluntarily
participated in the Chapel cam
paign.
The Protestant Radio and TV individual
Georgia Power Co. Fire Destroys
Seeks Approval to Deiinting Plant
Guild Flint Dam Here Tuesday
Vanlandingham, Rey
nolds Banker, will be a member of
the Georgia agriculture leaders
people-to-people good, will delega
tion to Europe including the Soviet
Union, next month.
The 48 member delegation will
carry a message of goodwill to ag
riculture leaders, officials and as
sociated trade people in Europe, es
pecially in the communist dominat
ed areas, during their 20 day trip.
Glenn Segars, administrative as
sistant to Commissioner of Agricul
ture Phil Campbell, and L. W. Eber-
hardt Jr., associate director of the
University of Georgia Cooperative
Extension Service will serve as host
and leaders for the delegation.
In addition to Soviet Russia, the
delegation is to visit two other
countries behind the Iron Curtain,
Hungary and Poland as well as East
Berlin.
“This is not a journey devoted to
tourism. It is an informative educa
tional goodwill mission dedicated
to improving relations and under
standing between Americans and
the people of Eastern and Western
Europe,” the delegation leaders
stated.
The Georgia delegation will visit
on farms with agricultural educa
tors, leaders and officials in Bel
gium, Hungary, the Soviet Union,
Poland, Germany and France. It
will leave Atlanta April 10th and
return April 30th.
The tounr is designed to imple
ment the aims and purposes of the
People-to-People Foundation and
the U. S. Government Cultural
Visitation Exchange Program. Dele
gates will be assisted by U.S. em
bassies in the countries visited.
Mr. Vanlandingham, who has
long been associated with farmers
and their allied businesses stated
that he considered it a worthwhile
pleasure to be selected as a mem
ber of this delegation, and that the
expense incurred by
Construction Work Would Begin
Sooner If Government OK’s
Ga. Power Company Offer.
Local Fire Truck Wrecked on
Way to Fire; Reynolds
Answers Emergency Call.
Assurance that the Georgia Pow- (Mrs. Verna Griggs)
er Co. “has not opposed, and will A fire discovered Tuesday after-
not oppose” any plan for the de- noon destroyed a deiinting plant of
velopment of Flint River water re- the Byrd-Jarrell 'Gin in this city
sources came this week from J. J. | an <l threatened two other build-
McDonough, president of the Power I ings.
Company. | All deiinting machinery and 60
The power company official 1to* 18 ° f fertilizer were lost in the
three-hour blaze.
Funeral Services
Here Monday for
Ernest Cochran
Center, Inc., has produced and; eacb delegate would be returned
distributed, free of charge, all radio j thru f j rst hand information and
and TV campaign material, includ- education concerning the agricul-
ing a 30-minute documentary video tural problem of Europe.
power company
pointed out that any studies Ga.
Power might conduct concerning the
development of hydroelectric plants
on Flint river would not conflict
with a recent recommendation by
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
for development of the river. ,
To emphasize that the aims of
the government and the power
company are not in conflict, Mr.
McDonough referred to paragraph
64 of the recent Corps of Engineers’
survey report on the Flint, which
stated : ’
“In 1961 the Ga. Power Co. ap
plied to the Federal Power Commis
sion for a permit to study the
feasibility of developing the river
for hydroelectric generating pur
poses by the construction of dams
between river miles 230 and 270.
They stated that this reach of the
river contains the lower Auchump-
kee Creek, Liza Creek, Sperwell
Bluff and other possible sites. Also
that the construction of dams in
this reach could develop approxi
mately 380 feet of gross power head
and that the generating capability
of this development would be ap
proximately 300,000 kilowatts with
an average generating capacity of
350 million kilowatt hours. The
headwater plan proposed in this
report would develop substantially
the same amount of gross power
head and produce approximately
the same amount of power gen
eration.”
The power company’s application
to the Federal Power Commission is
tape of Milledgeville hospital, en
titled “Another Door to Open,”
which was narrated by Miss Susan
hayward, award-winning Hollywood
actress who is the wife of Eaton
Chalkley of Carrollton.
The state-wide Chapel Campaign
was launched officially on March
2nd, from the hospital in Milledge
ville with the Governor’s prophetic
words to 250 county chairmen, busi
ness leaders, representatives of
state organizations and civic clubs:
“If heaven has an agenda for Ga.
in 1963, high on the list will be a
Chapel of All Faiths for Milledge
ville State Hospital,” spoke the
Governor.
Funds raised thru the Chapel cam
paign will be used to build six
chapels at the Milledgeville hos
pital, placed strategically to accom
modate 2,000 patients each.
In addition to being used as
houses of worship by the patients
and visitors to the hospital, they
will serve an equally important
function by implementing a relig
ious therapy program thru which
psychiatrists and clinical chaplains
can work together in the treatment
of mental illness.
There will also be a training pro
gram in pastoral counseling avail
able to students of the state’s theo
logical seminaries.
All denominations will be repre
sented on the staff of the pastoral
chaplaincy division.
Legion Auxiliary
Sponsors Americanism
Essay Contest
Believing that we need to know
more about the evils, etc., of Com
munism and that all good Ameri
cans, want to be better Ameri
cans, the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Butler American Legion Post 124
are sponsoring the “Americanism
Essay Contest” in the high schools
at Butler and Reynolds.
Subject of the essay is: “What
Can I do to stop the Spread of
Communism in America?” Prizes
will be awarded locally and win
ners will compete in State Contest
for nice cash prizes.
Students contact your school
principal or Legion Auxiliary
Americanism Chairman Mrs. C. S.
Sawyer at Reynolds; Tel. TI. 7-5335.
Deadline is April 5th for receiving
entries.
still pending. “Actually” McDon-
I* hope that" thru the exchange jough said, “granting our study per-
of ideas with the agricultural lead- ™it should materially hasten the
ers that we meet on the trip, I will i development of the Flint, as it
be better qualified to serve the could conceivably provide the basis
farmers and business groups of my
Wilson Jarrell, one of the part
ners of the firm, estimated the
damage at approximately $30,000.
It was partially covered by insur
ance.
Workmen had left the building
only a short time before the fire was
discovered. The blaze is believed to
have started from an overheated
motor which ignited loose cotton.
The fire also endangered nearly
50,000 gallons of gasoline in four
storage tanks at the Standard Oil
Co. about 30 feet from the build
ing.
The wind was blowing in the op
posite direction and prevented the
blaze from reaching the tanks.
The Taylor County fire truck and
the Reynolds fire truck answered
the call and joined city volunteer
firemen in confining the blaze to
the single building.
The city fire truck was damaged
soon after the fire began when the
driver in attempting to reach the
scene, was unable to see in the
dense smoke and ran into a tree
near the burning building.
Other owners of the ginnery are
Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd and his
brother, Thomas Byrd.
$6.6 Million in
Highway Contracts
Let Last Friday
P Atlanta, Ga. — State Highway
Board Chmairman Ji mGillis has an
nounced apparent low bid of $6.6
million received Friday on 43 con-
tarcts providing for new state and
federal highway construction in 43
Mr. William Ernest Cochran,
former Taylor County citizen, died
at his home in Augusta Friday at
3:00 p. m. after a lengthy illness.
Mr. Cochran was born in this
county, son of Mr. W. H. and Mrs.
Lou S. Cochran. He was fifty-eight,
and the husband of Mrs. Sarah W.
Cochran. He and his family had
resided at Augusta for a number
of years.
Funeral services were conducted
at Mt. Nebo Church Monday at 2:30
p. m. with Rev. Walter McCleskey
pastor of Butler Methodist church,
officiating. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
Survivors include his widow and
three sons: Eugene, Thomas and
Lamar Cochran; one sister, Mrs. C.
C. Cooper of Columbus; and one
brother, Mr. Bill Cochran of
Thomaston.
Local Lions Club
Plans to Visit
District Governor
J. Ed Locke, 84,
Died at His Home
Of Heart Attack
Funeral Services at Mt. Pisgah
Baptist Church Tuesday at
11:00 A. M.
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
Plans were formulated for visit
ing District Governor at the meeting
of the Lions Club Tuesday night
7:30 o’clock, at the City Tourist
Cafge. President Frank Riley pre
sided over the business session.
Wanza Hortman reported on the
sight improvement cases pending.
One successful operation ,for catar
acts has enable a Taylor County
woman who was totally blind to ' n 'i bil ,i’ n
see. She will have a second oper- IS ranclcnuarcn
ation in the near future.
The original charter of the Lions
Club has been reframed and moved
from the American Legion Home to
the City Tourist Cafe, Rev. Walter
McCleskey reported.
One new member, Robert Griggs
was received into the Club.
community,”
stated.
Mr. Vanlandingham
A Proclamation
CITIZENS, CITY OF BUTLER:
WHEREAS, the future of our
Community, State and Nation de
pends to a large extent upon the
strength of our homes; and
WHEREAS, the Georgia Home
Economics Association and the But
ler Chapter of the Georgia Asso
ciation of Future Homemakers of
America are organizations con
cerned with building strong foun
dations for future homes and de
veloping leaders for better homes;
and,
WHEREAS, the activities of these
groups provide opportunities for
members to practice principles of
democracy and leadership; and,
WHEREAS, the week, April 1-7,
has been designated as Future
Homemaker Week and Home Eco
nomics Week;
NOW THEREFORE, I, Alfonso
for a joint effort between the gov
ernment and power company.”
The utility official said he was
most anxious to dispel “any sug
gestion that we woul want to, or
would, delay any activity in rela
tion to the development of the
river.”
The power company president
pointed ou tthat Ga. Power acquir
ed tracts of land along the river
many years ago, looking forward to
the day when it would
economically feasible to
them.
Georgia counties.
Added to an apparent low bid of
$6,824,541 received Thursday on 32
State Highway Authority road im
provement contracts, today’s letting
brings to a total $13 million the
amount of work let to contract dur
ing March and raises the total let
since Jan. 1, 1962, to more than $29
million.
Included in Friday’s letting were
two interstate, one federal-aid Urb
an, one Federal-aid Secondary, and
become 1 39 state-aid contracts,
develop 1 —
Mr. J. Ed Locke, 84 years of age,
died Sunday afternoon of a heart
attack at his home near Butler. He
had been in declining health for
several months.
Mr. Locke was born in this coun
ty Dec. 23, 1877, a son of the late
Rev. John Locke and the late Mrs.
Amanda Gaultney Locke. He spent
his entire life in this county and
was engaged in farming interests
in the Cross Roads Community un
til his retirement a few years ago.
Mr. Locke was married in early
manhood to Miss Julia Dixon who
preceded him in death eleven years
ago.
He was a member of the Mt
Pisgah Baptist Church and a Ma
son, member of Fickling Lodge No
129. Mr. Locke received the 50
year membership pin from Fick
ling Lodge in this city at a spe
cial “Honors Night” program last
December.
Funeral was conducted at the Mt.
Pisgah Baptist church at 11 a. m.
Tuesday. Rev. Z. L. Purdue and Rev.
Walter Evans officiated. Interment
with Masonic rites occured in the
church cemetery.
Survivors include two sons:
Messrs G. D. Locke and A. E. Locke
both of Butler; one daughter, Mrs.
F. C. Ball, Greenville, Tenn.; five
and three great
great grand children; two brothers
A. J. and J. B. Locke, both of But
ler; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Bone,
Columbus, and Mrs. Grady Walden
of Augusta, Ga.
Watson-Mathews Funeral Home
of Montezuma w;is in charge of fu
neral arrangements.
Steer and Barrow
Show and Sale Apr. 4
At Thomaston, Ga.
McDonough explained that under j FHA will Campaign
modren methods of electric power 1 Saturday to Get Funds
generation, hydroelectric sites must .. .
be developed primarily to supple- For All r aittlS Chapel
ment the power generated at steam |
plants, which, unlike hydroelectric | Qn Satur( iay, doorbells will be
installations, can produce power 1 r jj-jgjj-jg throughout Butler School
’round the clock. Hydroelectric pow- commun ity. FHA members who
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
Date for the West Central Ga.
Steer and Barrow Show and Sale
is April 4th in Thomaston, Georgia
Farm Products Sales Barn. Top
quality steers and barrows will be
exhibited by 4-H and FFA members
with the steer show coming before
the barrow show. These animals
will be sold at 7:30 p. m.
County Agent Vernon B. Reddish
advises people of the county that
this will be a good time to stock
their freezers. The animals will be
sent to the slaughter house where
the meat will be processed and the
buyers can pick up the finished
product or the animals may be
picked up at the barn.
Notes from Local
Baptist Church
er can be generated only when
plant’s reservoir water is being
lowered. Once the accumulated
have volunteered to assist in the
County drive for the Chapel of all
Faiths at the State Hospital in
gates must be closed until the reser
voir refills.
"This does not
°‘ ."“J. of'’secondary 6 "interest uTXfSUj
Co. On the contrary, if it were not
for this ability of hydro plants to
produce energy at certain specified
need far more
reservoir water is let thru the power 1 Mined ille wiH be calling ^
producing turbines, the turbine
1 you.
by proclaim the week beginning
April 1st as FUTURE HOMEMAKER
WEEK and HOME ECONOMICS
WEEK IN BUTLER and urge all citi
zens of our Town to acquaint them
selves with the activities of the Fu
ture Homemaker Organization, and
the Home Economics Association,
to show interest in them and to give
help and encouragement to the
members who are working hard to
Mental health is a project adopt-
„ . .. . led by the State FHA membership
mean, he add d, l foj . this year -p be soliciting of mon
ey for the chapel is the second
project undertaken by the local
Chapter. The first project which is
nearing completion is making utili
ty bags for patients in the State
Hospital. Monday, approximately 70
bags will be mailed to the director
of public relations at the hospital.
The PTA program to be given by
the FHA on April 9th will be on
,. . . , years, the phenomenal increase
achieve knowledge, and provide, Qr ,a h
times, we would
steam plants to handle peak loads
—the power demands which come
as electric usage suddenly soars.
Industrial plants beginning their
day’s operations can bring about tbe sub j ect 0 f me ntal health,
such a peak usage. In very recent 1
acmeve nnowieage, aim 'Metric air conditioning and heat-
professional leadership that will, Georgia has com e to be an-
make our homes and community S , ^
better places in which to live.
other peak-usage factor. These air-
conditioning and heating loads,
especially, have initiated Ga. Pow
er’s search for economically feasi-
This March 27, 1962
ALFONSO McCRARY,
Mayor,
City of Butler.
Prosperity Church
Home Coming Day
Sunday, April 8th
The annual homecoming day for
Prosperity Primitive Baptist church j make a commitment for the de
will be observed April 8th. ! velopment of Flint or any other
Let all who can do so, come and |river without first determining its
have a part in the activities of hydroelectric potential and its
the day. economic value. Our application to
the FPC asks permission to make
the necessary studies in obtaining
this information.
“Had we not been sincerely in
terested in learning whether or not
we could economically justify de
v 0 . ■ , ,, wc uuuiu t-Luiluiiiit any juoin j
ble hydro plant sites on the rlin . ! ve ] 0 pment of the river, we would
In studying any such generating' have submitted our FPC ap-
project, engineers look for a defini e j p]j ca ^ on » McDonough said.
ratio between cost of construction |
and operation and the ultimate
benefits the projects will bring
about.
“Ga. Power,” the utility official
said, "cannot in fairness to itself,
its stockholders and its rate payers
“Our study,” he added, “can be
completed before there is a possi
bility on an appropriation by Con
gress authorizing the Army En
gineers to proceed with any de
velopment on this river. A study at
our own risk and expense, which
can have no conflict with the full
development of the river system,
should not be denied the company
which has interest second to none
in the development of Georgia.”
(Walter Evans, Pastor)
Youth of the Butler Baptist church
will visit Ft. Valley Saturday, 7-30
p. m. The Rehoboth Baptist Asso
ciation will observe Youth Night.
Altho no one from here will par
ticipate in the event, there are
plans to do so next year. The main
events will be Tournaments for
Better Speakers and Sword Drill. All
churches of Rehoboth Association
Association have been encouraged
to send their Youth to this meeting.
Time Change:
The hours for evening worship
at the local Baptist church will
change Sunday evening. The Bap
tist Training Union will meet at 7
p. m. and the evening worship be
gins at 8 p. m. We always are de
lighted to have visitors. Sunday will
be observed the ordinance of the
Lord’s Supper at the evening wor
ship hour.
Youth Week:
This church in observance of
Youth Week will have a special
service on the the night of April
8th. The Youth of the church will
be in charge of the service.
County Commissioners
Change Meeting Days
Butler-Reynolds
Receive Moose
Charter Sunday
Butler-Reynolds Loyal Order of
Moose, will institute and receive a
charter Sunday, 2 p. m , at the Na
tional Guard Armory, Reynolds,
with 125 Charter members en
rolled.
Officers of the new Lodge will
be installed by Regional Director,
Frank Ray of Atlanta, of the Butler
Reynolds Lodge, on above date, as
sisted by Geo. W. Banks, special
representative of Columbus.
Auditor Harry Horton, from the
Supreme Lodge will be on hand to
set up books for the new Lodge.
The Macon degree staff will per
form the ritual ceremony. There
will be visiting members from all
59 Moose Lodges in Georgia
present for the ceremony and in
stitution of the Butler-Reynolds
Lodge, Sunday.
Feed Grain Sign-up
Ends Tomorrow
The local ASCS Office advises
that Friday (tomorrow) is the final
date for filing an intention to par
ticipate in the 1962 Feed Grain
Program. The number of farmers
participating in the program is ex
pected to be much higher than the
participation in the program last
year.
The 1962 Feed Grain Program is
designed to reduce the surplus of
Feed Grains that have accumulat
ed. To participate, a farm operator
can sign to reduce his corn or
grain sorghum acreage below the
average acreage planted on the
farm in 1959 or 1960. Participation
in the program is voluntary.
Every farm operator who is not
familiar with the 1962 Feed Grain
Program is urged to contact the
ASCS by Friday — tomorrow.
Senior Class
Elects Mascots
The Board Members of the Taylor
County Commissioners announce
that their next meeting date would
be April 10th instead of April 3rd
or first Tuesday.
This change of Commissioners
date is to be effective for the month
of April, only.
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
The 1962 Butler High Seniors
have chosen Mike Hammack and
Sheryl Griggs as mascots for the
year.
Mike, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Hammack, is the brother of Bussy
Hammack, member of the Senior
class. Sheryl is the three year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Griggs. Mrs. Griggs has been a
class sponsor of the group.