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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 3, 1962.
REYNOLDS NEWS
In Macon Wednesday shopping
were Mrs. Mildred I’ayne and sons.
Miss Rebekkah Mimbs was home
for the week end with friends from
college.
Mrs. Leonard Cooper and Mrs.
A. S. James shopped in Macon
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Musslewhite
visited Mr. Earl Marshall in Ma
con Monday.
Mr. Ducker Whatley attended the
funeral of Mr. Lewis Easterlin Jr.
in Andersomville.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ogburn have
as guests this week end Mr. Skippy
Ogburn and family.
Miss Jennie James spent Friday
night in Oglethorpe the guest of
Miss Denise Avera.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. James Jr.
and sons, Bert and Bob, spent last
week-end with their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fuller visited
Mr. Coty Timmerman at the
Americus hospital Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Musslewhite
attended the funeral of Mr. Lewis
Easterlin Jr., in Andersonville
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Whatley and
children are spending the week
end in Thomaston with Mr. and
Mrs. Webb.
Mrs. Hazel Whatley and Alan
visited Mrs. Don Whatley at the
Upson County Hospital Sunday
where Mrs. Whatley gave birth to
fine son a few days ago. The new
arrival has been given the name
James Edgar.
Central H-D Club
Met Last Thursday
The Central H-D Club met at the
Clubhouse ..Thursday evening. Mrs.
Jack Peed, president, presided over
the business session. The Club has
a new line of Condolence and Get
Well Cards to sell. Members will
please co-operate in disposing of
these cards.
Mrs. Cooper, H-D Agent, gave an
interesting demonstration on cov
ering shoes to match costumes. She
also showed an array of embroider
ed towels. She gave instructions
on making a sewing case.
A trip to Dundee Mills is planned
for thisi week.
The hostesses of the month were
Mrs. Bembry and Mrs. Ab Jarrell
who served refreshments at the
close of the meeting.
—Reporter.
National Home
Demonstration Week
Being Observed
Mrs. Wm. Woodall, Club Reporter,
Mauk H. D. Club
Conservation Means
More Than Saving
Freeman Declares
I Taylor County
Clubs Observing
Demonstrtion Week
By G. Ross Freeman, Chaplain
Georgia Association of Soil
Conservation District
Supervisors
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
As the members of the Home
This is National Home Demon- ’ Supervisors Demonstration Clubs of Taylor
stration Club Week. All over the County prepared to observe Home
Nation, H-D Club members are put- The theme for National Soil and Demonstration Week this week, the
ting forth extra efforts as they ob- Water Stewardship Week is “The oldsters began to search their mem-
serve this annual event. Stream of Life” and Georgia com- 0 ries for happenings of days gone
H-D Clubs are women’s clubs or- munities are joining in the observ- by. The history of the work in this
ganized for the purpose of teaching ance May 27 to June 3. county has been compiled from
American women to be better home The Soil Stewardship Committee these memories.
makers. The Clubs are aptly named has accepted as its purpose for 1962 About the first of this work of
for in each Club a monthly meeting “To provide information for citizens striving toward better homes
is conducted and a demonstration of the State of Georgia which will started in the twenties when Miss
on some new or better method of reflect the sacred obligation of each Lizzie Hancock, now a resident of
making a home a good place in citizen to protect and conserve the Macon, came to Taylor County. Miss
which to live is given either by the life-giving soil and water resources Hancock who later left Home Ec
H-D Agent or some other person of this state, and to promote the WO rk to become a Civil Service em-
especiallv qualified to give infor- concept of the divine nature of these pioyee has now retired,
mation on the subject under dis- resources.” Miss Ruth Eberhart came next,
cussion. Churches of every denomination she devoted a great deal of her time
Years ago, the demonstration was will help to focus attention on the to strengthening the 4-H Clubs in
often on some new or improved importance of water in this effort, the county.
canning procedure. Later the dem- Georgia has an excellent supply Next was Miss Lenora Anderson,
onstralions changed to better ways for homes, farms, industry, power, the first agen that most of the act-
to freeze home vegetables, fruit and and recreation. Average rainfall in j V e members now can recall. It was
meat. In this way women were kept the state is 50 inches. An abun- during this time that members did
up to date on the latest news of dance of soft water is supplied by interesting things such as making
food preservation. the rivers and streams. Tremendous cheese, which one member thought
In manv other ways the H-D Club reservoirs store water to control the rated an exclamation—Uggh! This
helns the modem homemaker to do N° w , prevent floods, utilize the was a j 0 b. Milk was carried by the
her job more efficiently. Some dem- surging power, provide recreational Rupert Club members and Miss Lu-
onstrations are based' on: Interior facilities. 'lane Collier, Extension Food Prep-
decorations (selection of paint, cur- Properly managed this water is ara tion Specialist, aided Miss An-
tains and rugs), dressmaking, up- our most important resource. Un- derson in the the supervision,
holstery gardening, laundering, managed it can become a raging, j Other memories connected with
soil fertility, propagation of green destructive demon. Miss Anderson, now is the state
plants and health. I Hardly a year goes by without office, included tie-dyeing luncheon
n„h women a Iso develop hobbies a disastrous flood somewhere in sets, making mats of pine straw,
t n ihf. handicrafts Two ex- the United States. About $1 billion bottoming chairs with shucks and '
\ e hi h :^^basket^eavlng'damage is dene by water-fury each making pine needle hearth brooms,
work with copperXmi y e ar. This can be reduced by soil, Miss Willie Leggett followed Miss
and mete PP and water conservation on the farm Anderson. Mrs. Frank Callahan,
lands, forests, and ranges that make Mrs. Floyd Jarrell and Mrs. E. D.
and metal
num.
There is another side to H-D Club
work. In communities where Home c „ ntrol structures upstream — and ones who remember the days when
Demonstration Clubs exist there is hy large dams, dikes, and other can ning was the vogue. Freezing
yjj dikes, and
tangible evidence of their good structur es downstream. | at that time was done only by the
work. Good Club workers also take Ministers are being urged to in- weather in winter,
part in church and school affairs c j ude passages about the spiritual ( At Mauk, Miss Leggett led in
in citizenship activities and com- value of good soi] and water ste w- building an outside cooking unit
munity improvement projects. ardship practices in their sermons. a t the school house and buying a
Club women do not seek idle Many churches over the state will community pressure cooker. All day/
praise. They are interested in build- have special services to dedicate canning were conducted at the'*
ing a better community and a bet- t h e sodi seed, water, farm imple- school.
ter nation through the homes of ments anc j farmers as a part of Central and Wesley Clubs had one
our people. .the observance. jeanner and it was transported from
! place to place to process foods,
j Members saved many dollars in this
period by saving the food harvested
I in the summer. Even meats and
i fruit cakes were prepared in the
; pressure canners.
Miss Leggett supervised the or-
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9:30 to a. m. to 2 p. m. Reynolds Plant
School.
2:30 to 3:30 p, m. Reynolds Com
munity Library.
Huge Manufacturing
Will Locate
At Waycross, Ga.
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Plans for the construction of
new $500,000 manufacturing plant ganization of the Charing Club on
in the industrial section of Way- 1936 with Mrs. Dock Cooper as the
cross were announced this week by first president. The Cross Roads
C. J. Snyder, president of Ace Rub- Club was organized a year later
ber Products, Akron, Ohio. and became most interested in im-
The plant will manufacture a proving the school and its lunch
complete line of rubber accessories program.
for the automobile industry and for Also in 1937, the County held its
the home. The line includes auto- first fair. Many exhibits were en-
mobile floor mats, stair treads, door tered by the members and prizes
mats and hallway runners. .were awarded for them. Charing
Located on a 15-acre site, the new won the pressure canner, a useful
plant is part of an expansion pro- asset to the community,
gram by the rubber corporation. It The year 1938 arrived at the same
will add a $300,000 yearly payroll time as a new agent, Miss Frances
to the Waycross area and employ Elton, who worked in the county
100 local persons, according to Mr. for only a short time.
Snyder. | The county was without an agent
In announcing the new facility, during the the years and until 1950
Snyder expressed appreciation to when Miss Katherine Hamilton
the area development division of came for a brief stay. She was fol-
the Ga. Power Company and the lowed by Miss Elaine Shellhouse,
Waycross-Ware County Chamber of who started the county dress revues
Commerce for their cooperation and taught the ladies to make
and assistance in locating the aluminum trays,
new industrial plant. Miss Anne Smith came in 1955.
Construction is expected to begin She organized the Home Demon-
June 1st to prepare the industry for stration County Council. Her resig-
scheduled operations in December nation in 1959 brought Miss Eliza-
of this year. Plans for the building beth Wicker to the county,
completed by Waycross architect Miss Wicker, now Mrs. Edwards
John Huff. Containing 60,000 square Cooper, works with the 4-H Clubs
feet of floor space, the structure along with the Home Demonstra-
will be financed by the Waycross t jon clubs. A 4-H Council has been
and Ware County Development Au- organized one 4 -H member has
thority thru the sale of revenue * ’ . .. w ., nno , . „
anticipation bonds. made a tri P to the Natlonal 4-H
Harold Reuben, production and Congress and the Home Demonstra-
technical manager of the Akron tion ladies entertained the largest
plant will initiate the Waycross op- number of delegates to District
©ration.
Many rural areas today are mere shadows of
the past. Farmers, under-employed, abandon the
land . . . move to the fast-crowding cities. Young
people, facing a bleak future, likewise leave their
homes in search of a life in the cities . . . cities
in which the growing population is clearly creat
ing serious problems of health, welfare, and
economics. And the local Main Street suffers as
rural customers move away!
An answer?
One answer is to re-vitalize the depressed
rural area . . . make jobs for the under-employed
develop to the utmost the opportunities which
are often waiting for some inquiring mind to
seek them out.
Let’s take stock ... get enthused! Let’s tell
the world what we have to offer. Lets work to
gether for a better, brighter future for us alll
This corporation, a family-owned „ , . _ , _
Industry, has been in business for Spring ever in Taylor County.
26 years. Its Ohio plant employes 1 Under the splendid leadership of
more than 150 persons. [Mrs. Cooper, the Home Demonstra -
■ tion work should continue to pros
RHS Honor Roll per and grow in the county as it
Those named on the Reynolds Hi has in the last 40 years.
School Honor Roll for the Fifth
six weeks included:
^inuca
Flint Electric
Membership Corporation
COMMUNITY OWNED • COMMUNITY BUILT
• COMMUNITY BUILDER
Home Demonstration Council this
Fourth Grade:
Gina Boger
Diane Butler
Charles Crawley
Beth Jones
David McCrary
Julie Posey
Scott Posey
Clark Walton
Nancy Whatley
Charlie Whiddon
Fifth Grade:
Johnny Crook
Ginger Goodroe
Lucy Jon Mangham
Marilyn Windham
Sixth Grade:
Jennie James
Jimmy Whatley
Seventh Grade:
Jackie Fountain
Dixie Harrell
Linda Hill
Jo Wainwright
Eighth Grade:
Edward Swearingen
Tim Waller
Gene Hodges
Jimmy Ricks
Lynda Whatley
Tenth Grade:
Diana Thornton
State Traffic
Fatal to Five
Last Week-end
Atlanta, Ga. — An Atlanta teen
ager and a Jonesboro man were
among five persons who died in
| week end traffic accidents in the
state.
The teen-ager, Robert Logwood
118, succumbed at a hospital after
a wreck in Atlanta. Three other
1 persons were hurt in the same mis
I hap.
1 DeKalb county police reported
'that the Jonesboro man, Arthur
I Duncan, 56, was pronounced dead
following an accident early Satur
day.
! Robert Butler, 60, of Savannah
succumbed from injuries received
when he was hit by a truck Friday
.in Savannah.
| John Jones, 24, of Waynesboro,
died in a two-car collision at
j Waynesboro Friday night.
I Arley Parker, 38, of Knoxville,
Tenn., was fatally injured Satur
day in a head-on collisioin of two
cars in Harris County.
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