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‘’KEEPING EVER LASTINGLY A T IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
VOLUME 86
BUALER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1962.
NUMBER 33.
Mrs. Lizzie Cromer
Died Suddenly at
Home of Daughter
Funeral Conducted at
Bethel Cemetery,
County.
Little
Macon
4-Hers Compete for
Title in Various
County Projects
Mrs. Lizzie Bell Cromer, 76 year of
age, died at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. H. W. Woodall in Mauk
May 9th, 9:30 p. m. after suffering
a stroke.
Mrs. Cromer was the daughter of
the late James W. Fowler and Suz-
anna Ray Fowler of Ideal. She was
born Oct. 7, 1885, and was the wid
ow of Newby Cromer who pre
ceded her in death about nine years
ago, at which time Mrs. Cromer
moved to Butler.
Funeral services were conducted
at Little Bethel Freewill Baptist
Church, Ideal, May 11, 3 p. m. with
Eld. W. R. Lawhorn officiating.
Interment was in the church ceme
tery.
Pall bearers included: Bobby
Cromer, Thomaston; Jimmie Cromer
Atlanta; Robert Woodall, Soperton;
Jimmie McDonald, Albany; Glea
son Fowler, Albany; Gene Fowler,
Marshallville.
Survivors include four daughters
Mrs. H. W. Woodall, Mauk; Mrs.
Kate Barney, Albany; Mrs. L. F.
Rigsby, Albany; Mrs. Harry Souter
Thomaston; two sons, Harvey
Cromer, Rupert; Lewis Cromer,
Thomaston; three brothers, Arthur,
and Bill Fowler of Ideal and Ge-
rome Fowler of Oglethorpe; also 11
grand children and eight great-
grand children
Mr. F. M, Carroll
Died at Thomaston
The funeral of Mr. F. M. (Tony)
Carroll was conducted May 8th, 3
p. m. at the Charing Methodist
church with Rev. W. J. Childree of
ficiating. Interment was in the
Bloodworth cemetery.
Mr. Carroll had made his resi
dence in Thomaston for the past
two years.
Survivors include a daughter,Mrs.
Myrtle Ritter, Thomaston; a daugh
ter in law Mrs. R. E. Carroll of
Toccoa; sons are Mr. Willis Car-
roll of Thomaston and Sgt. J. W.
Carroll of U. S. Air Force in Puer-
-o Rico; brothers are Mr. John B.
Carroll, Sr., of Manchester and Mr.
E. B. Carroll of Charing; sisters
are Mrs. lone Windham and Mrs.
Jenny Ray of Butler; Miss Viola
Carroll of Charing and Miss Polly
Benford, Savannah.
Macon County
Escapee Captured
Taylor County 4-H’ers and par
ents met May 2nd in the local
school cafeteria to compete for
county title in various projects. A
number of parents and visitors at
tended and witnessed the demon
stration, as the girls modeled their
garments or displayed their biscuit
and muffins for judging.
Girls entered 70 different projects
and 26 places were won and are
as follows:
Recreation:
Cloverleaves:
1st place, Lucy Jon Mangham
2nd place, Ginger Goodroe
3rd place, Joy McCrary
Juniors
1st place, Diane Bass
Seniors:
1st place, Daphine Barnes
Family Life:
Cloverleaves:
1st place, Karen Horton
Entomology:
cloverleaves:
1st place, Claire Elliston
Clothing:
Cloverleaves:
(Fifth Grade)
1st place, Dyrene Waller
2nd place, Judy Montgomery.
3rd place, Priscilla Jones
Cloverleaves:
(Sixth Grade)
1st place, Diane Larkin
Juniors:
1st place, Merita Barrow
2nd place, Elaine Clark
3rd place, Cathy Guinn
Seniors:
1st place, Miriam Tucker
2nd place, Janice Peed
3ru place Daphine Barnes.
Health:
Junior:
1st place, Cathy Guinn
Sepior:
1st place, Ellen Guinn
Biscuit:
Junior:
1st place, Merita Barrow
2nd place, Alma Dora Barnett
3rd place, Jo Wainwright
Muffins:
Cloverleaves:
1st place, Karen Parks
2nd place, Pearl Taylor
3rd place, Ginger Godroe
Yeast Bread:
Senior:
1st place, Mary Edith Jarrell.
In Between Meal Snacks:
Cloverleaf:
1st place, Diane Larkin
Better Breakfast:
Junior:
1st place, Nina Payne
Freezing:
Cloverleaf:
1st place, Elizabeth Riley.
First place winners represent the
county in the District meeting dur
ing June and July.
Mrs. L. L. Minor, Sr.
Succumbed to Brief
Illness Tuesday p.m.
Preparations Were Being Made
j To Carry Her to Hospital
When She Expired.
Mrs. L. L. Minor Sr., wife of Mr.
Amateur Baseball
League Formed at
Reynolds May 8th
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
An organizational meeting of an
amateur baseball league on May
8th at Reynolds resulted in the
Peach Belt League with four teams
participating — Reynolds, Taylor
Mill, Barnesville and Roberta. Troy
Athon, Reynolds, was chosen presi- L. L. Minor, died Tuesday after
dent of the group and Joe Hyde,Ro- n °on a t 6:30 o’clock. Shg was
berta, will serve as secretary and stricken gravely ill and arrange-
treasurer |mements had been completed for
' . ... ., . 'her removal to the hospital when
The new teams will see their first occurred . However:Mrs. Minor
action May 20th with Reynolds • of health
playing Barnesville at Barnesville several J / ears .
and Roberta playing Taylor Mill at ( Mps Minop wag born Qct 1900
Potterville with both games sched- (laughter of John H ar P er Beville
uled tor 3 p. m. and j Harper Beville at Gainesville
Bill Patterson will manage the pj a g be ba( j mat j e her home in
Reynolds team and Jennings Lovick Butler for the past 34 years among
the Taylor Mill. Ernest Rigdon was relatives and friends.
°hosen manager of the Barnesville Funeral services were conducted
team with Jimmy Hearn managing Thursday (this) morning at the lo-
the Roberta team. ca j Methodist church at 11 o’clock
A complete roster of players and with Rev. Walter McCleskey, pas-
Left to right: Mr. O. T. (Uncle Jack) Driskell, Murray Driskell, and
Ferrell Driskell; the lad in front is Alan Driskell
Four Generations
O. T. Driskell Family
Met in Reunion
Mrs. Marshall’s Pupils
Render Music Program
At Kiwanis Luncheon
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
At a recent family get together at
the home of Mrs. Hoke Windham
and Mr. O. T. Driskell, four genera
tions of Driskells were present,
ranging in age from 6 to 92 years of
age.
“Uncle Jack” Driskell born in
Taylor county in 1870, was the old
est member present at the reunion.
He is well known in this section as
a retired carpenter. His mind is still
alert and he still walks to town
daily. Though he can’t see TV well
enough to watch the picture, he en
joys listening to it.
His son, Murray, was also born in
Taylor county and lived here until
1954 when he moved to Forest
Park where he works in an auto
alignment shop.
schedule of games for the season
will be made public as soon as pos
sible. All persons are urged to at
tend the games and support the
teams of their choice.
Byrd’s Campaign
Is Still Unsettled
Warner Robins, Ga. — One of two
convicts who escaped from a Ma
con county prison branch work de
tail on U. S. 41 Monday was cap
tured several hours after the break
the State Patrol reported.
The second man was believed
trapped in a wooded area near
Warner Robins.
A spokesman at the Patrol’s Per
ry post identified the two. con
victs as Lloyd Smith and Jbseph
Byers.
Annual Mailbox
Improvement Program
The week of May 21-26, has been
designated Mail Box Improvement
Week. Mail boxes on Rural Routes
and Star Routes with delivery and
collection service are to receive at
tention.
Rural patrons are requested to
help make 1962 Mail Box Improve
ment Week the best ever for Tay
lor County. A few ways for your
guidance in making this possible
include:
Names should be shown on the
side of box visible to carrier, or the
door if the boxes are grouped.
Boxes and supports should be
kept painted.
Boxes should be grouped where
two or more are close together.
Blanche Brunson, P. M.
Reynolds, Ga.
Maude Martin, P. M.
Howard. Ga.
Ruth Pike, P. M.
Mauk, Ga.
Effie Garrett, P. M.
Charing, Ga.
Lucile Callahan, P. M.
Rupert, Ga.
Carl C. Hobbs, P. M.
Butler, Ga.
Regulations Passed
Recently by County
Board of Education
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
Mrs. C. E. Marshall presented
group of her music students in
special program at the Kiwanis
luncheon meeting on Friday. Those
playing duets with Mrs. Marshall
were Bucky Reddish, Mitzi Towson,
Joan Wisham, Betty Ann Brewer,
Johnny Lou Adams and Eugenia
Hortman. Miss Hortman also sang
two vocal solos.
Special guests for the day, intro
duced by Julian Whatley, were Dave
McMiekle of Columbus; County
Agent Vernon Reddish, Assistant
Agent Jerome Ethridge and Key
Club members Bobby Martin and
Henry Sams.
President Roy F. Jones read a
letter of thanks from L. L. Minor for
the certificate presented him by the
The grandson, Ferrell, is now in | Kiwanis Club. Jones also announc-
Brevard, N. C., but he too is former- | e d that a delegation from the Club
ly of Butler, living here until grad- ' w jU visit all the clubs in this dis-
uation from Butler High school in
1952. He is now working with a
business firm at Brevard and he has
one son, Alan, the fourth generation
of Driskells.
5 Persons Die
As Auto Drops
Into Sinclair
trict to invite members to partici-
nate in Fel lowship Day, May 23rd.
This is the first of a planned series
to be conducted annually and Rey
nolds was selected to be the first
host club.
Canning Clinic
May 24th and 25th
At Voc.-Ag. Dpt.
The Taylor County Board of Ed
ucation has made two rulings re
cently which might affect some
parents and students in the matter
of school attendance in the schools
of the county.
T'he first of these regulations has
to do with married students. Under
this regulation no married student
will be permitted to attend any
school in the Taylor County System
as of the beginning of the 1962-63
term. Any student or students who
might be married at any time dur
ing the course of any term of
school will be required to withdraw
from school immediately upon such
marriage.
The second ruling changed a
previous regulation relative to the
age at which a child would have to
Milledgeville, Ga. — Murky wat
ers of Lake Sinclair yielded the
bodies of five Eatonton Negroes
killed late Sunday night when their
car spun out of control while re
portedly drag-racing at 100 miles
an hour and plunged into the
water.
Eight other Negroes, all from
Milledgeville, riding in the other
racing car are being detained in
Baldwin coupty jail .on . .charges .of
drag-racing and cati&ftfc-' an 'tw
dent on $1,000 bond each. Four of
these are juveniles.
Reynolds Kiwanis
Will be Host at
Golf Tournament
The Reynolds Kiwanis Club will
be host to the first Fifth Division
Kiwanis Fellowship Day on May 23,
and the Annual Fifth Division Golf
Tournament will be staged in con-
be in order to be admitted to any j unc ti on with this event. Clubs
school in the county in the first j rom Americus, Cordele, Montezuma
grade. The last regulation on this | Vienna , Ft. Valley, Perry and Ro-
A canning clinic will be conduct
ed in the High School Vocational
Agriculture Department the night
of May 24th and the afternoon of
May 25th.
The night meeting which will be
gin at 8 p. m. will include informa
tion on the various causes of spoil
age and other canning problems
and how they may be controlled.
."-The afternoon iraeetipg- the fob*
lowing day will be devoted to
using the best procedures in can
ning samples of the different fruits
and vegetables normally canned
here.
Mr. A. P .Higginbotham, area
teacher from Thomasville, will work
with the local Voc.-Ag Teacher
Johnny Davis, in putting the Clinic
on. Mr Higginbotham has been
closely associated with the voc-ag.
canning program since its begining
since its beginning many years ago.
Patrons of the canning plant are
urged to attend these clinics.
(Ken Barnes)
Statements by Lt. Gov. Garland
Byrd’s friends and campaign work
ers cast the first official doubt on
whether Byrd will continue in the
governor’s race.
H. E. West, superior court judge
from Dublin and Sixth District
campaign chairman, said Byrd and
his physicians plan to announce
within two weeks whether the Lt..
Gov will stay in the race.
Dr. D. M. Forester, described
Byrd’s condition as about the same
with some pain off and on. “Blood
pressure, pulse and heart function
remain satisfactory,” Forestr said.
Forrester emphasized (he fact
that Byrd wold have to take a good
rest of about two months. A similar
period of convalesing was recom
mended earlier by Dr. Bruce Logue
an Atlanta heart specialist.
Ward said that it is hoped Byrd
will be able to return to his home
in Reynolds within two weeks and
then make a decision as to whether
he will remain in the race.
Ward’s statement and a similar
one by Jim Wynn, Byrd’s press
aide marked the first time anyone
in the Byrd camp had publicly an
nounced that Byrd might consider
withdrawing from the race. Hereto
fore all comment coming from his
doctors, supporters and aides was
that Byrd definitely was in the
race.
It was announced earlier that Byrd
would spend from three to four
weeks in the hospital and at least
another month at home recuperat
ing. That would delay active cam
paigning on his part until July 4,
the traditional opening of the po
litical campaigning.
Ward said that Byrd’s supporters
were more “closely knit” than ever
before and that they have “come
forth with a program to make all
public appearanQe|i for Byrd as long
as he is incapacitated.”
tor, officiating, and assisted by Rev.
Walter Evans, pastor of the local
Baptist church. The deceased was a
member of the Methodist church.
Interment was in the City cemetery.
Pall bearers include Leon-fTheus,
Ralph Underwood, William- Ohildres
Walter Suggs, W. S. Payne? Robert
Standridge, Charles Benns, Gene
Bazemore, Franklin McCants, John
Pennington; honorary pall bearers
include Otis Cox, Dr. Frank Sams,
Dr. Whatley, Dr. R.C. Montgomery,
Dr. Clifford Montgomery, Walter
Jarrell, R. C. Brooks and Tom
Giles.
Survivors include the husband,
Mr. L. L. Minor, Sr.; two sons, L. L.
Minor, Jr., of Butler; and Dr. James
B. Minor, of Atlanta. Eight grand
children also survive.
Edwards Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
matter specifies that a child,
order to be admitted in the first
grade in any school in the county
must have reached his sixth birth
day on or before January first, fol
lowing the opening of that term of
school.
W. H. ELLISTON,
County School Supt.
Dance Recital
Tonight at Butler
Mrs. John Hicks will present her
Dance Recital Thursday night (to
night) 8:15 o’clock at the local
gym. The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
berta have been invited to attend
the event.
The purpose of the meeting is to
pormote a closer relationship be
tween the members of the Clubs in
this section. In addition to the tour
nament, a number of other inter
esting contests have been arranged.
The program and dinner will be in
the auditorium of the Flint Elec
tric Membership Corp.
Cordele was the winner of the
Fifth Division Gold Tournament in
1961 and the plaque will be pre
sented to the Club winning the
tonrnament on May 23. The presen
tation of the awards will be made
at the dinner and pgogram meet
ing.
Summer Session
At Tift College
Begins June 11
Forsyth, Ga. — Tift College’s sum
mer session opens June 11. This
summer the program is being offer
ed for the benefit of regular stu
dents and for public school teach
ers in this area of Georgia. Oppor
tunities are afforded at a reason
able cost for students to take from
one to three courses in the summer
session.
The first session will begin June
11. and will continue to July 20
There will be no Saturday
classes. Registration will begin at
8 a. m., June 11.
Georgia Court
Upholds Teen’s
Death Penalty
Reynolds Scouts
Present Badges to
Eligible Members
(Mrs. Verna Griggs)
Boy Scout Troop 231 of Reynolds
at the regular meeting presented
merit badges to members earning
them. Lawrence Cook presented the
awards. Scouts eligible for the
awards and the awards received
included:
Chris Borders: Citizenship in the
Home, Woodcarving and Scholar
ship.
Butch Thornton: First Aid and
Safety, Citizenship in the Home,
Scholarship, Home Repair.
Mike Brunson: Woodcaiving, Fire
manship, Safety, Coin Collecting,
Scholarship, Animal Industry.
Henry Sams: First Aid, Horseman
ship, Safety and Public Health.
James Hinton: Animal Industry,
Marksmanship, Plumbing, Safety.
Edward Swearingen: Farm Me
chanics, Home Repairs.
Billy Lee: Coin Collecting.
Bobby Bell: Personal Fitness, Citi
zenship in the Home Citizenship in
the Community, Fishing, Athletics,
Firemanship, Publis Health, Cook
ing.
Gene Hodges: Scholarship, Home
Repairs. ’■
Reid Walton: Reading, Marks-
nship, Scholarship.
lly Hip' is the Scoutmaster for
the troop; Hollis King is the As
sistant and Bobby Bell is Junior As
sistant Scoutmaster. The troop is
sponsored by the Reynolds Kiwanis
Club.
The newest project the boys are
undertaking is helping with the
clean up, paint up campaign of the
town. They are painting the fire
hydrants, trash cans, cross walks
The State Supreme Court Mon
day upheld the death penalty con- .
viction of Preston Cobb, Jr., a 16-i and parking spaces throughout the
year-old Negro, for slaying his el- city,
derly white employre last August.
The unanimous decision rejected
a contention of lawyers for the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored people that a new
trial was mandatory because of
systematic exclusion of Negroes
from juries for the past half cen
tury in the county where Cobb was
tried.
The court’s ruling sends the case
back to Jasper County
Mr. Herschel Walker
Accepts New Post with
Aircraft Organization
Court for fixing an execution date
but an appeal to the Supreme
Court is exected to delay imposi
tion of the sentence.
Cobb, who was 15 at the time
of the slaying and his trial, was
sentenced to death for fatally
shooting Coleman Dumas Sr., 70,
near Monticello, after an argument
over some fish.
Cobb is the youngest persons ever
sentenced to die in the Georgia
electric chair. His case brought in
ternational reprecussions.
Mr. Herschel Walker, son of Mr
and Mrs. Murray Walker, stopped
over for a brief visit with his par
ents Thursday enroute to East Pat-
Superior jterson, N. J., where he will be em
ployed by Curtiss Wright Aircraft
Corporation as an electronic en
gineer.
Mr. Walker since graduation
from Southern Tech, has been em
ployed with Vitro Corp. at Naples,
Fla., since last June.
The numerous local friends of
Mr.'Walker will be glad 1o l«arn
that he recently received licenses
as a pilot. Best of good wishes am
extended this talented young man
at his new post of duty in New
Jersey.