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Henry W, Grady
School of Journalism
The Taylor County News
and The Butler Herald
BUTLER, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1913
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Sams Enrolls In
Medical 'School
of
the
Eugene
County Tax Commissioner
Clifford H. Adams joins the long
list of public officials in Tay
lor County who deserve a great
big thank you from our citizens.
Visiting in his office this week
to get a completed report on the
1963 tax digest I saw a letter he
had received from Murray A.
Chappell, director, Motor Ve
hicle Unit of the State Depart
ment of Revenue. It was a com
mendation on the audit report of
the tag sales.
"The records of your office
deserves credit for an outstand
ing job of tag sales, records and
accounting, —it is with plea
sure that I commend you and
your staff for the outstanding
job," says Mr. Chappell.
Mr. Adams has also received
news that the 1962 audit has
been received in the state of
fice and is correct.
We need honest men who keep
careful accurate records to hold
our county offices.
* * *
The tax digest for 1962, ac
cording to Mr. Adams, was list
ed as $4,450,920 while in 1963
it was $4,677,864. These
figures include an increase on
utilities from $813,256 in 1962
to $923,860 in 1963.
* * *
During the month of August,
24 Georgia business firms fail
ed and went out of business.
This is in comparison with only
17 during the same month last
year.
* * *
The Birmingham bombing of a
church last Sunday only shows
more clearly how far our people
have gone away from God and
his teachings. Regardless of
how the church may have been
used in the past no one has the
authority to take justice in their
own hands or snuff out the lives
of children.
The Medical College
Georgia has announced
enrollment of Frank Houston
Sams, Jr. in the third year
class of the School of
Medicine. Sams is the son
of Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Sams
of Reynolds.
Sams’ previous two years'
work in the School of Medi
cine was concentrated prin
cipally on basic sciences re
lated to medicine. During the
remaining two years in the
medical curriculum, he will
receive instruction and clini
cal experience in the pro
cesses of disease. In ad
dition, he will be assigned
to the wards of the Eugene
Talmadge Memorial Hospital,
the college’s clinical teach
ing facility, were, under
supervision, he will work with
patients in obstetrics, in
ternal medicine, surgery, psy
chiatry, and other depart
ments. He will perform patient
examinations, prepare case
reports, make diagnoses, and
outline indicated treatments.
Harris Joiner Fund Honors Reynolds Educator
Head BSU Groups
EUGENE HARRIS JOINER
John Warr Is Speaker At
Kiwanis Luncheon Friday
In these turbulent days of few
words spoken in 1895 by the
great negro scholar and ed
ucator, Booker T. Washington,
should be recalled: “The wisest
among my race understand that
the agitation of questions of so
cial equality is the extremest
folly, and that progress in the
enjoyment of all the privileges
that will come to us must be
the result of severe and con
stant struggle rather than of
artificial forcing. No race that
has anything to contribute to the
markets of the world is long in
any degree ostracized. It is im
portant and right that all privil
eges of the law be ours, but it
is vastly more important that
we be prepared for the exercise
of these privileges. The op
portunity to earn a dollar in a
factory just now is worth in
finitely more than the oppor
tunity to spend a dollar in an
opera-house.” No greater
words can be spoken.
Trinity Church
Announces Plans
A change in Worship ser
vices is announced by the Rev.
R. B. McFadden, pastor of the
Trinity Freewill Baptist
Church. Worship services will
be held each fourth Sunday in
the month instead of the sec
ond.
Sunday morning worship ser
vices will begin at 11 a. m. and
evening service will begin at
8 p. m.
The public is invited to wor
ship at any time.
Mauk Baptists
Tell 'Schedule
The Mauk Baptist Church an
nounces that Sunday School is
held every Sunday morning at
10. Regular worship services
occur on the second and fourth
Sundays.
Let us make each service
better. We have a study Bible
course every second and fourth
Sunday night at 7:00. These
are conducted by our pastor,
the Rev. Preston Batts.
Preaching begins at 8;00.
John Warr, superintendent
of the Georgia Baptist
Children’s Homes located in
Haperville, Baxley andMeans-
ville, was the guest speaker
at the Reynolds Kiwanis Club,
Friday. These homes con
stitute the largest child-car
ing institutes in the South
East. The speaker is a
graduate of Berry College
and has taught there nine
years.
Mr. Warr chose "Children”
as his subject. "In America
today we are having a struggle
with ourselves. A moral
crisis is occurring: our only
hope for a better tomorrow
lies in our children of today."
Our situation 30 years from
now depends on the job we
do with the children of to
day.
Many of the children
cared for by the home are
children o f unfit parents.
A Christian must look upon
these children as an op
portunity to help rather than
as a responsibility.
Georgia Baptist children are
not angels. The places they
come from are not angel-
producing places. Usually,
Flint Members
To Get Checks
Flint Electric Membership
Corporation this week is in the
process of mailing checks total
ing $73,226 to members and for
mer members who received
service from the cooperative in
1949, according to an announce
ment by S. J. Tankersley, gen
eral manager of the system.
This year’s capital credit
payment brings to $595,315 the
amount returned to members
in the past six years, the an
nouncement stated.
"This is a good demonstra
tion of the advantages of mem
ber-ownership, whereby the
funds over and above the year’s
cost of operation, debt repay
ment, and reserve require
ments, are set aside to be re
turned to each Member in pro
portion to his consumption of
electric power,” said Tanker
sley.
these children come from
places where Christanity has
not been known.
When they leave the home,
they are all baptized Baptists.
They do this by choice. We
feel that it is not where
children come from but where
they are going that counts.
We must train children in the
way that they should go.
Howard Charge
Announces Plans
For Services
The Howard Methodist
Charge, pastored by the Rev.
Douglas Green, announces its
services.
The Howard Church has Sun
day School every Sunday at 10
a. m. Regular worship services
are held the first Sunday night
at 7 o’clock and the second
Sunday night at 7 o’clock. Morn
ing worship services are held
the second Sunday at 11 a. m.
The Charing Church has Sun
day School every Sunday morn
ing at 10. Regular worship
services are held the first Sun
day at 11 a. m.
The Mauk Church holds its
regular worship services on the
third Sunday morning at 11 and
on the third Sunday night at 8.
Wesley Church has Sunday
School every Sunday morning.
Regular worship services are
held on the fourth Sunday at
10 a. m. and fourth Sunday night
at 8.
Union Church has Sunday
School every Sunday at 10 a. m.
Regular services are held the
fourth Sunday at 11;30 a. m.
Woodmen Hoar
Howard Mathis
Howard Mathis of Warner Ro
bins was the guest speaker at
the Woodmen of the World, Camp
1428, Supper, Thursday night at
the Masonic Hall, given to en
tertain members of the Butler
Court 1605. His subject was
"Physical Fitness."
As an added feature William
B. Jones of Camp 440, Monte
zuma, was presented the "Mr.
Woodman” Award for the year
1962. This award was present
ed by Camps number 440 and
427 of Montezuma and Ogle
thorpe. Mrs. Jones was pre
sented a gift from the home of
fice.
America strong
our children
Let's make
by making
strongI
The speaker was intro
duced by the Rev. Bob
Whiddon, pastor of the
Reynolds Baptist Church.
Guests were John St. Clair
and Bill Owen, who will be
inducted as members next
week, Jimmy Payne and Butch
thomton, members of the
Reynolds High Key Club, and
Fletcher Barnes.
A scholarship fund, begun
by the Reynolds Kiwanis Club,
was given the name Eugene
Harris Joiner Scholarship
Fund. The funds to be
used as a means of
helping capable students at
tend college was named to
honor the retired educator
and citizen of Reynolds.
The funds for the scholar
ship will be turned over to the
Georgia Southern Scholarship
Foundation reserving a part
for local needs in case a stu
dent wants to attend another
S9I100I. For every dollar
received, the Foundation may
borrow nine dollars from the
Mets Trophy On
Display In News
Office Window
The trophy won by the
Butler “Mets” in the Peach
Belt League is now on dis
play in the window of the
Taylor County News Office.
Butler finished the sea-
ball season with a 10-2
record, winning eight straight
games after a slow start
at the beginning of the season.
The Mets had four players
to hit over .300 and com
posed a fine team average
of .267.
The members of the team
are Sonny Dunn, manager and
second base; Lum Purvis,
centerfield; Gary Hobbs,
second base; Mike Alm-
gren, outfield; Leodious
Harris, catcher; Sandy Harris,
pitcher; Carey Gassett, out
field; John Locke, catcher;
Joel Posey, shortstop; Howard
Locke, third base; Dudley
Eubanks, first base; James
Poole, outfield; Edward Wain-
right, catcher and Dwight
Harris, outfield.
government.
The scholarship will be given
by Georgia Soutlien College and
will be available to students
all over Georgia. One full
year after all college work
is completed the student will
begin paying the scholar
ship back at three per
cent interest. For every
year the student teaches
in Georgia ten per cent of
the scholarship will be given
to him and he will not have
to pay it back. If the student
teaches in Georgia five years,
fifty per cent of the funds
will be given to the student.
One Reynolds student, Miss
Jimmirae Brewer, has already
received this type of scholar
ship.
Mr. Joiner was born Octo
ber 24, 1887, at Owens
boro, Kentucky, to the late
Rev. and Mrs. T. V. Joiner.
He was educated in Ken
tucky and graduated from
Western Kentucky College.
In 1908 he came to Georgia
and taught at Reynolds for
three years. He studied law
and was admitted to the bar.
About this time, his father
died and Mr. Joiner re
turned to the field of education.
He served as principal
at Madisonvllle, Kentucky;
Harriman, Tennessee and
Thomasville, Georgia. Then he
went to Atlanta and taught
at the Atlanta Tech High
School for two years.
In 1919 he married Miss
Theresa Harpe, daughter of
a Reynolds resident. The year
1920 found Mr. Joiner back
Taylor County Students
Are Off For Colleges
Future Homemakers Attend Meet;
Plan For Reaching State Degree
Five members of the two Future Homemakers of America
Chapters in Taylor County high schools and their advisors
attended a State Degree Workshop at Abraham Baldwin Col
lege in Tifton, Saturday, September 14.
The four-hour program gave prospective State Degree ap
plicants specific instructions regarding the work which must
be done to qualify for the highest honor that can be earned by
a member of FHA.
The girls who attended were Linda Fay Rustin and Anne
Waller, Butler; Ruby Hortman, Terry Smith and Diana
Thornton, Reynolds.
Mrs. Barbara G. Payne and Mrs. Margery W. Fitzsimmons,
who took part on the program accompanied the girls.
It is with a great deal
of pride that we publish
the names of those Taylor
County students who are
attending college this fall.
Each one is to be admired
as he attempts to learn
more about this modem
world. Through their ef
forts better citizenship is
being built in Taylor County.
These students are from
Reynolds area: Annis Brun
son, Jimmirae Brewer, Bobby
Bell and Kikky Goddard, Geor
gia Southern; Larry Cook
Harry Hicks, Brer Russell,
Ronnie Posey, Junior Hyers,
Reid Walton and Clarke
Hortman, University of Geor
gia; Anthony Smith, Francis
Carson, Hugh O’Neil, Tom
Sawyer, Bill Walton and Patty
Lane, Middle Georgia; Gene
Brunson and Sue O’Neal,
Shorter.
James Hinton, Emory at
Oxford; Shirley Trussell, Tu-
lanne University; Mack God
dard, University of Minne
sota; Melody Hill, Brenau.
Hollis Goodroe, RollinStevens
and Kenneth Hartman, Geor
gia Tech; Bobby Seymour,
Birdwood College; Amelia
Halley and Margaret Parr,
Wesleyan; Jerri Windham,
Mercer; Terry Bishop, Tift;
Frank Sams, Medical College
at Augusta and Emory Parr
and Don Gentry, Georgia South
western.
From the Butler area
are: Deborah Lancaster, Wo
man’s College of Georgia;
Wilhemina Neisler, Travecca
Nazarene; Richie McCants, As-
bury College; Doris Peed and
Dondra Peed, Westminister;
Sandy Harris, Elizabeth
Blakely, Elaine Bryant, John
Locke and Helen Bohler,
Mercer; Kay Davis, Sue Peed,
Marilyn Spillers and Betty Jo
Hammack, Georgia South
western; Lovick Anthony, Pa
tricia Montgomery andCarolyn
Joiner, Emory at Oxford.
Buddy Jarrell, Bill Gibson,
Lynn Mitchell, Marshall Dean
and John Childs, Auburn;
Betty Ann Peed, Billy Gray,
Mary Ellen Allen, Jan Mc-
Glaun, Edwina Davis and
Edward Benns, University of
Georgia; Eugenia Hortman,
Georgia Business Institute;
Johnny Lou Adams, Andrew;
Dan Windham, Medical Center
at Augsta; Ann Benns and
Kay Dunn, Middle Georgia;
Hilda Bell, SouthGeorgiaTrade
School.
Jimmy Bone, SouthernTech;
Miriam Tucker, Abraham
Baldwin; Jimmy Stinson,
Dwight Harris, Berry; Errol
Burdeshaw, Norman Park;
Margaret Tante and Eliza
beth Albritton, Marsh Busi
ness College; Bonnie Layfield,
Georgia Southern; Jerry All-
mon and Dudley Eubanks,
West Georgia; and Steve Baze-
more, Young Harris.
From the Howard area
are: Roger Clarke, Ameri-
cus Trade School; Freddie
Brown, Columbus College,
Douglas Green, Emory and
Betty Jean Gee, Georgia
State.
From the Rupert Area
are Gloria Cooper, Georgia
Southwestern, and Ralph Law-
horn, Abraham Baldwin.
From Mauk is Korona Wal
ler, Norman Park. Harry
Jinks will represent the Ideal
area at Marsh Business Col
lege.
REV. PARTAVN
ATTENDS MEET
Rev. Jerry Partain, pre
sident of the Taylor County
unit, Georgia Education As
sociation, attended a cabinet
meeting of leaders from
Third District, West, in Ameri-
cus, Saturday.
This was the first of a
number of meetings, which
will be called by the District
Director, Mrs. Virginia Estes
of Columbus, to keep local
units Informed on the issues
vital to education in Georgia
today.
Assigaed
Pvt. Cnester L. Weldon has
been assigned to the motor pool
at Fort Clayton in the Canal
Zone.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dewey Weldon, he attended But
ler High School before enlisting
in the U. S. Army. He received
his basic training in Augusta and
Fort Bennlng, Georgia and Co
lumbia. South Carolina.
GENE BRUNSON
Brunson Chosen
Class Officer
Gene Brunson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. O. Brunson of
Reynolds, has been elected
to the position of Student
Council representative for the
junior class at Shorter Col
lege in Rome. A senior
at Shorter, he is also a
member oftheMen’sDormitory
Council.
Gene is a graduate of
Reynolds High School and a
member of the Reynolds Baptist
Church. He plans to enter
medical school after gradua
tion and go on to become a
doctor.
Butler Baptists
Plan Harvest
Day And 'Study
This coming Sunday is
Harvest Day in Sunday School.
We are urging every member
to come to Sunday School.
We also desire visitors to
attend.
Next Monday our General
W. M. U. will meet at 3:30
P. M.
On next Tuesday we ex
pect several members to at
tend the W. M. U. Fall
Conference in Marshallville,
which is to begin at 9:00
a. m.
Next week we will ob
serve Sunday School Pre
paration Week. We shall meet
Monday through Friday at 8:00
P. M. A class will be
held for each department.
The Nursery will study "Day
time and Nlghtime”; The
beginners, "Good Times at
Church", the Primaries,
"Singing Praises”; the
Juniors, "Highway To
Health", The Intermediates,
"Intermediates In Action”;
Young People, "Young People
and the Sunday School Chal-
legne”, Adults, "The Place
of the Sunday School in Evan
gelism". Visitors of neighbor
ing churches are welcome.
in Reynolds as principal of the
Reynolds High School. He
stayed here until his re
tirement, which was about
40 years later.
Mr. Joiner has three
children: Thomas Joiner of
Atlanta, who is manager of
the South Eastern Sun Life
Assurance Company of Atlanta;
Mrs. George DeLoach of Akin,
South Carolina and James
Joiner, a former teacher,
who is at home now.
Mr. Joiner is a member
of the Reynolds Methodist
Church and has taught the
Men's Sunday School Class for
35 years.
When asked why he was so
interested in helping students
receive a college education,
he said:
"There are several things.
"I realized the necessity
for it. I can 'see just what
it's done for my family.
Education has paid off.
"There have been big
changes in our world. If a
boy or girl doesn’t have
an education, he doesn’t stand
a dog’s chance.
"I have seen what a
difference it makes in polish
and genteelness. I believe in
a liberal educationl
"I have seen students who
had fine minds, excellent
records in school who couldn't
get any encouragement or
help and just gave up the
idea. I call it wasted talent.”
Mrs. M. P. Deao
Chosea To Lead
Northcutt Group
Mrs. M. P. Dean has been
chosen chairman of the Mickey
Northcutt Circle of the
Butler Baptist Woman’s Mis
sionary Union for the next
year. Other officers elected
to help her are Mrs. Johnny
Davis, co-chairman; Mrs.
Walter Evans, program chair
man; prayer chairman; Mrs.
P. B. Childs, community mis
sions chairman; Mrs. Robert
Griggs, publicity chairman;
Mrs. Jesse Daniels, steward
ship chairman, Mrs. Hoyt
Clark, secretary and Mrs.
Don Barnes, treasurer.
The officers were in
stalled at the meeting on
Monday night in the Church
Jerry Jarrell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Jarrell of
Butler has been elected presi
dent of BSU at Georgia
Tech. Jerry was chosen from
the BSU at Tech to go to
Alaska as a mission worker
the summei’ of 1961-62. He
is a Senior and will grad
uate from Tech this year.
An honor graduate of
Butler High School, Jerry is
a member of the Butler
Baptist Church. He attended
Little Emory at Covington for
one and a half years and
then transferred to Georgia
Tech where he has made
the Dean’s List since his
first quarter.
Mike Waller, a former re
sident of Taylor County,
has been elected president
of BSU at Mercer Univer
sity. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmo Waller, for
merly of Reynolds, presently
of Jefferson.
A graduate of Reynolds
High School, Mike was an
active member of the Reynolds
Baptist Church. He is now
a Senior at Mercer. After
graduation, he plans to en
ter pre-med school to study to
become a doctor.
LION'S FLAN
LADIES NIGHT
The Lions Club will meet
Monday night, September 23,
8;00 at the Bone Motel. This
meeting will be for all Lions
members and their wives. A
special program is planned so
make plans now to attend.
Reception Room with Mrs.
James Manning as hostess.
Mrs. Earl Dunn Jr. presid
ed at the business session
and Mrs. Walter Evans gave
the program on "Reporting”
on the Missionary Union over
the years. Those taking parts
were Mrs. Jesse Daniels and
Mrs. Robert Griggs.
Mrs. James Williamson was
received into the Circle as a
member at the meeting. Other
new members who have joined
the group during the year are
Mrs. James Manning, Mrs.
Don Barnes, Mrs. Jesse
Daniels and Mrs. Floyd Brew
er.
Residents Injured
In Accidents Here
Auto accidents throughout
the county have injured two out
of town men and several local
residents in the last few days.
L. L. Minor, prominent But
ler man, was seriously injured
in an accident on the Minor
Mill Road in the eastern sec
tion of the county Monday after
noon. The 63 Chevrolet in
which Mr. Minor was a pas
senger was driven by Angus
Sylvester Worthy, colored, al
so of Butler. The other car
Involved in the accident about
7 p. m„ Monday was a 55 Pon
tiac driven by Willie B. Raines,
colored, of Reynolds.
No other details on the ac
cident were available from the
State Patrol Headquarters in
Thomaston at press time.
Mr. Minor is donfined to the
Macon Hospital.
* * *
A head-on collision Sunday
afternoon at the city limits of
Butler caused injuries to three
men.
A 63 Ford driven by Thomas
F. Swafford, 50, of Macon hit
a 55 Ford driven by Leon Bunk-
ley, 25, colored, of Butler head
on about 3:45 p. m., Sunday on
U. S. Highway 19, 1 mi. N. of
Butler. According to the Pa
trol report, the vehicle driven
by Bunkley crossed the center
line and was struck by the on
coming vehicle.
Swafford and a passenger
riding with him. Brook Davis,
55, of Gainesville were trans
ferred to the Montgomery Hos
pital. Swafford was later mov
ed to an Atlanta Hospital.
Both cars were demolished.
* * *
In another accident, Saturday,
Robert Austin Wilkerson, 36, of
Warner Robins went off the road
at Rupert but no injuries were
reported. Traveling west on
Highway 90 in a 1959 Cadillac,
he failed to stop at the inter
section with Highway 19,7.6 mi.
S. of Butler. Crossing Highway
19, the vehicle went over an em
bankment on the opposite side
of the road.