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The Taylor County News
and The Butler Herald
VOLUME 88—NUMBER 10
BUTLER, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1963
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VETERANS GET
INSURANCE FUNDS
Georgia veterans will re
ceive mote than $4 million
in insurance dividends be
tween January 2nd and 25th,
Pete Wheeler, Director, Geor
gia Department of Veterans
Service, said today.
The 80,449 Georgia veterans
who hold dividend-producing
policies will receive a total
of $4,012,230 according to
the Veterans Administration.
Normally dividends are paid
on the anniversary date of
the policy, but President
Johnson ordered the early
payment as a method of
stimulating the nation’s
economy.
Throughout the nation,
4.5 million World War II
veterans who hold National
Service Life Insurance poli
cies will receive $219 mil
lion. Another $15 million
will go to 225,000 World
War I veterans. Korean
veterans hold non-participat
ing policies that provide no
annual dividend payments.
Death rate among veterans
is lower than was antici
pated when the premium
rate was established. Divi
dends come from the ad
ditional funds paid into the
plan by veterans’ themselves.
Payment of he dividend
will be automatic and no
application or correspon-
dance is necessary, Mr.
Wheeler said.
However, he added that
the Department of Veterans
Service will assist any vet
eran or his dependent
Funeral Rites
Held Here Friday
For Mrs. Allmon
Funeral services for Mrs.
Ressie Shirah Allmon were held
at Prosperity Primitive Bap
tist Church, Friday at 2:30p.m.
with Elder Hartley officiating.
He was assisted by the Rev.
Clibourn.
Born in Macon County, Octo
ber 12, 1885, Mrs. Allmon was
the daughter of the late Lawson
and Bell Shirah. She was the
widow of G. A. Allmon and a
member of the Prosperity
Church.
Mrs. Allmon died in Warner
Robins at the home of her daugh
ter December 19 at 12 p. m.
Survivors include M. G. All
mon, Butler; J. T. Williams,
Augusta; T. I. Allmon, Hape-
ville; C. M. Allmon, Daytona
Beach, Florida; Mrs. M. E.
Keller, Warner Robins; Mrs.
June R. Roberts, Thomaston;
L. A. Allmon, Warner Robins;
Miss Ann Hill, Atlanta; Walt
er Shirah, Monroeville, Ala
bama and Mrs. A. O. Hill, Ogle
thorpe.
Edwards Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements.
Nephews and grandsons of the
deceased served as pall
bearers.
Williams Is Home
For Christmas
Michael Williams, sonofSgt.
and Mrs. J. H. Williams of
Charing, is spending a 14 day
furlough at his home during the
holidays. It is his first visit
home since entering the Army.
Mike, who attended Butler
High School, is stationed at Fort
Monmouth, New Jersey, where
he is attending electronics
school in the Army Security
Agency.
Reynolds Woman’s
Club Postponed
The Reynolds Woman’s Club
meeting has been postponed to
Wednesday, January 8, 1964.
Further announcement will be
given in the News next week.
Cotton Farmers
Want Quotas
Cotton growers over the
nation in the December 10
referendum favored marketing
quotas by a 94.2 percent
favorable vote. Early re
turns showed a vote of
216,167 for and 13,416 against.
The Taylor ASC County
Committee states that voters
in this county favored market
ing quotas by a vote of
182 for quotas and 2 a-
gainst. Approximately sixty
precent of the eligible voters
in the county voted in this
referendum.
1904 PICNIC - A group of young lads and their ladies
enjoyed a picnic - 1904 style. Left to right they are -
George Layfield, Minnie Harvey Giles, Woody Garrett,
Oscar Usary, Oriska Garrett, Lester Garrett, Janie- Terry
Garry. - Picture courtesy of Mr. and Mrs- Lester Gar
rett.
NATIONAL CONGRESS - Mary Edith Jarrell,
twenty-year older from Butler, is welcomed
to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago
by James E. Marler, President of the Stan
dard Brands Sales Company which provided
her trip to the annual meeting. Mary Edith
won her trip for her proficiency in yeast
baking and along with five other top bread
project winners, was awarded a $500 scholar
ship by Standard Brands Incorporated. The
daughter of Mr. and Mrs- Gorman Jarrell,
who operate a 100 acre farm in Taylor
County, Mary Edith has completed bread
projects in each of her eight years in 4-H
She has made an assortment of bread
products such as breads, rolls and biscuits
more than 1,050 times. Most of these were
served in the 2,000 meals she’s prepared.
Mary Edith’s recipe this year, which proved
to be worthy of national notice, was called
Bohemian Cheese Rolls- - a basic yeast-
raised roll recipe to which cornmeal, mo
lasses and cheese have been added.
Georgia Power
Checks Given
Checks bringing the amount
of the Georgia Power Com
pany’s 1963 property tax pay
ments to $7,779,000 are being
presented this week to muni
cipal and county government
officials, according to H. L.
Russell Reynolds, Georgia,
Local Manager.
Mr. Russell reported thea-
mount compares with a total
of $7,308,000 paid by the
company for its 1962 property
taxes- Of this total, $3,597,
000 goes into general county
funds, $2,728,000 to school
districts, $1,316,000 to cities
and towns, and $138,000 to
Georgia and adjoining states-
Earlier in the year, munici
pal partnership tax payments
totaling $2,734,000 were paid
by the company to the 392
cities, towns and communities
in which the firm’s partner
ship franchise agreement was
in effect. Under this agree
ment, the company pays each
municipality in which it ope
rates three per cent of its
gross revenue from the sale
of electricity for residential
and commercial use- These
municipal partnership tax
payments were in addition to
property tax payments.
Mr. Russell stated that the
following checks were de
livered in Reynolds terri
tory this week: City of
Reynolds $354.23, City of
Butler $284.76, Taylor County
$16,781.51, City of Roberta
$121.08 and Crawford county
$11,553.60.
MontgomeryBuy
Aberdeen-Angus
Robert Clifford Montgomery,
11, Butler, recently purchased
an Aberdeen-Angus bull from
J. Render Turner, LaGrange,
Georgia.
Bill James Gets
Kennedy Letter
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 27, 1963
Dear Bill;
In thanking you for your
letter which was received
after the untimely death
of President Kennedy, I want
to assure you that your
friendly thought in writing
is very much appreciated.
Sincerely Yours,
Evelyn Lincoln
Bill James
908 M’cArthur Boulevard
Warner Robins, Georgia
The above letter was re
ceived by the 9 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon
James of Warner Robins
soon after the death of former
President Kennedy. To get
the complete story Mrs.
James questioned her young
son.
The week before the Pre
sident's death Bill wrote a
letter to the President and
enclosed a picture. This was
the reply he received to the
letter that neither his mother
nor his teacher knew he
wrote.
The grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Bill James, Butler,little
Bill is a 4th grade student
at Westside Elementary School
in Warner Robins.
BOOKMOBILE
SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31
9:00 - 12:00 Reynolds High
School
2:30 - 3:00 Charing at
Waller’s Store
3:15 - 4:00 Mauk at Post
Office
Mrs. Phillip Mann
Extension Librarian
STORK CLUB
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Edmon
son of Forest Park announce the
birth of a son, December 11 at
South Fulton Hospital, Atlanta.
He has been named Martin
Wayne. His maternal grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. M.
E. Driskell of Forest Park and
the paternal grandparents are
Mrs. W. C. Edmondson and the
late W. C. Edmondson of But
ler.
REYNOLDS
ELECTION SET
JANUARY 7
Robert L. Swearingen Jr.
qualified this week to run for
the office of mayor in the Jan
uary 7 election.
There are two vacancies for
the office of councilman for
three year terms. Qualifying
are J. T. Goodroe and A. C.
Borders.
Henry Hobbs has qualified for
the unexpired term of Henry
Hicks.
Anyone who wishes to run in
this election must have their
entry mailed to the City Clerk,
Mrs. Lois H. Cosey, on or be
fore December 24 so that their
name will appear on the ballot.
West Central Georgia Area
Development Commission Organized
Charlie C. Stone of Butler
and Robert Swearingen of
Reynolds have been named
directors from Taylor County
to the West Central Georgia
Area Planning and Develop
ment Commission.
Officials of eight counties
and a number of cities
and towns formally organiz
ed the Commission at a meet
ing in Buena Vista on De
cember 16. The Georgia Power
Company was host for a
dinner preceeding the meeting.
Counties represented were:
Taylor, Marion, Macon, Schley
Webster, Sumter, Dooly and
Grass Fire Does
Little Damage
A grass fire Sunday morning
burned over several acres of
land east of town threatening
several homes near the city
limits. The blaze which began
near the Eureka High School fed
from the dry grass in the field
and was fanned by a brisk wind
causing it to move through the
area rather rapidly.
Firemen from the Butler City
Department joined the Taylor
County Forestry Unit in fight
ing the blaze- Firemen report
ed that some small outbuildings
and piles of lumber in the area
caught but were extinguished
with little damage.
Evans Locke
Promoted
Mr. and Mrs. Evans Locke and
children left December 26 to
make their new home in
Castlehayne, N. C., a small
town near Wilmington.
Mr. Locke has become an
assistant manager of the F. &
Rayster Guano Co- in Wilming
ton. He has been with the
company for five years and
received this promotion on No
vember 15.
Crisp. H. M. Turton of Cor-
dele, named temporary chair
man at the group’s first
meeting in September, at
Flint Electric Membership
Corporation in Reynolds, called
this special meeting and
presided.
He challenged those pre
sent to develop the re
sources of their area, par
ticularly stressing the po
tential of attracting tourist
to Lake Black shear. Workers
in the area can be trained
for new job opportunities
at the South Georgia Tech
nical and Vocational School
in Americus, he said.
University of Georgia Pro
fessor J. W. Fanning, who
directs the Institute of
Community and Area Develop
ment at Athens , told the
group that their rivers, roads
and communication lines don’t
stop at county lines. Neither
should planning and develop
ment, he said.
Economics can be achiev
ed, said Fanning, if adja
cent counties coooperate to
American Legion
Auxiliary Will Not
Meet January 3
The American Legion Auxil
iary will not meet on January 3,
1964, as scheduled. The group
will meet in joint session with
the American Legion for a cov
ered dish supper on January 7,
7:30 p. m. in the Legion Home-
Windam Honored
Eugene F. Windham of Rey
nolds is the recipient of a ten
year certificate because of his
service at Warner Robins AFB.
This is the way the AFB recog
nizes almost 500 years of
faithful government service by
employees such as Mr. Wind
ham.
The presentations were made
by the Warner Robins Air Ma
teriel Area Maintenance Di
rectorate at Robins AFB.
Early Deadline
Again Next Week
The deadline for news and advertising for Taylor CountyNews
will be a day early again next week because of the New Year’s
Day holiday-
Absolute deadline for news and advertising will be next Mon
day, Dec. 30.
Persons with news, pictures or advertising are asked to sub
mit them this week, if at all possible, because the print shop
must work during the weekend to make the early deadline.
Nest week's News will be delivered on Friday, as usual.
The news office will be closed next Wednesday—
New Year’s Day—and will reopen for business as usual
Friday.
share services and their costs-
Coordination like this makes
it possible for each county
to get professional talent
and services at lower cost.
Fanning stated that com
missions are usually financed
on a per capita basis.
Funds raised on the per
capita basis can be matched
by state funds , he said.
He cited the Coosa
Valley Commission as the
oldest and most successful
commission in the state. The
success of this commis
sion, according to Fanning,
is due in large to the
cooperation of the local city
and county officials.
Senator Jimmy Carter of
Plains, Georgia, temporary
vice-chairman, told the group
that he believed this com
mission could help solve
the problem of out-migration
in the area. Seven of the
eight counties in the commis
sion lost population in the
past ten years, he said.
Senator Carter reminded
the city and county of
ficials that thecommissicn is
only an advisory body. “The
success of our recommen
dations will be dependant on
your cooperation,” he said.
Carter stated that the com
mission would be governed
by two directors from each
county. Seven counties have
named their directors, he
said.
In concluding his remarks,
Senator Carter commended
H. M. Turton for his fine
leadership in organizing the
commission. This commis
sion is a reality because
of the efforts of H. M.
Turton, he said.
Senator Carter was elect
ed program chairman for the
month of January.
Other directors of the
commission besides those
named above are: Elvin East
and Jack Hamilton from
Crisp County, Moody Mulkey
and Ernest Odom from Dooly
County, from Marion County,
W. E. Bryson and H. L.
Daniels; Joseph Eason from
Schley County, Jimmy Car
ter, Sumter County and James
R. Dekle and A. C. Adams
from Webster County. The
remaining directors will be
named before the January
meeting-
Special guests attending the
meeting were: Ira H. Grif
fin, Sumter Electric Mem
bership Corporation; John
Walton, Flint Electric Mem
bership Corporation; Andrew
Speed, R. D Hannah, and
Jack Gantt, Georgia Power
Company and Joe Tanner,
Georgia Electric Membership
Corporation.
FBLA INSTALLS TERRELL OFFICERS -
The above members of the Butler High FBLA
installed the new chapter at Terrell
County High School, Dawson, last week. Left
to right, Olivia Suggs, Katrina Cheek, who is
serving as state president this year, Charles
Moulton, Ellen Guinn, Joan Wisham and Lynne,
Taylor. The chapter advisor, Mrs. Edyth
Guy, accompanied the group to Dawson.