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The Taylor County New$
and The Butler Herald
A Prize-Winning
Newspaper
1968
Better Newspaper
Contests
95th Year, No. 4
South Main St. P.O. Box 577
Butler, Georgia 31006
Friday, January 24, 1969
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A NEW administration has
taken over. Richard Nixon was
inaugurated into the highest
office of the land last Monday
with all the pomp and
circumstance afforded him.
Looking back over the
years, I can’t remember too
many presidents taking office.
I do remember, when in
elementary school, the class
left school to go to our house
and watch the new president
take office.
And of course, as fate
would have it, the television
wouldn’t work. So there we
sat, all 25 of us staring at a
blank screen. Needless to say,
we missed that inauguration.
I did happen to catch
excerpts of Nixon’s oath of
office. I was very much
impressed with the order and
the words spoken. Sen. Everett
Dirksen administered the oath
of office to Spiral Agnew.
Sen. Dirksen happens to be
a favorite of mine. I think it’s
his intriguing voice. I could
listen to him talk for hours. I
was so enthralled with the
sound of his voice, that I have
completely forgotten what the
oath consisted of.
* * *
A CLOSE friend of mine
attended many of the
festivities in Washington D. C.
this week. What an experience
that must be. After all, it’s not
everyday one gets to actually
see a new president take office.
I don’t envy Nixon and the
task before him. Just think of
the responsibility placed upon
his shoulders!
I think it would be
terrifying to know that the
decisions of a nation were
mine. A simple yes or no at the
wrong time could have drastic
results.
But, with Nixon’s
experience, I think the country
is in good hands.
* * *
OF COURSE everyone isn’t
going to be pleased with
Nixon’s actions. If they did,
something would be wrong. No
president in the history of the
nation has had the complete
backing of all the people.
But, I do believe that since
he was elected by a majority of
the nation’s voters, we should
give him our complete support.
Sure, he will do many things
that we won’t agree with. But
he is our leader. And besides, I
shutter to think what I would
do if I were in his shoes.
* * *
WITH THE beginning of a
new year and the beginning of
a new administration, the free
democratic society that we live
in is on the brink of a new
dawn.
Maybe peace will come in
Southeast Asia. Maybe not.
Maybe the problems within our
own boundries will be solved.
Maybe not.
But, whether these things
occur or not, it is our
responsibility as citizens of the
United States to lend a helping
hand in any and every way
possible. This helping hand
may be extended in many
ways. The first is the vote cast
by our own handwriting. Our
opinions, our prejudices and
our actions, all reflect how our
country is run.
Without individual’s
opinions, all hope is lost. One
man nor one small body of
men can do the job alone. It
takes all of us. It is our right
according to the Constitution.
Don’t take our freedom for
granted.
We must strive to keep our
way of life. It’s unique in the
annals of the world. It is ours.
Rupert HE Club
Gets 1968 Award
BY MRS. T. B. GREEN
Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper
announced that the Rupert
Home Economics Club had
been awarded a “Certificate of
Recognition” and had achieved
the Standard of Excellence for
Extension Clubs for the work
done by the club at the
January meeting in the Club
House on January 16 at 2:30
p.m. Mrs. Zack McCorkle,
president, presided during the
meeting.
Mrs. Frank Callahan gave
the devotional from Mark II
and Mrs. Howard Mott led in
prayer. “My Faith Looks Up
To Thee” was the song used
with the program. Mrs. Harvey
Callahan, secretary, noted that
there were 19 members present
and gave the treasurer’s report.
Mrs. McCorkle and Mrs.
Cooper reported on a meeting
at Flint concerning the next
Ladies Day. Date and hostesses
will be announced at a later
date. Plans were discussed for a
Rich’s Tour in April. Mrs.
Cooper also announced the
District Meeting planned in
Perry on April 10.
The program featured
“Sizing Up Your Shape” and
was given by Mrs. Cooper
including a demonstration and
discussion.
Mrs. Frank Callahan and
Mrs. Zack McCorkle served as
hostesses.
Taylor County Jaycees
Take "A Look Ahead”
FIRST MOBILE HOME MOVING-The first
mobile home moved out to a sales lot last
Friday from the new Butier Homes of
Georgia, Inc. The Colony Park, one of the
lines presently under production, included
two bedrooms along with living room, dining
room, kitchen and bath. Completed
furnished and tastefully decorated, it is
ready for occupancy. Sent to the Buddy
Trailer Sales in Stone Mountain, it will soon
be followed by others. Jim Ricks is the new
sales manager and will be moving the new
homes into areas throughout the state and
elsewhere as fast as they can be produced.
Now employing 20 men, the production
manager, Hayward Hobgood, said that
others would be added as fast as the plant
could be expanded to use them. The new
building is presently under construction and
will be ready by March 15 if weather
permits, according to John Neely Jr.,
president of the corporation. Another
model, the Crest Wood, will soon also be in
production and ready for Phil Daniels said
Tuesday. Now underway, it is moving
forward to meet the demands of a moving
generation when the homes go with the
family.
Lynne Partain Set For Teenage Nutrition Meet
This week celebrates the
founding of the Jaycees.
The Jaycees is a civic
organization working for
community betterment. It is
open to all young men from 21
through 35 years of age.
The first Jaycee
organization was formed in
October of 1915 at the Mission
Inn, St. Louis, Missouri.
Wendell E. Smith,
Plymouth, Michigan, is the
current President of the United
States Jaycees. He now lives in
the “Jaycee White House” in
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
There is no official
connection between the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce and the
U. S. Jaycees, formerly the U.
S. Junior Chamber of
Commerce, but the two
organizations cooperate in
many instances.
The U. S. Jaycees Annual
Meeting will be held in St.
Louis, Missouri in 1970. This
will mark the organization’s
50th anniversary, in he city
where it was founded.
This year’s annual
convention of the United
States Jaycees will be held in
Louisville, Kentucky in June.
Just prior to Jaycee Week,
America’s Ten Outstanding
Young Men of 1968 were
recognized by the U. S. Jaycees
in Syracuse, New York.
Jaycees, built on solid
foundation of creating
opportunities for leadership
training through community
betterment projects, are now
more than a quarter of a
million strong. They are active
in 6,300 communities in the
nation.
Jaycee Week is to focus
attention on these young men
and the work they are doing,
and to emphasize the
outstanding job that Jaycee
clubs are doing throughout this
nation in many fields.
Several local merchants have
joined people all over the
United States by cooperating
in the observance of “National
Jaycee Week.” Through their
generosity a Jaycee page is
possible in this paper, today.
We hope you will turn to it and
see some of the services
rendered to this community by
our own Taylor County
Jaycees.
Rites Held For
Miss Fountain
Interment for Miss Edith M.
Fountain, who died in a
Milledgeville hospital Sunday
night, was held in the Butler
City Cemetery at 4 p.m.,
Wednesday. Funeral rites were
conducted by Dr. Rembert
Sisson at 2 p.m. in
Milledgeville.
A native of Taylor County,
she had lived in Milledgeville
for 30 years although she
frequently visited in the
county. She was a member of
the First Methodist Church in
Milledgeville.
Surviving are two brothers,
Edgar W. Fountain of Las
Vegas, Nev. and Aldine
Fountain of Albany.
Lynne Partain, senior at
Taylor County High School,
will know more about good
nutrition after February 1.
And she will know more
because of her participation in
the seventh annual meeting of
the Georgia Teenage Nutrition
Conference in Macon, January
31 to February 1.
Lynne will join more than
200 other teenagers and youth
leaders at the two-day event as
a representative of the Future
Business Leaders of America.
Approximately 15 delegates
from 14 state youth
organizations will attend the
conference.
During the Macon event,
which gets underway at 2:30
p.m. on January 31, Lynne will
have an opportunity to see
good teenage nutrition really
brought into focus under the
conference theme--“Sock It To
Me-Here Come De Food.”
Featured on the program
will be the Georgia Peanut
Princess, Miss Georgia
Teenager, Mrs. Georgia, Saul
Schur of Seventeen Magazine
and famous athletes discussing
a variety of interesting topics.
The Georgia Teenage
Nutrition Conference is
sponsored by the Georgia
Nutrition Council. The
Teenage Nutrition Board plans,
arranges and conducts the
CENTRAL CLUB
The C e n t ral H o me
Economics Club will meet
Thursday, January 30 at 7:45
p.m. in the Community House.
Rites Are Held
For Mrs. Hill
Services for Mrs. J. H. Hill
of Ellaville, sister of Mrs.
Ophelia Bryant of Rupert, who
died last Tuesday, January 14, •
were held at 3 p.m.,
Wednesday, at the Ellaville
Methodist Church, with burial
in the Ellaville City Cemetery.
She was 74 years old.
Survivors, other than her
sister, are her husband, Jim
Henry Hill of Ellaville; two
daughters, Misses Sarah A. and
Imogene Hill, both of Ellaville;
three brothers, Howard
Mitchell of Albany and Tom
and W. H. Mitchell, both of
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Rites Are Held
At Bethel For
Mrs. Etta Hobbs
Funeral rites for Mrs. Etta
Pauline Childree Hobbs were
held at 11 a.m., Sunday, in the
Bethel Primitive Baptist
Church near Butler. Elder W.
H. Hancock officiated and
interment was in the church
cemetery.
Born in Taylor County, Oct.
15, 1896, daughter of the late
William and Alice Windham
Childree, she had lived in the
county ail of her life.
Mrs. Hobbs died in the
Macon County Clinic in
Montezuma, early Saturday,
after a brief illness.
Survivors include her
husband, William E. Hobbs of
Reynolds; two daughters, Mrs.
Edna Ruth Brand of Perry and
Miss Mildred Hobbs of
Reynolds; two sons, Roy
Willard Hobbs and Charlie
William Hobbs both of
Reynolds; four grandchildren
and four great grandchildren.
Goddard Funerla Home was
in charge of arrangements with
W. C. Shehee, Grover Mott,
Joseph Pye, Healon Kirksey,
Lawrence Simmons and Grover
Shehee serving as pallbearers.
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SENIOR - Kenneth Malcolm
Dowdy is the 17-year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Dowdy
of Anderson, South Carolina.
Kenneth attended North Fand
Grammar School, Anderson
Junior High School and is a
senior at T. L. Hanna High
School. He is active in sports.
After graduation he plans to
attend Forrest College in
Anderson. His mother is the
former Gloria Beeland of
Reynolds.
Deadline For W2
Forms Jan. 31
Friday, January 31, 1969, is
the deadline for employers to
give employees their 1968 W-2
Forms, showing the amount of
earnings, income tax withheld
and social security
information, J. R. Williams,
Local Representative of the
Internal Revenue Service said
today.
Forms W-2 have to be filed
with income tax returns and
those who had more than one
job last year should make sure
they have received all of them
when they file their return. Mr.
Williams emphasized, however,
that regardless of the number
of jobs held and W-2’s received,
only one return should be
filed.
Services For
Mr. Thornton
Are Thursday
Rites for Harry Eugen
Thornton were held Thursday,
January 24, at 11 a.m. at the
Reynolds Methodist Church
with the Rev. Tegler Greer
officiating. Following the
funeral services, interment was
in the Hillcrest Cemetery.
Mr. Thornton, the son of
the late John Harris and Mattie
Brown Thornton, was born in
Taylor County, April 13, 1896.
Mr. Thornton, retired, was 72
years old. He was a member of
the Reynolds Methodist
Church. He died at his home in
Reynolds.
Survivors include two sons,
Harry Eugene Thornton Jr. of
Wyandotte, Michigan and John
R. Thornton of Reynolds;
three daughrers, Sarah N.
Thornton of San Diego,
California, Harriet T. Carrol of
Boston, Massachusetts and
Diana Thornton of
Fayetteville.
Goddard Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements.
Peach Growers
Plan Meeting
The members of the Georgia
Peach Growers in Central
Georgia will meet on January
23 in the Court House in Fort
Valley for the purpose of
nominating members and
alternate members for the
industry committee of the
Georgia peach marketing
agreement and order. Two
members will be chosen to
represent the North and South
Georgia Districts while four
members will represent the
Central Georgia District. Terms
of members and alternates will
expire on February 28 and new
members will be chosen before
thi$ time. The meeting will
begin at 10 a.m.
annual state conference. Mrs.
Mamie Marshall of Atlanta is
the chairman of the conference
and Miss Mildred Huff, with
the Atlanta office of the
Florida Board of Conservation,
is the program chairman.
The conference will be held
at the Dempsey motor hotel
and Macon’s Mayor Ronnie
Thompson will be on hand to
welcome the delegates at the
kick-off banquet.
In addition to the speakers
and entertainment, Lynne will
have an opportunity to work
with other members of the
FBLA to plan follow-up
activities for their organization
during the remainder of the
year.
Organizations to be
represented at this year’s
conference include: Georgia
Association of Future
Homemakers of America,
Georgia Association of
Distributive Education Clubs
of America, Girl Scouts of the
U.S.A., Future Business
Leaders of America, Boy
Scouts of America, Future
Farmers of America, Tri-Hi-Y,
Hi-Y, Allied Medical Careers
Clubs Inc., Georgia Association
of Library Assistants, Camp
Fire Girls Inc., Georgia District
of Key Club International,
Georgia Girl’s Clubs and the
Georgia 4-H Clubs.
NEWEST FRONTLINE
DEFENSE - Staff Sergeant Leo
P. Daniels, husband of Audrey
Howell Daniels, is helping
operate the nation’s newest
frontline defense facility. He is
a radar Maintenance technician
at the BUIC III (Back-Up
Interceptor Control III) site
that became operational on the
Atlantic Coast on January 15.)
The VA is no longer waiting
for young veterans to come
and ask about veterans’
benefits but is contacting them
shortly after they are
discharged.
Rites Held For
Mr. Windham
Funeral services for Warren
Clifton Windham were held at
3 p.m., Sunday, from the
Reynolds Methodist Church.
The Rev. Tegler Greer, pastor
of the Reynolds Methodist
Church, and the Rev. Nick
Randall, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, officiated and
burial was in the Crowell
Cemetery.
Mr. Windham was born in
Taylor County, Feb. 8, 1889,
son of the late Henry William
and Julia Bryd Windham.He
spent his entire lifetime in the
county and was a retired mail
carrier. He had served as
secretary of the Woodmen of
the World in the county and
was an active member of the
Reynolds Methodist Church,
serving as an official board
member and as a member of
the Men’s Bible Class.
He died Saturday in the
Marshallville Nursing Home
after a long illness.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Clara Delle Pender Windham;
one daughter, Mrs. E. K.
Rachels of Jacksonville, Fla.;
two sons, John Henry
Windham of Fairburn and
Joseph Warren Windham of
Riverdale; one sister, Mrs. Megs
Marlow of Haddock; four
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Goddard Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements with
Roy Jones, Walter O’Neal,
Lawrence Cook, Henry Hobbs,
J. W. Waters and John Nelson
serving as pallbearers.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Grimsley
of Ellaville announce the birth
of a baby girl, Roxanne Cecilia,
at the Sumter County Hospital,
January 9, 1969. Roxanne
weighed 7 lbs. and 14 oz. Mrs.
Grimsley is the former Miss
Mary Currington, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Currinton
of Mauk and paternal
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
H. W. Grimsely of Ellaville.
Funeral Rites
Held Sunday For
Ranee Stubbs Jr.
Funeral rites were held for
Ranee Stubbs Jr., Sunday,
January 19, at 2 p.m. from the
Five Points Baptist Church
w.ith the Rev. Ralph
Whittington officiating.
Interment was in the Johnson
Cemetery following the
services.
Mr. Stubbs was the son ot
Ranee Stubbs Sr. and Bessie
Bell Stubbs. Bom September
25, 1948, in Taylor County, he
was 20 years old. He was
employed as an assembler at
Richland Homes in Richland.
Mr. Stubbs died of heart
failure at 1:30 a.m., January
17, at the home of his sister in
Richland.
Surviving are his mother and
father, Mr. and Mrs. Ranee
Stubbs Sr., of Mauk; five
brothers, Clarence Stubbs of
Jacksonville, Florida, Palmer
Stubbs of Pelham, Leonard
Stubbs, Bobby Stubbs and
Alfred Stubbs all of Mauk; four
sisters, Mrs. Morris Harbuck of
Reynolds, Mrs. Willard Whitley
of Richland, Mrs. Loren
Longino of Americus, and Mrs.
Virginia Black of Detroit,
Michigan.
Tante Funeral Home of
Buena Vista was in charge of
arrangements.
I’M A HONEY, ANYWAY—
Clint Scott says as he
celebrates his very first
birthday last Saturday, Jaa 18.
Although a little confused by
the entire procedure and all the
relatives present, he liked his
bunny cake made by his
cousin, Edie Smith, although
Mommy just wouldn’t let him
sample it as he wanted to do.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Scott, Clint was joined by his
grandparents, Mrs. James
Truluck of Centerville and Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Dunn for his
party as well as several uncles,
aunts and cousins.
Plans Incomplete
For Mr. Freeman
Funeral arrangements were
incomplete for Taylor County
native, Benjamin J. Freeman,
who died Saturday in Spokane,
Washington, following open
heart surgery.
Bom in Taylor County,
April 1, 1926, he was the son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred
N. Freeman. He was retired
after serving in the United
States Air Force. He was
presently making his home in
Spokane, Washington.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Stephanie Freeman of
Spokane; two sons, Freddie
and James of Spokane; four
sisters, Mrs. Claude Reese of
Macon, Mrs. Samuel
Stringfellow of Talbotton, Mrs.
Gordon Lane and Mrs. M. L.
Hartley of Reynolds; two
aunts, Mrs. G. A. Trussell of
Reynolds and Mrs. Alma
Garrett of Macon.
I. C. Hi-liteS
Rites Are Held
For Mr. Jones
Funeral services for K.T.
Jones of Ellaville, who died last
Wednesday in a Buena Vista
Hospital were held Friday in
Ellaville. Burial was in Ellaville.
A native of Taylor County,
Mrs. Jones was a retired
farmer. Surviving are his sue
sons and four daughters.
Rannie Gaultney
Speaks Sunday
At Midway
Rannie Gaultney will be the
guest speaker for the morning
and evening services at the
Midway Baptist Church,
Sunday. Services will be held at
11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Everyone is
invited, expecially all young
people are urged to attend.
BY CHARLENE WRIGHT
KAREN HORTON, 18 year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Cosey, is a senior at
Taylor County High School.
She holds the office of reporter
in both the Beta Club and the
FBLA. The Viking Star, the
school paper, is fortunate to
have her as editor. Being one of
the Organization Editors of the
1968 Valhalla, she is active on
the yearbook staff. She is also
a member of the 4-H Club, the
F. H. A., the one act play cast
and the Glee Club. For
hobbies, she likes cooking and
sewing. After graduation she
plans to attend Middle Georgia
College in Cochran where she
will take a business course.
BY NITA COCHRAN
JOHN BARROW-On April
10, 1951, a screaming baby
boy came into the family of
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Barrow.
This cute little boy joined a
family of four older brothers
and a little sister. John is now a
Senior at Taylor County High
School. He is a member of the
Taylor County Chapter of the
Future Farmers of America
and also a member of the
Taylor County 4-H. As a
Senior he is working on this
years yearbook, Valhalla. After
graduation he hasn’t decided
what to do.