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Vol. AC;X_IXLNO. 297. Associated Press Service
Vogeler Would Help
Citers Made To Raise
Fine Money For Fliers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.— (AP) —While the govern
ment pondered what to do about Hungary’s offer to free
four U. 8. airmen in exchange for $120,000, private citi
zens in scattered areas promised to raise the money
promptly.
Robert Vogeler, an American who was a prisoner of the
Hungavian Communist regime for two years, said he will
seek to coordinate private efforts to raise the $120,000 in
fines levied against the four fliers.
14l Are Killed
fccidentall
During Holid
By The Associated Press
Violent accidents in the United
States took a near record toll over
the four-day Christmas holiday.
Meaths in traffic accidents, fires
and from miscellaneous causes
from 6 p. m. Friday to last mid
nicht (local time). reached the
staggering total of 747.
The figure compsares with the
ord aeccidental death toll of 761
recorded in the fowsweday Christ
mes holiday of 1938,
Traffic accidents caused more
than 500 fatalities, but the 508
total was below the 600 predicted
bv the National Safety Council.
Fires caused.l()() deaths-—but none
rosulting from Christmas trees.
There were 139 persons killed in
violent accidents, of miscellaneous
nature.
This year’s total exceeded the
1950 accidental deaths of 724
which occurred during a three
day holiday. The 1949 three-day
total was 580.
Texas reported more than 90
of this year'’s accidental deaths,
including nearly 60 in traffic mis
haps.
Yce-Coated Roads
Ice-eoated and snow-covered
highways in the midwest sharply
curtailed travel and appeared a
major factor in holding the traffic
toll under the council’s estimate of
600.
The accidental death toll does
not include the 119 miners killed
in a coal mine explosion in West
Frankfort, 111., last Friday night.
The mnumber killed in. motor
mishaps this Christmas holiday
period of 102 hours compares to
the all-time mark of 555 traffic
fatalities in 1936 and 545 over last
yvear’s three-day holiday.
The nation’s traffic deaths in
1951 already have passed 36,000,
the largest total since the record
breaking 39,969 deaths in 1941 and
compares with 35,000 last year.
The death foll since the advent of
the automobile reached the 1,000,-
000 mark last Saturday.
Deaths by states, listing traffic,
fires and miscellaneous:
State Deaths
Alabama 8 1 3; Arizona 10 0 1;
Arkansag 12 1 2; California 47 2 6;
Colorado 7 1 1; Connecticut 5 0 4;
Delaware 1 0 2; Florida 15 8 2;
Georgia 27 0 4; Idaho 0 0 1; Illi
nois 17 9 6; Indiana 14 6 3; lowa
308
Kansas 8 3 (; Kentucky 22 8 2;
Louisiana: 6 1™ Maine 5 0 0;
Maryland 9 0 8; hNssachuseits 11
1 1; Michigan 8 10 ™ Minnesota
4 1 4; Mississippi 1 0 2; Missouri
7 2 0; Montana 0 0 2; Nebraska 8
18
Nevada 6 0 0; New Hampshire 3
0 0; New Jersey 13 3 1; New Mex
ico 7 0 0; New York 27 7 15; North
Carolina 13 6 3; North Dakota 1 0
0; Ohio 13 13 6; Oklahoma 10 0 2;
Oregon 6 0 0; Pennsylvania 22 3 4;
Rhode Island 2 0 0; South Caro-~
lina 11 8 11; South Dakota 0 0 1;
Tennessee 11 0 1; Texas 59 8 25;
Utah 3 0 0; Vermont 2 1 0; Vir
ginia 8 0 1; Washington 12 0 1;
West Virginia 8 2 4; Wisconsin 4
2 5, Wyoming 3 0 0.
Wimberly Rites
Miss Sophie Wimbley, a well
known figure here for many years,
died Tuesday at 12:45 p. m. at
Keysville, Ga.
Graveside servicess will be con
ducted Thursday morning at 11
o'clock in Oconee Hill Cemetery,
Dr. Harmon B. Ramsey, pastor of
First Presbyterian Church, offi
ciating. Clyde McDorman Funeral
Home is in charge of arrange
ments.
“Aunt Sophie” as she was af
fectionately called by a large num
ber of friends, left mo survivors
but she had host of acquaintances
and close friends here who were
saddened by her death.
She had been in declining health
for the last several years and was
about 80 years old. She was a na
tive Athenian and lived here all
of her life, p
Changing fashions in women’s
clothes meant nothing to “Aunt
Sophie” and she was always seen
wearing long black dresses that al
most touched the ground.
i FINE PRESENT
PLEASANT PLAINS, Ark., Dec.
26—(AP)—It was the “best pre
sent that Santa Claus could give.
That was the way Mr. and Mrs.
Rueben H. Matlock described the
news that reached them Christmas
morning that their 20-year-old son
James wasg alive and a prisoner of
the Communist forces in Korea.
For a year the Arkansas moun
tain parents nad prayed that
James, reported killed in action,
was alive,
The Defense Department con
fivhed Monday) that ‘the youns
corporal was on the prisoner list
compiled by the Communists.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
“I can understand any official
ransom payment by the Govern
ment might be embarrassing to the
United States,” Vogeler told a re
porter in New York. “But 1 think
this way we might accomplish the
same think without embarrass
ment to the Government.”
There was no indication as to
how the State Department would
react to efforts by private citizens
to raise the fine money and thus
save the four fliers imprisoned by
Hungary from serving three
months each in jail.
The imprisoned airmen are Capt.
John J. Swift of Glens Falls, N,
Y., Capt. Dave H. Henderson of
Shawnee, Okla.; T-Sgt Jess A.
Duff of Spokane and Sgt. James:
A. Elam of Kingsland, Ark.
Lost In Nov, |
They got lost in the air over
Hungary Nov. 19 while flying sup
plies from Germany to the U. S.
Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Soviet fighters forced them to land
their unarmed C-47 on Hungarian
soil,
On Sunday the Hungarian Gov
ernment announced that a military
court had convicted the fliers of
violating the Hungarian border
and had fined them 360,000 forints
(about $30,000) each, with the al
ternative of spending three months
in jail. .
The State Department was still
debating what to do about the
Hungarian demands. Some mem
bers of Congress have urged that
‘the U. S. not pay the fines, which
they termed a ransom demand. A
Department spokesman declined
to comment to wvarious offers to
raise the fine money privately.
Vogeler, a European representa
tive of the International Telephone
and Telegraph Co., has had ex
perience with the Budapest Red
regime. He was imprisoned by it
for two years, accused as a spy. He
later repudiated a confession he
made, saying it was coerced.
His release last spring involved
property concession by the U. S.
to Hungary, but no direct money
payment.
Fund Offers
Typical of private fund offers
was that of a hotel owner in Fay
etteville, Ark., R. A. Largen, who
told the Nashville Tennessean that
he would contribute SIO,OOO. The
Tennessean accepted the offer sub
ject to State Department approval
and assurance that the fund would
bring about the release of the four
men.
In Syracuse, N. Y., radio station
WNDR began a drive for funds
and said that in less than three
hours it collected $7,000. Swift,
one of the imprisoned men, is a
native of Syracuse. “
The American Highway Carriers
Association offered to pay the
whole amount at once to insure
release of the fliers. Ralph Ray
burn, president of the trucking as
sociation, said in Wilmington, 111,
that he tried unsuccessfully all
day yesterday—Christmas day—to
contact someone at the State De
partment who would accept the
money.
Senaor Smathers (D.-Fla.) pro
posed that Americans of Hungar
ian descent chip in $1 apiece to
pay the fines. He said the money
could be raised in 72 hours., He
said such a drive would have great
propaganda effect behind the iron
curtain,
CAIRO DEMONSTRATIONS
CAIRO, Dec. 26—(AP)—Anti
palace and anti-Western demon
strations broke out in Cairo and
Alexandria today In protest
aaginst the appointment of a pro-
Western banker as chief of the
royal cabinet.
Unconfirmed reports said police
opened fire to disperse demonstra
tors in Alexandria. Police there
announced a state of alert.
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MARRIES
The New York Yankees' 20-
year-old outfielder, Mickey
Mantle and his bride, the for
mer Merlyn Louise Johnson, cut
their wedding cake shortly after
the pair was wed in Picher,
Okla.— (NEA Telephoto.) ¢
Indefensible |
Milifary Wast
BY EDWIN P. HAAKINSON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—(AP)
—A Senate subcomnrittee has ac
cused the Army of “inexcusable
and indefensible waste,” but it
says it is clear that “no one serv
ice is more prodigal or more pru
dent than the others.
Waste by military forces is not
intentional, the report said, but
“simply resulted from unconcern
with economy, an absence of gen
uine enthusiasm for efficiency, a
widespread lack of any real ‘cost
consciousness’.”
In a report to the Senate made
public last night, the Armed Ser
vices Subcommittee on Defense
Preparedness suggested that pro
motion for military officers be
based in part upon “demonstrated
ability so cons?ve men, noney
and materials.” o
The group had previously erit
icized what it termed waste by the
Air Force, Navy and Marines.
Separate Statement
In a separate statement of his
own, the subcommittee chairman,
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (D.-
Texas) commended Secretary of
the Army Pace for initiating a
“cost conscious” progranr in the
Army.
“Obviously, anyone who tries to
eliminate waste from the armed
services has cut out a tough job
for himself,” Johnson said.
The subcommittee report noted
that “two out of each three tax
dollars the public pays are en
trusted to the armed services to
be invested in America’s strength
and security.” It added that the
public gradually will protest all
types of waste even if “they are
small.”
The report questioned whether
the Army has excessive recrea
tional facilities, and declared it
has been guilty of “unnecessary
use of scarce aluminum on little
used buildings.”
But its sharpest protest was on
the “Arnry’s wasteful use of vari
ous organized units which have
been endlessly repeating training
cycles, apparently marking time
for their utilization.”
Inexcusable
“These episodes,” the report
said, “represent, in our view, in
excusable and indefensible waste.
The nation gains no strength
merely because more and more
men wear Army uniforms.
“With our acute national man
power shortage, any assembly of
able-bodied men into a non-pro
ductive enterprise like unneces
sarily repeated training is the most
flagrant sort of waste.”
There was no immediate com
ment from the Army.
The report was based on staff
checks at eight Army centers:
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here) and the only exit was down stairs l
through a single door. Eighty-eight others
of the crowd of from 300 to 400 at the
Iparty Werk burned pp injured, 32 seris,
ously.— (AP Wilahoto.)
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1951,
Reds Account For 726 More
POWs, Claim 571 Have Died
Solon Suggests Whipping Post For
Public Officials Who Betray Trust
(Georgia High
During Holida
By The Associated Press
The long Christmas week-end
which brought joy to so many
Georgians carried a message of
death to 27 — a record-breaking
toll of tragedy on the state’s high- 1
ways.
Police reported seven deaths
Christmas Day after an early
morning counf showed 20, equal
of last year’s record.
These fatalities were reported
yesterday.
Mrs. Florette Walker, 66, killed
last night when struck by a car in
College Park.
Rose Middlebrooks, a negro wo
man, was killed when the car in
which she was riding struck a
railway underpass abutment in
Macon yesterday.
Robert L. Whittington, 18, of
Vienna, died early Christmas
morning after being hit by a train
near Cordele.
William P, Newham, 46, of Ha
zlehurst, was killed early Christ
mas morning in an automobile
accident near Alma. !
Grover Cleveland Stokes, 64, of
Cochran, was fatally injured in a
collision Christmas Eve at Perry.
Melvin Hayward, 29, an Elko
negro, was killed whén his car
collided with 'a Southern Railway
wain in Elko Christmas Eve.
Charlie Mae Puckett, 51-year
old negro woman, died December
23, after being struck by a car
near Griffin,
Four other Georgians were vic
tims of violent death other than
on the highways..
Mother Of R. .
Gilmer Passes
Mrs. Elma Mitchell Gilmer,
mother of R. C. Gilmer, executive
vice-president of The National
Bank of Athens, died unexpectedly
from a heart attack in Rome, Ga.,
where she was visiting her other
'son, Harold Gilmer.
~ Funeral services will be held in
‘Rome Thursday afternoon from
Second Avenue Methodist Church
and interment will follow in
Rome. In conforming to the wish
of Mrs. Gilmer, the family re
quests friends to omit flowers.
Mrs. Gilmer was born October
13, 1874 in Greenville, Texas,
daughter of Robert C. and Marga~-
ret Park Mitchell and she was de
scended from family lines long
prominent and influential in that
section.
Mrs. Gilmer resided in Rome for
forty years before coming to Ath
ens several months ago to be with
the son. She spent her time al
ternating visits with her children,
and enly last week went to Rome
to spend the holidays there.
She was the widow of John A.
Gilmer, who died in 1932.
In addition to her two sons, she
is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Fred Wahl, of Huntington, Calif., |
and a sister, Mrs. Edith Mitchelll
of Buckner, Ark. |
In Athens she resided with Mr.
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Probes Emphasize Need For More
Drastic Penalties, Tobey Avers
BY G. MILTON KELLY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—(AP)—Senator Tobey (D.-
N.H.) suggested today that the whipping post be revived
to punish public officials who betray their trust.
The sharp tongued senafor told a reporter he is “think
ing seriously” of asking Congress to impose the penalty of
flogging for gross misconduct in federal office.
Czechs Set Bid
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For Iranian Oil;
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British Angered
TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 26—{AP)
Communist Czechoslovakia step
ped up today as the first Iron Cur
tain customer to dicker for Iran’s
stateowned oil.
Iran needs the money badly.
The government disclosed. last
night it is so broke it has called
home 26 diplomats to save ex
penses abroad. They include am
bassadors to Britain, Italy and
India, the minister in Belgium, and
22 lesser officials.
Britain, ousted owner and op
erator of the Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company. already has served firm
notice in a diplomatic note she will
look on Iranian oil sales to out
siders as illegal.
And the company, mainly owned
by the British government, has
publicly - stated it ~will" take " all
possible measures to halt sales un
til Iran settles satisfactorily with
the company, These measures
have not been specifically defined.
British Notices -
The British notices followed an
ultimatum from Premier Moham
med Mssadegh that former West
ern buyers of Iranian oil must bid
for petroleum products within 10
days or he would look for cus-|
tomers wherever he could findj
them. |
The ultimatum expired Satur
day without a single Western bid
reported.
Czech Charge D’Affaires Jan
Sabacky discussed an oil purchase
agreement with Deputy Finance
Minister Hossein Pirnia, Roads
Minister Javad Busheri told a
news conference last night.
He said Sabacky told him
Czechoslovakia formerly bought
oil through the Anglo-Iranian
Company, which Iran nationalized
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: Bo Ao To So G|Ve
SSO Fund To SA
A yuletide gift of 50 dollars in
cash and bundles of used clothing
were presented to the Salvation
Army Christmas eve night by the
B. A. T. S. social club, an organ
ization made up of local high
school boys.
The donations to the Salvation
Army’s needy family fund were
raised and collected by the teen
age group to supplement other
such drives by charity-minded or
ganizations. Some fify odd mem
bers comprise the BAT club.
For some years, the BATS have
been active in social activities and
have aided various worthwhile
charities on a number of occasions,
Officers of the club are Bill
Saye, president; Jerry Price, vice~
president; Billy MecGinnis, trea
surer; and Rodney Cook, secretary, |
. ATHENS AND VICINITY
Rain ending 2arly this after
noon, follewed by clearing and
colder tonight. Thursday fair
and colder. Friday fair, becom
ing slightly warmer in after
noon, Low in the morning 34;
high tomorrow 42. Sun sets to
day 5:30 and rises tomorrow
7:37.
GEORGIA—Rain ending and
turning colder in north and west
portions, light showers and
mild in southeast portion today;
clearing and somewhat colder
today, preceded by shewers in
coastal areas tonight; lowest 24
to 32 in north and 32 to 46 in
south portion, excvept 46 to 45
in central area; Thursday, fair
and colder.
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .55
Total since December 1 ... 6.18
Excess since December 1 .. 2143
Average December rainfall. 4.59
Total since Tanuary 1:.. :42.31
Deficit since January. i ..6.60
Widespread irregularities dis
closed by a House investigation of
income tax frauds and Senate in
quiries into government lending
operations, he said, disclose a
need for more drastic penalties.
“Let's revive the whipping
post,” Tobey said. “They’d fear
that. No punishment really can be
adequate, but this practice of ac
cepting resignations of those who
are caught in wrongdoing is child-~
ishly inadequate.”
Kefauver
Senator Kefauver (D.-Tenn.), in
a separate interview, called for
Congress to create a special, inde
pendent commission to take over
a governmental housecleaning as
signment which President Tru
man has said he will launch soon.
Kefauver, former head of the
Senate Crime Investigating Com
mittee on which Tobey also serv
ed, called attention to its recom
mendation for creation of a crime
commission of distinguished citi
zens to carry on the fight against
gamblers and other underworld
’chargcters. . 4
“We should broaden that plan
now,” Kefauver said, “and create
that commrission with wide powers
to look into executive depart
ments of the government. It
should absorb the interim com
mission the President is expected |
to set up.” |
Meanwhile Senator Wiley (R.-}
Wis.) urged a public airing of af
fairs of the Alien Property Custo
dian’s office, which he contends
has been swayed by “big money
influence peddlers” in the past.
Wiley announced Monday that
the Civil Service Commission had
confirmed that Henry W. Grune
wald once was an investigator for
that agency, in 1942 and 1943.
Search Ordered
~ The Senator called on Harold
‘Baynton, head of the Alien Prop
‘erty office, to search through his
files and inform him of all feder
ally seized properties of aliens in
which™ Grunewald had interested
himself.
Grunewald appeared last week
‘before a House Ways and Means
subcommmittee investigating tax
frauds, but refused to answer
most of its questions. A Senate
District of Columbia subcommittee
investigating the tapping of tele
phone wires in the capital voted
in 1950 to seek a contempt cita
tion against Grunewald when he
refused to answer many of its
questions. That c¢ase never was
voted upon by the Senate, how
ever,
Wiley is drafting a resolution
calling for a Senate Judiciary
Committee study of alien property
custodianship. He said Grunewald
“should be a witness” if the in
quiry is ordered.
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RESCUED IN MINE TRAGEDY -— Ceccil Sanders, 44-
yvear-old miner, lies in hospital bed at VW .:t Frankfurt,
Illinois, after he was rescued from a 56-hour entomb
ment in the blast-torn Orient No. 2 mine. The doctor who
attended Sanders said he was suffering from exhaustion,
lack of water and “lots of gas” but that he was expected
to live. It was'the worst mine tragedy in 23 years, claim
ing 119 lives.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares
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Jaycee Edition
Sales Net
$1,236.25 Here
Members of Athens Junior
Chamber of Commerce and the
Frank Hardeman Chapter of De-
Molay collected a total of
$1,236.25 in the Sunday morning
sales of copies of the special
Jaycee Edition of the Banner-
Herald. The entire amount was
turned over to Salvation Army
officials here to cover the costs
of the Christmas program for
underprivileged youth in Ath
ens.
R. H. Maupin, jr., Jaycee
president, and Nelson Nash,
Master Councilor of the De-
Molay Chapter, today expressed
the appreciation of their organ
ization for the fine public re
sponse to this annual project.
Papers were provided by the
Banner-Herald and members of
the above-named organizations
covered the city distributing
copies of the paper last Sunday
morning.
Possible Work
Mines Is Seen
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., Deec.
26—(AP)—Speculation grew to
day that the nation’s miners may
stage a work stoppage in memory
of the 119 men who died in the
| West Frankford coal mine explos
ion.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers Union,
wouldn’t comment on the work
stoppage talk, however.
“I have no eommment one way or
another,” he said. “I will neither
confirm nor deny any rumors.” |
The UMW contract permits |
“memorial period” work stoppages
of up to five days a year for mine
disaster vietims. Speculation
growing daily in mining eircles is
that Lewis will call a memoral
work delay- arcund New Year’s
day. This would coincide with
the threatened steel strike.
Lewis and other UMW officials
came here shortly after the violent
explosion ripped through the
Orient No. 2 mine last Friday,
bringing death to 119 miners.
One miner, Cecil Sanders, was
taken alive from the blasted tun
nels. He has been given a goodl
chance to recover.
Sanders suffered a relapse Mon
day night and developed a fever,
but he still was expected to pull
through.
Christmas was a sad day for
West Frankford. Funerals were
held for some of the victims and
additional funerals were being
arranged.
During his ordeal, Sanders him
self apparently had given up hope
of surviving. Lying exhausted
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HOME
EDITION
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BY ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Dee. 26.
— (AP) —The Communists
accounted today for 726
more captured Americans,
| but said 571 of them had
died.
The other 155 escaped or
were released, they said.
But not one of these had re
turned to Allied lines, a
United Nations spokesman
said.
The U. N. Command called the
report a “shocking disclosure ™
None of the 726 was named in a
prisoner list supplied by the Reds
last week.
. Communists said they were
\ checking to see what happened to
332 other Americans.
After studying the Red report of
1,058 names, the U. N. Command
said they were all Americans. A
spokesman said this was a list sub~
mitted Friday and Saturday by
the U. N. in a demand for an ac
counting.
« Another 45 men—2o British and
25 Americans — were not men
tioned. The Allies asked about
these 45 Monday.
The Allied announcement was
the first disclosure of the precise
number of non-Korean prisoners
it had asked about—l,lo3.
Details
The Reds detailed by name what
they said had happened to 726.
(The names were not released by
the U. N. Command.)
Inferentially they Llamed Allied
war planes and artillery for many
of the 571 deaths. They died, the
Reds said, of air attack, artiliery
fire and disease.
The Reds made their report in
a note. It was delivered during
an unproductive zmistice session
Wednesday at Panmunjom during
the closing hours of a 30-day Ko
rean truce trial period,
At the same session the Com
munists delivered the first bundle
of mail from Allied prisoners in
North Korea to their families. The
| namber of letters was not report
' ed. But the packageé was large
enough to hold several hundred
letters. :
’ The Communist note also:
1, Rejected an Allied demand
for an aecounting of 50,000 South
Korean troops missing in action.
2. Asked the Allies what hap
pened so 44,205 Reds the Com
munists say were captured. ~ ¥
3. Charged the Allied list of Red
captives submitted last week was
1,456 short of the announced total
of 132,472.
The letter, handed to Rear Adm.
R. E. Libby at a Panmunjom ses
sion by North Korean Maj. Gen.
Lee Sang Cho, said the Reds were
trying to account for 1,058 Ameri
can and other non-Korean troops.
The U. N. said they were losted in
Red broadcasts, publications and
other sources, but not included in
an official compilation of 11,559
men in six North Korean prison
camps.
The letter said:
‘Our investigations revealed that
726 of the prisoners of war were
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Hansford Rites
Mrs. Mattie Mattox Hansford,
74, of 357 Peter St:l'eet,l died m—l
| expectedly in a loca i
Monday morning at 10:30 m.
Services were conducted this af
ternoon at 2:30 o’clock fram Ar
noldsville Baptist Church with
Rev. H. R. Burnley, pastor of the
East Athens Baptist Chureh, and
Rev. Rutherford Coile, officiating.
Internment was in Arncldsville
Cemetery, Bernstein Funeral
| Home in charge of arrangements.
{ Pall-bearers were Ernest Hans
ford, Steve Hansford, Benjamin
Hansford, Bill Sanders, Coleman
Sanders, Harry Thaxton, Joseph
Crowley, jr., and James P. Mar
tin I
’ An honorary escort included W.
'G. Lord, A. J. Lord Dillard Crow
ley, James Dillard, Walter, Jimmy,
Crawford, Hamp Furcron and E.
Logar Bray.
Mrs. Hansford is survived by
her husband, W. G. Hansford; four
daughters, Mrs. J. P. Crowley, At
lanta, Mrs. H. C. Thaxton, Ar
noldsville, Mrs. W. H. Sanders,
Crawford and Mrs. J. P. Martin,
Athens; five sons, Ernest and
Whit L. Hansford, both of Wat
kinsville, Ralph V. Hansford and
Roscoe A. Hansford, both of Ath
ens, and H, B. Hansford, Adel;
three sisters, Mrs. Jessie Secay~
brough, Comer, and Mrs| Gussie
brough, Comer, and Mrs. Gussie
Crook and Mrs. Sally Kidd, both
of Danielsville; {wo brothers, Lee :
Mattox, Danielsville, and Roscoe
Mattox, Murphy, N. C., thirty
four grandchildren and dgh”
great-grandchildren. .
A native of Madison County
Mrs. Hansford has been a resident
of Athens for the rfifl three ye o
being ja memcgar ~Mfmh?t&§fg
Baptist Church, ' Pt e s