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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1941
Page
2
Georgia news digest reports excise tax projections of 2.5 million dollars and a 596 thousand dollar NYA training allotment. Army Day honors in Atlanta Columbus and Macon. local figures include Leighton Dure and charitable drives for Britain.
President Roosevelt signed the fifth supplemental defense appropriation bill totaling 2.2997 billion dollars. He also signed legislation allocating 1.4146 billion dollars to operate independent government agencies including the TVA.
The South Georgia Conference will meet in Albany on November 5 and the North Georgia Conference in Atlanta on November 19. Bishop J L DeCell, secretary of the College of Bishops for the southeastern jurisdiction, announced the schedule and Bishop Arthur Moore will preside at both conferences.
The South Georgia Conference of Women's Societies of Christian Service selected Albany as the 1942 convention city as the three day meeting closed at First Methodist church in Waycross. Mrs R D McNeill Sr of Americus received a life membership from Americus district women. The final speaker was Mrs A J Moore of Atlanta who spoke on Thine Is the Glory.
B S Miller state welfare director announced Rev R J Mincey of Warthen Georgia as superintendent of the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon succeeding J W Williams. The appointment takes effect tomorrow and is at the pleasure of the director Williams was appointed in July 1939 by former Congressman Braswell Deen.
Gold star mother Mrs. Elizabeth Barto of Ferndale Washington travels 3000 miles to Fort Benning to attend posthumous ceremonies honoring her son Corporal T F P Barto of the Fourth Engineers First World War killed August 10 1918 while attempting to rescue a wounded officer A rifle range will be named in his honor on April 11 The Fourth Division and Fourth Battalion invited Mrs. Barto to attend
Atlanta April 3 Attorney General Ellis Arnall ruled that the Parole and Prison Commission loses authority to reinstate paroles it originated before the new parole law and revoked. all such paroles now require the governor's approval. The ruling tightens central control over parole matters in Georgia.
A man and a woman leaped from a stalled car at a Waycross railroad crossing just before a train struck the vehicle. They fled to their car and salvaged several cartons of baby chicks from the wreck, all uninjured.
Washington April 6 the War Department awarded a 7400 contract for construction of para chute training towers at Fort Benning to M. R. Thomson of Montgomery Alabama. The Navy granted a 49480 contract for wool-cotton stocks to Richmond Hosiery Mills of Rossville Georgia and a 7750 contract for rough echo press boat planking to Reynolds and Manley Lumber Co of Savannah. Delivery and completion dates were not disclosed.
In Talbotton on April 6 Mr and Mrs Barney Hawkins of Woodland were injured when their car collided with an automobile driven by James T Culpepper a Talbotton resident. The Hawkins sustained multiple lacerations and possible fracture while their three children were uninjured. Culpepper was jailed on a charge of operating an automobile while intoxicated and will have a preliminary hearing Monday.
Former Macon newspaper man Cooper Etheridge will begin duties with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington DC. He left Macon last October to join the Richmond Times Dispatch in Virginia. Etheridge, a Perry native and Mercer University graduate, is married to Carolyn Schariff who will visit Macon this week until a permanent FBI assignment is made.
Dallas, April 6 Deputy Warden H H Pope said three Georgia convicts fractured their own legs by placing a leg on a solid object and having another man strike it with a heavy stick. Authorities offered no motive and noted a similar incident a year earlier with eight convicts.
Sandersville Georgia editor G S Chapman laments a dull week in a front page note. He frames the week as newsless and appeals to readers for ideas and input to revive the paper.
Albany reports Judge Frank Foley of Columbus and Judge A V Whipple of Cordele were nominated for president at a trustees meeting. Election to occur during the Georgia state bar association meeting in Savannah May 21 23.
In Colquitt Georgia on a farm near Colquitt Deputy Felix Tabb reports a 12 year old boy shot and killed his father Watson Bowen 40 with a 22 caliber rifle during a family domestic dispute The bowens mother and son were emotional and unable to provide a clear statement The father died at Donaldsonville hospital and no arrests have been made.
All creditors of the estate of Rosa Turner late of Taylor County Georgia deceased are notified to render in their demands to the administrator A M Halley Reynolds Ga and all persons indebted to said estate must make immediate payment. This 31st day of March 1941.
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