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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1945
Page
5
Georgia reports peanut harvests across counties and watermelon growers earning about 125 dollars per car for the 1945 crop. Other items include an Augusta airfield awaiting bids on 1500 warplanes, a $10,000 Dawson resurfacing project, and teacher shortages affecting fall term.
Peter Roe Nugent, chairman of the Savannah city council, was unanimously elected mayor to succeed the late Thomas Gamble. Nugent will complete Gamble’s term until January 1947. A 52 year old bakery firm president, he has eight years on the council and past leadership roles in the Chamber of Commerce and Southern Bakers Association. He also chairs Savannah’s Hibernian Society and has ties to Benedictine Military School and Georgia Tech.
On Friday the U S Senate rose to honor Senator George Washington D Ga as he urged unanimous support for the United Nations Charter. He spoke through sobs recalling his son Marcus George a Naval aviator missing after a battle with a German submarine in the Atlantic.
Miami police arrested 15 year old Jack Severn Miller on a warrant accusing attempted murder and robbery. Police picked him up in a downtown park Sunday and Rome Ga. Police Chief H W Quarles arrived to take custody and said Miller would be returned to Rome on a burglary warrant. He is suspected of a June 27 Rome robbery attempt.
The OPA set a ceiling price of 1090 dollars for civilian jeeps FOB Toledo Ohio where Willys Overland Motors makes the vehicles. The agency noted the jeep will compare favorably in cost with a half ton truck but added actual delivery costs will be several hundred dollars more.
Forty persons were fined in Georgia courts for fishing without licenses during June, per State Game and Fish Commission records. Marvin Owens and Bettie Owens of Waycross were fined $150 each by Judge E. J. Smith in Homerville. Three seiners held in Candler County by Wildlife Ranger L. L. Currie also paid heavy fines.
Julian Frost, a Toombs county farmer, was dragged by a mule in a Vidalia field and is treated for possible rabies and injuries. His father Horace Frost was injured when he killed the animal with an ax, and a crowbar was needed to sever the mule's grip after it died.
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