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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1939
Page
8
A broad Georgia roundup notes rural electric lines energized in Thomas County. Other items include political maneuvering in Atlanta for a 1940 Republican ticket, deaths of local figures like Wm. Sims Payne and Mrs. Violet White Smith, aviation milestones, and multiple traffic and accident reports across the state.
Eddie Cramer of Portsmouth Virginia, a longtime newspaperman, was fatally injured in an automobile accident and telephoned his city editor at the Star-News in Wilmington before he died, delivering the story.
Leesburg July 30 J M Stovall clerk of the Lee county board of commissioners announced a $100 reward for the slayer of Mrs Gladys Williams. The state adds another $100 as Coroner C W Thomas notes the woman a LaGrange resident found dead Friday with a mutilated body. Burial was in Leespurg cemetery.
Millen records an all time early bale of cotton ginned on July 27 at Johnson Distributing Company. Julian Sapp, farmer on Patterson lands near Millen, sold the bale to J C Wilson for 12 1 2 cents a pound. The cotton graded middling 15 16 staple.
The state board of public safety elected Lon Sullivan former deputy commissioner as commissioner of the department of safety and the state patrol. Sullivan has been acting commissioner since Phil Brewster resigned July 1. Also reinstated Trooper W H Jones after indictments were disposed of. the board found he acted in line of duty following a fatal shooting after a nine mile chase.
Milledgeville July 80 State Patrolmen report Paul Landon Waters 42 of Atlanta was killed and two companions injured in a Sunday morning crash on route 24 eleven miles north of Milledgeville. Injured A W Parks 31 of Atlanta with a fractured leg and James E Langley 37 of Atlanta with internal injuries were rushed to Baldwin Memorial hospital with Langley listed in critical condition. The car reportedly flipped three times.
In Brunswick Georgia three year old Paul McMillan was watching a game with his mother Mrs J M McMillan when a bat knocked him at the base of the skull. He died instantly from the injury. The boy had been allowed to watch his older brother and other youngsters play baseball.
Mrs. C W Satterfield of Adairsville hosted her 80 year old father W A Welchel of Thomas OK this week. The two had never met before due to his departure west to farm and business duties after the parents separated before her birth. Welchel returned to his Dahlonnega home for the family reunion last week.
Atlanta physician Wadley Glenn has finished his round world air journey. He traveled from Atlanta to New York on July 18, then crossed the Atlantic Clipper to Marseille. After stops in Paris, a four day delay due to a Clipper accident, he returned to Atlanta.
Midnight marked the second final deadline for Georgians to mail applications for 1939 drivers licenses in Atlanta. An extra ten days was granted by Safety Commissioner Lon Sullivan after many residents believed an earlier deadline had been extended.
Clyde Arnold aged 19 witnessed a head on crash on a Virginia highway as his brothers Lee 16 and Travis 22 died in the collision with a gasoline truck. The brothers were en route to Staunton to retrieve their injured parents from an earlier accident and return them to Biglersville Pennsylvania.
Atlanta observers and state officials indicated September 12 as a probable date for an extra General Assembly session. A welfare department note warned federal social security funds may be cut after September 1, and Dr M D Collins urged revenue to avoid teacher pay deficits two years ahead. Governor vers, with legislators and county leaders, discussed timing but did not commit.
Alvin M. Usher, longtime Muscogee county adult probation officer and alimony clerk since Oct 1 1986, is appointed by Federal Judge William H Barrett as an assistant probation officer effective August 1 He is brother of Herman Usher former Buena Vista High School superintendent in Marion County Pat riot.
Charles H. Fagan 44, a well known Winder Legionnaire and brother of Roper and Fred Fagan of Atlanta, died Saturday in an Athens hospital. Surviving are his wife and four children Hazel Sue Phyllis and Bennie all of Winder, plus seven brothers Henry Fagan of Hoschton Dee Walter and Jep Fagan of Winder Frand and Mat Fagan of Lawrenceville and Luke Fagan of Social Circle.
Atlanta reports twenty four new infantile paralysis cases in July raising Georgia’s 1939 total to sixty four for seven months. Dr. Bowdoin says no epidemic. normal incidence is one in ten thousand. Cases span Fulton seven. Cobb DeKalb two each. Sumter Effingham three each. single cases in White Habersham Selley Floyd Whitfield Laurens Jones. Proximity to South Carolina discussed.
Dublin Aug 1 Harry A Edge will succeed Laurens Agent J F Hart who retired after 25 years with the state farm extension service Hart served Laurens 17 years resigning after a controversy over 1938 cotton marketing quotas Edge will assume duties Aug 15 and will work exclusively with Laurens farmers under the original farm agents setup L R Lanier district agent said Edge will not be connected with the AAA and T H Taylor Jr will handle the government soil conservation program Hart plans farming in the county.
A speaker contemplates memorializing national and regional history, noting boys sacrificed for aims not imagined and reflecting on the relevance of remembering past South and North. The passage critiques southern efforts to valorize Andersonville prison and endorses John Wade’s perspective as time shifts toward 1990.
The page describes a poultry congress with diverse exhibits from the Ohio puppet show to Kansas and Japanese displays. Visitors view animat ed fowls, a talking turkey, dioramas on market news and cooking, 16 foot long Japanese Long Tail chickens, and a Quebec Chantecler. Scientists like Prof Punnett discuss genetics aiding breeders as mortality in poultry draws attention.
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