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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
4
Duffie, longtime Manchester resident, died Sunday at 86. Funeral services were held at his residence on Monday. He was born September 21, 1864, in Gaines, and is survived by his wife Mertha, a daughter and a son.
New Rochelle N Y August 5 Dr Frederick Cook world famous explorer died today at New Rochelle hospital He was 75 years old His claim to reach the North Pole was disputed by R S Peary whose pole discovery was later supported The record also notes Cook’s claim to climbed Mt McKinley and his subsequent withdrawal from public life after Peary's vindication.
Georgia officials and industry leaders testified on pipelines replacing tank trucks. They warned lines would not lower consumer prices or reduce highway traffic, but could cost thousands of railroad and port jobs and cut local merchant revenue while affecting school funding through reduced railroad taxes.
In Webster Preston Ga August 2 a voluntary effort by 84 Webster county farmers protected over 33 000 acres of timber land reducing fires to one small incident less than 25 acres. County Agent J T Bailie notes plans for a county wide forest fire protection program and wildlife conservation as goals. Two sawmills ship seven cars of lumber daily while 4 H Club members planted forest seed beds and trees.
In Columbus, between 8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, thieves opened two safes on the second floor of the J. A. Kirven Co. building and took cash and valuable heirlooms while the third safe remained untouched. Police launched an investigation with no arrests by Sunday morning.
A CCC truck overturned on a highway south of Lakeview Oregon killing a Georgia enrollee and injuring sixteen others. Deceased is Tom Teston Arnold of Saxon Georgia. Injured residents named include Price McMahon C C Campbell Bill Smith J W Hale W R Walters and James Nichols all from Georgia. They were en route from the Hart Mountain CCC camp to fight a forest fire in Fandango Valley.
Adel Ga August 2 two members of a snake handling cult began a hunger strike while held without bond on charges of assault to murder. Rev W T Lipham and Albert Rowan prayed in Cook county jail as Leitha Ann Rowan, six year old daughter of Rowan, recovered from a venomous snake bite at rites. Sheriff Daugherty weighed bond and potential action with a neighboring county regarding the case.
Georgia railroads warn that 2300 workers could be laid off if gasoline pipeline projects gain state approval. A. B. Conger, Bainbridge attorney and railroad spokesman, cites loss of revenue, tax impacts, and risk to farmers merchants and school funds. Pipeline rights threaten public service railroads and condemnable private property.
About 4,000 Georgia national guardsmen across the 23rd Cavalry Division, 80th Division, and 17th Field Artillery begin a three week military training period. Roughly 1,600 hail from Atlanta. Groups from the 28th Cavalry Division go to Camp Beauregard Louisiana for Sabine area maneuvers with 70,000 other troops, while the rest join after two weeks at Camp Shelby Mississippi. The exercise marks the largest southern guard concentration and includes war games on a large scale as a prelude to expanded training. Troops from several states will form Red and Blue armies for the exercises.
A committee of southern senators urged Secretary Wallace to raise the commodity loan rate on cotton to 10.25 cents a pound, about 65 percent of parity. They warned Europe’s war has cut exports. They cited last year’s loan near 55 percent and urged similar hikes for wheat.
Thomaston census figures show the town's population rising from 4922 in 1930 to 6416 in 1940, an increase of 1494 residents. The data were released today reflecting a decade of growth for the community.
Conger warned that granting rights for a pipeline in the state would enable major lines to build more lines, lowering gasoline prices and drastically reducing rail freight traffic. He noted the pipeline would employ under 100 people, while railroads would cut workers and equipment needs across the state.
The Kirven Investment Company bought the old post office building at the southeast corner of Twelfth Street and First Avenue in Columbus. The George Woodruff Company sold the property for an undisclosed price. Woodruff had purchased it from the government in 1940 for 67 700 dollars. The Kirven group will not immediately change occupancy, using the basement for storage and upholstery, with government and civic offices occupying much of the main and second floors.
State Superintendent M. D. Collins, president of the National Association of State Superintendents of Schools, heads to Washington D C for a conference to coordinate educational aspects of the national defense program. The meeting will shape wartime and peacetime vocational training with CCC NYA and similar agencies as key factors. Collins will not run a reelection campaign but will work with any governor candidate in support of state education. He also notes that over half of Georgia’s city and county superintendents back his nomination.
The Lesson Sermon focusing on Spirit will be read Sunday in Churches of Christ, Scientist worldwide. It features Biblical citations from Chronicles and a passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, arguing that evil cannot prevail against good and that only spiritual reality endures.
John C. Krafe, 28, an account clerk from New York, was indicted by the Fulton County grand jury on two forgery charges and two counts of passing forged checks totaling over $700. He remained in Fulton County jail in default of a $2,500 bond.
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