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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1946
Page
10
Georgia posts cover a busy week with deaths in Fitzgerald and Atlanta business news, a Fort Benning center closure, rail and power plant plans near Albany, court actions in Macon and Valdosta, a highway dam name Jim Woodruff Dam, and local political and social developments across cities and counties.
The family of J. I. Fuller of Reynolds gathered Sunday for a reunion and dinner at the Roberta home of his daughter Mrs. J W Lowe and Mr Lowe. Attendees included J. I. Fuller Herbert Fuller Sr and Jr David James Lynn James Grady Fuller J C Fuller Joyce Geraldine Fuller Mary Connie Wainwright Mary Ann Sallie Horton W J Horton Will Lowe J W Lowe T F Clark J F Lowery Winnifred Lowe and others.
A federal suit seeks to void Georgia's county unit ballot count from the recent primary. Attorneys hope a ruling before the November general election. Eugene Talmadge, winner under the unit system, declined comment. James V. Carmichael said he is not a party to the suit and will not be involved.
Former Governor E D Rivers informed Governor-Designate Eugene Talmadge he waives the right to name delegates to the Georgia State Democratic Convention. He will authorize Talmadge to select delegates from counties that backed Rivers to help craft the party platform. The Albany Carmichael for governor group also waived its Dougherty county delegates for Talmadge.
In Griffin Georgia a dispute over teaching the Bible in public high schools ended in a deadlock. The Griffin Ministerial Association proposed the Bible course and sought $5 000 to pay teachers while state law bars using public funds for such teaching. The Flint River Baptist Association objected, saying the Bible may be read but not taught to avoid denominational interpretation. The Griffin Association now reconsiders and refers the matter to a committee for study.
R L Stewart, a Macon resident and Gupton Jones College graduate, developed a method to preserve a cornea in solution long enough for air shipping. His research, conducted under the National Association of Embalming Schools and Colleges, was noted in a national embalmer magazine.
Columbus August 3 Davison Paxon Company has leased property at Broadway and Twelfth Street in Columbus and will erect a modern store building. A long term lease with R P Spencer interests and Marie Needham owners of adjoining parcels funds a half million dollar project aimed to make it a Southeast showplace.
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