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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1945
Page
5
The Butler Herald notes Butler Georgia gains with new building projects despite material costs and labor shortages. It likens frozen meat lockers to neighborhood banks and jokes about immortals like Hitler alongside historical figures. A reader recalls August heat and teen fashion in public.
A lighthearted observation notes how quickly cash vanishes from pockets and how this can prompt some people to offer faster aid for global betterment. The tone links spending habits to charitable impulses and communal improvement.
A call to advertise Butler and Taylor County as ideal sites for manufacturing ventures. The region is praised for location, climate, education, morals, and good transportation, aimed at attracting national and world investors.
The Georgia financier Mills B Lane, a key figure in state banking for six decades, helped grow Citizens & Southern National Bank into a leading southern institution with branches in Atlanta Augusta Athens Albany Dublin La Grange Savannah Thomaston Valdosta and several Carolina cities.
Celia Zazer traces Columbus growth from a lone horse path in 1707 to 123 miles of city streets. Early street names reflect woods swamps and logs while most downtown names date to 1828 to 1865. Modern ordinances shifted many names to numbers.
Rev. Robert Woods of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan urges his congregation not to say they enjoyed his sermons. He says sermons should inspire and unsettle listeners, not merely please. The veteran preacher would prefer accuracy to flattery and notes the old habit of praising sermons with a fib.
Publisher Leo Bowen of the Thomaston Free Press sold his paper to J. B. Hardy and S. J. Carswell, who take over August 1. The Free Press, a semi weekly, becomes Tuesday only while the Thomaston Times appears on Friday. Bowen plans rest after six years building the business. Best wishes go to Bowen and to the Times promoters.
Atlanta Journal urges early Christmas parcel mailing for 1945 to support overseas servicemen. Postmaster Lon Livingston notes Sept 15 to Oct 15 as official mailing window and warns deliveries will be complex due to redeployment. 84 million parcels were sent in 1944 and today mail may travel by many modes to reach troops by December 25.
Health department reports 607 births with 57 illegitimate, marking a troubling record. Courts in Raleigh scrutinize cases amid issues of illegitimacy and divorce as highlighted by local coverage.
A compact remark describes a diminutive imitator who copies only others' faults, suggesting a diminished character prone to negative mimicry.
A reflection on the impact of a child’s friendly smile compared to adult rebuke, noting that kindness from youths often leaves a stronger impression than phrased criticism from grownups.
A playful note on a boy who refused a nickel for a watermelon unless twice his head size and ripe, and his son now paying fifty cents for a half-green fruit equal in half the head size.
The Canton North Georgia Tribune offers a reflective remark on time noting that one cannot walk straight while looking backward and that present or future progress requires a mind free from focus on the past.
Fifty years ago the United States had only four automobiles. The narrator notes two passing daily and wonders where the others might be located across the country.
The speaker reflects on being born 40 years too soon yet finding compensation in his day. He recalls boyhood where a kiss did not risk lipstick smears and cigarette ashes in the eyes, contrasting past simplicity with later habits.
Residents note a stable row of 1920 to 1925 Ford cars parked around the courthouse square every Saturday afternoon. The sight is offered as evidence that prewar automobiles remain more durable than postwar models, according to local observers.
A traveling man visited a nearby town restaurant and told the waitress he would eat anything in the kitchen as long as it was not cooked in mineral oil. He added he had worked hard and did not need oil to work him.
The piece honors Winston Churchill for rallying England in its darkest hour and cites his famed blood sweat and tears speech as history making. It notes flaws in government and argues against retiring Churchill now when global need for strong leaders is greatest.
A Preston Georgia dispatch reports six Webster county merchants petitioning President Truman and senators for relief from taxes shortages and OPA rules. They describe skimpy stocks, rising costs, and disrupted trade with calls for subsidies to help small-town merchants cope with wartime controls and wage pressures.
The column jests about shifting social quirks from gun searches to cigarette checks in Gar dena California court coverage. It notes inflation looming as shirts hit 12.95 and jokes that irony and misadventure follow, with a jitterbug stumper breaking a toe.
When young men go to war Cupid follows Mars. The piece notes many American servicemen wed Australian and British women, while many American girls remain unmarried and questions new restrictions on reverse lend-lease.
A Tennessee preacher and assistants test a new convert by placing a rattlesnake and cottonmouth on the convert’s head. The scene, described as a hazardous faith rite, prompts concern over dangerous demonstration methods and public safety.
A reflective editorial praises the San Francisco Conference closing session and the envisioned will to peace. It argues that the world must commit to outlaw war, accept shared sacrifice, and build a durable international house of peace inhabited by those who love harmony over conflict.
Government food experts urge Japanese to eat acorns as a substitute for normal diet. They claim acorn nourishment equals rice and can be used to make bread noodles starch cake and, with processing, gluten drops and brewed drinks.
Albany meeting by Task Force 30 promotes four core principles for the Pacific campaign. The program stresses dividing Japan’s forces, concentrating power, massed production, and relentless pressure while minimizing American casualties. Logistics and reemployment plans are emphasized with expectations for discharge by June 1, 1946.
A returning veteran William H Tillery faced humiliation aboard a Macon bus after being questioned by a violent driver. Passengers defended him as he had served overseas one year nine months and earned the Purple Heart. The letter from Mrs. W H Clark of Butler urges readers to support veterans facing postwar hostility.
A Walton News reflection contrasts neighborly culture in cities and Monroe where residents know neighbors. It laments strangers next door and the fatigue of social niceties while recalling a humorous scene with shy groups of girls unable to speak until a playful prompt breaks the silence.
A young enlisted man from Okinawa reports the Japanese soldier improves with time, taller and better trained as U S forces push toward Nippon. The observer notes that enemy troops near Okinawa are stronger than those on Leyte, presenting renewed challenges in the war effort.
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