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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1941
Page
6
Georgia news round up notes a varied week with deaths in Marion county and Tennille, burglaries in Columbus, a courthouse fire in Dublin, and a hospital nearing completion near Albany. It reports agricultural parity payments, air raid warnings in Mitchell county, and plans for a new highway connection between Talbotton and Atlanta.
Cordele Aug. 11 Major N. N. Parnell of Cordele is now commanding officer of the executive department of the 62nd Air Base at Fort Benning. He succeeds Major Force who was killed recently in an airplane incident.
Revival services begin at Taylormill Potterville Baptist church next Sunday morning and continue through the following week. Services at 11 a m and 8 p m daily. Rev P P Mosley pastor will preach. Public invited to attend all services.
Macon August 8 Dr Norman Huffman of North Carolina will head the newly created department of religion at Wesleyan College in the fall. He will assume duties at the start of the 104th session on September 15. Huffman previously taught at Pembroke College and Brown University and has served in ministry in the Western North Carolina Conference since 1936.
Acreage owned by the Georgia Coastal Plain experiment Station will be increased after the Board of Regents approved a purchase of 1,435 acres for 15,720 dollars. The federal government will contribute 25,000 dollars toward work to be carried on there.
Georgia health officials said the infantile paralysis peak may be past as 10 new cases lifted the state total since June 1 to 408. Fulton County added three cases, with two in Randolph and Chatham counties and one in Stewart, Crisp and Bullock counties respectively.
Atlanta report says thieves broke into The Statesman, Gov. Eugene Talmadge's weekly, and stole $125 in cash and checks from W. K. Kimbrough's desk over the weekend. The incident expands a pattern of thefts linked to Talmadge farm properties.
New York Howard C Hopson once master of the Associated Gas and Electric System after five years in Lewisburg federal prison signs an agreement turning over the bulk of his 5 million personal assets to the defrauded companies and to federal and New York state governments for taxes.
Atlanta August 9 Congressman Pace of Americus strongly opposes the proposed suspension of trains Nos. One and Two between Macon and Columbus. He sent a letter to State Public Service Commissioner Walter McDonald, who is weighing the Central of Georgia petition.
Leon Webb about 40 years old was decapitated when a large 12 hundred gallon spirit tank exploded in McRae Sunday. Webb, an employee of McRae Auto Co., was welding the tank at Helena Warehouse Supply Co. when the acetylene torch sparked the blast. Windows in most homes were blown out by the explosion.
Three Upson County men Albert Rupert Pryor Alfred C Garrett and James Roscoe Pritchett all of Thomaston were bound over to the Columbus district U S court under $1000 bonds after waiving hearing before U S Commissioner H B Williams The men were arrested in a bateau in the Flint river by federal and state revenue agents who say they were connected with operating a 600 gallon copper still found on an island in the river on the Talbot county side.
Athens Georgia August 1943 Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard visited Farm and Home week events and was shown an experimental cotton field at the University of Georgia Agricultural College where he was shown a boll weevil. He compared the pest to grain weevils of the Midwest and said he had heard of them but never seen one.
Sandersville August 7 C J Hartley of near Tennille produced Washington County's first bale of cotton and brought the season's first watermelons to town. The bale, ginned by Washington Ginning Co and stored in Tennille Bonded Warehouse, weighed 506 pounds and sold to G A Page Jr at 17 cents per pound. Page noted last year he paid 7 cents, marking a 10 cent rise.
Construction of the $24,000,000 Army camp for training the Streamlined Division will require moving 300 to 350 families in the area. A survey by the Chamber of Commerce and the Farm Security Administration will determine how many farm families must relocate and how many new farms can be bought. Financial assistance and tenant placement will be arranged by the FSA.
Atlanta August 12 veteran employee George T McDonald assistant state highway engineer and director of the post roads division announces resignation effective Friday after nearly 15 years with the department He declines to give a reason for leaving and no successor has been named His salary was 300 a month with a 75 reduction last March He is a former Dalton resident.
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