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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1950
Page
6
Georgia reports 183000 residents over 65 while cotton picks spread statewide. Fatal highway accidents claim ten lives as plans for a 159000 dollar Columbus baseball park surface and watermelons ship about five thousand carloads.
London reports a 6-pound princess born to Princess Elizabeth on Tuesday at a cream colored mansion in central royal district. Four doctors attended the birth and issued a bulletin stating both mother and newborn are doing well. The girl is third in line to the throne after Queen Elizabeth’s son Prince Charles.
Police nationwide join Atlanta and Fulton county officers in a search for 16-year-old Louise Morrison, a North Fulton high school student who vanished Aug 3. Described as about five and a half feet tall with brown eyes and hair, she wore pink horn rim glasses and has a mole on her right cheek.
The Bulloch Herald of Statesboro won three top Georgia Press Association trophies at the GPA 64th convention in Atlanta. Editor Coleman led in best weekly editorial, best weekly typography, and best editorial by any state paper. Other honors went to Gainesville Daily Times, Eastman Times Journal, Claxton Enterprise, and Lanier County News with various accolades.
Hawkinsville native Tom Lovejoy has been named president of the Manhattan Life Insurance Co. of New York succeeding his late father Thos Lovejoy Sr. News reached Hawkinsville via Mrs. Russell Twitty Sr. and Mrs. J L Anderson.
Another case of poliomyelitis has been reported at Macon along with a six year old girl suspected of having the disease. It brings to thirteen the known number of polio cases handled in Bibb county since July 5.
In Rabun County Georgia an ex convict Curtiss Shedd 30 confessed to the triple slaying of John Boyter 38 and his two daughters Jonnie Mae 14 and Jo Ann Boyter 7 after picking them up near Clayton. Investigators search dense mountain trails for the missing girls as Sheriff Lamon Queen says the motive remains unclear.
Atlanta reports based on 1950 census figures, 5.8 percent or 183000 Georgians are at least 65. Georgia trails the regional 6.2 percent average with Florida leading at 7.3 percent. R H Lyle notes life expectancy rising from 50 to 67, and describes regional comparisons among South Atlantic states.
Valdosta Georgia August 11 a 7 year old boy Johnny Steinhausen and his mother Mrs Jack Steinhausen of Chicago died August 10 in an automobile accident. The father and another son Martin and Miss Angeline Kolter were critically injured.
In Walhalla a mother was questioned and jailed in the Oconee County jail after her son admitted to killing three girls under her orders and with her pistol looming over him. The mother denies any involvement in the killings.
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