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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1940
Page
3
Jacksonville parents Capt and Mrs W L Cooke were informed Monday their son Bernard A Cooke 26 was killed in action with the British naval air service. The Cookes, British subjects, note their son had served in the British Navy for 10 years and was married 18 months ago.
Columbus reports Williams Lumber Co bid 2 079 000 as the apparent low bid for cantonment type buildings for the Second Armored Division at Fort Benning. Five bidders submitted proposals. Work to begin 10 days after War Department approval with completion in 90 days. Buildings will be wooden east of Cusseta road near Apollo Creek for 8647 authorized troops.
Abbeville August 16 virtually the entire town of Pineview will be offered for sale for taxes September 3. The sale stems from a 12,000 dollar school bond issue and is being pushed by bondholders who may bid if no other bidders appear. A mandamus action in federal court preceded a special levy by the mayor and council.
Americus, Aug 16. President Roosevelt approved a $274,563 WPA airport project for Souther Field and negotiations aim to attract a pilots training school. Midland Aircraft Corporation of Chicago will locate a factory on land adjoining Souther Field to build light aircraft. H. C. Robbins announced the deal after meetings with Chamber of Commerce, county commissioners, and city council.
The Sunday Lesson Sermon in Churches of Christ, Scientist centers on Mind as the governing Principle. Scriptural citation from Psalms and a correlative from Science and Health assert Mind’s supremacy, establishing creation and guiding life and law.
Manchester report: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shivars were struck near the city by a hit and run driver. Mrs. Shivars is in serious condition at the Manchester hospital while Mr. Shivars was treated and released.
The Stamps Baxter Smile-a-While Quartet will appear in a return engagement at the Butler school auditorium on Tuesday evening August 27. Admission is 10 and 20 cents. Sponsored by Circle No 1 of the Missionary Society of the Methodist church. Those who heard them before will want to hear an entirely new program. Those who missed them should plan to attend for an evening of fun and laughter.
In Athens on Aug 16 pens from three Georgia farms rank first, second, and third in the 14th national egg-laying contest. H. J. Hardin of Culloden leads with 3,309 points, A. E. Guinn of Butler is third with 3,141, while the event honors Prof. Mitchell with a portrait presented by the Poultry Science Club through Ralph McCants to Deal Paul W. Chapman of the College of Agriculture.
Richland Ga August 17 More than 60000 choice plants including slash pine catapa black locust and black walnut will be produced this year at the Richland school nursery The facility near the Richland Lumpkin highway features an overhead watering system built by vocational teacher T KE Ritche The project aims to give students practical experience and furnish plants for farms and grounds with over 160000 slash pine seedlings set on local farms last winter Thirty two high school students contributed home plantings drawing attention from passersby.
Senator W F George of Georgia met President Roosevelt in Albany to seek 375000 dollars in relief funds to rebuild storm damaged buildings. He was joined by Rep Cox and an Albany delegation including Mayor Haley and Henry McIntosh. They urged WPA labor transfers from other regions due to skilled worker shortages and discussed project approvals with WPA administrator Harrington.
An old style advertisement extols kidney health benefits of Kidans, claiming nine million kidney tubules filter waste and promising relief from nocturia leg pains backache and dizziness. It touts a money back guarantee and mail order offer for two boxes from The Kidans Company in Atlanta, Georgia.
Georgia tobacco growers collected 5 722 700 dollars for 82 207 686 pounds of their new crop last week. The purchase total reflects strong demand for bright leaf tobacco amid market activity and pattern of export and domestic sales.
Donald Philip LeTourneau, 19, son of prominent machinery maker R G LeTourneau, and Alton Vance Morrison, 23, both of Toccoa, were killed when their plane crashed atop Beaver Dam Mountain near Canton North Carolina while en route to Jefferson City Missouri. Officials said witnesses saw the craft go into nose fire before the crash. LeTourneau had been married about four months and worked in his father’s plant. the LeTourneau family are aviation enthusiasts and the father runs a large Peoria Illinois bound operation. Morrison’s body also was recovered. Authorities and LeTourneau family mourn the tragedy as inquiries into the crash continue.
In Ruston Louisiana two officers and two enlisted men died when an army B-12 bomber crashed exploded and burned in an open field during a Sunday night electric storm. The pilot First Lt H T Elders 38 of Columbia S C and Second Lt J H Griffin 27 of Asheville NC were killed along with Privates E F Quinker of Valdosta GA and Daniel C Johnston of Elberton GA as the storm disabled an Arcadia landing field light.
Atlanta reports more than 1 million dollars in flood damage to roads and bridges across northeast Georgia over ten days. A survey credits over 200 bridges washed out or damaged, with Columbia McDuffie Jefferson Richmond and Wilkes counties hardest hit. Hart and Elbert counties each saw about 50 bridges washed out. Detours stretched hundreds of miles for travelers from Augusta to nearby cities. WPA workers, aided by county and state crews, are repairing the damage.
Funeral services were held for Robert Chamberlin Hinkle three year old son of Lt and Mrs H W Hinkle who fell to his death from a three story apartment window where his parents lived in Columbus Georgia on August 16.
Mrs Avery C Dennison 29 of Hampton Florida native of Macon sustained fatal injuries late Monday when run down by her own car as she tried to stop it from rolling down a hill near Starke Florida She died en route to a Gainesville hospital in Florida.
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