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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1941
Page
8
The article notes forthcoming construction on a pipeline extension across Georgia. Brig. Gen. R. F. Cox takes command of the Camp Stewart reservation. The report also covers local deaths, public notices, and state safety updates.
Putnam County has been allotted $50,000 in the rural housing program. Congressmen Carl Vinson notified G. M. Scheer today. A delegation will attend a district Housing Administration meeting in Jackson this week.
Construction began Friday on Americus West Forsyth street site for a new 1,500 seat theatre priced about 75000 dollars. Completion is expected by mid December.
Elberton Ga Aug 26 A convicted slayer known as Williams who has heard death sentences five times before and gained reprieve five times was sentenced Tuesday for the 1937 killing of Lon Fortson. Superior Judge Clark Edwards ordered Williams electrocuted at Tattnall Prison. Williams made no comment.
President Roosevelt signed into law a defense bill authorizing 7586,896,848 dollars for the nation’s defense. The measure allocates 6,586,896,948 dollars for new Army tanks anti tank weapons and ammunition and for expansion of the naval establishments.
Eatonton Georgia August 25 Putnam county's quota under the rural housing program has been set at fifty thousand dollars Congressman Carl Vinson notified G M Scheer president of the Putnam county farm board today Scheer said the allotment is the climax of a long drive by the farm body to participate in the program.
Talbotton Ga Aug 26 State Senator John H McGee longtime lawyer and former Chat tahoochee Bar Association president faced a sudden worsen ing turn this afternoon and was rushed to an Atlanta hospital Doctors report his condition as critical
DeLand Florida Saturday E. D. Rivers Jr son of Georgia's former governor was named by Tropi cal Broadcasting Co to supervise construction of DeLand radio station WPER and to manage the station when it opens in October P E Raymond former Stetson law dean now assistant state attorney general is president of the company
Detroit Representative Robert Ramspeck Democrat Georgia chairman of the house civil service committee urged salary adjustments for federal employees to ease rising living costs. He noted the lack of collective bargaining and urged a flat salary increase on their behalf.
Services for H. H. Hall 64 Central of Georgia Railroad engineer were held in Columbus on Saturday after his death Thursday in a local hospital He had served 35 years with the Central and lived in Columbus He was a Mason and a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers Survived by his wife and three children
In Allentown the Four-County bank will open in early September with $15 000 capital. Incorporators listed include C R Faulk Thomas Lee A W Daughtry A T Land H L Chance Grady Toney and Hembree Carroll. J D Shannon, attorney, says the bank building should be completed by an organization meeting soon.
FBI analysis of 28 450 women arrests in 410 cities shows a 35.4 percent rise in drunkenness and 38.3 percent rise in driving while intoxicated in the first half of 1941 compared with 1940. Arrests for all causes increased 16.8 percent.
Washington reports the War Department placed two contracts totaling 26,249,433 for aircraft and engine components. Wright Aeronautical Corporation of Patterson, New Jersey, received 19,268,820 for miscellaneous maintenance parts and North American Aviation of Dalton, Texas, got 6,980,612 for airplanes and spare parts with undisclosed quantities and unspecified delivery dates.
Georgia's infantile paralysis tally climbed to 517 with six new cases, while Fulton County and Atlanta posted no new polio. One case each was reported in Bulloch Wheeler Franklin Henry Greene and Paulding counties.
Macon August 25 two more faculty additions to Wesleyan College and Conservatory staffs were announced bringing the term total to 15. Vice President Silas Johnson said Mrs Anne Frierson Griffin of Kingstree South Carolina joins the speech and drama department and Rev F Wilson of Jeffersonville is elected to the religion department. Further appointments are to follow.
About 200 editors and wives toured Habersham College NYA shops and farm projects as Georgia weekly papers collected trophies for categories like best displaying advertising and most fearless editorial. Brumby and Chapman noted long publisher tenures at Cobb County Times and Sandersville Progress.
German papers claim wartime losses include sinking of warships and 25 merchant vessels. Florence reports 150 to 200 dogs dead from rabies vaccine reaction. High winds and floods cause damage in the east. rain showers across the nation. Roosevelt names Francis Biddle as attorney general. Jas M West of Houston dies of a heart attack. Roosevelt vetoes wheat and cotton stock freeze. Roosevelt to broadcast from Hyde Park on Labor Day. Tugwell confirmed as governor of Puerto Rico. 3,000 shipyard workers return to work under Navy at Kearny. A Waldwick NJ bus crash kills seven and injures many. Senate panel moves to cut personal exemptions. no sales tax plan approved.
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