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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1957
Page
8
A broad Georgia digest notes an REA loan of 310000 to the Leslie, flu shots for workers at West Point Manufacturing, Sept 3 school openings in Sumter County, fatal truck crashes near Macon, and statewide student rollbacks. It reports 1956 income records, traffic deaths drop, a Macon church 50th anniversary, and plans for Airtel hotel air terminal in Atlanta.
A 41 year old Harris County man identified as Fred Mullins was resentenced to the September 6 execution date for the axe slaying of his wife last summer. Mullins lost two appeals and an attempt to reduce sentence to life. He has had three stays of execution since the original plan for the electric chair in Reidsville. The new sentence was handed by Judge J R Thompson of the Chattahoochee Superior Court Circuit.
Georgia Methodist pastors will gather at Wesleyan College in Macon September 2 to 6 for the annual pastors school. About 900 pastors are expected as Bishop Arthur Moore of Atlanta and other senior Methodists lead courses. Bishop Moore will host the Bishop Hour daily and supervise a Q A session. Dr. G E Thomas will teach Holy Habits of Spiritual Life.
A hatchery designed to produce 60 000 baby chicks weekly has opened in Americus as a branch of Chemmels Hatchery of Gainesville. The facility serves South Georgia Alabama and Florida with Terrell Chapman in charge Zach Hayes sales manager and Archie McLeod stock supervisor all relocating from Gainesville.
In Butts County Georgia the VFW Club on a hilltop between Indian Springs and Jackson was padlocked by Superior Court Judge Thos A Brown Jr. A Sept. 20 hearing was set for club officials to show cause why it should not be closed permanently. The petition cited a Aug. 22 visit by the grand jury sheriff and deputy and found large quantities of liquor.
Waynesboro reports the death of H. B. Hayes 55 former commissioner of the State Health Department from a heart attack while playing golf at Waynesboro Country Club. Funeral will be held Tuesday at 4 pm in Waynesboro Methodist Church with burial in Magnolia Cemetery.
The retired Baptist minister Rev. Simon M. Anderson, 81, died in Hawkinsville. He was active in religious and civic life and received the Lions Club Citizens of the Year award last year. Sombrero time brings in hundreds of Spanish speaking Mexican laborers to Vienna to harvest an anticipated extra cotton crop for Dooly farmers last weekend.
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