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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1961
Page
3
Washington DC Pentagon officials forbid local commanders from releasing a roster of names of men called to active duty across Army Air and Navy units. A spokesman said such disclosure would reveal unit strength though the total called up is announced.
Valdosta Ga report shows the 1961 tobacco belt auction season set an all time cash record and high volume. The U S Agriculture Department reported final returns for the season ending Friday with total volume of 191 193 994 pounds, down from 212 714 448 pounds in 1955.
Memorial services were held at McNemeys Funeral Parlor Wilmington California August 10 at 8 p m for Carl B Anderson. His body was willed to Harbor Hospital for cancer research. Survived by widow Lilly McChargue Anderson and brother A B Anderson of Albuquerque New Mexico. A memorial poem was read by the minister.
Unfurnished three room apartment with private bath and entrances listed by Mrs R P McGuffin Butler Georgia contact M 2 2585. Also oats for sale Margrain oats at 96c a bushel buyer supplies bags contact C C Giles Sr Butler Rt 1 phone U 2 4013. Wanted two or three room furnished apartment within Butler city limits contact Eddie Trawick Wilson Super Market. Rawleighs opportunity in Taylor County earn 100 per week contact H C Allen Molena or Rawleighs GA 810 27 Memphis TN. For sale one ton 1953 Studebaker pickup reasonably priced overdrive call UN 2 5541 after 6 pm or UN 2 4485 before 6.
SERVICE Electric Motors New and Used Repaired and Rewound Pick up and Delivery each Friday at Doyer Appliance Co Butler Ga or J C Hinton Electric Plumbin Supply at Reynolds or delivered to SEMCO Byron Ga Phone WO 3 3400 Sewing Machines Repaired All makes all work guaranteed Free estimate in your home J R Jones Singer Sewing Machine Rep c o McKenzie Furniture Co Phone UN 2 4665 WORK WANTED I am available for well work plumbing and house wiring EARL BONE Butler Ga Rt 1 4610tp Day Ph M 2 3585 200 Acres of land house barn good creek young timber Located in Taylor county Near Howard Ga Price 35 00 an acre HERBERT CURRINGTON Juniper Georgia House Trailer about 10 feet wide and 14 feet long Anyone having one for sale or knowing where I can buy one will please contact JIM TOM WINTERS Reynolds Ga R 4
Waycross Georgia case seeks an injunction to bar state funds for desegregated education. Attorneys Cowart and Cork move to halt spending in violation of segregation provisions. Hearing postponed to September 11. Atlanta schools may continue desegregation Wednesday unless injunction granted.
In Macon Georgia Judge W M Bootle ruled Chester Thomas 54 mentally unfit to stand trial for the 1955 slaying of R J Francis inside the Macon Post Office lobby. The order cites psychiatric reports from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Thomas was captured in Aniston Alabama in March after eluding authorities for six years following the June 6 1955 shooting. He had left his job with an insurance firm two weeks before the crime.
Thomaston resident Harry M. Middlebrooks Jr and his group the Marvels may score a national hit with U-T backed by Whats the Use. Billboard Music Week cites strong sales potential and notes the pair’s Georgia Tech background and ABC Paramoun t recording in Atlanta.
Thomaston Georgia Mrs Jean Ralston named Upson County Home Demonstration Agent to replace Margaret Butts who resigns September 1 Jesse McSwain clerk of the county commissioners reports Miss Nancy Carter named assistant Home Demonstration Agent Ralston has served as assistant since August 1960 She is a former Griffin resident and University of Florida graduate The new assistant H D Agent is from Jackson and attended North Gay College
A hat workshop to teach making winter hats is planned for October 27. Details on time and place will follow. Interested participants should contact Elizabeth Wicker H. D. Agent to arrange definite plans and learn hat making or redecorating techniques.
The Adams family held its annual reunion at the local Community House on Aug 20. Only two surviving members attended G G Adams of Powersville and Clem Waters of Reynolds. many descendants from Thomaston Warner Robins Macon Atlanta and West Virginia joined. The oldest attendee was G G Adams and the youngest was Steve Adams.
Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge addressed the Senate floor in two speeches urging action to aid tobacco growers and poultry producers. He urged an Agriculture Committee inquiry into possible price fixing in South Georgia tobacco markets and proposed the Agriculture Department purchase six to eight million laying hens for the school lunch program to curb overproduction.
An Associated Press report says two Georgia boys, 13 year old James Hutchinson of Williamson and 4 year old Billy Harrison of Griffin, drowned while swimming at Fernandina Beach. The bodies were found about two miles apart after their parents began a search. lifeguards reported no witness to the two drownings as the families vacationed together.
The Phillips family of Mrs. Helen W. Phillips and the late J. W. Phillips gathered at Rustin's Lake on August 20 for their annual reunion. Attendees included numerous Phillips relatives and spouses from Georgia and nearby states, with many listed by name and hometown.
Three Georgia units join a nationwide call up including the 718th Engineer Equipment Company in Albany and Ft Valley, the 210th Signal Base Depot Company in Augusta, and the crew of the destroyer Robinson in Savannah. About 46,500 Army reservists and guardsmen, 6,400 Navy reservists, and 23,600 Air Force men receive orders. Reports say most units report Oct. 1 and serve until replaced or the crisis ends. Captain Roupp says Albany troops just returned from summer training. Official orders had not yet arrived.
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