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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
3
A note from Eugenia Joiner reminds readers that the Stamps-Baxter Quartet will visit Reynolds High School Friday evening December 18. Proceeds support the senior class’s trip to New York, inviting attendance to aid their fundraising.
Elmer Nelson Jr urges readers to support the Red Cross annual roll call. He praises the organization for aiding war torn and disaster areas, notes school groups collecting donations, and argues everyone could need help someday.
The Glee Club announces a Christmas program at the Club House on Wednesday December 4 during the regular meeting. The tentative program features Joy to the World How Glad I Am Each Christmas Live Silent Night Holy Night The First Noel We Three Kings O Little Town of Bethlehem and Festal Bells Are Ringing with scripture selections between songs.
Under Mrs. John Mims leadership R H S launches an American Red Cross drive. Students donate dollars to earn a red cross sticker while a grammar boy advocates more room windows funded by grades and teachers list contributions from Grade 2 through 11 with varied totals.
In an editorial voice the Reynolds High School Newscaster staff is praised by Superintendent E H Joiner and faculty members including Bowers Hodges and Williams. They urge more deliberate writing and stronger style to boost vocabulary and parental interest.
Miss Sallie Caldwell of G S C W Milledgeville Ga will visit Reynolds High School Monday December 9 to supervise the cadet teachers all day and later discuss school problems with Mr. Joiner. Her critique should help improve the school.
Satirical brief contrasts schemes labeled ISMS SOCIALISM COMMUNISM FASCISM NAZISM NEW DEALISM CAPITALISM AMERICANISM with two cows as a symbol of property and control. The quip traces government roles and personal freedom across systems.
A fragmented note mentions a heater in a typing room and a student expressing distraction. It cites Clay Bryan as crucial to the Alma Mater, which is described as “moving” to avoid death, and ends with an unfinished line directed at Garland Byrd.
Emory University reports E C Whatley scored in the upper ten percent on General Ability English General Science and Regional Problems Tests and ranked fourth in the class. The letter from M C Langhorne Assistant Registrar congratulates Reynolds High School and its teachers on the student’s strong preparation.
A student chorus of teasing and identity questions. Imer Nelson Jr notes the chatter about peers Virginia Hodges Haviland Jones and others and cements a call to action about the future of America and neglect of minds.
County AAA chairman E L Wilson says cotton loans for 1941 depend on marketing quotas approved in Saturday’s referendum. If quotas pass, loans cover all 1941 cotton within allotments. overplanting yields loans only on excess at 60 percent. If quotas fail, the 1940 loan program ends with ballot results and cannot resume until Aug 1, 1942.
Georgia wildlife director Charlie Elliott urged quail hunters to stay within a 15 per day 30 per week limit as the season opened. Rangers will check bags in every county to deter overharvest and curb illegal quail selling, aiming to protect hunters and enforce game laws.
District Forester L C Hart reports over half a million pine seedlings planted on Taylor county farms over two winters. In 1939 242 600 seedlings were planted and 309 200 last winter. Farmers, now protected by a county fire organization, plan December to February plantings with seedlings bought from the State Forest Service at cost for reforestation and erosion control.
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