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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1944
Page
6
Georgia columns report Christmas Seal sales past 2500 at Columbus. Other items note Baptist pastors’ gathering in Manchester December, Walter R. Bynum Dairy sale near Columbus, forest-fire protection drive in Pulaski, and rapid bond sales statewide.
Atlanta December 4 editors at the Journal and Constitution faced a labor dispute as the ITU union walked out, leaving composing rooms in continuous meeting. Both papers published four page photoengraved editions with typewritten digests and two front pages while negotiations continued. F T Carter of ITU arrived to investigate but gave no comment as both sides reported no change.
In Roberta Dec 2 news confirms Lt W Cleveland Felts, shot down Nov 2 in the South Pacific, is safe with friendly forces. His comrade Lt Halstein witnessed the bailout and led to his cover and rescue. Felts, disabled, cannot move presently and has earned an Oak Leaf Cluster for meritorious flight. His wife Mrs Doris Hicks Felts resides in Covington while he remains overseas.
Betrothal announced in Americus Georgia as Eloise Marie Davis and Ensign Pat Hinton Hodges plan marriage once he returns from the South Pacific. Hodges a Georgia Southwestern College and University of Georgia graduate earned his Navy commission at Northwestern University and completed PT Boat School at Melville R I.
An analysis contrasts Africa as the “Dark Continent” with few pockets of light and argues prosperity hinges on how raw materials labor intelligence capital and especially human character are used. It stresses that capital is a tool and prosperity depends on disciplined industrious living.
Cochran, Dec. 4. George B. McVay, a veteran Cochran mail carrier, lay in a Macon hospital tonight in serious condition after a hit and run accident on a residential Cochran street Monday. Police Chief J A D Coley said he arrested a man named Doc Bryant at a Cochran filling station after the crash. Bryant faced drunken driving and hit and run charges.
The speaker urges thrift honesty and mutual helpfulness as keys to prosperity. He argues material tools alone fail without the Christ like spirit guiding their use and warns against misusing resources as Germany did. He calls for applying Christian virtue to improve life and labor. Visit Reynolds Cold Storage and Locker Plant market. J. W. Waters, manager.
The local Rationing Board urges truck owners to renew Transport Rations. Soon mail will bring Form R-569 for renewal. Return the completed form to the ration office by Dec 21 to receive gasoline for 1945. one application per truck unless on a flea certificate.
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