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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1949
Page
8
A broad report notes Georgia topics including a $170,000 YWCA building project in Atlanta for Negroes to begin next week, a fatal weekend highway toll, a Macon physician's death, and various state civic developments. The summary compiles several items across the state from education to infrastructure.
Atlanta Georgia secretary manager of the Georgia Press Association Stanford Smith was named national chairman of National Newspaper Week 1950 by Larry Miller manager of the Kansas Press Association and president of Newspaper Association Managers. Smith will select committeemen from 38 sponsoring associations for the week of Oct 18 marking the 11th observance.
Canton, Ga., Dec. 12. The body of Rev. Shelton Brock, a Church of God minister who disappeared November 30, was found Monday in a wooded area near Ball Ground, with the car’s steering wheel beneath him. Two local boys found him and notified authorities. Brock had been preaching at the Canton church that morning and said he would go hunting after the service.
Georgia sponsors push for state owned wholesale liquor operations to curb rackets and boost revenue. Gov. Talmadge opposition seen likely, with plans to shrink retail outlets from 900 to about 100 and create 600 to 1,000 jobs, as legislature convenes January 16.
About 100 members of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation and Associated Women departed Macon on Saturday for Chicago to attend the 31st annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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