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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1928
Page
6
The article urges terraces to curb soil erosion amid heavy rainfall, detailing bench and ridge types, with emphasis on broad base ridge terraces. It explains proper fall, terrace spacing, and construction cautions, including handling washes, level paddocks, and equipment needs for effective terracing.
The piece warns of extensive soil erosion in Southwest Georgia, with thousands of acres uncultivable and profits harmed by unseen losses. It urges winter cover crops like vetch and Crimson Clover, notes how crops reduce erosion, and directs readers to county agents and USDA bulletins for terracing drainage and erosion control methods.
Atlanta reports Representative J. E. T. Bowden of Ware County proposes a sweeping reform to Georgia law at the next assembly session. The plan would abolish the death penalty, redefine clemency, and create a statewide clemency board chaired by constitutional officers. It would restrict pardons, paroles, and commutations, require unit votes for mercy in capital cases, and delay clemency decisions in life-sentence convictions.
Boston December 16 Ulrich B Phillips Professor of American history at the University of Michigan was named winner of a $2 500 prize offered by Little Brown and Company for the best unpublished work on American history His book A History of the South will be published next May as Life and Labor in the Old South Phillips a native of LaGrange Georgia educated at the University of Georgia and Columbia University
The Ecote Mansfield company adds a sixth week in Macon at the Grand Theatre after praise for five weeks. They stage Guy Belton's Adam and Eva about a wealthy family facing ruin and role reversals as Adam Smith from the Amazon arrives to help them.
The piece touts the charm and outstanding success of the production. Matinees run Wednesday and Saturday at 3 00 pm with evening shows at 30 and the fairs remain priced from 50c to 1 00.
Hazard Ky December 16 scene of fatal blaze at the five story Combs hotel. With two more bodies recovered Sunday afternoon the death toll reaches five. One person remains missing and about six are hospitalized for injuries. The blaze Saturday night caused about 500000 dollars in property damage.
F A Stone air mail pilot crashed into a wooded ridge three miles south of Waycross early Sunday. He was carried to a Waycross hospital in critical condition with the plane destroyed from the impact. The motor was hurled clear, wings torn away, and the craft reduced to wreckage.
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