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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1956
Page
6
Georgia weather and economy show a healthy year with a peach crop normal, tourism spending near 300 million, Macon retail sales rising to 140 million, and a dry year record. Notable events include a 500000 fire at a Douglas tobacco warehouse, a Macon hold up, county elections in Coffee and honors in Jeff Davis, plus obituaries and historic notes.
Thomaston honors note marks the passing of Dr. J. M. McKenzie 79 a longtime Upson County physician who served 53 years delivering more than 6000 babies and was lauded on a September community celebration reflecting his local impact. He was a native of Upson County and trained at R. E. Lee Institute before Georgia Medical College and Emory affiliated Atlanta School of Medicine.
Tarversville resident Miss Pansy Deese has cared for stray dogs for 18 years after finding them along the Macon Cochran highway. She now shelters 30 dogs, saying she cannot stand to see them suffer and refuses to turn them away.
Sagle Idaho December 27 Benjamin Hartley aged 96 died Monday night from age and complications after a fall. His wife Josie also 96 and they observed their 80th wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving Day. Hartley had been ill since July after a fall and family kept a 24 hour bedside watch.
Ham Fisher 54, creator of the Joe Palooka comic strip hero, was found dead in a friend's studio in New York. Notes nearby indicated death by his own action. Fisher spoke of failing eyesight and diabetes and said he had swallowed pills.
In Swainsboro on January 2 four Emanuel County youths were found dead in an old model car parked in a ditch along a county road. A coroner's jury ruled carbon monoxide poisoning likely caused the deaths of Andrew Young 21 Jimmy Tillman 19 Geneva Daniel 19 and Cassie Bell Brinson 15.
Patricia Anne Cowden a 21 year old from Raleigh North Carolina was named the 1956 Maid of Cotton in Memphis after defeating 22 contestants from 13 cotton growing states including Georgia Bevis Jordan of Lubbock Texas was first alternate and Minta Curtis of Mission Texas was second alternate.
Macon Georgia Miss Susan Myrick farm editor of the Macon Telegraph and News and associate editor of the Telegraph has been named 1955 Woman of the Year in service to rural Georgia by Progressive Farmer magazine. She has served on the Telegraph staff for 25 years apart from a 18 month period as technical adviser for the movie Gone with the Wind.
Georgia's timberlands grow at 50 cords per minute totaling 70 000 per day highlighting 168 000 acres of woodland in Taylor County and statewide forest industry valued at 750 million dollars annually. Ranger Austin Guinn notes potential for doubling growth through better management and reforestation as planting season peaks and urges county landowners to seek district forester services in Butler.
Eatonton Ga Dec 31 A squirrel hunter was shot to death about eight miles from Eatonton Preliminary investigation indicates the shooting was an accident Putnam County Sheriff J R Walton said H T Burnett 40 of Eatonton an employee of an aluminum company died instantly when struck in the head by a 22 calibre rifle bullet
Waycross newspaper retiree Rev. W. L. Barber ends a 51 year career in journalism joining the Waycross Journal-Herald staff in 1920. He began when all type was hand set and witnessed the shift to Linotype while maintaining a belief in freedom of speech as the core purpose of the press.
Wrightsville Headlight changing hands on January 1 with Jerry Pryor of Fitzgerald to succeed John Rozier as editor. Rozier sold the paper after buying two Richmond suburban weeklies and plans to move January 15. Pryor, Georgia Military Academy and University of Georgia graduate, served in the army and has long family ties in weekly papers.
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