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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1949
Page
3
Macon police report 1948 closed with 1,305 accidents investigated, more than 200 above 1947 and well above 1946 and 1945 totals. Fatalities total three, injuries 242, with December and October leading months for accidents. property damage estimated at 41 000 dollars.
Dr. W. D. Martin Sr. of Albany, longtime Albany Health department employee for 22 years, accepts a position with the Florida State Veterinary service.
Three burner oil stove with Owen in good condition priced cheap. Sec 16 by Mrs W G Hill Butler Ga. Lost brown leather billfold with driver license and charge a plate. Return to Thelmon Jarrell for reward Mrs Dequindre McGlaun.
Nine hundred acres more or less of farm and timber land for sale near Carsonville. Listing agent Mrs M K Turner at 3610 14th Ave Columbus Georgia.
Two mules aged eight or nine years weigh about 1200 pounds each and are located four miles northeast of Howard near Elis Pike.
One-year-old Tung oil trees priced at $2 per dozen. Sizes range from 1 to 4 feet. Sold by J. T. Orrell at Turpentine Still, Butler, Georgia.
W. C. 5 Allen Chandler tractor offered with starter lights power takeoff lift and planting and cultivating equipment. All in good condition. Used for only one crop by W. E. Hobbs Reynolds Route 3.
Rawleigh dealer wanted at once in Marion and Schley Counties to service 1500 families. Good opportunity. Apply at Rawleigh's Dept. Gal. 820-105A Memphis Tennessee or contact N. L. McInvale Butler Georgia 31p-12-23.
The Cross Roads School 4-H Club elected officers for the new year Louise Morrell as President Louise Childree as Vice President Clarence Harris as Secretary Treasurer and Jeanette Raburn as Reporter. The club approved a general project to beautify the school grounds including trimming and fertilizing shrubbery leveling the ground and planting flowers with hopes to add playground equipment with parental help.
Farmers who carried out soil building practices during 1948 must report to the local AAA Office at their earliest convenience. Roy F. Jones, County Administrative Officer, says the farmer is responsible for reporting the practices completed in 1948 by January 15 to qualify for conservation payment. The program includes twenty soil building practices from lime to forest tree planting, with payments limited to 1948 work.
New York reports economists expect 1949 to be a year of steadier growth, with higher incomes and easing shortages. Consumers may find budgets easier, while manufacturers face higher costs and occasional layoffs but overall a modest slowdown rather than a recession is anticipated for the year.
Rep Dixie Gilmer of Oklahoma recalls serving as a House page in 1912 and 1913 at age 12. The Tulsa congressman notes his early Capitol experience as he begins his term in Washington.
The W. C. and S. G. Bradley chair of religion at Wesleyan College in Macon was announced by President Silas Johnson after a $50,000 gift from Mr. Don Turner and family. Turner, a Wesleyan trustee and Bishop G. F. Pierce descendant, aids the endowment drive with gifts from Mrs. Turner and Betty Turner and Wm. B. Turner.
Patricia Atkins of Albany high was crowned queen of the third annual Peanut Bowl in Columbus Saturday at Memorial Stadium during halftime of the Westfield Fitzgerald game. Miss Atkins received the crown from Miss Betty Sullivan of Macon, with attendants Mary Florence Porter Ashburn High Martha Fuller Ocilla High Mary Carolyn Logan Terrell High Dawson and Marjorie Lane Jordan High Columbus.
Rep. Steve Pace of Georgia introduced a congressional bill seeking repeal of the Aiken long-range farm measure. The Pace proposal calls for a permanent price support system at 90 percent of parity for cotton corn wheat rice tobacco and peanuts.
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