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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1962
Page
4
The Butler Herald is designated as the official organ for Taylor County. Published every Thursday with an average weekly circulation of fifteen hundred copies. Office in Butler Georgia. Chas Berns Jr. is listed as business manager and managing editor O E Cox as publisher and business manager. Mail matter second class.
A Tennessee sewing talent, Rita Wilson, 21, of Humboldt, crowned Miss Dixie in Daytona Beach after beating 18 Southern belles from nine states. She won the talent and evening dress contests and was crowned by outgoing queen Carol Long. First runner up Susan Woodall and second runner up Nancy Ann Harrison are named. Linda Smith won Miss Congeniality.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were ordered back to Albany court for a ruling on antisegregation demonstration charges. Judge A N Durden will issue the decision after studying trial briefs about parading without a permit and obstructing traffic.
Memphis July 7. Five year old Virginia araby of Forest City Ark. lay in surgery for three hours while a heart lung machine did her heart's work. A surgeon opened her pulsating heart and closed a hole between the upper chambers. The machine kept her blood circulating and oxygenated. At the end the repaired heart reconnected to arteries and began pumping normally.
Statesboro Ga State Representative John Sheffield a lieutenant governor candidate accuses opponent Zack Geer of being controlled dominated and sponsored by State Revenue Commissioner Dixon Oxford who Sheffield calls the liquor court of Georgia asserting the commissioner has life and death control over the liquor industry in Georgia
Louis Simura, a 73 year old man from Steubenville Ohio, was found safe in a wooded area about three miles from a Franklin Georgia roadside park after an all night Civil Defense search. He had scratches and was treated at Franklin hospital before release. His wife and daughter with son in law were en route to Dothan Alabama to visit a son when he wandered off Saturday afternoon.
Hazelhurst veteran Arley Finley, retired Hazlehurst postmaster, is named editor of the Georgia Postmaster publication the Cracker Postmaster.
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