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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
6
Georgia events fill the week with the 42nd annual session of the Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star in Macon. Other items note deaths, retirements, weather damage, wartime crops, and a July 1 deadline for the $5 automobile use tax stamp.
Army authorities completed an investigation into a Saturday night crash near Social Circle Georgia that reportedly killed six airmen. Bodies were removed under Army direction with five recovered from the wreckage and the sixth thrown clear as the plane struck a low hill. next of kin not yet notified.
Acworth Georgia June 7 W A Wallace of Acworth and Huntington West Virginia has developed a paper negative to solve film shortages for soldiers and families abroad. The technique aims to place photographs in soldiers tents and camps. The Professional Photographer magazine featured a Wallace paper negative on its May cover. Wallace runs a Huntington studio while his sister Mrs O C Omer stays in Acworth.
Eighteen soldiers were killed and eight injured when an army truck crashed through a bridge railing near Nashville, Tennessee, as troops returned from a weekend pass. The vehicle toppled about 30 feet, trapping occupants. sixteen died at the scene, two died later, with two more in critical condition. Names and next of kin of the dead were released by second army public relations officers.
Washington reports a new compact sub machine gun, the M 3, described by Col. R R Stadler as mostly tin parts that break into three pieces under a foot long and weighing under nine pounds. The weapon fires 45 caliber cartridges at about 450 rounds per minute and costs under $20 per unit.
President Roosevelt told the United Nations food conference that the ultimate objective is a world where every person can live in peace with the chance to work and provide for their family, to associate freely, worship openly, and ensure future generations share equal opportunities.
Buena Vista Ga June 6 Superintendent J D Tweedy announces the Buena Vista public schools have secured most of the 1943 44 faculty except four vacancies. Names listed include Mrs Mary L Burgin Mrs A D Lowe Mrs J H McClung Mrs A T Benson Mrs F W Lowe Mrs Pearl Short Mrs E W Perry and F W Perry. Remaining positions include high school mathematics social science and music. O N Singleton left Friday for U S Army service from Richland draft board. Recent Marion county inductees include Alto Hanner Jr Horace Wall Jr James Palmer and George M Maddox.
Army officials announced the Distinguished Flying Cross awards for extraordinary service in the southwest Pacific. Ten officers and enlisted men completed 50 operational missions including supply drops and evacuation flights in harsh terrain and poor weather. Recipients include Georgia residents W. M. Hackett of Atlanta R. E. Glenn of Trion L. E. Philpot of Hogansville and R. L. Shepherd of Dawson.
At the Atlanta OPA mailing center about 20 percent of 300000 Ration Book No 3 applications have errors. James Wilson Jr. states most residents will have their books by operation time. He notes out of state visitors using Georgia's system caused most problems and their cards will be redirected to correct streets later in the summer.
Waycross Georgia June 7 J H Bennett of the Dixie Union community delivered the first watermelon of the year in the annual Journal Herald contest. Bennett said he has about one acre planted and plans to plant more. The Journal-Herald offers six months subscriptions as prizes for the first melon and for the largest melon.
C Arthur Cheat ham announces Georgia sold 10,255,593 in War Bonds in May, 1,855,593 above the state quota. Schools sponsored the drive and Cheatham says June sales goal exceeds 12,000,000.
Atlanta reports Mrs. Carrie Savage has plowed seven acres behind her house and done all other tasks needed to raise a crop on land that was idle before. The feat shows a single woman undertaking substantial farm work in a rural setting.
Atlanta June 5 Gov Arnall showed a sample steel auto tag about half the 1942 plate size and said Georgia could manufacture the smaller tag for two years if WPB allows the steel. Officials prefer steel to plastic for cost and plan to reuse old tags by requiring motorists to turn them in when buying new ones.
Atlanta telegram reports 17 year old Alice Joy Gill kept a perfect attendance record from first grade to her North Fulton High diploma despite a school fire illness and severe weather. She missed no day except summer breaks and noted the Riverside church housing classes after the Riverdale school burned in sixth grade.
Moultrie Ga June 6 More than three million pounds of Irish potatoes have been shipped from Camilla in the past two weeks. Over 100 carloads went to New York and Pennsylvania. All potatoes came from Mitchell county with minor exceptions from Baker county. The season should run about two more weeks and quality is praised.
Montgomery County coroner says William Donner Roosevelt, 10, grandson of President Roosevelt, accidentally shot and killed Lewis Hutchinson, 11, at his mother Elizabeth Donner Winsor’s Delaware County home. The boys were playing with a .22 rifle when it discharged. the bullet passed through Hutchinson. He died en route to Bryn Mawr Hospital.
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