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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1945
Page
4
Georgia’s 1945 peach crop tops 7,988,000 bushels as sugar rations anger housewives. Drought harms tobacco and truck growers in Middle and South Georgia. Other items include resignations, staff additions, and public notices across the state.
In Waycross Georgia June 7 a 64 year old farmer Oliver Thrift confessed to killing two U S Rangers protecting wildlife at the Okefenokee refuge. The suspects surrender followed a manhunt after the deaths of Andrew Bryant Crews and Joe D Martin. Thrift said he fled then shot the rangers when unable to run further. A murder charge was filed and a Monday hearing set.
Sheriff W S Tabb said Charlie L Price 20 and Deputy Buck Tabb shot Price as he fought his way out of a car during a pursuit after the bludgeon slaying of Mae Cook Norman 50 in Cooktown Colquitt. Norman’s body was found by a neighbor boy in her yard Saturday night.
Dawson June 6 Geo M Gammage 69 died early Wednesday at his Bronwood home after weeks of illness He was born December 12 1875 in Terrell County He served as Terrell County representative in the General Assembly and was active in the American Legion deacon of Bronwood Baptist Church Woodman of the World survived by wife two sons two brothers four sisters and one granddaughter Funeral at Bronwood Baptist Church Thursday afternoon conducted by Rev R H Forrester
A farmer named Fountain and his son expanded a 100 acre pine area planted with slash pines. The plantation yields about 2 500 trees per acre totaling 250 000 trees. Value rose from 3 to 50 dollars per acre. Initial broadcast seeding failed. later direct seeding proved inconsistent. Since 1938 they shifted to nursery-produced seedlings and planted many acres. Big Tom’s first plantation remains a living monument to perseverance.
T B Edwards of Columbus was indicted on five counts for embezzling 15 000 pounds of sugar from Kinnet Dairies Inc since January 15. He allegedly sold the sugar to Joe Lauderdale and Charlie Lee Haley who were arrested on receiving stolen goods charges. Preliminary hearings set for 9 30 am Friday before Judge J A Lynch.
Marcellus Washington, Negro, five escapes from Muscogee authorities, was returned to Columbus from Toledo after a chain of incidents. He traveled from the Deep South to northern cities, worked in Atlanta and Toledo, and was found to have $60,000 in war bonds dusted in a Toledo household. Washington denied Georgia residence but fingerprints tied him to Columbus Kilby Prison Detroit and other charges. He was a capable cook.
Miss Katherine Greenlee in Memphis reads a letter from her brother Captain F S Greenlee stationed with Army intelligence in Austria. The note is written on gold embossed personal stationery of a German named Adolf Hitler.
Roy Randolph Powell longtime Arlington postmaster and former publisher of the Calhoun Courier died after several months illness. Funeral services were held at Arlington Methodist Church with pastors Shannon Holloway and D E Blalock officiating. Powell arrived in Arlington in 1908, led civic life, and served as postmaster since 1933.
Forsyth Ga June 11 Monroe county reports its first rabies death a 14 year old boy A W Hensley Jr son of Mrs Bonnie Edwards and A W Hensley Sr He was bitten by a dog about a month earlier while visiting his father at Juliette He received treatment became seriously ill and died Friday night at a Macon hospital while under physician care.
Americus Ga June 7 tele phone and power services were almost normal as linesmen from nearby cities work with local crews to restore service after the worst blow in the city's history on June 6. Debris filled streets and lots as state highway squads cleared roads. A falling tree damaged the home of Mrs Jessie Mathis and an automobile on East Church Street.
Maj. Andrew Kimble formerly of Macon and Ellaville now commands a 10 chair dental clinic in the Manila area Philippines. The newly constructed facility uses salvaged materials from the Manila wreckage.
A blaze of unknown origin at the Atlantic Coast Line freight depot in Waycross destroyed the facility and 32 partially loaded freight cars, causing $500 000 in damage. Explosions shattered nearby windows, 60 cattle escaped through the streets, and power and water service were knocked out for a time, but no injuries were reported.
General Patton and family attend Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in San Gabriel where he was baptized. He sits in the family pew and places red roses on his parents graves in the nearby cemetery, fulfilling a wish expressed after arriving in Boston to return to the family church.
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