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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
8
Georgia reports a busy week with legal, political, and civic items. Prominent Savannah lawyer E. J. Oliver dies after a stroke in his garden. rail line Wrightsville to Tennille ends service after 40 years. Ft Benning bids called for 22 buildings. state telephony rate cuts approved. LaGrange funds for a Negro school and gym remodel. Gov Talmadge travels to New England. multiple court cases and public notices unfold across the state.
Peyton Anderson Jr. president of the Macon Telegraph Publishing Co. is named public relations officer for the Sixth and Seventh naval districts covering Florida Georgia North Carolina and South Carolina He will handle all news of naval activities in the district as a Navy Reserve lieutenant.
A special train with 378 gray clad cadets from the U S Military Academy arrived at Fort Benning Sunday for a five day visit. The train reached the Fort Benning Station at 4 30 oclock after minor delays. Brig Gen O N Bradley commander of the infantry school and other officials greeted the cadets and their friends and relatives at the station.
Americus. Jimmie Rose Haynes age 112 was seriously burned when lightning struck a farm home on the Americus Smithville highway during a Thursday storm. Her sister and grandparents suffered minor injuries. The storm caused extensive damage in Americus with roofs lifted from service stations and several telephone lines damaged by falling limbs.
Washington reports the House approved a relief appropriation of 885.905 million dollars for the fiscal year starting July 1. The measure includes a 41 percent reduction in WPA rolls and falls 95 thousand dollars below President Roosevelt’s request. It would fund WPA employment for about 1,000,000 people, down from an average of 1,700,000 this year and 1,300,000 this month.
Washington. The fatal crash of an Eastern Air Lines plane near Atlanta on February 26 was likely caused by the captain not exercising proper care in checking his altimeters. Eight people died and eight were injured. The Civil Aeronautics Board cited the lack of an established uniform procedure for complete control and instrument checks during landing as a substantial contributing factor.
About 35 Thomaston merchants and business leaders join with the Upson County Civic Improvement Committee to stage a free hospital jamboree at the county courthouse on Monday. The event promotes a proposed 40 bed hospital bond election set for the next day, driven by the county medical society and civic groups.
Washington reports the War Department will construct a $163,000 amusement land instrument inspection building at Maxwell Field in Alabama. The project is announced today and ties to military facility improvements during the period.
Fire at a Ft. Myers broadcast station destroyed the building with a $15,000 loss. Owner Wm. E. Benns Jr said insurance partially covered the damage and that reconstruction is expected. Benns family lived in the station building and escaped unharmed with only personal belongings.
Kenneth Wheeler aged 15 was ruled mentally irresponsible and committed to the state hospital after he shot Principal C. D. Faulkner at a Bartow junior high. Wheeler, son of Mr and Mrs J W Wheeler, was a former student. Faulkner remains in recovery.
The Georgia Public Service Commission ordered Southern Bell to reduce long-distance charges starting July 10, saving Georgia customers about 85 thousand dollars annually on calls and 22 thousand on uncompleted call report fees. The company warned its 1941 net revenue would be materially lower than 1940 despite higher gross revenues from 1936 to 1940.
A travel party tours the Smithsonian Institution and nearby landmarks in Washington. They describe the Hall of the Americas, the Freer Gallery, the National Museum and Zoo, the Supreme Court, Capitol, White House restrictions, and the cherry trees from Spain before continuing to Atlanta after a Friday departure and Saturday arrival.
Atlanta reports claim Judge M. L. McRae, director of the State Bureau of Markets, will head the state public welfare department replacing B. L. Miller, who denies plans to resign. Whispers say W. L. Cathy of Wadley could take McRae's market post in Claxton.
Americus June 11 outstanding officers of the U S Army and British Army visited the Graham Aviation School at Souther Field near Americus. Gen Walter Weaver praised the compact training arrangement while Wing Commander Hogan said the U S agreement to train British pilots changed his view of American wartime interest.
Washington announces a 4,081,655 basic flying school at Sebring Florida to support expanding air corps. A 1,815,000 flying field will be built with funds. about 2,600 officers cadets and enlisted men will be stationed there and the program includes barracks supply rooms a chapel officers quarters a hospital unit and many support facilities.
Barbara Ann Lane an 18 month old child of Mr and Mrs Wade Lane of Sumter county is in critical condition at the Prather clinic after swallowing arsenic this afternoon. The child found the poison on a shelf and swallowed it.
Washington reports defense officials are urged to order a cut in automobile production beyond the 20 percent already agreed. Government executives say a steel shortage may delay defense orders and require diverting metal from cars to ships and armaments.
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