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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
3
Jeff McDonald of Sandersville owns a walking stick brought to America from Scotland with his father in 1854. The stick, carried since 50 years in Sandersville, bears a curved handle and a wood unlike any in the country, perhaps resembling cherry or mahogany.
Washington June 20 The house voted to roll back postal money order rates after increases in the 1944 revenue act. Officials say higher rates hurt business by pushing customers to private agencies. The measure also simplifies the system for most users by restoring prewar pricing and repealing the raised percentages.
Farmers play a vital role in the Victory drama as labor shortages and shortages of feeds fuels the effort to supply troops and civilians. The piece stresses selflessness over selfishness, urges buying government bonds to fund munitions and postwar needs, and frames bond purchases as obligation and privilege under the banner WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Georgia to Ohio extradition completed after nine months of a murder sentence at Tattnall prison was commuted by the State Pardon and Parole Board. Jenkins was charged with James Willie Brown and Johnnie Mae Garden in the Cincinnati slaying of Jacob Reinstatler while Jenkins was a fugitive from Georgia. He escaped Dec 21, 1943, while serving a burglary sentence from Oct 3, 1939, with one prior escape on record. The board cited overall justice involving other parties and testimony for prosecutions.
Mercer University president Spright Dowell announced honorary degrees for Maj. Gen. J. H. Hester of Albany and ministers Dr. James W. Middleton of Atlanta and Rev. O. M. Seigler of Hendersonville NC. Thomas Kendrick of Columbus will receive the Algernon Sullivan Medal. Hester will deliver the commencement address at 8 p.m. Thursday. Middleton to preach the baccalaureate sermon Wednesday at Macon First Baptist. Alumni luncheon set for Thursday at 1 p.m.
Oklahoma City on June 19 Saralou Thompson of Unadilla Georgia was identified as one of four killed in a collision of interurban cars Saturday night. She was a member of the Waves. Most of the 25 or 30 injured were not in critical condition.
Charing residents report visits to relatives across nearby towns including Macon Thomaston and Savannah. Guests include Elizabeth Feagan Fort Valley and many Garretts, Watsons, Purvises, Hills, and Johns families visiting from Mauk Richland Watkinsville Thomaston and Atlanta. A Sunday school picnic and Uncle Johnnie Watson's birthday dinner drew numerous locals.
T B Joiner applied for guardianship of William Carter's person and property. The hearing will be at 10:00 a.m. on the first Monday in July at the Ordinary J R Lunsford's office. Notice dated June 5, 1944.
Crowell and Pierce families and the Lucas household hosted relatives from Macon with several weekend visits. Guests included Miss Sarah Delle Lucas, Miss Eunice Fuller with Daisy Williams, Mary Ellen Spratling, and Mrs. G L Sanders group from Macon. Other gatherings featured Eldridge Bryant of Roberta with O R Montgomery family, Lt. Rheda Windham and A N C friends from Warner Robins, and Radioman Lewis Casey visiting Macon area relatives.
A flurry of visits fills weekends across Mauk and surrounding towns. Fred Austin and Mrs. Archer visit the Pike home while Robert Waller stays with his parents in Waller Lane. Several kin from Atlanta, Columbus, Thomaston, and Americus travel to see relatives, including E D Waller and family, Erma Woodall with Mrs. Ralph Barney, and Miss Nell Pittman with sister Anne Pittman. Carl Turner breaks a knee in a scaffold fall and will use crutches for days. friends wish him a speedy recovery.
A 14 year old Negro boy,George Junius Stinney Jr., was executed in the electric chair in Columbia on Friday, the youngest person in SC history to die by execution. He carried a Bible and made no comment as the switch was closed, after having confessed to beating two white girls to death with a railroad spike. The same day, George B. Hamilton, 21, of Savannah, Ga., died protesting innocence in Spartanburg County after being convicted of criminal assault.
Workers begin moving about 250000 cubic yards of overburden at Champion Paper & Fiber kaolin mine eleven miles west of Sandersville Georgia. The $60000 project will take five to six months using six evacuating machines.
In Sandersville Georgia on June 18 T W Gilmore sold the 2592 acre Hamburg tract to W F Hall of Sparta for 85000. The land in the counties northern section holds over two million feet of pine and hardwood timber and includes the Gilmore fishing pond a major local spot. The buyer a Hancock County sawmill operator plans to harvest timber while preserving fishing rights for club members and the pond feeds the Ogeechee river.
Boston June 19 John Hays Hammond Jr internationally known inventor was quoted by the Boston Traveler saying the Nazi hope of bombing New York with new rocket projectiles is ridiculous. He cites wind drift and fuel consumption noting rockets and jet propulsion would make the trip improbable.
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