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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1954
Page
8
A wide sweep of Georgia items notes an oil test in Dooly county, two homes burned in Fort Valley, and a fatal highway weekend. Obituaries include state figures T H Risner and C C Willis. Traffic enforcement tightens as suspensions begin after first violations. Campaigns and local politics advance in Peach and Macon counties alongside scouting and public notices.
Mechanical cotton choppers save farmers time and money in South Georgia amid late season conditions. Adj. Gen. Ernest Vandiver, after six years directing state military affairs, resigned Friday to pursue the lieutenant governor race.
A federal court jury convicted four Puerto Rican nationalists of assault on four members of Congress in a gunfire attack on the House. Three defendants were found guilty of intent to kill while Lolita LeBron was not yet convicted on those counts. Deliberations lasted over 11 hours as the jury returned verdicts on 10 counts.
Crawford County land owners planted about 2,000 acres of pine timber in 1953-54, topping the Sixth District of the Georgia Forestry Commission. Total seedlings reached 2,015,450 with slash pine 1,159,000 and loblolly 849,450. long leaf 7,000. Jefferson County followed with 1,871,500 seedlings.
An F eighth flight jet failed to land in soupy skies near Alpharetta and crashed, killing pilot Lt. J. H. Goldberg, 24, of Atlanta. It was the third Georgia jet crash in 24 hours, with four pilots dead in three incidents including a T 33 trainer crash near Boston, Georgia. The first two crashes occurred June 17.
Columbus reports Phenix City woke to the night’s assassination of A. L. Patterson, a reform candidate for Alabama attorney general. The city’s bridges’ honky-tonks were deserted and sidewalks unpeopled, with business nearly at a standstill as shock and lethargy spread.
Editorial notes that Albert Patterson’s death leaves Alabama to choose a new attorney general. John M. Patterson, his law partner and son, says he is available as a candidate, pledging to pursue his father’s crime-fighting program. The Democratic Executive Committee may appoint a nominee or order a new primary.
Mr and Mrs Howard Hult resign from Americus high school faculty to take posts in Tifton. Hult will teach at Abraham Baldwin College and his wife will join the Tifton city school system. Also noted governors candidates invited to speak at Veterans Day Aug 5 at Ft Gaines with four already accepting. speakers include Gov Talmadge Alabama governor elect Jim Folsom and Third District Congressman E L Forrester.
Mrs. Claude Barfield, an inspector at the Willard and Russell Pearson packing plant in Fort Valley, was struck on the head by a knife handle when a boy threw a knife at the floor. She remained in satisfactory condition at a local Fort Valley hospital days after the incident.
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