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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1949
Page
1
A collage of local reflections from Old Timer with poems by Frank L. Stanton, notices of Pine Mountain Home leader Rev C P East, praise for Judge Lunsford, and reminiscences of rail agents and towns. The piece praises optimistic local news, mentions E J Trussell’s butcher shop memory, and notes Flint REA’s rural electric service.
A 20 year old black worker L B Sparks was killed at Butler Lumber Co when a loaded truck’s lumber fell and trapped him during stacking near the railway depot. His family, living in the community, receives sympathy from whites and colored alike. Funeral services will be held at Mt Zion church with interment in Bethel cemetery. Rev C T Riley to conduct. Mc Dougald Funeral Home in charge.
All boys of Scout age are welcome at 7 p.m. in the annex of the Methodist church Monday. Scoutmasters invite attendance to discuss summer camp plans.
Edgar E. Nelson, en route from Reynolds to Hagerstown, was stranded three days in a Green River Wyoming train when a baby arrived February 14. The baby named Darrell Eugene weighs 7 pounds 13 ounces. Nelson, stationed at Wheeler Field Hawaii with the U S Air Corps, is the son of Mrs Minnie Lee Nelson and formerly lived in Reynolds. He left February 26 for Hawaii where nine months remain in his enlistment.
Forrest Turner, 34, walked from Atlanta prison today in a reformed state and vowed to prove worthy of the second chance. He has spent nearly half his life behind bars, describing a changed outlook and desire to lead a useful life.
Master Sgt. John A. Mathews, a native of Roberta Georgia, was killed Sunday February 27 while fishing on Lake Jackson in Tallahassee Florida when electrical wires across the lake caused the accident. He was with two Tallahassee friends Jarvis LaBar and Alan Whiting. LaBar survived with serious injuries. Mathews leaves a wife Doris Ruth Ware of Roberta and children John Allen Jr and Gloria, plus his father and stepmother W A Mathews, sisters Mrs R H Langston of Rome and brothers Charles Mathews Windover Utah and Hiram F Mathews Oak Ridge Tennessee.
Macon businesswomen express concern over ongoing aid demands while Gov Talmadge pushes an economy plan. The era reports diverse items including a potential Negro Chamber of Commerce in Macon, Southern Baptists planning a TV film studio in Atlanta, a Talbotton water bond vote, and Coca Cola profits totaling 33 794 170.
The Georgia Power Company increases the top prize to 1 000 in each group for the 1949 Champion Home Town Contest with total awards of 4 500 for six communities. Entries due May 31 and reports due by Oct 31 cover progress from Nov 1, 1948, to Oct 15, 1949.
Ft Valley Georgia March 5 Albert J Evans 74 prominent Fort Valley resident for five decades died at his home after a short illness He was a peach grower broker influential real estate man and Sunday School superintendent at Fort Valley Baptist Church He served long on the local school board Survivors include three daughters Mrs J W Larrimore Mrs E T Murray and Mrs James Lichliter of St Louis two sons A J Jr and Charles of Ft Valley and grandchildren
The Smile-A-While Quartet will appear at Crowell School building at 8 p m on Saturday March 26. Sponsored by the Youth Fellowship of Crowell church the event funds a new curtain for the school auditorium. Admission is 25 and 50 cents.
Officer H J Windham of Junction City fought a drunken Negro assailant Saturday night after responding to a disturbance near Mayor J Leonard Morgan’s store. The attacker P T Dunham Jr was killed. Windham was not seriously hurt and the sheriff ruled the shooting justifiable in self defense.
Rev J H Stanford announces Mt Pisgah church schedule for next Sunday. Sunday School at 10 30 a m worship at 11 30 a m and 7 30 p m with a special church conference at the close of the morning service. All are invited to attend and bring a friend.
The Atlanta Journal reports from San Antonio Texas that Patricia Fuller of Reynolds Georgia, daughter of Mr and Mrs Grady Fuller, earned first place in the School of Air and was among pioneering women in the co-educational Officer Candidate School at Lackland Air Force Base. Fuller, 21, graduated with the first Women in the Air Force class to complete basic training in December 1948 after attending Georgia Southwestern College and Middle Georgia College.
For sale fifty acres of wooded land in Marion County. Contact T. D. Roberts at Buena Vista Ga Rt. 4 for details or to arrange inspection.
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