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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1957
Page
5
Georgia Governor Griff in announces a twelve point water safety campaign at the Water Safety Congress in Augusta. He cites 132 drownings and 39 boating deaths last year and urges media to print the rules covering boat condition behavior life vests weather checks and maintenance to cut drownings.
Georgia Forestry Commission announces new order blanks for purchasing tree seedlings. Austin Guinn County Ranger says old blanks won’t be accepted this year and ordering starts June 1 with a deadline October 1. New forms include more soil bank information and delivery details.
G A Long as administrator of the Francis Elizabeth Gill estate applies to the Taylor County Ordinary for leave to sell estate land for distribution. The hearing is set for the Court of Ordinary on the first Monday in June 1957.
By order of the Ordinary on April 25 1957 sale will occur at the county courthouse door on the first Tuesday in May 1957 for cash. Items include stock of goods a Daytona Scale a Philco Refrigerator a Coca Cola box a coal heater in a concrete store building. Property is estate of deceased Tossie Lou Callahan Rupert Ga to pay debts and distributions. Administrator Solon B Callahan directs sale.
A head on collision on U S 280 near Reidsville killed Rev. B G Moxley 49 a Church of God minister and two passengers Sidney Carter 33 and his wife 40 of Vidalia. The truck driver John Harrell 20 of Tifton was uninjured. Trooper Gene Sharpe reported the car was en route to a Jesup hospital when the crash occurred.
Harris County elementary schools in Hamilton Pine Mountain Valley and Shiloh will consolidate in September. Hamilton Elementary becomes Harris Elementary with more than 200 students and nine teachers. Teachers will be placed in Hamilton or other county schools after renovations this summer.
Tornadoes ripped through central Texas towns including Crawford causing property damage while sightings were reported northwest of Waco. Heavy rains flooded creeks and rivers across the state with hail and strong winds noted south of Denison and north of Dallas.
E Fain of Atlanta and managing director of the Georgia Chain Store Council was chosen president of the Atlanta Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. He succeeds Harry Baker and directs a cooperative public relations program for 27 nationally and regionally operated chain stores.
Dean F. C. Staton of Georgia Southwestern College announced the summer session will begin June 12 and run through July 31. About six courses will be offered based on demand, with a second session possible if enrollment justifies it.
E A Scott and Sons won the bid at 320420 dollars to erect 40 low rent apartments at Americus. The project will add 20 new buildings with two apartments each for white renters at the present site in East Americus. Construction begins soon and is due to finish in about 270 days.
After a week of night and day police work, Atlanta detectives and federal agents press the case into its second week seeking two alleged robbers. Federal sources say the focus is tracing stolen money as officers continue to chase tips. J K Mum ford, head of the Atlanta FBI office, says many officers are working around the clock with local police to bring the case to a successful conclusion.
Georgia tops the Southeast in total government units and growth, with 147 more agencies added in five years, reaching 1123 units overall or about one per 3300 people. The U S Department of Commerce data show most gains in special districts, while school districts declined slightly.
A humorous kitchen moment unfolds as a mother asks if more dishes are needed and the son riffs that there are “mom-less dishes” after a crash, signaling light household banter.
A tourist boasts about rising at dawn to see the sun, while a bored friend comments that the choice was well timed. The exchange captures a simple, everyday moment between two travelers in a casual tone.
A playful exchange between Tug and Lug centers on a washing machine pun. Tug jokes about seeing the other later at the agitator, delivering a light housekeeping humor beat.
Brunswick reports nine purebred Hereford cattle on Russell Paulk’s farm killed after a crop dust containing parathion was sprayed instead of a fly control dust. The first victim was the prize bull, followed by eight cows, with four more expected to die as veterinarian notes confirm the mistake.
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