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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1956
Page
15
Mayor Hartsfield will not seek the Senate seat amid a weekend of Georgia incidents. Fatal traffic wrecks claim lives, while hospital delays and a growing peach crop forecast shape regional happenings. Georgeans report savings bond leadership, wartime flags restoration, and local crime, with Ohio and Florida links in transit and industry.
On May 12 the First Methodist Church voted to accept a $100,000 bid for its church plant and educational building and to accept a new church site donated by J. T. Hightower. A building committee will plan a new church on hospital road across from Upson County Hospital. The present building will become a library and the three story educational block will house the Home Ec Department of R. E. Lee High School.
In Jackson Georgia a family tragedy occurred as W. J. Corley aged 42 and his wife Rachel 22 drowned in Jackson Lake while attempting to rescue their 4 year old son who fell into a 10 foot hole in shallow water. A friend James Bedsoe saved the boy and Mary Gilbert but could not save the parents.
Marine Recruiting Sgt R M Turner will be in Butler at the local post office on June 5 and 19 from 3 30 to 4 p m to interview young men for enlistment in the U S Marines The service seeks ages 17 to 28 for first enlistment with options of two three or four year terms Draft eligible youths are invited to discuss the two year program High school seniors graduating this year are eligible for the two year enlistment program If unable to meet the recruiter contact the Marine Corps Recruiting Station Columbus for details
LaGrange Ga May 13 a city resident drowned Sunday in Smotherland Lake off Hunt road near LaGrange Robert Nathen Redding 27 Rt 1 LaGrange was pronounced dead on arrival at City County hospital LaGrange Sum of details about a Confederate statue and Governor Griffins plaque note appear in the same column but do not relate to the drowning incident.
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