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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1956
Page
8
Georgia news details state leaders and incidents from across the state including Mayor Hartsfield's decision not to run for Senate, fatalities from weekend traffic accidents, hospital delays, and local political campaigns.
On May 12 the First Methodist Church voted to accept $100,000 for its present church plant and educational building and to accept a new site donated across from Upson County Hospital. A building committee will plan a new church on hospital road. current site offered by Thomaston Board of Education trustees. The church will become a library and the three story building will house the Home Ec Department for R. E. Lee High School.
In Jackson Georgia a family tragedy occurred as W. J. Corley and Mrs. Rachel Corley drowned when they tried to rescue their 4 year old son who fell into a 10 foot hole in Jackson Lake. The child was saved by a friend James Bedsoe and Mrs. Corley's sister Mary Gilbert survived. Sheriff J D Pope reported the bodies were recovered shortly after the incident.
Marine Recruiting Sgt. R. M. Turner will be in Butler on June 5 and 19 from 3:30 to 4 p m at the local post office to interview young men for enlistment in the U S Marines. Eligible ages are 17 to 28 for first enlistment with two three or four year terms. Eligible draft prospects are invited to discuss the two year program. seniors graduating this year also qualify.
LaGrange Ga May 13 a local resident drowned Sunday in Smotherland Lake off Hunt road near LaGrange Robert Nathen Redding 27 Rt 1 LaGrange pronounced dead on arrival at City County hospital. The other text about Gen Gordon statue is historical note not tied to the drowning incident.
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