Taylor County Men Serving in Armed Forces
Local soldiers from Taylor County are reported in service or recently honored. Pvt Leon M. Gill improves after being wounded in North Africa. Pvt W R Anglin fractures a leg at Camp Lee while Pvt Darrell Hill earns a rifle marksmanship medal at Camp Sana Anita. Pvt Alvin D Childree wounded in North Africa. Lt Garland T Byrd, engineer officers candidate, now second lieutenant at Ft Belvoir. Cpl Horace L Kirksey promotes to corporal at Camp Sutton. Cpl Millard L Amos, a Marine with earlier stints at Parris Island Iceland and the Solomon Islands, remains in the South Pacific.
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Darrell Hill
J. M. Hill
Butler
Camp Sana Anita
Calif
Army
Hill
Goodrich
Thomaston
Rupert
Garland T. Byrd
D., E. Byrd
Reynolds
Ft. Belvoir
Corps of Engineers
Byrd
Reynolds High School
Georgia Southwestern
Americus
Camp Lee
Cpl
Millard L. Amos
Geo. W. Amos
Marines
Parris Island
D. C
Adams
Iceland
States
Solomon Islands
South Pacific
Deadly Train Wreck at Delair on May Night
A Pennsylvanian Railroad train derailed after allegedly speeding on Delair New Jersey’s horseshoe curve. Fourteen people died and 89 were injured, among them a New York family guest group and several crew members. Investigators cite excessive speed as the cause.
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Delair, N. J
Delair
N. J
PennSylvania Railroad
Atlantic City
New York
Horseshoe Bend
W. C. Higginbottom
Orvetta Allason
Burlington
Pvt
Allanson
David Shapiro
Sadie Mell
Louis
Benjamin
260 Seniors To Get Diplomas June 4th At University Of Ga
About 260 seniors will receive diplomas at the University of Georgia spring graduation on June 4 at 11 a.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium. President Harmon Caldwell will deliver the address. Cam Dorsey will welcome the class of 1943 into the alumni society and present merit awards to Gov. Ellis Arnall, President Caldwell, and Hatton Lovejoy. Alumni will skip a formal dinner and instead pursue bonded reunions. The class of 1893 will join the class of 1898 for a reunion in Athens, and the graduation will include the dedication of the new infirmary. The baccalaureate sermon will be given by Rev. W. P. Binns in the Fine Arts Auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
T. W. Reed
Fine Arts
Harmon W. Caldwell
Cam Dorsey
Atlanta
Alumniisociety
Ellis Arnall
H. W. Caldwell
Hatton Lovejoy
William Crane
W. P. Binns
Roanoke
Butler Methodist Church to Hold Sunday Services
Rev. F J Gilbert announces preaching services at Butler Methodist Church next Sunday both morning and evening. Sunday school begins at 10 a m and all parishioners and friends are invited to attend.
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F. J. Gilbert
Rationing Board Assigns Food Stamp Valuations
Taylor county war rationing board lists stamp numbers and validity dates for sugar coffee shoes processed foods and meats and fats blue red stamps. Stamp validity spans May to June with several extensions to ease last minute purchases.
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Taylor County War Rationing Board
Yamamoto Death Confirmed Raises Japanese Mourning
The Japanese navy chief Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed in air combat last month on a southern front. Emperor Hirohito ordered a state funeral and posthumous promotion to admiral of the fleet as Tokyo announced nationwide mourning and the Diet met to honor him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Isoroku Yamamoto
White House
Tokyo
Hirohito
Imperial Diet
Coral Sea
Midway
Solomons
Yamamoto
United States
Japan
Imperial Headquarters
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Philippines
Hawaii
San Francisco
Washington
America
Nippon
Dr M D Collins to Speak at Reynolds High Tonight
Reynolds High School closes its 1943 commencement season with Dr. M D Collins State School Superintendent delivering the literary address at nine o clock in the high school auditorium. The program includes senior processional salutatory valedictory class song and diplomas presented by Supt E H Joiner with farewell and benediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds High School
T.B. Stanford
M. D. Collins
Extension Service Calls Attention To Canning Institutes
The Georgia Extension Service launches a food preservation campaign on canning drying and brining for beginners. Taylor county institutes run June 7 Reynolds lunch room Butler June 8 Rupert school June 7 3 to 5 pm and June 8 9 to 11 am. County agent and farm security supervisors assist Eugenia Baker Cadle with the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lurline Collier
Georgia Agricultural Extension Service
Taylor County Canning and Preservation Institute
Reynolds
Butler
Rupert
Eugenia Baker Cadle
Negro Convict Held In Connection With Eastman Attack
Oscar Reed a 25 year old Dodge County convict was held in a Georgia jail on charges of criminal assault and murder after a white woman was found abused and left to die in woods near Eastman. Sheriff J C Lewis said it was the most brutal murder he had seen. Reed was working on a road scrape near the scene and was missing from work at the time of the assault.
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Macon
Dodge County
Georgia
Eastman
J. C. Lewis
Oscar Reed
For Sale Porto Rican Sweet Potato Plants in Reynolds GA
Several thousand bunch Porto Rican Sweet Potato Plants offered by L. T. Barrow in Reynolds Georgia. See the seller at once if interested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. T. Barrow
Reynolds, Ga
Flint Electric Membership Corp Lowers Residential Rates
The Flint Electric Membership Corporation board on May 14 approved a new rate cut for residential members effective May 20. About two thousand members will benefit as the cooperative notes continued cost savings and higher revenue from last year. The group had already reduced the minimum rate from $2.00 to $1.50 in January 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint Electric Membership Corporation
C. L. Woolard
Spirited School Pupils Sell 1486 40 In War Bonds And Stamps
At Butler High School closing exercises Superintendent T H Chambers announced pupils raised 1486 40 in U S Bonds and War Savings Stamps since May 1. Most sales came from door to door canvassing with public events and contests. Top sellers were Betty Fehring 222 55 Helen Perkins 211 50 and Herman Clarke 186 45.
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Butler High School
T. H. Chambers
U. S
Chamberst
Betty Fehring
Helen Perkins
Herman Clarke
Regrettable Error Omitted Diploma Student Milton Peterman
An oversight in the graduation list omitted Milton Peterman from Butler High School 1943 senior class graduates read last Friday night. Milton Peterman, son of Mr and Mrs R C Peterman of Butler, was a full member of the senior class and ranked eighth in the class of twenty seven. Other seniors listed include Ben Giles Carl Neisler Helen Taunton Irma Grace Stewart Virginia Rumph and many more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Peterman
T. H. Chambers
R. C. Peterman
Butler
Butler High School
Ben Giles
Carl Neisler
Helen Taunton
Irma Grace Stewart
Virginia Rumph
Mary Blakely
Lena Mae Bowen
James Halstead
Joseph Harmon
Dorothy Hinton
Joseph Harbuck
Calvin Ingram
Grace Jarrell
Raiford Jarrell
Doris Kent
Bentley McChargue
Marjorie McCorvey
Eugene McDaniel
James Austin
Frances Scott
Norris Sikes
Edna Stringfield
Rufus Trussell
Frances McGinty
Anna Neisler
Junior Pittman
Baptist Rally Set by Columbus Association at Antioch
The Columbus Baptist Association will hold its regular fifth Sunday meeting at Antioch Baptist Church near Butler next Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rev. J. H. Stanford will lead the program. Rev. E. H. Dunn and Chaplain McDill will speak. Lunch will be served at midday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Baptist Association
Antioch Baptist Church
Butler
J. H. Stanford
C. C. Willis
E. H. Dunn
Reynolds Church
Solo
T. D. Thompson
Butler Church
Mary Alice Wilkins
Mary Kelly
Rehoboth Church
J. J. Sizemore
Waverly Hall
Antioch Church
Edsel Ford Dies At His Home After Long Illness
Edsel Bryant Ford died at 1 30 a m Wednesday at his Grosse Pointe shores home after a stomach ailment aggravated by undulant fever. He was 49 and leaves Ford Motor Company to run without its president and nominal general manager. Funeral at Christ Church Chapel set for Friday 2 30 p m with burial private.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Edsel Bryant Ford
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Grosse Pointe Shores
Christ Church Chapel
Grosse Pointe
F. W. Creighton
Michigan
F. B. Creamer
Christ Church Parish
Ford
Dearbon
Edsel Ford
For Sale Field Peas By C B Hicks Reynolds Ga
Several bushels of mixed field peas offered for sale. Call or inquire at Reynolds Georgia with C B Hicks for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Hicks
Reynolds
Also Mentioned on This Page
Taylor County
Leon M. Gill
Amy Gill
Charing
Pvt. Gill
W. R. Anglin
Fulton County
Anglin
David Childree
Alvin D. Childree
Army Hospital
Childree
Lewis Cosey
U. S. Navy
Lakeharvest
Brunswick
Cosey
New Jersey
Naval Air Station
the Herald
Young Casey
Horace L. Kirksey
B. L. Kirksey
Young Kirksey
Camp Sutton
N. C
Kirksey
Leon Gill
Dc. F. Bohn
H. N. Becker
Trenton
P. Horn
Dorothy Bennett
University of Ga
Butler Methodist Church
Plic
Lattend Ea
Reynolds Tonite
Canning Institutes
Flint Elect. Mem. Corp
Baptist Asson
Antioch Sun
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