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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1957
Page
3
Governor Griffin ordered an immediate halt to all future gifts to State Revenue Commissioner T W Williams private anti moonshine fund after a legislative committee report. The fund, begun last March, had collected about 117978 dollars in voluntary contributions to aid the drive against moonshiners.
Crawford county fifth through seventh graders Cheryl Crook Janice McLeroy and Bob Hill were named contest winners in the Gordon Carson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for an essay on Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest. The ceremony was led by Mrs H W Maples with full classroom participation earning a reproduction of the Confederate Money Album for the 5th grade class. Mrs S J Tankersley Reynolds is chapter president and Mrs C H Neisler Reynolds district essays chair, while Mrs W T Bankston Roberta serves as state chair of essays.
Eastman Georgia former school superintendent M W Tripp indicted by a Dodge county grand jury on charges of stealing and carrying away county records. Indictment cites specific board records bank statements canceled checks and building contract accounts from 1956. Trial suspected next week on this indictment and a prior embezzlement charge from five years earlier.
A Macon man H A Saunders 26 died after a two-vehicle crash near Milledgeville Sunday. Roy L Moore 31 of Jacksonville Fla and Grace Scarborough 31 of Macon were injured and listed in fair condition. Two Michigan teenagers also died in a collision south of Madison, Ga, reported the Georgia State Patrol.
Macon Georgia A pictorial map of Macon from 1887 has been given to Mercer University library by Wm P Fleming who saved it from a trash heap years ago Fleming recalls seeing the map as a child when it hung in the Macon Public Library and Historical Society around 1900
Henry Roquemore a 52 year old colored man of Butler died Sunday night from a heart attack. Funeral held this afternoon at Welcome Home Baptist Church at 1:00 p m with interment in West End cemetery. He is survived by his wife Mary and four children Henry Jene Eddie Louis Hattie Mae and May.
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