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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1941
Page
8
A broad Georgia recap notes deaths from accidents and violence, including Rev. Jno S Edwards of Haralson County and a fatal auto crash near Alma. It covers police retirement, new state commander for disabled Americans, selective service calls, and local government appointments, plus labor strikes, weathered losses from cotton boll weevil, college enrollments, and notable withdrawals from public life.
Greenville Ga September 9 Meriwether county organized its Agricultural Defense Board effective September 2 with members W P Lee O R Caudle R F Moseley J B Fordham Jr and Ralph Clanton Names officers W P Lee chairman J B Fordham vice chairman and R C Glanton secretary treasurer The board is organized to serve Meriwether citizens in every possible way to aid defense agriculturally.
Atlanta reports the state school board will weigh a plan to ease teacher qualifications at the next monthly meeting. State Superintendent M D Collins says the proposal would allow educators whose required credits have lapsed to return if they commit to immediate study. A county survey shows at least 1,500 teachers have resigned since July 1, and reinstating former teachers could fill the shortage.
The first Army unit to buy defense savings stamps did so at Camp Wheeler Georgia last week. Captain Paul H Dolman led 250 selectees who each contributed 25 cents to start a fund that will issue stamps and later defense savings bonds. The men initiated the effort themselves to support national defense beyond service.
Atlanta Kiwanis International public relations committee urges 2180 Kiwanis clubs in the United States and Canada to observe National Newspaper Week on October 18. Plans are provided. chairman C M Kelle of Moberly Missouri cites the vital role of newspapers and imagines a country without them.
Washington reports the Army awarded Coffee Construction Co of Eastman Georgia a 314585 dollar contract for clearing excavation and embankment to complete runway and taxi strip grading at the advance flying school in Valdosta Georgia. Completion time not disclosed.
Cecil Bryant Gibson, 39, died at Columbus City Hospital from a poison dose believed accidental. Born in Columbus, he was an active member of Rose Hill Congregational Christian Church. Survived by his wife and several brothers and sisters.
Washington reports the agriculture department estimates the 1941 cotton crop at 10,710,000 bales. This compares with a prior forecast of 10,817,000 bales and 1940 production of 12,566,000 bales. Georgia's expected yield is 628,000 bales versus 1,010,000 bales in 1940.
Richland Georgia Sept. 7 Mrs H Davis leaves for Americus to join the Georgia Southwestern College faculty. A graduate of G S K W Milledgeville she earned a master's in science and education from the University of Georgia this summer.
Americus in Georgia reports a woman was accidentally wounded when an officer fired at a rabid dog. The dog died, but several bullets ricocheted off pavement and hit the woman. Officials say injuries are not serious and are being treated in hospital.
Many Taylor County youths will join about 13 000 Georgians enabled to enter or stay in high school and college through NYA part time jobs. Boiseuillet Jones says 10 000 in high schools, 3 000 in colleges. pay ranges from 3 to 30 dollars monthly. Jobs include clerical work, lunch service, lab assistance, and building maintenance linked to students’ fields.
Mrs. Roy W. Moore Jr of Atlanta, formerly Miss Mary Flagg Townsend of Eaton Conn, was removed from an iron lung after fighting infantile paralysis and gave birth to a baby boy in Grady Hospital Atlanta. Doctors called the case unusually notable. both mother and child were reported doing well.
San Francisco doctors reported a 22-year-old girl who leaped from the Golden Gate Bridge could survive a fall estimated at 265 feet into San Francisco Bay. Medical staff described the rescue as remarkable given the height and water impact.
Atlanta on September six officials announced plans to place educational roadside signs along state highways. Wildlife signs will describe trees birds and animals with conservation reminders. Picnic shelters will supplement state parks and be erected along heavily traveled routes.
Rewards totaling 450 are offered by Peachtree Road Methodist church board of stewards the Fulton County Teachers Association and Jere Wells Fulton County schools superintendent for information on J E White missing high school principal last seen two weeks ago leaving home to meet two associates in downtown Atlanta.
Americus Sept 6 Cotton Belt farmers should get at least $60 a ton for seed, Rep Steve Pace said, with Sen Bankhead and others pressing for a fixed price. Pace blamed Leon Henderson for price fixes and noted Henderson withdrew a ceiling threat, warning he would act if prices runaway.
Milledgeville report on the Macon county stockyards notes a regular sale of livestock that handled 12 775 pounds of pork and yielded farmers 1304 dollars. County Agent W F Bembry said feeders brought 1135 and number ones 1070.
A reader questions whether Henderson will repeat price actions seen yesterday and in June. The note discusses a two cent per pound market shift, a potential $60 per ton cottonseed price, crude cottonseed oil at about 15 cents, and proportional rises in by products. The writer seeks assurances on future policy and timing of any further increases.
Columbus reports a war time decree to set up a mass motor repair and reclamation center for army vehicles at Fort Benning. The plan calls for ten such centers in the corps area by October 1 under Brigadier General Jas L Frans.
H. M. Shevan, Chicago rupture shield expert, will appear at the Windsor Hotel Americus Thursday September 18 from 9 am to 6 pm to demonstrate the Zoetic Shield. He claims immediate results, stronger tissues, and closing of openings in about ten days without medicines or understraps. Demonstrations free. address 6509 N Artesian Ave Chicago. Large incisional hernia and rupture cases welcome.
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