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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1956
Page
4
The Butler Herald reports Georgia postmasters urge careful mail addressing and highway safety exhortations. It also notes local items about politics, entertainment, a Nixon family burial in California, church charity drives, and warnings about abandoned wells after a 19 month old girl escaped a 33 foot well at Stone Mountain.
The city asserts inviting industry alone fails without joint action and broad funding. Officials stress collective work and concrete support from many to transform economic growth beyond mere sentiment.
The column notes 1956 grads may find college and work differ greatly, mentions family expense burdens, and recalls boys asking to splash passing cars. It also urges fall garden planning, cites Georgia soils for late plantings, and mentions Bishop Arthur J Moore’s forthcoming India trip for the centenary of Methodism.
News from Columbus reports editor W. C. Tucker of the Enquirer remains hospitalized at St. Francis but has gained strength after a period of serious illness. Friends and the Chattahoochee Valley area note his fighting spirit aided gradual improvement.
The piece argues that segregation is as serious in the North as in the South. It states the colored race often fails to realize this, is misled by the NAACP, and notes many Northerners tolerate segregation at home for political reasons while opposing the South. It claims the North wants Negroes mainly to vote and calls the South a real friend.
The Macon Telegraph muses on a retro craze spanning antique cars like Locomobile and Maxwell, piano rolls, and old publishing lines from Tom Swift Jr. to Elsie Dinsmore. The piece notes growing interest in relics amid current politics and global tension while hoping for lighter entertainment from bygone eras.
The Ida Cason Callaway Gardens in Georgia are featured in the current Saturday Evening Post with photos and praise. The piece celebrates a man made Eden that has grown in a few years into a timeless Georgia and Southeast icon drawing families, scouts, students, business leaders, and visitors from across the nation.
The piece reflects on America's labor heritage from 160 million people, noting how courage and vast toil built homes, factories, railroads, and cities. It recalls 1882 as when Labor Day recognition began and explains the modern meaning as a day for all to celebrate hard work and freedom.
A narrator recalls being threatened with whipping for not removing his hat to ladies, then embracing the habit. He notes a Macon elevator sign banning hat removal to save space and a tale of a hatless gentleman who provokes a offended dame by misnaming women.
A discussion of child safety warns that childless couples may pay high prices for adopted children leading criminals to steal kids. The piece notes danger mainly to young girls and even infants, promoting an illustrated pamphlet with "Don'ts" such as not entering a stranger's car and not leaving the playground with a stranger. It adds kidnappings occur mostly in large cities but could happen anywhere.
A. C. Jolly notes that a well kept lawn with shade trees short-cut green grass and backyard playground equipment attracts children to the yard during the summer, suggesting good yard features invite play and social time.
The article explains probation as a court supervised rehabilitation program aimed at reducing prison overcrowding and keeping families intact, with a state-wide system in Georgia since 1956 led by the State Board of Probation. It notes circuit officers, juvenile exemptions, and goals. Parole is described as post prison release eligibility decided by the Board of Pardons and Paroles with supervision after serving part of a sentence. It cites figures: about 17 percent paroled from Georgia prisons and 2,681 parolees under supervision.
The Georgia Department of Education reports more milk will be available to pupils this school year after an agreement between state superintendent Dr. M. D. Collins and U S Department of Agriculture official R H James. The Special Milk Program, authorized by Congress in 1954, continues nationwide and Georgia’s 1955-56 year saw 18,721,130 half pints served in 1,035 schools.
The Exchange argues the Supreme Court overstepped its judicial role by ordering race mixing in public schools. It says the decision nullifies states rights to govern internal affairs and strikes at the Republic’s foundations.
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