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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1949
Page
8
Georgia reports include three highway deaths over the weekend and a fatal hotel fall in Americus. Gov. Talmadge allocates 50,000 for a livestock disease lab, while Emory honors a Georgians dean list student. Other items cover Klan tax payments, tobacco sales, and memorials to notable locals.
In Daisy Georgia a 24 year old man shot and killed his father J L Todd 47 after claiming the man beat his mother with an axe handle during a farmyard altercation. The son was jailed at Claxton by Deputy Sheriff Hugh Smith. The elder Todd died at Statesboro hospital from wounds.
Zack D. Cravey of the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Committee invites every Georgian to attend the unveiling of Governor Eugene Talmadge’s memorial statue at the state capitol in Atlanta on September 23 at 11 30 a m. Principal speakers include T Hicks Fort and A L Henson. Gov Herman Talmadge may speak briefly. Also noted is the mysterious shooting death of R C Jenkins Jr in Eatonton.
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