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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
11
Harvey Miller, head of a dog research center, says insurers once offered discounts for households with dogs. The practice faded before World War I, but Miller urges insurers to reinstate it, arguing any good family dog can deter burglaries by warning or alarming with a loud bark.
Rawdon Barnes Jr of Opelika Ala purchases the Tri County News from D M Taft and becomes editor. A World War II veteran with 31 months in service including Germany, he previously led Opelika Eagle and Talladega News and is a University of Alabama journalism graduate. He is married to Eloise Adair with two children.
Senator Lee Purdom of Blackshear unveils a plan to raise about 150 million dollars annually with a 3 percent sales tax to fund the minimum education foundation. The idea, advocated with Wilmer Lanier, would abolish the five mill property tax and shift taxation toward broad-based duties including luxury taxes and an income tax.
Judge J R Lunsford county chairman for U S Savings Bonds in Taylor county praises August sales totaling 12 262 00 for E bonds and 37 000 00 for F G bonds bringing Jan 1 to Aug 1 to 46 405 00. Taylor county’s 1949 quota is 115 000 00 with a year total of 95 672 00 by Sept 1. State director Jos G Woodruff commends the county and notes 15 Georgia counties met their goals. he expects Taylor to be among the first 20 to top the target.
Notice posted for Butler District lots 18 and 19 in Taylor County forbidding hunting or trespassing. Public advised to heed posted protection as of September 21, 1949. C M Blair Butler Ga.
Radio station WRED in Atlanta is sold to J B Blayton, vice president at Citizens Bank and Trust Co., making it the nation's only Negro owned and operated radio enterprise.
The piece argues memory should be purified by spiritual renewal through Mind and divine influence. It cites Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy to claim true forgetting and renewal come from willingly embracing a spiritual basis, discarding old material pictures for the beauty of Mind.
John Wallace, a Meriwether County dairyman sentenced to die for the murder of a tenant farmer, has been moved to the Fulton County jail. Sheriff A L Potts said Wallace was brought to Atlanta after the state supreme court upheld the death sentence and that rumors of a possible jail break were heard.
The speaker says he did not believe the rumors but brought his prisoner to Atlanta "just to be on the safe side" implying precautionary relocation or containment amid concerns.
Potts notes Wallace has been a model prisoner since his arrest nearly two years ago for the murder of William Turner.
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