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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1952
Page
8
Georgia communities report college events, anniversaries, and developments. Talbotton Woman's Club marks 25 years as Ellaville hosts One Day Fair Friday. Colum bus plans a $125 000 office building. Waycross hosts state rodeo week and Brunswick eyes a 14 story plant. Obituaries and accidents noted across Macon Albany and Augusta.
Macon prepares for a city wide Dollar Day event with 51 stores from furniture to grocers offering bona fide values. Merchants began buying merchandise in June and will advertise Wednesday before Thursday’s one day sale marked by streamers and posters. The Retail Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce sponsors.
In Americus Georgia a 35-year-old shoemaker was jailed after police investigated a severe beating of his 75-year-old mother. Mrs W M Jones suffered serious injuries with both eyes blackened. The suspect W M Jones faced charges of driving while drunk and leaving the scene with more charges likely as the condition of the elderly woman was monitored.
The Georgia Ornithological Society will gather at Elder Hotel in Indian Springs October 4 and 5. Registration begins 10 a m Saturday with a program on Regional Bird Problems in Georgia. A banquet with bird imitators follows, and field trips to Jackson Lake and the Indian Springs area are planned for Sunday morning.
Fort Benning announces the opening of a new $300,000 Faith School on Sept. 29. Principal Mrs. H J Scudder reports the school, dedicated Sept. 15, is named for the late Lt. Col. Don C Faith Jr. Medal of Honor recipient. Faith Sr. is a retired Brig Gen who served at Fort Benning in 1982.
Austin T. Walden told a Sept 20 crowd in Atlanta that only the county unit system could give Negroes political control in Georgia. He, a key Atlanta political figure allied with Gov. Talmadge, said he might favor the unit plan if he were the powerful campaign leader.
An 18 year old girl claimed to be a light skinned Iroquois from a river island between Canada and the United States. She told officers she hitch hiked to Texas to seek horse breaking work and spoke English French and Iroquoian. She said food came from squirrels and chickens and she types and plays piano.
Thomaston Sept. 22 Upson County Ordinary Salter refused to provide a list of ballot managers to Governor Talmadge or anyone else. He said he does not want poll holders or voters to intimidate, aiming to keep fairness amid the county unit amendment fight.
Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge said on Meet the Press that his present intention is to vote for Governor Adlai Stevenson. He added he is not enthusiastic about either candidate and predicted Georgia would stay Democratic, though some Southern states might swing Republican.
Mrs. Christina Hankinson of Mc Donough and chief of institutions of Georgia Department of Public Welfare died in an Atlanta hospital Saturday night. She would have been 69 this past Monday. Charles E. Nadler, a Mercer University Law professor and noted author, announced Tuesday night his resignation after nearly seven years on the faculty.
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