Typhoid Clinic Opens in Taylor County This April
County nurse announces typhoid immunization drive from April 28 to May 12 in Butler and Reynolds. Clinics run 8am to noon in Butler courthouse and 11am to 3pm in Reynolds school, with three vaccines costing 75 cents and single vaccines 25 cents. Diphtheria toxoid offered free to children aged six months to five years. Continuous immunization urged to ease strain on doctors amid wartime shortages.
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Taylor County
Butler
Reynolds
All Possible Cream Needed By Markets
County Agent E. G. Blackwell advises cream producers to wash hands and udders before milking take milk indoors strain through a clean cloth skim cream after 12 hours store in a cold place and cover with wax paper to prevent mold market when fresh and sweet.
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E. G. Blackwell
Georgia press awards for school papers seek entries
Georgia Scholastic Press Association invites junior and senior high school students to submit printed and mimeographed newspapers school sections editorials news stories feature articles and book reviews by April 10 to the Henry Grady School of Journalism. The 1943 winners included Lanier High School Macon and A L Miller High School Macon receiving certificates of distinction. results to be announced at the Athens meeting on May 5 with Billy Thomas Lanier High School Macon as secretary.
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Athens
Georgia Scholastic Press Association
Henry Grady School of Journalism
Poet Leader
Lanier High School
Macon
Hi- Lights
A. L. Miller High School
Association
Billy Thomas
Women to Replace Men on Georgia Farms
Americus Georgia April 5 women and girls will be called to work on Georgia farms due to labor shortages. State Extension Director W S Brown said farm labor supply this year is 60 percent of needs, down from 70 percent last year. Women would operate tractors and machinery to free men for manual tasks. Any woman who can drive a tractor will be trained to do so.
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Americus
Georgia
W. S. Brown
Brown
Houseclean Barn To Keep Down Fire
County Agent E G Blackwell cites that about 3500 lives and 20 million dollars in farm and rural property burn yearly in rural America. Georgia Agricultural Extension Service and U S Department of Agriculture urge farmers to remove barn hazards during winter including paper and debris near fuse boxes and loose wiring and to clean electric motors and appliances.
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E. G. Blackwell
America
Georgia Agricultural Extension Service
Department of Agriculture
Motorists Urged to Care for Automobiles
Gov Arnall appeals to Georgians to slow speed to extend tire life amid rising retirements of passenger cars. American Automobile Association warns 150000 cars leave highways monthly and replacements will be scarce. WPB-backed war effort urges careful driving to preserve rubber and keep America mobile.
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American Automobile Association
Arnall
WPB
America
Schley County Schools Adopt Half Day Sessions
Ellaville Georgia April 9 all public schools in Schley county switch to half day sessions starting at 8 am and dismissing at 1 pm CST. Farmers asked for the change to address labor shortages allowing children to finish term. The plan, adopted by the county board of education, keeps hot lunches served at noon with manager Mrs. M C Hill.
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Ellaville
Schley County
Raymond Duncan
County Board of Education
M. C. Hill
Farmers Urged to Produce Timber for War Effort
County Agent E. G. Blackwell urges farmers to cut timber and pulpwood to supply containers and packaging for harvest shipments. He calls for selective thinning to maintain growing stock, notes labor shortages, and says sawmill and pulpwood buyers will purchase logs and wood from farm woodlands to support the war and farming income.
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E. G. Blackwell
Extension Service
Ex-Slave Pleads for Release in Drunken Arrest
Willie Ward claiming to be 112 years old, once a slave of Civil War Governor Joe Brown, appeared before City Recorder A. W. Calloway pleading for freedom. Arrested for drunkenness after claiming he went to Georgia Tech, the elder man asked to be sent home with a promise to reform. the judge suspended the sentence.
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Willie Ward
Joe Brown
A. W. Calloway
K. A. Wooster
D. W. Clayton
Georgia Tech J
Teddy
Willie
City
Sherman
Georgia
Calloway
Commander of Hunter dies in Alabama crash
Col. Lucius B. Manning base commanding officer at Hunter Field Georgia and six other airmen were killed when their medium bombers crashed nine miles northwest of Hartselle Alabama. The group included Capt. A J Gratis Capt H L Hardy Lt H L Williams Staff Sgt J W Haney Pvt J J Bailey and Sgt J R Smith.
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Savannah
Lucius B. Manning
Hunter Field
Hartselle
Ala
Manning
American Airlines
Consolidated Aircraft
Third Air Force
A. J. Gratis
Seattle
Wash
Benning MPs to Patrol with 2 Way Cars
Ft Benning Georgia April 11 military police will patrol the post in cars equipped with two way radio equipment. Maj W D Veal post provost marshal says operation will begin once the FCC assigns the wavelength through the Fourth Service Command. Radios installed in MP HQ staff cars and four carry-alls. Cap H W Cooley says range 30 to 40 miles with a 50 watt main transmitter and 30 watt mobile units.
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Ft. Benning
Ft.Benning
W. D. Veal
Federal Communications Commission
Fourth Service Command
H. W. Cooley
Cooley
Georgia Peach Crop Forecast Dips to About Forty Percent
Macon Ga April 11less than half a normal peach crop is in prospect for Georgia this season as a result of damage from recent unfavorable weather. W C Bewley president of the Georgia Fruit Exchange said the 1944 crop will be about 40 percent of normal. A government pledge not to set ceiling prices for peaches is delayed 30 days for more production information. Bewley and C H Bateman of Macon represented Georgia growers at the Washington meeting.
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Macon
Georgia
W. C. Bewley
Georgia Fruit Exchange
Bewley
War Food Administration
OPA
Washington
C. H. Bateman
Georgia corporations declare nearly eight million in quarterly dividends
In Atlanta a checkup reveals twenty eight Georgia corporations distributing quarterly dividends totaling about 7.9 million dollars.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Ex Justice Hughes Reaches 82nd Year
Washington reports former Chief Justice Hughes aged 82 in an interview. He states he remains cheerful and enjoying quiet life despite a war torn world.
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Hughes
Washington
Charve —&. Hughes
The
United States
Bulloch Wife Held in Husband's Death
Statesboro Georgia April 10 Mrs J B Daughtry was held in Bulloch County jail in connection with the pistol slaying of her husband a 37 year old Bulloch farmer who died in a local hospital late Saturday night County officers said Mrs Daughtry did not deny shooting her husband
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Statesboro
J.B. Daughtry
Bulloch County
Bulloch
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Georgia Press Awards
Bruce Scoble
Hunter
Bell Aircraft Corporation
United States Employment Service of War Manpower Commission
Ma- Con, Ga
Scond St
Matt L. McWhorter
Georgia Public Service Commission
REA
Joe Marshe
Bert Childers
Bert
Gre Mos
Brewing Industry Foundation
Georgia Committee
P. A. Jenkins
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