Fulton County becomes debt free after 15 years
Georgia in review notes Fulton County is debt free for the first time in 15 years. The piece lists multiple local items including dividends by 28 Georgia corporations totaling nearly eight million dollars, school board elections, REA award to a Monticello farmer, Clarke County bond payoff, and various civic notes across the state.
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Fulton County
Georgia
Atlanta
A. L. Faulkner
Monticello
Rev C B Chester Talbotton Pastor Dies After Illness
Reverend C B Chester 76 pastor of the Talbotton Methodist church died at his home in Talbotton after a brief illness. Born November 13 1867 in Decatur county he joined the church in 1882 and was ordained at 20. Survived by his first wife Claudia Bradley and eight grandchildren among other relatives. Funeral held at Talbotton Methodist church and interment in Camilla with Rev A W Reese in charge.
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Columbus Enquirer
Oscar Bryan Chester
Talbotton Methodist Church
Talbotton
William Asbury
Louisa Butler Chester
Decatur County
Stephen M. Chester
Southwest
Georgia
Methodist Church
South Georgia
Chester
Claudia Bradley
Terrell County
Ruby W. Jones
Dallas
Tex
Lillian Gober
Valdosta
W. A. Chester
Ft. Benning
D. M. Chester
Montgomery
Ala
M. C. Dunn
H. M. Chester
Atlanta
Minnie T. Whigham
Bertha Stringer
Gus Chester
Sumner
Wash
Bascom Chester
Seattle
Bradley Dunn
Minnie R. Chester
Camilla
A. W. Reese
Columbus
Forty-Six Die in Windstorms Across Nation
A series of windstorms leaves 46 dead and over 150 injured across the nation. In South Carolina and surrounding regions a tornado leveled a large school and farms in Oconee County killing 25 year old Collie Mae Ellenburg. Arkansas reports 34 deaths from multiple tornadoes, while Fort Wayne Indiana loses six to a collapsing wall. Other states including Alabama Oklahoma Texas Kentucky Georgia and Tennessee suffer fatalities and property damage from tornadoes.
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S. C
Oconee County
Collie Mae Ellenburg
Central
Rocky Mountain States
Arkansas
Fort Wayne
Ind
Alabama
Oklahoma
Texas
Kentucky
Georgia
Tennessee
Kansas
Peanut Butter Plant Planned for Albany
Albany Ga April 11 Jewett and Sherman Co of Milwaukee Wisconsin will establish a peanut butter manufacturing plant in Albany J T Phillips chairman of the industrial committee of the Chamber of Commerce announced plans call for production of one to two carloads daily on a year around basis
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Albany, Ga
Albany
Jewett and Sherman Co
Milwaukee
Wis
J. T. Phillips
The
Chamber of Commerce
Sailor Chalker Announces Candidacy for State Senate
Augusta April 9 Yeoman Roy F Chalker U S N has qualified as candidate for state senator from the 19th district comprising Richmond Glascock and Jefferson counties Chalker now serving at Macon in recruiting service enlisted before Pearl Harbor He was previously elected mayor of Gibson in 1940 when too young to vote He plans no active campaign and is opposed by Leon Peebles former state senator Both candidates hail from Glascock county which under rotation would furnish the next senator
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Augusta
Roy F. Chalker
Richmond
Glascock
Jefferson
Chalker
Macon
Pearl Harbor
Gibson
Leon Peebles
Glascock County
Milan man jailed in murder case after hospital fatality
Jack Bass of Milan was lodged in the Telfair county jail at McRae Sunday on a charge of murder connected with the killing of Forest Minix, a Milan sawmill man. Minix was shot on Milan streets late Saturday night and died on the operating table at McRae hospital. Bass reportedly surrendered to Deputy Sheriff Leroy Clements.
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Jack Bass
Milan
Telfair
McRae
Forest Minix
J. B. Walker
Minix
Bass
Leroy Clements
Young Columbus Woman Sentenced For Forgery
Julia Dear Lemke a 21 year old confessed forger was sentenced in Superior court to three to five years for first of five forgery counts after admitting to cashing four checks and attempting a fifth. She also admitted stealing a $550 fur coat and used the alias Ann Winters. The judge offered leniency for a good record, Lemke sobbed as she left with her husband.
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Columbus
Julia Dear Lemke
T. Hicks Fort
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Buena Vista Girl Named Miss Southwestern by College Classmates
Annetle Greene of Buena Vista is Miss Southwestern 1944 as Georgia Southwestern College announces student superlatives. Victor Cornwell of Smithville earned four superlatives, with various peers named for intellect and popularity.
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Buena Vista
Southwestern
Americus
Southwester
Annetle Greene
Georgia Southwestern College
Sou’wester
Victor Cornwell
Smithville
Marjorie Patten
Quitman
Herbert Shomberg
Albany
Betty Pittman
Billy Reicchbacher
Beverly Hutto
Columbus
David Wicker
Frances Merritt
Jakin
Bernice Thornton
Parrott
Stuart Prather
Hazel Rigsby
Ellaville
Gene McGee
Zebulon
Cuthbert Woman Learns Her Husband Killed in Italy
Mrs Lillian Taylor receives War Department notice that her husband Sgt J S Taylor 22 was killed in action in Italy on February 14. Taylor left the states in January and had served since 1940 as a volunteer. He was a former resident of Florida, son of Mr and Mrs J N Taylor of Ona. Mrs Taylor is the former Lillian Childress of Cuthbert.
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Lillian Taylor
War Department
J. S. Taylor
Italy
Taylor
States
Srvice
Florida
J. N. Taylor
Ona
Lillian Childress
Three Candidates Seek Crawford House Seat
Knoxville Ga April 5 The Crawford county legislature race has three entrants. Millard Easler the incumbent serves a second term Wade Seagter current Crawford County treasurer and Nat F Walker a long time runner with several close calls. All are solid business men and a tight contest is anticipated.
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Knoxville
Crawford County
Millard Easler
Wade Seagter
Nat F. Walker
Walker
Goolsby Opens Atlanta Campaign HQ In Forsyth Building
Georgia farmer John W. Goolsby, candidate for the U S Senate, names Glenn Allen of Blue Ridge as campaign manager and to open headquarters in Atlanta this week. He vows a state wide race and to appeal to labor and farmers, with radio plans to follow.
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John W. Goolsby
Washington
Farmer
U. S. Senate
Glenn Allen
Blue Ridge
Goolsby
Forsyth Building
Ansley Hotel
Walter George
Women and girls to replace men on Georgia farms
Americus Georgia April 5 State Extension Director W S Brown says women and girls will work in Georgia farms due to labor shortages The 60 percent of needed labor this year compares with 70 percent last year Brown adds that women will operate tractors and machinery freeing men for manual tasks Any woman who can drive a truck can drive a tractor.
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Americus
Georgia
W. S. Brown
Brown
DeKalb Officers Acquitted in Civil Rights Case
In Atlanta a federal jury cleared DeKalb County Police Chief J. T. Dailey and three officers Lt. Charles Hensler Jefferson Holbrook Jr. and C. L. Visscher of beating Raymond Rouser and Naomi Reid to coerce a burglary confession. The acquittals followed criminal informations filed by U S District Attorney M N Andrews.
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Atlanta
DeKalb County
J. T. Dailey
Raymond Rouser
Naomi Reid
Dailey
Charles B. Hensler
Jefferson Coyce Holbrook, Jr
C. L. Visscher
U. S
M. N. Andrews
Georgia Scholastic Press Association to hear novelist
Miss Marguerite Steedman, novelist and newspaperwoman, will be a principal speaker at the 17th annual convention of the Georgia Scholastic Press Association in Athens. The event, hosted by the Henry Grady School of Journalism and the University of Georgia Sigma Delta Chi chapter, brings high school editors and advisers together on May 5.
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Athens
Marguerite Steedman
Georgia Scholastic Press Association
Henry Grady ‘School of Journalism
University of Georgia
Sigma Delta Chi
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