Bessie Tift College Loses Dr L S Williams
Forsyth July 29 after seven years as professor of religion and head of the department at Bessie Tift College Dr L S Williams resigns to become professor in Bible and Religious Education at Howard College Birmingham Ala He has been active in Forsyth community work leading the Monroe District Boy Scout committee chairing the Monroe Health Council directing the local Lions Club and pastoring Smyrna Baptist church He wrote Sunday School lessons for the Baptist Sunday School Board and published Youths Fifty Years in 1945 He has led Georgia Baptists groups and serves on Mercer Alumni affairs executive committee and Georgia Baptist Convention plans committee for newly ordained ministers.
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Forsyth
Bessie Tift College
L. S. Williams
Howard College
Birmingham
Ala
Dr. Williams
Monroe
Boy Scout
Monroe Health Council
Lions Club
Russellville
Smyrna
Williams
Southern Baptists
Baptist Sunday School Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Georgia Baptists’ Pastors Conference
Georgia Baptist Historical Society
Mercer Alumni Association
Georgia Baptist Convention
Former Minstrel Singer Develops Marvelous Auto Transmission
John Hinton Sr., once a minstrel singer, has developed a planetary oil drive transmission with a vacuum speed control. He argues the device could revolutionize autos and may see production by Henry and Hutchinson Co. of Decatur. The inventor claims speeds up to 60 mph and says the unit can reverse and function as a brake at any speed.
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Atlanta
John Hinton Sr
Henry and Hutchinson Co
Decatur
Perry Campaign Summary of Georgia Public Utilities Legacy
The document credits Perry with pivotal actions in Georgia including approving hydroelectric development at Tallulah Falls and Blue Ridge, initiating uniform electric rates across the state, starting rural electrification with 500 miles of lines and expanding to 1 000 more in the second year, and leading the push to pipe natural gas statewide. It notes the commission's work as highly technical and commends Perry's experience and sincerity. Signed F Q Sammon Jr secretary Perry Campaign Committee Lawrenceville Georgia.
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Tallulah Falls
Blue Ridge
Georgia
Perry
F. Q. Sammon, JR
Lawrenceville, GA
Florida Recluse 67 Dies and Fortune Converts Farm Dream
A 67 year old Florida recluse died of starvation despite a fortune over 100000 dollars hidden in a junk filled home. Local couple Mr and Mrs Sherman Spivey turned the 100 acre swamp land near Butler into a thriving farm with chickens hogs a cow and a horse. They built a log house with early conveniences and pipe a spring to the home easing daily life as they grow corn watermelons strawberries and vegetables while tending a fish pond and several outbuildings.
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Florida
Miami
Fla
Geo. F. Meister
John Parkerson
Julia Kearney
Sherman Spivey
Butler
Taylor County
Atlanta
Spivey
Eight Dead in Edgewater Mine Blast Near Birmingham
Eight coal miners died and 11 were injured in a gas explosion at the Edgewater mine near Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday. Rescue crews descended to the remote area about four miles from the shaft entrance as hospital staff listed one injured in critical condition. The Edgewater mine, nine miles west of Birmingham, is the largest in the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Co. and employs about 1,000 men.
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Birmingham
Ala
Edgewater
Tennessee Coalt, Iron and Railroad Co
Rev W C Jones Dies at Cairo Ga
Cairo Georgia August 1 The Rev Walter Colquitt Jones 93 retired South Georgia Methodist minister and oil industry pioneer in the region died today He preached in Camilla Waverly Hall Mt Vernon and Cochran Survivors include his widow Mrs Nellie Powell Jones two daughters Mrs Julian B Roddenberry Sr and Mrs H B Hoover three sons Dr W C Jones Jr Dean W P Jones and J M Jones
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Cairo
Walter Colquitt Jones
South Georgia
Brooks County
Camilla
Waverly Hall
Mt. Vernon
Cochran
Nellie Powell Jones
Julian B. Roddenberry, Sr
H. B. Hoover
Cambridge
Mass
W. C. Jones Jr
Miami, Fla
W. P Jones
Adelbert College
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Ohio
J. M. Jones
Washington, D. C
Garland T Byrd Seeks Re Election To Georgia General Assembly
Garland T Byrd announces candidacy for re election to Georgia General Assembly from Taylor County. He pledges to represent Taylor County's best interests and thanks supporters, noting Democratic primary rules ahead of September 8.
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General Assembly of Georgia
Taylor County
Democratic Committee
Calhoun Seeks Reappointment as Solicitor General
Hubert Calhoun announces his bid to serve again as Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit. He cites six years in office from 1937 to 1942 and asks for public support as he plans to qualify with the State Democratic Executive Committee for the September 8 primary.
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Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit
Democratic Executive Committee
Hubert Calhoun
UNC Head to Draft Dixie Regional Education Plan
Dr. John E. Ivey of the University of North Carolina was selected to draft a regional educational plan for the South. He will lead an 18 month study, with headquarters in Atlanta, to create immediate regional courses and research facilities and a long term cooperative system to keep Southern youths trained at home.
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Atlanta
John E. Ivey
University of North Carolina
Tallahassee
Fla
Ivey
Noted Newsman Dies in Atlanta
Mark Temple a 51 year old veteran Atlanta newspaperman died in a hospital after a several weeks illness. He edited and wrote for the Associated Press in Atlanta for 19 years and later served as labor editor at the Atlanta Journal. He studied at Columbia University and worked in New Jersey and New York papers before joining A P. He is survived by his widow Sarah Blackwell Gober daughter of the late Judge G F Gober.
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Atlanta
Mark Temple
Associated Press
Atlanta Journal
Columbia University School of Journalism
New Jersey
New York
The
A. P
Sarah Blackwell Gober
G. F. Gober
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James A. Perry
Elizabeth McCants
W. C. Jones
Garland T. Byrd
Solicitor-General
Thurston Ave
Thomaston
G. C. W. Smith
University of N. C
Dixie Educational System
Markwell
Markwell Staples
Butler Herald
Butler, Georgia
J. Marshall Davis
Ila
Old Nottingham Place
Fordson
Allis Chalmers
John Deere
Jersey
Eouise
Mr. Davis
T. Lynn Davis
Macon Auction Company
Macon, Georgia
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