Georgia News Roundup Highlights Local Deaths and Appointments
Muscogee ranks second for divorces in Georgia. James M. Cox Jr. elected head of Atlanta newspapers. Perry to receive dial phones this week. Mrs. Kate English dies in Andersonville. Clara Bell Clark drowns near Wildwood. Walter H. Robinson dies of heart attack en route to hospital. Most Georgia public schools to open Aug 29. Albert Phillips dies after rattlesnake bite. Charlie F. Williams dies at Warm Springs. Harllee Branch Jr. elected director of Southern Railway. E. E. Jernigan dies in Americus. Columbus may join pilot mental hospital study. Worth County stagecoach terminal memories fade. William Stevens dies in Tifton. Indian Springs Camp meeting opens. J. H. Slade Jr. markets first 1957 cotton bale at 40c per lb. George Johnson drowns at Fulton County lake. Rajmohan Gandhi attends funeral in India. 4-H project earns 4,054 mile western tour for Georgia youth. Georgians pay $807,261,997 in federal taxes. H. G. Smith dies in LaGrange. Georgia health officials monitor Asian flu threat. Northwest Georgia police seek two masked men in home shooting, auto theft. Federal funds earmarked for Georgia highway program in 1958. Stinson Coker in good condition after glass ingestion. Public Service Commission raises interstate rail freight rates. Savannah mother exonerated in husband’s death claim. Thelma Williams retires as secretary to Carl Vinson. Forsyth farmer escapes tractor accident. Georgia traffic deaths down 16 percent vs 1956 first half. Nationwide lookout for gray-haired woman in pink sedan linked to $100,000 fund shortfall. Washington lawmakers attend Walter George funeral. flags at half-mast.
Thomaston Production Credit Group Stockholders Meet Aug 15
Stockholders of the Thomaston Production Credit Association will meet in annual session August 15 at 10 30 a m in the Up son county Courthouse Thomaston. The association serves Lamar Monroe Pike Taylor and Upson counties with assets over 1520000 and stock value three to one over original 5 00 shares. Directors include W J McDaniel Zebulon J E Ballard Sr Barnesville J J Pierson Culloden Franklin McCants Butler and L E Hancock Thomaston invites public attendance.
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Thomaston Production Credit Association
Upson County
Thomaston
Rhodes Murphy
Thomaston P. C. A
Lamar
Monroe
Pike
Taylor
Upson
Murphy
W. J. McDaniel
Zebulon
J. E. Ballard, Sr
V-Pres
Barnesville
J. J. Pierson
Culloden
Franklin McCants
Butler
L. E. Hancock
Mrs. A. R. McAuliffe Dies at 76 in Augusta
Mrs. A. R. McAuliffe 76 wife of a Georgia newspaperman died Sunday night after a long illness at her home. Her husband former business manager and associate editor of the Augusta Chronicle and first president of the Georgia Press Association. She was born in Grovetown and lived most of her life in Augusta. Survivors include her son R. D. McAuliffe of Atlanta and two grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
A. R. McAuliffe
Georgia
Augusta Chronicle
Georgia Press Association
Griffin Youths Rescued From Abandoned Reservoir
Three Griffin youths aged 12, 10, and 9 were rescued from a 20 foot well in an abandoned reservoir near the municipal park golf course with help from the fire department. A fourth boy, 12, stayed outside and summoned aid when the others became trapped after lowering themselves on a wire to fetch golf balls.
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Griffin
Kenneth Harper
Mickey Thompson
Douglas Beam
Tommy Thompson
Griffin’s Municipal Park
Blackshear Man Bound Over On Slaying Charge
Fernandina Florida reports that W F Branson of Blackshear aged 19 was bound over by Nassau county grand jury on a first degree murder charge for the July 1 slaying of Eddie Lee Charlton 30 of Jacksonville whose body was found beside a highway near the Georgia line with a bullet wound to the heart.
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Fernandina
Fla
W. F. Branson
Blackshear
Nassau County
Eddie Lee Charlton
Jacksonville
Hilliard and
Callahan
Georgia Line
Nation on Wheels theme dominates talk on highways
Savannah speaker R. H. Lawson former Georgia Highway Board chair urged planners to design roads for a nation rapidly becoming on wheels. With 52 million cars and 10 million trucks and buses demand for roads and parking will rise, he warned, as he noted his advisory role to Gov. Griffin and candidacy plans.
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Savannah
America
R. H. Lawson
State Highway Board
Georgia Independent Automobile Dealers Association
Highway Board
Griffin
Lawson
Hawkinsville
Oconee
Oconee Judicial Circuit
M. J. Padgett
Augusta
Richmond County Commission
Carey Paul
Atlanta
Interest in Vienna Gin Firm Purchased by Roy V. Noble
Vienna August 5 a business transaction of interest is the sale of Porters Gin and Warehouse to R V Noble prominent businessman and father of Vienna Noble already owns and operates a large gin and warehouse on the Hawkinsville Highway Howell Porter former owner retires from business due to ill health His associates Willie Porter and Mercer Porter will devote their time to large farming and other business interests
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Vienna
Porter
R. V. Noble
Prominet
Noble
Hawkinsville Highway
Howell Porter
Willie Porter
Mercer Porter
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James M. Cox Jr
Perry
Houston County
Kate English
Andersonville
Clara Bell Clark
Wildwood
Walter H. Robinson
Macon
Albert Phillips
Lookout Mountain
Charlie F. Williams
Warm Springs
Harllee Branch Jr
Southern Co
Southern Railway
E. E. Jernigan
Schley County
Americus
Columbus
Worth County
Crisp
Worth Counties
Wm. T. Stevens
Tifton
Indian Springs Holiness Camp
J. H. Slade, Jr
Pulaski
George Johnson
Fulton County
Rajmohan Gandhi
Manhatma Gandhi
India
Devadas Gandhi
Internal Revenue Service
LaGrange
H. G. Smith
Calloway Mills
Georgia Department of Public Health
Summerville
Stinson Coker
Madison County
Gay Public Service Commission
Air Force
Thelma Williams
Byron
Congress
Carl Vinson
Forsyth
Department of Public Safety
Henry Cabot Lodge
Washington
Walter George
Hicks Mill Pond
Reynolds, Ga
Reynolds and Oglethorpe
M. H. Butler
Stockholders Meeting Production Credit Group
White County
Alpharetta
Rep. E. L. Forrester
Virginia
Pittsburgh
Red Skelton
New York
Europe
Skelton
Philadelphia
Roy V. Noble
Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant
Detroit
Michigan
The
Georgia Power Company
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
RULES
Butler Swimming Pool
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