Roosevelt Leaves Warm Springs for Carolinas Tour
President Roosevelt bids farewell after a two weeks southern vacation. He schedules a two hour stop in Columbia for breakfast with state leaders followed by a motor tour and a formal UNC Chapel Hill address. He will return to Washington Tuesday to resume talks on the congressional program and foreign affairs.
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Carolinas
Washington
Columbia
Chapel Hill
N. C
University of North
Autumn Anthems by Ernest Camp Joins Presses Nearby
Ernest Camp, editor of the Walton Tribune, releases Autumn Anthems a sprightly Georgia poetry volume with familiar and unpublished poems. The book features varied forms prose poem sketches and a short story John Simpson's Gift with a vivid Uncle Henry portrait and a cover that honors autumnal tones.
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Atlanta Journal
Ernest Camp
Walton Tribune
Camp
John Simpson
Henry
Georgia
Georgia Hills and Dales
Daily Press
Mary Sue
Judge to suspend Sheriff E. L. Adamson in Georgia
Judge Jas Davis announced he would sign an order suspending Sheriff E. L. Adamson from office. The decision followed a hearing on an ouster petition amid a long probe into vice conditions in Mayton county in Jonesboro Georgia.
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Jonesboro, Ga
Jas. €. Davis
E. L. Adamson
Miayton County
Sutlive Named Secretary to Rep W Ben Gibbs
Carey R Sutlive of The Brunswick News was appointed secretary to Representative-Elect W Ben Gibbs of Georgia's Eighth district. Gibbs plans a Washington move on December 26 with his staff to prepare for Congress opening January 2. Sutlive, 35, has long worked in Georgia and Florida newspapers and is son of W G Sutlive, editor of The Savannah Evening Press.
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Carey R. Sutlive
Brunswick News
W. Ben Gibbs
D-Ga
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Sutlive
Washington
Congress
Georgia
Florida
W. G. Sutlive
Savannah Evening Press
Macon Telegraph
Jacksonville, Fla
Times-Union
Brunswick
Georgia Taylor County Twelve Months Support Filed
Susie McCartha has applied for twelve months support from the estate of the late Mance McCartha, deceased. The application will be heard by the Ordinary at the January term, 1989, on the first Monday in January. Witnessed by the Ordinary on December 6, 1988.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Susie McCartha
Mance McCartha
Two-Thirds of PWA Projects Under Way
Secretary said 63 percent of all projects allotted funds under the new PWA program were already under construction. The 4,608 projects will cost about $1.05 billion, with construction required to begin by January 1.
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PWA
Washington
Ekes
Santa Will Enter Pen Front Gate at Tattnall Prison
Reidsville Ga Dec 6 prisoners at Tattnall state prison prepare for a gay Christmas. The December issue of The Tattler says Santa Claus may enter the front door. Rules allow gifts of toys, candies, nuts, turkey and chicken, cigars and tobacco, magazines, socks, underwear, razors and blades, toilet goods and fruit.
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Reidsville
Tattnall State Prison
the Tattler
Santa Claus
Relatives Sought for Youth Held in McDonough
McDonough Ga December 5 Sheriff H M Amis said he was trying to locate relatives of Roy Holcombe a 28 year old man arrested on Locust Grove Citizens report that he acted irrationally Holcombe is described as five feet seven inches tall weighing 186 pounds his father Oscar Holcombe was named and he was said to be from Covington or Mansfield but attempts to identify him there were fruitless.
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Mansfield
State Troopers Warn Practical Jokers in Georgia
In Americus on December 6 the State Patrol warned about practical jokes that disturb the peace and trigger false alarms after a staged shooting prank. A man faked being shot, leading patrols to respond with a car and ambulance, only to find him alive and the stunt exposed by investigators. Names of participants were not released.
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Americus
Leslie Highway
Fence Riders On Cattle Ranches Perform Routine Fence Checks
Fence riders on cattle ranches are men who make periodic rounds of the feed area to see if any fences need repair.
Agricultural Class Is Training Colored Youths How To Farm
An early term note describes Reynolds School adding a Vocational Agricultural course for colored students. The program aims to prepare farm youth for successful farm living, emphasizing planning, record keeping, and practical farming knowledge within the existing curriculum. The piece argues farming requires intelligence and community leadership beyond mere tilling of soil. It cites dropout rates and urges educational reform to reduce burdens from early school leaving.
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Reynolds School
America
Sor
Million Dollar Road Plans Delayed by Georgia Board
Atlanta Dec 4 The Georgia Highway Board postponed awards on 22 highway projects worth nearly a million dollars as federal funds for 1940 will be sharply cut. Chairman W L Miller offered no reason beyond the prospective reduction. Bids opened Friday were checked and held up Saturday. projects involved counties Banks Jackson Bibb Carroll Haralson Decatur Dodge Dooly Dougherty Bryan Cobb Emanuel Elbert and Grady.
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Georgia
Washington
W. L. Miller
Highway Board
Miller
Banks
Jackson
Bibb
Carroll
Haralson
de Tatur
Dodge
Dooly
Dougherty
Bryan
Cobb Emanuel Elbert
Grady Counties
Vocational Agriculture seeks help for a mattress donation
The Vocational Agriculture program requests community support to supply materials for an inner spring or tack mattress. No charge will be made, only free offerings from individuals wishing to assist the program. The instructor notes the aim to bridge gaps in farming education and mentions the lack of a dedicated Voc Ag building.
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Ciety
Voc. Agri
8 Percent Potash Improves Yields In Multiple Crops
8% POTASH in your fertilizer reduces wastage and improves plant health across tobacco corn peanuts cotton tomatoes and more. Side-dress tobacco with NN sulfate of potash 100 to 200 pounds per acre after transplanting for higher yields. An application of 300 pounds of fertilizer containing 8% potash yields roughly 24 bushels of corn. Potash helps corn blades resist burn, strengthens stalks, and increases test weight. Peanuts remove large amounts of potash, so follow-on crops must receive potash. tomatoes benefit from 8% potash with fewer catfaces and better color, firmness, and disease resistance.
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