Georgia News Briefs From Across The State
A wide spread Georgia notice lists deaths, appointments, and legal actions. Prominent figures including Walter Foote of Atlanta and J. J. Brown, former agriculture chief, are referenced with career moves and health events. A Brooks county case yields a murder arrest while a macon auto crash claims a four year old and a farmer. Governor Talmadge reshuffles posts, naming R M Smith state geologist and Zach Cravey as game and fish commissioner.
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Zach D. Cravey
Telfair County
Talmadge
Peter S. Twitty
Thomaston to add 85 thousand spindles at Martha Mills
Thomaston Georgia announces an 85 000 spindle unit B for the Martha Mills Goodrich Rubber Company will employ over 600 workers and transfer machinery from Nashawena Mill New Bedford Massachusetts Construction begun after federal authorization with completion target not later than April 1 1984 If on schedule the unit will set a world record for fastest setup of its size and will boost output for Goodrich tires while relieving local unemployment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomaston
Goodrich Rubber Company
Martha Mills
Goodrich
Textile Code Authority
Washington
New Bedford
Mass
Whitman Company
Nashawena
Manomet, No. 3
Reheart & Co
Atlanta
Albert Mathews
Vica
Gondrich Rubber Company
Tntil
Martha Milla
Matthews
Jury Acquits J A Howard in Mannin Murder Case
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of the state versus J A Howard charged with the murder of Mrs Mattie O Mannin, marking the final chapter in a long Ware County case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ware County
Nen & Jury
J. A. Howard
Mattie O. Mannin
Ten Children Killed as Train Hits School Bus in Florida
Tragedy at a rural crossing near Crescent City, Florida leaves ten dead and about eighty injured as a freight train crashes into a school bus carrying 39 children. Elderly driver D R Niles survives with serious injuries. most severely hurt taken to Palatka. Officials initially uncertain of total child count amid mangled remains and scattered fatalities.
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Crescent City
Fla
D. R. Niles
Silver Porch Grove
Rupert Teuton
Assersby
Palatka
Woman killed in Marshallville car wreck near home
Mrs H T Philman died almost instantly and her husband was severely injured when their car collided with a vehicle driven by Harvey Smith of Milledraville at the driveway entrance to their home in Marshallville Wednesday night. The couple had just returned from Fort Valley ten miles away and both cars were demolished in the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Philman
Marshallville
Fort Valley
Harvey Smith
Milledraville
Gov Talmadge motorcade travels Georgia to Florida
Governor Talmadge praises Route three opening as all paved from Atlanta to Americus and beyond. He describes a capital to capital motorcade from Atlanta to Tallahassee with stops at Griffin Zebulon Thomaston Butler and Ellaville. He notes a large turnout and thanks sponsors and officials.
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Talmadge
The
Statesman
Georgia
Capital
Atlanta
Tallahassee
Americus
Griffin
Zebulon
Thomaston
Butler
Ellaville
America
Gov. Shultz
Florida
Atlante
Cohen
Atlanta Journal
Upton County
Canital
Tredit
Hopkins Threatens CWA Aid Cut in Rural Georgia
Atlanta report says Governor Talmadge and Civil Works Administrator H L Hopkins clashed over CWA pay scales with Hopkins threatening to withdraw all CWA work from rural Georgia. Talmadge teased that rural workers would move to towns for jobs as the dispute intensified.
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Hopkins
CWA
Rural
Georgia
Atlanta
Talmadge
Civil Works
H. L. Hopkins
Ronald Ransom
Georgia Cwa
Press session to open February twenty first at UGA
Athens Ga Dec 16 Plans for the Georgia Press Institute at the University of Georgia February 21 to 24 were announced with Drew Pearson as one principal speaker An Evening with Georgia Authors will feature Emily Woodward presiding Several Georgia authors will attend Pearson author of Washington Merry Go Round and syndicated with RS Allen The institute committee includes Inez John Parshall TM J Whatwood Albert Panly Roy McGinty Edna Daniel Kirk Sutlive and Emily Woodward
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Georgia Press ‘ Institute
University of Georgia
Drew Pearson
Washington
Georgia
Emily Woodward
Georgia Press Association
Pearson
Otfr
Drewery
University of Georgia School of Journalism
Albert Paniy
Gainesville News
Roy McGinty
Calhoun Times
Edna Daniel
Onitman Free Press
Kirk Sutlive
The
Blackshear Times
Ily Woodward
Vienna
Macon Jaycees buy Indian Mound site for city plaza
Macon Georgia December 16 The Junior Chamber of Commerce has purchased a plot of land containing Indian mounds to be deeded to the city Gen W A Harris said Dr Arthur R Kelly Smithsonian anthropologist to supervise mound development More than 200 transient workers are expected to work on improving and excavating the mounds and beautifying roads Purchase of additional mound land will follow Dr Kelly heads the University of Texas anthropology department and has recent experience in Texas and Ohio
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Chamber of Commerce
W. A. Harris
Arthur R. Kelly
Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Kelly
University of Teinnis
Texas
Ohio
Eight-Year-Old Killed by Fall Into 80-Foot Well Near Carter's Grove
Crawfordville Ga Dec 17 An 8 year old child fell into an eighty foot well on the new Crawfordville home site near Carter's Grove. The body was recovered from the well as two large snakes were found in the same well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordville
Chandler
Teliaferro County
Carter’s Grove
Central of Georgia Stresses Crossings Dangers
Savannah dispatch reports a Crescent City Florida school bus crash that killed nine children and injured eighty, prompting Central of Georgia Railway receiver H D Pollard to urge state superintendents in Alabama and Georgia to strengthen education on grade crossing safety. The railroad notes 178 talks since fall and cites 1982 crossing fatalities and injuries as evidence for a broader safety campaign targeting schoolchildren.
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Savannah
Crescent City
Bis
Central of Georgia
Florida
H. D. Pollard
Central of Georgia Railway
Alabama
Georgia
Fla
Pollard
Seaborn Wright Dies in Milledgeville Hospital
Seaborn Wright, 6, Georgia prohibition figure and former presidential hopeful under the Prohibition Party, died in a Milledgeville hospital after a month of illness. A longtime Georgia legislator from Rome, Wright championed anti alcohol laws and 18th Amendment support, left the Democrats in 1928 to back Hoover, and was active in education and public causes. Born November 30, 1857, he practiced law after Mercer and served multiple terms in the General Assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milledgeville, Ga
al Smith
Wright
Hoover
Georgia
Mr. Wright
A. R. Wright
Rome
Mercer University
Wm. H. Felton
Congress
Two Georgia convicts kidnap prison superintendent
Atlanta December 14 two convicts kidnapped Supt B H Dunaway as they were being returned to Milledgeville state prison and held him captive for hours. They beat him and robbed him of an $800 diamond ring and $1.50 in cash during a 160 mile drive to Atlanta while attempting to ambush a man and his wife for another car. Evans did not participate in the assault and reported the kidnapping to officers. The group fled. Dunaway later escaped.
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Atlanta
B. H. Dunaway
Milledgeville
TeNey
Madison
T. R
Burris
Durant! Shadix
Bill Evans
Evans
Pdd
Pea
Dunaway
Camp 1480 Motorcade Santa Crum Headlines Albany Visit
A North Florida community report details Camp 1480 involvement in a local motorcade to Albany with a truck decorated for Christmas and drivers like Crum dressed as Santa. Visitors Col. Munson Major Lewis Capt. Wilson and Lt. and Mrs. Cocke praise Camp 1480 progress as others share social antics and hometown chatter.
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Cornly
Fort Benning
C. C
Col. Munson
Lewis
Four White Men Charged in Negro Slaying at Americus
In Americus Georgia on December 18 four white farmers McKinley Jordan Daves Mills Cliff Snider and Douglas Mills are tried on charges for the killing of Henry Thomas a Negro. Prosecution claims star witness failed to provide full facts entrapment noted as a defense by the prosecuting attorney Solicitor Holen Fort MC Miller testified Mills sought a ride home and a car was seen nearby a gunshot occurred Jordan sat in front with a pistol Mills held Thomas as he slumped after the shot
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Sumter County
Cliff Snider
McKinley Jordan
Slag Mills
Dave Mills
Americus
Henry Thomas
Negro Exconvict
Americas
Anéstro
Daves Mills
Douglas Mills
Holen Fort MC. Miller
Thomas
Miller
Dave ‘Mills
Georgia college buildings plan moves forward amid repairs
Georgia leaders and lawmakers traveled to Washington to push a school construction package. The plan outlines new dormitories, dining halls, classrooms, and repairs at multiple campuses including Georgia Southwestern Americas, West Georgia Carrollton, North Georgia Dahlonega, South Georgia Doug is, G S C W Valdosta, Abraham Baldwin Tifton, and Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station. Projects cover dorms, heating plants, dining facilities, gymnasiums, and water systems among others.
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Wre Uocke
Board of Regents
Hughes Spalaing
Russell
Washington
Coke
Georgia Southwestern _ college Americas
West Georgia College
Carrollton
North Georgia College
Dahlonega
South Georgia State’ College
Dougis
Valdosta
Georgia Normal and Agricultural Ladie Albany
Route Three Highway Assn Finally Disbands
The Route Three Highway Association, formed in Americus on July 17, 190, dissolved after a two day motorcade from Atlanta to Tallahassee. Led by John A. Davis and with J. F. Pittman and B. Berns as officers, the group lobbied for paveing the route through South Georgia, but faced repeated highway board refusals and minimal progress until Gov. Talmadge intervened.
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Fred Tomsiey
Atlanta
Veo
Americus
Bart
Midwest
Tallahagsee
John A. Davis
Chas, Crisp
U. S
Griffin
Thomaston
Davis Eelection
J. F. Pittman
Thomasville
B. Berns
Butler
Highway Board
Davis
Croger Westbrook
Dougherty County
Association
Jud. Wilhait
Wilhait
Wilhoit
Allawine
Messrs
Pittman
Steed
Maine
Moultrie Editor Granted Pardoned in Georgia
Atlanta reports Colquitt Free Lance editor Mililom A Shirah of Moultrie Ga was pardoned by Governor Talmadine after a Colquitt Superior Court conviction for criminal libel. The governor said the case hinged on the overall publication and that no part of the article could be severed as libelous. Shirah had been sentenced to months in state prison with some terms suspended.
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Atlanta
Miliom A. Shirah
Colquitt Free Lance
Moultrie
T. V. Beard
Colonist Estate
Talmadine
Shirah
Liel
Colauit Superior Court
Af Ag
Pokine
Spe
Athin
Rnar
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Lyons
Mattie Green
W. L. Green
Marion County
Buena Vista
Walter Foote
Foote and Davis Co
Jonesboro
Batson Cook Company
West Point
Mark McGraw
Bibb Manufacturing Company
McGraw
Gaffney, 8. C
Middle Georgia
J. J. Brown
Thomas Oglesby Christian
Georgia Power Company
Columbus
W. J. Barnett
State Highway Board
Guv. Talmade
Lawrence S. Camp
W. Hover
J. W. Barnett
Tigur Weddveuay
Laster Dasher
Brooks County
C. 4
Clanton
C. Homer Guillatt
Union City, Ga
Ramspeck
University ofGeorga
Irom
Jimmy Lula Turrentine
J. H. Turentine
Mack Thorpe
Skipperton
RR. &. Lloyd
Atlantic Coast Line
Waycross
J. C
Blackshear
Rosier
George
Subsistence Homestead Corporation
Agile
Gov. Talmadge
R. M. Smith
W. McCallie
Smith
State Board of Forestry and Geology
McCallie
Jenkins County
Board of Education of
Motorcade
Jaycees
Central of
Seaborn Wright
United 81Vates
NRA
Co. 1480
Flint River
Albany
Crum
Santa
O. K
Ripley
Bennett
Capt. Wilson
Warm Springs
Tt. Clark
GC. C. G
Baxley
Someore
Jack Pilkington
Hicks
Robbie
Thornton
Tonie McGee
Nick
Keaton
Route Three Highway Assn
Moron
Cade
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