Tragic Air Collision Near New York Claims 137 Lives
History's worst air disaster deepened Saturday as investigators seek the cause of a midair collision between a United DC8 and a TWA Constellation near LaGuardia. 128 aboard died, including 11 year old Stephen Baltz who succumbed after 24 hours. The toll now stands at 137. Separate report: Reynolds police officer Howard Lowe seriously injured by a Negro prisoner, Lewis Montgomery, during a jail transfer.
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Reynolds
N. Y. Air Port
New York
N. Y
Stephen Baltz
Wilmette
United Air Lines
Trans World Airlines
Federal Aviation
Phillip Goldstein
Civil Aeronauticcs Board
TWA
LaGuardia Field
Howard Lowe
Georgia Power Tax Checks Presented to Local Counties and Cities
Georgia Power Company paid 1960 property taxes totaling 11 441 32 to Taylor County and 9 384 02 to Crawford County. City taxes for Reynolds Butler and Roberta ranged 244 30 229 83 and 170 28. Total Georgia Power property tax statewide reached 6 121 734 vs 5 683 400 in 1959. Municipal partnership payments to 392 communities totaled 2 922 797 earlier in the year.
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Taylor
Crawford Counties
H. L. Russell
Georgia Power Co
Taylor County
Crawford County
Georgia Power Company
Reynolds
Butler
Roberta
Ga. Power Co
Georgia
Russell
General County
Ga. Power Company
Christmas Service At Junction City Methodist Church
The Geneva Methodist Charge will hold a Christmas service Sunday at 11 a m at Junction City Methodist Church. Rev. Jas T Pennell announces. No service at Pine Level Church Sunday evening. The public is invited to worship at Junction City on Christmas Day.
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Geneva Methodist Charge
Junction City Methodist Church
Jas. T. Pennell
Pine Level Church
Nazarene Church Reports Record Giving and Growth in 1960
The Church of the Nazarene released an annual statistical report showing per capita giving at 143 dollars, a record. Total gifts for all purposes rose to 45.3 million, up over 3 million from 1959, with membership reaching 318,588, a gain of 7,289. New churches averaged one per week, totaling 4,741 by Jan 1, 1961, with mission work expanding to 42 world areas and over 450 full time missionaries. Special world missions offerings exceeded 1 million.
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Nazarene
Church of the Nazarene
S. T. Ludwig
Kansas City
Sunday School
Foreign Missionary Society
Young People's Society
American Samoa
Denmark
Ludwig
Georgia Casts Her Twelve Votes For Kennedy
Georgia's 12 electoral votes were cast for John Kennedy for president and Lyndon Johnson for vice president. Governor Vandiver said the vote was unanimous and Georgia followed the people's mandate. Electors gathered at the governor's office to vote and will deliver certified ballots to Congress for January 6 opening.
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Atlanta
Georgia
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Vandiver
Alabama
Mississippi
Virginia
Sen
Byrd
Congress
Local Stores Shut All Day Monday Next Week
Businesses listed will close for the entire day Monday December 26. The closures include Wilson's Super Market Feed Bros Feed Store Peed Bros Milling Co Suggs Machine Co Community Barber Shop Butler Auto Parts Mrs Bertha Bazemore Western Auto Store Coolik's Store and many others across the area.
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Wilson’s Super Market
Feed Bros
Peed Bros Milling Co
Mon
Suggs Machine Co
Butler Auto Parts, Inc
Bertha
Taylor County Court to Convene January Term 1961
The Taylor County Superior Court opens Tuesday January 3 at 9:00 A M with Judge Hubert Calhoun presiding. Grand and traverse jurors are listed for the January term, including A S James, W E Jarrell, James Saunders, Herman O Neal, J C Haywood and many others.
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Taylor County
A. S. James
W. E
Jarrell
James Saunders
Herman O'Neal
J. C. Haywood
H. Perkins
Guy Windham
J. A. Payne
Herman W, Bickley
R. C, Barrow
E. E. Jarrell
Blanford Jarrell
Bernard J, Fuller
John Mans,am
Jack Peed
H. McRee
T. E
Tante
C. E
Marshall Franklin McCants
Eli Garrett
Grover Mott
Carl L, Turner
Clarence Barfield
Guy Windham, Jr
Prauepc
Senator W T Jones Named Chairman of Appropriations
Atlanta Ga Senator W T Jones of Roberta is named chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee by Lt Governor Garland Byrd. Jones represents the 23rd Senatorial District including Taylor Crawford and Peach counties and will join Educational Matters and Public Utilities and Transportation committees. He will be sworn in for a two year term when the General Assembly convenes January 9.
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Atlanta
W. T. Jones
Roberta
Senate Appropriations Committee
Garland Byrd
Jones
Taylor
Crawford
Peach Counties
Sen. Jones
Senate
General Assembly
Death of H G Phillips prominent Winnsboro leader
Herman Grady Phillips 67 a church and civic leader and business executive died December 13 in Winnsboro South Carolina after an extended illness He moved there in 1933 and held roles including deacon Sunday School superintendent treasurer clerk and church board chair at First Baptist Winnsboro He led Phillips Granite Company and held presidencies at Bank of Fairfield and Fairfield County Chamber of Commerce Survived by wife Lucile mother Helen Phillips children and siblings Funeral services were at First Baptist with interment in A R P Cemetery Winnsboro
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Herman Grady Phillips
Winnsboro
S. C
Delta
Ala
Helen W. Phillips
Jas. W. Phillips
Phillips
First Baptist Church
Winnesboro
Baptist Church
Phillips Granite Company
Bank of Fairfield
Fairfield County Chamber of Commerce
Fairfield Development Corp
Butler
Lucile Phillips
Sam W. Washington Jr
Conway
Robert M. Hamilton
Herman G.phillips Jr
W. T. Austin
Lester Roberts
H. G. Wilkes
Hamilton
Gladys Montgomery
Douglas
Shelley A. Phillips
Atlanta
Ernest J
Thomaston
Cecil R
North Charleston
Blanchard
Walterboro
C. C. Phillips
Palatka
Fla
Swearingen Named To Board Of Directors Cattle Association
Swearingen of Reynolds, a Polled Hereford breeder and owner of Swearingen Hereford Farm, was elected to the American Polled Hereford Association board. He joins two other directors with four year terms, representing Georgia, Alabama and Florida, at the Chicago meeting. National headquarters are in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
R. L. Swearingen
Reynolds
American Polled Hereford Association
Swearingen
Swearingen Hereford Farm
American Polled’ Hereford Association
National Beef Cattle Breed Registery and Promotion Organization
Chicago
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
Christmas Cantata At Methodist Church
A Christmas Cantata will be presented at the local Methodist church on Wednesday night December 21 at 8 o clock. The Bethel Congregational Methodist church presents the pageant and invites members, friends and neighbors to attend. Ted Griner, Pastor.
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Bethel Congregational Methodist Church
Ted Griner
Reynolds Stores to Close All Day Monday
Reynolds business establishments including G. H. Goddard and Son Aultman’s Super Store Brady Dry Goods Taylor Co Motor Co and Goodroe Appliance Co and B. Hicks will be closed for the entire day Monday.
Montezuma Man Paul Sin Clear Elected to Georgia Legislature
Paul Sin clear of Montezuma a lumber concern manager and Ma con County School Board member won the Ma con County seat in the state legislature. He edged J T Coogle by 1 295 to 1 177 votes after full returns from seven precincts though unofficial. The contest filled the term of the late J Lester Souter who died before the general election.
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Montezuma
Paul Sinclear
Montezuma Lumber Concern
Macon County
Sinclair
J. T. Coogle
Oglethorpe
J. Lester Souter
Four Die From Carbon Monoxide At Columbus Drive-In
Four people including two young couples were found dead in a car at a Columbus Georgia drive-in theater from carbon monoxide poisoning after keeping a heater on in freezing weather. Victims are Helen Crook Estelle Ratcliff Jack Sumner and G M Bishop.
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Columbus
Georgia
Texas
Helen Crook
Estelle Ratcliff
Fire aboard carrier Constellation claims dozens dead
A jet fuel explosion roared through the Navy’s largest aircraft carrier Constellation at a Brooklyn pier trapping nearly 4,000 workers. At least 44 killed, 225 injured, and 30 missing as firemen cut holes in bulkheads to reach trapped men in a snow swept blaze. The ship, valued at $275 million, was in final construction.
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New York
N. Y
Navy
Brooklyn
East River
George David
Columbus Preacher Convicted of Larceny Given Prison Term
A Fort Worth Texas preacher named William E. Lewis 31 was convicted by a Muscogee Superior Court jury of larceny from a house. He received two five year terms for stealing and selling furniture valued at $1,000 from a house he rented in September.
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Columbus
Fort Worth
Tex
William E. Lewis
Graying
Muscogee
Butler City Mayor and Council Election Date Set
The Butler mayoral and five council seats go up for a two year term on January 14. Voting occurs at the court house in the Clerk of Superior Court office. Candidates must qualify by registering with the City Clerk at least ten days before election. Voters must have voted in the past general election and be a Butler resident for 30 days. Current mayor Alfonso McCrary and councilmen W. W. Hartman James T. Smith Alfred Kennon Marvin Peed and H. D. Taunton are listed.
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Butler
Court House
Superior Court
Alfonso McCrary
Messrs
W. W. Hartman
James T. Smith
Alfred Kennon
Marvin Peed
H. D. Taunton
Methodists Seek 64 New Churches in Atlanta Region
A study by Emory Universitys Candler School of Theology finds Methodists in metropolitan Atlanta need at least 64 new churches over the next decade. The six county survey shows inner core losses while outer areas gain members, with 179 churches totaling 89 160 in 1950 to 1954.
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Atlanta
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Jim Bentley
Georgia Tobacco Crop Surge Seen in 1960 Estimate
The Agriculture Department projects Georgia flue cured tobacco reaching 1.129 billion pounds in 1960, a 19 percent rise from 1959 and a record yield of about 1 800 pounds per acre. Georgia’s type 62 cigar wrapper output is set to 1 976 002 pounds, up from 1 668 000 pounds.
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Washington, D. C
Georgia
Agriculture Department
Department
Man Posing as Santa Nabbed Thieving Groceries
A Miami man identified as John Young, 48, wore a white apron and posed as a supermarket employee for two weeks. He was caught in the act of taking a box of groceries worth about 70 dollars, then arrested by police after a tip from a store employee.
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Miami
Fla
John Young
Young
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