Columbus Roberts Appointed to State Milk Control Board
Columbus Roberts Sr. was named to fill a seat on the Georgia State Milk Control Board, asserting the board favors distributors. He predicts a 5-3 vote to establish a price differential lowering store bought milk to 20 cents per quart, and urges an immediate session. Roberts, leader of the Georgia Milk Producers Confederation, also warns of overproduction and contemplates a cooperative dairy plant in Macon, Augusta, or Columbus.
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Atlanta
Columbus Roberts Sr
State Milk Control Board
Columbus
Georgia Milk Producers Confederation
Roberts
George Sancken
Augusta
Confederation
R. H. Jones Jr
Macon
Confederation Prsident
The
Association of Milk Producers
Mr. Roberts
Twas The Right Before Christmas
A plea for charity during the holiday season urging readers to help those less fortunate. The note highlights a father unable to buy gifts, recalls a Sunday School teacher’s kindness, and stresses giving as Santa’s guidance. It emphasizes adding happiness now or later in May and ends with Christmas wishes.
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Santa Claus
O. K
Santa
Doc” Tante
United States
Forgetting the Past Theme for Sunday Service
The pastor leads a Sunday School at 10 30 a m and a 11 30 a m sermon on Forgetting the Things That Are Behind from Philippians chapter 3. The last day of the old year brings worship with no evening service as the pastor spends Christmas with family. Public invited.
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J. H. Stanford
Butler Jaycees Help Seventy Children With Christmas Packages
The Butler Junior Chamber of Commerce distributes clothes and fruit to seventy underprivileged children in Taylor County. President Wanza Hartman and J F Sikes lead the drive, raising funds and coordinating lists of recipients.
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Butler Junior Chamber of Commerce
Taylor Couny
Uch
Wanza Hartman
J. F. ‘Sikes
Shotgun Shell Explodes Killing Leesburg Child
Mildred Fore two and a half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Starling Fore was killed when a shotgun shell they were playing with exploded. The mother and an older sister were in the yard and hurried to find the child in the house.
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Leesburg
Mildred Fore
Starling Fore
Third Army IG Opens Probe At Camp Gordon
Augusta report states Col. F. S Griswold began an investigation into reports of brutal treatment of prisoners at Camp Gordon disciplinary barracks. Col. H. A. Adair said the inquiry would continue through Monday after Augusta committee inquiries and a newspaper report.
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Third Army
Camp Gordon
Augusta
Col
F. S Griswold
H. A. Adair
Army
Miaroi Herald
Louis D. Oliveros
L. L
Seven Arrested In Griffin Bug Racket Raids
Griffin police and county officers raided a bug racket in Griffin Georgia seizing about 20 000 lottery tickets. Seven African American suspects were arrested including the ticket writers and pickup man. Tickets ranged from one cent to six or eight dollars. The raids followed months of information gathering and began after officers arrested a woman with tickets.
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Griffin
Thomaston Father and Son Die in Home Fire
A Thomaston man Corbett H. Ivie and his 19 year old son died from fire and smoke in their Silvertown home after a kerosene can exploded while building a fire. Hoyt M. Ivie died later in a Macon hospital.
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Macon
Thomaston
Silvertown
Corbett H. Ivie
Hoyt M. Ivie
Ralph Crowe
Stephens Funeral
Ivie
Crowe
Goodrich Mill
Holloway Chosen Worshipful Master at Fickling Lodge
C L Holloway a lineman for Georgia Power Company was elected worshipful master of Fickling Lodge No. 129 F and A M at a recent meeting Other officers named include Riley Bazemore Jr senior warden C B Hartman junior warden M C Allman secretary L P Anthony treasurer W E Sullins senior deacon J F Sikes junior deacon W W Davis senior steward W W Hartman junior steward Rev J W M Stipe chaplain and C E Pennington tyler
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C. L. Holloway
Lineman
Georgia Power Company
Fickling Lodge No
A. M
Riley Bazemore Jr
C. B. Hartman
M. C. Allman
L. P. Anthony
W. E. Sullins
J. F. Sikes
W. W. Davis
W .W. Hartman
Wanted Peanut Hay in Reynolds Georgia
Wanted four or five tons of good bright peanut hay. Contact E. F. Parr by phone 1355 Reynolds, Georgia.
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Parr
Reynolds, Ga
Joys of Holidays Safer If You Follow Christmas Rules
The National Safety Council urges December holiday safety addressing increased traffic and home accidents. It stresses extra care while driving and walking, avoiding alcohol, and preparing for winter weather, plus home checks like water for trees, no flames, and safe electric lights to prevent fires and injuries.
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W National Safety Council
The
Safety Council
Jess
Louis Walcott Fight Shown At Grand Theatre Reynolds
Boxing fans can see Joe Louis versus Jersey Joe Walcott on screen at the Grand Theatre in Reynolds Sunday and Monday December 28 and 29. Louis reportedly knocked down seven times in a tough bout, prompting debate if Walcott was robbed of the title. Also playing is Woman on the Beach with Joan Bennett Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford.
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Joe Louis
Joe Walcott
Reynolds
Walcott
Grand Theatre
Joan Bennett
Robert Ryan
Charles Bickford
Adv
For Sale Good One Horse Wagon With Harness
For sale a good one horse wagon with nearly new harness. Price sixty dollars. Contact A. B. Floyd at Rupert, Georgia.
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A. B. Floyd
Rupert
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