Georgia News Roundup Highlights Crashes Fire Names and Elections
A Macon head on collision killed three as Ashburn votes to continue beer sales. Albany fire chief earns acclaim while Macon hosts a state broadcast meeting. Stone Mountain eyed as headquarters for Confederate allied groups. Statewide hospital fire safety inspection launched in Atlanta. Massey Gun case denied by Supreme Court. J. W. Trunnell Jr named state 4-H cotton champion. Gholston rejects highway reform compromise. Leonard Butcher Milling sold to Do B King Jr. Mary Hammond to receive Michigan music degree and solo in opera. Norman Manning named assistant Central of Georgia agent in Atlanta. Bibb County reports 66 percent of delinquency cases from broken homes. Southeast hog packing rises five percent 1949 vs 1948. Albany’s H M Mills Home moved for new annex beside First Baptist. Perry extends city limits by 1.75 miles. Cordele Camellia show scheduled at Community House. Upson County Sheriff Holliman improving in wheel chair after October accident. Georgia Press Institute to hear B M McKlewny in Athens. Jesup’s Mansfield child drowns Altamaha river incident. Lamar Electric’s Elder injured in crash. son injured. Mary Haverty named Atlanta Woman of the Year in the Arts. Hawkinsville opens First Methodist church on Easter opening date set. Macon hosts statewide Baptist Evangelistic Conference January 30 to February 1.
Ft Valley Receives New Smith-Tomlinson Funeral Home
A modern funeral home is scheduled to open in Ft. Valley within days, to be named the Smith-Tomlinson Funeral Home. R. O. Smith of Harts Mortuary, Macon and formerly of Ft. Valley, will be a partner.
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Smith-Tomlinson Funeral Home
R. O. Smith
Harts Mortuary
Macon
Mercer Founders Day Plans Mark 117th Anniversary
Mercer University in Macon will observe Founders Day on Saturday January 13 marking its 117th anniversary. Special exercises start at 11 a m in Willingham Chapel with Dr Spright Dowell presiding. Dr J I Allman and Dr G M Sparks deliver principal addresses on Our Opportunity and Our Responsibility.
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Mercer University
Willingham Chapel
Spright Dowell
J. I. Allman
Mercer
G. M. Sparks
Atlanta
University of Georgia
A. L. Rich
J. H. Jenkins
Georgia Military College
Allman
Sparks
University Chapel Choir
Macon Baptist Church Dedicates New Organ
The Macon First Baptist Church dedicated a new Reuter organ with Dr. Walter Pope Binns of Walter Jewell College Liberty Missouri as speaker. At 4 p.m. C L Murphree of the American Guild of Organists gave a dedicatory recital. The organ was donated by the Mallary family in memory of Edgar Young Mallary Sr. who served as church leader in several roles.
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Reuter
First Baptist Church
Walter Pope Binns
Walter Jewell College
Liberty
Martha Mallary
Edgar Young Mallary II
Blanche Mallary
Bayne Mallary
Edgar Young Mallary Sr
Mallary
Fires Claim 55 Lives In Weekend Nationwide Tragedy
A weekend of fires across the United States left at least 55 dead, including 16 children. In Davenport Iowa 36 bodies were recovered from Mercy Hospital’s Mental Case Building ruins, many patients. In Medway Maine six of nine children perished in a converted schoolhouse fire. Missouri Mont saw five of 12 Molenda children die from a stove fire. St Louis reported four deaths from an oil stove blast. Three children died in Woodward Oklahoma. in Houston an 87 year old woman died from a house fire. Coroner Windham noted 31 survivors pulled from the Davenport blaze amid barbed windows, and officials believed 68 were in the hospital when the fire began at 2 a.m.
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Davenport
Iowa
Mercy Hospital
Medway
Maine
Grace Jones
Dolores
Missouri
Mont
Leo Molenda
St. Louis
Woodward
Okla
Joe Garcia
Houston
Texas
Neema Smith
C. H. Windham
Mary Annunciata
Catholic Institution
Rev Cranfill Brown Accepts Americus Pastorate
Rev. Cranfill Brown, pastor of First Baptist Church in Sandersville, has accepted the pastorate of First Baptist Church in Americus. He succeeds Rev. Jas. A. Ivey, who left Americus November 1 to take a call at Muscogee Oklahoma.
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Cranfill Brown
First Baptist Church
Sandersville
First Church
Brown
Jas. A. Ivey
Muscogee
Okla
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