Reynolds Colored P T A Shows Marked Progress
Reynolds Elementary PTA reports improved outlook with focus on Health for the year. December meeting covered Health Possibilities Through Hot Lunch Programme with state Lunch Program supervisor and Reynolds High School staff. January session featured Taylor County Health Nurse detailing county services and healthy living guidance.
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Reynolds Elementary
PTA
Reynolds High School
Taylor County
Woody E Parker Dies at 74 Noted Brick Mason
Funeral services for Woody E Parker colored will be held at Springfield Baptist church near Reynolds Sunday afternoon. Parker died Monday at 6 p.m. at his Reynolds home after a year of illness. He was a longtime brick mason in the county and is survived by his wife two sons and two daughters.
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Woody E. Parker
Springfield Baptist Church
Reynolds
Parker
Well Known Colored Man Found Dead at Home
The lifeless body of Bob Little about 65 was found in his home near Antioch church. He had been dead several days with no indications of the cause. Little had five children and was living alone.
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Bob Little
Antioch Church
Althe
Little
President to Seek $76 Million Farm Relief For Drought Stricken Area
President Eisenhower outlined plans for a $76 million emergency relief program for drought stricken farmers and ranchers. He also urged reappraisal of government and private credit policies to extend more liberal loans to those hit hardest by the drought.
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Wichita
Kam
Eisenhower
Resolution Offered in Assembly Seeks New Executive Mansion
A Georgia House resolution calls for a committee to acquire a new governor's mansion. It condemns the Atlanta mansion as cold and outdated and argues a new residence would match updated Capitol quarters and new Capitol buildings. The measure asserts a new mansion would benefit the state and become a source of pride for citizens.
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Atlanta
Capitol
Capitol Eee
Georgia
Georgia law to modify tax collector compensation in Taylor County
Notice states that a bill will be introduced in the January session of the General Assembly of Georgia to change the compensation of the Tax Collector of Taylor County and for other purposes. Dated January 21, 1957, Hugh G. Cheek, Representative.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Notice of Foreclosure of Security Deed in Taylor County
The Citizens State Bank of Reynolds Georgia will sell on the first Tuesday in February 1957 at the Taylor County courthouse the W. C. Casey home place comprising 88 acres in Old Agency Reserve to satisfy a defaulted note secured by a security deed dated May 16 1953. Proceeds apply to principal interest and expenses with any balance to Jim Hartman. Attorney George C Kennedy Manchester Georgia.
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Jim Hartman
Citizens State Bank
Reynolds, Georgia
Georgia Banking Corporation
Agency Reserve
B. M. Montgomery
C. B. Byrd
Gilly Byrd
James and
Thomas Montgomery
W. C. Casey
Federal Land Bank
Taylor County
Georgia
Clerk of Superior Court
Federal Land Bank of Columbia
Court House
Reynolds
Doris Griffin
George ¢. Kennedy
Manchester
Notice to creditors in Tessie Callahan estate Georgia
Solon B. Callahan administrator of Miss Tessie Callahan estate gives notice to creditors to render accounts or lose priority. Debtors must pay claims to the undersigned. Dated January 15, 1957 in Taylor County Georgia.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Solon B. Callahan
Tessie Callahan
Jekyll Island valued at 20 million dollars
Fred Aldred chairman of the Jekyll Island Authority places a 20 million dollar value on the state owned resort and opposes its sale. Governor Griffin says selling could be wisest if costs can be recouped and a conference on possible sale proceeds.
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Atlanta
Fred Aldred
Jekyll Island Authority
Aldred
Griffin
Jekyll
Farm Workers Social Security Rules Change in 1957
Changes to coverage start January 1 1957. Columbus Social Security Office manager R E O Neal notes that cash payments of 150 or more to farm workers in 1957 bring them under the act. Also workers paid on time basis for 20 or more days may be covered. Employers must keep records and report 1957 cash pay next January.
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R. E. O'Neal
Columbus Social Security Office
O’neal
Correct way to put out campfire urged by ranger
Ranger Austin Guinn of the Taylor County Forestry Unit warns that careless warming fires cause nine in ten wildfires. He urges built campsites be cleared of needles for six feet, a small fire, and thorough water drowning with stirring embers until cold to the touch.
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Austin Guinn
Taylor County Forestry Unit
Guinn
Card of Thanks for Support During Hospital Stay
I thank my many friends for kindness shown during my stay in Newport Hospital after an automobile accident in late November. The cards and letters from Taylor county friends were greatly appreciated. Errol S. Parks.
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Newport Hospital
Taylor County
Ben Hill County Grand Juror Began Serving 50 Years Ago
Fitzgerald Georgia G A Jolley a member of the first Ben Hill county grand jury half a century ago was sworn in for the January term Jolley says he has never failed to respond to summons and credits citizen duty to law enforcement before Judge O W Horne.
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Fitzgerald
G. A. Jolley
Ben Hill County
Jolley
O. W. Horne
Thomaston Times Names New Society Editor Ann Y Arrington
The Thomaston Times and Free Press announce Ann Y Arrington as the new society editor. She succeeds Allie Boggs who resigned to live in Barnesville where her husband James Boggs is employed. Arrington is the daughter of the late D A Yarbrough and wife of Edward Arrington, a pharmacist at Silver Town Pharmacy.
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Thomaston Time
Local social notes include multiple visits and weekends across Georgia
Mr and Mrs Loyce Sanders of Atlanta visited Mrs Otis Mott on Friday. Several families from Atlanta Butler Marshallville Thomaston Barnesville Warner Robins Albany Macon Reynolds and Americus are shown dropping by for weekends visits and suppers with hosts including Mrs Phoebe Joyner Mrs Bertha Hinton Mrs J R Locke Mrs Tim Locke Mr C C Giles and others.
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Loyce Sanders
Atlanta
Otis Mott
Wyman Harris
Steve
Nettie Sanders
Butler
Albert Blackston
Marshallville
Phoebe Joyner
Bertha Hinton
Roy Kirksey
Barbara
M. C. Lail
Howard Kirksey
Don Day
Warner
Robin
Z. L. Perdue
Betty
Thomaston
Tim Locke
Johnnie Posey
Barnesville
J. R. Locke
Wayne Pilcher
Albany
C C. Giles
Eunice Crooke
Reynolds
Joseph Harmon
Americus Baptists Vote to Buy Property
The First Baptist Church Americus unanimously approved purchasing a house and lot at 215 Lee St known as Johnson Apts from Milton Mize. Valued at 12 000 dollars, Mize and wife donate 9 000 as a love gift, enabling the church to acquire the property for 3 000 as part of the church's new building program.
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Americus
First Baptist Church
Lee St
Johnson Apts
C. L. Leopard
Milton Mimze
Sumter
Altho
Mize
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NEW Society
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Americus Baptists
American Cancer: Society
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P.O
Butler, GA
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J. T. Cox
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