Georgia Week in Review Highlights Local Deaths and Developments
A digest from Georgia reports L Hinesley died from a gunshot wound while hunting in Macon. James Thomas Smith was found drowned in Town Creek in Dublin, ruled accidental. Talbot county plans a new jail costing 17000 to finish by May. Dr. John D Mell is re elected Athens board president. Postmasters confirmed include Hilda Stokely Crawford W T Standard Rochelle W Humphreys. Unemployment fund total 25458805 as of Dec 1. Shad season moved up to open earlier. Charter Day banquet at Windsor Americus with UGA alumni. Various civic and military notes across Savannah Atlanta Macon.
Cotton Bale Covers to Be Manufactured
Washington reports the Agriculture Department will produce 2,000,000 cotton bale covers under the 1941 program to promote cotton bagging over jute.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
General Assembly Costs $2,750 a Day
Atlanta officials estimated the state general assembly costs 2750 dollars per day to remain in session. The figure includes 1806 dollars for member pay and the rest for clerical help printing and other attaches serving 257 lawmakers.
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Atlanta
General Assembly
Spalding County Starts New Year Free of Debt
Spalding County commissioners announce a debt free fiscal start with all bills paid and funds in reserve. The board reorganized with W. C. Carreker named chairman, crediting strict economy for the favorable financial condition.
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Spalding County
Griffin
Spading County
W. C .Carreker
Albany Student Found Dead in Car on UGA Campus
Gay Fred Wortman a 20 year old University of Georgia sophomore was found dead in his parked car on the Athens campus Friday morning. Coroner Bert L Beusse said the inquest found Wortman died from carbon monoxide gas administered by his own hands. He was a native of Albany a graduate of Albany High School and Columbia Institute.
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Athens
Fred Wortman
University of Georgia
Bert L. Beusse
Wortman
Albany
Albny High School
Columbia Institute
Army plans large expansion at Fort Benning
Senator Hill said the War Department plans to enlarge Fort Benning Georgia by about 54 200 acres with 10 250 acres in Alabama to gain more training space. He noted Budget Bureau approval and an impending appropriation request.
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Washington
War Department
Ft. Benning
Alabama
Senator Hill
D. Ala
Army
Budget Bureau
Benning Post
Daily feeding cost at Benning reaches $10,000
Ft. Benning reports the quartermaster corps estimates daily feeding costs for troops in training at ten thousand dollars. More than 800000 dollars in supplies are kept on hand continually to sustain the post.
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Ft. Benning
Quartermaster Corps
Robert Brown to edit Georgia's Red and Black
Robert Brown of Elberton will edit the University of Georgia publication Red and Black for 1941. He is the son of Representative Paul Brown of Georgia and succeeds Stanford Smith who had edited the paper since school began last September.
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Athens
Robert Brown
Elberton
Paul Brown
Democrat of
Jasper Negro Held in Bibb County Jail
Monticello January 27 Sheriff F R Exell said a reported assault of a white girl by a negro was only a knockdown and an attempted robbery. Sam Rook age 16 was held in Bibb County jail in Macon to prevent trouble.
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Monticello
Jasper County
F. R. Exell
Sam Rook
Rooks
Bibb County
Macon
Bill would fix court reporter's salary at $8660
Atlanta January 24 The court reporters pay in the Southwestern Judicial circuit would be fixed at 8660 a year under a bill submitted by representatives of Webster Sumter Macon Lee Stewart and Schley counties. It was signed by Representatives Cleveland Ross John Ferguson Julian Suggs Sr Mrs John Guerry C C Ansley Byron Anglin and J O Smith.
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Atlanta
Southwestern Judicial Circuit
Webster
Sumter
Macon
Lee
Stewart
Schley
Cleveland, Ross
John Ferguson
Julian Suggs Sr
John Guerry
C. C. Ansley
Byron Anglin
J. O Smith
Albany Seeks 150-Bed Hospital
In Albany Georgia on January 27 the 100‑member committee backing a new city and county hospital elected I H Kalman former mayor as permanent chair. A survey will determine needs and funding. Albany now has a 47‑bed facility for about 50 000 people and a $300000 estimate for a 150‑bed hospital.
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Albany
I. H. Kalman
Kalman
J. C Keaton
Contracts Awarded for Aviation Schools
Washington reports eleven additional schools won contracts to train 1,100 new student flyers starting about March 22. Each school will run a ten week course for 100 students, joining 17 private schools already teaching for the army program training 12,000 pilots yearly. Embry-Riddle Co Arcadia Fla Graham Aviation Co Americus Ga Southern Aviation School Camden S C Pine Bluff School of Aviation Pine Bluff Ark. Amounts not disclosed.
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Washington
Army
Embry-Riddle Co
Arcadia
Fla
Graham Aviation Co
Americus
Southern Aviation School
Camden
S. C
Pine Bluff School of Aviation
Pine Bluff
Ark
War Department
Fined KKK Leader Hiram Evans in Georgia emulsion case
Dr. Hiram Evans former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan received a $15,000 fine in U S District Court after pleading guilty to three counts charging monopolizing asphalt emulsion sales to Georgia. Co defendants Emulsified Asphalt Co Shell Oil Co and American Bitumuls Co were fined 4000 5000 and 6000 respectively.
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Atlanta
Hiram Evans
Ku Klux Klan
U. S. District Court
Georgia
Evans
Emulsified Asphalt Co
Shell Oil Co
American Bitmuls Co
Hawkinsville Canning Plant Opens for Beef Canning
Hawkinsville Georgia reports the opening of a new vocational agricultural building with canning machinery ready. A C Dorming says the plant will operate two days in January and two in February for beef canning. Users supply their own cans and pay one cent per can. NYA boys and girls will assist. Open to all in Pulaski County.
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Hawkinsville
Vocational Agricultural
A. C Dorming
NYA
Pulaski Conty
Richland Negro Youth Held on Forgery Charge
Richland, Ga. youth Gay Thomas Jones alias Eubber Britton, about 18, is under $1,000 bond after intercepting a Treasury check for $14.40 made to Leroy Parramore Jr. and forging his signature to cash it. He was turned over to Columbus for a U S hearing before Commissioner N A Brown and bound over.
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Richland
Gay
Thomas Jones
Eubber Britton
U. S. Post Office
I. H. Stevens
Atlanta
US. Treasury
Leroy Parramore Jr
Parramore
Jones
Columbus
Stevens
U. S
N. A.brown
Injured man crawls mile to hospital dies in Milledgeville
A 70 year old negro, Dorsey Solomon, suffered a compound leg fracture when hit by an unidentified hit and run driver on a highway near Milledgeville. He crawled over a mile to a hospital, remaining on the road for about 12 hours before dying.
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Milledgeville
Dorsey Solomon
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Roy G. Vinson
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Department of Georgia
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L. C. Blackburn
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Maxwell Field
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Lipps
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