Sweet Potatoes as Livestock Feed Spur Georgia Plan
The Coastal Plains Experiment Station promotes seed piece planting of sweet potatoes to replace corn as livestock feed, claiming higher yields and lower costs. The Central of Georgia Railway backs a three year sweet potato contest for top county yields, with A J Fountain noted as a prize winner and county agents coordinating.
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South
Georgia
Coastal Plains
Tifton
Central of Georgia Railway Company
A. J. Fountain
Lespedeza Gains Popularity in Georgia Farmland
Lespedeza becomes a favored crop for Georgia farmers due to its versatility. It supports permanent pasture mixtures, provides high quality hay, offers temporary grazing, soil improvement, and seed for harvest, and can reseed itself with proper handling. First found in 1846 near Monticello and now widely used from June to October.
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Georgia
Monticello
Love as the guiding theme in Christian Science Lesson
The weekly Christian Science Lesson-Sermon on Love will be read in Churches of Christ, Scientist worldwide next Sunday. It centers on the Golden Text from Ezekiel and cites Galatians 5:14 about loving one neighbor as oneself, with further reflections from Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health on the one divine mind guiding human thought away from selfishness.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
God
Truman Delivers 32000 Word State of the Nation Message
President Truman sends a lengthy State of the Nation and Budget Message to Congress. The plan emphasizes full employment and production, hints at wage and price controls, and urges social security expansion and medical care programs. He seeks no tax cuts, projects a 36 billion dollar budget, and calls for real estate ceilings and foreign aid tied to a strengthened UN system.
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Truman
Congress
Treasury
Bus Crash Triggers Melee On Highway 42
A Greyhound bus rear ended a car between Locust Grove and Jenkinsburg on Highway 42 Sunday night, sparking a series of pileups. G A Boyd of Jackson and his 15 year old sister Evlie escaped serious injuries, with two additional cars joining the wreck sequence as Georgia state patrol reviewed the scene.
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Griffin
Greyhound
Locust Grove
Jenkinsburg
Georgia
H. D. Smith
G. A. Boyd
Jackson
Boyd
Evlie
Poker Playing Husband Hospitalizes Macon Woman
Macon on January 29 Mrs Thelma Sanders received treatment at City hospital in fair condition after being beaten with a poker. Her husband David Sanders is jailed on a charge of assault with intent to murder.
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Macon
Thelma Sanders
City Hospital
David Sanders
Steel firms reject 19 1/2 cent wage demand in White House talks
A steel industry letter to government officials outlines that a 15 cent hourly raise would cost about 60 million dollars annually and would keep wages high but warns a 19 1/2 cent raise risks widespread factory closures. It notes wage growth outpaced living costs since 1941 and details current pay and overtime figures through 1945.
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Washington
OPA
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President Truman
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Rhode Island
Red Rock
U. S. Pullorum
Franklin McCants
Butler, Georgia
United States
Harry 8. Truman
White House
Washington, D. C
United Steelworkers of America-Cio
United States Steel Corporation
Phillip Murray
New York
Murray
National Steel
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