Monticello plant opens amid unqualified claims
A fruit freezing plant began operations yesterday at Monticello amid upbeat notes and claims of quality. The same day the state highway board announced contracts totaling nearly a million dollars will be awarded on July 30 after a meeting held yesterday. Other items include local sheriff election results in Pulaski county and multiple police court actions across the region.
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State Highway Board
Jim Hill
Pulaski County
Ridley
Georgia Leaders Schedule Talks At Albany Chamber Meeting
Albany hosts 29 heads of chambers or committees for a Georgia Association of Commerce convention. Sessions run July 11 to 12 with addresses by W. L. Haley J. Cargill and L. A. Spivey among others. Luncheon by H. M. McIntosh. Afternoon tour to Radium Springs with J. A. Davis as toastmaster.
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Albany
Ting
Georgia Association of Commercial
Albany Chamber of Commerce
Hastie Hardy
Albany Chamber
Barker
Atlanta
Ls. Haley
J. Jalston Cargill
Columpus
Chamber of Commerce
W. A. Moser
Home
Orba Cobb
Cordele
P. Vr Tice
Witherton
W. Bi
Aycork
Impultrie
Chambers of Commerce
County Agricultura
J. I. Campbell
State College of Agriculture
J. &. Hughes
Cairo Chamber of Commerce
H. M. Mcintosh
Albany Herald
W. v. Brosnan
Fire Department
W. L. Moore
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
L. A. Spivey
Griffin
L. A. Moony
Augusta
United States Chamber of Commerce
Horace Russell
Radium Springs
J. A. Davis
W.T. Anderson
Macon Telegraph
Georgia
Macon to Columbus Topsoiling Progress Report
Macon on June 28 notes topsoiling of the ungraded Macon Columbus Highway is underway and due to finish promptly if weather holds. A Bibb county tie has recently been paved. The Columbus Ledger cites the route via Geneva Talbotton Roberta to Macon as the intended course, with goals of a paved state line link by 1981.
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Ed C. Alumbaugh
Macon
Savanah
Chatham County
Knights of Columbus
Butler
Cospel
Columbus
Bibb County
Columbus Ledger
Geneva
Talbotton
Roberta
J. W. Barnett
State Highway, Department
Georgia Products Day Menu Suggestion for July 6
Sunday, July 6 marks Georgia Products Day with abundant home grown fruits and Benetica. Georgia farmers face market challenges, so Georgia housewives are urged to buy Georgia grown table foods. Suggested dinner includes broiled chicken, stuffed squash, green beans, corn and tomato cucumber salad, corn sticks, peaches with cream or iced watermelon.
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Georgia
Norman Sharp
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs
L G Council warehouse in Americus to reopen July 26
King Lumber Co of Cuthbert announces the former L G Council warehouse in Americus will reopen on July 26 after being purchased weeks ago. Americus agent F L Allison says the property is now owned by the King interests. The 38 year operation by L G Council ends, with a full staff planned to manage the warehouse.
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L. G. Council
Americus
F. L. Allison
King Lumber Co
Cuthbert
King Interests
Auto Crash Kills Three In Race With Southern Train
In Georgia near Douglasville three men and a fourth injured when a car racing a Kansas City Southern Railway special left the road and struck the engine. Victims are G. W. Beck and his wife Mrs Beck, and son-in-law A. H Shealy. Shealy's wife was hurt but not fatally. Train engineer said the car ran neck and neck with the locomotive for miles before the crash. The group had left Atlanta for Carrollton to attend a relative's birthday.
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Atlanta
Douglasville
Kansas City
A. H Shealy
General Motora Acceptance Corporation
Shealy
Carrollton
Birmingham
Mableton
Cobb County
Lithia Springs
Georgia Power merges Columbus Electric and Power
Atlanta June 26. Georgia Power Company and Columbus Electric and Power Company merge under one name Georgia Power Company. Stock exchanges, current Columbus management mostly retained, and territory expands to seven counties. Columbus subsidiary South Georgia Power joins, expanding service to 87 southwest Georgia towns and adding street railway gas and ice plants.
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Georgia Power Company
Colinivus Dives Ad
Cuuipilly Weise
Mnursuay
J. W Flournoy
F. A. Gerrard
Columbus Company
South Georgia Power Company
Southwest Georgia
Columbus
Americus
Tifton
Cochran
Montezuma
Georgia Rue Company
Schley’s Oldest Resident Elizabeth McMickle Dies
Ellaville Georgia July 1 Mrs Elizabeth McMickle 93 died after a brief illness. She bought an automobile at 89 for her own use and retained full mental faculties. She was Schley countys oldest resident, lived with her son W D McMickle 75, moved from Marion to Schley 300 years ago, married in 1852 to W D McMickle who died in 1900, raised seven children.
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Ellaville
Elizabeth McMickle
Black tenant drowns crossing pond at Brooks Mill
Bob Turner, a Black tenant on the Brooks plantation near Ideal, died in a boating accident while crossing Brook's mill pond with his landlord's son. The leaking boat forced him to jump into the water where a cramp or drowning led to his death before rescue.
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Bob Turner
Brooks Plantation
Ideal
Brook
Mill Pond
Georgia Lumber Ships to Spain from Dawson Georgia
Dawson Ga June 25 The D H Rowland Lumber Mills of Dawson this week loaded several cars of lumber for shipment first to Savannah where it will be loaded on a ship for Barcelona Spain This concern previously made shipments to foreign countries among them Germany Many shipments also have been made to Canada
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Dawson, Ga
D. H., Rowland Lumber Mills
Dawson
Savannah
Barcelona
Spain
Germany
Canada
Macon Prepares Big Program for Spanish War Veterans
Macon Georgia June 28 The state convention of Spanish American War Veterans will be held July 6 to 8 in Macon. Notable attendees include Senators Walter F George and William J Harris Congressman Sam Rutledge Gen Wm L Grayson and other leaders. The program features a band concert from the Hotel Dempsey balcony a church musical program by several local churches a 930 parade to Municipal Auditorium a banquet at the Hotel Dempsey and a street dance with veterans from National Guard American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars participating.
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America
Spain
Walter F. George
Wm. J. Harris
Sam Rutledge
Wm. L. Grayson
Roscoe Luke
Marshal Blanche
Col
Bloodworth
Joe Wheeler
Post
First Baptist Church
Christ Episcopal Church
Vineville Methodist Church
Municipal Auditorium
National Guard
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Hotel Dempsey
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