Georgia News Roundup Highlights July Events And Crimes
July 21 opening tobacco markets set for South Georgia. Emory faculty adds eight. Gov. Griffin proclaims July Picnick Month. Buena Vista pool contract at 19 900 dollars. Fourth of July deaths rise to ten plus. Fulton County reports June marriages at 614. Traffic deaths total ten for July Fourth. State Board approves bus driver employment for students and teachers. Thomaston mourns W W Hardy 67 Masonic leader. Ellis Lauhoua confesses to killing three in Texas family. Eugene Talmadge hospital near Augusta nears completion. Buena Vista hosts largest celebration with Griffin and Vandiver speeches. Cochran man Charles Mullis jailed for patricide. 212 pound safe stolen in Jefferson with near 2000 dollars missing. Barnie Hawkins 60 Woodlan d dies. Fire in Sumter County destroys mules houses hay. Liquor question vote anticipated next month in Houston County. Muscogee County construction tops million in June. Albany girl Marie Middleton 12 recovers after pin removed from lung. Severe storm hits Middle Georgia. some stations off air. Jackson Braddy leaves for Y M C A national office in New York. 98 students at Georgia State College for Women on Dean's List. Crop-dusting plane pilot killed near Sylvester in crash. Dublin court jail order on former judge caused by case. Weekend Georgia highway deaths total 26. national toll rises. Claude Roberts Bond found dead in Atlanta. suicide suspected. Buena Vista students in Tex work camp. Lumpkin funeral for Chas S Frith. Out-of-State items note polio shots, TV show winnings, and polio vaccine research. Census places U.S. population at 165,250,000. Postmaster General Summerfield set red white and blue mailboxes.
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Camp Hill
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Ala
University of California
Edgar Grim Miller
Columbia University
Columbus
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A. E. Summerfield
Primitive Baptists Name Officers at Tifton Meeting
In Tifton Georgia on June 30 Primitive Baptists re elected all officers at a closing session of the Southern States Bible Conference. Officers include Dr C E McArthur Cordele chairman H A Baker Tampa honorary chairman C D McLendon Macon first vice president Mrs M M Jennings Macon secretary treasurer and Mrs W H Price Atlanta pianist. The next conference will be next June in Tifton.
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Primitive Baptists
Southern States Bible Conference
C. E. McArthur
Cordele
H. A. Baker
Tampa
Fla
C. D. McLendon
Macon
M. M. Jennings Macon
W. H. Price
Atlanta
Cravey Urges Attendance at Arson School
Atlanta fire safety chief Zack D. Cravey urged firemen liable investigators and insurers to attend the Georgia State Fire College Arson Investigators School at Atlanta No 7 Fire Station next Monday and Tuesday. He said arson is hard to detect and that Georgia must train more investigators to work with state and county officers and the State Fire Marshal.
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Atlanta — Safety Fire
Zack D. Cravey
Georgia State Fire College Fire and Investigators
Atlanta
No. 7
Cravey
General Hearn Praises Georgia Local Civil Defense Directors
General J. Hearn commends Georgia local civil defense directors for four years of commendations and tireless work. He calls them the backbone of the Civil Defense Program and urges volunteers to support local directors amid nuclear threat and public education efforts. Knoxville’s local director is Commissioner O. C. Cochran.
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Georgia
J. Hearn
Knoxville
O. C. Cochran
Marker Recalls Dunlap Hill Battle in Macon History
In Macon on October 4 a marker was restored at Dunlap Hill to honor the 1864 Battles of Dunlap Farm where Confederate forces repelled Union attacks. The Georgia Historical Commission supplied the marker, erected near Ocumulgee National Monument, reflecting restoration efforts by the Sidney Lanier Chapter UDC. Shiloh Baptist Church in Upson County marked Homecoming Sunday with its July gatherings led by Rev. James LeLoach.
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Sidney Lanier
UDC
Georgia Historical Commission
Dunlap Hill
Dunlap’s Farm
Ocmulgee National Monument
Shiloh Baptist Church
Orgaized
Upson County
James LeLoach
Thirteen Women Seek Return to Capitol Hill Post
A roundup of campaign plans for 13 U.S. congresswomen aiming to return to Washington in January. Edith Nourse Rogers campaigns across Massachusetts. Frances Bolton promotes Ohio weekends. Ruth Thompson and Marguerite Church run active tours. Cecil Harden leverages her husband’s help with women voters. Elizabeth Farrington returns to Hawaii for a new term. L. D. Sullivan hosts open houses and rallies in Missouri.
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Capitol Hill
Rep
K. St. George
New York
Marguerite Church
Cecil Harden
R-Ind
Elizabeth Farrington
Hawaii
Honolulu
Thomaston to Honor Dr. McKenzie on His Return
Thomaston plans a large reception and Dr McKenzie Day when 78 year old Dr J M McKenzie returns from Europe in August. He has practiced in Thomaston and Upson County for more than 50 years and is credited with delivering more than five thousand children. Harvey Green leads the effort to organize the tribute and invited friends to participate in a day of gratitude.
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Thomaston
J. M. McKenzie
Dr. McKenzie
Europe
Upson County
Harvey Green
Thomaston Man Signs MGM Movie Contract
Gene Marlow, 24, a Thomaston native, signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to debut in Apache. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Marlow, of Thomaston and Orlando Florida, with grandmother Mrs. L. F. Hines and sister Mrs. D. T. Smith residing in Thomaston. Hollywood Reporter calls him a young Sir Laurence Olivier.
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Hollywood
Hollywood Reporter
Sir Laurence Oliver
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