Georgia News Highlights Affected by Weather and Growth
Peach prices weaken as cotton farmers face hail losses in Middle Georgia. Macon seeks a $100,000 government school grant. North Georgia Methodist Conference opens in Atlanta. Dahlonega Summer School opens July 28. Dixie Printing Ink plans a $100,000 plant in East Point. Randolph County builds a new hospital after a 1946 fire. Georgia tax and police news include department appointments and city reforms in Atlanta and Macon.
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Macon
Dixie Printing Ink Co
East Point
Mysterious Everglades Set to Become National Park
Florida's Everglades may join the nation as a new park with a $2,000,000 state check and federal condemnation to acquire about 2,000,000 acres. Formal dedication is planned for December with President Truman as participant. 865,000 acres have already been turned over to the Wildlife Service.
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Miami
Fla
Florida Everglades
America
Julius Krug
Florida
Truman
The
Wildlife Service
French Artist Sues Fulton County Police Officers for Civil Rights Violations
Paul R. Refoule filed a $50,000 federal suit in U S District Court against Fulton County Police Chief G Neal Ellis and five officers plus two bonding firms. He alleges police brutality denial of interpreters and attorneys during questioning, threats to witnesses, a campaign to discredit him, and conspired civil rights violations. He seeks temporary and permanent injunctions, damages, and protective orders for witnesses and witnesses’ statements. Additional defendants include E G Fitzgerald Detective Capt Paul F Bradford and county detectives H B Carroll C L Hughes H W Reed plus the Maryland Casualty Co and Fidelity and Casualty Co of New York.
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Fulton
G. N. Ellis
U. S. District Court
Paul Refoule
Atlanta
Paul R. Refoule
Fulton County
G. Neal Ellis
Refoule
U. S
E. G. Fitzgerald
Paul F. Bradford
H. B. Carroll
C. L. Hughes
H. W. Reed
Maryland Casualty Co
Tifton Planes Involved In Separate Georgia Crashes
Two planes based at Tifton Airport crashed at widely separated Georgia locations at noon on Tuesday. One pilot, W. F. Lane of Tifton, sustained a compound fracture of the left leg and a serious head injury. Ray Willis of Tifton, piloting a Dixie Airways plane, groundlooped at McRae but escaped uninjured as his craft was only lightly damaged.
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Tifton
Georgia
W. F. Lane
Dixie Airways
Ray Willis
Willis
McRae
Governor Demands Resignations From 12 Georgia Legislators
Governor M. E. Thompson ordered 12 Georgia legislators off the state payroll effective July 15, citing bad governance. The list includes F. L. Baker in Rome, M. F. Clark Jr. in Hinesville, T. D. Williams in Demorest, and others with salaries ranging from 150 to 416 dollars.
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Atlanta
Georgia
M. E. Thompson
F. L. Bakeer
Rome
Revenue Department
M. F. Clark Jr
Hinesville
T. D. Williams
Demorest
Vogel State Park
E. O. Dobbs Jr
Buford
Workman’s Compensation Board
Geo. T. Bagby
Dallas
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Charles L. Gowen
Brunswick
State Ports Authority
Jay L. Holbrook
Cumming
Department of Agriculture
R. T. Hampton
Mineral Bluff
Walter W. Branch
Auburn
Highway Department
J. L. Gibson
Claxton
Glenwood Market
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North Georgia Methodist Conference
North Georgia College
Dahlonega
Middle Georgia
J. D. Edwards
Houston County
Kathleen Tuesday
M. Free Greer
Mansfield, Ga
First Baptist Church
Hawkinsville
Stewart and Webster
Richland
Ted Phillips
State Revenue
G. Philips
F. L. Dillard
Robert Collings Jr
Baptist World Alliance
Copenhagen
Denmark
Agriculture Department
Washington
Randolph County
Cuthbert
Agricultural and Industrial Development Board
University of Georgia
Vivian Ashford
Katrina Secrest
Athens
Julia Taylor
Clinton
S.C
YWCA
Estes Park
Colo
Bobbie Kendrick David
Columbus
Britt Davis
Burns Brick Co
National Labor Relations Board
Recorder’s Court
Northside
C. S. Bennett
J. O. Young
Atlanta City Police Department Crime Record Bureau
Bill Compino
Troy H. Thrower
Ridgewood
S. C
Mexico
C. P. Persons
U. S. Department of Commerce
Flora Wheatley Bacot
Americas
George Bacot
Americus
Charles Wheatley
J.E. Shelnutt
New Callaway Mill
R. J. Landrove
Charleston
American Legion
Augusta
Phillip C. Cohen
Monticello
Covington
Oppenheim, Collins & Co, Inc
Oppenheim Company
New York
Brooklyn
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Garden City
Morristown
Plainsfield
Germantown
Margaret Alston
Georgia Press Association
Belmont Dennis
Dennis
Roy Bell
Smithville
Terrell County
Dawson
C. W.worrill
Pataula
Milledgeville
O’donald Mays
Madison
State Agricultural and Development Board
Macon Hospital
Everglades
Charles Battle of
Ellaville
General Electric
Power Companies
Ford
Planpayne Motor Company
Butler, Georgia
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