Georgia News Roundup Highlights Local Events
Savannah PTA president Mrs. H M Kandel leads state wide activities while Macon hosts a two day Indian Festival in September. Hazlehurst opens Jeff Davis tobacco market July 21. Ellaville postmaster moves to second class. Leesburg mayor dies at 62. Georgia reports high boll weevil infection and dangerous heat aiding fish farms with 25 000 ponds now producing about 5 million pounds yearly. Two Georgia couples missing at sea located off St Simons Island. Numerous obituaries and civic notes from Macon Albany Columbus and other cities. Local trials and political updates punctuate the Georgia scene with public safety and infrastructure developments.
Russell Story Reprinted in Congressional Record
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine profile of Sen. Dick Russell, Georgia Democratic presidential candidate, was reprinted in full in the Congressional Record. Sen. Pat McCarran urged printing in honor of Russell and the author Wylly Folk St. John.
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Ike
Georgia
Taft
Russell
South
Congress
U. S
Douglas MacArthur
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Dick Russell
Portland
New England
United States
Atlanta
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Congressional Record
Pat McCarran
Nevada
St. John
Deal Man Elected to Membership on Board of Education
At a County Board of Education meeting H. O. Philips of Ideal was elected to the board, succeeding R. H. Davis. Other members include Jake Smith of Oglethorpe, O. E. Ogburn of Reynolds, Adair Levie of Montezuma and Jerome Walker of Marshallville.
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Deal
Board OF Education
Oglethorpe
County Board of Education
H. O. Philips
Ideal
R. H. Davis
Jake Smith
O. E. Ogburn
Reynolds
Adair Levie
Montezuma
Jerome Walker
Marshallville
St Paul M E Church Honors District Superintendent
Columbus July 7 Rev Roy McTier new superintendent of the Columbus district of the Methodist church and Mrs McTier with sons John and Charles were honored at a reception in the master parlor of St Paul Methodist Church hosted by Columbus Methodists. Roy McTier Jr. is away at summer camp. Guests included Rev and Mrs McTier Dr H T Freeman and Mrs Freeman Rev Clyde Harvard and Mrs Harvard.
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Columbus
Roy McTier
Methodist Church
St. Paul
Freeman
Clyde Harvard
Hamp Stevens
Methodist Ministers Alliance of Columbus
Harvard
Toll from July Fourth weekend tolls climbs nationwide
The Fourth of July holiday week-end toll on highways and in accidents rose to 15 and continued to mount, with national fatalities surpassing 500 as the holiday period extended.
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Georgia
Atlanta Police Department
Georgia FHA Delegates Headed to National Meet in Wisconsin
Georgia FHA delegates depart Saturday for the National Delegates Conference in Green Lake Wisconsin. DeLayce Strickland the newly elected FHA president will attend as guest of the Georgia Bankers Association. Marshal Tucker will present Marilyn Middleton of Blakely for national vice president with Middleton a longtime FHA member and public relations committee member.
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Georgia
FHA
Green Lake
Wis
DeLayce Strickland
Georgia Bankers Association
Marshal Tucker
Adel
Southwest Georgia
Marilyn Middleton
Blakely
Georgia Fha
Charlie Houston
Chatham County Tax Official Robert Burnham Found Dead
Robert C. Burnham chief clerk in the Chatham county tax assessors office and active in fraternal orders was found dead in bed a few mornings ago.
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Robert C. Burnham
Chatham County Tax Assessors’ Office
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H. M. Kandel
Savannah
PTA
Macon
Jeff Davis Tobacco
Hazlehurst
Ellaville
Endine Hart
Hendrick L. Cromartie
Leesburg
Albany
James Wilson Johnson
Leila McCorley
Western Union Telegraph Co
Troy G. Marrow
Schley County
Harry Murray
Travis A. Carter
Waycross
Theological Association
Aurora College
Aurora, Il
St. Simons’ Island
Silas Edward Drew
Silas Drew
Preston
Stewart-Webster Hospital
D. R. Niblack
Washington, D. C
Post Office Department
Georgia Rural Letter Carriers Association
Herman Talmadge
Elton Lawrence
Cook County
Lake Blackshear
Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park
Coreele
Mack Thompson King
Americas
Upson County
Thomaston
King
Thomaston Hospital
Houston County
Fort Valley
Americus
Augusta
Korea
Bessie L. Weathersbee
Jonesboro
T. D. Ellis
Board of Church Extension
Southern Methodist Church
Wesleyan College
Dr. Ellis
Quitman County
Thos. J. Ellis
Rebecca
Gray Ellis
Oxford
Emory University
South Georgia
Dawson
Coffee County
Cpl
Wm. A. Williams
Fort Benning
Moultrie Sunday
Atlanta Daily
Wisconsin
Iy Daleeg
Pittsburgh Testing Laboratories
Economy Gas & Appliance CO
Montezuma, Georgia
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