Local Tidbits and Jests From Taylor County
The weekly Taylor County paper shares light humor and opinions from editors and readers. It notes dog vaccination responsibility, auto noise, and a caution against vanity with fashion. It highlights local figures like W H Norris hosting 100 neighbors on a 550 acre farm in Pike County as district grazing winner.
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Taylor County
Zebulon
W. H. Norris
Pike County
Norris
Georgia
Georgia Peanut Growers Vote Self-Tax For Research
In Georgia, 82.7 percent of 3 175 peanut growers voted to tax themselves a dollar per ton yearly to fund research and promotion. The referendum aims to expand uses for peanuts amid postwar stockpiles and shifts in per capita consumption of candy filler peanut butter and roasted nuts.
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Georgia
Sunburn Dangers Emphasized By Georgia Medical Association
The Georgia Medical Association warns that the sun season raises skin damage risks. Repeated tanning speeds aging, causes irreversible changes and may trigger permanent freckles or skin cancer. Severe sunburn can cause dehydration chills fever and even hospitalization or delirium in extreme cases.
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Medical Association of Georgia
Georgia
Respect for Elders Fades Among Aging Citizens
The piece notes older residents often forgetful about past intelligence and display declining manners toward youth and elders, suggesting a general decline in respect and social conduct across generations.
Public Sunday contracts invalidated by court ruling
The Atlanta Bar Association and the Lawyers Club caution that a real estate salesman cannot recover commissions from a sale contract made on Sunday. The court noted Oct 16 1955 was a Sunday and held contracts executed on Sunday in ordinary real estate dealings are invalid, even if the owner or agent typically engages in such business.
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Atlanta Bar Association
The
Lawyers Club
Analogy of Members and Civil War Reminiscence
The speaker likens members to wheelbarrows canoes kites footballs balloons trailers and notes 100 per cent attendance types. The late Old Uncle Lilburn Hall recalls Civil War hardships and rheumatism from exposure among Gray soldiers. A homemade dog oil rubdown is cited though finding dog fat to boil for oil was a challenge.
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Lilburn Hall
Respect for Law Cited Amid Social Troubles
In his observation column L. S. Stegins argues Americans hold the law in high esteem yet domestic and international troubles arise from disrespect for it. He cites juvenile delinquency traffic fatalities and moral decay as direct results of flouting laws and eroding respect for legal norms.
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L. S.stegins
Georgia Ships $4 Million Worth of Goods Daily
Georgia factories have produced more than $4 million in goods each day for eight years. A Department of Commerce report notes Georgia output rose to 12.1 billion from 1949 to 1956 across food, textile, apparel and many other sectors. The seven-state Southeast region now outproduces New England.
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Eugene Anderson
Macon Telegraph
Department of Commerce
Southeastern
New England
Federal Agency
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