Farmers Receive Payments For Soil Building Practices
Roy F. Jones explains the Agricultural Conservation program which pays two thirds of approved soil building costs and supplies seed and materials. In 1947 ACP payments reached 50000 dollars with seeding winter legumes as the top practice and pasture payments totaling 8100 dollars. Participation is voluntary and locals administer the program through a county committee.
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Roy F. Jones
Production and Marketing Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Extension Service
H. A. Sealy
D. B. Posey
Homer Chapman
Soil Conservation Call Urges Universal Effort
A call emphasizes saving the soil through known conservation practices and warns that grave obstacles block universal adoption. It urges men and women from all occupations to join farmers in solving these problems or face a shared fate of soil loss and hardship.
Thompson Defends Record In Georgia Campaign Speech
In a speech reflecting on Georgia politics, Thompson attacked the 1947 legislature and Gov. Arnall’s successor Hiram Talmadge. He claimed tax collections funded extra spending without new taxes and backed the minimum foundation education program and Jekyll Island purchases while promising prison reforms and vocational training. He did not address the Negro vote issue.
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Ellis Arnall
Talmadge
Thompson
Georgia Education Association
Georgia
Jekyll Island Purchase
Talmadge Promises Constitutional Highway Board and Tax Cuts
The speech denounces political road building as expedient and pledges a constitutional highway board to curb it. He pledges to remove 2,500 state employees, reduce taxes where possible, oppose a sales tax, and push veterans free licenses while maintaining the county unit system. He also vows teacher salary parity with neighboring states.
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Thompson
Talmadge
Highway Board
Tallmadge
General Assembly
Atlanta
Tom Watson
Georgia
2 Die in Crash of Bus and Auto
A Grey hound bus and a station wagon collided in Tallapoosa Georgia before dawn killing two people and injuring 27. The dead were J F Walters of Marietta and Fanny May Hodges of Birmingham. Walters wife and two sons were among the injured along with bus driver Ernest Bivins and 23 others.
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Tallapoosa
Greyhound
J. F. Walters
Marietta
Fanny May Hodges
Walters
Bobbie
George
Ernest Bivins
Biranlee Nett
Georgia Supreme Court affirms Ingrams life sentences
Atlanta July 13 the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that life sentences given to Rosa Lee Ingram and two of her twelve children were legal and just. The decision upholds a controversial case rooted in a family dispute and farm defense.
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Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Court
Rosa Lee Ingram
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Oliver
Butler, Georgia
Stauffer
Stauffer’s
J. T. Cochran & Son
Butler, Ga
Thompson NO
P. S
American Fat Salvage Committee, Inc
Ras Teezees
Supreme Court
Ingrams
Carlton Hortman Butler
Taylor County
Soil Conservation District
M. R. Williamson
Payne’s Warehouse
Soil Conservaion
George E. Hatcher
J. R. Wilson Butler
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