Georgia School Districts Told to Fight Shy of Debt
Georgia 1,800 common school districts urged to stay within budgets and avoid new debt in a united push to transfer operating responsibility to the state. Dr. M. D. Collins warned of unpaid back salaries totaling $825,000 and called for a uniform minimum pay scale for teachers to address underpayment and fund needs.
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Atlanta
Georga
M. D. Collins
Collins
Georgia
Eaid
Department of Education
Move to Force Congress Adjourns Tuesday Killed
Washington July 15 The House debated adjournment as Deen urged delaying tax bills and a fall or winter session. Ways and Means members favored stricter excess profits taxes over a graduated corporate levy while leaders pressed on with drafting the president tax bill.
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Washington
House
Ways and Meats Committee
Lovell H. Parker
Joint Congressional Committee On Intenal Revenue
Muddleon Beamon
Coughton
D-N. C
Deen
D. A
Ways and
Ben
Democratic Party
Whitefield County seeks $8,000 PWA loan for schools dorms
The Whitefield County Board of Education has filed an application for an eight thousand dollar loan and grant from the Public Works Administration to fund construction of three dormitories for school teachers and eight miles of power lines supplying rural schools.
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PWA
Whitefield County
Talmadge to Campaign for Proposals in 1936 Ballot
Governor Eugene Talmage will push five constitutional amendments in the 1936 fall elections, including four four year terms for state offices and a 15 mill property tax cap. He favors a lieutenant governor post and four year terms for other officials, and proposes a new revenue plan backing five mill taxes on tangible property replaced by a five mill tax on intangibles.
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Atlanta
Eugene Talmage
Lalmadge
Talmadge
Lievenant
Senate
Burglary At Burrus Motor Company Seized Cash
Columbus Ga July 15 Between 750 and 1000 dollars was taken from a safe in the Burrus Motor company office Saturday night or Sunday morning. burglars hammered open a wall vault and moved cash boxes to the rear of the building while checks and papers were left behind. Police investigated but made no arrests.
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Columbus
Burrus Motor Company
School at Roberta Destroyed by Fire in Georgia
Roberta Ga July 11 an elementary school housing fourth through seventh grades was burned completely the origin of the fire was undetermined local firefighters could not stop the blaze but helped save nearby buildings insurance covered part of the building and equipment the Crawford county board of education has called an election for July 25 to decide on bonds for a new high school building
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Roberta
Crawford County Board of Education
Hazelhurst Man Held After 5000 Dollar Mail Robbery
Atlanta July 12 J W Cole chief postal inspector announces the arrest of John Wallace Smith a shore cobbler in Hazelhurst on a mail robbery charge. The warrant alleges he carried mail between Hazelhurst post office and the railroad station and the currency sent by Bank of Hazelhurst to Citizens and Southern bank in Atlanta vanished weeks ago. The package arrived with a pipe wrapped in papers and the suspect was not a postal employee. He is married with two children.
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Atlanta
J. W. Cole
Hazelhurst
Cole
John Wallace Smith
Shore
Railway Mail Service
Bank of Hazelhurst
Citizens and Southern Bank
Post Office Department
House Cheers Move by Deen to End Session
Washington July 16 The House rejected a bid to adjourn next Tuesday by 259 86 on roll call. It tabled Deen s D Ga resolution to speed adjournment, effectively killing it. Democratic and Republican members mostly split, with leaders noting La Follette s bargain on nuisance tax extensions influenced adjournment timing.
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Washington
House
Congress
Representative Deen
D-Ga
Dga
O’connor
Deen
Capitol Hill
La‘'Fallett
W. Wis
LaFollette
Federal engineers not to oversee Georgia highways
Washington officials said the federal government will not send engineers to Georgia to supervise highway development. Georgia’s program will follow state rules on federal road funds. The secretary of agriculture may cooperate with local officials if the state highway department is deemed unsatisfactory.
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Washington, D. C
Georgia
Roosevelt
Bureau of Public Roads
Secretary of Agriculure
State Highway Department
Georgia Highway Department
Congress
W. E. Wilburn
Georgia Highway Board
Wallace
Two Macon Autoists Hurt Near Toccoa
Toccoa Georgia July 15 Willard Owens of Macon was critically injured and his companion R J Delacroix also of Macon hurt painfully when their automobile ran off the highway near Toccoa during a heavy rain Sunday Owens skull fracture Delacroix concussion of the brain both to hospital
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Toccoa
Willard Owens
Macon
R. J. Delacroix
Georgia Peaches Fight Disease with Federal Aid
Brief items note a federal grant of 807595 to combat the phony peach disease in Georgia, plans for nearly 400 canning plants under the relief administration, and a state effort to foster better worker employer relations including rural singing programs. Also mentioned are a Gettysburg reunion invite, Melvin Purvis’s retirement, a Ripley’s exhibit child with unusual anatomy, a rising U S birth rate, and related bits from Georgia.
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Georgia News Service
Georgia
Georgia Relief Administration
State Department of Education
Gettysburg
Battlefield
State of
Pennsylvania
Melvin Purvis
John Dillinger
Ripley
San Diego
Betty Williams
Albany
America
Census Bureau
United States
Nurse Stella Culbreth Dies After Highway Crash
Miss Stella Culbreth a nurse at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Albany died yesterday from injuries suffered in a automobile accident Saturday night near Jacksonville Florida Her death follows the crash that occurred while en route to or from her duties with the hospital staff.
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Stella Culbreth
Phoebe Putney
Twelve Months Support Filed in W M Hill Estate
Mrs. W M Hill has filed for twelve months support from the estate of W M Hill deceased. The application will be heard by the Ordinary at August term 1935 on the first Monday in August. Signed July 6 1935 by L Peed Ordinary.
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Georgia
Taylor County
W. M. Hill
Georgia Taylor County Letters of Administration Notice
The clerk of the Superior Court of Taylor County requests all creditors and next of kin of H W Windham to appear at the Ordinary's office within the legal time and show cause why permanent administration should not be granted to the petitioner. Witness dated July 10 1935. L T Peed Ordinary Taylor County Georgia.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Thelmon Jarrell
H. W. Windham
Petition for Divorce Irma Cochran Summerour V E J Summerour
Irma Cochran Summerour files for divorce from E J Summerour in Taylor Superior Court October Term 1985. Service order issued since the defendant does not reside in the county or state.
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Irma Cochran Summerour
E. J. Summerour
Taylor Suerior
Notice to appear in court 1938 term
The text indicates a court notice naming E. J. Summerous to appear at the next term of the Superior Court to be held on the First Monday in October, 1995, to answer the company. Witness the Honorable C. P. Laughlin Judge of the Superior Court. This the 16th day of 1938.
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E. J. Summerous
Superior Court
C. P. Laughlin
Super Court
Tax sale notice for Jobie McCrary land in Taylor County
The property described as two acres on lot no 13 in the 13th Land District of Taylor County Georgia is to be sold before the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in August 1985. The sale is to satisfy county taxes for the years 1992 1991 and 1934. Levy made by C C Cooper and recorded May 7 1995 by Sheriff R P McGuffin.
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Georgia
Taylor County
BP County
W. Y. Mathews
W. Mathews
Jobie McCrary
Gay County
C. C. Cooper
S. C
R. P. McGuffin
Sherif Taylor County
Georgis
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