Train Car Crash Near Tucker Leaves Three Dead
A southbound Seaboard Line train struck a car carrying eight children and two adults near Tucker Georgia. The crash killed Grace Griffin five and Annette Holt six months, and Mrs Osborne Griffin 30. Others died or were injured with brain injuries and broken bones. Witnesses recalled the car failing to clear the crossing as the locomotive struck it about 4 10 in the afternoon.
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Tucker
Seaboard
Robert E. Lee
Decatur
Thelleyfus
We. Medical Coalition
Exory University
T.ypcal
Osborne B. Griffin
Grace Griffin
Annettie Holt
Tom F. Holt
Norman Griffin
Griffin
Morris Holt
Harold Holt
Frank Olt
Bobby Chestnut
Billy Holt
T. F. Holt
Atlanta
Holt
Belby
W. P. Ezzard
Lawrenceville
Memorial Mile Receives Flag in Americus
A flag donated by Congressman Stephen Pace was placed at the start of the Memorial Mile on Ellaville road for Sumter county World War dead. A new marker for Oscar Laweerre Comer is to be unveiled this week. Three or four Sumter veterans still lack markers. families are urged to send $5 to Mrs. W. E. Mitchell to complete the memorial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus
Stephen Pace
Ellaville
Sumter County
Oscar Laweerre Comer
H. O. Jones
Garden Club
W. E. Mitchell
Ramspeck Attacks Sit-Down Strikes in Georgia Congress
Atlanta July 19 Fifth district Georgia congressman Ramspeck condemned sit down strikes as harmful to labor. He told the Georgia chapter of the National Association of Postmasters he also disapproved of tear gas bombs and violence used to quell strikes and cited Thomas Girdler of Republic Steel as an example. In a later interview he said Senator Joseph Robinson's death would lessen the chance to pass the Senate reorganiza tion bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Robert Ramspeck
Georgia
National Association’ of Postmasters
Ramspeck
Thomas Girdler
Republic Steel Company
Georgia Board approves grad school at UGA
The Board of Regents ordered establishing a graduate school at the University of Georgia, enabling the first four doctor of philosophy degrees to be offered in Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Georgia
Georgia
Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia
Rivers Appoints 10 Members To School Book Board
Gov. E. D. Rivers appointed a new board of education and named 10 members to meet and open bids on 2 million dollars of school books. The old five member board was abolished. new appointees come from districts one through ten, with diverse professional backgrounds. The board will solicit bids from about 25 publishers and later form a 35 member professional committee to select texts for Georgia's free book system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
E. D. Rivers
R. J. Kennedy
Statesboro
Georgia County Commissioners Association
Lee W. Branch
Quitman
Georgia Bar Association
Frank David
Columbus
Muscogee County Welfare Board
A. H. Freeman
Newnan
W. A. Shelton
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
South
S. D. Truitt
General Assembly
Attorney General
Truitt
Assembly
M. D. Collins
Earhart Noonan Declared Dead After Pacific Search Ends
The 16 day hunt for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan ends as four naval vessels and 1,500 sailors give up the search in the equatorial Pacific. They disappeared July 2 near Howland Island during a 2,750 mile flight from Lae to Hawaii. Earhart, famed aviator, aimed to map possible new air routes. The search was called off after exhausted efforts.
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Honolulu
Amelia Earhart
Pacific
Fred J. Noonan
Howland Island
Miss Earhart
Noonan
Lae
New Guinea
mid-Pacific
Howland
Navy
Convicts Moved to New Prison in Georgia
Milledgeville Ga July 18 the first group of prisoners were moved from the state prison farm in Milledgeville to the new Tattnall county prison at Reidsville Monday George Fisher head of the industrial department of state farms said 60 prisoners were moved.
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Milledgeville
State
Tattnall County
Reidsville
George Fisher
Industrial Department of State Farms
Doctor Jones Joins Millen Hospital Staff
Dr. R. E. Jones son of a prominent Georgia Methodist minister has been added to the staff of the Millen hospital.
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R. E. Jones
Georgia
Millen Hospital
Ise Cam
Edwards Reprints Mystery Story To Preserve Original
Macon Ga July 3 Forty one years ago Harry Stillwell Edwards wrote a 105000 word novel in 23 days. The piece won a 100000 prize in a Chicago newspaper contest and is now being reissued in a limited edition of 10000 copies autographed by Edwards. The author known as dean of Georgia journalists is 82 and reflects on a life of rapid writing and published sketches for The Atlanta Journal.
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Macon
Harry Stillwell Edwards
Chicago
Kingfisher
Holly Bluff
Edwards
Jefferson Davis
Georgia
Thomas Nelson Page
Aneas Africanus
Theodore ‘Roosevelt
Atlanta: Journal
Postmasters Elect Georgia Leaders and Set Convention Site
The Georgia chapter of the National Association of Postmasters re elected Wylie West of Decatur president and voted to hold the 1988 convention in Swainsboro. Officers elected include Patillo of Macon and Wimberly of Rome with Mamie White of Stone Mountain as secretary treasurer. Directors named from Swainsboro, Doeran, Americus, Griffin, Roswell, Milledgeville, McRae, Gainesville and Madison. The group also scheduled Air Mail Week for August 9 through 16.
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Atlanta
Georgia
National Association of Postmasters
Wylie West
Mamie White
Stone Mountain
D. E. Flanders
Swainsboro
L. J. McPhaul
Doeran
Frank Chappell
Amencus
J. Woods Hammond
Griffin
C. M. Pelfrey
Roswell
E. A. Tigner
Milledgeville
Carleen Bell
Pearl H Girardean
McRae
J. F. Carter
Gainesville
W. W. Baldwin
Madison
Hunt for Amelia Earhart Cost Four Million
The United States Navy ended its search for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan reporting a $4 million loss. Navy planes ceased patrols over Pacific atolls near Howland Island as congressional critics questioned the hunt. Newt M. Reynolds, 56, a tax collector for Jenkins County, died Sunday at a Millen hospital.
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Washington
United States Navy
Amelia Earhart
Fred Noonan
Pacific
Howland
Newt M. Reynolds
Jenkins County
Millen Hospital
Air Mail Week Proclaimed by Georgia Governor
The Georgia governor issues a proclamation designating August 9 to 16 1987 as Air Mail Week to promote air mail use. The Postmaster General notes 46 000 post offices and stations and says each could add one letter per day to boost yearly revenue by over a million dollars. He highlights the potential growth from increased business mail with postmasters and staff leading the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. D. Rivers
Georgia
United States
Ashburn Man Killed While Fixing Tire Near Forsyth
R R Kimbro of Ashburn Georgia was struck by an automobile while repairing a tire near Forsyth on Wednesday night. He died Monday in a Macon private hospital from fractures and injuries. The vehicle, driven by Dolly Haygood of Porterdale with Roy Head as passenger, is under manslaughter charges by Sheriff Carey Bittick.
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Macon
R. R. Kimbro
Ashburn
Forsyth
Kimbro
Monroe County
Dolly
May Haygood
Porterdale
Roy Head
Carey -Bittick
Haygood
Tarver Measure Passes in House Over Dry Territory Shipments
In Washington on July 19 the House passed Tarver’s measure sending it to the Senate. The bill would make it a misdemeanor to ship or transport liquor into dry states or violate local laws, despite objections it creates a federal enforcement army. Representative Cochran warned of a new federal agent force, but withdrew his objection after assurances.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
John’ ‘J. Cochra
D. Mo
Cochran
One Dead and One Injured in Elberton Ambush
Elberton Georgia July 19 Sheriff J A Starke says an escaped chain gang convict Len Fortson about 60 a prominent farmer was ambushed in the early evening shooting and died in a hospital One tenant farmer Tom Self about to die And Fortsons son Herndon in serious condition The assailant listed as Norman Williams fled the scene.
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Elberton
Cyin
J. A. Starke
Len Fortson
Elbert County
Tom Self
Fortson’s
Fortson
Herndon
Starke
Norman Williams
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Rivers
Amelia
Hunt
Pattillo
Amelta
Governor Rivers
Tarver
Vanlandingham
Heinz Co
Arte
Dr. Phillip’s
Auc
Heinz
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