Prominent Georgia Farmer Carr Hornady Roberts Dies
Carr Hornady Roberts 82 a prominent Byromville Georgia farmer died after a long illness. The week brings news of church expansion with an $11 500 annex at Douglas Methodist Church now occupied under Pastor Rev W E Scott. Public health notes report 162 infantile paralysis cases in Georgia with 64 in Atlanta and Fulton County.
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Florida
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The
Medical Association of Georgia
Highland, N. C
Cemetery Cleanup at Midway Church
All friends and relatives with buried at Midway Church Cemetery are asked to meet at the church next Monday to assist in cleaning the grounds. Yard cleanup is scheduled for Thursday next week and attendees are requested to bring lunch.
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Notable deaths and civic notices from Georgia region
Services were held at the residence of his parents in Swainsboro for Alden S. Bradley Jr. killed in a Washington, D C car crash. A coroner's jury probed Geo L Burkhalter decapitation by the Southland Central of Georgia train. L M Rhoden of The Tattnall Journal plans a year on the Georgia coast for health. I R Carlisle retired Atlanta Journal pressman died in Atlanta. County Agent H L Trussell and colleagues tour western states for Randolph county farming ideas. Judge Dickerson ordered suspension of passenger and freight service at Reidsville for track safety. Mining of bauxite ore touted as revived Georgia industry. Georgia Rotarians gathered for a district convention in Milledgeville with a rooftop picnic. A Chicago man confessing embezzlement appeared in police HQ, awaiting Lancaster Pa. authorities. J Emory Houston nominated for postmaster at Blakely. Gov Talmadge warned of press tensions, contemplating a new Atlanta daily. S C Bryant dies from a pistol wound in Macon, with burial instructions found for his daughter. A new day student building is planned at Georgia Southwestern College Americus for September completion.
Ex-Georgian Takes Oath as New U. S. Senator
Washington SC appoints former Federal Judge Alva M Lumpkin as U S Senator replacing J P Byrnes who left the senate to join the Supreme Court Lumpkin, a Milledgeville native, was sworn in Tuesday to fill the vacancy and serve in the U S Senate.
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Evelyn Harris Improves After Second Blood Transfusion
Evelyn Harris assistant vice president at Southern Bell Telephone Co. is reported better after a second blood transfusion on Sunday. He has been confined in a hospital since July 7, with his temperature falling from 104 to 101 and a noted gain in strength.
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Evelyn Harris
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Cochran Field Receives 25 New Training Planes
Twenty five new training planes were delivered at Cochran Field by Army officer pilots who flew them from Downey California where Vultee Corporation built them. The new aircraft raise the Cochran basic training school's total to ninety five planes.
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Editor T E Brinkley Suffering Heart Attack
Columbus Ga July 20 editor of the Columbus Ledger T E Brinkley is confined to his home after a heart attack yesterday morning reports say his condition was improved last night he was at his desk when illness struck him
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Missing portrait of Gov Talmadge on Georgia campus
A large portrait of Gov. Talmadge was missing from its frame in Phi Kappa hall on the University of Georgia campus Athens on July 21. The portrait, a gift to Phi Kappa, a century old literary society, was taken sometime Sunday after the society had not met since classes ended.
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Man Fatally Cut In Saw Frame Incident At Dover
July 21 Autry Dover a 26 year old farmer died after a saw frame bolting failed and cut his throat while he worked timber at the W L Lancaster place He bled to death before a physician arrived He is survived by his wife and two small children.
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McRae
Craftsmen Offered British Defense Jobs in Georgia
Atlanta crafts craftsmen may enlist in the British Civilian Technical corps to keep Britain’s war tools working and man the radio locators spotting German raiding planes. D L Lippitt Jr. announced the corps will hire radio mechanics engineers fitters electricians instrument makers repairers watch makers and meter mechanics in Georgia.
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England
D .L. Lippitt Jr
Georgia
Americus Man Becomes Instructor at Souther Field
Americus on July 20 Wallace Sheffield prominent local businessman and aviator will join Graham Aviation School at Souther Field as civilian instructor. He leaves his secretary post at Sheffield Co. to join the staff as British airmen begin training. He helped bring the Graham School to Americus and is the second local flyer to join, Ralph Riker being the other instructor.
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Wallace Sheffield
Graham Aviation School
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Sheffield Co
Graham School
Ralph Riker
Slayer Sought After Taxicab Operator Thomson
A wide area search was underway Tuesday night for the slayer of Thomson taximan B C Perry Jr whose battered body was found near the White Oak road two miles east of here. A two foot iron pipe with bloodstains and hair was found nearby. Perry left his cab stand about midnight with an unrecognized negro passenger. His car was found on Cobbham road miles away. Sheriff L J Norris said authorities traced the cab's movements after the taxi left the stand.
Etheridge Named to Lead Probe on Negro Job Discrimination
Washington reports Mark F Etheridge former managing editor of The Macon Telegraph and head of the racial committee at Macon Telegraph and vice president of the Louisville Courier Journal has been appointed by President Roosevelt to chair a committee investigating complaints of discrimination against Negroes seeking work in defense industries and in government positions.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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Macon Telegraph
Rural folk must plan for selves says Brown
Athens Georgia Rural residents must do their own planning and solve their own problems or at least cut the pattern. Director W E Brown of the Agricultural Extension Service said at a leadership institute in Athens Tuesday night to more than 100 farm youths gathered for a 10 day meeting.
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W. E. Brown
The
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Tentative approval of university system budget by Georgia governor
Atlanta July 21 Gov Talmadge tentatively approved the quarterly budget of the state university system enabling units to proceed with proposed expenditures. Approval was subject to changes by the board of regents and later adjustments. He had signaled possible cuts to salaries of some professors, especially non natives of Georgia, but no changes were made Monday.
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Board of Regents
Georgia
Pittman and Cocking Decline Brooks County Posts
On July 19 Dean W. D. Cocking of the University of Georgia and Dr. M. S. Pittman of the Teachers College at Statesboro replied to Brooks county superintendent T. R. Gill. They declined immediate decisions on joining Brooks County schools, expressing appreciation and the offer.
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W. D. Cocking
University of Georgia
M. S. Pittman
Teachers College At
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Brooks County
T. R. Gill
Rail foreman kills wife daughter and himself in Georgia
Bridgeboro Georgia North ern Railway section foreman A A Bridges shot his wife in the dining room then killed his daughter about 60 yards from the house before turning the pistol on himself. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder and death by own action. Two other children escaped. Bridges survived by a son Harold, in Albany, and a son Charles in the army at Camp Pendleton Virginia Beach. A brother J G Bridges lives in Sylvester.
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Camp Pendleton
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Seaman Prefers Romance in Cell to Camp in West
Jacksonville border patrol plans to escort 40 of 41 Italian seamen jailed in Savannah to Philadelphia for internment at Fort Missoula Montana. Immigation official W. W. Eyster identifies the 41st Italian as Benito di Asi who wishes to stay in jail to be with his girl behind bars.
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Financial Condition Of State Purchasing Dept Declared Strong
Atlanta reports the state purchasing department is in excellent condition per a governor released audit. An operating surplus of 11303 on June 30, assessments totaling 33075 were charged to agencies for operations. The office spent 71590 on personnel 5542 on supplies and 4287 on communications services. Purchases for the year reached 11958195 with 7612145 to the highway department 1579876 to the university system 1412438 to public welfare and 1353733 to other agencies.
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Columbus Free Press Suspends Publication
Columbus papers note the Columbus Free Press ends after five months as a daily. The final Wednesday issue cites inability to secure operating monies as the reason. The notice is signed Free Press Inc. The paper began in September and shifted from weekly to daily, publishing afternoons except weekends. A Sunday morning edition also ran. Also included is a classifieds ad seeking cedar and other timber fence posts delivered to Glade Road, Columbus, Ga, reply Box 589.
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Columbus Free Press
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Georgia boards hold up classification of 21 year olds
Atlanta reports Brig. Gen. Sion B. Hawkins directed Georgia draft boards to withhold classification of the new 21 year old registrants until national headquarters issues detailed instructions. The order followed a Telegram from L B Hershey the national selective service director advising a delay for a few days.
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Leap to Safety as Navy Plane Goes Into Spin
Jacksonville Florida July 21 Parade Morris Haller Morgantown West Virginia and Cadet John Hartlein Plainfield New Jersey parachuted to safety Monday after their US Naval training plane spun at a low altitude. The plane burned. Cadet Pilot E P Wood Belleville New Jersey landed his plane near the wreckage to aid but his craft nosed over and he suffered minor injuries.
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E. P. Wood
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Lightning strike floors youth at roadside produce stand
A July 21 lightning bolt knocked 14 year old Dewoy Stanford unconscious for 20 minutes at a roadside Ro bera stand on the fringe of Roberta. His father C B Stanford operator was nearby. Charles Rowell, who sat in the chair, had only a minor shock as a chair post and two rungs were destroyed.
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