Georgia Community Notes and Obituaries
Rev Eugene Dunn becomes Greenville Kiwanis president as J B F Dunn dies at 101 in Hancock County. Nearly 3000 Georgia Legionnaires close their 39th Augusta convention. Atlanta to Macon road traffic noted. Reps meet in Americus. 100+ teachers complete GSCW course in Milledgeville. Died: Rev Reese Griffin 77 Macon. Rev H J Kelly 50 Atlanta. Atlantic coastal heat records set. Ft Beaming opens $100000 National Bank. Turner County recreation center opens. Bobby Bell 15 Columbus improves after motorcycle crash. Col L D Watson Sr 83 joins GA Tech after Gordon Military College stint. Georgia Division ACS surpasses 1957 fund goal with 589213. College Board entrance exam set for Sept 4. Georgia courts blamed for enforcement lag by NSC. Fire destroys Wadley Blundale Baptist Church. Weekend toll reaches seven deaths. Americus official A D Gatewood honored. Sen Talmadge on civil rights bill power. Rev Jas C Kenney serves Montezuma youth director. Atlanta death linked to campus beating. infant Janet Walker to Augusta for operation. Shannon Hosiery Mills Columbus to close two weeks due to economic conditions.
Vegetable Canning Plant at Reynolds Opens Two Days a Week
The Reynolds Canning Plant will operate this year on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Residents must have their products at the plant by 3 p.m. as processing may take 2 to 4 hours. Limited cans available from last year, and patrons must supply their own containers. Some local stores stock cans for public use.
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Reynolds
Voc. Ag. Dept
Farm sells feed buys eggs group market links chains
Crowell Poultry Farm and nearby archery begin selling producer feed while buying eggs for grading and candling. Walter O Nea l and Rachel Parr manage the operation. Chain stores won t buy from individuals forcing group sales. A Knoxville report notes a fatality from lightning and a Baptist association budget record. Mrs Coolidge dies at 78. A Somerset crash kills eight. California cling peaches destroy 37800 tons. National House votes pay raise for 518 postal workers.
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Crowell Poultry Farm
aeRchery
Reynolds
Walter O’neal
Rachel Parr
O’neal
Knoxville
Tenn
Birmingham
National Freewill Baptist Association
California
National House
Household Hints From Old Magazine Pie and Paint Tips
A column of practical home tips covers picnic pies with a wet pie plate to keep meringue intact, double boiler transport of chilled salads, vanilla in paint to prevent odor, and letting paint cans sit upside down. It also mentions mending thin curtains with paper, peeling pears for canning, and jelly myths about butter in juice.
Christ Paid the Cost On Calvary Cross Gospel Verse
The verse proclaims salvation freely offered to all through Christ who paid the cost on Calvary. It speaks of Jesus knocking at the heart's door and invites readers to open and allow salvation to enter, promising deliverance from sin for every person.
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Calvary’s Cross
Christ
Thomasville Postmaster Dies After Illness At Home
Thomasville news records the death of Claude Rountree 66 postmaster since 1946 who collapsed at his office on Wednesday and died later at his home He was born in Twin City Ga to J E and Faye Rountree and married Jane Milligan of Boston Ga He attended Abraham Baldwin College and the Max Morris School of Pharmacy.
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Thomasville
Claude Rountree
Twin City
J. E
Faye Rountree
Jane Milligan
Boston
Rountree
Abraham Baldwin College
Max Morris School of Pharmacy
Enquirer Editorial Appears in Congressional Record
Senator Lyndon Johnson informs Enquirer editor W C Tucker that the paper's June 22 open curtain exchange proposal editorial was reprinted in the Congressional Record. The piece backed Johnson's call for U S outreach to Soviet audiences similar to Khrushchev on American television.
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Columbus
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
Enquirer
W. C. Tucker
Congressional Record
Congress
Sen. Johnson
United States
Khruschev
Fort Valley Plans Recreation Center Project
Fort Valley launches a drive to fund a long range recreation center with an initial $18,180 pool under construction. The plan includes picnic grounds shuffleboard badminton volleyball courts a concession and more as civic groups back the effort.
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Ft. Valley
Atlanta Woman Typist Robbed and Slain Confession Follows
Joy McCord, 25, a loan firm typist, was killed in the finance office with nine stab wounds and heavy blows. Three hours later, H. R. Woods, 19, a firm employee, confessed. Investigators say robbery motive. $486 missing from the cash box.
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Atlanta
H. R. Woods
Joy McCord
Bank Bandits Rob Wachovia Branch in Asheville Heist
In Asheville North Carolina a tall soft spoken bandit robbed Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. north side branch. He herded nine customers into a vault and escaped with 42857 dollars in cash. The gunman weighing about 250 pounds and six feet four inches told the bank supervisor this was a holdup and ordered five women tellers to fill bags.
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Asheville
N. C
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co
Northside
Cecil Tallen
North Carolina
Pickard Named to Fire Legislator Committee in Georgia
Rep. A. Mac Pickard of Columbus joins a fire legislator panel to study help for hard pressed city transport companies in Georgia.
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A. Mac Pickard
Columbus
Georgia
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Eugene Dunn
The
Greenville Kiwanis Club
J. B. F. Dunn
Hancock County
Georgia Legionnairs
Augusta
Spring Street
Macon
the Municipal Association of the Third Congressional District
Americus
GSCW
Milledgeville
Reese Griffin
H. J. Kelly
Savannah
First Freewill Baptist Church
Atlantic Coast
National Bank
Ft. Beaming
Turner County Recreation Center
Bobby Bell
Col. L. D. Watson Sr
Gordon Military College
Barnesville
Ga. Tech
American Cancer Society
Crusade
P. W. Carswell
Waynesboro
National Safety Council
Blundale Baptist Church
Wadley
A. D. Gatewood, Jr
First Baptist Church
Herman Talmadge
Attorney General
America
Jas. C. Kenney
J. C. Kenney
Montezuma
First Methodist Church
Eastman
Georgia Tech
Jenkins
Janet Walker
G. C. Walker
Miller Field Road
Shannon Hosiery Mills
Jimmie McManus
J. S. Winn
Roberta, Ga
Columbus Enquirer
Cong. Record
Fort Valley
Asheville Bank
Dodge
Thomas Byrd
Reg Mullis
Carl Ayers
Peach County Motor CO
Macon Street
FT. Valley, GA
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