Georgia News Roundup Highlights Hospital Fund Plan and Local Events
Acting Gov. Thompson to ask the 1949 Legislature for funds to build a rural Georgia hospital with retroactive effect. Heard County oil drilling ongoing. Dawson city election canceled. Fort Gaines hosts a veteran’s day gala Aug 7. Georgia Baptists travel to Copenhagen for convention. South Georgia leaf prices steady. British firm buys Albany farm equipment for Africa tests. Thousands to attend state conventions in Macon this fall. Refoule reports police abuse in Atlanta custody. Edison parsonage completed. Rev. Carruth family moves in. Mell Wilkinson, noted civic leader, dies. Dayton Hotel Co. to invest $200,000 in Macon hotel upgrades. UGA plans $50,000 Methodist student center. Butts County Farm Bureau rally at Indian Springs. Ben Griggers Jr. to survey Georgia tax system. Arrest ends reign of terror in Atlanta’s South Side. Terrell County elects new ordinary. Rockmart fire claims Alvin and Jimmy Lipham. cigarette may have started it. Roy LeCraw declines $10,000 salary to serve as dollar-a-year program director. Peanut marketing quotas bill advances in Congress. Georgia Baptist leader says no ban on KKK at services. Campbell County meeting. 72nd annual camp meeting begins in Dooly County Vi enna. Guest preachers Albert Truly and Elbert Wilson. Woodard Poole leads singing. Laura Frances Sims to play piano.
Pace to Serve on Group For U. S. Farm Study
Rep Steve Pace of Americus is named to a House agricultural subcommittee to plan hearings for a long range national farm program. The cotton belt hearing is set for Jackson Mississippi in October with sessions across the country to gather farmer information. Pace declined Europe trips, stressing the importance of protecting Southern agriculture.
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End of Sugar Rationing Boosts Soft Drink Production
Washington officials say the end of industrial sugar rationing will boost production of bottled soft drinks and ease sugar pinch for housewives. Defunct rationing administration critics warn of temporary shortages in areas far from refineries while current controls remain.
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Threatening ad targets night trespass near chicken house
An advertisement in the Camilla Enterprise warns that anyone seen near a chicken house at night will be found there in the morning, implying a threat of consequences for trespass. The line uses a blunt, menacing tone likely reflecting local concerns about livestock security.
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Death of W C Bradley Former Coca Cola Director
W C Bradley 84, longtime Coca Cola Company director and Southern magnate, died of a heart attack on the front porch of his Columbus home after breakfast. He built textile holdings including Columbus Manufacturing and Eagle and Phenix Mills, chaired both mills, and held large Bibb Manufacturing Co. stock with recent plans for Eagle and Phenix sale to Reeves Brothers.
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Woolworths Sued for 20000 Dollars in Macon City Court
Mrs. H. C. Wood filed a suit in Macon City Court last week naming F. W. Woolworth Company as defendant seeking twenty thousand dollars in damages.
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