Making Best Use of Every Acre Motto Of Farmers
The article argues farm pond conservation as a wartime and peacetime value. It highlights bluegill, bream, and trout stocking in Taylor County farms by the Middle Western Ocmulgee River Soil Conservation district and notes pond life depends on proper watershed protection and erosion control. Walter Wainwright is praised for erosion protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
J. W. Dupree
Middle Western
Ocmulgee River
C. B. Shine
E. A. Hollis
Monroe Layfield
Walter Wainwright
DAIRY CO-OPERATIVE FORMED IN UPSON
Thomaston Georgia June 2 Upson Co operative Dairies formed as an agriculture cooperative buys the old Share Store building for a milk processing plant with a purchase price around 6500 dollars. The board includes Felton Hoyle president James Butts vice president J D Hoyle secretary treasurer Everett McNeely Ferrell McKinley. The group will take over Fairview Dairy equipment and run it as a retail outlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomaston
Upson Co-operative
Dairies
Agriculture Co-Operative
Felton Hoyle
James Butts
J. D. Hoyle
Everett McNeely
Ferrell McKinley
Fairview Dairy Equipment
Quotes on gospel doctrine and virtue across religious figures
A collage of religious quotes from Jesus, Daniel Webster, Cyrus, Mary Baker Eddy, and Beattie highlights the gospel as divine reality, unchanged, universal love, and comprehensive moral truth requiring virtue and forbidding sin. It emphasizes teaching, healing, and the enduring authority of gospel doctrine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Webster
Mary Baker Eddy
Warren
Georgia constitutional reform plan outlines 50 changes
A 23 member commission edited the 1945 Georgia constitution, removing dead amendments and modernizing laws. reforms include literacy tests, elimination of poll tax, home rule, tax exemptions cut, and new constitutional offices for agriculture and labor. The document preserves traditions while guiding postwar prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
General Assembly
House
Senate
Assembly
Veterans Service Office
Commissioner of Agriculture
Commissioner of Labor
Public Service Commissioners
Labor
Department of Corrections
Department of Veterans Service
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Court of Ordinary
More Passenger Car Tires Are Alloted For B and C Drivers
The War Production Board on June 5 allocated 500000 more passenger car tires for June bringing the total this month to 2500000 and half year replacements to 10000000. Distribution follows the original June pattern and only B and C ration holders are eligible for new tires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
Tax Office Sends 20 Million Refunds to Taxpayers
Washington June 3 Treasury reports that about 20 million in 1944 income tax refunds are being mailed. Officials expect completion by the end of September, ahead of last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Treasury
Georgia constitutional reforms and budget reforms summarized
A historical outline lists 50 constitutional amendments and reforms including retirement funds and public works reserves, abolition of state tax allocation, intergovernmental service contracts, bonds by voter majority, emergency indebtedness limits, temporary county loans, revenue bonds for utilities, continued general appropriation act, budget-based debt relief rules, and retention of local amendments. It also covers merit-based state employment, a state retirement system, mandatory home rule, 54 senatorial districts, mixed county officer compensation, chartering trust companies, appellate court case carrying provisions, expanded justice of the peace jurisdiction, regional districting for water and sanitation, local amendment ratification requirements, lieutenant governor provision, fixed assembly and governor salaries, appellate court judges’ pay, tidewater land title clarification, and harmonization of local amendments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
County Board of Education
Assembly
Secretary of State
General Assembly
Justices of the Peace
Wives Take Note Husband Is Boss Says High Court
Georgia Supreme Court rules a wife must follow her husband when he moves residence. Mrs. Lillian Carver of Waycross sued for alimony after he relocated to a cabin near his work. Court dismisses suit, stating husband heads the family and may fix the matrimonial residence without the wife’s consent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Court
Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Court
Lillian Viola Carver
Waycross
L. J. Carver
Noted Atlanta Cotton Broker Dies at 70
James Joseph Williamson senior partner of Williamson Inman and company died after a brief illness. A Pike county Georgia native he belonged to the New York Cotton Exchange Chicago Board of Trade New Orleans Cotton Exchange and Liverpool Cotton Association. Williamson led J J Williamson Co in New Orleans and headed Williamson Products Co in Brazil.
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Atlanta
James Joseph Williamson
Williamson, Inman and Company
South
Pike County
Georgia
New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago, Board of Trade
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Liverpool Cotton Association
Williamson
New Orleans
J. J. Williamson & Co
Myrick Re-Sentenced to Electric Chair in Grimes Murder
Milledgeville June 5 Willie Myrick Jr a Wilkinson county youth was re sentenced to the electric chair by JudgeGeo Carpenter for the fatal shooting of Chas R Grimes of Milledgeville on February 13 1944. The judge set the execution for June 15 after denying a new trial and the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed. Grimes son of Mr and Mrs L L Grimes died the day after the shooting Myrick confessed to firing the shot but said he aimed at squirrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milledgeville
Willie Myrick Jr
Wilkinson County
Geo. Carpenter
Chas. R. Grimes
Ocmulgee
Myrick
Carpenter
Georgia Supreme Court
Grimes
L. L. Grimes
U S Plans to Drop 250 000 Federal Workers
Washington June 5 Budget Bureau plans to prune 20 000 workers a month from the federal payroll during the next year. F J Lawton administrative assistant to the Budget Bureau told the House Civil Service Committee that if the war continues to progress as it has about 250 000 federal workers would be dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Budget Bureau
Congress
F. J. Lawton
House Civil Service Committee
No Bills Passed In Georgia Extra Session
Atlanta June 5 The four day extra session of the Georgia General Assembly cost taxpayers about $17 000 State Auditor Thrasher said Tuesday Travel expenses for 257 legislators totaled 7 593 per diem pay 8 per day 8 324 and attache salaries 1 250 No bills were passed during the self convened session
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgia General Assembly
Georgia
Thrasher
Seven Floor Fall Fatal to Atlanta Physician
Dr. E. G. Ballenger a 63 year old president of the Southern Medical association died after a seven floor fall from a mezzanine in his hotel. He told a waiter he felt dizzy at breakfast and later appeared to suffer another attack in the hall before the fall. Detectives confirmed the sequence of events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
E. G. Ballenger
The
Southern Medical Association
Ballenger
J. E. Helms
W. M. Holland
Columbus Firm To Ship Lumber
Columbus Terminal and Forwarding Company has accepted a contract to handle more than ten million feet of lumber for overseas shipment. The program, by War and Navy Departments, aims to procure store and redistribute lumber with new handling methods. A carload of 40 000 feet now loads in 55 minutes, versus three to four hours previously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Columbus Terminal and Forwarding Company
War and Navy Departments
God the Only Cause and Creator Sermon
The Lesson-Sermon titled God the Only Cause and Creator will be read in Churches of Christ Scientist worldwide next Sunday. Golden Text from Revelation praises God as Creator and sustainer. Isa 44 6 and Science and Health emphasize God as the first and only primal cause with all effects proceeding from Him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Churches of Christ Scientist
Israel
Mary Baker Eddy
FBI joins inquiry into swamp slaying in Florida
Waycross reports the FBI joined the investigation into the slaying of two U.S. fish and wildlife service patrolmen, Andrews Crews aged 36 and Joe Martin aged 40, killed while probing poaching in the Okefenokee swamp. No clues yet identify the killers.
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Waycross
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Okefenokee Swamp
Andrews Crews
Joe Martin
Big Swamp
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Galilee
Cuyler
Beattie
E. Gordon Street
Thomaston, Ga
Willie Myrick
U. S
FBI
Inquiry
Wile Georgia Power Company
Attanta
Magers
Michal
Ben Franklin
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Franklin
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