Local News Briefs Span Education Arts and Politics
Readable notes cover multiple items: Briggs County grants and a plan for Buford dam valley discussion. Midshipman Burgin earns Colors at Annapolis. Central of Georgia opens a $300000 Diesel shop in Macon. death of Buford Advertiser editor Early Wilbanks. Mercer University honors Mrs. Algernon Sullivan plaque recipient Mrs. Phillips. Paul Webb touted as Governor candidate. Mrs. Henry Hooks dies in New Orleans. Jean Bentley graduates Roberta High. Tifton Gazette changes hands with Rankin Tift Abernathy as editor. Washington report on Mrs Kerr and Winston Churchill travel and temperance.
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Henry William Stregel
Agis Aurelia
Georgia Crippled Children Centers Offer Hope and Aid
A Georgia writer highlights the need for early treatment of polio and lists seven Crippled Children Centers in Atlanta Athens Augusta Douglas Macon Savannah and Thomasville funded by Easter Seal money. The piece also notes a Fulton County courthouse modernization study proposing about 2.25 million dollars and honors Mark Etheridge with an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Kentucky.
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Georgia
Georgia Society For Crippled Children
Atlanta
Athens
Augusta
Douglas
Macon
Savannah
Thomasville
Mark Etheridge
Macon Telegraph
University of Kentucky
Ethridge
Mercer University
Louisville Courier-Journal
the Times
Willie Snow
Robins AFB civilian staff counts and diesel fleet growth reported
A survey shows Robins Air Force Base near Macon employs 1 252 civilians with 914 veterans eligible for preferential rights. Central of Georgia highlights its diesel fleet growth from a 600 HP switcher in 1939 to 99 units planned by year end, with nine million dollars invested. World Prayer Day and Fed Reserve note changes are noted in brief.
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Robins Air Force Base
Macon
USAF
Ing
Robins
Central of Georgia
Central
Directory of Ministers and Appointments Listed
Long list of names and districts across Georgia and nearby areas detailing pastors, district superintendents, secretaries, and missionary appointments. Includes universities, colleges, and church-related positions with numerous named individuals and institutions.
High Court Voids Third Death Sentence for Slaying
Atlanta June 9 Georgia Supreme Court voided the death sentence for Clarence Henderson for the 1948 slaying of Carl Stevens a Georgia Tech student in Carrollton. Henderson claimed innocence and had been condemned three times despite protests.
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Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Court
Clarence Henderson
Carrollton
Henderson
Carl Stevens
Georgia Tech
Rural Savannah district names miss Easterline and six others
Miss Kathryn Easterline rural worker in Savannah District is listed with Miss Mozelle McCormick Vashti School Miss Gladys Bower Miss Erma Jenkins Miss Naomi Coger Miss Phyllis Garrett Miss Jane Wilkinson and Miss Ruth Adams in a grouped reader notice.
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Kathryn Easterline
Savannah
Mozelle McCormick
Vashti School
Gladys Bower
Erma Jenkins
Naomi Coger
Phyllis Garrett
Jane Wilkinson
Ruth Adams
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Edna Daniel
Quitman
Upper
Joe Carter Burgin
Old Guard
Baltimore
Frances Kidd
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Burgin
Central of Georgia Railway
the Herald
A. Wilbanks
Buford Advertiser
Buford Ga
Moreno Press Inc
Sugar Hill Corp
Paul Webb
Henry Hooks
Jefferson Davis
The
Confederacy
New Orleans
Elizabeth Harris Quinn
Barnesville
Quinn
Jean Bentley
Roberta High School
F. E. Bentley
Roberta
Tifton Gazette
Herring
Messrs
Homer M. Rankin
Amos C. Tift
David H. Tift
Chess Abernathy Jr
Robert S. Kerr
White House
Winston Churchill
Washington
Oklahoma
Kerr
Purina
Chick Growena
Purina Growena
Feed Bros. Feed Store
Butler, Ga
Seord
Payne Motor Company
Butler, Georgia
Conyers News
Fulton County
County Commission
Farm Bureau
Unadilla
R. K. Stovall
Meriwether Vindicator
Federal Reserve Bank
United States
W. Smith
Thomaston
Second Street
Bruce Wilson
South Side
S. P. Clary
Vineville
Mack Anthony
W. A. Sanders
Marshallville
A. A. Waite
Perry
H. H. Heisler
Reynolds-Crowell
C. E. Smith Jr
R. L. Harris
Sandersville
J. I
Summerford
Tennille W. R. Woodall
Warner Robins
G. E. Clary Jr
Washington County
W. E. Chapple
A. J. Shirah
J. L. Hillis
Americus
M. E. Peavy
Abbeville - Rhine
T. E. Pickten
J. M. Yarbrough
Lee Street
W. R. Smith
J. B. Lanier
Byromville
Montezuma
M. H. McCoy Johnson
Oglethorpe- Ideal
L. R. Lancaster
Pinehurst
Harold Beaty
Pineview
Plains
C. L. Wall
Rebecca
W. A. Wilson
Rochelle
J. W. Hays
Smithville
J. E. Quillian
E. D. Willard
Vienna
W. A. Pilgrim
Warwick
D. A. Price
J. B. Smith
Jas R. Webb Jr
Southeastern Jurisdiction Council
W. F. Quillian
Andrew College
A.W Ray
Candler School of Theology
Arva C. Floyd
James W. May
Wesleyan College
ES. Johnson
LaGrange College
D. P. Melson
Asbury College
B. G. Osipoff
L. E. Houston, Jr
Conference Board of Education
Roy J. Bond
Board of Evangelism
W. A. Kelley
Frank Nalls
Methodist Home
J. C. Temperance League
N. M. Lovein
Wesleyan Christian Advocate
F. M. Gaines
Methodist Publishing House
C. A. Britton, Jr
W. C. Huckabee
Japan
John B. Cobb
David C. Stubbs
Brazil
W. F. Rogers
W. A. Harrell
Parke Renshaw
Africa
J. Morgan Johnson
Wesley Foundation University of Georgia
Swell Sawyer
U. S. Air Corps
Rich
Ard Dickinson
G. N. Rainey
Golden Cross
J. B. Hutchinson
U S. Army
Walter S. McClesky
Emory University
George Herndon
G. Ross Freeman
P. W. Parker
Wm. R. Edwards, Jr
Wm. A. McClellan, III
C. G. Haughbook, Jr
R. G. Tarentine
John R. Howard
Asbury Seminary
Robert H. Marshall
Boston University
Charles F. McCook
George Washington University
Leon C. Edwards
Edinburgh
Scotland
Wm. J. Hinson
Robert E. Dorsey
Miss Florence Jury
High Court
Slayer
General Electric
Doyel
Butler
General
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