Georgia News Roundup Highlights Crimes, Dignitaries and Disasters
A nine year old Moultrie boy is charged with stealing his uncle's car. William Earl Avera dies in Macon after illness. A Columbus cafe owner robbed at gunpoint by seven men. George S. Wicker earns an LLM at George Washington University. Fish die-off at Lake Beatrice Irwin County. Georgia VFW encampment set for June in Athens. Over 800 Harris and Talbot Countians visit Columbus for Hi Neighbor Day.
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Moultrie
Harris and
Talbot Countians
Columbus
Lizella Man Dies After Auto Crash in Macon
A 90 year old Lizella resident died in a Macon hospital hours after being struck by a car Sunday. The deceased was Thomas H. Duncan. Deputies identified the driver as William G. McLendon, 21, of Camp Gordon. No charges had been filed against the soldier.
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Macon
Lizella
Thos. H. Duncan
E. B. Liorens
Wm. G. McLendon
Camp Gordon
Col. F S Mansfield Jr dies of heart attack in Chicago
Columbus Ga. Col. Frank Mansfield Jr. husband of former Miss Golfo Mitchell of Columbus, died suddenly of a heart attack in Chicago Thursday. Mrs. Mansfield is the daughter of Mrs. Alex Mitchell of Columbus. he was the son of the late Col. F. S. Mansfield Sr. of Bowling Green Ky.
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Columbus
Frank Mansfield Jr
Golfo Mitchell
Chicago
Mansfield
Alex Mitchell
F. S Mansfield Sr
Bowling Green
Georgian and Daughter Found Dead in Cabin
Harold A Miller Jr. aged 39 of Decatur Georgia and his 9 year old daughter Kitty were found dead early Sunday in a tourist cabin at Kadoka South Dakota. A coroner s jury ruled death by gas poisoning due to a gas water heater that had gone out. Sheriff Harold Bradfield stated the heater failed before the deaths occurred.
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Kadoka
S. D
Harold A Miller Jr
Decatur
Kitty
Harold Bradfield
Macon Woman Wins Top Sewing Award at National Contest
Mrs Theo Nakas of Macon won first prize in the 11th annual National Sewing Contest after immigrating from Yugoslavia as a bride. At the Waldorf Astoria her linen White afternoon dress with diagonal wrap closing and buttoned cape impressed top designers and writers.
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New York
Theo Nakas
Macon
Vacation Safety drive urged for Georgia motorists
The Georgia Citizens Council promotes June and July as Vacation Safety with the aim of fewer highway deaths. Officials urge constant caution, noting high rural fatality rates and that no driver can relax behind the wheel.
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Garland T Byrd
Citizens Council
Georgia
Georgia Citizens Council
Nursing student Mary Jo Harvey demonstrates blood pressure check
A clinic scene shows Mary Jo Harvey of Butler class of September 1949 demonstrating how to take a patient's blood pressure. The caption highlights opportunities for student nurses in clinical work.
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Mary Jo Harvey
Butler
Three Face Trial in Janes Murder
Augusta June 8 Three persons face trial on indictments of conspiracy to murder in the strangling of 7 year old Lois Janes. Detained were Lovey Ivey 56 roving fish bait digger Mamie Price 52 grandmother of the slain girl and E H Price 35 of Macon her son. Sheriff M G Whittle theorized the little girl was murdered with the intent of collecting insurance amounting to 4000 dollars.
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Augusta
Lois Janes
Lovey Ivey
Mamie Price
E. H. Price
Macon
M. G. Whittle
Magnet Removes Object From Atlanta Girl's Abdomen
A powerful magnet air mailed from Schenectady New York was used to remove the cover of an automobile door lock from the stomach of three year old Carol Morrison of Atlanta. The child swallowed the object about six weeks ago after several diets and drugs failed to dislodge it. Magnets then on the market did not attract the object.
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Atlanta
Schenectady
N. Y
Carol Morrison
God the Preserver of Man Lesson Sermon Theme
The Sunday Christian Science Lesson Sermon centers on God as the Preserver of Man and the divine protection offered to believers. It cites II Timothy 4:18 and Psalms 16:5-6, plus a Science and Health assertion that God creates man and divine Principle maintains perfection in man.
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Christian Science
God the Preserver of Man
Mary Baker Eddy
God
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William Earl Avera
Ft. Valley
Columbus Cafe
George S. Wicker of
Americus
George Washington University
Lake Beatrice
Irwin County
Department of the Georgia Veterans of Foreign Wars
Athens
Herman Talmadge
Jas. S. Wood
Vienna
Oglethorpe Baptist Church
W. A. Anderson
State Sunday School
Bornd
Mack Mathews
Columbus High School
Daytona Beach
Eastman
Barnesville
Carnesville
William Eubanks
L. D. Eubanks
John Arvil
Montezuma
Hawkins Dykes
Southwestern Bar Association
Middle Georgia
Vivian Arrington Noble
Nashville, Tenn
South Georgia Trade Vocational School
Geo. L. Langley
Hartford
Hawkinsville
G. C. Newberry
Waverly Hall
Adel
The
Woodmen of the World
Homeland
Dixie Quartet
Douglas
DeKalb
Carolyn Althea Cappock
Pine Mountain
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Park
Billy Peavy
Leroy Peavy
Cuthbert
Wm. A. Fort
Henry B. Mobley
Wilson Turner
Meriwether County
Monday
Cobb County
Hi Morley
W. W. Harris
W. H. McKenzie
Willis Smith
Carrollton
Georgia House of Representatives
Robert Eugene Matheson
Federal Housing Administration
Erle Cocke Jr
Dawson
American Legion
Georgia Bar Association
Savannah
Mercer University
Ansley Hotel
U. S
Harry Byrd
Virginia
Senate
Ork
Phillips
Georgia Power Tow Raies
Midville
Tay Eury
Col
F. S. Mansfield, Jr
Georgian Citizen Council
Georgia Press Association
Janes
Admiral
General Electric
John Turk
Butler, GA
L. M. Doyel
Pontiac
Beau
Check Pontiac Co
Buitier, Georgia
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