Georgia News Roundup Highlights Local Officials and Crises
Muscogee county reports 66 teacher shortage while diverse Georgia items appear. Blight threatens South Georgia tomatoes. deaths include former Senator J. W. Overstreet of Wadley. AdelOrdinary Mrs. Carolyn T. Harris sworn in Cook County. Bond sales in Muscogee reach 131165 dollars. Watermelon contest in Crisp County. dental board elects Dr. C A Yarbrough Macon president. Packing plant strike ends. multiple traffic deaths and drownings reported. Local figures include judge William Garin Sr. of Macon and opens for Georgia-Florida tobacco markets. bishops and editors named in Macon and Dublin. Watermelon shipments near Cordele mark a record day.
Couple II wedding in Opelousas draws hundreds
A bride in white lace left her wheelchair to walk the aisle to her groom who rode in a wheelchair at their double ring ceremony in Opelousas. Dianne Dezouche, 18, and D D Glyn, 24, married before hundreds of town residents as Rev. Walton officiated.
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Opelousas
Dianne Dezouche
D. D. Glyn
Makena
Ill
R. E. Walton
Ex Official Kills Woman and Self in Atlanta Wedding Gift Crime
Former Georgia official Geo. C. Gaines 44 forced entry into Gladys Faulkner 30 in her apartment two days before their wedding, shot her then killed himself. Fiancé Mack Gaynor 30 unharmed. Police report chaos with blood and gifts scattered. Gaines had left the Department of Commerce in 1954 where Faulkner worked as bookkeeper and cashier.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Geo. C. Gaines
State Department of Commerce
Gladys Faulkner
State House
Gaines
Department
North Carolina Lady Joins Mercer University Faculty
Miss Alice Armfield of Concord North Carolina will join Mercer University in Macon as assistant professor of German beginning in September President G B Connell announced. Armfield a UNC graduate and University of Chicago MA heads the Modern Language Department at Anderson College Anderson S C. She replaces Prof Ed Newby on leave to finish his doctorate at UNC.
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Macon
Alice Armfield
Mercer University
G. B. Connell
Miss Armfield
Women’s College of the
University of North Carolina
University of Chicago
Concord
N. C
Phi Beta Kappa
the American
Assn
University Women
Modern Language
Anns
Ed Newby
Mercer
Anderson College
Anderson
S. C
Disabled Persons Urged to Apply for Social Security Freeze
R. E. O'Neal, Columbus Social Security district manager, warns disabled residents to apply before July 1 to freeze records retroactively if certain work rules are met. After June 30 no freeze can start earlier than one year prior, risking loss of protection for long‑time disabled workers. Contact the Social Security District Office at 911 Broadway, Columbus, Ga.
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Columbus
R. E. O'Neal
Social Security
Social Security District
Broadway
Two Georgia Men Drown in Separate Boating Accidents
Drowning claimed the lives of two Georgia men on Saturday. Geo. J. Costello of Atlanta, general manager of Kwik-Kafe of Georgia, Inc., drowned when his fishing boat overturned on Lake Acworth. Another Macon man died fishing in a pond near Dexter.
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Georgia
Geo. J. Costello
Atlanta
Kwik-Kafe of Georgia, Inc
Lake Acworth
Macon
Dexter
Muscogee County Expands Land Purchase for Airport
Muscogee County seeks to acquire more land to support airport expansion. Officials outline parcels under consideration, potential impact on air traffic access, and funding sources for the purchase. Local residents may see changes in zoning and infrastructure plans as the deal progresses.
Ashburn Woman Dr Dorothy Rogers Publishes Textbook
Dr Dorothy Rogers of Ashburn daughter of Mrs E A Rogers and the late Col E A Rogers authored a new textbook Mental Hygiene in Elementary Education. Published by Houghton Mifflin Co Boston this spring after ten years teaching and a Duke PhD in 1946 she joined Oswego College faculty in New York.
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Ashburn
Dorothy Rogers
E. A. Rogers
Houghton-Mifflin Co
Boston
Rogers
Duke University
Oswego College
Oswego
N.Y
United Press Marks 50th Anniversary
World leaders sent congratulations to United Press on its fifty year founding anniversary. The agency, incorporated June 21, 1907, was praised for accurate impartial coverage worldwide. Waterworks improvements worth 10000 dollars are now underway at Hamilton.
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Woodmen of the World
Omaha
Legal Reserve
Atlanta
United Press
Hamilton
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South Georgia
J. W. Overstreet
Wadley
H. L. Moore
Richland
Carolyn T. Harris
Adele
Cook County
U.S
The
Crisp County Chamber of Commerce
C. A. Yarbrough
State Board of Dental Examiners
Armour and Co. Tifton Packing Plant
William Garin, Sr
Houston County
Wesleyan Methodist
Brunswick
McIntosh County
Alma
Tifton
Thomaston
Lamar and Reddick
Dallas
John H. Hicks
Dublin
Mercer University Law Review
Wiley M. Griffin
Bainbridge
Georgia Dept. Veterans of Foreign Wars
Eugene Brown
Cordele
Clark Shingler
Ashburn Bank
Ashburn Kiwanis Club
Turner County
Talbot County High School
Talbotton Baptist Church
Washington
New York
Wesleyan College
Ford ‘Foundation
Wesleyan
J. F. Boddie Sr
Baldwin County
Milledgeville
Mercer Film Club
North Georgia Methodist Conference
Chicago
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Butler
National Storage Co
Spencer
Iowa
Angles ‘Peak
Neb
E. Tante
World Life Insurance Society
Farnom Street
Nebraska
Perry
Ga. Forestry Commission
Commission
W. B. Sexton
U. S. Highway 41
Sexton
North Carolina
Mercer’ University
Howard Community Club
Howard Methodist Charge Parsonage Fund
Taylor County
Howard Community
Howard Charge
Howard Wesley, Union, Mauk, Charing and Sand Bethel
Suggs Motor Company
Butler, Georgia
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