Georgia News Snapshot Highlights Farm Cheer and Travel
Okra yields 2000 dollars per acre for Georgia farmers. Gov Arnall departs for a ten day governors conference at Mackinac Island. Hoyle Yandle named public relations director and editor of Georgia Farm Bureau News. Postmaster General Hannegan and Senator Russell to attend Gainesville Fourth of July. Coca Cola supply curbed due to sugar shortage starting July 1. Warm Springs resettlement project auctions 3000 acres. Trapeze accident injures Pauline Howell Penny in Clifton New Jersey. Columbus hosts a near tragedy involving Chief Reese and two Ft Benning officers. one officer’s wife wounded.
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Columbus
Reese
Ft. Benning
Americus to Host Georgia Vet Contact Office Network
Georgia will establish 17 veteran contact offices. John M. Slaton Jr. announced locations including Americus Statesboro Albany Moultrie Bainbridge Fitzgerald LaGrange Griffin Dublin Rome Dalton Brunswick Valdosta Waycross Gainesville Augusta and Athens. Each office will have one contact man and one clerk stenographer and open within 60 days.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Washington
John M. Slaton Jr
Atlanta Area
Slaton
Statesboro
Albany
Moultrie
Bainbridge
Americus
Fitzgerald
LaGrange
Griffin
Dublin
Rome
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Brunswick
Valdosta
Waycross
Gainesville
Augusta
Athens
Camp in Europe Named For Atlanta Receives Gifts
Atlanta mayor May or Hartsfield announced the city’s name will grace Army redevelopment centers in Europe as part of 17 American cities. Camp Atlanta will be located at a European port and thousands of veterans will pass through in coming months. Col. W. M. Wright Jr. supplied the notice and requested items themed around Atlanta to decorate the European namesake.
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Atlanta
Europe
Hartsfield
Camp Atlanta
W. M. Wright Jr
Assembly Assembly
Col
Jefferson Man Is Shot To Death In Family Feud Incident
Johnnie Todd a young white man is held in Louisville jail charged with the fatal shooting of Walter Smith a white farmer from Grange. Sheriff James Hubbard says the shooting stemmed from ill will between Smith and the Todd family dating back two years after a fight that left Bob Todd badly cut. No inquest has been held. witnesses say there were several eye witnesses.
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Louisville
Johnnie Todd
Walter Smith
Grange
James Hubbard
Hubbard
Smith
Todd
Bob Todd
Johnnie
Watermelon Growers Face Ventilated Car Shortage in Georgia
Georgia farmers warn of serious trouble shipping watermelons as ventilated railroad cars run scarce. W. R. McDonald of the Public Service Commission says crop movement may stall, risking price drops and field waste without urgent car availability and faster rail reallocation.
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Georgia
Atlanta
W. R. McDonald
Georgia Public Service Commission
McDonald
W.C. Kendall
Association of American Railroads
Washington
Southern Lines
Kendall
Southeastern Lines
Territories
Col. J. M. Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Noted Educator-Minister Dr J C Solomon Dies in Macon
Dr J C Solomon retired Baptist minister of Fitzpatrick died in a Macon hospital after a brief illness. Born January 28 1861 in Twiggs County Georgia he earned degrees from Mercer University Atlanta Medical College and honorary doctor of divinity He served Mercer and Bessie Tift College as trustees and held church pastorates in Dublin Macon and Atlanta He wrote Lights and Shadows and other works and was Twiggs county historian-elect at his death.
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Macon
J. C. Solomon
Fitzapatrick
Dr. Solomon
Twiggs County
W. L. and
Avarilla Fitzpatrick Solomon
Mercer University
Atlanta Medical College
University of Chicago
Northfield
Mass
Bessie Tift College
Solomon
Cox College
Georgia Baptist Convention
Georgia Anti-Saloon League
South Carolina
Georgia
Dublin
Atlanta
Cuba
Canada
Europe
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Bethlehem
Contracts Set for Appling Toombs County Bridge Work
State Highway Director Ryburn Clay announced $5,000,000 in highway contracts will be let within 60 days for 1945 completion. Toombs and Appling counties receive $1,650,000 for a new Altamaha river bridge at Piney Bluff. The WPB approved the list as essential with the state contributing 25 percent.
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Atlanta
Ryburn Clay
Clay
WPB
Toombs
Appling
Altamaha River
Piney Bluff
Death Sentence Inmate Tries Escape From Albany Jail
Albany Ga June 25 Jack Roy Green a Negro condemned to die for an attack on a farm woman sawed through one set of bars in Dougherty County jail and was halfway through another when detected Sheriff D C Campbell reported Green an escaped convict from Thomasville had been held in jail at Albany for safekeeping An Albany Negro was arrested and charged with aiding in Green s escape plot The officer said Green sawed through two steel bars of a bull pen cell sawed out another bar on a street window and had started work on a second bar in the window Chief Deputy Gordon R Stokes discovered the sawed bars last Thursday The officer said a Negro arrested for larceny and later released on bond put three hacksaw blades in a loaf of bread and placed the bread on a box in the jail yard outside Green s window Green now is in the state prison at Reidsville awaiting execution Friday.
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Albany
Jack Roy Green
Americus
Dougherty County
D. C. Campbell
Green
Thomasville
Campbell
Gordon R. Stokes
Reidsville
Pelham Man Kills Wife and Child Then Ends Life
Pelham electrician Lawrence Le land Lastinger 49 killed his wife and stepdaughter 12 then took his own life after four other children hid from the shooting. Officers said the family had both spouses with previous marriages and four surviving children named Cecil Irene Don and Mabel.
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Pelham
Lawrence Leland Lastinger
Thomasville
Paul Thomas
Lastinger
No such thing, post office says no fountain of youth
Kinston North Carolina June 25 postmaster Wayne A Mitchell says there is no fountain of youth at the post office. An elderly woman asked for old age resistance and was referred to old age assistance authorities.
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Kinston
N. C
Wayne A. Mitchell
Prohibition Hero Judge Covington Dies in Moultrie
Judge W. A. Covington 76, famed for Prohibition work, died at his Moultrie home Saturday. Funeral services were held at Moultrie Methodist Church. He served as Moultrie City Court judge, then state representative for Colquitt, co authored Georgia Prohibition bill, aided abolition of convict lease system, with final assembly service in 1919-1920.
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Moultrie
Moultrie Methodist Church
W. A. Covington
Allen D. Candler
Colquitt
L. G. Hardman
House
Georgia
Covington
General Assembly
Barn Destroyed by Lightning on Ellaville Farm
A barn on the C. R. Robinson farm near Ellaville Hopewell was struck by lightning last week and burned. One mule and two calves died, with 100 bushels of corn and several tons of hay also lost.
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Ellaville
C. R. Robinson
Hopewell
Americus Jeweler James T. Cotney Dies at 84
Americus collapses in mourning as James T. Cotney, 84, lifelong jeweler with 60 years in Americus, passes. Funeral services were held Saturday at Lee Street Chapel. Survived by a sister in Jacksonville and several Americus nieces and nephews.
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Americus Jeweler
Americus
Lee Street
Jas. T. Cotney
Mr. Cotney
Cotton Avenue
J. W. Colson
Jacksonville, Fla
E. C. Ryals
E. E. Lee
Fred Morgan
Carl Ryals
Negro leader to head Lincoln University at Oxford
The Lincoln University board announced on Saturday the election of Dr. Horace Mann Bond as president. Bond, currently president of Fort Valley State College in Ft. Valley Georgia, will become the first Black head of Lincoln University in its 91 year history.
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Philadelphia
Horace Mann Bond
Lincoln University
Oxford
Bond
Fort Valley State College
Ft. Valley
Sundry Household Remedies and Patent Medicines Listing
A compact readers’ list shows assorted tonics tonics medicines and consumer goods priced from 23c to 90c. Items include rubbing alcohol epsom salt borax new pe-ru-na saccharin tabs Lydia E Pinkham preparations Listerine and various patent medicines. Several infant care and digestive aids appear among the catalog offerings.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
S.S
Philip Milk
Magnesia
Miles Nervine
Cardus Glovers
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