Georgia News of the Week Highlights
Georgia stories cover election of Alice Burrows as Wesleyan editor, dwindling Confederate survivors, Herman Talmadge’s naval commission, a fatal hit and run in Cuthbert, Georgia garden school, mass army inductions, twins birth, Fort Benning class expansion, University of Georgia editors back at work, gubernatorial parole actions, highway equipment auction, farm freight rate debate, judge nominations, pipeline bills, Camp Wheeler fatalities, Judge Barrett’s death, pardon power debate, fatal car crash in Covington area, May Day at Georgia Southwestern, potential US Court judges, Georgia Southwestern scholar to Emory, notable Georgian physicians and students, and road fatalities from high tension wires.
Air raid shelters planned for Mason project homes Macon
On May 3 Macon officials announced that air raid shelters will be provided for 465 new defense homes to be built by the U.S. Housing Authority. Tentative layouts show underground shelters within 200 feet of any residence though final plans await approval. Federal Works Administration figures place Macon among the leading cities in defense housing, ahead of all but two nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
U.S. Housing Authority
Federal Works Administration
Spalding Firms Hire 5224 Employees in Griffin Area
The 1940 U S census lists about 38 plants in Spalding county employing 5224 people with payroll near 4 million dollars annually. Griffin hosts 26 plants, twelve outside city lines, in a district of about 22 000 residents. The region ranks among larger cities in employment in local plants.
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Griffin
Spalding County
Augusta
Macon
Cordele Journalists Buy South Georgian
Cordele May 3 Carey A Pound news editor and advertising manager and Fred DuVall head operator and machinist of the Cordele Dispatch relinquished their posts to run a weekly paper and print shop in Moultrie. Pound has 25 years in Cordele journalism and DuVall a year and a half with the Dispatch. They purchased the South Georgian, a weekly publication in Moultrie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordele
Carey A. Pound
Cordele Dispatch
Fred DuVall
Moultrie
Pound
DuVall
Dispatch
Farm Security Office to Move from Columbus to Ellaville
The Farm Security Administration district office now in Columbus will relocate to Ellaville by June 1. FSA representatives arranged to lease space in a warehouse near Central of Georgia Railway, owned by M. J. Arrington, with repairs to meet agency needs. Headquarters will be established at Ellaville by the deadline, and four men and three or more female assistants will relocate there.
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Farm Security Administration
Columbus
Eilaville
FSA
Central of Georgia Railway
M. J. Arrington
Agency
Ellaville
Filaville
Young Officers to be Called to Active Duty
The War Department announced that more than 8,000 young officers will be called to active duty as second lieutenants this summer upon college graduation and ROTC training completion. The ROTC summer training camps will begin in June at 31 Army Posts, and those who finished ROTC but not college will be summoned immediately.
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Washington
War Department
Reserve
Reynolds Girl Weds North Carolina Man in Jeffersonville
May 3 report of the marriage of Miss Eleanor Kathryn Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilson of Reynolds, to Franklin Edward Watts, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Watts of Statesville, NC. The ceremony took place Tuesday evening, March 18 in Jeffersonville. The bride wore a powder blue dress with beige accessories. Mrs. I. J. Bullington of Macon attended the couple. Eleanor Wilson Watts is a Reynolds High School graduate with post graduate commercial work and studied at Georgia State College for Women. She was with Dixie Peach Exchange in Barnesville. Watts is a Statesville native and Mitchell College alumnus, employed by T. L. Dryard & Co. in North Carolina, contractors for Southern Bell. The couple honeymooned in Washington, DC and Statesville.
Rural youth urged to lead in food production during wartime
The article stresses preparing now to boost home food, feed, poultry, and livestock output as nations fight dictators in Europe. It urges rural youth to adopt the Live at Home program, shift from grocery reliance, and take responsibility in the national defense effort.
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Europe
Columbus Girl Dies in Poison Incident at Empire Cafe
Mrs. John Taylor, 19, of Columbus, bride of three weeks, collapsed in the Empire cafe rest room after drinking from a bottled soft drink. A poison bottle was found on the floor. she was rushed to the hospital but died en route. Police report apparent suicide.
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Columbus
Empire Cafe
John Taylor
Mrs. Taylor
Taylor County Georgia Tax Sales Notice 1941 Bid June First Tuesday
Legal ad for Taylor County GA announcing sale of a warehouse in Mauk and 12.5 acres lot 288 in the 11th district to satisfy state and county tax liens for multiple years. Auctions set for the first Tuesday in June 1941 at the courthouse door. Sheriff J M Bone signs.
Public sale of Taylor County land by Federal Farm Mortgage
Legal notice states default on a 1934 deed to secure debt by Claude E Averett. The Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation will auction the whole Lot 20, 12th District Taylor County, Georgia, containing 202.5 acres, on the first Tuesday in June 1941 during legal hours at the county courthouse in Taylor County. A deed will be issued to the buyer. The sale is conducted by Chas C Stone attorney for the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Claude E. Averett
Land Bank
Taylor County Superior Court
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Bell Brothers
Sid Trice
D. L Averett
Wilder Bros
Federal Land Bank of Columbia
Columbia
S. C
Chas, C. Stone
Atty.-at-Law
Notice to Debtors and Creditors Rosa Turner Estate
Creditors of the Rosa Turner estate are notified to present their demands and all indebted persons must pay promptly. Dated March 31, 1941, A. M. Halley, Administrator, Reynolds, Georgia.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Rosa Turner
A. M. Halley
Reynolds, Ga
Ratings Announced For Junior Music Festival Honors Given
Mrs W L Curtis announced ratings for the Junior Competitive Festival after an attendance of 233. No Superior ratings were given in piano statewide due to a Federation score raise. Ten students earned Superior in Musicianship with various local club winners noted. Entries included Butler Thomaston Sumterville Forsyth and Atlanta participants across piano voice and scrapbooking events.
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W. L. Curtis
National Federation of Music Clubs
Butler
Reynolds
College Park
Thomaston
Miniature Club
Summerville
Frances Flanigan
Forsyth
William Hutchinson
Pamela Williams
Atlanta
Barbara Thomas
Athens
Betty Yates
Emily Hancock
Joyce Childs
Joan Morrison
Rome
Louise Johnson
J. S. Green
Claire Short
Mildred Jones
Anne Halley
Jane Horn
Kathryn Amos
June Obley
Russell to Speak at Georgia County Commissioners Meet
Hon. Richard B. Russell of Georgia will headline the 27th annual convention program. The event takes place at the Bon Air Hotel in Augusta on Wednesday through Friday of this week.
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Richard B. Russell
Georgia
The
Association of County Commissioners of Georgia
Bon Air Hotel
Augusta
Co Op Poultry Sales at Reynolds and Butler Tuesday
County Agent E G Blackwell urges local poultrymen to bring fowls to Reynolds and Butler market Tuesday May 13 within designated hours. Reynolds sale runs 8 to 12 morning and Butler sale 1 to 4 afternoon. Warren Produce bids include Colored Hens 13c Fryers Colored 17c Fryers Leghorn 15c Stags Cocks 9c Turkeys 15c Ducks and Geese 10c.
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Reynolds Co- Or
Soe
Rtock Ee
Butler Cooperative
Warren Produce Company
Ste
Leghorn
Blackwell
Long Ballot Printed for June Election in Georgia
Atlanta report notes the June 3 off year general election will feature the largest ballot in Georgia history. The 17 by 44 inch ballot lists 68 proposed constitutional amendments and one statewide candidate. Printing began late Tuesday under a Rivers-era law revealed at the recent General Assembly session.
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Atlanta
Georgia
E. B&@ Rivers
General Assembly
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Alice Burrows
Jacksonville
Fla
Wesleyan College
Herman Talmadge
Naval Intelligence Corps
Naval Reserve
Hubert Avery
Cuthbert Gin Co
Cuthbert
University of Georgia
Garden Club of Georgia
Charles Mitchell
Worth County
Ft. Benning
R. T. Brown
Colege
Eugene Talmadge
State Highway Department
Commissioner of Agriculture
Tom Linder
Bar Associations
Frank M. Scarlett
Brunswick
U. S
Wm. H. Barrett
Congress
Wm. Hale Barrett
Georgia Southern District
Barrett
Fulton County Grand Jury
State Supreme Court
Benton Hammock
Tennille
Washington Manufacturing Co
Fuller Davis
Bill Hammock
Ben Huiet
Georgia Plywood Corporation
Dublin
J. B. Pound Hotel Co
DeSoto Hotel
Savannah
DeSoto Beach Hotel
Savannah Beach
Robert White
Washington Island
Robert Douglas
Gainesville
Covington
Mansfield
Georgia Southwestern College
Vi Milam
LaGrange
U. S. Court For
Southern District of Georgia
A. B. Lovett
F. W. Quattlebaum
J. E. French
Quattlebaum
Collum Hall
Dudley
R. O. Powell
F. A. Derouin
Co. D. ‘Eighth
Camp Wheeler
U. S. Army
J. H. Hester
John Bryant
Emory University
Coleges of
Claude Battle
Battle
Eatonton
Old Atlanta Dental College
Candier
Bolling Jones
Constance MacFeeley
Anne Byrd Frior
Lawrence Huff Hull
Stokes Walker
Clearwater
J. E. Register
Edward J. Lawson
Brunswick Automobile
Set
J. G. Shannon
Co. E
209Th Coast Artillery
Cam Stewart
Shannon
Buffalo
N. R
Grangerville
Co. C. McKnight
Senoia
Rome Kingston
Claude Shiflett
John Stallings
Shiflett
Stallings
Mason Project
Spalding
Schley
North Carolina
Sheriff's Sales
Court House
Mauk
J. W. Lancaster
Lewis Watson
Roy Waller
Joe Wilder
J. M. Downs
L. C
Said County
G. C. Robinson
Levy
J. M. Bone
Leetimae Folds
Barbara Anderson
LaFayette
Lucile Johnson
Bruce Lackey
Therese Wallace
Jean Peed
Katherine Siegler
Vincent Ssie
Ann Frew
Theresa Wallace
Frances Abney
Margaret Whitner
Ann Yarbrough
Elaine Windham
Marshall Cantrell
Cartersville
Bill Rhyme LaFayette
H. G. Pye Jr
Joan Fitziimons
Myriam Styles
Jane Colbert
Mary Thrash
Clyde Afay Green
Phillip Cutler
Elizabeth Blair
Helen Chance
Co-Op
Reynolds and Butler
Yee
Natches
Dresser
Tle Sandal
Dreszin Dry Goods Store
Butler, GA
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