Raids Bare Bogus Money In Two-State Counterfeit Ring
Five men were arrested in a two-state crackdown on counterfeiting with more than $100,000 in counterfeit $20 bills seized. Vernon D. Spicer of the Secret Service said one arrestee was Jacksonville businessman Wm. E. Baysden, 44, who was taken from his home at 4 a.m. This followed a 1958 Baysden furniture store raid that uncovered $776,680 in fake bills.
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Jacksonville
N. C
Secret Service
Vernon D. Spicer
Charlotte
Wm. E. Baysden
Spicer
Baysden
Illiterates in Prison Put at 7 Per Cent
A Georgia survey shows 7 percent of state prisoners are illiterate. W. C. Harris notes over two thirds failed past eighth grade, with 6 190 inmates under eight grade education. The study guides a plan for inmate education.
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Atlanta
Georgia
W. C. Harris
State Department of Corrections
Harris
Reidsville
Ambulance Collision Fatality in Atlanta
An ambulance and a car crashed at a street intersection in Atlanta on Monday. The heart patient inside the ambulance, Olin Smith, died on arrival at Grady Hospital. Four others were injured, including the drivers and two female ambulance passengers.
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Atlanta
Olin Smith
Smith
Grady Hospital
Woman’s Body Recovered From Ocmulgee River
In Warner Robins Georgia searchers recovered the body of 37 year old Laura Ivester after a boat carrying four people capsized in the Ocmulgee River Sunday Several hundred yards from a bridge the tragedy occurred when the boat overturned while crossing the river authorities said Ivester drowned in the incident
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Warner Robins
Ocmulgee River
Laura _Ivester
Journal Man Receives Top Writing Prize
Reese Cleghorn, 32, assistant city editor of the Atlanta Journal, won the Georgia Associated Press top writing prize for a series on Southeast Georgia clip joints. Mind is not necessarily dependent on educational processes, it possesses beauty and poetry and the power to express them.
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Augusta
Georgia Associated Press
Reese Cleghorn
Atlanta Journal
Cleghorn
Georgia
Mary Eddy
Multimillionaire Says You Have to Gamble
George Mordy arrived in Los Angeles 40 years ago without a job and rose to chair Spring Street Capital Co. He declares a philosophy of risk and intuition but notes modern data reduces guesswork. Mordy, born in England and educated at the University of British Columbia, built a diversified finance empire funding small businesses with loans from twenty thousand to one million dollars overnight.
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Los Angeles
George Mordy
Canada
England
University of British Columbia
Mordy
Spring Street Capital Co
Moray
Locks Dams Deleted From Flint River Development Plan
The Army Engineers Board for Rivers and Harbors approved a multi million dollar Flint River project but endorsed deleting two locks and dams near Albany and Bainbridge after intervention from Senator Herman Talmadge. The move follows prior approvals and clears a path for congressional consideration.
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Washington, D. C
Albany
Bainbridge
Flint River
Army Engineers Board For Rivers and Harbors
Congress
Herman Talmadge
Cross Roads Club Plans Work Day and Family Night
In observance of National H D Week the Cross Roads Club outlines a week of activities. Members plant flowers at Mt Pisgah Church and repair the club house while preparing for a Saturday Family Night with craft displays and a community covered dish supper followed by a program.
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Mt. Pisgah
Thomaston to open Upson County technical school in 1963
Final legal work completed for the Thomaston and Upson County Area Technical School. Supt Gordon R Holston forecasts opening by September 1963. The board signed leases and agreements to fund state matching finance for a 269000 dollar facility of 27000 square feet near Thomaston Country Club.
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Thomaston
Upson County Area Technical School
Gordon R. Holston
Upson County Board of Education
State School Building Authority
Trade School Board
Roberts & Co
Groud
Thomaston Country Club
Vicious parallels warned in Vietnam crisis and Korea lessons
The piece argues the United States could repeat Korea by entangling in South Vietnam through cross border guerrilla incursions from North Vietnam. It notes parallels like the 17th parallel, China’s saber rattling, and warns against limited action that invites broader Chinese and nationalist intervention.
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United States
South Vietnam
Korea
South Korea
North Korea
North Vietnam
China
Manchuria
Communist Interevention
Vietnam
Mao
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