May Queen named at Brenau College in Georgia
Miss Jane Ray of Corinth wins Brenau College May Queen honor as veterans gather, routes open and local incidents feature a mix of awards deaths promotions and civic notes across Georgia during the week. Notable items include gasoline price cuts, highway completion, arrests and recoveries, a governor’s education move, hospital improvements, and various local state events across Columbus Albany Macon and Valdosta.
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Jane Ray
Corinth
Brenau College
Macon County Receives RFC Funds for Jobs Program
Montezuma Georgia May 9 Macon county has received the first RFC loan to relieve unemployment and 250 men were put to work this week on drainage and sanitation projects across the county Mrs J A Thomas appointed social worker in charge of charity relief
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Montezuma
Macon County
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
JA. Thomas
Metter to Get Second Weekly Newspaper The Metter News
Metter Ga May 4 publication of a new weekly paper The Metter News to be launched by H R Yandle with first edition on May 11 His wife is Metter post mistress and both have prior newspaper experience in Athens and Lyons The News will give Metter five weeklies including the retained Metter Advertiser sold years ago by the Candlers.
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Metter
Metter News
H. R. Yandle
Athens
Lyons
Candler County
Metter Advertiser
Georgians convert hotel into churc a
Fargo Georgia residents transformed a hotel into a place of worship on May seven. Citizens lacking a church gathered with hammers and saws, received permission from Superior Pine Products to repurpose the inn, and quickly completed renovations before opening revival services.
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Fargo
Superior Pine Products Company
College roommate of Talmadge and Gowter auto victims
Atlanta May 7 Henry L Bel lingrath 52 roommate of Governor Talmadge at the University of Georgia and James Gowter 11 were killed Saturday night when struck by a hit and run driver at a street intersection. Passersby said the automobile hit the man and boy who were walking about 80 feet apart after sideswiping two other cars. Officers later located the death car at a Negro’s home and on Sunday hunted its driver.
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Atlanta
Henry L. Bellingrath
Talmadge
University of Georgia
James Gowter
Retired Georgia Teacher W J Noyles Dies in Macon
Prof W J Noyles a retired teacher famed in Georgia school circles died at his daughter Mrs H W Pittman’s Macon home on May 9 He graduated from Dartmouth College and taught in Cedartown Elberton Forsyth Americus Boys High in Atlanta and 18 years at Macon Leiner High School He retired two years ago due to ill health One former student was Corra White now author Corra Harris from Georgia
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Eo Ga
W. J. Noyles
H. W Pittman
Macon
Noyes
Dartmouth College
Cedartown
Elberton
Forsyth
Americus
Tig Leiner High School
Malon
Corra White
Corra Harris
Georgia
Elaborate Bi-Centennial Program Set for Columbus
Columbus Georgia plans a statewide bicentennial celebration May 14 to 20 with religious services a flower show a historic luncheon honoring Georgia women a bicentennial lecture a ball a historical pageant with 4000 participants a carnival a bicentennial queen pageant and a Negro pageant depicting the contributions of the race to Georgia development culminating in a final ball
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Columbus
Georgia
Hailstorm damages Griffin area including Highland Mill
A Sunday hail storm in Griffin Georgia caused widespread damage. Window panes totaling about 2000 were broken at the Highland Mill and homes nearby. The storm cracked mill roofs and damaged machinery, with fruit trees ruined in some districts. Eggsized hail stones were reported.
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Griffin
Highland Mill
Notice to Taxpayers Tax Fi Fas Delinquent 1929 1931
Sheriff R P McGuffin warns taxpayers to pay taxes for 1929 1930 and 1931 at once to avoid added costs and embarrassment. Delinquents will be notified by letter where possible. notice serves as formal demand.
Georgia farmers win cash awards for soil profits
Athens Ga May 8 Profits ranging upward to 50 percent on investments during 1982 won cash awards for 28 Georgia farmers who proved there is real money in the soil for men who use their heads and hands. Georgia Power Co funded prizes. A H Jennings Sumter County captured the state first prize of 100 with 40.61 percent on a 6426 investment. W A Akins Bulloch County led district gains at 60.27 percent. District firsts included H O Stephens Fulton 29.78 percent and FE C Cabaniss Oglethorpe 14.92 percent. scoring totals and prize breakdowns noted.
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Athens
Georgia
Georgia Power Company
Georgia State College of Agriculture
A. H. Jennings
Sumter County
W. A. Akins
Bulloch County
Jennings
Akins
H. O. Stephens
Fulton County
FE. C. Cabaniss
Oglethorpe County
Wesleyan College Servant Dies in Gasoline Explosion
In Macon on May 8 W Donald Griffin a servant at Wesleyan College died the morning after a gasoline explosion in the wineing nail outside the campus. Warne Laylor a Negro woman burned in the blast remained in critical condition at Macon Hospital. Preston Broady testified that his father Arthur Broady was cleaning pants in a gasoline bucket when Gussie Johnson a dining hall helper heated a comb on an electric hot plate igniting vapors and causing the fire. Griffin dashed into the yard as his clothing burned while Broady wrapped him in a table cloth. Rayford's clothing burned and elder Broady suffered serious burns but was expected to recover.
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Macon
Wdonald Griffin
Wesleyan College
Warne Laylorn
Preston Broady
Arthur Broady
Gussie Johnson
Griffin
Broady
Rayford
Cordele Dispatch Sells Hawkinsville Paper Return to Cordele
Cordele Georgia May 9 C A Pound long time Cordele Dispatch publisher sold the Hawkinsville Dispatch and News to J E Baynard who will run it starting immediately Baynard has been Cordele Dispatch business manager for two years Pound who led Cordele Dispatch for 16 years under C E Brown will return to his former editor role His mother a pioneer Cordele editor died recently in Florida
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Cordele
C. A. Pound
Cordele Dispatch
Hawkinsville
Junior Chamber of Commerce
The
American Legion
Pound
C. E. Brown
Dispatch
Florida
Cuthbert Jurist Asked to Sit in Supreme Court
Judge C W Worrill of Cuthbert, a Taylor County Superior Court judge, is appointed to preside with Georgia Supreme Court justices in Atlanta on May 18. The governor made the appointment on the justices recommendation, with Worrill traveling to Atlanta on May 12. His supporters note the honor recognizes his ability as a jurist by the state’s highest court.
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Cuthbert Leader
Charles W. Worrill
Jude
Superior Courts
Pataula Circuit
Taylor Superior Court
McLaughlin
C. W. Worrill
Cuthbert
Supreme Court
Atlanta
Georgia Power Company
Worrill
Davis to be named district attorney for Middle Georgia
Atlanta May 9 The Constitution reports T Hoyt Davis of Vienna Georgia has been nominated as U S District Attorney for the Middle district of Georgia. The nomination was sent to the White House from the Department of Justice and will go to the Senate for approval. Davis currently serves as solicitor of the Cordele circuit.
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Atlanta
The
Constitution
Washington
T. Hoyt Davis
Vienna
U. S
Middle District
Georgia
White House
Department of Justice
Senate
Roosevelt
Davis
Cordele
Carnes Finishes Term in Prison and Goes to Hospital
Atlanta May 4 Clinton s Carnes, former treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, has completed his minimum sentence and is now at the state tuberculosis sanatorium in Alto for treatment. He pleaded guilty in 1929 to embezzling bonds valued at about 80,000 from the board, with total alleged defalcations near 985,000. Carnes was released from Milledgeville penitentiary March 12 and later confirmed to be at the sanatorium by prison commission chairman E L Rainey. He had disappeared in 1928, was arrested in Winnipeg, and returned to Atlanta. He had turned over his property to the board and aided in untangling the denomination’s affairs. The board had agreed to sentence to avoid a distant-travel trial. Carnes served about 6 to 7 years after a 10-year treasurership.
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Atlanta
Clinton’ S. Carnes
Home Mission Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Alto
Carnes
Baptist Home Mission Board
The
Home Board
Milledgeville Penitentiary
E. L. Rainey
State Prison Commission
South
Winnipeg
Canada
Rev. L. R. Christie
Thomasville Girl Among First Ten Beauties Named Queen Contenders
Miss Lila S. Hammond of Thomasville tops early list in the Great Queen Contest conducted by the Atlanta Journal and Chicago Tribune. She hails from a distinguished Georgia family with colonial and gubernatorial lineage and is descended from Pocahontas. Ten Southern entrants join 51 finalists to vie for the Century of Progress Court with a $10,000 prize split among queen and ladies in waiting.
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Peor Brunet
Atlanta Journal
Chicago Tribune
Lila S. Hammond
Phomaay Ile
W. J. Hammond
S. C. Atkinson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Hammond
Chicago
Georgia
Col
John Screven
Savannah
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
The
Tribune
Exonerated minister acquitted in Brooks county murder case
Rev. Morgan Watkins, 74, a former Methodist minister who joined the Nazarene church, was acquitted by a Brooks county superior court jury after a one day trial in Quitman Ga. He had been indicted for killing neighbor L. J. Atkinson in Pavo on May 22, 1932, the blow delivered with a walking cane after an argument over a torn patch. Watkins surrendered after the incident and had been released on bond at a preliminary trial.
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Quitman
Morgan Watkins
L. J. Atkinson
Pavo
Brooks County
Brooks County Superior Court
Watkins
Nazarene Church
Atkinson
Bank robbery tale closes Fayetteville man’s drive to Atlanta
A bank official, Mr. Hewell, was abducted by bandits who guarded his family and forced him to drive to the bank vault. They looted 1600 dollars, moved him to Atlanta, then Arlington roads before returning toward Fayetteville, with Hewell later reporting the sequence in East Atlanta and Brown’s Station.
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W. MM. Gay
Hewell
Mr. Hewell
Atlanta
Jonesboro
Rem
Bane
Brown
Fayetteville
Georgia highway officials face restructuring over funding
Federal officials express confidence in B P McWhorter and R K Black as chief highway and bridge engineers while the Georgia governor questions their efficiency. A governor letters dispute MacDonald and a state-wide staff reduction of 15 general officials and employees set for after May 16 amid funding shortages for highway work.
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Federal Bureau
B. P. McWhort
R Kh Black
Uunds
MacDonald
Barnett
Thos. H. MacDonall
Georgia
Highway Department of Georgia
McWhorter
Barnet
Highway Board
Widow who remarries loses Confederate pension rights
Atlanta May 4 The Georgia attorney general ruled that a woman who marries a second husband ceases to be the widow of her first husband and upon his death becomes widow of the second husband, not the first. The ruling applies to Confederate pension claims and denies reinstating eligibility after remarriage. The director of state veterans service office requested the opinion to guide pension distributions.
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Atlanta
Eral
Georgia
Gener M. J. Yeomans
A. L. Henson
State Veterans’ Service Office
Henson
Yeomans
Yeomans “Stroa Thare
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John Mason Reid
Southern Railway
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Woodrow Wilson
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James A. Fort
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Max L. McRae
State Bureau of Markets
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Effingham
Robert F. Hargroves
Doswell
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Zittrauer
E. G. Blanton
Travelers’ Protective Association of America
Thos. W. Pruitt
Mary Hanley
Allen W. Daughtry
Wilkinson
Danville
Big Sandy Creek
Daughtry
Georgia Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
E. A. Cawthon
Ada Mohn-Landis
John Floyd
Canton
Jim Moore
W. V. Dew
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Rev
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