Georgia News Roundup Highlights Local Tragedies and Events
Spanish American War vets held their Thom asville encampment. Columbus rider Johnny Cole, 35, died in Macon after being struck by a car. Baxley to begin construction on a government factory with 100 employees. A weekend victim count includes a two year old girl, a businessman, a teenager, and a pedestrian. Buena Vista Lions sponsor a May 28 barbecue before high school commencement. Ft. Benning troop housing project approved for 8.199 million by House Armed Services Committee. Washington county sheriff race widens to twelve candidates after A W English death. Griffin Elks building destroyed by fire on Williams Road. Gov. Talmadge to deliver Perry High School commencement address June 1. Tennessee breeders buy 1248 acre W C Holman farm near Albany. Hazel Toles, 21, Chattooga County teacher, killed in collision. A&WP and Western Railway of Alabama celebrate 100th anniversary at West Point.
Loyal Support for Griffin at Bainbridge Fund-Raiser
Hundreds of Bainbridge residents filled the American Legion Home to back Lt. Gov. Marvin Griffin in the gubernatorial race. Leonard Conger presented a campaign fund check of 13 500 to support Griffin's statewide bid while Vance Custer served as master of ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bainbridge
Marvin Griffin
American Legion
Decatur
Leonard Conger
Griffinsor Governor Club
Vance Custer
H. E. Waller Jr
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Mrn Griffin
Georgia
Pettyjohn Floral Co
Bain+ bridge
Wives receive seven years for bank robbery aiding husbands
Savannah report states Patsy Horn Beck aged 18 and Norman Goldman 20 were sentenced to seven years each by Federal Judge Frank Scarlet after pleading to charges as accessories to their husbands bank robbery at a Citizens and Southern National Bank branch last year and for aiding an escape from jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Patsy Hornbeck
Norman Goldman
Frank Scarlet
Citizens and Southern National Bank
Watermelon Festival honors three long time bus drivers in Cordele
Lumpkin Georgia items note Safety Awards for three Stewart County school bus drivers with 15 plus years of safe service. Other items include Youth Day in Colum bus, postmaster nomination for Col. Homer A. Sappington, Miss Margaret Anne Howard named Peach County Farm Bureau queen, FBI captures Alex Whitmore in Seattle, and local obituaries and community notices across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Lumpkin
Stewart County
Cordele
R. R. Baldwin
E. J. Bowers
M. L. Greene
Parish Pastor L R Lancaster Moves Parsonage Return
Rev L R Lancaster of the Oglethorpe Ideal Charge moved back into the new parsonage on March 19 after a four year term that included rebuilding the parsonage and adding an educational annex to the church building. State Senator William T Dean of Conyers announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor as an independent, the third to enter the race joining Ernest Vandiver and John Greer. Government contracts in 10 years 1943 through 1952 totaled 5.8 billion dollars, reflecting the decade long construction boom in Georgia and the Southeast. Helen Banks of Macon was charged with murder after a coroner's inquest into Henry Pennyman's death, while she had been exonerated in a previous homicide coroner's case. Dr Humphrey Lee of SMU resigned for ill health, and a 94 year old Miami woman was rescued when a kitchen stove exploded. Mother's Day births in Cincinnati marked a first and second child arriving this year, and a house fire in Clarksburg, West Virginia claimed three lives. Oklahoma's first lady, Mrs Willie Murray, seeks to become Oklahoma's first lady governor.
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L. R. Lancaster
Oglethorpe Ideal Charge
Rev. Lancaster
Oglethorpe
Wm. T. Dean
Conyers
Georgia Senate
Adj
Ernest Vandiver
Rep
John Greer
Lanier
Helen Banks
Macon
Henry Pennyman
Georgia
Humphrey Lee
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Miami
Fla
Betty Albers
Cincinnati
Ohio
Clarksburg
W. Va
Willie E. Murray
Gov. Murray
Oklahoma
One Buena Vista First Lady Wins Delta Kappa Gamma Scholarship
Miss Cornelia Lowe director of library extension work for Muscogee, Chattahoochee and Marion counties receives a $1,000 Delta Kappa Gamma Georgia scholarship for graduate study in library science. She holds degrees from Georgia State College for Women and the University of Georgia and has taught in Lyons, Ft Valley, Columbus schools and served with the Red Cross in Europe during World War II.
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Cornelia Lowe
Muscogee
Chattahoochee
Marion
Delta Kappa Gamma
Georgia
Miss Lowe
Georgia State College For Women At
Milledgeville
University of Georgia
Publc
Lyons
Ft. Valley
Columbus
Union Counties
Red Cross
Europe
Ranger Guinn Advises Don’t Kill the Forest Goose
Forest Ranger Austin Guinn urges landowners in Taylor County to protect woodlands instead of clear cutting. He compares forests to a goose that lays golden eggs, noting sustained income from well managed woods and warning that reckless cutting destroys future profits for many residents dependent on forest jobs. He stresses a good forest management plan for all landowners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
Guinn
Austin Guinn
Georgia
Miss Bessie Anderson Retires After 35 Years of Service
Miss Bessie Anderson, longtime Ft. Valley and Peach County teacher, retires after 35 years in the local school system. A dinner at the Woman's Club honored her service, with home room staff from 1919 to 1953 present and toastmaster Thelma Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ft. Valley
Bessie Anderson
Peach County
Miss Anderson
Woman's Club
The
Little Old Lady Publishes Papers in Winslow
In Winslow Arkansas an elderly woman, Mrs Maude Duncan, delivers and publishes the town's newspapers. Locals recognize her distinctive paper route as part of her publishing work.
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Little Rock
Ark
Winslow
Ozarks
Three Speakers Named for UGA Commencement Week
Athens Ga May 8 three speakers have been named for the University of Georgia commencement activities June 6 7 Dr W R Cannon dean of the Candler School of Technology at Emory University will deliver the baccalaureate sermon Sunday afternoon June 6 G E Stringfellow senior vice president of Thomas Edison Inc will speak at Alumni Day Monday June 7 and Mills Lane Jr president of Citizens and Southern National Bank will address graduation exercises Monday afternoon This will be the University 151st graduation with diplomas first awarded in 1804.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
University of Georgia
W. R. Cannon
Candler School of Technology
Emory University
G. E. Stringfellow
Thos, Edison, Inc
Mills Lane Jr
Citizens and Southern National Bank
Thomaston GSCW Student Elected President of Her Class
In Milledgeville on May 8 thy elections for 1954 55 class officers were held at the Georgia State College for Women. Gloria Riggins of Thomaston was chosen senior class president, noted for campus involvement and since sophomore year assistant in the public relations office. Lee Strozier of Greenville was elected junior class president and Billie Sue West of Griffin, former freshman president, was reelected to head the sophomores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milledgeville
Georgia State College For Women
Gloria Riggins
Thomaston
Lee Strozier
Greenville
Billie Sue West
Griffin
Sophs
Local Army unit lands at California base with 14 servicemen
Fourteen Valley servicemen arrived in San Francisco aboard the USNS General R. T. Collins from the Far East. The group includes Sgt. D. C. Brown and Maj. R. E. Chanler from Columbus, officers and enlisted men from Americus, LaGrange, Butler, Warm Springs, Hogansville, and other Georgia towns.
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Valley
San Francisco
Far East
Georgia Military District
USNS
R. T. Collins
D. C. Brown
Roy C. Fugate
R. E. Chanler
Victor Hutchinson
Pfc
William Lavender Jr
Columbus
WOJG
M. W. Howard
Cpl
McArthur
Freddie Williams Jr
Americus
Marvin H
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Thomasville
Johnny G. Cole
Baxley
Geogia
Buena Vista Lions Club
U. S. House of Representatives Armed Service Committee
Ft. Benning
Washington County
A. W. English
Griffin Elks
Williams Road
Gov. Talmadge
Perry High School
Tennessee
W. C. Holman
Albany
H. R. Thornton
H. R. Thornton Jr
Chattooga County
Hazel Toles
A&wp Railroad and Western Railway of
Alabama
West Point
Ralph Sayers
Homer A. Sappington
Barnesville
Eisenhower
U. S. Senate
Margaret Anne Howard
Ft. Valley High School
Peach County Farm Bureau
Perry
Seattle
Wash
FBI
Alex Whitmore
Carrollton
William B. Boggs
Atlanta
Leon Windham
Gordon Holston
K. J. Moore
Brooks County
George Jones
Julian Moore
Walter F. George
Vienna
Washington
Associated Press
New York
Love M. Tolbert of
American Mothers Committee
Golden Rule Foundation
Graham
Adairsville
FFA
Montezuma’ High School
Harris Evans
T. TY
Tifton High School
Future Farmers
Southwest Georgia
Abraham Baldwin College
Tifton
Southeast
Buena Vista
Columbus Daily Newspapers
Thomaston Gscw
Armed Forces
California
Georgia Power
Electric Company
Thomas A. Edison
GMC
GMC Hydra-Matic
GMC Hydra- Matic
CAC
Pontiac Company
Butler, Georgia
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