Georgia News Summary Highlights Local Officials and Events
Georgia brief highlights include the deaths of Ken nedy a bank official and John Filmore Suber a man in Americus. Lt Governor candidate shifts in Atlanta Covington Belmont Dennis leads Georgia Press Association. Other notes cover peach shipments to New York, a fatal swimming-pool incident in Columbus, a new farm auction in Pelham, and highway contracts for Lavonia.
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Covington
May Belmont Dennis
Georgia Press Association
Augusta
Griffin Qualifies for Lieutenant Governor Bid
Adjutant General Marvin Griffin of Bainbridge, long a gubernatorial candidate, qualified Thursday for lieutenant governor. He said he initially planned to run for lieutenant governor but shifted after his home county urged him to seek governor. Hoke O Kelley of Logansville posted the $500 filing as the gubernatorial contest reached five entrants.
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Atlanta
Marvin Griffin
Bainbridge
Emily Woodward Praises GI in Japan
Emily Woodward former founder of the Georgia Press Institute returned from Japan where she spoke to University of Georgia journalism students. She dismissed rumors of rowdy occupation troops and praised U S soldiers for spreading democracy and improving race relations.
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Emily Woodward
Japan
Peach Losses On Georgia Crop Hit Six Million Dollars
Macon Ga May 9 Peach producers across Georgia faced an estimated six million dollar loss due to the national coal strike and rail freight embargo. C H Bateman, a leading grower, said the crop is threatened by container shortages as the American Can Company halted operations.
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Macon
Georgia
C. H. Bateman
American Can Company
Armed Men Take $7300 in Two Georgia Thefts
Three armed men robbed an aged storekeeper in Carl of $7000 hidden on his farm then attempted a Dacula filling station robbery before taking $300 from a Lawrenceville station. The assailants tied the farmer to his bed and fled. State Patrol Lt. said the robbers, all young and neatly dressed, may be district residents. Investigators pursue leads.
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Gainsville
Carl
Dacula
Lawrenceville
State Patrol
Eugene Hollis
Johnny Pierce
Hollis
Pierce
Will Towler
Towler
Alton A. Williams
Dayrl
Dawsonville Doctor B H Howard Dies at 69
Dawsonville Georgia May 9 Dr B H Howard 69 longtime local physician died at his home Thursday morning He was born in Lumkin County and graduated from the Atlanta School of Medicine in 1909 He practiced here for 37 years His wife publishes and edits the Dawson County Advertiser He belonged to the Dawsonville Methodist church and the Masonic order.
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Dawsonville
B. H. Howard
Dawson County
Father of Negro poet succumbs at Lumpkin
Lumpkin Ga May 6 Monroe Sanford Flanagan 83 father of the Negro poet Thomas Jefferson Flanagan and a song writer died here Sunday on the farm where he was born. He was a pioneer farmer active in the Methodist Church and educational projects.
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Lumpkin, Ga
Monroe
Sanford Flanagan
Thomas Jefferson
Flanagan
George Brown
Death Strikes In Georgia Children In Strange Ways
A Georgia weekend brought multiple child deaths. Barbara Jean Wells, 9, was killed by a fallen oak in Crown Mill Park, Dalton. William Truman Nelms, 1, died after ingesting kerosene in Tifton. Twiggs county teen Nimrod Center Crosby, 13, drowned at a clay pit near Macon. John B. King, 9, found dead in a Rome sluice after 24 hours missing. an inquest was planned.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Dalton
Barbara Jean Wells
Crown Mill Park
Wells
William Truman Nelms
Tifton
Macon
Nimrod Center
Crosby
Twiggs County
Rome
John B. King
Coosa
Fake handbills tied to Carmichael rally traced to Atlanta shop
Investigators narrowed the case of counterfeit handbills from the Jimmy Carmichael rally at Moultrie. Researchers confirmed that 10 000 of the fakes were ordered from an Atlanta printing shop, marking a key step toward solving the incident.
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Atlanta
Jimmy Carmichael
Moultrie
Two Negroes Given Death Sentence In Leesburg
In Leesburg Georgia on May 8 Judge W M Harper sentenced John Burns 22 and Willie Stevenson 17 to die in the electric chair June 17 1946 for a robbery murder from December 30 1945 that netted $22.00 in cash. Burns allegedly killed Lucius Thomas 75 of Smithville with an axe after Stevenson lured him.
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Leesburg
W. M. Harper
Lee County
Stevenson
Burns
Temple resigns from AP to join Atlanta Journal staff
Mark Temple, editor and writer on the Atlanta AP staff for 18 years, resigns to become a member of the Atlanta Journal’s staff. He has covered the State Capitol and state politics for the AP and previously worked on newspapers in New Jersey and New York.
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Atlanta
Mark Temple
Associated Press
Atlanta Journal
Temple
New Jersey
New York
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L. N. Huff
Montezuma
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J. A. Stone
A. L. Stone
Vienna
Pierce Harris
First Methodist Church
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Unadilla
Pelham
Dixie Highway
Joe Spend
Harry Frosteg
Dorothy Rozier
Dorothy Gibson
Monway
Columbus
Benny Myers
Phillip J. Myers
Clara Belle Alice
Ellis Arnall
Truman
George Henry Hogan
O. B. Gibbs
Jacksonville
Lavonia
State Highway Department
Carnesville
Commerce
Tugaloo River
Wesleyan College
Raymond R. Paty
University of Alabama
N. C. McPherson
Lester Rumble
St Mark's Methodist Church
Athens
Sam L. Akers
Weslyan College
Georgia Civitan Clubs
Valdosta
South Georgia
Murray Howell
Adjt
Lumpkin
Journal
Fiest-Clase
Georgia Power Company
DOYEL
Epsom
Lydia E. Pinkham
Putname
Miles Nervene
Woodburys
Dr. von
Johnson’s
Woodbury
Absoline Jr. Allen Foot Base
Dickey’s Eye
St. Joseph
Blue Jay
K.R.O
D.D.T
Retong Ln Matey AA
Celery
Fort Howard
Doyer’s Coffee
General Electric Appliances
Maytag
Pieter Maytag Hoover
Bendix
General Electric
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Eveready
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