Farm Plans Highlight Soil Conservation Efforts Across County
The county sees multiple farm plans by Walter Suggs W M Mathews and Henry Carrington focusing on forestry wildlife and livestock. Suggs will transform 1200 acres aided by 335000 pine seedlings and several ponds while Mathews expands soil building with crotalaria and kudzu. Carrington ex GI plans hogs livestock on a new northwest farm with military savings aiding payment. Surveys for ponds grass trials and stock ponds appear for others including Rev Whitley and Will Turner. A sixth grade farm tour and a dynamite ditching demo are noted activities.
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Walter Suggs
W. M. Mathews
Henry H. Carrington
Suggs
82Nd Airborne Division
Sicily
Anzio
Carrington
Woodrow Amos
Thurman Whatley
Thea Shealy
Coastal Plain
Bermuda
J. L. Whitley
Mauk
Whitley
Will Turner
Bahia
Asbury McCants
Saylor County
Eugene Payne
E. A. Nelson
Book collector given ten years in prison
Silver haired scholar J Milton Lawson 49 of St Matthews Kentucky was sentenced in Columbia South Carolina circuit court to ten years in prison on two counts for stealing rare books from libraries He was convicted of removing scarce volumes on South Carolina history from the University of South Carolina library and the state library with the sentences to run concurrently
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Columbia
S. C
J. Milton Lawson
St. Matthews
Lawson
South Carolina
University of South Carolina
State Library
Newspapers' Right To Criticize Court Upheld
The Supreme Court rules 6 3 that newspapers may freely criticize judges during a case and that contempt convictions against Corpus Christi reporters were unjust. Justice Douglas writes that mere unpopularity or disrespectful remarks do not justify contempt unless they create an imminent and serious threat to fair proceedings.
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Washington
Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Act
Corpus Christi
Texas
Joe D. Browning
Douglas
School Head Named In Talbotton County Consolidation
Prof. J. F. Woodall, superintendent of Woodland high school, has been elected superintendent of the county wide high school at Talbotton consolidating all county high schools. A bond issue of $55,000 was validated for school plant improvements at Talbotton and for a gymnasium.
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Talbotton
J. F. Woodall
Woodland
Mary Persons Seniors Plan Washington Trip
Forsyth May 12 The Mary Persons High School senior class will depart Monday May 19 for Washington DC in two chartered Greyhound buses. They will spend Monday night in Raleigh NC and arrive in the capital city Tuesday for a day of touring and visiting historic sites.
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Forsyth
Mary Persons High School
Washington, D. C
Greyhound
Raleigh
N. C
Capitol City
Washington
Randolph Ministers Call Grand Jury to Probe Sabbath Abuses
Members of the Randolph County Ministerial Association passed a resolution at a Gay hotel meeting urging the Randolph County grand jury to investigate alleged flagrant disregard of Sabbath observance laws. A seven‑member committee presented the resolution to the May term grand jury.
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Cuthbert
Randolph County Ministerial Association
Randolph County Grand Jury
Grand Jury
Randolph Superior Court
School Ordered for Parents of Bad Kids
Columbus May 20 Judge Pau line Lamar of juvenile court said plans are under way to establish a school for parents of delinquent children. Citing 1946 figures showing 3,439 juvenile cases involving 4,052 were handled, she said something is drastically wrong with our home life. She said tentative plans include Judge G. T. Martin of Dearborn Mich lecturing at the school.
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Columbus
Pauline Lamar
Juvenile Court
Columbus-Phenix City
Savannah candidate Eugene Torrance killed in crash
Panama City Florida May 16 a prominent Savannah insurance executive Eugene Torrance age 50 and his grandson died when their car overturned fourteen miles east of Panama City. Three others injured included the infant's 16 year old mother gravely hurt and the baby's stepmother. Mary Baxley 21 was treated and released. Torrance died en route to a hospital. other occupants were from nearby Springfield Florida.
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Panama City
Fla
Savannah
Eugene Torrance
Herman Talmadge
Betty Fiddler
Bessie Fiddler
Mary Baxley
Torrance
Sprinfield
Mercer English Chief Resigns for Penn Professorship
Dr. Frederick L. Jones, head of Mercer University's English department since 1928, resigns effective August 1 to take a full time professorship at the University of Pennsylvania beginning September 1.
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Frederick L. Jones
Mercer University
University of Pennsylvania
Second Attack Stirs Atlanta Death Probers
In northwest Atlanta a second attack on a matron occurred as police search for Peggy Refoule’s slayer. Mrs Dan Quisenberry reports a Negro man knocked her down in her driveway. he fled when she kicked him. Authorities note no connection yet between the Refoule murder and this assault.
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Atlanta
Peggy Refoule
Dan Quisenberry
L. R. Walker
Quisenberry
Refoule
Ellis
Fred Ricketson Dies Coffee County Editor at 63
Douglas Ga May 18 Fred Ricketson 63 longtime editor and publisher of the Coffee County Progress died today after a year and a half of ill health. A native of Atkinson county he helped develop the local tobacco industry and had sold the weekly paper on January 1 and retired from active participation.
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Douglas
Fred Ricketson
Coffee County Progress
Atkinson County
Ricketson
Solicitor Wohlwender Receives Flying License
Columbus May 20 After months of lessons Solicitor General Ed Wohlwender Jr earned his private flying license He said he might fly to court in the Chat tahoochee circuit if airports are handy and will use the all metal monoplane to commute between Columbus and his farm which has an air strip
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Columbus
Ed Wohlwender Jr
Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit
Atlanta Girl Charged in Post Office HoldUp
Betty Sears Harris a 20 year old Girls High graduate was indicted in Atlanta on charges of participating in the October 1946 armed robbery of a U S Post Office near Albuquerque New Mexico. She appeared before U S Commissioner Frank Holden and was held on 1000 bond awaiting June 1 appearance in Albuquerque. She denied involvement and said she aimed to improve her life while learning more about two Atlanta men already serving state terms for related offenses.
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Atlanta
Bettye Seare Harris
Marshalls
Carthage N. M
U. S
Albuquerque
U. S&s
Frank Holden
Fulton Tower
Betty Sears
Tattnall
Betty
Jimmy Williams
New Mexico
Edmund Lowick
Williams
Lowick
Georgia Broadcasters elect Allan Wood as president
Allan Wood, manager of WDAK Columbus, was elected president of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters at a Monday business session during the second annual radio institute in Athens. The vote highlighted leaders from Columbus and other Georgia stations.
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Georgia Association of Broadcasters
Allan Woodall
WDAK
Columbus
Athens
Radio Institute
Thomaston Crash Kills One Injures Four Teens
Eighteen year old Doyle F Pepper dies after being thrown from a stripped-down car north of Thomaston. Four other youths suffer injuries in two related collisions as state troopers charge reckless driving and leaving the scene.
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Thomaston
Doyle F. Pepper
R. Brown
Wm. &. Cramer
Jack Fordham
Cramer
Tisinger
Pepper
Radcliffe
Wm. L. Harris
Griffin
Ellerbee
Cromer
Harris
Hugh Radcliffe
John Easter Minter Sr. Dies at 79 in Columbus
John Easter Minter Sr. 79 a well known figure in Southeastern clayworking circles and a prominent Columbus businessman died Tuesday after years of poor health following a hip fracture. A stroke Monday proved fatal.
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John Easter Minter Sr
Columbus
Goudy Dies at 82 Designer of Type Faces
Frederic Goudy age 82 famed type designer died recently at Marlborough New York after a heart attack. He designed more than 1000 type faces and remained active in his work until death, regarded as a leading figure in typography.
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Goudy
Marlborough
N. Y
Frederic Goudy
Bloomington
Ill
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Coffee County
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Long Island City
N.Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling CO
Macon, Georgia
Philco
Glorious Tone
N. L. Halley
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