Georgia News Roundup Highlights Storms and Local Plans
Georgia brief roundup notes Texas origin storms across the South damaging Georgia. Articles mention Americus-Sumter DDT spraying, Leslie plant hours, and various local events from Cochran to Valdosta. Highlights include Hearst donation to Oglethorpe University and a search by Atlanta FBI for Clyde Miles.
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Atlanta
Texas
South
Alabama
Georgia
Americus
Sumter County
Leslie
Hearst Foundation
William R. Hearst
Oglethorpe University
Major LaGrange bakery fire causes $100000 loss
A Sunday morning blaze on Vernon Street in LaGrange destroyed the citys bakery and three other businesses including Boston Shoe Shop Chapmans Novelty Store and Solomon Clothing Store. Fire origin a defective bakery caused about $100000 total damage with the bakery alone valued at $50000 and the shoe shop over $16000. two adjacent buildings suffered total losses and officials feared a bread shortage.
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LaGrange
Vernon Street
LaGrange Baking Company
Boston
Bull Street
Chapman’s
Solomon Clothing
Mail trains keep moving despite railroad strike
Washington reports first class mails will go through by train or not train as officials plan a Defense Transportation backup using Army and private planes and trucks. Officials say delays may affect newspapers magazines parcel post and other classes while 6 000 planes and 20 000 trucks may be needed but scarce resources limit full replacement.
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Washington
High Post Office Department
Office of Defense Transportation
A. F. Whitney
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Two Mothers and Daughters Die When Car Plunges Into Tugelo River
Four people perish near Toccoa after a car driven by Levis Mealor loses control on the Yona Dam road and sinks into Tugelo River. Victims include Mrs. Kermit Jenkins and her 18 month old son Jerry Lee, and Mrs. Mealor with daughter Brenda Lee Mealor. Both husbands survived in shock.
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Toccoa
Yona Dam
Tugelo River
State Highway Patrol
Kermit Jenkins
Jerry Lee
Levis Mealor
Brenda Lee Mealor
Jenkins
Mealor
H. C. Langston
Columbus party adopts county unit plan for primary
Chairman W H Young Jr presided as rules were waived and the county unit plan declared prevailing. Sims Garrett Jr resigned as secretary. R T Ragan of Eastman elected to replace him. May 25 at noon is the filing deadline for July 17 primary. special guests Tom Camp of Atlanta and M R Ashworth, Ledger-Enquirer publisher, attended.
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America
W. H. Young Jr
Columbus
Sims Garrett Jr
R. T. Ragan
Eastman
Young
Tom Camp
Atlanta
M. R. Ashworth
Ledger-Enquirer
Storm hits Valdosta area causing crop and property damage
A Monday wind and rainstorm swept through Adel Quitman Homerville and Hahira causing extensive property damage and heavy crop losses across the Valdosta region according to local reports.
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Valdosta
Adel
Quitman
Homerville
Hahira
Suit filed by OPA against Riverside Mills in Augusta
An OPA treble damages suit for 108000 is filed in U S District Court Augusta against Riverside Mills for alleged violation of price regulations in selling cotton machine waste. Riverside Mills, based in Augusta, is described as the world's second largest producer. The case is returnable at the November term. enforcement attorney James M. Roberts of Atlanta notes it as one of the largest such suits in the south.
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Augusta
U. S. District Court
Riverside Mills
OPA
James M. Roberts
Atlanta
South
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Atelanta
FBI
Clyde Miles
Canton
Cherokee County
City
Devereaux
Cleveland
Robert G. Burton
Citizens and Southern National Bank
Fulton County
Macon
Armstrong Cork Company
Fireamen
International Association of Fire Fighters
Griffin—Griffin Highchool
Pierce Chapel Methodist
Pierce Chapel Road
M. L. _ Brittain
Georgia Tech
Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild
Detroit
General Motors Educational Foundation
Dawsonville
Jack Cantrell
Alice Christian Watkins
Marietta Street
Moultrie
C. B. Hammond
New York State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Middle West
Swainsboro
Prince H. Preston Jr
Hugh Peterson
Peterson
Lonnie Murphy
Frank O. Miller
Pembroke Journal
Needmore Farms
Miller
Thomasville
Hollywood
H. K. Devereaux
Monticello Road
Glen Arven County Club
Marion C. Bailey
Adamsville
Treasury Department
Warm Springs
Little White House
Ellis Arnall
Roosevelt
South Georgia
Chemi
Eal
National League of District
Butler
Agnes Mitchell
Dearing
W. N. Howell
Oxford
Mellie Pitts
Sec
Treas
Newborn
Tugelo
Mill
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N. Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Macon, Ga
Doye
Nave
Epsom
Lydia E. Pinkham
Putname
Miles Nervene
Woodburys
Johnson’s
Woodbury
St. Joseph
K.R.D
Doyer’s
D.T. Powder
D.T
Retonga Foley
West Coast
Trout
Doyer’s Furniture Store
General Electric Appliances
Bendix
General Electric
Stewart-Warner Radios
Hubbard Lawn
Eveready
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