Taylor County April 1943 County Commission Minutes
Taylor County Commissioners met in regular session on April 6 1943 with all members present. Bills and warrants listed include Camp supplies road equipment per diem and various county expenses. Clerk L P Anthony presented funds received from gas tax and tax collections and was approved.
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Taylor County
J. R. Cooper
M. Brown
R. L. Man
W. Swearingen
L. P. Anthony
Dreizin
PS Gonvicts
Suggys
Porter's Drug Store
Treas
G. Blackwell, Co
Sara Help & Other
E. H. Heath
T. Jarrell
Boyett Carpenter
Lbs
Tate
W. M. Brown
R. L. Swearingen
Ga. Pwr. Co
Georgia Power Co
Court House
Counties Supply Co
B. F. Moore
Hill Mfg. Co
Marshall & Bruce Co
J. E. Poole
Kent
Wpa
Seeeei
City Whoolesale Co
Taylor County Motor Co
Cudahy Packing Co
R. W. Richardson
M. D
Jno
Henderson
Lula Wall
Public Welfare
J. M. Bone
R Lunsford
Anthony
E. G. Blackwell, Co. Agt
Seeree
Butler Bros. Co
E. C. Oliver
Clyde Tondee
J. W. Aultman
Suggs
Gas & Oil
E. H. Bazemore
Camp
Milledgeville
Columbus
P. E. Childs
Carlie Giles
Windham, Co
But. Drug Co
Wohlwender
R. C. Montgomery
Standard Oil Co
Gas & Oil P
C. T. Wright
J. C. Griggs
W. Theus
Baugh
Walter Wainwright
Jacob Prager
H. G. Windham
Sheriff
Thomaston
Beard & Turnkey
Edwards Bros
J. R. Lunsford
Yancey Tractor Co
H BE. Allen
Joe Willis
Theounty Depository
State of Georgia
P. A. Jenkins
T. C
T.C
Read
District Rural Letter Carriers to Meet in Americus
Americus Ga May 25 The Third Rural Letter Carriers Association will hold its convention in Americus next Monday according to announcements mailed to members by C Wall Ellaville secretary treasurer. Members are invited to bring families postmasters or friends. Sessions at Carnegie Library begin 4 10 a m.
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Americus
Mrs. W. H. Taft Dies in Washington at 81
Mrs. Wm. H. Taft widow of the ex president died in Washington after a year and a half of illness. She had lived in the capital since 1909 and was thought to have mentored her husband toward the presidency. Her son Robert Taft became a U S senator and another son C P Taft held a wartime defense post. She will be buried beside her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Washington
Wm. H. Taft
United States
White House
Supreme Court
Taft
Robert
United States Senate
Ohio
C. P. Taft
Office of Defense Health
Arlingotn National Cemetery
Sugar stamps 15 and 16 for home canning announced
The OPA said housewives will obtain sugar for home canning with stamps 15 and 16 in ration book one. Each stamp covers five pounds for canning sugar valid from next Monday until October 31. If more than 10 pounds per person is needed, families apply to the rationing boards. stamp 13 will be valid June 1 to August 15 for five pounds.
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Washington
OPA
Surplus game harvest urged as shells considered release
Tennessee Wildlife Department Director R G Turner told a Southeastern conference that Washington authorities have been asked to release rifle and shotgun shells to sportsmen so surplus game can be harvested. Turner said states cannot harvest the surplus themselves due to cost. F C Lincoln of Chicago noted the South holds a wintering home for most ducks and geese, with 75 percent of continental waterfowl wintering there.
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Atlanta
Tennessee Wildlife Department
R. G. Turner
Southeastern Fish and Game
Washington
Turner
F. C. Lincoln
Chicago
Migratory Waterfowl Division
Federal Wildlife Department
Death of Mrs Ben F. Neal Mourned in Montezuma
Funeral services for Adelaide Rollins Neal widow of Hon. Ben F. Neal were held at the Montezuma Funeral Home. She had long ill health and died in a Montezuma hospital. She taught at Oglethorpe and later moved to Montezuma in 1918. Survived by husband two daughters Frances and Rebecca and two sisters.
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Montezuma
Ben F. Neal
Montezuma Hospital
Adelaide Rollins Neal
J. D. Collins
Kingston
LaGrange Female College
Oglethorpe
Neal
Macon
Wesleyan College Plans Two Summer School Terms
Wesleyan College in Macon announces a summer session from June 17 to August 25 with work on town and country campuses. An accelerated program lets students complete college in three calendar years by taking summer courses and heavier loads. New students may enter in June September or January. Enrollment is expected to rise for liberal arts offerings and for voice organ piano typing and shorthand on both campuses.
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Macon
Wesleyan College
N. C. McPherson Jr
McPherson
New Country
No Beef Today For Taylor County Kudzu Efforts
Conservationist J. V. Dupree notes 420 acres of kudzu planted in Taylor County could yield 42,000 extra pounds of beef in 1945 if cultivated and fertilized. Kudzu can be cut for hay or grazed one to three years sooner when the first year receives moisture and nutrients. Alfonzo McCrary demonstrates the benefit of cultivating and fertilizing kudzu the first year.
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J. V. Dupree
Middle Western
Ocmulgee River
Alfonzo McCrary
Arnall to Present Thomson E Award Ceremony
Thomson Georgia May 25 Governor Arnall will be master of ceremonies at the Thomson plant of Thomson Co. as it receives the Army Navy E for excellence in war production. H J Johnson will introduce the governor and Col R C Moore will present the pennant.
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Thomson, Ga
Thomson
Thomson Co
Arnall
Gov. Arnall
H. J. Johnson
Col
R. C. Moore
Office
the Quartermaster General
Washington
Lewis Sends Green Check for $60 000
Washington May 22 President Wm Green of the AFL said John L Lewis enclosed a $60 000 check in his bid to restore the United Mine Workers to the AFL. Green noted no explanation accompanied the check and it was held by the AFL executive council for the time being. Labor circles had said the sum covered a major part of a year’s per capita tax for about 600 000 members. The UMW now claims about 540 000 members.
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Washington
Wm. Green
AFL
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
Green
AFL Executive Council
UMW
Children 14 to 15 permitted to work as fruit packers
The Children's Bureau of the U S Department of Labor authorizes 14 and 15 year olds to aid wartime food production by working in fruit and vegetable packing sheds for up to eight weeks per calendar year. Schooling health and well being are to be protected, with regulations observed. The measure, effective immediately, lasts six months after the war.
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Atlanta
Children’s Bureau
U. S. Department of Labor
J. G. Robinson
Department
AAA Soil Improvement Funds Promote Farm Practices
Taylor county farmers are urged by Roy F. Jones AAA county administrative officer to use soil building funds. He notes unlimited payments for practices like seeding lespedeza sericea or kudzu, pasture development, and terracing, stressing seed collection of crimson clover lespedera soybeans cowpeas blue lupin for future legume seedings.
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Taylor County
Roy F. Jones
AAA
Jones
Georgia Gas Tax Revenues Rise for Second Month
Georgia gasoline tax receipts climbed for the second straight month. W. M. Womack, director of the gas tax unit, said May collections for April payments reached 1,544,269 dollars, up from 1,503,012 the prior month. The six-cent levy yielded 1,201,456 dollars for March payments in May, with total revenue 1,936,342 dollars versus a year earlier.
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Atlanta
Georgia
W. M. Womack
The
Revenue Department
Womack
Spotters Needed for Air Defense Posts in Butler Georgia
Civilian spotters share in vital war work on Observation Posts of the Charleston Air Defense Region. D O Brinkley, Area Supervisor, invites interested locals in Butler to stop by or write for information about joining and supporting this important defense effort.
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Charleston Air Defense
First Fighter Command
U. S. Army Air Forces
D. O. Brinkley
Butler, Ga
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Taylor
Thomson “E” Award
Lewis
E. Gordon Street
Vy,nt
Bennett
Our Farm
Rea
P. S. Archionight President
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