Perry High School Honor Student In Diving Accident
Houston Countians mourn two Perry leaders as Hentz Houser, a Perry High School honor graduate and senior class president, lies critically injured from a diving accident at Houston Lake. Houser has developed a brain clot and is not expected to recover.
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Home Journal
Perry
Macon
Hentz Houser
W. B. Hodge
Perry High School
Houston Lake
Young Houser
F.M. Houser
Ventire
Historic Decatur church torn down for new building
The Historic Decatur Presbyterian Church, birthplace of Agnes Scott College, was razed on Saturday to make way for a new 250000 dollar church, the fourth since 1824. Elton Glass of Pavo and Grady Fowler of Berlin near Moultrie died last week after drinking tobacco, one by accident and the other believed self influenced.
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Decatur Presbyterian Church
Agnes Scott College
Elton Glass
Pavo
Grady Fowler
Berlin
Moultrie
School Renamed to Honor Late W. H. Woodall in Columbus
A ceremony on Sixteenth Street school lawn renamed the facility the William Hardy Woodall school to honor former Columbus public school superintendent W. H. Woodall. J Q Davidson recalled his career, including wartime service and leadership, noting reforms such as night school and reestablished Columbus High School. Georgia traffic deaths for the first four months of 1951 show a slight decrease from 1950.
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Columbus
Sixteenth Street School
William Hardy Woodall
Columbus Public Schools
J. Q. Davidson
Board of Education
Woodall
Wm. H. Woodall
Joe Wheeler
Gordon Institute
Barnesville
Talbot County
LeVert Institute
Tenth Street
Columbus High School
Georgia Department of Public Safety
Potterville Men Reel In Big Catch At St Marks Florida
A 16 member Bibb Manufacturing group led by H. S. Gates and J. C. Smith fished St. Marks and hauled 39 grouper and nine king mackerel, totaling 218 pounds. The trip marked the first Bibb plant visit with an unusually fine catch despite a northwest wind.
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Bibb Manufacturing Company
Reynolds
St. Marks
Fla
Red Kerce
Tallahassee
Potterville
Taylor County
H. S. Gates
J. C. Smith
Calvin Bartlett
Joe Arnold
Hubert Arnold
Riley Windham
Bobby Smith
Felton Windham
Otis Youngblood
R. C. Moore
Paul Bartlett
Elmer Rogers
Arthur Childree
Alton Childree
Leon Smith
Robert Palmer
James Galman
Bibb Plant
E. W. Roberts
Jiavoc
Georgia People
Hermosa
Lloyd Willis
Postal Men Crack Big Mail Theft Ring in New Orleans
Federal agents believe they have cracked a large mail theft ring in New Orleans. Five men are in custody after investigators say ring members followed postal workers to steal checks from mail boxes and cashed them.
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New Orleans
House Panel OKs 28.97 Million Postal Rate Boost
Washington May 24 The House post office committee approved a 28.973 million dollar annual rise in special delivery C O D and other special postal service charges. It also granted the postmaster general authority to set rates for these services at his discretion.
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Washington
House Post Office Committee
Postmaster General
Libel for Divorce in Taylor County 1951
William Taunton sues Helen M Taunton in Taylor County Superior Court Libel for Divorce The defendant is commanded to appear at the next term to answer the petition The Honorable T Hicks Fort presiding May 5 1951 Clerk Thelmon Jarrell Attorney H Thad Crawley for Plaintiff
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Helen M. Taunton
Taylor County Superior Court
Helen M
Taunton
Taylor Superior Court
T. Hicks Fort
Judge Superior Court
Thelmon Jarrell
H. Thad Crawley
Divorce petition in Taylor County against Lemuel N Lewis
Estelle Lewis files for divorce in Taylor Superior Court July Term 1951. Lemuel N Lewis, nonresident, is to be served by publication and must appear at the first Monday in July 1951 to answer the complaint. Fort, Judge. Dated May 23, 1951.
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Lemuel N. Lewis
Taylor Superior Court
Estelle Lewis
Superior Court
Said County
T. Hicks Fort
Citation for Letters of Administration Georgia Taylor County
W S and H H Payne applied for permanent letters of administration on the estate of W A Payne, deceased. Creditors and next of kin are cited to appear at the ordinary's office by law to show cause why administration should not be granted. Dated May 7, 1951. J R Lunsford, Ordinary.
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Georgia
Taylor County
W. S
H. H. Payne
W. A. Payne
Brasington, 86, Former Marion County Commissioner Dies
Buena Vista May 24 L H Brasington 86 a well known Marion county citizen died suddenly May 24 He served seven years as county commissioner in the 1920s and had lived in Buena Vista the last seven years with his daughter Mrs W H Stephens He was a member of the Buena Vista Methodist church.
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LH. Brasington
Marion County
Buena Vista
L . H. Brasington
W. H. Stephens
Brasington
Boy Driver 14 Killed Four Injured in Wreck
Woodbury Ga May 25 Jimmy W Short 14 of Manchester was killed and four others injured when the car he drove wrecked south of Woodbury State police said Set L W Wiley and Trooper T W Owen noted the boy was driving without a license The injured car owner Wm S Deloach Jr of Torrington was charged with permitting unlicensed operation of a vehicle
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Woodbury
Jimmy W. Short
Manchester
Set. L. W. Wiley
T. W. Owen
LaGrange
Army Tires Sold Arrests Reported In Georgia Case
Americus Georgia May 24 GBI investigator J F McDuffie announced he and Sheriff Edgar Devane of Schley county have arrested two men. One is an Army master sergeant from Ft Benning and the other an honorary deputy sheriff of Muscogee county for selling Army truck tires stolen from a Ft Benning motor pool.
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Americus
GBI
J. F. McDuffie
Edgar Devane
Schley County
Ft. Benning
Muscogee County
Wesleyan Professor Returns to Japan
Miss Katherine Johnson affiliated with Wesleyan College departs for a year of leave to aid a girls school in Hiroshima. She will sail June 10 from San Francisco and has previously taught English and served as dean at Hiroshima Jogakun for nearly twenty years before the war.
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Macon
Wesleyan College
Japan
Katherine Johnson
Wesleyan
Hiroshima
San Francisco
Georgia PTA Tops National Building Fund Drive
Georgia Congress of the UTA leads the nation in per capita contributions for a headquarters building in Chicago. The Georgia average is 16 cents per capita, totaling $19,927, according to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers report dated May 24.
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Georgia
PTA
Miami Beach
Fla
Georgia Congress
UTA
Chicago
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Boy's tooth pulled through his nose in odd case
Clarence Newsom nine from Dentron, North Carolina, stated to have had a tooth extracted through his nose. Dr. R G Jennings of Thomasville explained the tooth grew backward and moved up the nasal passage after years of apparent fall.
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Thomasville
N. C
Clarence Newsom
Dentron
R. G. Jennings
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Purina Pullet Derby
Purina
Purina Growena
WM. Neisler
Franklin Mecants
Hugh
Peed Bros. Feed Store
Butler, GA
Reddy
Georgia Power
Lawrenceville
Ays
Logue’s Inc
Houston
W. H. Woodall
William Taunton
J. R. Lunsford, Ordinary
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