Week in Georgia reports tragedies and events
Clifton Reaves was killed at Talking Rock when struck by a pulley. The Georgia State Fair opened in Macon with large attendance. Air mail service for Macon was halted pending airport upgrades. Farm debts declined by over 1.2 billion since 1950. Huena Vista Road Baptist church dedication planned near Columbus. Camilla Hosiery Mill destroyed with plans to rebuild larger. Tax collector thefts reported in Carroll County. Savannah River at Augusta hit its lowest level in 56 years. Tax campaigns run Oct 1 to Dec 20 across counties and districts. Major meetings planned in Americus and Atlanta. A new Plowden Drug Co. to open in Thomville. Justifiable homicide verdict in Calhoun case. Carroll County schools face five-month year due to funds.
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Clifton Reaves
Talking Rock
Macon
Paving Start Announced on Route 49 Between Americus and Andersonville
Americus Georgia contractor Dunn announces start of paving on state route 49 between Americus and Andersonville. The project covers seven and one fourth miles and Dunn says traffic will be allowed on or before January 1.
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Americus, Ga
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Dunn
Americus
Andersonville
Niles
Mrs J J Thomasson Dies in Carrolton
Mrs J J Thomasson wife of Carroll County Times editor died at home in Carrolton after a weeklong illness including malaria fever and pneumonia. She passed away Saturday morning at the family residence.
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Carrolton, Ga
J. J. Thomasson
Carroll County
Founder of Press Association dies in Georgia
Lawrenceville Ga Oct 12 Colonel Mark D Irwin 78 attorney and one of the organizers of the Georgia Press Association 49 years ago died in an Atlanta hospital after three weeks illness A native of Loganville he published a Conyers newspaper at the time of the association s founding He attended University of Virginia Law School and moved to Lawrenceville 29 years ago He also served as mayor of Lawrenceville once
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Lawrenceville
Mark D. Irwin
Georgia Press Association
Atlanta
Loganville
Conyers
the Press Association
University of Virginia Law School
Clark Howell En Route to Philippines
Atlanta editor and president of the Atlanta Constitution sails from Seattle to the Philippines to attend the island’s new government inauguration. He will be joined in Seattle by fellow editors and members of Congress.
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Clark Howell
The
Atlanta Constitution
Yvecter’ay
Roosevelt
Atlanta
Seattle
Phillipines
Howell
Seatle
Pulaski to Elect County Official in Hawkinsville Race
Hawkinsville campaign kicks off for tax collector seat left by W. B. Richardson after 20 years in office. Three candidates named are Richard Delamar, C. T. Warren, and J. P. McGriff. Election date listed as October 2th.
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Hawkinsville
Peach County Bonds Validated in Fort Valley Court
A $83,000 Peach County bond issue was validated before Judge Jones in Fort Valley. Funds from the bonds and federal sources will finance a courthouse expected to cost about $100,000, marking Peach County's first bond issuance.
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Fort Valley
Peach County
Eos D. Jones
Fort Valey
Last of Liberties Are Now Retired
Washington October 14 The treasury announced the successful completion of its refunding operations retiring the last of the war time Liberty loan bonds Under-Secretary Coolidge reported preliminary returns show 995 million dollars of the 1 246 billion Liberties had been called for payment on October 15 and turned in for conversion into interest bearing coupons
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Washington
Treasury
Coolidge
Kill peach trees in Macon county to curb wild trees
On October 18 at Marshallville Georgia two crews of twenty laborers and a foreman under county supervisor T J Martin dig up peach trees in abandoned orchards and scout farms to find wild peach trees along roadsides gullies and terraces. The work aims to exterminate the phony peach tree seen as a menace to peach growers and benefit local growers.
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Marshallville
T. J. Martin
Macon County
Macon man injured in forty foot fall at car exchange
Macon Georgia October 14 William E Rieger 45 fell forty feet from the top of a two story used car exchange while removing a sign Several bones were broken and he sustained a skull fracture with possible neck injury Doctors said his recovery was doubtful Rieger was an ironworker and a prior law of Dr R B Rhoden niser
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Macon
O_ct
William E. Rieger
Rieger
R. B. Rhodenniser
Ham family buys Pearson Tribune in Georgia
Waycross Ga October 14 C W Ham of Rochelle has purchased the Pearson Tribune weekly newspaper published at Pearson Ga about thirty miles west of Waycross Mr Ham and his son Julius have taken control from Mr and Mrs Breck New who edited it for the past year The Tribune long edited by the late B T Allen a colorful Georgia journalism figure was previously sold to Alvah Murray and others
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Waycross
C. W. Ham
Rochelle
Pearson Tribune
Peason
Julius Ham
Bred New
Tribune
B.T. Allen
Georgia
Alvah Murray
Senator George to address Future Farmers convention
In Macon on Friday Senator Walter F George will be the principal speaker at the seventh annual convention of the Georgia Association of Future Farmers of America. About 1500 to 2000 boys from across the state attend a three day program including major fair events. The event runs from Thursday through Saturday with one of the fair’s busiest days on the opening Thursday.
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Fritz Kreisler
Savannah
Municipal Auditorium
Europe
Walter F. George
Macon
Georgia Association of Future Farmers of America
Georgia Association of Future Farmers of Ameri
Accident fatal to Ocilla youth
Fitzgerald Georgia October 15 James K. Cato 16 of Ocilla died in a hospital from injuries from a motor car crash last night near the golf club. Four others suffered severe injuries and two Negroes were killed. The accident involved a car carrying Cato John Willis Vickers and a youth with three high school girls colliding with a second auto occupied by a group of Negroes.
Eight Georgia high schools on wartime ROTC honor list
Washington report lists eight Georgia high schools among seventy honored by the War Department for Reserve Officers Training Corps performance in the academic year. The Georgia honorees include Academy of Richmond County Augusta Athens High School Boys High Atlanta Griffin High Lanier High Macon Robert E Lee High Thomaston Russell High East Point Tech High Atlanta.
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Washington
Georgia
The
War Department
Opelmng Corps
Academcy
Richmond County
Augusta
Athens
Boys’ High
Atlanta
Griffin High
Lanier High
Macon
Robert E. Lee
Thomaston
Russell High
East Point
Tech High
Ellis Pope of Lyons to enter Georgia lieutenant governor race
Vidalia Ga Oct 12 J Ellis Pope of Lyons disclosed to friends Saturday morning that he has definitely made up his mind to enter the race for lieutenant governor of Georgia. He is an attorney and a state senator from the Fifteenth District with experience as a Toombs county representative. His committee assignments have been to important posts and his service has been successful.
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Vidalia
J. Ellis Pope
Lyons
Georgia
Robert E. Lee home becomes a national shrine
Stratford Va Oct 18 The Lee birthplace on the Potomac river was dedicated as a national shrine. Dr D S Freeman Lee scholar spoke at the ceremony. The home was restored by the Robert B Lee Memorial Foundation which raised 500000 over six years and will be opened to the public as a shrine like Mt Vernon.
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Stratford
Robert E. Lee
Lee
Banks of the
Potomac
America
D. S. Freeman
R. E. Lee
Robert B. Lee Memorial Foundation, Inc
Democrats Called To Form Roosevelt Committee In Georgia
A Georgia Democratic meeting in Atlanta on November 19, called by J A Beasley Crawfordville editor and former speaker pro tem, seeks to form a new state executive committee and send a Roosevelt supportive delegation to the national convention. Beasley accuses Governor Talmadge loyalists of planning to select anti Roosevelt delegates, disenfranchising many loyal Georgia Democrats.
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Roosevelt
Atlanta
J. A. Beasley
Crawfordville
Fitzgerald Girls Injured in Crash Near Fitzgerald
A collision near Fitzgerald Ga left a negro head in one car dead and six others injured including three Fitzgerald High School girls Frances Paulk Reta Evans and Jean Hillard all from prominent families listed with facial leg and skull injuries collarbone injuries in hospital. The Ocilla youths John Vickers and James Cato were in serious condition. The second car carried a group of African American occupants.
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Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald High
Frances Paulk
Reta Evans
Ley
Jean Hilliard
Ocilla
John Vickers
James Cato
Children of Cuthbert Build Well Equipped Community Home
In Cuthbert a tiny visionary woman led the effort to construct a brick veneered Christian Endeavor Community House on Presbyterian ground. A broad network, from Mrs. Goode to Franklin D. Roosevelt, funded the project through bazaars and gifts, with a September 1938 dedication by Governor Eugene Talmadge.
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Winnifred Rosser
B. T. Eastollow
Christian Endeavor Community House
Cyti
Bert
Annie Mae Haury
Anette Peacock
Juanita Mitela
Mary Louise Moye
J. E. Hobson
Fort Benning
United States
Presbyterian Church
Lexier
Cuthbert
S. W. Goode
Maine
California
Washington
Florida
Wisconsin
Texas
Eugene Talmadge
Cotton Warehouse Fire Destroys Evans Warehouse in Wadley
Wadley Ga Oct 14 fire destroyed the Evans bonded cotton warehouse housing 260 bales of cotton. The blaze was discovered only as flames burst from the roof, causing an estimated loss of about $17,000.
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Wadley
Evans
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