Georgia News Roundup Highlights Local Developments
Georgia headlines report trolley workers resisting fingerprint checks, Windsor Hotel in Americus remodel at 75000 dollars, Floyd County jurors named, welfare payroll expansion, Fort Valley Hosiery Mill opening, Dr Enoch Callaway reelected head of Georgia Cancer Society, bond defeat for Americus street improvements, Jekyll Island summer profit 13446 dollars, death of Albert Johnson Sr. in Clarkeston, Jasper cornerstone laid for Pickens courthouse, Masonry Grand Lodge attendance exceeds a thousand in Macon, Albany first annual traffic fatality, injuries in Albany collision, Woman of the Year named at Albany banquet, Cairo robberies involving an elderly woman, 2989 pounds seed cotton led state FFA champion, 14-year-old Alf Bell injured by accidental rifle fire, Okefenokee Swamp improvements praised, new registration law criticized, Peanut Bowl approved by high school association, Gov Herman Talmadge assigns state at Birmingham carnival, patrol crackdown on scooters without licenses, 12 500 salary for solicitor general of railroad commission, industrial survey planned to attract plants to Georgia, tax reform debate ahead of 1951 legislature, Campbell indicted for murder and related charges, cigarette tax enforcement tightened across state borders.
Breeding Association Organized in Upson
The Cooperative Breeders Association Inc with headquarters at Thomaston Coperative Dairy announces begun artificial insemination of dairy cattle in Upson and parts of Lamar, Pike, Talbot, Crawford, Taylor, Crawford and Monroe counties using high index sires from the Southeastern Artificial Breeding Association. With 1,000 cows enrolled insemination began on the 17th under W. E. McNeely of Thomaston, offering services at standard insemination charges. Officers: J. Daniels president, R. Thomaston vice president, S. Mullins vice president, B. A. Mosley secretary-treasurer.
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Gillis Jordan Escapes from Georgia Prison Camp
Gillis Jordan aged 38, serving a 10 year term from Bible superior court for firing at his former wife in a downtown cafe, escaped Monday from a Louisville Georgia prison camp. Chas R Jenkins of Augusta was elected 1950 president of the Georgia Association of Real Estate Boards as GARPE’s 29th annual convention ended in Macon.
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President Quoted on Ends to Coal and Steel Strikes
Washington Oct 23 close friend of President Truman quoted him predicting settlement of the coal and steel strikes in less than 10 days but later said the remark was his own mistaken prediction. Arthur Clarendon Smith Sr president of the DC Democratic Club cited the President at a Sunday breakfast and introduced Maj Gen Vaughan as guest of honor.
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Americus Primary Turns Into Four Way City Council Race
Americus Georgia voters head to the polls for the city primary as four candidates contest three expiring council seats. The candidates are R E Lee, Carlton Myers, J B Daxis, and X B Carter. Incumbent councilmen with terms ending are not seeking re election.
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