Georgia News Roundup Highlights Postwar Developments
Highways into Florida reopen as Georgia reports liquor access in 80 dry counties. Mayor S. B. Traylor re elected in Barnesville. Gov. Talmadge proclaims Farm Bureau Week. Weekend highway accidents kill two and injure at least 15. Tobacco cash gains exceed 1948 by 4.4 million dollars. Milledgeville hospital considers dental technician role. Edwin A. McPhail re elected Georgia Accountants Association president. Hopewell Whiteville families gain telephone links to wider world. Eleven Georgia FFA members earn American Farmer nominations in Kansas City. UDC sets Gainesville convention in October. Albany minister denounces gambling and liquor laws from the pulpit. Georgia dove season warning issued. Sylvester fire destroys warehouse and 2000 tons of peanuts worth 350 thousand dollars. Cleveland poultry plant begins operation with 50 to 60 jobs. Georgia vets on pensions exceed forty three thousand. Two Georgia conferences set for 1950, South Georgia in June Savannah Atljata. Eight-year-old Charles Hudson critically injured in Macon by a crosswalk accident. Macon Telegraph editor subpoenaed in New York Communist leaders trial. Harmony Baptist Church marks 100 years with no revival gaps. Nashville author Maxie Snead Patten releases Youth, the Miracle Age. Hubert E. Smith of Augusta wins Lions Club outstanding Georgian award. Milledgeville to add 1000 bed dorm for Negroes at State Hospital. Fulton County prisoners begin literacy classes. Health authorities investigate mysterious illness across southern Georgia with fever and pains, no deaths yet. Ellaville report: Louis Collins visits after New Orleans operations, welcomed by friends.
State records more traffic accidents but fewer deaths
Georgia shows 4,129 traffic accidents through June 1949 up from 3,495 a year earlier. Injured total 2,802 versus 2,175, while deaths fell from 350 to 303. Urban areas cut deaths 36 percent, rural areas seven percent. more crashes involve running off the roadway, blamed on speed and intoxication.
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Atlanta
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Three-in-one Georgia booklet released by state
Georgia progresses in agriculture industry and tourism highlighted in a new booklet by the State Department of Commerce. Secretary Clark Gaines presents the publication available to the public at no charge with about 60 illustrations and images of the governor, historic sites, and work in agriculture and industry.
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Georgia Soil Conservation Week Promoted Across State
Agricultural leaders from commercial groups and government farm agencies unite to urge observance of Soil Conservation Week in Georgia from September 11 to 18. Governor Talmadge will speak at the convocation for the Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville on September 26 at the start of its 59th annual session. The Upson County grand jury in its presentment last week urged the State Constabulary to assign additional patrolmen to the Thoton station.
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Margaret Mitchell Memorial Fund Grows After Tragic Death
The memorial fund for Margaret Mitchell, creator of Gone With the Wind, raises donations for Grady Hospital in Atlanta after her death from a car collision near Peachtree Street. Plans envisage an $18 million hospital expansion under Hill Burton aid, boosting beds from 625 to 1000 by next July.
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