Week in Georgia highlights from Sumter to Savannah
Sumter County fairs set for October 14 to 19 under A C Johnson and Fair Association. Gray voters approve 15000 for water works. Fatal burns to 4 year old James Kelly from matches in a gasoline tank. Arm strong, 80, dies after car crash injury. Lions Club elects C D Rountree president. Two masked bandits flee with about 400 in a Triple X Thirst Station robbery. Cottonseed flour touted in Fort Worth. Leontine Butler named secretary at Macon YWCA. FHA issues new modernization credit policy booklet. Prison farm cornerstone laid in Tattnall County during Labor Day events. Longtime Macon executive Thomas R Lane dies. Georgia Democrats push loyalty criteria in jobs. Pedestrian killed by Atlanta West Point train. Three murder suspects freed after preliminary hearing in Valdosta. 95 pound watermelon gifted to Lowndes County official. Glynn County inmate killed in guard clash. Two more die on roads in Moultrie Quitman. FHA building permits exceed 24500 in Barnesville. Marshallville water system upgrades discussed. Miss Elizabeth Williamson killed in Ogeechee road crash. Oren Anderson injured.
Education and civic items fill Georgia page highlights
A roundup of Georgia events covers Gordon College enrollment, WPA aid for women, cotton loan plans, and county court actions. Paving on Vienna to Lilly progresses, Atlanta minors attendance records at Ponce de Leon Park, and features include Mrs. McKenzie’s Europe tour and Governor advisories on school health.
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Atlanta
Ponce de Leon Park
Crackers
Prominent Forsyth County Doctor George Brice Dies Near Cumming
Dr. George P. Brice, 74, a renowned Forsyth County physician for 61 years and active in civic affairs, died at his home near Cumming on Sunday. He was widely known in the Jones area and north Georgia.
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Cumming
North Georgia
George P. Brice
Brice
Forsyth County
Civic
Death of Mrs. Mary Jane Ticknor in Macon at 97
Mrs. Mary Jane Ticknor, 97, of Macon, died in a local hospital Sunday after an illness of several months. Born in Jones county in March 1888 to William and Mary J. Brooks, she had lived in Macon for 47 years and was the widow of W. O. Ticknor.
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Macon
Mary Jane Ticknor
Wires kill Georgia hunter on blocked road
Newington Ga Sept 2 Dailey 45 was killed early Sunday when he touched high voltage wires across a road between Newington and Oliver while attempting to bypass a fallen pole during a hunting trip. A passerby found the body.
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Newington
Dailey
Oliver
Child dies after being thrown by ox in Georgia
Jesup Ga Sept 1 Marlyne Perkins two and a half year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ira Perkins died Sunday from a broken neck received Friday when she was thrown by an ox. The child had been riding the animal and was tossed after it was frightened by playmates. She landed on her head fracturing the first cervical vertebra.
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Jesup, Ga
Marlyne Perkins
Ira Perkins
Marlyne
Upson Grand Jury Backs Health Law and Australian Ballot
Thomaston Georgia August 31 The Upson county grand jury in session this week urged adoption of the health law and the Australian ballot system It called for a yearly county audit to be published in the local newspaper and asked County Commissioners to vigorously promote projects eligible for federal aid funds
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Thomaston
Upson County
New Gordon Theatre Opens in Rome Georgia
Rome Ga Sept 2 The Gordon Theatre opened Monday after a $50 000 construction. The 6000 seat venue will show both moving pictures and stage shows. It is run by Lam Amusement Company of Roe and is one of nine theaters in Georgia and Alabama. Architect C Wise of Atlanta and contractor H A Collins of Atlanta were responsible.
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Rome
Gordon
Lam Amusement Company
Roe
Georgia
Alabama
C. Wise
Atlanta
H. A. Collins
Packing Plant Reopens In Tifton After 15 Years
Armour & Company will reopen its packing plant in Tifton Georgia in November after a 15 year closure. Marick Hardy of Chicago announced the project with about 150000 dollars to modernize the facility. The plant will slaughter cattle and hogs, cure meats and distribute in the region, with a planned capacity of 150000 hogs and 15000 cattle annually.
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Tifton
Armour & Company
Marick Hardy
Chicago
Details of lint loan plan for cotton subsidy breakthrough
Washington officials outlined a federal cotton loan and subsidy program likely to be announced this week. A 10 cent loan and a subsidy pegged to two cents a pound would raise farmer income toward 12 cents per pound, with payments based on daily cotton sale averages and records from contract signers. Substantial secrecy surrounded the plan as preparations proceed.
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Washington
AAA
Sone
Agriculture Department
Two Women Die In Auto Collision Near Newnan
Two women killed and two others injured in a head on crash ten miles south of Newnan Saturday night. Victims are Mrs Reginald H Kelley of Fort Benning and Miss Mary Helen Brasch 24 of Columbus. Eldridge Garrett of Columbus critically injured. Garrett a Fort Benning civilian employee and Miss Brasch a Camp McClellan worker. Police say one car swerved to pass a wagon before impact.
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Newnan
Reginald H. Kelley
Col. Kelley
Fort Benning
Mary Helen Brasch
Columbus
Brasch
C. W. Brasch
Eldridge Garrett
FATHER SLAYS SON'S KILLER IN COBB COUNTY
In Marietta Georgia Lee Bowden 51 of Powder Springs held for murder after shooting Bob Summer 50 on a highway near Austell. Bowden's son Joe Bowden 20 was killed August 4 in a filling station altercation. Summer had just been released on appeal from a manslaughter sentence of 10 years.
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Marietta
Bob Summer
Paulding
Lee Bowden
Powder Springs
Summer
E. M. Legg
Cobb County
Bowden
Austell
Legg
Joe Bowden
Paulding Superior Court
Bona
Peraingasia
Van Drowns in Evans County Near Hagan Georgia
Cliff Coley a World War II veteran died when a two ton truck veered off the Hagan Glennville highway about a mile from Hagan and plunged into a pond at 8 30 tonight. He was trapped in the cab and drowned before help could reach him while returning to his Claxton home.
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Hagan
Cliff Coley
Coley
Claxton
Hagan-Glennville
Blue and Gray Veterans Gather in Amarillo Texas
Amarillo Texas September 3 veterans from the Confederacy gather for the 45th U C V reunion. The meeting debates if another national reunion should be held and whether southerners join the Grand Army of the Republic in a 1998 Gettysburg session. Paul Roy of Gettysburg invites the joint 1998 gathering. General Rice A Pierce arrives in Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Texas
Lee
Confederacy
Southland
Grand Army of the Republic
Gettyssburg
Paul Roy
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania State Commission
Rice A. Pierce
Union City Tenn
Roosevelt funds Florida canal project with 5 million pledge
President Roosevelt allotted 5 million dollars to begin work on a 146 million dollar ship canal across the Florida peninsula. Army engineers call it the largest U S mainland waterway project, linking the Atlantic and Gulf to shorten routes for ocean vessels. Officials say savings reach 7.5 million annually and up to two and a half days per voyage.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army Engineers
United States
National Emergency Council
Atantic
Gulf of Mexico
Peninsula
Florida Keys
Atlantic
Gulf
Crawford County Farmer Dies in Macon Hospital
Macon Ga Sept 4 George Lee Frazier longtime Crawford County farmer died in a Macon hospital after several years illness. Born March 15 1868 in Taylor County he was the son of G W and Lucy Marshall Frazier and a Baptist church member. Surviving are a brother T B Frazier of Lattimore SC a sister Mrs Birdie Green of Macon and two nephews E C Green of Jacksonville Fla and C D Green of Macon.
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Macon
George Lee Frazier
Crawford County
Milledgerie
Mr. Frazier
Taylor County
G. W
Lucy Marshall Frazier
The
Baptist Church
T. B. Frazier
Lattimore
S. C
Birdie Green
E. C. Green
Instructed 3 Hours Pilot Lands Safely in Macon
William Snow of Macon began flight training with three hours of instruction. After a misheard prompt, Snow took the plane up, flew well, and landed satisfactorily. At his instructor’s urging he soloed again, marking a successful early flight in Macon, Georgia.
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Macon
William Snow
Snow
Atlanta Man Drowns At Lake Burton North Georgia
Herbert Whidby 80 of Atlanta drowned Monday afternoon while wading in water over his head at Lake Burton. Miss Isabel Roberts of Atlanta and another couple nearby could not assist as Whidby struggled for life. Bystanders, including T. K. Jones, could not find the body until an hour later. Neither Whidby nor Miss Roberts could swim.
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Atlanta
Lake Burton
Herbert Whidby
Isabel Roberts
Whidby
T. K. Jones
Miss Roberts
Large Pecan Crop Seen for Georgia
Moultrie, Ga., Sept. 2. W. R. Neal, a noted pecan crop authority in South Georgia, predicts a larger crop this season across the belt than last year. He found Schley trees afflicted by scale, lowering their output, while other varieties show gains. Dealers expect prices may not reach last season’s peak.
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Moultrie
W. R. Neal
South Georgia
South Georgia Belt
Neal
Macon Mayor Wins By Good Majority
Macon on September 1 reports Herbert I. Smart elected mayor for a two year term by 1 526 votes over opponent Walter J. Johnson. Smart received 3 446 votes to Johnson 1 955 with C Grey Walden not returned on the Johnson ticket. Aldermen include Carstarphen and others: Bowden Clay Heard Layfield McCrary Harris Chapman Candler Waller Pittman Flowers.
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Macon
Herbert I. Smart
Walter J. Johnson
Smart
Johnson
C. Grey Walden
Carstarphen
Chas. L. Bowden
C. B. Clay
J. M. Heard
Ed R. Layfield
DeWitt McCrary
Henry Harris Harry D. Chapman
Sam §. Candler
B. I. Waller
H. W. Pittman
A. J. Flowers
Man Flailed by Parole Inmate Freed for Citizenship
Governor Talmadge granted parole to Frank Smith alias Roy Garner, jailed three to five years for car breaking in Bibb County. Convicted December 1925, escaped February, recaptured September 8 1931, escaped January 5 1983, recaptured later that year. He served on a chain gang until parole, cited as a model citizen during fugitive period, justifying a new chance.
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Atlanta
Talmadge
Frank Smith
Roy Garner
Bibb County
Smith
Georgia poultry hit by a new disease in Georgia
A strange new sickness strikes Georgia poultry cutting egg production across various regions. Cases reported to the state bureau of markets show throat and intestinal symptoms, with birds sent to Athens for diagnosis. Egg output drops sharply, sparking alarm among farmers and poultrymen despite moulting season.
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Georgia
State Bureau of Markets
State College of Agriculture
Athens
Grand and Traverse Jurors December Term 1935
Grand and Traverse jurors for the Taylor Superior Court October term were drawn by Judge C. Frank McLaughlin. The court convened on the first Monday in October 1935 with a panel of jurors listed for service.
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Grand and Traverse
Tern
Taylor Superior Cour
Grand
Traverse
Ys. Honge
C. Frank McLaughlin
Taylo Superior Court
Axe Attack Fatal to NeGRESS and Sister Killed
Macon report of a double axe and shotgun murder case. Rosa Moore 2 of Monroe county died at Macon hospital from an axe wound inflicted by her husband Ernest Moore who was captured nearby. Roberta Moore, his sister-in-law, died from gunshot injuries. The case links to suspected lunacy.
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Macon
Rosa Moore
Monroe County Negress
Lorane
Maciy Hospital
Ernest Moore
Moniroe County
Roberta Moore
Newspaperman and former legislator Boatright dies in Swainsboro
Swainsboro Ga Aug 30 Will am KE Boatright 69 longtime editor of the Swainsboro Forest Blade and former Emanuel County representative died today at University Hospital in per gusta after a months illness. A civic leader he spent most of his life in journalism and public service in Emanuel County and Georgia. He was born to Dan B and Rady Bryant Boatright and married Mary Estelle Ke who died years ago.
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Willam KE. Boatright
Swainsboro Forest Blade
University Hospital
Per Gusta
Boatright
Foresst Blade
Xumbus
Valdosta
Savannah
Mroatright
Eman County
Dan B
Rady Bryant Boatright
Emanuel Nety
Mary Estelle Ke
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