Georgia News Summary Highlights Local Development and Health
Georgia reports show Macon extending Mulberry Street business area and Albany area investments over 1.5 million dollars. Cotton crop prospects drop below 1944 and LaGrange records a 50 cent per pound price. Polio quarantine ends. Richland Milling Co. opens in Richland. new sugar stamp validity. St Luke church youth activity in Columbus. airplane forest patrol in Larke county. Hi Neigh bor program in Columbus visited by Alabama neighbors.
Wounded Veteran Gives Up Hunting After War Reflections
In Bonaro Overstreet's Freedom's People a wounded veteran recalls life in the South Pacific as an engineer and reveals plans to abandon hunting. He favors photography of birds, saying shooting with a gun harms creatures while a camera seeks to understand their life. He links his hospital time to a broader view on respecting others' desires.
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Bonaro Overstreet
Hof
South Pacific
Bust of Lanier to be honored in Hall of Fame
Macon Georgia September 3 official recognition will place Sidney Lanier in the Hall of Fame. The bust will be presented at 3 p m October 3 at New York University Auditorium. Mrs Walter D Lanier led a 15 year effort and will make the presentation. Lanier’s grandson will unveil the bust.
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Macon
Sidney Lanier
Lanier
New York University
Walter D. Laniar
Gasoline Tax Refunds and CCC Cotton Loans Notice
Farmers must file second quarter gasoline tax refund claims between September 10 and 15. Those without refunds or permit numbers should visit the agent to obtain and properly fill farm permit forms. For CCC loans, Taylor County producers with 1945 cotton owed must redeem by October 1 or have cotton pooled and sold. overdue loans remain in past due status with potential repayment options prior to October 1.
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CCC
Taylor County
Commodity Credit Corporation
Savannah Vet Enters Church and Shoots Self
Edward Sauers, 25, a Savannah war veteran and son of a druggist, entered a Savannah church and shot himself in the temple. He was in critical condition in a Savannah hospital. Sauers had recently returned from a northern clinic where he was treated and had become despondent after a hard Army enlistment and an eye loss in an earlier accident. He was discharged several months ago.
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Savannah
Edward Sauers
Sayers
White House
Sauers
R. E. Huie Sr. Killed in Auto Mishap North of Hampton
Hampton August 30 R E Huie Sr an official of the Coca Cola Bottling company of Albany was killed and his wife seriously injured when their automobile overturned on the highway north of Hampton State Patrolman Ed Tarleton of Griffin said the car went out of control after leaving the shoulder of the road
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Hampton
R. E. Huie Sr
Coca Cola Bottling Company
Albany
Ed. Tarleton
Griffin
Open Dove Season Starts September 16 in Local Counties
Game warden Mr. Lee Posey announces dove season opens September 16 and runs to September 30 in Muscogee Talbot Taylor Crawford Bibb Jones Baldwin Hancock Warren McDuf fie and Columbia counties and north thereof. Statewide dove season runs December 18 to January 31 with daily bag limit ten.
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Lee Posey
Muscogee
Talbot Taylor
Crawford
Bibb
Jones
Baldwin
Hancock
Warren
McDuffie
Columbia
Posey
J. R. Lunsford
Representative Hace Promotes Chattahoochee River Fund Bill
Representative Stephen Hace announced a bill to provide funds for real work deepening the Chattahoochee River, to be introduced at the next Congress session. Pace noted the initial bill approved a provision for non- funding.
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Stephen Hace
Chattahoochee River
Congress
Pace
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Irene
Berta Perkins
County Soil Conservation Service
Georgia
Mulberry Street
LaGrange
H. B. Arnold
Americus
Richland Milling Co
Richland
St. Luke Church
Columbus
Larke
Lacon County
Ala
South Georgia
The
Women's Society of Chrstian Service
Hanknsville
Nation
Georgia Power Company
Masonry
Sardis
Statesboro
Willis Strickland Jr
Willis Strickland
Rienana
W. L. Johnston
Bloomington
Kil
Cordele
Alton Robinson
State Department of Public Health
A. Q. Morris
Brunswick
Peacock
Ellaville
Carpenters
Ninth Street
Broadway
South
Hall OF Fame
Chester Byars
Superior Court
Griffin Broadcasting Co
New Broadcasting Company
Kathleen Cantrell
James Wescott
Dahlonega
H. Talmadge Dobbs Sr
Atlanta
Arnall
Dobbs
State Personnel Board
Chatsworth
H. H. Haynes
Claude Powell
Murray County
R. L. Coleman
Savannah Vet
Masonic Building
Butler, Georgia
Flintside Cafe
Flint River Bridge
Butler
Cardus
Kolor Bak
Von’s
Epsom
Lydia E. Pinkham
Retonga
Putnams Fadless
Miles Nervine
Blue Horse
Doyel’s Furniture
Singer Sewing Machine
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