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f xecuuve secretary of the Associated General Com factors Assoc., express their sentiments on the project.Before the program began. Anderson, Coleman and Knight drove through the completed Coons kin Trail Road as the traditional ribbonTalmadge Holds Edge in GeorgiaATLANTA, June 28— Hom«-t unYna was performer bv Bet tv Arm j spun Gov. Herman Talmadge, Ceor-Coleman. Her sister. Mary Lou. anil^s -white supremacy'’ champion, Margaret 'Muffi Baldwin held thetiny, pastel barrier which was (Please Turn to Page 6 Col. 3)Cooperation Key To Park SuccessRed-gallusedmginThere are many untold stories as to how ’‘Operation Coonskin” was accomplished, but all of them can be summed up a? simply cooperation by public-spirited firms of the l'anrwha Valiev.lt; 3i? Thompson was leading in Ito no men pat., many of them..tj w. ^ ; votes anvoiunieenng and hardly none refusing when they were called up.A 10:30 p.m. telephone call to T. R. Ragland, superintendent of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp., asked for steel drums to become Coonskin Park trash cans.At 3 a.m. yesterday. Ragland reported 25 cans and two gallons of green pai. . on the way to the park.They were on the grounds by 9 a.m.trailed in popular votes but led i, deciding county unit votes tonight i in his bid for Democratic renorni-: nation.His major opponent, ex-Gov. M.•E .Thompson, a hard-fighting for-! msr school teacher, looked at the ■ returns and declared: j‘Tn my opinion we have the race won. jVeteran Sen. Walter F. George; raced far ahead of Atlanta attorney | Kanawha Valleyans, arriving byAlex McLennan, who repealed!y carSi trains and buses, joined in a branded the conservative, 72-3ear-old key senator as a tool of big, corporations. ! pint ion of “Operation Coo rusk in.”Talmadge was leaq- a fireworks display, a dance nt counties W3th 180 miit;^ new pavilion, outdoor moviesPa rk Ft n ish ed, Builde rs Jo in In CelebrationBy Neil I\ BoggsStaff Writer for The GazetteThe men who built Co on skin Park in a mammoth two-day ope ration unprecedented in Kanawha Valley history relaxed last night and enjoyed the recreation spot with the public for which it was built.More than 25,000 outdoor-mindedears, iroms celebration whichmarked the com-votes and 29.082 popular voles.:!5 eaun-d 30,210 popular votes.These returns were from 240 pre-; cinets—-about a seventh of the stale’s j total of 1.704. iUnder Georgia's unique county j unit election system, similar to the! national electoral college, 206 unit' votes are needed to win. Victory j in the primary means election in one-party Georgia.Thompson apparent!; took hope!, , A„ from the fact that in 1948, when-and painted promptly by AFL Talmadge beat him decisively, he;lost several of the 25 counties inand other entertainment highlighted the observance at the 325-acre park near Kanawha Airport.For more than 400 workmenand scores of business and civic leaders who contributed time, materials and equipment in the community project, it meant the end of months of careful planning: and two days of gruelling work.But for the public it was the realization of a long dream tor a park in this park-less Charleston a rea.When the workers who tookPainters. ...____..............E. A. Carter and Frank A. Reb- which he was leading at this tabu-1 J,art in lhe operation moved out ban of the AFL Teasers made'.latum. ’ I at sunset, a usable public parkcertain that all park workers would thirsty. ;The 1947-48Georgiagovernor.was open and ready for use, {Please Turn to Page 6 Col. 5)not oValley Bell Dairy, Coca Cola, Pepsi-Cola and Seven Up soft drink distributors responded with a will, furnishin.. their products for thet’ o days of work.Said Valley Bell officials: ,;Ahalf pint of milk each day? Well send a oint a day. A man can't put(Please Turn to Page 6 Co!. 8)KanawhaPopulationHikedTo 236,945—17 Pet Gain(Please Turn to Page 6 Col. 4)in a hard dav's work on just Surpassing any other county In I Dunbar's population increasedhalf nint” West Virginia, Kanawha's popula-:from 5.266 to o,019.* , , * 1 ~ 236.945 or a gain of 17 per-j Nitro. lying partly in two coun-Lnasked, tne dairy company aisO:cenj. above the 1940 census fig- sties, has a total population of 2,-‘ tires of 195,619. officials announced i 936 as compared with 2.001 in 1940. yesterday. iThe 1950 total includes 2.181 in!Homer H. May. Charleston area jKanawha and 755 in Pmnam. . }census supervisor, said the gain,; Montgomery, also Jyin* partly inj i which was the most substantial. iw0 counties, has a total popula-j recorded in the state, lies mainly ■ lion of 3.476 as compared with 3,-! j west of Charleston, m Sotithi231 in 1940. The J950 figures in- j j Charleston, St Albans and Dun-;c]lH3e 2.574 m Fayette and 902 in • bar. IKanawha.: The population of South Charles- ; Populations of other Kanawha1 .Uni is 16.627, a gain of 6.290 overicomnnmilies. with 1940 figures in iu the 10.337 in 1940. ipai'cnthescstSt. Albans with 9.353, show? an! ciendenin, 1,463 -1.200): Cedar:, .ncrease of 6.205 over the 1340 fig-! -lures of 3,556, ‘ 1 (Please Turn in Page 6 Col- 1) IAmusements ,.2bIdea Payoif -.20Betuuy ........21Johnny ......9Class; r.ed ----26-29KilgaljPn ....10Crci.sFv. fi P\iziie2(1Obituary ....6Columnists ...8Pattern ......20Cooking ......23Radio-TV ...2 bComics .......2U. 21Society ......3 H.Dorothy Dix ..20S.otks ......8EsS:tona:$8Sports .....12Fix it ’/nurse lS21Tested Tips ..26Health .......21-24
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Thu, Jun 29, 1950
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