Industrial Park Plan Approved
Thomasville development leaders moved to study possible sites for an industrial park of about 50 acres similar to High Point and Lexington parks. The executive committee will report in February on sites and preparations including sewer lines power water and roads. Directors also appointed R L Shuford to serve out the unexpired term of Jeff Warner and set a price for corporation owned property behind East Bakery on Randolph Street. An executive committee was formed with Harry Brown Finch George Hundley Russell van Lendinsham Bill Green and R L Shuford.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Development Corporation
Thomasville Group
High Point
Lexington
R. L. Shuford
Chamber of Commerce
Jeff Warner
Chamber
East Bakery
Randolph Street
George Hundley
Harry Brown Finch
Russell van Lendinsham
Bill Green
Radio TV men walk out on Gov Brown
In Los Angeles AP reports radio and TV reporters walked out of Gov. Edmund G. Brown news conference after he refused to allow equipment use during questions from newspaper reporters. An exception was DCOP filming a side room interview. Brown argued interviews lose freedom before lighting.
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Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown
Nelson. A. Rockefeller
New York
Brown
DCOP
Duncan Appeal To Be Heard
California Supreme Court hears arguments on Elizabeth Duncan's appeal from a death sentence for the murder of her daughter in law Olga Duncan. Also appealed are the two men hired to kill her, Agustine Baldonado and Luis Estrada Moya.
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Los Angeles
California Supreme Court
Elizabeth Duncan
Agustine Baldonado
Luis Estrada Moya
Olga Duncan
Santa Barbara
Baldonado
Moya
Ward Sullivan
Thomasville group seeks 13501 48 in a week to match federal funds
A new Thomasville fund drive aims to raise 13501 48 by January 15 to trigger a National Defense Education Act match, boosting local school funds to 27002 96. Superintendent Horton notes current available local match is 1000, with 6564 11 for 1958 59 and 6937 37 for 1959 60, all needing quick action.
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Thomasville
R. F. van Landingham
PTA
W. S. Horton
Horton
State Board of Education
Dolar
van Landingham
Joss Iforton
Essen- Thomasville
Lindsay Loftin
Roy Proctor
Recorder's Court
Proctor
City Memorial Hospital
New Street Names Are Proposed in Thomasville
City Manager Bill Green announced a sweeping renaming plan to reduce street name confusion. Council will consider recommendations, with submissions due before the January 21 meeting. Green suggests retaining the first used name where duplicates exist, and includes a list of proposed changes and references to former mayors.
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Thomasville
Bill Green
Green
Hills and
Morton
Woodlane
Woodlawn
Woodland
Thomas Avenue
Thomas Street
Finch Row
Finch Avenue
King Street
King Row
Hill Streets
Woodland Street
Johnson Streets
Haygood
Hayworth
Clark Streets
Vance Road
Holly Hill Road
Law Dean To Speak At DSA Event
Thomasville announces Wake Forest College Law Dean Carroll W. Weathers will speak at the Jaycees annual DSA Bosses Night banquet on January 21. Weathers, a former state senator, has led the Wake Forest law school since 1950 and earned both his degrees there in 1922 and 1923. Local attorney William B. Mills will introduce him at the dinner. The group awards a Distinguished Service Award that night and seeks Young Man of the Year nominees by January 15, sent to Maxey Crowder, JC.
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Thomasville
Carroll W. Weathers
Wake Forest College
Winston- Salem
Jaycees
DSA
Dean Weathers
Wake Forest
Raleigh
William B. Mills
Weathers
Maxey Crowder
Junior Chamber of Commerce
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Dorothy ¢. Fisher
Charles Lamb
Piedmont Lodge
Calvin L. Hart
Woodroe E. Haywood
Cecil
Chair City
Oscar Wille
Hiram Lodge
Edwin T. Howard
North Carolina
A. J. Koonce
Fred R. Sherrer
Acadia Lodge
Reginald L. Rogers
J. D. McCrery
Pine ST
Warner's Transfer & Storage Co
Davis Patrol & Watchman Service
Davis Phone
Dacron
Orion
Jacobs Chuck
Val
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