Paris Tennessee farmers showcase green soil program
On Monday May 17 1948 a group of 62 visitors toured Paris Tennessee to study a local farm program praised by Chamber leaders bankers agronomists and extension agents The farmers and community leaders emphasized keeping soil covered with green crops year round to prevent erosion noting the soil is largely borrowed and that deep soil is as fertile as topsoil with continued cultivation of the same soil particles for efficiency.
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Paris
Tennes
Chamber of Commerce
Civic Club
Nature
Red Hills
Farma
Paris Community Builds Farm Savings And Seed Sales
Bankers and agricultural representatives push soil conservation for higher income and better living. Paris farmers expand seed sales, hay and pasture, and livestock numbers while avoiding tobacco. The community eyes growth as moisture conservation supports bigger crops east of the Mississippi.
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Paris
Mississippi River
Trout pond plans on Mount Airy hillside stream
Rayburn Snow of Route 3 Mount Airy plans a trout pond on a small mountain stream site after a water level survey. The 5000 trout stock aims for cool summer water. trout thrive in free flowing streams but not in warmer farm ponds. Orby Kirkman of Shelton Town builds a large fenced farm area to rotate pasture and seed rye grass orchard grass and ladino clover. He cooperates with Tri-Creek District soil conservation and is in the Veterans Training class at Flat Rock. Perry Taylor white Plains considers reterracing to tighten terraces on erosive soil. Elmer Hodges Beulah seeds four new pasture acres this spring.
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Rayburn Snow
Route 3
Mount Airy i
Orby Kirkman
Sheltontown
Orby
Tri-Creek
Mount Airy High School Final Honor Roll
Mount Airy High School lists honor roll for 11th and 12th grades with student names including Richard Creed Barbara Gwyn Lacy Gwyn Polly Fourquerean Carol Midkiff and many others. The roll also names 2th Grade and 2th Grade students such as Sue Mae Flinchum Doreen Smith and John Vogler reflecting academic recognition across classes.
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Mount Airy High School
Richard Creed
Barbara Jean Gwyn
Lacy Ellen Gwyn
Carl Baker
Marilyn Blackburn
Carter
Sue Mae Flinchum
R. J. Berrier
Magdalene Pardue
Doreen Smith
Harvey Willard
Minnie E. Palk
Barbera Wall
Dan Moore
Jack Loftis
Frances Parks
Carolyn Merritt
Fred Thompson
John Vogler
Randall Sparger
Jean Kerr
Jo Anne Inman
Winfred Frye
Vincent Birkner
Monte Boone
Eleanor Greenwood
Annie Mae Payne
Woman in Bigamy Case Details Four Marriages
Barbara Joyce Dardis Hendricks Decker Vaughn told authorities she married four men in four years without divorcing any, claiming she was led to marry them all by a man named Im Mana while in jail on a bigamy charge.
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Los Angeles
Barbara Joyce Dardis Hendricks Decker Vaughn
Immana
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Peggy Cummins Stars in Chreen Grass of Wyoming at Earle
Peggy Cummins, star of the 20th Century Fox Technicolor production, Chreen Grass of Wyoming, is coming to the Earle Theatre for a four day engagement starting Wednesday.
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Peggy Cummins
20Th Century Fox
Hesss Reunite After Son's Death Funeral
Detroit couple Robert and Bessie Hess are reunited and remarry after their six year old son Jimmy dies in a fishing accident. The pair had divorced in 1947 when Hess served six months for failing to pay $586 alimony.
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Detroit
Mich
Jimmy
Robert
Bessie Hess
Hess
House of Correction
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Soil Conservation News
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Betty J. Dowell
Nancy J. Dowell
Martha Hull
Lavenia Moseley
Mabel Moseley
Barbara Smith
Margaret Snyder
Kathryn Tilley
Charles Vogler
Dale Simmons
Glenna Smith
Wade McGee
Jesse Allred
Jimmy Glass
Alice McCarty
Charles Benison
D. J. Odell
Virginia Carter
Andrew
Bud) Smith
Vance Tesh
Loudeau Childress
Leonard Money
Bill Shelton
Bruce Yokely
Shirley Frye
Bill Hawks
Lucy Marshall
Rachel Parker
Janet Sumner
Barbara Sutphin
Roland Anderson
Peggy Royal
Irene Welborn
Peggy Jo Davis
Bobby Loftis
Kathryn McKnight
Patty Midkiff
Lillie Mae Money
Louise Ramey
Frances Watson
Herbert Sutphin
Peggy Watts
Jennie Lee Pruitt
Bill Dawson
Peggy Frye
Evelyn Greenwood
Charlies Haynes
Nora Frances Lackey
Pay Lowry
Gerry Mays
Libby Shelton
Corky Fowler
Betty J. Johnson
Peggy Miller
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Fulton
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Goodyear
John H. Midkitt
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