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(Continued from page 38) to? trustees honor R. C. Bal four Jr., retiring president, for long service on board. APRIL 1. Negro city utilities worker eletrocuted on the job. 2. Ground is broken to begin Constrection of new Negro YCA on Clay St. 3. Cairo youth admits rifle skin of foster mother. 4. Un.mpeachable source pre ds U.S. Rep. J. L. Pilcher is not seek re-election, stad io, directorship of the Region al Office of Emergency Plan hie 8. City officials host Second Dstrict Georgia Municipal Assn. 9. Rep. Pilcher confirms he's coming home; State Rep. J. W. Keyton enters race for Pilcher’s Congress seat. 10. Thomasville first annual Hometown Aircade for Citizen ship Action rated ‘smashing’ success by Chamber of Com merce. 15. County Commission adopts $739,020 budget for 1964. City Officials declare emergency in rabies outbreak among raccoons. 16. Ground broken for new Sing Oil Co. building at Rose City Industrial Park 17, Mental Health Foundation organizes, elects Robert A. Wise Jr. as president. 18. Twenty - one candidates qualify in 10 races as qualify ing begins for Georgia Demo cratic Primary election. 21. Thomasville featured in Holiday Inn magazine. 23. City ready for 43rd an nual Rose Show. 24. Rebecca Lanier crowned as Rose Queen, big parade goes off smoothly and Rose Show opens on schedule, with B. J. Kimbrough’s ‘‘Rubalyat’’ chos en ‘‘Queen of the Show’’. Ha vana, Fla., woman, Mrs. Mary L. Bostick, takes sweepstakes for third consecutive year. 25. Miss Lou Hurst of Grady County reigns as ‘“‘Miss Deep Booth. ’ First annual Rose Fes tival Horse Show attracts 2, 000. 28. City’s planned increase in basic water rate as of July 1 expected to add $25,000 to $300, 000 annual gross income. Boy Scout expansion program be gins. 29. Four allegedly AWOL sail ors from Pensacola, Fa., jail ed by Thomas County law offi cers on charges of sealing a truth near Boston. Rudy Mack, alleged kingpin in the bolita racket in this area, convicted on two counts involved lottery char ges, sentenced to one year on each count. Sylvester Hill pleads guilty to voluntary manslaugh ter of Jimmy Currie on Feb. 9, 1963, sentenced 8-10 years at Su perior Court. 30. Local voters, by nearly 3-1, okay change in Sheriff's pay from fee system to $9,000 annu al salary. “On MAY 1. Rose Festival “pass mort tem” indicates success of first annual horse show and first an nual golf tournament, along with revival of plantation tours. Per manent committee set up to plan for 1965. 2. Mrs. Alice P. Joseph retires after 30 years with Thomas Co. Federal Savings Loan Assn. Five-inch rain paralyzes Thom asville, leaves ‘‘disaster area’ on Stevens St. 3. City, county forces estimate damages from May 2 storm— Red Cross reports 86 persons evacuated from 19 houses. 6. Two Greek brothers meet here for first time as Mitch Sampson, 80, Thomasville, wel comes Alexander Sampson, 52, chief of police from Athens, Greece. 9. Veteran hiker Smokey Ca meron, sets out to walk from Thomasville to Dallas, Tex , via New York. UW. TE Editor .L. Edward Kelly Jr. wins three first prize awards for photographs at The Accodted Press awards ban quet. 12. Jackie Free’s 920 - pound black Angus steer named Grand Champion in the 1964 Thomas County Livestock Show. City Commission goes on record supporting Ga. Municipal Assa in seeking to acquire rebates from gasoline tax for Georgia municipalities. 13. Cattle sale grosses $22,883 14. Six area students chosen for first Governor's Honors Program. 18. Red carpet welcome giv en Stay and See Georgia con test judges. 20. Negro woman, Bertha Sykes, jailed in shooting death of another Negro woman Annie B. Brown, and wounding of Ne gro man, Jack Davis. 21. Thomas County Federal Savings Loan Assn. holds open house in new showplace building. Miss Sue Snipes, Thom as County curriculum director, named to coordinate summer reading course for District IT. Murder charge lodged against Bertha Sykes. 23. Prisoner found dead in city jail. 26. City Commission approves $222,891 paving and re-surfacing project. 27. Survey shows 25,000 com pleted Sabin Oral vaccine pro gram in Thomas County. 30. Sandra Robertson, 11, burn ed badly by fall into incinerator after plane recital, JUNE 2. Smokey Cameron located in Washington, D. C., after all-out search began when it was learn ed he was bitten by a rabid raccoon before leaving Thomas ville. 3. Thomasville High School graduates 113. Smokey Cameron refuses rabies shots — claims “no bite’’— continues hike. 4. Three-car accident involves police cruiser. Prlma. Ronnie Lewis = injured. Thomasville named Champion Stay and See Georgia tourist town for. 1964. Central High School graduates 105. 5. Scott Construction Co. ap parent low bidder with $456,967. 50 for widening and resurfac ing W. Jackson St. from Bar tow St. to Pinetree Blvd. 9. City Commission no longer will go on private property to take care of storm drainage pro blems except where public wel fare involved. 12. Thomasville Viet Nam hero, Capt. Howard Floyd, decorated twice with Bronze Star at Ft. Benning. Machine gun explosion injures SP-4 James W. Harding of Thomasville while on maneu vers at Pt. Stewart. 13. Post Office Department to withdraw railway Post Offices, but Atlantic Coast Line denies Trains 180.and 189, serving Tho masville between Montgomery and Waycross, will be discon tinued. 4. Elmo Chaetail, £ 2, dies. 15. Negro men,Harry Cart White, and Dorsey Thompson, dead, Evangelean Adams wound ed in shooting affray. 19. Thomasville’s First Annu al Tomato Fair sees 4-H Club member John Maddox and Dor othy Showalter. Ochlochnee, J. B. Mills of Brinson, winning awards. 20. Joe I. Harris dies. Pinkie Mae Majors, Negro woman, charged with murder in shoot ing of Roosevelt Williams. Coun ty 4-H members set state rec ords with 26 first places in dis trict project achievement and 94 competitors at Rock Eagle. 32. L. B. Harvard elected pres ident of ‘Bunnyland Packing Co. Freak storm dumps 24 inches of rain on Thomasville. 23. Lyn Ray crowned ‘Miss Georgia Forestry’ 26. Mary Jo Smith of Coolidge elected State 4-H president 30. City Commissioners pay tribute to B. Y. Vann, posthu mously. Scott Construction Co. awarded paving and re-surfac ing contract. Local weather station closes. JULY 7. State Sen. Glenn Pelham re tires from race for Congress. 9. Local Jaycees play host to regional convention. YMCA Pin ey Wrors Comyn gets into full swing. Thomasville tobacco market enters its 10th year. 10. Southern Data Systems, division of Baltimore Business Forms, opens for business here. 13. Jerry Dean Norman, 18. Mark Wayne Haymonds, 21, and Darrell Kenneth Clark, all of Moultrie, killed when their car t rams bridge on US 319. James Randolph Player, 24, truck driver, dies after being stabbed. 14. City Commission approves $2,500 grant for the Thomas County - Thomasville Mental Health Foundation. 16. “New Look'' Belk-Hudson store opens here. The Coun ty Commission approves $2,500 allocation for mental health work, matching similar funds put up by the city. 17. Hollis L. (Shorty) Guth rie, 39, was released from pri son on double jeopardy issue after being sentenced to four years on a charge of selling lottery tickets and operating a lottery. 18. Thomasville Progressive Club, a Negro group, seeks adjustments on jury list. 21. Robert E. Jackson announc es as a candidate for the Coun ty Commission, Caravan Trail er Club studying permanent site here. 22. Pratt Secrest, ex-city commissioner, key campaign worker for Gov. Carl Sanders, resigns from Georgia State De mocratic Committee and accus ed Sanders of selling out the Democratic Party. The county grand jury condemns the pa role of H. L. Guthrie. Retail Merchants Assn. disapproves the new city trash pickup plan. 28. Municipal Auditorium due for a face-lifting and rental fees will go up. Samuel M. Wat son, 48, laboratory technician, found dead at home of Cherry St., apparently of a self-inflict ed buller wound. 29. Thomasville Tobacco Mar ket opens. AUGUST 8. Records show Cairo ex perienced a wet, cool July. Negro arrested for shooting into white waiting room at ACL Station here. “Wild Watt Day” observed by Rotarians. 4. Jessie Seagraves, 50, operator of a gas station, beaten by two Negroes in argument over trading stamps. 7. Poisoner of local area pets sought by police. 11. Clifford W. McMath, 31, was found dead in his auto mobile in a ditch on Magnolia Rd. 12. Heavy rains delay coun ty commissioners in making road and bridge repairs. Real tor J. Norwood Clark wins Democratic nomination for mayor of Cairo. Two Tennes see hitchhikers who fell asleep on the highway died of in juries suffered when run over by a car. 15. Backers of Sen. Barry Goldwater for president open headquarters here. 19. More than 8,700 young sters expected to enroll in Thomasville and Thomas Co. schools Aug. 28. 20. Father Mario Di Lella becomes new pastor at St. Augustine Catholic Church here. Frank Plunkett, found er of a boy's school in Thom asville, died in New York. 24. Crimes ranging from safe cracking to livestock poisoning occupies attention of Decatur County sheriff's flies. 25. New area industries set trend for year. James Jacob Slappy, 86, retired lumberman, dies at home. Birdwood Col lege seeks non-profit status. 26. City removes 80 parking meters because they weren’t being used often enough. SEPTEMBER 1. Candidates air their views at forum at City Auditorium. 5. Sheriff Callice Law arrests O. A. Taylor on mur der warrant in the fatal stab bing July 12 of James Ran dolph Player. §. Archbold Memorial Hos pital gets ready for expected winds from Hurricane Dora. 10. W. H. Flowers elected state senator; C. A. Rehberg new sheriff; Frank T. Holt new solicitor. Five runoffs slated as result of a primary in Which 8,100 voted. 12. Three-day session sho wed by Grady County rer.or Court. 14. Mayor Roy Lilly pro claims Sept. 15 as “Golden Georgia Egg Day.” Reginald Capes, Times-Enterprise re porter, escapes injury in car wreck. 16. Extended area telephone services to begin here Dec. 20 18. Congressional Candidates Harry L. Wingate and Maston O Neal of Bainbridge swap verbal blows in television debate. 19. E. J. Hill elected presi dent of Thomasville Kiwanis Club. 22. Lady Bird Johnson an mmoes she wil stop brisiir in Thomasville Oct. 8 on a tour of Southern states. 24. Maston O’Neal edges Harry Wingate for senate seat. Lowell Clark, James Murphy, R. P. Singletary win County Commission seats. 25. Local schools will get $500,000 of a $2,095,000 allot ment for school construction and consolidation. 26. Some 500 youngsters have big time at Kids Day ob servance here. 28. W. Lee Connell, 69, wide ly known barber, died in hos pital after a long illness. 29. Tax Rate in annexed area increased to 22.2 mills by city commissioners. City bars fire engines from answer ing fire calls out of city limits. OCTOBER 1. New radio setup speeds Times-Enterprise coverage of news events. Mayor Lilly and City Commissioner Jasper Davis get committee appoint ments to Georgia Municipal Association. 2. Mental Health Clinic be comes reality here. 3. Thomasville Kiwanis Club observes 34th birthday, honor ing four charter members. 6. Thomas County 4-H Live stock Judging team takes top honors at Southeastern Fair in Atlanta. 9. More than 5,000 greet Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson on “whistle stop” here. 13. Hearing set for Nov. 17 on updating city solling or dinance. 14. Jack Kelly, advertising director of the Thomasville Times-Enterprise, named chairman of the 1964-65 Com munity Chest fund drive. County postpones aid to city on street paving projects. 15. Hudson Norman, Sr. 54, manager of the Thomasville State Farmers Market, dies after long illness. Farm Agent W. L. Whittle is cited for in creasing farm income here. 16. City reported in top fi nancial shape with assets list ed at $11,878,000. 17. Lee E. Kelly, publisher of the Times-Enterprise, tells Kiwanis Club how newspapers are produced as a feature of National Newspaper Week. 19. Thomasville Municipal Airport is included in FAA allocation for improvements. Rainfall at Cairo reported heaviest in 44 years. 20. N. Pratt Secrest elected president of the Chamber of Commerce. A breakfast opens Community Chest fund drive 26. Deep South Fair opens. 29. Dr. Joe I. Palmer, dis trict director of public health, criticizes policies of stroke clinic. 30. Proposed standard build ing code is expected to elimi nate substandard homes here, it was brought out at public housing. of. City Commission, Public Library business ‘booms” since move to new location in old post office on Broad 81. 31. Thomasville has no prob lem of children in jail, Judge J. K. Harper says. NOVEMBER 3. Opposition develops to proposed new building code at public hearing at City Com mission, 4. Alfred Tennyson Wright, 44, Times-Enterprise employer found dead at home, ap parently a heart attack victim. Although Lyndon Johnson was elected president by a landslide, Thomas County vot ers voted for Sen. Barry Gold water. Jamie W. Oglesby elect ed to Georgia House of Repre sentatives, defeating Marcus B. Calhoun. 5. C. C. Collier named “man of year” in soil and water conservation programs. Voters give Junior College rousing ap proval. Vote here indicates two-party system gaining in state. 6. The Republican victory in Georgia won't hurt Gov. Carl E. Sanders, a Democrat, polit ically, observers claim,. 9. The J. L. Finn Building, an old landmark, being torn down. 10. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Dowell and their six children have willed their eyes to the Eye Bank, operated by the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation, Inc. City commmis sioners ask police cars and amnbulances to be careful ot their runs. City agrees to extend fire protection in rural areas until March. 11. Sheriff-elect C. A. Reh berg submits budget of $57, 882 to County Commission. City and county pay tribute to war dead at Veterans Day program. 16. New $250,000 Cairo Library called ‘outstanding shoepiece” at dedication ser vices. 17. More than 1,000 attend. 7th annual barbecue at Coats Clark. 18 City police plan to open bicycle safety program. 19. District letters carriers meeting set for Saturday. A community disaster drill show ed up weakness in communica tions. 21. New microwave towers being put up at Southern Bell Building. ‘Farm-City Week proclaimed by Mayor Lilly. Merchants here predict big Christmas business. Bapt. James R. Capps of Menlo Plantation found dead. 24. Mrs. William Lee Carter, 18, young Thomasville moth er, was killed in car crash near here. 25. Walter W. Floyd, 19, re captured after being shot, fol lowing escape from deputy sheriff. 28. Parade and glowing lights open Christmas season here. DECEMBER 4. County schools, roads, closed by 8.18 rain. 7. William HA. Zalumas, 106 Vine 8t., narrowly escapes death as his car crashed into moving freight train. 9. Damage due to heavy rains is expected to cost the county more than $40,000 for repairs to bridges and culverts. 10. Heavy Christmas mail expected by Postmaster Ray mond D. Hill. Lloyd Eckberg, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, elected a district leader in “Stay and See Geor gia” tourist contest. 11. New nursery to aid in city beautification projects. Sunnyland concern passes out Christmas bonus cash to more than 700 employes. 12. County buys $22,635 road machine to speed up road repair program. 14. City notice make two easy arrests—they found the suspects they were looking for already in jail on other charges. The proposed merger of the Army Reserve and the National Guard is meeting with disfavor here, a survey reveals, 15, City commissioners to draw up a “blueprint” to guide television firms that might be planning to locate here. 16. Two dairymen here ap prove a cent-aquart increase in the price of milk. 17. The addition of 25 fire hydrants and the extension of waterlines are approved by the city. 19. Salvation Anly makes urgent appeal for funds to help needy at Christmas. 21. Winter arrives but, with the mercury at more than 70, you'd hardly know it. 22. Sixty annual members and one new life member of the John D. Archbold Memor ial Hospital Corp. are elected. 23. Major building program is underway at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. 24. Mutterings of discontent heard here as auto inspection Wate nédts** mn bank Police schows “scheduled to open Jan. 4. Ernest Nelms, 68, a night watchman fatally injured when struck by an automobile. Four churches here set Christmas Day ser vices. 28. Two men die here after drinking canned heat. 30. Junior College applica tion will be ready for study by State Board of Regents Jan. 1 31. Mayor R. Arthur Bell and City Manager Charles £. Layton of Cairo retire after nive years of service by OCTOBER BRINGS THE DEEP SOUTH FAIR Four Lassies Try the Cotton Candy—Mmmm! WOUNDED ESCAPEE LIES ON HOSPITAL STRETCHER W. W. Floyd Guarded by Sheriff Dallice Law Who Shot Him DEATH CAR IN WHICH THREE MOULTRIE BOYS one KILLED Two Others lntered in This Wreck of Bridge on N.ame LADY BIRD SPECIAL ROARS INTO TOWN Mrs. Johnson, Luci Wave to Big Crowd VOTERS TURN OUT Ii! RECORD NUMBERS High Vote in Ser’ c+, Nove * Fractions FIRST REPUBLICAN DUNKED IN POOL Rep.-Elect Jamie Oglesby Takes The Plunge NO MORE LONG DISTANCE TOLL CHARGES eR INSIE THOMAS Cour County Beauties Try Out Extended Area Service in Dosamber ~
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Fri, Jan 01, 1965
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