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Newspaper
Thomasville News
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1967
Page
3
An editorial discusses the national issue of high school dropouts and their impact on society. It notes 22 million adults lack elementary education and examines poverty, crime, and racial tension linked to educational failure. It calls for recognition and aid to help dropouts seek self improvement and productive work.
Today's Baffler continues a military theme with descriptions of five Negro units from past wars and ten unit names. The quiz includes a trick question and a bonus about a claimed Korean War unit, with answers indicating no such separate unit existed.
Fragmented notes recount progress in invention and exploration. Names include Berliner inventor of the microphone, Delorrest vacuum tube pioneer, Marconi wireless, Love lace parachute record, first kindergarten founder Frederick Fröbel, and Panama Canal builder Goethals. Quotation shows Goethals’ calm reply after a landslide.
Seaway shipping to Chicago and the St. Lawrence has grown, with the fleet moving 49.25 million tons last year versus 43.4 million in 1965 and 39.3 million in 1964. World trade averages about 90,000 tons annually.
The Morgan State College event at Hughes Memorial Stadium featured Her Excellency Patricia Roberts Harris as speaker, noting her historic role as the first Negro woman U.S. representative abroad. The piece also covers Shaw University speeches by President James E. Cheek and dedication at Delaware State College with soil and horticultural topics.
Expo67 patrons sample up to 90 seafood dishes at the Atlantic Provinces Pavilion and observe the build of a 47 foot schooner through the window, as part of the expo’s maritime exhibit.
A proposal calls for a single police contact per metropolitan area and eventually nationwide. Tips warn burglars exploit weak door locks and careless homeowners may leave keys under mats or in mailboxes, urging caution and security improvements.
Historical note on Christopher Columbus allegedly mistreating natives in Haiti led to his arrest in 1500 and order to return to Spain within a year. The fragment references the justified departure from the New World.
A 1922 milestone notes a New York realty firm paying 100 dollars for ten minutes of air time marking Americans first radio commercial. The item highlights Sta t es War era broadcasting and early sponsorships.
The piece argues Southerners are shaped by the Civil War past yet must move into the future through Christian faith and the Holy Spirit. It critiques defeatism, urges self-scrutiny over blame, and links grace and punishment to collective self reform amid regional history. The text also discusses economic gaps, urban employment, and the need for broad retraining efforts.
An essay on corporate ads showing workers and the scarcity of Negro faces. The piece cites a Labor Department study of ten city ghettos revealing unemployment around 10 percent, three times the national average, with many workers in part time or below poverty line earnings.
The speaker argues freedom alone fails to heal a history of oppression. Equal opportunity must include real ability shaped by family, neighborhood, schooling, and poverty. True civil rights require both opportunity and the nurturing conditions that let all 20 million Black Americans learn, work, and grow.
Raisins production began in Southern Europe and Western Asia and dates to at least 1000 B.C. when the Israelites paid part of their taxes to King David in raisins.
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