12 Apr 1944
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1944
Page
1
Regional salvage chief Walter announced a January fats collection of 690 200 pounds for Region VIII, a new high but only 30.8 percent of its 2 245 000 pound quota. He stressed fats and greases are crucial for explosives vaccines and other war needs and urged continued household participation.
A column mixes frontline anecdotes and light items from wartime London. It recalls a newspaper editor nearly arrested by an air raid, a pub guarding graves as gravestones reread Meller’s name, plus fashion notes on curtains turning into dresses and rugs into coats.
Georgia State Guardsmen in Ben Hill county cut pulpwood to aid the war effort and prepare for possible call to service. Stewart Gelders, editor of the Fitzgerald Leader, won approval from Captain J. E. Mathis Jr. to add pulpwood production to Guardsmen training. Howard Bishop, a Ben Hill Guard member, cut wood before Easter to fund Easter outfits for his sister and for two daughters of farmer W. E. Finley who owns the woods used for the effort.
Paul W Groom named State Forest Fire Warden to build a statewide patrol and enforce forest fire laws. Director J M Tinker announces Groom’s role to strengthen protection, with duties from law enforcement to law development. Groom, Georgia native and Peabody School of Forestry graduate, was District Forester in Macon. The piece notes 800000 World War II veterans discharged from U S armed forces.
A scrambled crossword style puzzle lists clues for across and down entries with mixed words and garbled phrases including ancient capital Urusacen and various mis-typed terms. The page features a long list of clues spanning animals measures foods and generic terms with partial solutions and numbering.
State forest fire warden spoke at a ten county conference in Macon urging action to shield Georgia’s potential wealth from careless neglect. Judge O T Gower of Cordele urged strong county measures as Bibb County faces fire costs and forest protection budgets.
Valdosta Ga April 12 the Lowndes county postwar plan committee mails 164 question prompts to 11000 households to gather data for a master plan to provide jobs for returning service personnel Lt Tom Crawford retired coordinator of the committee said the questionnaires seek broad local self government ideas inspired by medieval church based systems from Sweden.
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