Dennis Brown Sentenced To Six Months Here
Dennis Brown, 24, was sentenced to six months in the Thomas County Correctional Institution after a Superior Court jury found him guilty of possession and sale of marijuana. The jury recommended a misdemeanor, and the judge accepted.
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George Lassiter
Dennis Brown
Thomas County Correctional Institution
Marcus B. Calhoun
Brown
Special Division of Investigation
W.G. Brooks
Acapulco
Ronnie Cohen
Elizabeth Guy Brown
Cohen
Brooks
Atlanta
Dennis
Rose Show Queen crowned before Broad Street parade
Gail Peters will be crowned Rose Festival queen by Gov. Carter and Mayor Bracey at the reviewing stands before a parade down Broad Street. Carter will ride a tractor and Maddox a bicycle as dignitaries arrive for the event dubbed the year of the renaissance of the rose.
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Gail Peters
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Broad St
Jefferson and
Broad Sts
Miss Peters
Carter
Lester Maddox
Thomasville Rose Show fuels civic effort and blooms
Dekle notes blooms across the city as 1240 Spartan roses decorate Scott Elementary. Sanitation Supt Willie Prance reports nine full crews cleaning streets for the Rose show, doubling manpower for three weeks. City workers prepare the Rose Show building at Southwestern State Hospital. Thousands donate time to keep Thomasville vibrant during festivities.
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Dekle
Scott Elementary
Supt
Willie Prance
Prance
Southwestern State Hospital
Thomasville
Horses to Join Vashti Parade In Historic Entry
For the Vashti festival parade horses will appear in the lineup for the first time in years with two Spanish horses leading the color guard. The festival board backs a paving plan benefiting the town, while Bo Akridge says a decision on paving Ernest Sr. is near the looming deadline as city manager Buford McRae is ill.
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Chamber of Commerce
Vashti
B.B
Bo) Akridge
Buford
McRae
Ernest Sr
Akridge
Vashti School Board Delays Ernest St Payment Decision
Vashti school board delays payment decision for Ernest St by about six weeks at members' request. Rev George Zorn told City Commission the plan was discussed at Monday night meeting. Vashti board asks City Engineer Wesley Wilson to work out a payment deal as Vashti faces financial straits amid Methodist church ties.
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Ernest St
Vashti
George Zorn
City Commission
Vashti Board
Zorn
Wesley Wilson
National Methodist
First Singing In The Shower Event Slated
The first annual singing in the shower competition will be held May 1 in Rutland High School's shower room. Judges from the Rutland chapter of the Society for the Preservation of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America will evaluate volume lyric expression range rhythm and water voice blend. Contestants may wear swimsuits. Thomas Egan of the Rutland chapter says the event targets quiet people who resemble Caruso or Elvis Presley when water hits them between the shoulder blades. Contestants must waive liability for injury including lay\n ingitis and athlete's foot.
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Rutland, Vt
Rutland High School
Rutland
Society For the Preservation of Barber Shop Quartet
America
Thomas Egan
Caruso
Elvis Presley
Egan
War Leader Budenny Celebrates 90th Birthday
Marshal Semyon Budenny, famed Soviet cavalry commander, turned 90 as Tass announced he received another birthday Order of Lenin for valor and devotion to the Communist party and people.
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Moscow
Semyon Budenny
Tass
Lenin
Communist Party
Gospel Sing at St John AME Church in Boston
St John A M E Church of Boston hosts a gospel sing at 8 p m Friday featuring Deacon Dan Fann and his spiritual singers with the Southern Aires of Camilla and others. Pastor Rev T Reid Lawrence invites public attendance.
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Boston
St. John A.m.le
Dan Fann
Camilla
T. Reid Lawrence
First Rose Queen Doris Gothard’s Daughters Win Titles
Doris Gothard, crowned 1948 Rose Queen of Thomasville, sees her 17-year-old twins Linda and Laura Mountjoy win pageant honors. Laura was Miss Teenager of Southeast District Y.M.C.A. before relinquishing to Jan Baggett in 1973. Linda earned second runner-up. Both attend Telfair County High School. grandparents listed as Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gothard.
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Thomasville
Doris Gothard
Lawrence Mountjoy
McRae
Doris
Linda
Laura
Y.M.C.A
Jan Baggett
Hazlehurst
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Nocturne Garden Club
Rose Show
Southwestern
State Hospital
Kenneth L. Miller
Harris Dollar
Gertrude Brock
Marcia Lane
Gbelk Hudson
Andhurst
East Jackson
City of Roses
City of
J.A
Jack) Bracey
M. Tom Faircloth
W.F. Scott, Jr
William McCollum
Grady C. Burgess
Buford McRae
Fritz Frohbert
Julius Ariail
Roland Clayton
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