15 Aug 1950
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1950
Page
1
The reader sees a jumble of quotes and snippets covering politics taxes personal life and social topics. It mentions a deadline for changes, discussions of temper and crying on a spouse’s shoulder, wardrobe notes, a Baptist college ministerial program, city contracts and government bonds, marital frictions, vacations and finances, world peace, and Iowa corn hybrids.
The text discusses money and manipulation to control nations and peoples. It warns of proposed machinations by Com gia and urges confining it to limit harm, aiming to keep enslaved people from broader global reach.
Citizens backed the project with 180000 dollars for a hospital endowment led hotel. The Scott organization now owns and operates an eighty room, fireproof property designed to bolster growth. Construction faces material shortages but aims for a near year end opening.
The Ministerial College project in Thomasville aims for a August 22 opening at Forbes Field known as Birdwood. The property purchase by the church is near completion with plans to inspect the building next week. Local support is urged to welcome the new institution as a moral, growth oriented venture for the church community.
A private survey of Georgia's southwest border counties lauds Thomas Grady Decatur and Seminole for unique development potential. It argues coordinated effort could turn the four counties into a productive, diversified region for agriculture timber recreation and tourism with local banks and planners urged to act amid broader national debates.
Radio and TV schedule listing hourly programs across NBC CBS and Dumont networks for New York. Highlights include NBC primetime picks Starlight Concert Charles Boyer Big Town and A Life in Your Hands. CBS offerings Circle Theatre Original Amateur Hour and Wrestling Matches. Dumont Cavalcade of Bands and Captain.
Endurance filers announce intentions of staying awake until their motor quits. R100 cruises Atlantic seeking Great Circle route to home hanger in England. Nationalists may enter Rebel City with headquarters expecting fall of Shantung. Hoover and governors initiating drought relief and job plans. Saraen leads field in open tourney. St. Paul open sets records. Buds lose to Perry dropping in standings. Plunketts take tutoring post at Sea Island Beach resort school. Jacobs lets Schmel ing and Stribling fight. Over 1,000 planes storm England as Luftwaffe battles RAF near London docks. Floods recede with death toll up to sixteen across Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia. Prices hold for Georgia Florida tobacco markets. Al Curry elected Jaycees secretary. Two new Amoco stations open. Brooks county defense unit formed. Citizens Oil hosts visitors. Tourists lose to Pioneers 10 8 in Americus opener.
In Albany Ga August 15 AP attorneys for Q P Gilsson fight to avoid a 30000 damage judgment sought by an 11 year old boy wounded in Gilsson s backyard The boy Neely Peacock II son of a prominent attorney was struck in the shoulder by a .22 caliber bullet while playing last May 20 Peacock s mother filed the suit alleging malice Gilsson testified he fired to frighten the boys and aimed at the ground A doctor and two police officers testified the bullet glanced off an object before striking Peacock
The Bears extended their advantage by defeating the Cardinals as the Baby Tourists prepared to host Cairo at Stadium here in a forthcoming baseball clash.
A humorous vignette describes punctual people facing interruptions to a meeting and the uncanny luck of buses that depart as they reach the corner. The tale plays with the tension between planned schedules and serendipitous delays in daily transit.
In this piece the author argues some people lack the grammar of relationships, placing themselves at the center of the universe. God is seen as the first person, others as the second, and self as the third, explaining social friction and self centeredness.
The narrator reflects on people forced to wait due to anxious meetings and fear of arriving early. They search for a seat or a drugstore for a soft drink, otherwise standing on a corner or pacing. Some risk arriving early while many delay to avoid embarrassment.
Everyone is invited to attend weekly prayer services at Coolidge Baptist Church on Wednesday evenings at o'clock. The services will be led by Deacon Frank Megahee with the announced subject Christ's Last Will.
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