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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1946
Page
1
A fragmented note discusses a college warning that failing to recruit will cost teams victories. It notes the broader issue of recruitment in college sports and hints at consequences for program success and visibility.
Fragmentary remarks contrast inflation, manners, labor, leadership, and youth. Observations cover rising prices, courteous behavior, leaf-raking, political loyalties, and generational shifts, with casual critiques of workers, doctors, and industry figures. The piece reads as a collage of social commentary and aphorisms from a bygone era.
Opinion piece criticizes unequal sentencing for theft and embezzlement comparing Savannah and Alabama cases. It decries harsher penalties for the poor versus privileged offenders and urges consistent punishment based on crime and intent, not status or power.
Readers hear that broad support for a general sales tax grows in Georgia as Governor-elect signals limits on taxation while acknowledging the need for about thirty million dollars more for education and state services. Legislators weigh taxing essentials versus luxuries, with public concern over the nuisance of sales tax in gas, alcohol, cigarettes, and other everyday purchases.
A young farmer seeks land quality, crop choices, and seed and fertilizer selection, advised to consult the farm agent. The Coastal Plains experiment station offers partial support, stressing informed soil knowledge and proper seed use. Cotton and corn are highlighted with emphasis on seed selection, cultivation, and prudent farming as a business.
Wilson Brown doing business as The West End Grocery sold all stock and fixtures at Store house No 512 Law Street Thomasville Thomas County Georgia to A J Piland Sr. Payment in full to follow after five days. Creditors warned under Bulk Sales Law Code 28-203 and related provisions. 318 South Broad Street Thomasville Ga.
Boyle notes in Germany that displaced persons and negro troops strain American administration. He cites German attitudes toward black soldiers, camp crime, and diseases, while refugees flood the zones seeking food and shelter. Officers fear crime and black markets, and border limits remain closed.
Crossword clues across and down list many mismatched typos and garbled terms including alms steed distance masculine name bean vessel inhabitants and more, plus several unresolved entries and odd spellings indicating OCR errors. The jumble shows a puzzle draft with partially readable definitions and misprinted lines.
Lt Col Winthrop Rockefeller urged a master plan and a single federal czar to cut red tape in veterans affairs after a six month survey found confusion between federal agencies and local communities. He noted the need to coordinate more than fifteen agencies including the Veterans Administration.
In a discussion on American military government personnel officers complain that only political pressure could resolve the issue of negro troops and displaced persons in Germany. They urge a four word order to send them all home and criticize civilian pressure to stay in the social welfare role.
The Navy malaria rate per thousand men rose to 15 in 1942, then 27 in 1943, dropped to nine in 1944, and fell to three in 1945 as World War II progressed.
The War Assets Administration told the House surplus property committee the matter of disposing the large pipelines will be referred back to Congress. Gas began flowing yesterday under an emergency lease to relieve coal strike shortages, with delivery to first consumers 850 miles away in Ohio Kentucky Tennessee and West Virginia in five days to two weeks.
The United Nations Headquarters Committee faces a showdown vote on its permanent home with Soviet Russia rejecting San Francisco and backing Philadelphia alongside New York Boston and Philadelphia as contenders. Delegates hope for a recommendation to the General Assembly as a two thirds vote decides the site. Warren A. Austin was to announce the U S preference among the four cities.
A report cites a figure of 6000 tons of coal produced daily in contrast to a normal daily production around 2 000 000 tons, highlighting a dramatic drop in output.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad announces that due to a coal strike and in compliance with Order No. 68 trains 57 and 58 plus 189 and 180 will run every other day in both directions between Montgomery and Savannah via Thomasville. Schedule details note departures from Savannah December 9 10 and from Montgomery December 9 10 with Thomasville passings. M T Wells, Ticket Agent.
Gen Chou En Lai sends a formal note to General Marshall proposing a new peace start. Chiang Kai Shek allies demand immediate dissolution of the National Assembly and restoration of the military situation to January 13 conditions, limiting Communist gains in north China.
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