21 Feb 1963
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1963
Page
1
Workmen from the county stockade leveled an ancient building on county property beside the office and across West Jefferson from the new bus terminal site. The cleared lot is expected to be available soon.
The Thomas County American Red Cross Chapter will open its 1963 membership campaign on Monday March 4 with Bill R Hearn as drive chairman. The goal is 16224 and Hearn cites rising living costs as a reason to give generously to sustain Red Cross programs locally and globally.
CAP plans a recruitment program for boys and girls at 3 p.m. Saturday at the YMCA. Young people from Och lochnee Meigs Cairo Coolidge and Thomasville are urged to attend. Sgt Jack Farnsworth leads with Cadet Sgt Leon Price assisting. Recruits train with Squadron 47 meeting Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at the Youth Center. CAP is an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
The Thomasville Kiwanis Club will hear a Georgia Heart Assn program on heart disease at its Friday meeting at 1 p.m. in the Country Club. Dr. Thomas D. Johnson of Albany will discuss cerebral vascular disease and present a film, with Dr. George Dillinger in charge.
In Athens Joe Grammer of WGAU beat Gary Cooper of WDUN in a 40 mile walking contest. The event took place as part of a regional sports gathering with Grammer emerging victorious.
A Georgia budget plan shows the Appropriations Committee restoring $200,000 of Welfare funds and trimming nearly $1 million from the overall budget. The Revenue Department gains $490,900 above the governor’s request, with added funds for a dental college and state schools for the deaf and blind, and a recreation commission. Rep. Fred H Walker criticizes tuition grant allocations as handouts amid desegregation concerns.
Two Black men identified as Paris Jackson and Benjamin Washington say they were drifting at sea for about three days before rescue by a destroyer escort. They provided terse details of their ordeal and location after being saved.
The Ala left Fort Myers on February 10 with its crew reporting an engine failure on February 17. The Pentagon identified the rescue destroyer escort as the Kretchmer, based at Key West with home port Newport, Rhode Island.
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