Stock Market Opens 1964 With Broad Advance Across Sectors
The New Year begins with a general stock market rise led by drugs after Searle joins the NYSE. Industrials rails and electronics gain as Texaco dips and mixed moves appear in oils. The AP index sits at 286.3, Dow at 765.95, with IBM and International Telephone posting notable gains amid optimistic retail data.
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New York
G —D Searle
New York Stock Exchange
Searle
Associated Press
Dow Jones
Georgia Florida Ala Bama hog receipts and cattle auction notes
Hog receipts for a two day period ending Thursday at Albany Columbus Moultrie Thomasville Georgia and other southern markets show steady to lower prices for U S barrows gilts and sows with varied loads. Chicago hogs traded unevenly with stronger weights and sows steady. Georgia cattle auctions in Atlanta reported receipts of 645 cattle and calves, with slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady to higher and calves and feeders showing gains in weight classes.
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Albany
Columbus
Moultrie
Thomasville
Dothan
Ala
Jacksonville
Fla
Chicago
U.S
U. S
Georgia
Atlanta
Pavo Kiwanis Hear Former Yo ng Officer
Elvin Walker former vice president of the National Association of Vocational Agriculture Teachers spoke at the Pavo Kiwanis weekly meeting on Farming as a Basic Industry. He compared American farm efficiency to Russia and highlighted population growth and future farming needs. Interclub guests included Claude Batastini Tom Hambey Bill Smith and Haywood Smith. The group announced the Jan 6 installation of 1964 officers by Lt Gov Red Sun of Cairo.
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PAVO
Elvin Walker
National Association of Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Norman Park
Pavo Kiwanis Club
Hubert Turner
Willie Withers
Moultrie Kiwanis
Walker
America
Russia
Moultrie Club
Claude Batastini
Tom Hambey
Bill Smith
Haywood Smith
Red
Cairo
Wayne Smith
Georgia live poultry and produce markets report
Atlanta price notes show live poultry quotes for broilers and fryers across farms and plants. Produce items listed include cabbage in bags, sweet potatoes per bushel, mustard greens, turnips, shop beans, pole beans, squash, radishes, cucumbers, and bell peppers with varied price ranges.
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Atlanta
Georgia
January Weather Forecast for Tri-State Agricultural Area
The 30 day outlook from the weather bureau in Tifton calls for a colder than usual January with rainfall above normal across south Georgia, south east Alabama, and northwest Florida. Daily mean temps expected 45 to 52 with highs 55 to 62 and 4 to 5 days at 70 or above. Minimums 35 to 44, below 32 on 7 or 8 inland and 4 or 5 coastal mornings. Rain 3.5 to 5+ inches over 5 or 6 days, sunshine about 60 percent. Soil and seed germination outlook also noted as cooler than ideal.
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Tri-State
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
Weather Bureau
Tifton
Area Deaths Gas Fumes Hill Former Residents
Warren C. Wight 66 and his wife Mae Scott 61 were found dead in Brunswick on New Year's morning. A double funeral is planned at First Methodist Church Cairo at 10:30 am Friday. Burial in Terrell Cemetery Cairo. Clark Funeral Home in charge. Authorities ruled accidental asphyxiation from gas fumes or low oxygen from a heater. The couple had lived in Brunswick for years after operating a nursery in Cairo and Thomasville. Survivors include three brothers and a sister-in-law.
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Cairo
First Methodist
Warren C. Wight
Mac Scott
Brunswick
Rex Weaver
Mr. Wight
John Byron
Alice Slater Wight
University of Georgia
Mae Scot
Alford
Fla
Wights
Thomasville
Dixie Plantation
Brooks County
Robert P
John B. Wight
Edward A. Wight
Berkley
Calif
John Scott
Panama City
Wight
W. F. Macintyre
Mrs Whittendale rites set at Norman Park church
Mrs. Bertha Warren Whittendale 65 longtime Norman Park resident dies of heart attack after months of ill health. Funeral Friday at First Baptist Church Norman Park with burial in Deep Bottom Cemetery. Survived by two daughters R J Lenihan Moultrie and R J Aven Guantanamo Bay Cuba. three sisters and four grandchildren.
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Norman Park
W. H. Whittendale
First Baptist Church
Deep Bottom
Greene - Gregory
Johnson pushes pilot drive to curb high school dropouts
President Johnson praised a 63-community experimental campaign to reduce dropouts and urged expansion in 1964. He cited Keppel 1963 findings that half of dropouts could be kept in school and nine of ten stay enrolled, and urged more local effort and funding for Negro colleges amid United Negro College Development progress.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
U.S
Francis Keppel
America
Save Our Vision
United Negro College Development Campaign
Weather and politics mix in early January notes from the era
Fair and not so cold this afternoon in Thomasville with warming trend into Friday. Winds shift SW by Friday. Kennedy pilot program funded with 250000 for education, Johnson optimistic about long term gains. Keppel to lead January educator seminars in five cities. Johnson signs a 4.5 billion public works bill while noting constitutional concern. Atlantic and Gulf coast temperature forecasts include 36 tonight and 63 tomorrow.
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Thomasville
Johnson
Keppel
Congress
Atlanta
Dallas
Tex
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Panama Canal Co
Executive Branch
Snow and outages hit Georgia and Dixie region
Relief efforts spread as broken power lines left communities without electricity and communications. About 300 people were fed at an emergency kitchen in Warner Robins. Snow and ice disrupted travel from Savannah to New Orleans with record or near record totals in Huntsville Birmingham Nashville Lawrenceburg and Columbia.
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Middle Georgia
Warner Robins
Georgia
Savannah Beach
Huntsville
Ala
Dixie
Birmingham
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nashvile
Tenn
Lawrenceburg
Columbia
Public Notice for Thomas County Police Officer Post
Written applications for the position as Thomas County Police will be accepted until noon January 13, 1964. State age marital status education references experience qualifications and proof of fitness. W B Garrison Clerk Board of Commissioners Thomas County Georgia P O Box 920 Thomasville Ga LAdv
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Thomas County
W. B. Garrison
Board of Commissioners
Georgia
P. O. Box
Thomasville
Ladv
63 Top World Crises and Major Events
List of major 1963 events including the Kennedy assassination civil rights crisis Profumo affair Nguyen Diem and Vietnam Nhu visit Thresher submarine disaster Pope Paul succeeds Pope John test ban treaty court school prayers Pennsylvania mine tragedy and Sino Soviet tensions.
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President Kennedy
Pope Paul
Pope John
Vatican Council
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Johnson Sees Progress in US Soviet Ties
President Johnson praises Gen Maxwell Taylor and cites a Khrushchev message as the new year opens. He says 1964 should advance peace efforts and improve relations with the Soviet Union, replying to Khrushchev and Brezhnev after their New Year note.
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Maxwell Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Johnson
Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Masons Host Family Night Dinner At Coats and Clark
Keeping Up With family night covered dish dinner Friday at Coats and Clark Recreation Center begins at 7 p.m. Guests include Grand Master Otis E. Dixon and Grand Secretary Daniel W. Locklin of Macon. A 50-year pin and service award will be presented to Robert C. Balfour Jr. W. T. Bowman urges Masons and their families to attend.
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Coats and Clark Recreation Center
Thomasville Lodge
Otis E. Dixon
Daniel W. Locklin
Macon
Robert C. Balfour Jr
Thomasville
W. T. Bowman
Kiwanis Officers Installed at Thomasville Club Meeting
Kiwanis Club of Thomasville installs 1964 officers and directors at 1 p.m. Friday at Glen Arven Country Club. Walter A. Lundy will install Herman Goodman as president, Eulon Hill and W. L. Whittle as vice presidents, Louis Porter as secretary treasurer, with Chester Bellamy, Lewis Clark, Richard Ramsey, Hosea Vann, Louis Kidd, Neil Boland and Charles Green as directors. Robert Vickery becomes immediate past president.
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Thomasville Kiwanis Club
Glen Arven Country Club
Walter A. Lundy
Cairo
Ieutenant
Herman Goodman
Eulon Hill
W. L. Whittle
Louis Porter
Chester Bellamy
Lewis Clark
Richard Ramsey
Hosea Vann
Louis Kidd
Neil Boland
Charles Green
Robert Vickery
Presi
Coldest December on record in Thomasville 1963
Meteorologist Clarence Skillman notes December 1963 was the coldest on record with an average temp of 45.5 degrees and a high of 71 and a low of 20. Only one day dipped below 28, eight days reached 32 or below, and rainfall totaled 3.90 inches, keeping the yearly total at 51.11 inches. The heaviest rain fell on December 13 with 1.74 inches.
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Clarence E. Skillman
Thomasville
Civil Service Examinations Open at Dobbins Air Force Base
Local residents may apply today through January 16 for Civil Service Commission exams at Dobbins AFB. Olin Miller Jr says tests will be for Supervisory Operations Assistant GS-7 at 5795 dollars per year and Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Service W-10 at 2.78 dollars per hour. Full information with application instructions is available from most offices.
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U.S. Civil Service Commission
Dobbins Air Force Base
Georgia
Olin Miller Jr
Marietta
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ST. Marks
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