City weighs drainage fixes on Broad Street and nearby streets
City Commission discussed Broad Street drainage and traffic concerns raised by merchants. Officials proposed options including grooving asphalt or covering brick, with a solution to be drafted by city engineers and the city manager. Residents along Mississippi, Tennessee Avenues and Betty Street reported washouts and runoff, with paving decisions delayed until 1977. A petition to pave Patten Street was approved, and traffic concerns were raised about a proposed Strawbridge House commercial venture on Broad Hansell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gayle Hayes
City Commission
Broad Street
Grady Burgess
Tom Faircloth
Benson Earle
John Baxter
Betty Street
East
Jackson Street
Mississippi
Tennessee
Baxter
Patten Street
Jackson
Fletcher Streets
Long
Broad and
Hansell
Strawbridge House
Broad- Hansell
Broad and Hansell
Army and Air Force personnel receive training and honors
Army Private Robbie L. Hopkins completed seven weeks of advanced individual training at Fort Benning after enlisting last December. Lt. Col. Wayne M. Johnson earned the Meritorious Service Medal at Vance Air Force Base for outstanding duty as an air operations officer at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. he is a 1951 Pelham High School graduate who commissioned in 1955 through the aviation cadet program. Technical Sergeant Bernard H. Donaldson Jr. serves at Incirlik in Turkey with an Air Force support unit after a prior posting at Charleston Air Force Base. Army Private Wadis Shepherd completed seven weeks of advanced individual training at Fort Benning after basic at Fort Jackson this year. The commission debates included zoning and annexation considerations, with Ralph Faulk's request for annexation of one acre on East Jackson Street discussed on first reading, and Harvey Thompson’s liquor license package for 741 West Jackson approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Robbie L. Hopkins
Ira L. Hopkins
Coolidge
Ft. Benning
Central High School
Ft. Sam Houston
Texas
Clark AB
Philippines
Pelham High School
Aviation Cadet Program
Bernard H. Donaldson Jr
B. H. Donaldson Sr
Cairo
Incirlik Common Defense Installation
Turkey
Wadis Shepherd
Elouise Gordon
Ft. Jackson
S.C
Strawbridge
Ralph Faulk
Jackson Street
Earle
Harvey Thompson
W. Jackson
Cairo Council Approves First Reading Wine Ordinance
Cairo City Council moved to allow the sale of wine with new fee schedules. Retail wine license set at 500 dollars, wholesale 200 dollars, beer and wine 600 dollars, wholesale 300 dollars. The measure would amend the 1949 framework and replace prior higher charges if second reading passes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sid Smith
Cairo
Lions Club Members In Hawaii
Two Thomasville Noon Lions Club members Carroll Cook and Tom Rehberg joined 265 Georgia delegates at the 59th International Lions Club convention in Honolulu June 19 26 196? to elect officers. They attended a five mile parade and exchanged pins with Lions from the U S and abroad. The Lions International Foundation was established for disaster relief funded by one dollar donations from 139 countries. Earlier Cairo council discussed wine licensing and taxes amending the ordinance to strike on premises consumption and postponing wine by the drink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville Noon Lions Club
International Lions Club
Honolulu
Hawaii
Carroll Cook
Tom Rehberg
Cassidy Road
Georgia
Lions International
Cook
Rehberg
Lions Club
United States
The
Lions International Foundation
David Stallings
Stallings
Cairo
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Commission
Sol Altman
Landmarks, Inc
Boston
Boston Army Base
UPI
Armed Forces News
Wayne M. Johnson
James M. Johnson
Pelham
Vance Afb
Oklo
Donaldson
Charleston Afb
Elberta
Lykes Hickory Ranch
E. Jackson St
DIAL
Mon
Pridey
Grady County
N. Broad ST
Cairo, GA
Cron C
Sunset Memorial
Highway 84
Sunset Memorial Gardens
V.A
Gordon Avenue
Thomasville
Garden of Honor
Newa
Epeth Hudson
Super Savings
Stonecrest
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