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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1949
Page
4
Local police and sheriff departments coordinated response with ambulance services at Archbold Hospital after a reported incident. State patrol and city agencies documented the event for later review.
Leading stocks slipped fractions around a point before selling pressure emerged. Few shares such as Caterpillar Tractor and Montgomery Ward made small advances while many big names including U S Steel and General Motors posted declines. Bond and government issues also eased modestly in early over the counter dealings.
Salable hogs 8 000 with a steady to 23 cent boost early, later steady across weights. Sows mostly 60 cents lower on some over 425 pounds. Good and choice hogs range 21.75 to 22.25 per hundredweight in 260-290 lb, 20.60-21.25 for 300-330 lb. Cattle and calves: salables 11 000, top steer price 29.50 for load choice to prime 14.375 lb, by loads at 29.00, good to choice 26.50-28.75, 24.50-26.25 for others, cows 18.50-22.50, vealers 23.00-29.00.
New Orleans reports cotton futures advancing on trade buying and short covering as other commodities stay steady. Prices at 11 am show gains across multiple months with slight increases noted in Oct, May, and Dec contracts. Savannah reports turpentine and rosin activity with varied offerings and stocks while local unrest grows in Uyuni and Pulacayo as miners strike spreads. The government maintains army backing and city life remains calm.
Receipts at major plants in Albany Columbus Moultrie Thomasville Dothan Tallahassee show hogs at 18.00 to 20.50 per cwt with a few lots 20.00 20.50 for 180 240 lb barrows and gilts and lighter grades down to 14.75 for 120 140 lb. Cattle slaughter steady to firm in tri state area with good fed steers 23.50 26.00 and common 19.00 22.00. Alabama weakness noted. New York cotton steady after short covering and export demand while North Georgia poultry markets hold prices near unchanged with strong demand.
Chicago prices moved with corn firm supporting other grains while wheat slid in late trading. Soybeans held around a cent higher, oats and rye showed modest moves, and lard edged up slightly with July contracts listed.
San Francisco AP reports the Northern Baptist Convention votes whether to abandon regional designation by changing its name to the American Baptist Convention. Committee chair Edwin T. Dahlberg says the move widens fellowship beyond territorial ties. Budget for fiscal 1949 totals 6,167,000, down 882,700 from last year. The convention ends Friday.
Sequence of departure times reading 12:15 a m 3:17 a m 6:15 a m 7:00 a m 9:50 a m 11:15 a m 2:27 p m 6:20 p m 9:25 p m for Tallahassee services or trips.
Senator Hickenlooper clashed with Lilienthal and AEC general manager Carroll L. Wilson over a sealed envelope and 14 information requests. He demanded custody and minutes of key atomic matter records, from correspondence on atomic weapons to Potsdam and Hyde Park memos, with McMahon signaling a frank probe and promising no persecution or whitewash.
The article details a 1948 Assembly moratorium on reunion discussion, Texas theologian Dr. Charles L. King arguing the plan was to hold in abeyance for five years. It lists new General Council appointees including Rev. John F. Anderson Jr of Tyler Texas, Rev. R. W. Crowe Oklahoma City, and others from Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and beyond.
The fight over the unemployability clause divided the Veterans Administration debate and led to dropping a bid to remove World War II veterans from the bill. Only a brief two hour session debated the bill before it became law regulating pensions. A larger, costlier measure was defeated by the House in March.
Montgomery June 1 AP The explosive tractor gas bid triggering a 1945 House floor slugging was set for a public hearing today by the House Ways and Means Committee. The measure would refund five of six cents per gallon tax on gasoline used by farm tractors.
Emma Gibson a pioneer registered nurse in Thomasville died at her home aged about 83. Born in Bainbridge Georgia she trained at Dixie Hospital Hampton Virginia and came to Thomasville in 1901. She cared for many prominent families especially infants and retired twenty years ago to adopt a child. Survived by daughter Ruth Gibson Spalding and friend Kitty Hamilton funeral at Vines Funeral Parlor Bainbridge with interment there.
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