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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1955
Page
5
Nice unfurnished private duplex on Smith Ave 725. Quiet location. Rent $5.95 to $17.95 monthly. Contact 634. Couple seeks country house with electricity and good well water. Rent guaranteed in advance. Write RW care F Munn Route 5 Thomasville Ga. Business Property Sale.
C W McKinnon Realty lists a vacant three bedroom house with hardwood floors floor furnace water heater front and back screened porch ample closet space detached garage on paved street in a good neighborhood. Down payment of only 1000 dollars. Leon Davis Real Estate 11342 S Broad St. Phone 925.
Two bedrooms near the hospital with a screened porch large kitchen dining room and ample storage. Three bedrooms recently renovated with modern bath and kitchen central heating asbestos roof and a three car garage. Colonial Heights offers 100 foot lots and monos with larger homes. Bob Ausley Realtor 107 N Broad St telephone 11.
Looking for a good used car? Check the beauties on our lot at rock bottom prices. Glover Motors Inc offers tip top used cars in any price bracket. Thomasville Motors Inc on S Madison St lists phone 2063.
Sealed proposals are invited by the Housing Authority of the City of Boston Georgia for 296000 Second Series Temporary Notes to finance a low rent housing project. Proposals due June 15 1955 at noon E S T at W Jefferson Street Boston Georgia. Notes dated July 5 1955 payable July 13 1956 with interest rate fixed in accepted proposal.
Four U S fighter pilots freed from Chinese captivity were en route to Hawaii to join relatives. They landed later today after release near Hong Kong following more than two years in Communist custody. Capt Harold Fischer Jr of Swea City Iowa Lt Lyle Cameron of Lincoln Nebraska Lt Col Edwin Heller of Wynnewood Pennsylvania and Lt Roland W Parks of Omaha Nebraska were among the airmen. They stopped at Guam and Wake Island en route home and will undergo medical checks before a five day stay.
4 bedroom brick home with living room dining room kitchen and den. One and a half baths. Sits on a large 120 by 216 foot lot three blocks from schools. Call today for a showing.
Atlanta The Revenue Department reports an $8,353,531 rise in net collections for the first 11 months of the 1954 55 fiscal year. May receipts show a $2 427 073 gain over the previous May. Net 11 month collections total $204 225 310 versus $195 981 778 a year earlier.
Richard Meyers, 47, fatally shot three people and wounded four others in two Dayton banks. He claimed a divine message and cited banks and their presidents as God’s enemies. Police recovered eight bullets in his body. he died hours later.
Shortstop Jack Elias of Sandersville piled up nine hits in 10 at bats as the Giants routed Vidalia 19-6 in the opener and 10-3 in the nightcap. A homer by Elias highlighted the second game. Bob Wilson homered for Vidalia in the first game. Hazlehurst, Dublin, and Statesboro won their games as the league table tightens.
The Pentagon will simulate evacuating 29 100 workers during Operation Alert. The test measures time to empty the building, using two big parking lots to move 9,000 cars out of the capital area, with 8,500 to 9,000 vehicles on an average day. Public traffic plans aim to avoid jams in surrounding roads.
A weather update reports some snow and cooler conditions across sections of the West while the majority of the country enjoys pleasant June weather. Storms bring hail and gusty winds from the central Plains to the northern Plains as rain and snow spread into Wyoming Idaho Utah Nevada. The Northeast sees showers with over an inch of rain in Burlington Vermont.
Indianapolis driver Bob Sweikert earned $76,138.68 for victory as the Memorial Day auto race prize topped $270,050 in total. The winner surpassed the 1953 record set by Bill Vukovich who died after leading 50 of 56 laps. Al Herman named Rookie of the Year. Tony Bettenhausen and Jimmy Davies finished second and third with $30,088.63 and $16,988.63 respectively.
Dick Bartell known as a versatile infielder played in three World Series seasons. He appeared as a shortstop for the New York Giants in 1936 and 1937 and later for the Detroit Tigers in 1949.
A federal judge ruled singer Dick Haymes cannot be deported, finding his Hawaii trip did not constitute leaving the United States. District Judge Burnita S Matthews said Hawaii is part of the U S and the phrase outlying possessions does not apply to Hawaii. The government may appeal the decision.
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