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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1960
Page
3
A large audience honored James K Harper on his retirement after 37 years as a teacher and schoolmaster. The event mirrored This Is Your Life with classmates, former players, and faculty recalling his career and influence at the junior and senior high schools.
The article honors Harper, principal of the elementary school, and features remarks by Miss Velna Ward Cheshire and Fred Scott Jr. It notes gifts received for an oil painting and mentions Harper’s planned June 30 retirement, detailing his impact on local families and his role as leader of the town’s war guard unit.
Today duplicate bridge at YMCA eight fifteen. Thursday Rotary at Glen Arven one. Thursday luncheon at Garden Center one. Kiwanis Thomas County at Legion Post 31 home six thirty. Eleven O clocks Club at Elks Home seven. Lions Club at Scott Hotel seven thirty. Alcoholics Anonymous at Presbyterian Fellowship Hall eight. Art class at Youth Center eight. Chapter twenty three RAM at Masonic Building. p.m. Central High graduation at Municipal Auditorium eight. Kiwanis Glen Arven one. Golden Age Club at YMCA three. Thomasville High School graduation at Municipal Auditorium eight. Order of Eastern Star at Masonic Building eight thirty.
Hollywood industry leaders including Sol Lesser push plans for a 43 acre site opposite the Hollywood Bowl to build a movie museum. The live facility would feature a glassed gallery stage a TV studio a film library a graduate school exhibits of props costumes and wax works with real scenes filmed on stage.
Chester A. Burge, a wealthy Macon real estate investor, is charged with murder in the May death of his wife Mary Burge 54. Investigators say he was in his hospital room the night of the crime and later in his mansion before returning to the hospital.
Detective chief disclosed Louis Roosevelt Johnson aged 34 and Eugene Robinson aged 29 both of Macon have been held as material witnesses. The Burge family case progress was noted as likely to release soon.
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