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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1947
Page
3
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Gov. Thompson asks State Properties Commission to pursue condemnation of Jekyll Island off the Georgia coast. The state plans to turn the exclusive resort with nine mile beaches an 18 hole golf course dock airstrip club house and 22 and 23 room cottages into a public resort. Jekyll Island Club presidents letter objects to the sale but supports state title by condemnation.
Washington June 3 AP John L. Lewis United Mine Workers and Southern Coal Operators resume negotiations toward a new contract today with little official hope they will last long. Lewis and negotiators for the North and West recessed wage talks Saturday in disagreement over a 3 cent hourly wage increase. Lewis rejected a 15 cent pay boost offered by operators to meet the pattern in other basic industries. Southern talks were arranged because the Southern Coal Producers Association declined to bargain with the rest of the industry.
In Athens Georgia three defense and fourteen government witnesses testified in the federal case charging James Vernor 36 and Tom Vernor 26 with assaulting Golden L Howard a tenage negro before a Walton county grand jury. Will Preery said the assault occurred outside the ice plant while Dr Homer Head treated Howard. FBI involvement followed. George Alvin Adcock of Walton county also faces perjury charges for his grand jury testimony.
Richmond Virginia faces a tongue in cheek secession threat as the Jefferson Ward Citizens Association passes a resolution to form the City of Jefferson City if the city adopts a unicameral city manager plan. Emmett E Perkinson says action depends on the November 4 referendum and the ward would oppose the change if approved.
Shanghai reports the arrest of 140 students and a professor at Tsingtao as students in Shanghai and Peiping boycott classes. They express resentment toward crackdowns by police and soldiers to prevent anti civil war demonstrations. The government accuses protesters of planning a nationwide Communist uprising over the high cost of living.
A Georgia writer argues the VA plan to locate hospitals near universities ignores veteran travel burdens and family visits. They advocate using Finney and Finney-like sites in the South with accessible climates, emphasizing patient care over expensive skyscraper campuses and urging consideration for families and small communities.
James Gribben III, son of Mr and Mrs James Gribben Jr of Thomasville, was elected vice president of the North Carolina Collegiate Press Association by a large majority. He is rising senior at Davidson College majoring in psychology and was editor of the nextScripts year edition. He served in the Navy during World War II with the Pacific fleet and returns to Davidson for his final semester.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay told the German Council of States that the food situation in the American and British zones is improving due to higher grain shipments and better farm collection. He noted 340000 tons of wheat and fiber shipped since May 1, and that the U S will supply at least 300000 tons of grain in May despite shipping strains and other countries withholding allocations.
Executor of the Mary E Kirby estate announces a land sale for the home place at 809 South Broad Street on June 9 1947. The property covers about two acres with a well built furnished house, six outhouses and two garages in a landscaped setting with tall pines. Sealed bids to A M S employment Ordinary Thomas County Georgia must arrive by 11 00 o clock June 9 1947 with cash terms. auctioneer may reject all bids.
Cairo Georgia Grady county will become the first smaller county in the state to inaugurate a two week mass health survey offering free chest X rays and blood tests for tuberculosis and syphilis. About 60 federal and state health staffers will operate stations including a downtown site at Whitfield Paulk showroom and a Negro station at Washington High School Chico.
Streams swollen by torrential spring rains rose to flood crests in Ohio today forcing at least 30 families from their homes. Flood controls built in the Miami valley a generation ago were expected to thwart any major flood.
Business Services Inc announces opening of an accounting firm on the third floor of the Scott building. Using modern machine bookkeeping, the firm offers payrolls, mimeographing, typing, credits and collections, analyses and statistical services for inventory, invoices, production, sales and expense distribution at low cost. Mr. Turrentinne will direct with experienced staff to serve local business and professional firms.
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