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Thomasville Times Enterprise

Location

Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jun 04, 1955

Page

4

Bonanzagram Puzzle Promises $30 Weekly Prize In Times Enterprise

The Times Enterprise announces a weekly Bonanzagram puzzle starting Monday with $30 cash for each correct solution. If multiple winners share the prize and subscribers get a $5 bonus. If no winner, the prize carries over. Rules are printed in the same issue. Open to all non-employees and non-relatives.

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Ford Talks Urgent Auto Workers Press Battle On Two Fronts

Detroit June 4 AP The CIO United Auto Workers push contract talks with Ford and GM seeking gains from both. Ford faces a 36 hour strike deadline while GM talks continue with added grace. UAW seeks larger and longer benefits and pensions beyond Ford offers.

Auto Workers Press Detroit CIO United Auto Workers Ford Motor Co General Motors Corp Ford General Motors TWAW UAW

Lausche Praises Truman at Cleveland Library Dinner

Ohio Governor Frank Lausche praised President Harry Truman calling him one of the great presidents while addressing a $100-a-plate fundraiser for the Truman library. Truman, 71, defended foreign policy continuity with Eisenhower, saying Americans should back the President’s foreign policy and avoid personal criticism.

Cleveland Ohio Frank J. Lausche Harry Truman Lausche Washington Truman Truman Library Fund Eisenhower

Nasser Warns Israeli Move Could Mean War

Cairo newspapers quote Premier Gamel Abdel Nasser warning that Israel aimed to wipe out the Gaza Strip would trigger war. The remark was made to Gen. Edson Burns, the Canadian UN truce supervisor for Palestine, during Burns' Cairo visit earlier this week.

Cairo Egypt Gamel Abdel Nasser Israel Gaza Strip Nasser Edson Burns U.N Palestine Burns

Florida Legislature Resumes Work Monday

The Florida Legislature returns to its labors Monday to address the senatorial reapportionment dispute that delayed the regular session. Governor Collins criticized the Senate plan while Senate President Davis defended it as costly and inadequate for the Ninth District. The House backed a rival plan allocating one senator to Monroe Bay Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Florida Senate Davis Leroy Collins Monroe County Collins Citrus Hernando Colins Manatee Sarasota Charlotte House Monroe Bay

Violence Threat Enters British Railway Strike

A seven day old rail strike faces escalation as threats of violence surface at Stockport and seamen from the Mauretania join a six port tie up. Union leaders deny invitations to talks while demands for higher pay and shorter work weeks stall settlement efforts.

London Britain Southampton Stockport National Union of Railwaymen NUR Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers James Baty ASLEF Mauretania New York Cunard Sidney Baltinzney le Havre France Cobh Ireland Liverpool Ascanta Britannic Wress Australia

Talbott Claims AF Has Greatest Destructive Power

Secretary of the Air Talbott asserted the United States Air Force can deliver the most destructive force in the world. He said the U S military has abundant combat materials including atomic weapons and rejected claims that America’s air power lags behind the Soviets.

Custer United States Air Force Air Talbott Assa Russia

UN Accuses Communists Of Killing South Korean Soldiers

The United Nations command in Korea said two South Korean civil police officers were killed by unidentified Communist personnel in the demilitarized zone about 23 miles northeast of Munsan. Four others escaped unharmed. The spokesman likened the incident to a May 10 attack by Communist shore batteries on South Korean boats.

Munsan Korea United Nations Command Wanhton Korean Demilitarized Zone U. N Kok Demilitarized Zone U. WN

NAACP press for immediate school integration in Atlanta

NAACP leaders in Atlanta convened a high level strategy meeting as nine Atlanta area parents filed a petition with the Board of Education urging immediate reorganization of schools in line with Supreme Court rulings. Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins arrived for a closed session at Wheat Street Church.

Atlanta NAACP Atlanta Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court Ira Jarrell Board of Education Miss Jarrell Devereaux McClatchey Supreme Court South C. L. Harper U.S. District Court Harper Wheat Street Baptist Church Roy Wilkins Thurgood Marshall Holston Methodist Church Chattanooga Tenn

Guardsman Testifies of Beating by Officer at Trial

A 16 year old National Guardsman testified at a general court martial that Lt. Leon C G McNeeley Jr ordered him to strip and beat him with a stick then transported him to Thomaston and held him for eight hours. Addison James P D of Atlanta said the officer forced drinking and drove drunk with him as passenger. The charges include beating with a stick, transporting and holding for hours, and driving under the influence with Addison aboard. The trial proceeds without Brig Gen Seawright who was removed by defense.

Atlanta M James PD Addison Atlanta Nation Guard Leon CG. McNeeley Jr Thomaston McNeeley

Indian bridal party dies in intense heat in Banaras

A bride and four attendants in northern India died amid a severe heat wave that has claimed at least 23 lives in four days. Temperatures above 115 degrees were reported as the party faced the ceremony.

New Delhi India Banaras

Austrian Doctor Reveals Names Of Americans Held By Soviets

An Austrian doctor returning from Soviet captivity said he knows the names of several Americans and Britons held in Russian slave labor camps. He will share names only after consulting American and British authorities in Austria. He noted some captives were women abducted from Berlin and Vienna after World War II. Another Austrian reported meeting two men claiming to be Americans in the Ural camp.

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Weather Note and Tragic Wedding Death in Thomasville

The Thomasville forecast notes partly cloudy warm conditions through Sunday with highs near 93 and a low around 69. In a separate item, a bride who was carried in a closed litter to her husband’s home was found dead by the bridegroom when he opened the litter, a grisly wedding tragedy reported in the same issue.

Thomasville

Educator Urges Slow Roll on Education Funding Plan

DeKalb County School Superintendent Jin Cherry urged Georgia lawmakers to finance the Minimum Foundation Program for Education but delay changing fund distribution methods. He warned against rushing a new equalization formula tied to property tax digests as Gov. Griffin seeks 65 million dollars in new taxes. Education leaders from 11 counties also opposed the committee’s recommendations.

Atlanta Georgia DeKalb County Jin Cherry Georgia Education Association Marvin Griffin Ch Vy Cherry

Atom Tests No Hazard To Health

Dr Willard J Libby told a June University of Chicago alumni reunion that atomic bomb tests pose no real immediate health hazard. AIC findings show average US fallout dosage is a tiny fraction of natural body radiation and well below lethal levels. Libby noted total dosage to date remains far under a tenth of a roentgen and far from a lethal dose.

Chicago Atmost Wnergy Commission University of Chicago Willard J. Libby AIC United States Lippy Libby

Woman and Two Men Die For California Murder

Barbara Graham died in San Quentin’s gas chamber after a sequence of last minute stays. Jack Santo and Simmett Perkins, her co defendants, were executed three hours later for the 1952 Burbank and Chester crimes that killed Mabel Monahan and others during a failed $100 000 payoff plot. Government appeals failed and the chamber executions proceeded.

San Quentin Cali Barbara Graham California Jack Santo Simmett Perkins Grahan Mrs. Graham Mabel Monahan Burbank Monahan Anto Husky Perkins Guard Young Chester Graham Goodwin J. Knight State Supreme Court Los Angeles Santo

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