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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1934
Page
2
J M Golden welcomed the new Junior Chamber of Commerce to a Thomasville gathering. Senior leaders urged unity, outlined goals, and invited youth to shape projects while signing membership cards and electing directors.
A Jaycee preliminary meeting debated whether to add floor nominations to a ballot of thirty contenders for fifteen director seats. Five floor nominations were added. after extensive discussion, voting proceeded and the tabulation team announced results as initially outlined, with remarks from Mr. Phillips and Mayor Beverly.
Kiwanis Club representatives urged City Council to curb double parking on main business streets, calling it dangerous and disruptive. The council plans to halt double parking but exact methods remain undecided while financial issues and tax collections were also discussed. June deadlines were set for street and dog taxes with penalties to follow.
L F Driver Jr acts as temporary chairman and calls a 8:00 pm meeting of the Thomasville Junior Chamber of Commerce directors in the Bank of Thomasville building. Officers will be elected and plans set to start activities immediately.
Simla India June 5 religious pilgrims report an aged Shamanist Abbot near Bareilly was buried alive at his own request. He was said to be 157 years old and believed life work over. Followers covered him with earth after ceremonies, following a religion that teaches life is futile after usefulness ends.
Eddie Lewis of 322 West Jackson has his hats cleaned and blocky style noted in a brief community item.
Frank Elmore, who already faces five to ten years for a Laurens County bank robbery, pleaded guilty in federal court to robbing the U S arsenal at the University of Georgia. He must serve the arsenal term if the bank sentence is not completed. Four codefendants remain serving sentences from the same case.
Pittsburgh reports a march on Washington by steel workers who say they were discriminated against for union activity. Earle Forbeck of the Amalgamated Association leads a rank and file faction urging passage of the Wagner bill or similar law to ban company unions. If a strike occurs, the action will be in Washington as workers demand the right to bargain collectively.
Mr. W B Anderson of Atlanta and Mr. Fred H Adams of Atlanta were here on business. Mr. H B Matthews of Jacksonville visited Monday. Mr. R E Skinner of Tampa made a business stop yesterday. Jim Watt, Johns Hopkins student, arrived to spend days at home. Frank Speight Jr home from Georgia Tech with Fred Porter as guest. Betty Carswell returned from East Carolina Teachers College and will summer with her parents. Elizabeth Timberlake, wintering at Florida State College for Women, visiting Mrs. Watt. Lathrop Craig returns to spend summer with his mother Alma Craig after North Georgia College. Rev P N Shepherd ill with typhoid pneumonia. Mrs A N Tuck, Miss Virginia Tuck, and Dr Albert Tuck return from Atlanta where Dr Tuck graduated. Dr Tuck may practice dentistry in Jacksonville or Thomasville. McChesney Jeffries improving after a fall last week. F C Pittman of Moultrie among South Georgia visitors. Mrs L Kelly returns from two weeks with relatives in Florida. Betty Watt and Georgellen Walker visiting. Sheriff Gordon Davis out and recovering from foot infection. Cy Heeth's crutches laid aside as health improves.
Advertisement notes photographer E Woody offering oil tinting for portraits or street photography. Mentions location near Walker's Pharmacy and business phrasing suggests a local studio promotional blurb.
Nearly 500 people gathered on the South Carolina state capitol steps to denounce what speakers called red taped and ineffective emergency relief administration. The crowd, half white and half Black, planned a mass meeting at Richland county courthouse the next evening to demand relief employment.
Seven members of the Petty Geophysics Engineering Company were killed in a dynamite blast eight miles southeast of Noman Oklahoma while preparing for seismograph oil explorations. Investigators weighed possible causes from static electricity to a collision between dynamite and water trucks.
The piece compares approaches in labor relations to the automobile sector as unions threaten strikes, outlining strategies to manage worker pressure and maintain production.
He had suffered for weeks using crutches but a trip to a Gulf resort proved beneficial. He reports improvement and says he no longer needs the old supports.
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