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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1936
Page
10
The piece surveys bankers holding twenty or more billion dollars idle, the shift from savings to demand, and debates strategies to revive business. Economists clash over how to stimulate consumption, wages, and production while maintaining price stability and employment safeguards.
The Indianapolis speedway event features automobile tests to gauge fuel efficiency at high speeds over 500 miles using 87 12 gallons of gasoline. Experts hope results push engineers toward engines achieving twenty miles per gallon under varied road conditions. The race notes reduced fatalities this year and weighs the potential gains against glory and money. Grady county sets a 150 dollar entry fee to fund state primary activities, with Thomas county rotation continuing and a strong county delegation.
The piece argues Christian nations fail to live by Christian tenets as they pursue territory and commerce, repudiating treaties and risking war. It urges believers to reform and avoid violence, calling out hypocrisy in international conduct.
The Weltner group plans a July fourth meeting in a Georgia city with county representatives to consider backing a governor candidate or endorsing an existing contender. The effort aims to influence the forthcoming state convention and respond to Governor Talmadge and Ed Rivers campaigns while avoiding ties to any single candidate.
W Feinberg and Son announces a Friday morning start for its 49th anniversary Value Festival. The Times Enterprise page ad promises new merchandise and special prices as the store thanks customers for fifty years of patronage. Harry S Feinberg invites all to visit and shop for household goods at savings.
Meigs notes welcome Alton Willis as postmaster with 13 years serving as assistant. Hulton Singletary named assistant postmaster as the office earns a 100 percent federal inspection rating. Home economics students plan a Washington D C trip with stops at capitals, led by Miss Louise Stiles and aided by Senator Russell and Rep Cox. The weekly column also lists numerous local visits, visits to Pelham, Thomasville, and Albany, and community events including a church service and a school trustee race won by J C Pilcher.
At a Seventh Senatorial District convention Grady county won the right to name the senator for the next two years. W Fred Scott was named by Thomas county at the last election, and S Morton Turner had been chosen by Brooks. Scott retires after a strong term, having been a floor leader and key figure in the powerful Bples committee.
Mrs LeRoy Ferguson hosted a Saturday birthday party at her home for her son LeRoy Jr turning ten. Guests included Angus Folmer Ellis Stanfield Luther Taylor Preston Fields Jr Edna Field Jimmy Raiford Lila Jean Ferguson Myrtile Hampson Lomaer Warren John D Culpepper Ann Rose Wilkes and Laverne Ferguson with punch and smacks served.
Attorney General David T. Wilentz announced in Trenton that fourteen thousand eight hundred sixty dollars of the Lindbergh ransom bills recovered with Bruno Hauptmann's arrest will be returned soon to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The decision followed a New York conference with J. Edgar Hoover, New York police officials, Col. H. Norman Schawarzkopf, and state police officials.
Representative Cartwright announced approximate allocations from the Himyden Cartwright highway bill for federal aid highways farm to market roads and grade crossing elimination. Alabama Florida Georgia South Carolina totals shown for federal aid and specific program funding.
Rome reports Italy’s African War toll at 4,359 lives with 2,313 white officers and men dead. Among them 1,304 died in combat and 1,009 from illness or accident.
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