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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1947
Page
2
A collage of local comments and weather notes touches on press rights, advertising deadlines, a robber with an ice pick, fashion trends, vacation timing, health reports, education, taxation, Brunswick fabrication plans, rain control ideas, and Palestinian news. Citizens debate labor policy, crime, parking, and teen crime while Georgia contemplates development and state spending between scattered observations.
The town prepares to honor eighty or more graduates in a ceremony noting twelve years of schooling. The piece praises the value of high school education for all children and credits the community with funding and support, framing graduation as a civic milestone and obligation.
Thomasville residents question the plan to close Finney Veterans Hospital citing high cost and extensive facilities built for 2,000 patients. The Atlanta Journal notes veterans need and criticizes moves to replace with new hospitals in Tallahassee and Americus amid political push.
A discussion outlines Russia’s likely refusal to accept international inspection and a genuine system to control fissionable materials. The United States seeks control of bomb materials, while options include an arms race, global control excluding Russia, or a preventive war. The piece weighs risks and stresses the need for a world solution beyond Russia.
The School Interest Association elected officers for the coming year at the Junior High auditorium Tuesday afternoon. Officers include President Mrs Floyd Searcy and Vice Presidents Mrs Forrest Knapp and Rev George Shirley.
A light seaplane taking off from Buck's seaplane base on the Ohio river stalled and plunged into a Northside Page street home. The crash killed two men and a woman aboard and set four houses ablaze. The craft burst into flames after nose-first impact and an explosion followed.
Lee Roy Gassaway a Hill Crest Street resident and machinist endorses Retonga noting relief from severe indigestion gas bloating and constipation. He credits better sleep weight gain and renewed energy after using Retonga and urges others to try it available at Inman Drug Company.
The United States and Argentina formally bury the hatchet after a long Nazi expulsion dispute. The 1942 1945 drama involved Cordell Hull Braden and Braden s departure ahead of a planned hemispheric defense pact. New envoy Messersmith and Braden left as Washington readies a refreshed policy toward Argentina.
Cortez the Spanish explorer is credited with bringing chocolate from the New World to Europe. The brief note highlights early transoceanic exchange and the spread of a now iconic commodity from the Americas to the Old World.
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine complete a second nonstop trans Atlantic crossing with landing south of Berlin as fuel is exhausted. Babe Ruth belts his 17th homer of the season while Ty Cobb maintains a batting average above .400. About 45 Girl Scouts depart from the Court House by truck for a 10 day stay at Camp Trances Archbold for a decade ago Sunday. Scientists from Beloit College search the Sahara Desert for clues to man's origins.
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