07 Jun 1957
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1957
Page
1
The June 7 1957 Times Enterprise reports fractional stock gains led by oils with optimistic long term prospects while rails faced stress from April net income dips. Aircraft shares weakened as disarmament talk lingered. Cotton futures show mixed moves with New York prices drifting lower.
Boston hosts a district picnic style dinner for nine Kiwanis clubs at the high school campus starting at 8 p.m. The Thomasville and Cairo clubs are expected to bring large turnouts with family invitations and reduced plate pricing for children.
Estimated hog receipts totaled 2400 at major plants in Albany Moultrie Thomasville Tilton Dothan and Jacksonville. Hogs mostly steady with some 50 cent higher spots. Chicago receipts 7000 hogs, markets weak to mostly 25 cents lower. North Georgia cattle at Atlanta on June 7 show mixed prices with steers 20 to 22.50, cows 12 to 15, calves 10 to 21, stockers 11 to 20 with varied quality.
Moderate trading on the Atlanta produce market with cabbage 1.50 to 2.00 per bag. Best sweet potatoes at 58.50 per bushel. Collards 1.25 to 1.50 per dozen, turnip greens 1.36 to 1.75 per bushel, Georgia yellow squash 2.00 to 2.60, round green beans 3.20 to 3.00 per unit, pole beans 4.00 to 6.00, field peas 2.00 to 3.25, crowders, black eyes 1.00, cucumbers 2.00 to 3.00.
The document lists broilers or fryers weighing 244 to 354 pounds at farms with fob prices 20 and at plants 21. Heavy type hens at farms 17 fob plants 18 to 1844. Light type too few to report.
The document lists numerous district and circuit appointments for ministers across Macon Savannah Waycross and other regions. Names include J. Quillian J. Sedgwick W. A. Brook and many others with posts in Vidalia Albany Perry and Savannah Epworth and Westside Chapel among listed locales with evangelism and temperance roles.
Edward Sadler 3 died in a two car collision near Camilla Georgia. Funeral services at Pine Forest Baptist Church with Whiddon’s Funeral Home in charge. Survivors include Joyce Ansley wife three children Randall Ronald Carolyn and extended family in Thomasville and surrounding areas.
Thomasville shoppers face the final day of the Triple Bargain Days sales event. Local merchants offer wide bargains across merchandise as Alfred Dixon of the Retail Merchants' Association predicts this may be the year's strongest sale. Williams and W. R. Smith are noted in the event context.
Professor Walter 8 McCleskey of Young Harris College and Professor Wesleyan College. W H Littleton named vice president at Methodist Publishing House. C A Britton Jr Deaconesses teacher Vashti School Lillian Day at Bethlehem Center Savannah and Josephine Bergelund.
Residents reported a terrific explosion heard at 4 p m with long vapor trails from two jet planes. It was unclear if the jets were en route to land on the Saratoga in the Atlantic Ocean carrying President Eisenhower, though two planes were seen earlier.
A Bainbridge Rotary Club gathering heard Gunnet Helgi Grasse from Grasse Austria discuss the American Field Service exchange program. Wesley Catledge performed a guitar and vocal selection. W. Fred Scott was initiated as a Rotarian, with praise for prior Rotarians including Will Watt.
John Dixon is at his home 212 North Crawford recovering from a recent operation performed at Archbold Memorial Hospital. District Charles McKinnon outlined YMCA camp plans and thanked Rotarians for campership gifts helping several boys attend.
Funeral services for Mrs Belle Stabler 65 of Selma Alabama and West Bainbridge will be conducted at 2 p m Saturday in the West Bainbridge Methodist Church with Reverends R C Kale and James Wise officiating She died Thursday at a relative s home in Selma after a lengthy illness A native of Lowndes County Alabama she spent most of her life in Selma and Bainbridge
Mrs Edna Brittle of the Pentecostal Holiness Church at Wacissa Florida will be guest speaker at the Pentecostal Holiness Church at 400 Colton Ave for both Sunday services She is a noted pianist and singer The local pastor Rev Henry J Redd is visiting in Baltimore Maryland
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