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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1965
Page
3
The Thomasville Optimist Club was presented with its charter at a dinner meeting Saturday attended by members wives and special guests including Optimist officials from Georgia and Florida. The ceremony highlighted regional Optimist leadership.
Governor Wallace welcomes visiting editors to Montgomery and defends Alabama as not torn by race discord. He invites scrutiny of state financial records, says books are open to newsmen, and pledges correction if bias is found. He says he has never attended a Klan meeting and denies widespread voter discrimination in Alabama.
AP Television-Radio writer Cynthia Lowry notes the weekend's sole prime-time special was a beauty contest. The Miss U S A program showcased celebrities, light entertainment, and closeups of contestants, with audiences drawn despite an amateurish feel. CBS and NBC led in ratings, ABC trailed.
Continued notes report Brooks with the city for 13 years and Washington for 14 as the council reviews water usage and municipal practices.
Thomasville City Manager George Adkins announced the retirement of three city workers this month. John E. Jordan, a department foreman with 19 years of service, retires June 17 due to a heart ailment. Laborers Robert Brooks and Joe M. Washington will retire June 12 and June 15 after turning 65.
In New York a 24 year old man Allen Jones and 21 year old Marian De Berry were charged with homicide in the April 21 death of Paul Jung, a star circus clown. They alleged their statements were coerced. both were ordered held without bail. Police said they questioned about 1500 people after Jung’s body was found in his Hotel Forrest room near Madison Square Garden.
The Thomasville Rotary Club designates Tuesday as Pat Murphy Day to urge members and friends to donate a pint of blood at the Health Department Bloodmobile from 1 30 to 6 30 p m. Murphy a Health Department Sanitarian and founder of the program, has given four gallons and received 12 pints during major surgery.
The Thomas County Farm Bureau will meet at 8 p.m. today at the office on Pavo Road. President J. L. White will preside over the session.
Michael N. Herndon son of Mr and Mrs Harry E Herndon of 2400 Patterson Street passed the Bar examination at the University of Georgia Law School joining 112 classmates. He studied at Washington and Lee University where he made the dean’s list and completed ROTC. He will return this summer to work with a Thomasville law firm before entering the Army as a first lieutenant for a two year term.
Land for the Fredonia Baptist Church pastorium was donated by Mr. and Mrs. W L Bills Heald of Hall Road, not purchased as previously reported.
Police and the sheriff’s department investigated a weekend string of burglaries. At Glen Arven Country Club pro shop a stolen cash box totaling 546 dollars was taken after a glass door was smashed. The Walton Area Vocational School lost a city owned 1950 Chevrolet pickup. Additional break ins targeted three vending machines at Thomas County Vocational School and a Shell station soft drink machine. A metal warehouse at Rose City Industrial Park showed entry but no losses reported.
Viet Cong toll record rises as two Marine patrols in Chu Lai causeway area account for the largest U S ground loss previously. Two Marine helicopters from Iwo Jima collide after takeoff. three bodies recovered. In Saigon guards kill one Vietnamese and wound another near an enlisted billet after warnings fail. one captured, one escapes.
Weekend admissions include Mrs. Harry W. Butler, Donnie Alday, Miss Lillian J. Martin, Mrs. Ralph L. Cone, Arthur Lee Lewis, Miriam R. Lester, Valarie P. Miller, and Mrs. Robert Carlson. Other Georgians and Floridians listed with names and towns.
McDivitt and White completed their historic journey last Thursday with a splashdown five miles from a rescue helicopter from the carrier Wasp. The Wasp and Gemini 4 proceeded to the scene as a search plane relayed their condition to mission control in Houston. They asked for helicopter pickup and were picked up, with refined data placing the landing 390 miles east of Cape Kennedy and 230 miles north of San Salvador.
Mrs. James A. Dodge and four year old Joel Clay Love of Monticello join Mrs. J. Rudolph Sapp of Greenville and Lee W. McDaniel of Marianna in a community notice listing residents connected to an ongoing event.
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