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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1975
Page
3
Capt. Alex Butler hands out junior police badges to early recruits at Learning Tree Day Care Center. Additional children will be registered today at 10 a.m. at Paradise Park as local officers participate in the program.
The PRG marks its sixth anniversary in Saigon with a strong campaign to crush counterrevolution and raise production. Western observers say Hanoi still runs the South. Liberation Daily cites Premier Huynh Tan Phat presiding over a meeting and urging firm action.
A federal grand jury indicted Bernard Cornfeld, once a noted financier, on three counts for making 343 overseas calls with a blue box from his Beverly Hills mansion. The scheme allegedly used shell employees to call London and Geneva at about $1,000 monthly to Pacific Bell, amid his 1960s Investors Overseas Services collapse.
Patterson, president of the American Cancer Society, urged Thomasville residents to education on cancer risks and self exams. He noted 90,000 new breast cancer cases yearly and 33,000 U.S. deaths, and described thermographic breast testing and a paused tumor registry at Archbold Memorial Hospital. The Kiwanis planned a June 19 Chicken Barbecue to fund a $2000 trip for Thomasville's Music and Drama Troupe to the Kiwanis International meeting in Atlanta.
The old one room Midway schoolhouse was moved Thursday to a permanent location near Garrison Pilcher School for restoration and conversion to a new use.
A helicopter, with a knife at the pilot’s throat, carried inmate Dale Otto Remling and an unidentified hijacker over Southern Michigan Prison in Jackson. They switched to getaway cars about six miles away. Pilot Richard Jackson reported the capture of the inmate after landing near the prison license plate plant.
Ron Morris a 33 year old 1959 Thomasville High School grad runs an interior decorating shop on South Crawford Street and teaches Karate an art he picked up during four years in the Marine Corps in Okinawa He moved back to Thomasville four years ago after studying at Bob Jones University and now supports himself by decorating and karate instruction He designed and built his own bookshelf to reflect his dual passions and remains his own man
Funeral services for James Roscoe Owens 57 of Pelham will be at Harmony Baptist Church Saturday June 7 1975 at 4 p.m. with Revs. Fred Bullock and W F Dyches officiating burial in the church cemetery by Braswell Funeral Home. Owens a World War II veteran retired state highway employee and lifelong Pelham resident died June 4 1975 at his home. He was born January 21 1918 in Mitchell County and survived by wife Katherine Smithwick Owens three sons a daughter brothers and sisters and nine grandchildren.
Funeral services for Bob Lee Watts 74 of Cairo will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday June 8 1975 at Hill Top Baptist Church in Cairo by Revs Claude W Gay and Wayne Meadows with burial in Long Branch Cemetery. Wattss survived by son Harry Watts sister Annie W Sellers grandchild Wanda Watts and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers listed.
The report notes police ongoing investigation into missing area stamps and cash. It also references community values on honesty and notes Barbara Carter and Dewdell Spivey involved in returning a government check. Additional items include local construction permits, equine encephalomyelitis cases in Lowndes and Thomas counties, and vaccination guidance.
Andrew Goins son of Mrs Ellen Goins of Quitman is promoted to Army specialist four while serving as a radio operator with the First Infantry Division at Ft Riley Kansas.
Robert Hale and Dean Wilder present a sacred concert at 8 p m today at First Baptist Church. Hale is a bass-baritone with the New York City Opera Company and Wilder heads Westminster Choir College voice department in Princeton New Jersey. Pianist Ovid Young accompanies. Open to the public. A Deaths Mr Watts Cairo Bob Watts 74 of Rt 1 Cairo died Friday at his residence. Retired farmer and Hill Top Baptist Church member. Survivors include son Harry Watts and sister Annie W Sellers. Miller Funeral Home in charge.
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