May Building Tops $1 Million In Thomasville
May permits total $1,083,960 for 55 projects. Colonial Stores office building tops the value, with ground broken for a $420,000 HQ. Piggly Wiggly Firestone and another package store add $31,406 to commercial jobs. Residential work remains weak with two houses valued at $43,000 and alterations totaling $69,954.
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Mike Bales
Thomasville
Colonial Stores
Suilding
Colonial
Firestone
Thomasville Sets Building Totals High in January and March
Construction in Thomasville topped 900000 in both January and March 1975 due largely to remodels at MacIntyre Park School and additions at Thomasville High. The year saw 3466707 in total 1975, with 367 inspections revealing eight code violations and 161 housing-code violations across 15 housing checks. permit fees totaled 7017 dollars.
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MacIntyre Park
Thomasville High
Thomasville
Idaho Dam Collapse Kills Six Missing 135
IDAHO FALLS AP Six dead and 135 missing after the Teton earthen dam failed Saturday sending a wall of water through eastern Idaho. Officials say advance warnings helped many evacuees reach higher ground before homes and farms were destroyed. Federal investigators seek causes while rescue and cleanup continue.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Teton Dam
Cecil Andrus
Sheriff's Department
American Falls
Rexburg
Cyclists Injured in Remington Avenue Collision
Two men Keith W. Corbett and James E. Blythe were injured on a motorcycle after a collision with a car at the Remington Avenue and Pinetree Boulevard intersection. They received aid and were treated and released from Archbold Memorial Hospital.
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Remington Avenue
Pinetree Boulevard
Keith
Quarrel Ends in Stabbing Death in Thomasville
A Saturday morning domestic quarrel over car use left Frankie Lee 23 dead after a kitchen knife wound. His wife Virginia 22 is jailed on murder charges as the couple’s two infants await care. In Tallahassee a two-vehicle crash injures Billy Yandle 23 and kills two others. The Florida Highway Patrol cites centerline collision. Retail sales in four Georgia counties rose sharply in early 1976, notably Thomas 26.9 million and Mitchell 12.05 million, with statewide up 18.7 percent.
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Thomasville
Frankie Lee
Archbold Memorial Hospital
Lee
Virginia
Thomas County
N. Spair St
Industrial Boiler Company
Tallahassee
Coolidge
Boston
Billy W. Yandle
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
U.S. 319
Melody Smith
Country Villa Estates
Yandle
Owen Howard Kane Jr
Florida Highway Patrol
Kane
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
Thomas
Grady
Mitchell
Brooks
Chamber of Commerce
Thomasville Tennis Assn Meeting At Y Tonight
The Thomasville Tennis Association holds its monthly meeting at 8 tonight at the Dawson Street YMCA. The agenda includes a Wimbledon film and a vote on a free challenge system in the men’s and women’s singles ladders.
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Thomasville Tennis Association
Dawson Street
Zippy Market proposed at Baggs and Cotton Avenues
Pelham convenience food chain seeks a second store with self service gas pumps at the Baggs and Cotton corner but runs into opposition from nearby service station operators. The notice references Lloyd Baggett as an owner linked to the plan.
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Pelham
Baggs and
Cotton Avenues
Lloyd Baggett
Area Deaths Include Five Listed Obituaries
Area deaths include Mrs. Ora Belle Barrineau and Mrs. Ethel Smith Evans along with Shannon D. Hall and Mrs. Rhea Carnes Hayes. Also listed are Henry J. Tillman and Mrs. Hugh W. White in the obituary notices.
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Barrineau
Ora Belle Evans
Ethel Smith Hall
Shannon D. Hayes
Rhea Carnes Tillman
Henry J. White
Hugh W
Mathis Files For Re election To U S House Seat
Rep. Dawson Mathis of Albany formally files to seek a fourth two year term in Georgia’s Second District. The 35 year old Democrat remains the district’s youngest congressman and cites his record as the reason to run. He holds key posts on the Agriculture and Administration committees and heads the Subcommittee on Oilseeds and Rice. Mathis previously worked as WALB TV news director.
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Atlanta
House of Representatives
Dawson Mathis
Albany
Mathis
Georgia
Nashville
House Agriculture Committee
Walb-Tv
Boy Scouts
the Elks, Masons
Shriners
Fraternal Order of Police
Georgia Jaycees
Watchdog of the Treasury
National Associated Businessmen
Ford On The Issues Seeks Private School Rights and Desegregation Limits
President Ford backs private school choice without federal funds while supporting integration. He argues individuals may send children to private schools at their own expense if no federal aid is involved. He favors limiting federal court desegregation busings to constitutional violations and criticizes Reagan’s foreign policy.
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Washington
Ford
CBS
Face the Nation
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Virginia
Ronald Reagan
Associated Press
Panama
California
Reagan
United States
Rhodesia
Britain
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UPI Telephotos
Madison County
Ford Smith
Bureau of Reclamation
Teton
Snake
Madison
Fremont
Bingham
Bonneville
Vater Rally
Abby Saeee
Anderson
Ee Eree
Sports Tee
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