Rhodes Returns From Hawaii to Thomasville Hints of Georgia Life
Mrs C C Rhodes recounts her family’s Hawaii to mainland voyage. They sailed from Honolulu on the Lurline, crossed five and a half days, faced a tough crossing with five children aboard, and visited Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta before settling in Georgia. The piece notes church attendance, carpentry and cooking lessons, and pride in being from Thomasville.
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Hiere
C. C. Rhodes
Thomasville
Hawaii
Atlanta
Ieme
Rhodes
Georgia
Honolulu
Lurline
Royal Hawaiian Band
Preyer
Pacific
Penny
Golden ‘Gate Bridge
Chuck
Santa Barbara
Calif
Los Angeles
California
New York
New York City
Attan
Bast Nee
N. J
Jong Ea
Lon
Susan
Neney
Judy
Duke shifts campaign to Bainbridge over Griffin
Atlanta March 7. Candidate for Lieutenant Governor Dan Duke will headline a Bainbridge radio station program, the hometown of opponent Governor Marvin Griffin. He plans to discuss the Ku Klux Klan in his remarks.
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Atlanta
Jane
Dan Duke
Bainbridge
Marvin Griffin
Griffin
Cairo Public Service Rate Hearing Postponed
Cairo Georgia officials report the Georgia Public Service Commission electric rate hearing for Georgia Power and Light Company, set for June 14, is postponed to July 12. The delay, requested by the company to prepare staff, follows prior postponements as municipalities and REA cooperatives plan full representation for the hearing.
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Cairo
Georgia Public Service Commission
Commission
Georgia Power & Light Company
Georgia
Power Company
REA
Quitman Tobacco Warehouse owners survey leaf plantings
Jimmy Hicks and W D Webb of Wilson North Carolina visited Quitman to survey leaf plantings and report good crop condition. They announced two new auctioneers and sales managers Bud McKey and Sid Cutts. Hicks will operate a new warehouse in Sylvester while McKey and Cutts assist Webb in three Quitman warehouses.
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Quitman
Jimmy Hiecks
W.—D.webb
Bud McKey
Valdosta
Sid Cutts
Oxford N. C
Hicks
Sylvester
McKey
Mr. Cutts
Webb
Georgia
N. C
Rhodesia
South Africa
Cutts
Oxford
N.C
Brooks Co op Office Robbed Amid Wave of Local Crime
In Quitman on Tuesday night the Brooks Farmers Co op office was burglarized and about $100 in cash along with around $1800 in checks were taken. The era of robberies includes three safes broken into at Hope Hines Co Marion Williams Grocery and L H Crum residence with total losses near $20,000.
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Quitman
Brooks Farmers Co-op
Hope Hines Co
Marion Williams
L. H. Crum
Trout leaps into Quitman senator’s boat in lakeside tale
Sen H R Garrett of Quitman fends off a jumping 11 pound 26 inch trout that leaped into his boat while his wife feared an alligator. Witnesses confirm the feat on Fernside Lake in Brooks County as part of local fishing lore. A prior 9.6 pound trout once struck Eddie Winn in the chest on the same lake.
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Quitman
H. R. Garrett
Garretts
Fernside
Brooks County
Garrett
Garrett Lodge
Mr. Garrett
Eddie Winn
Garrett Place
Final offer from Atlanta trolley buyers in strike talks
Atlanta June 8 AP prospective buyers for Atlanta's trolley system draft a written final offer to striking operators. W E Mitchell, former Georgia Power president who heads the group, says rolling trolleys could resume once the franchise transfers and terms are set. The union has eight cents demand and the group previously offered two cents per hour raise. John Elliott AFL Trolley Drivers Union VP says a local meeting will consider the proposal after receipt. The strike enters its 21st day.
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Atlanta
W. E. Mitchell
Georgia Power Company
Mitchell
John Elliott
AFL
Two Day Old Betty Ann Johnson Saved by $30 Transfusion Gadget
Phenix City Alabama doctors used a Kaessler exchange transfusion set worth 30 dollars to swap a two day old baby’s fatal RH factor blood for fresh blood. Betty Ann Johnson of Columbus Georgia was born Monday and showed severe jaundice before the device arrived by mail. The hospital prepared the equipment and performed the transfusion that same afternoon. The outcome is described by doctors as hopeful.
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Phenix
City
Ala
Betty Ann Johnson
Columbus
Phenix Memorial Hospital
Betty Ann
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