Winners Announced in Thomas County 4 H Health Contest
The Thomas County 4 H Health Contest results were declared by Mrs. Martha Harrison. Girls Mary Bruce Boston won first prize and Lilly Claire Single tary Ochlocknee took second. Boys Woodson Herring Thomasville won first prize and Vereen Clark Oak Hill near Thomasville took second. The two girls will travel to Tifton on Monday July 16 to compete in the district event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas County
Martha Harrison
Misses Mary Bruce
Boston
Lilly Claire Singletary
Ochlocknee
Woodson Herring
Thomasville
Vereen Clark
Oak Hill
Local contest sparks prize for popular youth
Readers learn of an informal competition where prize winnings honor popular young participants. Friends of the contenders show interest in the selection process and the eventual winners.
Rose Feren Sings At First Baptist Church Sunday
Miss Rose Feren Ferguson home from college will sing at the First Baptist Church at 1:10 tomorrow morning. She will perform The Perfect Prayer by Stenson. Rev T F Callaway delivers Watch Your Influence as the second in a series of ten brief morning sermons. Service men and visitors are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Ferguson
First Baptist Church
Stenson
T. F. Callaway
New Tires Grade I from Cowden Auto Supply
A note lists tires and sizes from Cowden Auto Supply including 6:00X 1LG-800X16-3 and 50x17 5:50x18-475x19-4:50x21 New Tires Grade I. A cyclone generally travels at about 20 miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowden Auto Supply
V Day Plans Spark Local War Bond Ads
In Dealer's Digest a Tuck Implement Company letter and a Times-Enterprise ad outline the U and V Plans for postwar Universal appliances. Gerald Tuck says inquiries exceed supply as residents invest in war bonds now to secure future deliveries and priority postwar housewares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dealer's Digest
Landers, Fray and Clark
Universal Electrical Appliances
Tuck Implement Company
Manfacturers
New Britain
Jenn
Times-Enterprise
Gerald Tuck
Universally
Nome
Public Library To Open Sunday Afternoon Hours
The public library will be open from 4 to 6 o'clock Sunday afternoons for service men until further notice.
Circles of Woman's Auxiliary Schedule Tomorrow
The Woman's Auxiliary circles meet tomorrow with Circle No. 7 led by Mrs. Hidson at Mrs. Shedd's home at 4 p.m. Circle No. 2 led by Mrs. Earp at 4 p.m. Circle No. 3 led by Mrs. McIntosh at 4 p.m. Circle No. 4 led by Mrs. Watt at 4 p.m. Circle No. 5 chaired by Mrs. Clay with Mrs. Watt at 8 15 p.m. The session meets Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Pastor's study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Auxiliary
Jowsy
Hirs. Hidsot
Wildmal
Shedd
Charles Watt
R. B. Woodall
Clay
Will Watt
Union Vacation Bible School Begins Monday Morning
The Union Vacation Bible School opens Monday at 9 a.m. at First Presbyterian and First Baptist in Thomasville for children aged four to thirteen, running five mornings a week for two weeks. Over 100 children registered after yesterday’s rain, with further signups Monday. Mrs. M H Jeffries directs, assisted by Marjorie Stith and Rev. F A Bote among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Vacation Bible School
First Presbyterian
First Baptist Church
Thomasville
M. H. Jeffries
First Presbyterian Sunday School
Marjorie Stith
F. A. Bote
Second Baptist Church
Chaplain Bielitz to Preach at Dawson Street Chapel
Chaplain Walter Bielitz will preach at Dawson Street Methodist Church tomorrow at 8 30 evening. The public and local residents are invited to attend and hear him deliver the sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bielitz
Dawson Street
Walter Bielitz
Dawson Street Methodist Church
Less dress era fashion plus war youth recreation talk
The piece blends fashion notes with community programs praising reduced dress to reveal more skin for a tan, then shifts to wartime youth recreation development. It highlights a beer pricing order from June 15, enrollment and schedules at schools, and a Board of Education report on declining enrollment, truancy, and war work by students and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt. Mahler
Board of Education
East Side
Tri- Hi-Y
Save the Children Federation
Assiana Relief
Finney General Hospital
Red Cross
Thom asville Man Overseas in Air Service Training
First Lt. Robert B. Singletary, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alton C. Singletary of Circle Drive Thom asville Georgia, is overseas and has completed a course to bridge training in the states with active theater war service. At a control depot he was classified to ensure fitness for his assigned role. His next station will support missions from which U S planes strike Nazi targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Service Command
England
Robert B. Singletary
Alton C. Singletary
Circle Drive
Thomasville
States
L. Singletary
America
Demonstration At Canning Plant Next Tuesday Morning
Women of Thomasville invited to canning demonstrations led by Food Conservation Agent Anna Sue Gilkerson and County Home Demonstration Agent Martha Harrison. The first session Tuesday morning June 13 at 10 at the Thomasville Canning Plant, State Farmers Market lot. A second event Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Senior High School Home Economics Room will showcase jelly making.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Anna Sue Gilkerson
Martha Harrison
Louise Hannan Weds Harold H Mattox in California
Mr and Mrs Claude J Hannan announce the marriage of their daughter Louise to Harold H Mattox 2nd Lt AC Retired of Whittier California. The vows were May 29 in Long Beach. The couple will reside in San Bernardino where Mattox is with the air service depot. Louise grew up in Thomasville and attended Thomasville High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude J. Hannan
Louise
Harold H. Mattox
Whittier
Calif
Long Beach
San Bernardino
Mattox
Air Service Depot
Thomasville
Mason promoted to Tech Sergeant in Signal Corps
James S. Mason Jr son of Mr and Mrs Mason of Thom asville has been promoted to Technical Sergeant in the Signal Corps at Drew Field Florida where he serves as regimental sergeant major in the Aircraft Warning Unit Training Center He entered the army in Oct 41 after farming and attended Asheville Darlington Vanderbilt and the Univ of Georgia He is a Phi Delta Theta member with a brother in the Infantry and a sister with the Red Cross He lives at 1174 Jackson Blvd Clearwater Florida with his wife Gertrude Rodgers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Mason, Jr
James S. Mason
Thomasville
Signal Corps
Drew Field
Fla
Aircraft Warning Unit Training Center
Mason
Army
Asheville
Darlington
Vanderbilt University
Univ. of Georgia
Phi Delta Theata
Alfred
Infantry
Mary Ann
American Red Cross
Jackson Blvd
Clearwater, Fla
Gertrude Rodgers
Clearwater
Uhl Explains POW Use On Fourth Command Radio Show
Major General F. EK Uhl outlines POW use in the Fourth Service Command on a new Blue Network radio program The 21 Stars airing 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Central War Time on June 24 with a premiere June 17. The broadcast will reach Finney General Hospital personnel via FG radio system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. EK. Uhl
Fourth Service Command
Blue
Finney General Hospital Radio and
Morale Services Branch
Thomasville schools honor war service of alumni and teachers
In November the largest contribution is the memory of the schools. More than 475 white alumni and teachers of the Thomasville schools are in the armed services. About one fourth of these are officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Armed Services
Daily Auctions at State Market Begin June 12
State Market Manager H. W. Singletary announces a new daily auction schedule at the State Market starting Monday June 12. Auctions run every two hours from morning until the final clean up sale at 10 PM. Growers and sellers are urged to participate and avoid carryover by selling at the nightly final sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Singletary
Smith promoted to staff sergeant at English base
Charles Alan Smith son of Mr and Mrs Howard Smith of Coolidge has been promoted from sergeant to staff sergeant at a Liberator base in England. He is a gunner aboard a B 24 Liberator and has been seeing action. He and his brother Sgt W DeWitt Smith, an engineer on a B 17 Flying Fortress, recently met in England. Another son Lt Howard Smith Jr has arrived on a Pacific island in the Hawaiian group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Alan Smith
Howard Smith
Coolidge
England
Smith
Sgt
Wiliam DeWitt Smith
W. DeWitt Smith
Thomas County WMU Meeting Set at Big Ochlochnee Church
The Thomas County Woman's Missionary Union holds its second district rally at the Big Ochlochnee church in Ochlochnee Ga on Wednesday June 14 beginning at 11 AM. Miss Carrie White and Mrs Warner Croft lead devotional and home mission topics with a program including a playlet and youth discussion and adjournment for lunch.
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Thomas County
WMU
Big Ochlochnee
Ochlochnee
Carrie White
W. B. Cochran, Jr
Warner Croft
Jeanette Cooper
B. Collier
Turner Taylor
Death of Miss Sallie Connell at Pavo Hospital
Miss Sallie Rebecca Connell, born April 6 1864 in Brooks County, died after a brief illness at Daniel Hospital in Pavo. Services set for Sunday 11 00 at the Boston Methodist Church with Rev Harry Stubbs officiating. Interment in Boston cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Survived by several cousins in Brooks County and elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sallie Rebecca Connell
Daniel Hospital
Pavo
Methodist Church
Boston
Harry Stubbs
Boston Cemetery
Sam Brooks
J. C. Pittman
Harvey Carson
Bill Davis
Grady Sherrod
Oscar Cook
Miss Connell
Brooks County
Grooverville Methodist Church
Charlie Groover
Brooks
Kiwanis Rotary Joint Meeting Honors YMCA Centennial
The Thomasville Kiwanis and Rotary clubs hosted a joint gathering at the American Legion Home to honor the YMCA centennial. A fried chicken dinner accompanied a YMCA film showing and tributes to directors and trustees. Guests included local officials and military officers, with prayers requested for servicemen and extending best wishes to Rev. Gillespie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville Kiwanis
Rotary Clubs
American Legion
Hotr
Herbert Readling
Kiwanis Club
Wilbur Milton
Milton
Humphrey
USO
Mr. Milton
Y. M
W. J. Miller
Fritz Frohberg
J. 8. Upchurch
L. Brewton
W. B. Garrison
C. H. Watt
C. K. Wall
R. G
Allen B. Keyton
Jim Keyton
Ray Taylor
Jim Clark
C. E. Layton
C. C. Pittman
Ken Wessermen
Rev Gillespie to mark seventh anniversary at First Presbyterian
Tomorrow Sunday marks the seventh anniversary of Rev. R. T. Gillespie's pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church. Church officers and auxiliaries suggested an anniversary gift in a letter mailed to members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. T. Gillespie
First Presbyterian” Church
An. SF
No Band Concert Called Off In Thomasville
Due to the absence of several members of the Thomasville Municipal Band there will be no concert tomorrow afternoon at the courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Court House
Pvt Roy Bloodworth Returns to Service After Home Visit
Pvt Roy Bloodworth reported for duty in Maryland after spending eleven days at home with his parents Mr and Mrs R A Bloody and his wife. He recently graduated from two Army schools at Fort Knox Ky with training in machine guns and tank guns and attended clerical school at the Armored School there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy E. Bloodworth
R.A. Bloody
Pvt
Bloodworth
Fort Knox
Fort Knok
Maryland
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