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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1952
Page
2
The piece argues that individuals and nations rise or fall by their decisions and that learning from past errors improves future choices. It likens life to betting on a horse and notes limited foresight, urging careful, informed judgment to avoid costly mistakes.
Athens born Greek actor Jose Moreno known for Latin roles visited Chris Ganas over the weekend. He has appeared in films set abroad and often cast as Spaniards Frenchmen and Mexicans in early productions alongside stars like Gene Kelly Lana Turner and Dorothy Lamour.
Draft board activity shows registrants going to Jacksonville for medical exams including John Leonard McLean and Ralph Melvin Beck. Inductions in Atlanta include Henry Bryant, Frank Thomas Jr, and Ernest Scott with several white and Black registrants transferred or called to service. Additional White registrants Lee Kimbrel and N D Tidwell noted.
Funeral services for Grady Eubanks aged 43 of Gordon Alabama who died in Donalsonville Hospital were held at Gordon Methodist Church. Evans Funeral Home of Donalsonville coordinated arrangements with survivors including two daughters Minnie Merle and Heyward, a son Sonny and his wife, parents Mr. and Mrs EB N Eubanks, siblings in Florida and Alabama, and Masonic Lodge conducted the service with both active and honorary pallbearers.
Mrs. Jess Woodham was installed yesterday as President of the Dawson Street W S C S B, succeeding Mrs. J. O. Jackson. The retiring president received a gift. A building fund for a new church was approved. An Open Door Community House was proposed for the coming year. Meetings will be at the church on Mondays after the first Sunday each month. Mrs. J. A. Turrentine will lead officer training at 3 p.m. on Monday, June 16.
Curtis Gordon and his Hillbilly Pals won the state wide talent search at Tower Theatre Atlanta earning 500 dollars, a recording contract and a slot at the Southeastern World's Fair. Fifteen bands from three states competed before Gordon's group performed a 45 minute TV show in Atlanta. Members include Curley Ganicus Slick Gillespe Zene Calhoun Dynamite Jim M. Mitchell and Gordon.
A feature notes houses recommended by famous actors and mentions a traveler leaving Thomasville yesterday afternoon after an enjoyable satay.
Meigs Baptist Church Bible School registered on Friday then held a Community House picnic. Meigs First Methodist Church began a week of Vacation Bible School with classes at nine for two hours. A tobacco crop starts nearby as barns and vegetables appear. A new baseball diamond at the Community House area is praised as a top local park. Woodrow Collins of Great Falls, Montana, advances to Rate Clerk with Great Northern. Billy Marx, son of local clergy, resumes studies at Emory Junior College after a diving accident. Rev A Ray Adams returns to Meigs Ochlocknee charges after reassignment.
Grandsons of Mrs. Sarah Godwin of 320 N Stevens receive honors for talent. Nichois Croft son of Mr and Mrs W R Croft of Brunswick wins a Georgia Teachers College music scholarship. A Glynn Academy Band member for five years he is named outstanding senior band member and receives a loving cup. Mack Croft, brother of Ninivois, earns an expense paid trip to Macon to present his Puppet Snow.
The Caprice Garden Club sponsors a bake sale at Green's Launderette 311 S Broad St offering home baked cakes pies cookies cupcakes and bread. A prize recipe chocolate cake will be awarded at 11 30 a m.
Units of the First Marine Division on the Korean front will receive ice cream three times weekly this summer. The Marine Corps announces the plan as feasible through insulated bags and on base distribution.
Local residents and relatives are listed as patients at Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville and guests visiting from nearby towns. Events include births at Archbold, a Navy assignment for Walter Burgess in Valdosta, and travel notes of relatives visiting in Florida and Georgia.
Notice urges residents to report unsolicited door to door rental agents to the Chief of Police or City Managers office in Thomasville citing a city ordinance. The notice references a winter period and mentions a program about distributing bags that keep five homes of ice cream hard for eight hours.
Mrs Hannah Bosch Scott of Thomasville died at her daughter Mrs Anton Petersons home in Charleston South Carolina after a five month illness. Funeral services will be held at 11 AM tomorrow from her Bartow Street residence with Rev W A Roberson officiating and interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery beside her husband. Pallbearers include Heath Varnedoe Lee E Kelly Paul Searcy Roy Truitt Hugh Stephens and Rob Conrad of Quincy Florida. She was born June 11 1878 in Charleston DC and married J E Scott about 55 years ago leaving two sons Herbert Scott of Quincy and Spencer Scott of Havana and two daughters Mrs Anton Peterson and Mrs Edna Andrews. She was a devout St Thomas Episcopal Church member and cherished Thomasville where she lived about 45 years. Funeral arrangements are by Whiddon's Funeral Home.
The Men’s Garden Club volunteers water and plant light post boxes to keep them blooming. In dry weather they make rounds with a pump and barrels, and Al and Burgess Stone were seen watering at night, as pink petunias brighten the boxes.
State Farmers Market stayed open until 9 30 as trucks rolled in with produce from the section. Hudson Norman and Neilly Reichert handled the flow and sold all to eager buyers. Canteloupes watermelons and specialty vegetables drew many patrons to a long productive day at the market.
The ceremony took place at the First Baptist Church in Atlanta on June 7 at 2 30 PM with Rev A Titer officiating. The bride wore a white orchid corsage and the couple departed for a Florida honeymoon before settling in Thomasville where Mr Holmes is branch manager for Retail Credit Co. Out of town guests included the bride’s parents Mr and Mrs J E Waller of Morrow and relatives from Jonesboro Columbus and Cordele.
The June session notes widespread road petitions and a general discussion on road conditions. County Attorney McCollum announced salary increases for the City Court Judge to 4500 dollars and the Solicitor to 3000 dollars under a new state law signed February 6. Observers included Mrs. Harry Jones from the League of Women Voters and Claude W. Mitchell from Memorial Hospital.
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