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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1956
Page
3
On the Atlanta produce market trading was slow with receipts moderate. Round red potatoes from Georgia quoted at 7.00 per hundred pounds, cabbage 2.00-2.25 per fifty pound bag, Georgia yellow corn 30-40 and white 35-50 cents dozen ears, round green beans 3.50-4.50, pale beans 5.00-6.00, yellow crookneck squash 1.50-2.50, blackeyed peas 1.00-1.50.
Estimated hog receipts reach 2300 at major regional plants with steady to higher prices for various weights and grades. Chicago hog receipts total 8000 with mixed loads at 16.75 to 18.00. North Georgia cattle market reports Monday auctions with varied declines and steady to lower slaughter and stocker prices across steers heifers cows bulls calves and calves.
New York cotton futures gained 5 to 10 cents per bale by 11:48 a.m. with July at 34.52, October 32.52, December 32.59, March 32.69, and May 32.86, while July and October remained unquoted.
Broilers or fryers firm at 244-834 pounds on farms 17 to 19 cents f o b plants 19. Hens quiet with heavy type 20 on farms and 21-22 f o b plants. heavy type 21-22. Light type too few to report.
Dmitri Shepilov, newly appointed Soviet foreign minister, will visit Greece at month end after tours of Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. He is expected to stay several days in Athens, with Greece having agreed to the visit following a Soviet request.
A 68 year old Bainbridge man, Joe B Ritter of 223 Rosa St, was killed in a collision on US 27 near a railroad overpass south of Bainbridge. His daughter Mrs Martha Jo Hutto, 30, and another daughter Mrs Margaret Jacobson sustained injuries and were hospitalized. Funeral services for Ritter are set for 3 p.m. Wednesday at Beulah Thomas Baptist Church with burial at the church cemetery. Surviving relatives include three other daughters, three sons, two brothers, four sisters, and 31 grandchildren.
The Thomasville City Board of Education met in the Junior High cafeteria on May 20 1956 at 1 00 pm with members Scoville Neel Jones Heyward Vann Warren Taylor Forester and Superintendent Blakeney present. The board issued contracts to Virginia Lyon Breedlove and Bernice C Franklin and planned bids for North Side Elementary School. They approved temporary classrooms at the Domiciliary for 66 67 and instructed air conditioning in central offices and bids for school supplies milk and fuel. They also planned agreements with the city on lights and drainage and discussed use of a Domiciliary facility for elementary classes. The meeting adjourned with Harrell Guy as chairman and Blakeney as secretary.
The City Commission discussed three bids on connecting boilers to natural gas at the light plant, with the lowest bid at 46000 dollars under review. They also weighed paving Parnell Street over the Coast Line to Boulevard, denied a beer license for 328 Wright Street, and considered widening Black Shear Street to 70 feet. A ground observer shelter atop the Municipal Building was approved, to be funded as a defense measure. A cemetery project and a commemorative plaque destined for Luneberg, Germany, were also handled.
Funeral services were held at 3 pm for Mrs W R Melton a former local resident who died at home in Lakeland Florida after a long illness Reverend Olin C Cooper officiated at Whiddonس Funeral Chapel Interment was in Laurel Hill Pallbearers Lee Thomas Ernest Babbitt T W Pullen Albert Pullen John Larkin Frank Funderburke Survivors include two daughters Miss Delores Melton of Washington and Miss Montceil Melton of Lakeland
Revenue Commissioner T W Williams announced that 1957 Georgia license tags will not be reflectorized. A dispute over bids paused a contract awarding with Screen Printers Inc. challenging Prismo Safety Corp.’s $116,870 bid for reflectorizing 1,550,000 tags. Six specification-based reasons were cited for the Chamblee firm’s bid failure.
A dead limb fell on electric wires causing a brief short circuit and the city fire department was alerted at 7:30 p m over the weekend. No damage occurred and officials say a worker cleaning behind the panel at the light plant tripped the circuit, stopping current.
Emerson John Leddick 80 Cairo resident and retired professor died at Archbold Memorial Hospital after a seven week illness. Funeral services at 5 p m at Cairo Presbyterian Church with Rev L E Williams officiating. Burial in Middleton Michigan. Survived by wife and son both of Cairo, four grandsons three great grandchildren and a granddaughter.
Calendar list of Wednesday and Thursday events includes Mrs Myrtle Burnetts piano pupils recital at High School 8 pm IOOF Hall Ellks Lodge Elks home Co D 306th Eng Bn UA Army Reserves at V A Dom Idea Exchange Club Youth Center Rotary Club Glen Arven Lions Club Hotel Scott F and A M Lodge Masonic Building Men's Garden Club Hotel Scott Bridge canasta Garden Center Post 222 Auxiliary Post Home Beta Sigma Phi Study Class rooms with times from 8 pm to 10 pm.
Judge J E Craigmiles of the City Court of Thomasville seeks re election in the upcoming September 12 primary. A lifelong Thomas County resident and former city court solicitor he cites a record of fair impartial administration and asks supporters to vote and back his continued service.
Political notices announce J E Craigmiles seeking re election as judge of the City Court of Thomasville subject to the Democratic Primary on September 12 1956. He pledges fair honest impartial justice with mercy and gratitude for support from voters. Jesse J Gainey also announces candidacy for the same seat pledging dignity in court and prompt business disposition with clear judgments and sentences.
Mrs. Myrtle Louise Thompson Dollar dies at 1210 North Dawson Street after long illness. Funeral Wednesday at 4 PM at First Methodist Church with Rev. Olin C. Cooper and Rev. J. G. Garrison officiating. Burial Laurel Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Survived by husband two children parents sister aunt and niece. Whiddon's Funeral Home in charge.
Chimborazo, a volcanic mountain in the Ecuadorian Andes, lies about 100 miles south of the equator and remains permanently snow covered at an altitude of 20,702 feet above sea level.
In Nicosia a 23 year old Cypriot, Stélios Mavrommatis, was sentenced to death for firing on two Royal Air Force airmen as they rode by on bicycles. RAF witnesses testified he and two accomplices fired March 15. defense argued it could be accidental. British security pushed operations against EOKA leaders in northwest Cyprus.
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