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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1957
Page
8
Residents confront steep assessment increases up to 1000 percent citing expert appraisals. They note city revenue from meters and beer taxes and police fines, plus 219,820 from water and light funds and 62,000 for out-of-town tax appraisers. Authorities defend payroll and services as essential costs of government.
Receipts at major Georgia plants total 2000 hogs with prices mostly steady to 25 cents lower at several plants in Albany Thomasville and Jacksonville. North Georgia cattle market notes active trading while a local column argues for school consolidation and tax reduction amid rising costs and bond payments.
The New York stock market advanced in early trading with many major stocks up fractions to about a point. The index hit a new high for 1957 despite a prior pullback, as reassurances about President Eisenhower's health boosted confidence amid a broad advance in oils, steels, and selected issues.
On the Atlanta Produce market receipts were liberal to heavy with trading about moderate. Georgia cabbage brought mostly 1.25 to 1.50 per fifty pound sack. yellow corn 30 to 40 cents. white corn 35 to 45 cents per dozen. eggplant 2.75 to 3.00 per bush. crowder peas 1.25 to 2.00. blackeyes 1.00 to 1.50. yellow crooked neck squash 1.75 to 2.25. cucumbers 2.00 to 3.50. round green beans 1.75 to 3.25. poles 4.75 to 5.00. Georgia butterbeans 2.50 to 3.00.
The city adopts a contract with Hunnicutt and Associates to appraise all taxable property for state and local taxation. Final valuation will guide the tax rate, with a defined appeal process through arbitration if taxpayers remain dissatisfied after standard review.
Classified ads by phone are placed by dialing CA 6 2400. Anteaters lack teeth but use a long tongue to collect ants, the main component of their diet.
Mrs Flossie Smith a former resident of Thomasville died yesterday in Abbieville Alabama according to family members She is survived by her husband Howard Smith and four others.
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