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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1939
Page
6
Sept. John 8. Herndon led Cairo high school senior class on a tour of Washington D C and the New York World's Fair, returning home Sunday night after an exciting trip.
Miss Rebma Harrison of Boston spent the weekend with relatives in Cairo. Ada Ciallispie Viola Collier and Merle Collier plus Etta Montsdecca of Sebring Fla visit the Hurst family. Helen Baggett, and others head to New York for the World Fair. students depart for University of Georgia summer school in Athens. Mrs Jimmy Futch visits her parents W C Hain family. Warren Higdon and family visit Cairo. Margaret Wight is hospitalized for special treatment.
Cairo Georgia June 13 the Cairo Public Library grows more popular daily with over one hundred children joining the Summer Reading Club and monthly circulation exceeding 1320. Miss Wessie Connell head librarian leads efforts to make the library a lively visit spot with hours 9 to 11 am and 3 to 6 pm new books include Reaching for the Stars Wickford Point Wisdom's Gate Murdle Ts a Collector's Item Royal Regiment The Attractive Home Surgical Call Heavy Weather The Patriot Dotted Line Honeymoon We Are Not Alone Light That Failed Moon's Our Home The Fountain Silver Wines Fashion in Shrouds Seasoned Timber.
Washington dispatch notes that only four states have primary laws granting direct voter voice in selecting delegates for 1940 conventions. California Florida Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania South Dakota West Virginia Wisconsin send whole slates by primary, while New York Illinois provide partial primaries. Alabama Georgia may offer primaries if party committees approve.
Athens Georgia June 13 1939 the University of Georgia valedictorian B D Mandeville Tennille declared democracy faces threats from wealth concentration excessive profits public debt and government interference with free enterprise He warned such conditions endanger democratic government and youth must seek solutions to social economic and political problems through democratic means
New York stocks showed a cautious session with most issues lower after a spring drag. Trading featured a tentative recovery in some areas, but overall market softness persisted as bonds fell and leadership remained mixed amid uneven buying and selling.
Moultrie Georgia buyers maintained steady hog market activity with prices for Heavies 240 pounds and up at 6.00 to 6.35. No 1 180 to 240 pounds 6.50 to 6.65. No 2 150 to 180 pounds 6.00 to 6.15. No 3 130 to 140 pounds 4.75 to 4.90. No 4 210 to 139 pounds 4.50 to 4.45. No 6 60 to 120 pounds 4.25 to 4.40. Fat sows 1.00 to 1.15. Under smooth hogs of any weight based on their make. Stags 3.00 to 3.15.
Chicago June 13 butter 1 479 201 firm prices unchanged storage packed firsts big extras 16 percent others unchanged
Chicago poultry steady for live trucks with prices unchanged. Livestock markets show salable hogs around 14,000 with declines from Monday, cattle and calves strong, vealers steady, top hog price 6.55, cattle and calves range with multiple weight classes. Cottonseed oil and meal futures closed steady in New Orleans and Memphis markets with listed prices for June to January contracts.
Jacksonville reports no mild tropical disturbance in the Gulf. The first of the season was moving northward about 380 miles west of Key West with slight to moderate intensity at 3:木 a.m. EST. Winds were strong and squalls possible north and northeast of the center. Small craft warnings were issued from Key West to Grand Isle, La.
Combined hog receipts total 1083 head across Alabama Florida and Georgia plants in Albany Columbus Moultrie Thomasville Tifton Dothan and Jacksonville. Market mostly steady with top end down 25 cents. Prices range from 4.08 to 5.80 per hundredweight across weight classes with premiums for postmortem inspected hogs and parasite-free animals.
The sheet lists Atlanta market quotes for snap beans through tomatoes with prices, then shifts to New York and New Orleans cotton futures with rising quotes amid crop and weather news. It includes closing figures for U S government bonds and Chicago cash grain asks for wheat corn oats and soybeans.
Turpentine firm sales receipts and shipments listed for Savannah, with stock totals. Rosin and related products show sales and stock figures. Chicago grain table records open high low and close for Wheat Corn and Oats with July to December futures. Cottonseed oil futures in New York close slightly mixed with several contracts traded.
In New York on June 13 domestic sugar futures subsided with prices holding steady on demand. July futures traded around 1.87 cents, down 1 point, while September rose to about 1.94 cents. Raw sugar duty free supplies ranged 2.83 to 2.90 cents, refined at 4.45 to 4.50 cents.
Newark pilot Beilak, 27, set an over water distance of about 70 miles from Lake Michigan to the shoreline reaching 16 500 feet. He envisions sailplane flights across the Atlantic in 20 to 30 years, noting a storm route could carry a glider to Europe.
New York State endures its worst drought since 1903 as six weeks of scant rainfall scorch fields and wells. The Weather Bureau predicts light showers, but agriculture in Long Island and New Jersey suffers water shortages, crop losses, and costly irrigation concerns.
Florida lawmakers passed measures creating a highway patrol and increasing the ad valorem tax levy to fund public schools and crime prevention. Governor Cone did not sign, allowing acts to become law without his signature. the patrol will begin next October under civil service.
Evanston Illinois June 13 Deans remarks at Northwestern University challenge career women in business arguing there is no future for the average woman whether college graduate or high school dropout He cites a few exceptions as freak explanations and blames attitudes toward life for limiting women to non top ranking roles He says masculine traits are necessary for advancement but many women lack them and the presidency is not on the horizon for women in his view The professions offer the best opportunities but politics remains dominated by men
The House Military Affairs Committee seeks to confine TVA's purchases of power facilities, potentially unlocking about 300 million dollars in refinancing by southern Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries. Utility leaders expect lower borrowing costs if TVA expansion remains defined, with Georgia Power and Alabama Power among affected units.
Belgian government approves landing of 250 German Jewish refugees from the Hamburg American liner St Louis. The Netherlands offers temporary refuge to 206 of the 907 denied entry to Cuba and Mexico, with all to await permanent admission elsewhere.
L W Chip Robert Jr secretary of the Democratic National Committee brushed off Rep Martin J Kennedy s accusation that he lobbied for southern freight rate relief. He said he had written Kennedy on March 10 and had no reply and suggested Kennedy address his own correspondence. Kennedy had written to President Roosevelt on June 10 releasing the charge to the press.
Wrightsville Ga June 13 Four white women toiled in a cotton field when a lightning strike struck killing Mrs Colon Bush. The group worked at the Jackson Plantation five miles from town.
Boston experts urge vaccinating babies to build lasting immunity against smallpox. Dr. Frederick F. Russell and Dr. Elliott S. Robinson argue infancy vaccination plus early school-age revaccination, with surveillance on state laws, to prevent epidemic resurgence as immunity wanes across generations.
Paris reports that 907 German Jewish refugees aboard the Hamburg liner St Louis will be distributed among England France Belgium and the Netherlands after admission denial. France Britain Netherlands and other nations plan to take portions with Cherbourg expected June 17.
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