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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1937
Page
2
Police and city services listed with scattered figures for fire department hospital sheriff post office city hall and light plant. fragmented OCR yields minimal coherent details about service contacts or locations.
The Cairo Business Woman's Civic Club met at Davis Park with fifteen members present. After a brief business session a chicken dinner followed. Husbands and sweethearts will be guests at the July meeting. Visitors included Ruth O'Kelly. Doris McQuay became a new member.
Governor E. D. Rivers left the hospital last night and returned to the governor's mansion in Ansley Park. Doctors reported his condition improved after last week's operation and he planned a two week trip to the Pacific coast, traveling in good spirits.
Cairo Georgia June 15 Miss Jacqueline Blackman travels to Chattanooga Florida as guest of Mr and Mrs Spurgeon Dunn and family. Birmingham visitors stay with Glynn Brown family. Several locals visit Boston Thomasville Valdosta Conway Lakeland and California. Wight Jones Roddenbery accompany trips and camp activities noted.
A fishing boat Teal with about ten men aboard sank six miles off Bowers Beach Delaware Bay. Coast guard reported seven bodies recovered and three men saved. Most of the crew were from western Pennsylvania and the search continued for the others as of June 15.
A gas fueled blast in Cambridge Maryland damaged a restaurant and surrounding buildings. One man, Donald Sherman age 17, died from his injuries and his father Howard Sherman suffered severe burns while attempting to rescue him. Dozens were reported injured.
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Nicholls of Camilla guest of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Futch this week. Master Haddie Cheney visits ee and Mrs. W. B. Bryan of Marietta. Mrs. G. W. Cook returns from Conway to see her daughter Mrs. W. R. Salmon. The Pelhams and son Glenn return from Miami guesting Hugh Tucker. Cornelia Daniels at home after two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Collins of Cliff wood. Virginia Moore spends summer with Cairo Methodist parsonage family after Wesleyan College work. Thomas Moore visits grandparents in Americus, then Cairo return. Rev. Leland Moore attends Savannah and Dublin district conferences as missionary secretary, with Mrs. Moore and Miss Mary Moore. John Herndon heads to Macon for six weeks with his wife joining him later in New Port, R. I. after her visit to Cairo. Tom Hughes of Thomasville, with U. S. aviation service, visits Cairo before leaving for New Port. His wife Doris Montgomery plans to join him in two months.
Oscar Jordan Culpepper 56 longtime editor of Camilla's newspapers died Monday night after years of poor health and a ten day illness. Funeral Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Camilla Methodist Church with Rev. Sampley and Rev. Williams. Burial at Suncrest cemetery. Survived by two sisters seven relatives. Born August 8 1881 in Macon County. Previously worked in Oklahoma New York and Philadelphia before returning to Camilla and acquiring full control of the Camilla Enterprise. He served on Mitchell County Democratic Committee but held no public office. He was well known statewide for integrity and advocacy.
Two Sanitation workers told FBI agents and Suffolk County officials they were barred from the Parsons residence the day Mrs. Alice Parsons vanished. They described a Russian housekeeper directing them to a corded package and said the Parsons car remained in the garage as claimed.
The piece notes intra party friction as a Lewis aide challenges policy on wages and hours. It discusses the Roosevelt court bill's fate and Chief Senator Robinson’s control over scheduling. It also mentions the semi annual war debt deadline of 1.5 billion and Finland’s unique stance on default.
Basques were virtually surrounded four miles southeast of Bilbao as Munguia fell, boosting insurgent momentum. Artillery and truck columns moved troops to jump-off points for the next phase to seize Bilbao’s munitions steel and coal plants. Commanders weighed advancing now or delaying to finish outside-city cleanup.
Camp Frances notes praise scholarship donors and celebrate daily life at the Robin Hood unit. Reports detail patrol leaders, archery, nature walks, a grand campfire, and Emily’s Post etiquette honor. Camp reporter thanks Dr. Albert Tuck, mentions Rose Ferguson’s music, and previews a Father and Daughter Banquet.
In Athens Georgia Deputy Marshal A Ginn reported that Martin Prisament and Frank Cartee, convicted in federal court for robbing Crawford bank, tried to jump from a second story post office window as they waited for transfer to Macon jail. Prisament claimed he wished to die.
Athens Ga June 15 Judge Bascom S Deaver Macon sentenced Frank Cartee to twelve years in the federal penitentiary and Martin Priioment three years after they were found guilty yesterday afternoon of robbing the Commercial Bank of Crawford last December. The verdict came after the jury deliberated less than two hours. The same term saw W H Compton tried again for possessing whisky after a mistrial.
Miss Paige Morton of Feltham and Mrs. W C Cooper with daughter Ann of Pelham visited the city yesterday. Others include Miss Betty Bateman from Macon visiting Regena Grantham, and Mr. Lavon Cooke leaving for Homestead Fla for two weeks with relatives. Numerous business visitors from Atlanta Jacksonville Americus and Waycross were noted.
Mrs T L Spence Miss Ruth Rainey and Miss Betty Jones depart for New York City to visit relatives. Spence and Rainey will stay with Miss Ethel and Martha Jane Spence, while Jones visits her sister Miss Olivia Jones, a student nurse. Mrs Jim Hancock travels by car to Savannah to visit Mrs J B Newton for a week, joined in Valdosta by Mrs Janie Alderman. Hancock will also visit Mrs Parrish at Baxley during the trip.
Augusta Georgia June 15 Col R L Chambers Sr director of Augusta police department defied demands for enforcement of Georgia's prohibition laws declaring licensed whisky will be sold here as long as I have anything to do with it He spoke amid debates on home rule after Augusta went wet 4698 to 827 in the repeal referendum Several years of licenses for beverage dealers cost 800 annually and 43 licenses were on the latest tax list The open display of hard liquors and hour rules including Sunday closing were part of the unwritten city deal Chambers who also heads the fire department defended liquor sales saying there will be liquor
Readable items show milk pricing per container type and sizes with multiple cents values and a note on deposits. A final line states a charge for unreturned bottles and uses a deposit form for cash sales.
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