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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1967
Page
3
Marines and South Vietnamese battled Viet Cong in a six hour delta clash leaving 5 Viet Cong dead and 60 wounded while 80 weapons were abandoned. U S casualties declined to 176 with 1 156 Viet Cong dead for the week and the operation Billings targets the 9th Division amid mounting U S troop plans.
Students in Thomas County are invited to submit essays of up to 500 words on the theme Keeping Up and girls who are so junior or senior in high school. The winner receives a week’s free vacation at Callaway Gardens and $100 in cash. For more contest details call the Thomas County Farm Bureau at 226-0431.
The Distributive Education Service will hold food training classes June 18 to 22 at the Holiday Inn. Morning sessions run 9 to 11 30 a.m. on general restaurant management and afternoon sessions 2 to 4 30 p.m. on basic food service. Miss Mable Walter, food service training specialist with the Georgia State Department of Education, will lead. attendance is open to anyone selling food to the public.
Charles Coffee will be installed Friday as president of the Thomasville Life Underwriters Assn. Other new officers include Charles Been as first vice president Eugene H. Driver as second vice president O C Kirkland as secretary treasurer and G E Lutes as national committeeman. The meeting starts at 12 30 p m at the Plaza Cafe.
A going away picnic supper for City Manager and Mrs. George D. Adkins is planned by city department heads and hall employees for 7 p.m. today at the Coats and Clark recreation building. He received a $45 gift certificate from city policemen and $18 in dress shirts from other employees. Adkins resigns effective July 28 to take a similar post in Fort Pierce Florida.
Dodd reported cordial, even complimentary, treatment from many senators after his three hour defense. Long plans to urge the ethics committee to draft a future conduct code. He said he does not plan any motion to expel himself or to strike the double billing count.
Warren E. Hatcher, a Douglass High graduate, earned a Doctorate in philosophy from New York University. He lives in New York City and Somerville, NJ with his parents and sister, has two B S degrees from Hampton Institute and NYU, and held a National Defense Fellowship at Bellevue Hospital before joining NYU as a faculty member. He serves as a consultant to the New York State Health Department in hospital administration.
Local car lovers join the Shades Of Henry Ford rally as classic automobiles traverse Georgia en route to Stone Mountain Memorial Park for the Stone Mountain 67 Invitational Meet hosted by the Southeastern Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America.
Final rites for Mrs. D. R. King were held in Bainbridge with burial in DeFuniak Springs. The Stucky and Graham couples join a gathering of 500 antique car fans from across the United States, bringing a 1910 Cadillac and a 1925 Model T. Twenty one judging classes will award best restorations plus Best of Show and other trophies.
Weather forecast expects clear to partly cloudy skies with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Daytime highs reach 85 to 92 degrees, with tonight’s lows near 70 on the coast and in the 60s inland.
Mrs Eula Peters Folds 74 died in Blakely convalescent home Tuesday. Funeral services were yesterday at Olive Grove Baptist Church Seminole County with Rev Haskel White officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Survivors: three daughters Mrs Louis Welch Tampa Fla Mrs W E Wells Bainbridge and Mrs Louis Knight Whigham six grandchildren and one great grandchild three sisters and two brothers. Cox Funeral Home had charge.
Funeral services for Mrs Sadie Cannon Kinchen 72 who died Tuesday were conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church by Rev. Max Thurman. Burial followed at Oakylaw Cemetery Albany by Maxwell Funeral Home. She is survived by brother A B Cannon of Jacksonville Fla and Iron City and sister Mrs Willie M Roberts of Pensacola Fla.
Grady County Jaycees and Jaycettes hold their annual dinner Friday at Captain's Table cafe to install officers. Outgoing president Elmer H. Bell Jr. announces guest speaker George A. Winslow Jr. of Tallahassee and Thomasville. Jasper W. Bill Griggs will be installed as chapter president. John Chapman declined to accept due to time away from Cairo.
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