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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1947
Page
9
Bill Webster promotes an Ss Cooperative packaging system for farmers to deliver produce to a belt for neat cellophane wrapping. The association shares expenses and management and emphasizes presentation as part of quality. Brewers’ Self-Regulation aims to improve tavern standards to benefit consumers.
Hollywood reports Mary Pickford questions the $12 million bid from an Eastern syndicate for United Artists. She seeks $15 million and doubts the deal to sell the studio will close. United Artists, founded in 1919 by Mary, Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Griffith, has long sheltered independent producers.
Bainbridge Georgia entries note the birth of a baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marshall on June 5 at Bainbridge Hospital. The column lists illnesses, family visits and travels including Mrs. Bob Phillips, Donald Rich graduating from Youngstown College, and guests of Mrs. E. Moff and others.
In a village ceremony five years after Lidice's destruction, British miners laid the foundation stone of a new Lidice amid mournful memory. Survivors and locals, including 140 women and children, gathered as Bernard Stross led a delegation and presented a 20,375 pound gift to fund rebuilding. The thunderstorm interrupted the event and the unlit eternal flame stood beside the stone.
Australia plans reparations from Japan likely targeting textiles and textile machinery, plus whaling vessels. An Australian textile mission is already in Japan, and officials say no demand for Japanese ships is likely. The aim is to protect Japan’s economic stability and avoid burdening the United Nations.
About seventy five friends attended a formal tea at Mrs. Paul Shingler’s home in Donalsonville to honor Miss Harriette Patricia Forrester. Guests greeted in a receiving line, enjoyed ice cream and cakes, and admired green, white and yellow decorations with day lilies and Shasta daisies. Forrester wore a floor length green moire taffeta gown with a carnation shoulder decoration.
A permanent receiver for Pine Slaughtering Company invites private bids for land amounting to about 125 acres with a residence and packing plant, plus 4 trucks and all equipment. Separate bids for land and improvements, personal property, and full property are sought, with a court confirmed sale after July 1 1947 in Thomasville Georgia. Information available from Receiver C. M. Dixon starting this week.
A historical description explains that the North American terrapin is nicknamed the stink pot due to a strong offensive odor it secretes as a protective measure.
Buttercookies dynasty opens a pastry shop in Long Beach, tracing roots to Warsaw Poland. Paul and his wife Jeanette bring four generation family baking traditions to the Long Island resort with dairy rich butter pastries and cookies.
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