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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1956
Page
2
A newspaper letter argues that vandalism by children in Thomasville requires clear punishment to deter future crimes. It warns leniency harms community morale, stresses parental responsibility, and calls for full legal penalties for sabotage and delinquency to reform youths.
The piece notes that four US Air Force chiefs would not travel to Russia and that President Eisenhower rejected invitations. It argues such a visit would not yield useful insights into Russia’s power and stresses the need to avoid actions that threaten world peace.
The article urges condemning East Jackson Street land to annex to Laurel Hill cemetery or enlarge the site with a modern perpetual care plan. It argues for a chartered company to manage a new type of cemetery while preserving Laurel Hill and restoring the Old Cemetery.
President Eisenhower and Chancellor Adenauer spoke on reunification of East and West Germany. They argued free East Germany would aid justice and curb Russian influence, urging both sectors to unite as before the Nazi era, noting Berlin as a free city yet to be preserved.
The piece notes weddings are popular this June, with observers contrasting honesty on the ledger and how recent rains alter farming operations. It mentions seafood dinners and a long journey to the Gulf, reflecting regional trends.
A column preview compiles a mix of trivia from readers and notes on diverse topics. It mentions European bride cooking tests, a Beethoven bean store sale, a $4000 skin diving set, a weightless hearing aid, porcupine forest damage, a squirrel hoard in a redwood tree, Drake and Elizabeth I treasure, Goldwyn’s birth name, Geraldine Farrar’s pay, Victor Borge’s $100000 hour, cosmetics before 2008, early 1900s toiletries, America’s blind population, Phi Beta Kappa’s tavern origin, Robert Weede’s flower hobby, Topperwein’s 1907 record, and a rise in Petticoat bosses with a reader quip on men spitting.
Congress faces a race against vacation as it weighs proposals to curb the Supreme Court. Bridges backs state sedition laws standing while McClellan urges federal over state law in overlapping areas, risking future conflicts if acted separately. Johnson weighs which to bring up first as committee actions proceed.
A guidance reply urges the reader to demonstrate a real and present new birth through daily actions and attitudes. It argues the new birth occurs in this life by faith in Jesus Christ and contrasts it with dying before rebirth. It encourages prayer for God’s presence and for the husband to see tangible change.
Public notice from Thowssville Times Enterprise Co Inc stating it holds rights to republication of AP dispatches and local news. It informs second class mailing at Thomasville Georgia under the 1879 act and that republication is daily except Sundays.
A 1956 column critiques people to people diplomacy as naive. It argues that mass goodwill campaigns cannot avert war and taxes when nations like France resist American aid and politics, while Mussolini and Franco era ideas linger in European minds.
A humorous collage of quips about marriages and social missteps. A Hollywood star linked to multiple altar trips. an undertaker complains over a Christmas gift hearse. a stenographer rejects a soft job. a jaded bridegroom on marriage as a steam room. a neurotic woman boasting about her new analyst.
Crossword puzzle clues with numbered across and down entries, including hints like Principal, Bovine, Rim, Be in debt, Meadow barley, Onslaught, Rail, Average, Permit, Black as ink, Nocturnal birds, Worm, Headland, Legatee, Taro root, Excited, Flood, Shores, and Possess, plus unclear notation and lat/long coordinates from page fragment.
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