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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1949
Page
6
Public sale of household and kitchen furniture and farming tools from the estate of William Carter deceased. June 22 at 10 A M, cash to highest bidder at the Carter home one mile north of Former Jackson filling station and half mile west Ochlocknee Paved highway. Charles S. Carter executor.
Classified items include boats for sale with Lyman boats and plywood models offered to order in Thomasville Georgia with contact on 1493-1. A separate notice promotes a grocery and market franchise opportunity in Thomasville with earnings claims of 12 000 to 16 000 first year and confidential application details. Also mentions farm accident statistics and cotton market notes from New York with June 20 dates and price movements.
New York stocks higher with rails and airlines in demand. Bonds steady as Third Avenue issues rally. Cotton firm with trade and commission house buying. Chicago reports crow damage and firm corn aided by heat. Oats steady with light trade. Ton price for copper at $28.00.
Receipts at Albany Columbus Thomasville Dothan Avja Jacksonville and Tallahassee plants show hogs and cattle trading with steady to weak undertones. Hogs mostly 18.50 to 19.25 per cwt for best lots. sows and barrows 14.50 to 21.50. weights 120 to 240 pounds. Cattle ranges include good fed steers 22.50 to 26.50. medium and common 18.00 to 24.25. canners 13.50 to 15.25. vealers 23.00 to 27.00. Overall market mixed with selective demand on higher grades.
The New York stock list shows fractional changes with a mix of gainers and losers. Major risers include Bethlehem Steel General Motors Packard Sears Roebuck and American Airlines while United States Rubber Anaconda Chrysler and Pennsy show declines.
Atlanta market reports heavy cantaloupe supplies and steady watermelons with weak cantaloupes. Prices show Georgia peas butterbeans and corn varying. peaches, squash, greens, and okra available with multiple price ranges per bushel or dozen, reflecting regional trade.
North Georgia Hive poultry market is weak and lower with adequate supplies. Demand is moderate and eastern markets slipping. Barred Rock crosses exceed local needs in some areas. Dressing plants paid higher prices to their own growers. Prices paid f.o.b. farm for broilers and fryers ranged from 23 to 28 cents.
Eyewitnesses describe robed men whipping two men and threatening more in Dora and Adamsville areas. Sally Burton recalls 27 robed cars on the way to the whipping site while a navy veteran and a crippled miller were among victims. State investigators found a deputy guarding a Ku Klux Klan meeting. he reportedly earned pay to deter license plate sightings but surrendered his commission the next day.
President Truman outlines five major reorganization plans to abolish the office of federal security administrator and shift agencies. The proposals move unemployment security to Labor, streamline the Post Office, transfer the National Security Council and NSRB to the Executive Office, and appoint the Civil Service Commission chairman as head of the Maritime Commission. The aim is tighter defense coordination under the President.
The Vatican’s Holy Office decreed that the government sponsored Catholic Action in Czechoslovakia is schismatic and fraudulent, excommunicating its members. The move targets a church linked group within the communist era state.
A garbled mix of crossword ish clues and fragmentary phrases references places persons and items such as Ohio counties Turkish titles oaths and various nouns including deer dairy and birds. The text reads like puzzle fodder with scattered proper nouns and vague hints rather than a cohesive news item.
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