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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1961
Page
5
New York trading opened with a substantial recovery as the Associated Press index rose modestly while activity stayed quiet. Industrials led gains with steels rails utilities and electronics among advancers. Eastman Kodak Du Pont Zenith and other names rose, while several others posted mixed or fractional losses.
Thomasville, Ga. reports hog receipts totaling 2400 at auctions in Donalsonville Sylvester Waycross Graceville Troy with prices firm to 35 higher. Barrows and gilts 180-240 lbs mostly 16.50 to 17.09, some 16.50. 160-180 lbs 15.40 to 16.50, 140-160 lbs 14.68 to 15.50, 100-140 lbs 14.60 to 15.50. No. 2 240-270 lbs 15.50 to 16.45. Sows 13.00 to 14.85.
Produce receipts are light and trading quiet in Atlanta. Butterbeans sell 3.00 for colored and 3.50 to 3.75 for best white. cabbage 2.25 to 2.75 per 50 lb sack. yellow corn 2.75 to 3.25 per 5 dozen ears. cucumbers 6.50 a basket. turnip salad 1.25 to 1.50. green onions 0.65 to 0.75 per dozen. crookneck squash 4.00 to 4.50 per bushel hampers. purple hull peas 3.00 to 3.50.
North Georgia Poultry at Atlanta shows adequate supplies and good demand. Farm prices quoted with broilers and fryers at 12 to 14 cents, hens heavy 13 to 14 at plants, light hens 7 to 8 at plants, with 2 to 3 percent loss noted.
Hog prices rose across Alabama Georgia Florida and Georgia markets with mixed lots and sows listed. Chicago receipts show barrows gilts and sows higher. cattle at Dublin Social Circle Sylvester Thomaston Waycross and Georgia stockyards show steady to weak calves and feeder stock with varied prices by weight and grade.
Daily Vacation Bible School at First Presbyterian Church runs 7 30 p m starting June 26 for children ages 4 13. Director is Mrs Shirley Brown. Local residents visiting relatives include CAIRO residents and two FSU students Juana Hurst and Roger Ponder.
Funeral services were held June 12 in Faceville for Mrs Ida Gray 90 who died June 11 at Fideles Nursing Home Bainbridge Burial was in Green Shade Cemetery She was born July 7 1871 in Decatur Georgia one of 17 children She married Sam P Gray in 1892 he died in 1930 She leaves siblings nephews and grandchildren Cox Funeral Home in charge of arrangements
In Wombwell England four coal miners were killed when rock collapsed in a Yorkshire mine. Five others were rescued and one injured.
A federal surplus food distribution begins in Thomas County with the last of 11 commodities arriving, enabling orders for about 2,000 people. Families will pick up monthly portions at the Atlantic Coast Line freight station next week, with sizes based on family size and a state federal chart.
City police hunt a man and two women described as tall and stout Negroes who stole from Globe Store Rosenberg’s and other outlets Tuesday. Victims report purses, cash and personal items missing, with pink dresses noted for the women and similar descriptions across reports.
Three adult members of the Hawks of Meigs gang were sentenced in Thomasville City Court after a Meigs beating. Sylvester Copeland, 22, received two 12 month probations, to run consecutively, while Jimmie Brooks and Willie Harris, both 17, got single 12 month probations.
The aircraft carrier Shangri La has returned to port in Jacksonville Florida after routine operations off the Florida coast. The ship had departed Mayport earlier this month following the slaying of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
Peiping radio reports drought has menaced winter wheat in four northern Chinese provinces for the third straight year. The broadcast offered no figures on harvest size or losses.
Bainbridge voters face a mayoral contest between incumbent Cheney Griffin and challenger R T Bobby Willis a 84 year old local lumber dealer. Willis says the race is Cheney against him not Marvin Griffin and argues for city sovereignty from state politics while Cheney warns of retrogression without strong leadership.
Thomasville physician-in-training Dickey Dempsey leaves Atlanta for a summer as a camp counselor at Camp Crusoe in Tobago. He will travel via Miami and San Juan to Martinique and Trinidad, aiding with medical care before returning to Emory University in August as a junior.
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