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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1972
Page
5
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 3.99 points to 945.82 at noon. Advances outweighed declines 3 to 2 on the NYSE amid technical factors and rising hopes for Kissinger talks with Beijing. Rails steels and rubber stocks fell while utilities mixed.
Daily stock prices provided by Harris Upham & Company Inc of Tallahassee Florida. Member of the New York Stock Exchange.
Atlanta market notes slow trade as rain depresses offerings with slight price changes for beans celery corn cucumbers and lettuce. Thomasville reports cattle auctions with detailed price ranges for slaughter heifers cows bulls and calves across weight classes. Georgia fob dock broilers and fryers price 282 cents per lb with steady demand and varied hen trading. Egg prices listed by size with a range for A and B classes.
Hog receipts in Thomasville Georgia show packers from Georgia Florida and Alabama buying 3 700 head. Barrows and gilts averaged about 50 higher with sales on plant delivered basis. Prices ranged 27 25 to 28 00 per hundredweight for various weight classes and headcounts.
A Thomasville motorist, 64 year old Jessie H. Willis, suffered minor injuries when his pickup struck a parked car on Gordon Street. Willis had lip lacerations and head abrasions. The parked car owner is Ossie Harriet Williams of Fletcher Street.
The first of three community diabetes programs opens at 7 30 p m in Archbold Memorial Hospital Outpatient Clinic Building with a hospital staff member speaking on diabetes causes incidence and treatment options. A series of talks continues Thursday and June 29 with dietitian Betty Suitt and nurses Gladys Thames Bonnie Manry and Suitt outlining self care and insulin versus oral meds.
Heavy rain slowed sales at the farmers market this week. Market manager W Roscoe Stewart noted the pause but said rain is needed and commerce will resume once it stops. Only about 200 bushels, mostly squash, were sold Monday as County Agent Kenneth Beasley noted benefits for crops but possible tobacco issues with continued rain.
In Thomasville a 1849 founded church staged an all day commemorative pageant Our Living Church Past Present and Future recounts early founders pastors and milestones. Cast included Dan Trout Robert Wise Milton Gardner Jr and many church members with slides highlights.
Thomasville firefighters responded to six calls since 3 10 p m Monday with few injuries and minor damages. Incidents included electrical shortage at 423 Junius St wires down at Festus and Bay limb hazards at Archbold Memorial Hospital and 618 N Dawson and a wire down in the 1000 block of East Walcott.
Thomasville and Cairo residents report severe damage to coastal properties on Alligator Point and Ochlochnee Bay from Hurricane Agnes with many piers washed away and roads impassable. Several cottages near the shore flooded or destroyed while some structures inland remained intact. Local owners survey damage. photographers prepare further documentation with restricted access for property holders.
Mrs. Joan Rackley Pye 40 of Rt 2 Meigs died Monday at Phoebe Putney Hospital Albany after a lengthy illness. Services 4 p.m. Wednesday Braswell Funeral Home Pelham with burial in Meigs Cemetery. Survivors include her mother husband Bernie Pye Sr son Bernie Pye Jr daughter June K Godwin four brothers and four sisters.
Perry C. Harvey Sr. 64 of Tampa will be buried at Shady Grove Cemetery after a 1 p.m. Saturday service at Beulah Baptist Church conducted by Wilson's Funeral Home. He was former vice-president of the International Longshoremen's Association and president of Local 1402. Survivors include his wife Mable, five daughters Ruth Brown Lucille Gustavia Mable A. Simmons Evelyn A. Keel, two sons Perry C. Harvey Jr. and Jerry, all of Tampa, and his sister Mrs Ruth T. Harvey of Thomasville.
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