Rotary banners presented from Indore and Bhaswal to King and Secrest
Honored guest Dr. John T. King Jr. and District Governor Pratt Secrest receive club banners from G Raisingham of Indore. Raisingham, past president of Rotary clubs in both towns, notes his son Krishna in Georgia Rotary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. King Jr
Pratt Secrest
Thomasville
Indore
Bhaswal
India
Raisingham
Raisinghani
Krishna
Georgia
Jack Kelly
Baking Group Elects Flowers Vice President
Several businessmen rise in prominence after being chosen to key posts. Lenedon S Flowers of Flowers Baking Co Inc in Thomasville was elected vice chairman of the Board of Seabeon Bakers Assn at the annual Ages Convention in the Grand Bahama Islands. Flowers had served on the Southern Bakers Agency Board of Governors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenedon S. Flowers
Presi Dent
Fiewers Baking Co. Inc
Thomasville
Opermit Bakeries
Oper Ala
Panama City
Jacksoryclo
Fla
Siebeon Bakers Assn
West End
Grand Bahama Islands
Flowers
The
Southern Bakers Agen
Gulf Life Insurance names regional honors in Jacksonville convention
In Thomasville district, Manager 0 C Kirkland Supt Carroll W Cooper and agents H J McCorvey III and L S Powell earn division honors. Kirkland joins the Top Club of 13, while Cooper McCorvey and Powell enter the Presidents Club as 210 Gulf Life top executives gather at the home office in Jacksonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Kirkland
Carroll W. Cooper
H. J. McCorvey III
L. S. Powell
Gulf Life Insurance Company
Thomasville
Fox
Kirkland
Cooper, McCorvey and Powell
Compans
Jacksonville
Milton Canada Dry Co. appoints J A Milton office manager
Canada Dry Co. announces the appointment of J A Milton as office manager and accountant. a Brooks County native formerly of Claxton, Milton is married to Emily Smith and has four children. He is a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada’ Dry ‘ Bottling Company of
Thomasville
J. A. Milton
Claxton
Brooks County
Emily Smith
Milton
Calvary Baptist Church
Artillery Course Completes For Ingram At Ft Sill
Private Terry R Ingram 22 son of Mr and Mrs Fred Ingram Route 3 Donalsonville Ga completed an artillery fire direction control course May 30 at the Army Artillery and Missile School Ft Sill Okla Prior to the Army he worked for International Business Machines Corp Atlanta Ga Sp 5 Matthew Williams Jr 37 whose parents live on Route 8 Quitman Ga received the Army Commendation Medal May 25 while serving with the 6th Artillery near Bien Hoa Vietnam He is a 1960 graduate of Howard Academy High School Monticello Fla
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry R. Ingram
Fred Ingram
Donalsonville
Army Artillery and Missile School
Ft. Sill
Okla
Ingram
International Business Machines Corp
Atlanta
Army
Matthew Williams Jr
Route 8
Quitman
6Th Artillery
Bien Hoa
Vietnam
Howard Academy High School
Monticello
Fla
Personal News From Coolidge Readers Visiting Relatives
Mrs Ralph Benson and children visited grandparents Mr and Mrs D A Crosby then left for San Antonio Texas. Many locals hosted visitors from Tampa Monticello Carrollton Cairo Montgomery Lakeland Thomasville Moultrie Barwick and other places for Fathers Day and family gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherri Brooks
Cairo
Edgar Howell
Larry Scott
Montgomery
Ala
Bevis Powell
Odus John
Special Election Set for Justice of the Peace in Thomasville
A special election is scheduled for Wednesday June 26 in the Thomasville District to fill the unexpired term of the late J M Richards for Justice of the Peace. Polls open 7 AM to 7 PM at the courthouse. Voters inside and outside the district may participate in this Thomasville District race for T O Stewart and Sallie Allen supervised by Ordinary Clarice James.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of Peace
Thomasville
Nee J. M. Richards
Court House
T. O. Stewart
Sollie Allen
Clarice James
Justice OF the Peace
Hail Costs Hit Crops and Property in Midwest Losses
The report estimates hail causes 150 to 200 million dollars in crop losses each year and at least 25 million dollars in property damage with Kansas and Nebraska suffering the greatest impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Nebraska
New Cairo Construction Passes Million Dollar Mark
New building activity in Cairo shows total permits for the first five months reaching 1,110,429, nearing the 1964 record with seven months remaining. The largest single item is a 74,000 music building, and 70 new residential units are counted, the most since 1964. The main project is a 3.74 mile four-lane widening of U S Highway 84 costing over 1.5 million, with W L Cobb Construction Co. as prime contractor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Washington Consolidated School
W. L. Cobb Construction Co
Tampa
Movement to spare 30 inch Russian white oak on UNL campus
A Lincoln movement aims to save a healthy Russian white oak with a 30 inch trunk that originated from an acorn brought from Russia in 1905. The tree stands in the planned route of a new road on the University of Nebraska campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Russia
University of Nebraska
Wheeler Descendants Hold Annual Reunion
About eighty Wheeler descendants gathered at Coats & Clarks recreation park on Boston Road for the Wheeler Family Reunion. Attendees included numerous relatives from Tallahassee Lakeland Savannah Augusta Birmingham Ocala St Petersburg Thom asville and Jacksonville with multiple generations present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler
Ran
C. Wheeler
Thomas County
Coats & Clarks, Inc
Recreation Park
Boston. Rd
Laula Wheeler Buckhalt
B. Lewis
William Buckhalt
Cecil Duren
Tallahassee
Eins Wheeler Duren
Thomasville
A. J. Chestnut
Ruth. Roberts
John Humphrey
Joann Coleman
Lakeland
Florida
J. R
Jim) Wheeler
Gor
Roberts To Head Planning Group
Calvin Roberts, local banker, is named Cairo city planning commission member to replace Adron Rosser who resigned. The joint Cairo city county agency expands the municipal body and will update the Comprehensive Development Plan for Cairo Whigham and then the 13 county area with aid from the Southwest Georgia Planning and Development Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Roberts
Cairo
Adron Rosser
Municipal Planning Commission
Southwest
Georgia
Whigham
Area Commission
Camilla
New Methodist Pastor Arrives in Camilla
The Rev. Ernest L. Veal and his family arrived in Camilla to lead the United Methodist Church and preached his first sermon Sunday. Veal, from Vidalia where he helped establish Grace United Methodist, is a Wrightsville native and Georgia Southern College graduate who served in multiple pastorates. He succeeds Rev. Ernest Seckinger, now at Rose Hill Methodist in Columbus. A reception followed services in the E. J. Vann Jr. Social Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camilla
Ernest L. Veal
Camilla United Methodist Church
Mr. Veal
First Methodist Church
Vidalia
Grace United Methodist Church
Lucille Brantley
Kite
Tom
Joyce) Christie
Columbus
Tommy
Charlotte
N. C
Angela
Wesleyan College
Macon
Wrightsville
Georgia Southern College
Emory University
East Dublin
Palmyra Road
Albany
Newington
Brooklet
Millen
Sandersville
Veal
Ernest Seckinger
Rose Hill Methodist Church
Quebec fishing catch soars in first four months of 1968
The Industry Department reports Quebec captured 12,728,000 pounds of fish in January through April 1968, more than twice the amount recorded in the same period a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Industry Department
Russell speaks to Kiwanians at Pavo club meeting
PAVO Henry Russell representative to the State Legislature from Thomas County spoke to the Pavo Kiwanis Club. He outlined legislative work and details, and gave a breakdown of the last appropriation bill. The session was an interclub meeting with Thomasville attendees Jim Keyton Ed McDaniel Doc Harper Jim Colvin and Rev William Childres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PAVO
Henry Russell
Thomas County
Pavo Kiwanis Club
Elmo Palmer
Thomasville Club
Jim Keyton
Ed McDaniel
Doc Harper
Jim Colvin
William Childres
C. G. Wade
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Gulf Life
Canada Dry Co
Armed Forces News
Pearle Optical
Pearlle Optical
N. Broad
Valdosta
N. Patterson
Coolidge
Rebecca Lanier
James Kennedy
Kim
Burt Clark
Moultrie
Roy Hicks
Homer Lanier
Jimmy Moore
Saber
Bob Allen
Knoxville
Tenn
Edward Allen
D. J. Baker
Fred Lanier
William Oliver
Curtis Hicks
George McDowell
Ston
Emmett Woods
Barwick
Harold King
Peggy Barnett
Emmett King
Kate Porter
Lakeland, Fla
Luna Duren
Mrs
Rose McPhearson
Miami
Ed Wilson
J. H. Carlton
Howard Brooks
H. C. Hicks
Albenorne
North Carolina
Jim Davis
Lee Singletary
Sallie Bell Johnston
H. R. Banister
Thelma Banister
Don Wheeler
Tom Humphress
Harman Wheeler
St. Petersburg
Nick Wheeler
Martha
Bobbye
W. A. Wheeler
Mary Linton
Savannah
Kim and Chip Fields
Wallace Adams
Glenwood
James Prestwood
Augusta
Palmer Wheeler
Birmingham
Charles Wheeler
Randolph Bass
Ocala
D.C. Duren
Elmo Duren
E. G. and
Ramsey C. Wheeler
J.P. Wheeler
City
City of
Grady County
New Methodist
E. J. Vann Jr
Thomas
Rehberg
Cassidy Rd
Fish
Canada
Russell
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Cairo
S. Broad St
Mr. J. M
Jim) Richards
Henderson's Drive
Smith Ave
IceMagic
Thomasville, Ice & Mfg. CO
Lee and
West Jefferson Streets
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