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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
8
The Red Cross Canteen Corps and Canteen Aides hold an important meeting at City Hall Friday morning June 23 at 11 o'clock. All who completed the Canteen Corps Training or the Canteen Aide Course are urged to attend and discuss summer programs and volunteer hour goals.
The Times Enterprise publishes excerpts from the Office of Price Administration catechism on wartime rent control. It explains that lease clauses on rent and vacating premises are regulated and that eviction may occur with renewal limits, while not voiding existing prewar leases.
Joseph H. Buck Billingsley reports from abroad that he is progressing well after about a year overseas. He bids friends to write back and keep in touch with life at home.
United States Weather Bureau report from Thomasville Georgia dated June 22 1944 notes fair to partly cloudy skies with a slight warmup today and tonight and hotter conditions Friday. 8 am observation shows 75 degrees with 94 high yesterday and 69 low in the last 24 hours. Rain totals include 0.06 inches in the last 24 hours 0.91 inches this month and 27.13 inches since January 1 with normal for the month at 6.45 inches.
Mrs Murphy, wife of Pete Murphy, died Monday night in Miami Florida. Rev Shepherd to conduct funeral at Big Creek church with burial in Big Creek cemetery. Pallbearers named S S Murphy S B Lanier Clark Yandle Harvey Rerberg C E Pierce H A Smith. Surviving children include Charles Cliff Clyde Murphy and three daughters Sallie Brown D A McClain Olivia Murphy. Whiddons Funeral Home arranging.
The article notes Allied momentum in World War II with mentions of Luzon Saipan battles and Cherbourg nearing fall, while Finland’s capitulation seems likely and Italy and France trend toward major front lines. It also covers Rotary Club peanut talk and a busy state farm market with high melon and corn prices including a Quitman car sale of 813 Dude Creek melons for 1400 dollars.
President Roosevelt signs the G I Bill of Rights creating a broad government aid program for veterans of the current war. The measure, announced from Washington, aims to provide benefits and services to returning service members.
Georgia will be fair to partly cloudy and slightly warmer today and tonight with partly cloudy and hot conditions Friday. In extreme Northwest Florida expect fair weather this afternoon tonight and Friday.
A nocturnal lemur is detailed as the size of a baby fox with the Latin name meaning ghost. The description highlights its stealthy nature and ghostly moniker in the African jungle context.
Barwick Georgia citizens raise funds for about five hundred sixty watermelons and ship them to Finney General Hospital in Thomasville for service men confined there. C H Beaty and Sam Chapman organized the donation and collected contributors for the one truck load of watermelons for hospital patients.
Floyd Searcy, a leading peanut processor, outlines origin and uses of peanuts and notes their role in government programs. He details peanut varieties Virginia and regional types, oil content near 46 percent, processing stages, and current and historical production figures from 1916 to 1943.
The Times Enterprise received a 62 pound Cannonball watermelon from Elmer T. Horne of Metcalfe. He may have a prize field as prices for melons remain strong this season averaging about a dollar each.
Seemingly sleepy daytime routines and nocturnal garden wandering by 15th century Italian women reflect folk belief that moonlight could weave beauty into their hair. The tale evokes cultural rituals and romantic moon lore from that era.
The Times Enterprise reports four carloads of watermelons from Barwick brought $4300. Mr S S Humphreys, a local druggist, sold the cars at $1250, $1150, $1100, and $1100, with barwick growers expanding acreage to 75 to 100 acres. Shipments this year from Barwick reach about fifty cars with ongoing loading.
Co sponsor Miller Sr of the Thomas County War Finance Committee announced a Fifth War Loan Bond Rally at the Pavo High School Auditorium tomorrow night at nine. The event features the Finney General Hospital band and speakers including veterans recently returned from combat. Public is invited. Tonight another rally is at Coolidge High School auditorium.
Invitations come from Thomasville friends for the marriage of Miss Patricia Fryar Mack daughter of Mr and Mrs Worden Mack of Jacksonville to Lt Walter Merritt Ford U S Army Air Forces. The ceremony is set for July 8 at 5 30 p m at Southside Baptist Church in Jacksonville. Miss Mack was born in Thomasville and has many warm friends there.
U S Naval Reserve sailor J Frank Smith reported to Jacksonville Florida for assignment and will receive boat training at Camp Peary in Williamsburg Virginia. He is son of Mrs Julia H Smith Copeland of this city. Sailor Richard Davis of 208 West Clay Thomasville Iowa is a patient at Navy Hospital Jacksonville after returning from duty at Sanford Florida.
Rufus George Bullock Jr., 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. R F Bullock of Ochlocknee Georgia, was advanced from seaman second class to petty officer Yeoman third class at the U S Naval Air Station Jacksonville Florida. He earned the rating after passing extensive written examinations at recent tests and is assigned to the Jacksonville personnel department.
A salad sandwich offers a pleasing lunchbox option. Chop or grind raw vegetables like carrots celery cabbage and turnips and season well on bread.
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