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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1954
Page
3
Prayer services at Calvary Baptist Church begin this evening at 8 with the Rev. W. E. Pleißler in charge. Bible study will come from Daniel chapter 10. Members should bring their own Bibles. Choir rehearsal follows the prayer meeting at 9.
J Lee White, Meigs District county commissioner, announces candidacy for another term. He cites six years of service, road work advocacy, sound business principles, and cooperation with the board while pledging to work for the county's welfare if re elected.
Bold Springs Methodist Church will hold its annual homecoming Sunday with a morning service led by Rev. C. R. Kale at 11 o clock. A basket dinner will follow on the church ground inviting the public to attend.
Jewell Griffin of Ochlochnee will marry W D Wilkerson of Chattahoochee in a July 2 ceremony at Little Ochlochnee Baptist Church. Griffin, a Georgia State College for Women graduate, has pursued graduate study and taught at Chattahoochee Elementary. Wilkerson works at Jim Woodruff Dam for the U S Corps of Engineers. They will reside in Chattahoochee after the wedding.
Johnny Lewis Hart, a 23 year old Endicott native and Don Alsh Agency artist, has pieces accepted by the Saturday Evening Post, True, and Blue Book. His Post entry features a six panel spoof of a baseball moment, and he previously contributed cartoons while serving seven months in Korea. Hart’s work has appeared in Stars and Stripes and he resides with his wife in Endicott.
On Thursday schedule includes Rotary Club at Glen Arven at 1 pm, Red Cross membership meeting at chapter offices at 3 pm, Lions Club at Hota Scott at 7 pm, Masonic Lodge 369 at 8 pm, Business Women's Circle at East Side Baptist Church with Carrie Wills at 8 pm, and Youth Center open house for grades six to eight at 8 pm. Friday lists Kiwanis at Glen Arven at 1 pm, Neval Reserve Composite Company at City Court at 8 pm, and Youth Center open house for grades nine to twelve at 8 pm.
Midweek prayer services are at 8 p m at the First Presbyterian church. Dr Charles Haddon Nabers supplies the church until a new pastor is found and will show colored slides of the Holy Land from his trips. The program links biblical history to scripture and invites parents with young children to attend.
A Thomasville soldier is listed among U S Army personnel from Georgia who arrived Tuesday at the Army Port of Embarkation in Seattle Washington from area Japan and Okinawa aboard a transport ship.
Mr. Gary Carnes visits his grandmother in Haines City while Mrs. James V. Davis of Cairo is among out of town patients admitted locally. Cordey Parrish and family welcome a baby son born June 22 at Archbold Memorial Hospital. S Sgt Kenneth Hubbard returns to Jacksonville after two and a half years in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons plan a 10 day Key West Florida trip. Mrs Sipple and Mrs Gainey attend a wedding in Washington DC. Mr. Collier and family visit Ridge Land and Cypress Wood Plantation, and Miss Annette Kelly attends a Medical Technologists convention in Miami and works at Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis.
The School Board met with a quorum and awarded coal and fuel bids to Alday & Co and Thomasville Ice and Manufacturing Co. A holiday calendar fixes Labor Day opening, G B A Day, Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas to Jan 3, Easter Monday, Rose Show Day, and June graduation. Superintendent Blakeney praised the teaching corps. finances aim for a small surplus but repairs and maintenance funding will rise next year.
The Italian government estimates seven more years of work are needed to complete excavations at Pompeii.
An item notes the USNS Gen. M. C. Meigs and identifies Pvt. David Mitchell of 319 Persimmon 8t. as associated with the entry.
Miss Evelyn C Thomas married James H Mills Jr of Providence Rhode Island and Athens Georgia in a double ring ceremony at First Baptist Church. The couple announced by her parents and attended by sister Mrs Gordon L Palmer Jr and best man Mr Palmer. They plan a Florida trip before returning to Athens for the groom to resume studies at the University.
County forester Donald Stewart urges residents to buy pine seedlings now. Delivery price is 3.25 dollars per thousand and the plan calls for over a million seedlings for Thomas County this year. Stewart calls the investment valuable and notes plant costs about 4.00 dollars per acre.
The Fire Department responded to two incidents yesterday. First at Bird Wood College where a stove started smoking and later at East Ride school grounds where a lead kettle began burning. No damage occurred in either case.
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