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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1948
Page
6
Lovett's features a new dog food product WOW marketed in Georgia Florida and nearby areas. The company slaughters select horses and uses careful canning methods with inspected carcasses to produce one pound cans shipped daily to three Southern states. Lovett's Super Store also carries WOW and is promoting it through local grocers and feed stores in Thomasville.
Donalgonville reports the second round of DDT spraying to combat mosquitoes and flies is underway. Mayor E P Stapleton asks residents requesting visits to contact Mr Jeff Spooner beforehand to arrange the spraying.
Donalsonville June 25 locals announce a square dance at the Community Clubhouse next Monday night starting 9 o'clock to benefit the town tennis club. Farmers statewide produced 135000000 pounds of fine cured tobacco in 1947.
U S Navy spraying over Tsingtao via a Naval transport plane disperses a DDT and diesel oil mix every Monday at about 1000 feet to combat mosquitoes and pests. Marine Col. Lamosa Scribner calls the city the cleanest in north China amidst postwar refugee influx and war damage.
Four H club members in ninety seven Georgia counties received awards in 1947 for outstanding work in growing field crops including cotton corn tobacco and peanuts. With rising food consumption and foreign aid needs 4-H members aim to keep America's bread basket filled delivering eight hundred eleven thousand meals.
Bainbridge Georgia June 25 a county wide educational conference of trustees and PTA representatives met in the Decatur County Courthouse auditorium. Andrew Avery opened the session noting round table discussions on the Minimum Foundation Program of Education for Georgia and its impact on local schools. Participants included Mrs Joseph Grollman and others as steering committee members who outlined funding for repairs new buildings and vocational training with higher teacher salaries and better bus service. A plan to real public information via local papers was urged and follow up meetings were scheduled. Lisbon New plans to handle laborers from African tribes on St Tome and Principe islands involve grouping workers in villages with tribal chiefs overseeing and later an agricultural school for tribesmen.
A.P. Foreign Affairs Analyst notes a new unity among free nations emerging from the Soviet drive to dominate Europe. The Western European Union forms a bloc with Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg as the Marshall Plan accelerates cooperation with the United States, while Berlin sustains a Western supply line amid Russian suppression attempts.
Regular services will be held at the Boston Methodist Church on Sunday evening June 27. This will be the last service before Brother Ray moves to Barnesville. A large attendance is expected and a program of special music is planned.
Nashville engineer and Charlotte resident Cabell H. Smith testifies Retonga eased morning weakness gas indigestion and bloating. He says he can eat cabbage like a child and sleeps better with renewed energy. Refund if no relief. available at Inmen Drug Co. Adv.
Mary Jane King daughter of Mr and Mrs Daniel R King married Edward Warren Burns son of Mrs Jessie Mae Burns at First Methodist Church Bainbridge June 22. The ceremony featured elaborate decorations organ music by Mrs J A Slappey and Miss Peggie White and a reception at Stephen Decatur hotel. The couple will reside in Waycross at 569 Lott Street.
Services at New Bethel near Patten include Sunday school at 10 30 for all ages and both morning and evening messages by Rev G T Dell. Prayer and Bible study held Wednesday nights with a cordial invitation to attend.
Georgia reports a pecan crop yield of more than 26 million pounds for 1947, highlighting a robust harvest. Officials note strong statewide production, with several counties contributing significantly to the total.
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