Red Cross Board Elects New Chairman at Thomasville Meeting
The Thomas County Red Cross annual meeting at the City Court room elected R. C. Balfour as chairman to succeed Charles Parker. Reports cover Nursing, Blood, Gray Lady, Junior Red Cross and Home Service with 1000 hours of service noted and praise for Parker.
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Red Cross
Balfour
Thomas County Red Cross
Charles Parker
James Gribben
M. C. Steyerman
Steyerman
M. L. Walton
W. Fred Scott, Jr
Julian Bolton
R. C. Balfour
E. C. McDaniel
Eugene Driver
A. E. Speer
Ochlochnee
Breck Conoley
Stewart Willis
Coolidge
Jackey
Boston
Clyde Beaty
Pavo
M. H. Jeffries
Mittee
George Shirley
Kelly Wood
RE. C. McDaniel
J. D. Stillwell
Mesdames
Wallace Neel
W. Fred Scott
Grover Thomas
Measers
al Feinberg
C. E K. Billings
Joe Keyton
Conoley
Thomasville Medical Association
Public
Gribben
Parker
Nursing Service Committee
Public Health Department
Jeffries
Charles Toole
Lillian Presnell
Ophelia Smith
W. 8. Stewart
Civil Defense
Sarah Rice
Ann Shelton
Doris Hawthorne
J. D. Stilwell
Joe Higgins
Grey Lady
W. F. Macintyre
S. E. Bacon
Carteer
Elks Club
Rockets
Elizabeth Spence
Red Cros
Home Service
Bill Townsend
C. K. Billings Rose
Mr. Parker
Stern Tittle
Wood
Stillwell
McDaniel
Ann Wade of Lewis Honored at 4-H Meeting
Ann Wade of Ochlocknee won district honors in Home Improvement at the district Project Achievement meet held at Abraham Baldwin College June 19 20 21. Thomas County 4-H members earned blue red and white awards across multiple projects and were sponsored to the event by Commercial Bank and the Bank of Thomas County.
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Tirle
Thomas County
Abraham Baldwin College
Ann Wade
Ochlocknee
Joe F. Lewis
Stewart Ra
Thomasville
Randy Hodkinson
Sara Dell Gibson
Donald McMillan
Ann Fort
Dewitt Rehberg
Elbert Lee Collins
Midler Poole
Allie Johannesen
E. Wade Chastain
Funeral Rites Held Near Gordon for Mrs J T Hatcher
Mrs J T Hatcher 71 died June 22 after a three month illness and 50 years in Gordon. Funeral held June 23 at Mt Olive Church Donalsonville officiated by Evans Funeral Home. Survived by husband four sons two brothers two sisters and several relatives with pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed.
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Donalsonville
Evans Funeral Home
J. T. Hatcher
Mt. Olive Church
Gordon
Ala
Hatcher
Clayton
Clyde Hatcher
Chattahoochee
Fla
Buddy Hatcher
Jakin
Homer Hatcher
Hubert Turner
Lockie Helms
Stheridge Helms
Bascom
Travis Turner
Mark Tidwell
Malone, Fla
Ceoil Taylor
Fauline Watford
Oscar Helms
Benjamin Conrad
Earl Hatcher
Curtis Watford
L. Robinson
W. E. B. Conrad
W. ¥. Moore
J. W. Wiley
Board of Education weighs new school buildings plan
The board discussed financing for Thomasville schools and plans to ease overcrowding. Sept Blakney outlined rulings and projects including a Fletcherville building, a North sector expansion, an addi tion to Normal Park, and a new Negro high school with land partly donated by the city.
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Board of Education
Thomasville
Blakney
Fletcherville
Normal Park
Farm Market Traffic Grows at Thom asville Stop
The board notes increasing traffic at the Thom asville farm market with many large vans visiting the lot. Planning discussions continue and directors adjourn until the next quarterly meeting.
Welcome Nobles Shrine fans and local life in Thomasville
Welcome Nobles signs greet visitors for the Mys tic Shrine caravan heading to a national session in Miami. The quiet weekend sees few arrests and little court activity as city services recruit. Local sports include four baseball games with Valdosta visiting, and a merchants free day event looms for fifteen hundred attendees. Radio interference and screen bugs prompt reader tips while street walking on Thomasville’s main drag draws curious locals.
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Mystic Shrine
Miami
Northern Shrine
Valdosta
Vashti School Camp Enrolls Forty Two Girls This Summer
Forty two girls enroll in Vashti School summer camp directed by Naomi Coger with staff Phyllis Garrett Marie Fulton Margie Bardin and Naneilee Anderson. Girls are grouped by nation Holland India Mexico China with weekly awards for citizenship. Activities include music Bible swimming folk games dramatics handicrafts and weekly off campus trips. After July 12 some girls stay for campus canning and related activities.
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Vashti School
Naomi Coger
Phyllis Garrett
Marie Fulton
Margie Bardin
Naneilee Anderson
United Nations
Holland
India
Mexico
China
Twin Lakes
Gulf
Exchange Club program highlights peanuts from Kent Sanders
Kent Sanders presented a color film on the peanut industry at the Exchange Club meeting in which Tom Huston Co. of Columbus processes peanuts. The program, arranged by Benson Earle and hosted by president Dave Hutchins, featured guests Bill Miller and Floyd Harvel along with Roseland Lincoln-Mercury manager Edwin Edge as members munched on samples.
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Exchange Club
Kent Sanders
Mr. Sanders
Benson Earle
Bill Miller
Tom Huston Co
Columbus
Alabama
Sanders
Dave Hutchins
Tcomn
Mr. Miller
Floyd
Harvel
Roseland Lincoln-Mercury
Exchengite
Edwin Edge
Former Residents Rodda Family Visit to Thomasville
Mr and Mrs G E Rodda formerly of Thomasville now reside in St Joseph Missouri register at Rosenmary Inn for a brief stay through July 8. Rodda acts as Local Representative in the Livestock Branch of the U S Department of Agriculture in Washington DC, while Harry Larson is away on vacation. They will travel to Montreal NC for the Sunday School Superintendents Conference of the Presbyterian Church where Rodda serves as Chairman of the 8 8 Superintendents Synod of Missouri.
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G. E. Rodda
G. EB. Rodda
Thomasville
St. Joseph
Rosenmary Inn
Rodda
U. S
Department of Agriculture
Harry Larson
Montreal
N C
The
Presbyterian Church
Roddas
Synod of Missouri
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