Madison Towers Rises Nine Stories Overnight in 9 Inch Hour
In Memphis the Madison Towers apartment hotel climbs from two to near ten stories in days using the slip form method pouring concrete 24 hours a day. The $1.6 million project for Kemmons Inn will be 10 stories with 159 units and 100 interior parking spaces, claiming faster completion and 10 percent cost savings. Architect J. H. Doggett says the form creates stronger walls and enables earlier occupancy.
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Memphis, Tenn
Madison Towers
Inchine
Kemmons Inn
J. H. Doggett
Memphis
Japs May Talk With Chinese Reds On Repatriation Talks
Tokyo reports Vice Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda said Japan may propose formal talks with Communist China within three weeks to discuss repatriation of about 51 000 unrepatriated Japanese on the mainland. He emphasized humanity over normal diplomatic ties.
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Tokyo
Sunao Sonada
Japan
Red China
China
Sonoda
Diet
Red Cross
Pusan Port Returned to Korea as War Anniversary Observed
Pusan, Korea The U S Army marked the fifth anniversary of the Korean War by returning the port of Pusan to South Korea. In ceremonies the Army also deactivated its rear area supply zone and the Republic of Korea assumed supply duties for front line forces.
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Pusan
Korea
U. S
South Korea
Republic of Korea
Eisenhower drills on amid Alaska air clash and Soviet reply
President Eisenhower pursued a New England tour as Soviet jets attacked a U S Navy Neptune off Alaska. Hagerty called the incident inexplicable and unwarranted while Navy officials said two MIG type planes fired on the craft setting an engine ablaze. Several crew members were burned and injured but none seriously. Congress leaders criticized the attack as a reminder of threats in the Cold War context. No Soviet reply yet as Eisenhower continues through New Hampshire and Maine.
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Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Whitefield
N. H
New England
Hagerty
Navy Department
Navy
Armed Forces
Alaska
Joseph H. Atkinson
Kodiak
Richard H. Fischer
Pittsburgh
Fischer
Congress
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Sen. Holland
D-ita
U.S
Western Pacific
Bering Strait
Soviet Union
Pres
N.H
Maine
New Hampshire
Berlin
Rangeley Lakes
Washington
White Mountains
Sinclair Weeks
Dartmouth College Forest
Wentworth
Austrian PWs Tell Of Russian Held Gls
A group of 186 returning Austrians said 16 Americans were in Russian labor camps. They named five others: Murray Feingersch, Sgt. Robert Umit h, Rudolf von Schwab, Col. Rudolf Cerny, and Rudolf Kissis, but U S Army HQ had no information on them. Sidney Sparks, from Tennille Georgia, asked to inform his mother and U S authorities he is at Camp Patma in European Russia. Sparks was arrested in Berlin in 1951 and is listed absent without leave from the 6th Infantry Division in Berlin since Dec 4 1961.
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Sidney Kay Sparks
Tennille
U. S
Camp Patma
Russia
Sparks
Berlin
U.S. Army
Heidelberg
6Th Infantry Division
Murray Feingersch
Finegage
Brooklyn
N. Y
Robert Iumith
Camp Vladimir
Moscow
New Orleans
Rudolf von Schwab
Vienna
U. S. Counterintelligence Corps
Rudol Cerny
Camp Vorkuta
Arctic
Rudolf Kissis
Seminole Class Plans Reunion in Donalsonville
Twelve of the 1927 Donalsonville High School graduates now Seminole County High School will gather for a reunion dinner at Mosley Hall Friday evening. Rev. C A Leach and Mrs. Leon Barber chair the event, with attendees from Donalsonville, Joking, Charles Heights, Eau Callie, Cairo, Valdosta, Jacksonville, and Quitman.
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Donalsonville
Donalsonville High School
Seminole County High School
Mosley Hall
Leon Barber
C. A. Leach
Presbyterian Church
DeFuniak Springs
Florida
Ida Butler
Barber
Rev. Leach
W. E. Grigham
W. W. Herrington
T. Dunning
Gaston Cannon
Joking
D. H. Turner
Charles Heights
8. C
Don Jenkins
Eau Callie
Fla
Arthur
Cairo
Erma Cowart
Valdonta
Winifred Eddings
Jacksonville
Striking British Seamen End Wildcat Walkout
Strike leaders in Southampton and Liverpool urged seamen to resume work ending a three week wildcat walkout that crippled Britain's transatlantic fleet. The Queen Elizabeth sailing to New York on Wednesday broke the strike and Cunard Lines’ ships began to move again.
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London
Britain
Southampton
Liverpool
New York
Cunard Lines
Miss River Boat Damaged By Fire
A fire and explosion last night gutted three boats and damaged another on Wolf River near Memphis. Ten people aboard the Mary L fled to safety as flames engulfed the cabin cruiser entering its slip. Unofficial damage is about 100000 dollars. the Mary L is owned by Frank Clancelo, president of a wholesale liquor firm.
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Memphis
Wolf River
Mary L
Mary LI
Frank Clancelo
French Tricolor Fights Alcohol in French Drinks
Paris reports government measures to label soft drinks with under one percent alcohol with a French Tricolor and the word approved on the label. Minister Bernard Lefay said the aim is to guide choice without prohibitions.
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Paris
France
Bernard Lefay
Lafay
Heiress and Policeman Elopes From Florida to Georgia
Philadelphia heiress Doris Silver, 22, daughter of Herman Silver of the Food Fair chain, elopes with Earl Ostreicher, 29, a Miami Beach police officer, after a ceremony in Folkston Georgia. The couple wed yesterday. Ostreicher earns 359 dollars per month and is a two year veteran motorcycle cop.
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M'Amt Bhrach
Philadelphia
Minami Beach
Georgia
Doris Silver
Herman Silver
Food Fair
Earl Ostreicher
Cecil Connor
Folkston
Sam Friedland
Miami Beach
Ostreicher
Grandmother of 12 Receives Bennington College Degree
Mrs. Margaret Buckley, mother of five and grandmother of 12, earns a bachelor of arts at Bennington College. Her daughter, Mrs. Arnold G. Chapman of Flattsburg, N. Y., graduated 17 years earlier. Buckley entered as a freshman in 1961 and majored in art in her junior and senior years. Twelve of her paintings were featured in a college exhibit this week.
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Bennington, Vt
Margaret Buckley
Bennington College
Arnold G. Chapman
Flattsburg
N. Y
Bennington
Buckely
South America Lake Titicaca size compared to Ontario
A source notes Lake Titicaca is half as large as Lake Ontario. It also cites a decline in U S women in private households from 2 million in 1940 to under 13 percent in 1950.
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South America
Lake Titicaca
Lake Ontario
U. S
German Editors Visit Thomasville Before Air Trip to New Orleans
A party of German editors including Ina Dietrich and Miss Thiemann toured Thomasville visiting schools, Times Enterprise operations, Greenwood Farms, Hodkinson cattle farm and winter estates guided by Ben Inman Jr. They attended Kiwanis events and a local baseball game with city officials before departing for Tallahassee to catch a plane to New Orleans and beyond.
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Thomasville
Tallahassee
New Orleans
Houston
Texas
West Coast
R. B. van Dame
Kiwanis
Country Club
Times
Scott
Ina
Dietrich
Thiemann
Court seeks permanent injunction over Thomasville area school contract
Plaintiffs in Thomas County allege the County Board of Education and the County Superintendent acted under a 1955 contract with the City of Thomasville to acquire land and build a high school within the city limits. They assert lack of jurisdiction and misallocation of public funds, asking the court to stop further actions and noting no adequate legal remedy.
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City of
Thomasville
Georgia
Commissioners of Roads and
Thomas County
Thomas County Board of Education
County Board of Education
Board of Education
E. R. Jerger
R. D. Blakeney
Board of Education of
Germans Observe Thomasville News and Rotary Links
German editors visit Thomasville to study American progress and culture with ties to Lueneburg and Will Watt. Rotarians plan cross country and Puerto Rico trips while local baseball hosts visiting Germans at a Dodgers vs Cordelians game as the season nears September finale.
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Thomasville
Dodgers
Cordelians
Tifton Sox
Waycross Bears
Thomasville Kiwanis Club Wins Unmatched Awards Record
The Thomasville Kiwanis Club, led by immediate past president E C McDaniel, boasts more state and international honors than any other club. Odis Johnson praised growth from 44 to nearly 100 members as five past presidents and five lieutenant governors were saluted, with special music and guest attendees from Thomasville.
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E. C. McDaniel
McDaniel
Atlanta
Odis Johnson
Georgia
Thomasville Club
Lonnie Ferequsom
Hansell Baker
Dozier Hasty
Tom Spence
Arthur Clark
Henry Matthews
Dan Redd
Charlie Riley
Elzy McLeod
Charlie Simmons
Johnson
Luton Teate
Ferguson
Charles Wall
Weather Outlook for Thomasville Georgia June 25 1955
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with a chance of isolated thundershowers. Sunday also partly cloudy with possible isolated storms across the area. Moderate temperatures expected throughout the weekend.
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Thomasville
Temperature Report Summary Line
The report shows 0.00 total over the last 24 hours and minus 1.79 since the month began minus 18.16 for the year with normal for this month at minus 5.45.
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Austria
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Collene Dearee
Lueneburg
Will Watt
Rotary
Germany
Puerto Rico
Kiwanis Club
Thomasville Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis International
Charles Watt
Lonnie Ferguson
Leb Dekle
J. Gorham Garrison
Charles J. Reily
James K. Harper
William Gravely
Charlie Pittman
W. R. Thomas, Sr
J. W. Keyton
Jim Clark
Henry Mahler
Herbert
S. H. Coker
Internal Revenue Department
Ruth H. Hall
Herschel R. Clay
Forest Knapp
Robert E. Knapp
Rudolph Keytor
O. C. Cooper
Pepperidge Farm Bread and Rolls
M&m
Markei
Moultrie Rd
Marko
Walb-Tv
Southern Radio Service
Jackson St
Pstate
Chambers
Broad St
Grooms Funeral Home
Fletcher St
Thomasville, Ga
Opera
Dairy Queen
Tallahassee Road
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