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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1929
Page
3
Atlanta June 26 Governor L G Hardman requests citizens to bring matters to him but asks postponement of all issues for sixty days to devote undivided attention to the General Assembly. He says he is the servant of the people and invites discussion but needs full time for legislative duties.
Daytime and evening radio listings across WEAF WJZ WKC affiliates detail schedules by time and city. Programs include orchestras, broadcasts, talk, and dance bands across New York Atlantic City Baltimore Pittsburgh Schenectady and other regional stations with noted simulcasts and coast lines.
Forecast for Thomasville and vicinity calls for mostly cloudy skies with probable showers tonight and Thursday. Observations at 8 a m show 75th Meridian Time, with temperature data and precipitation summaries, noting unsettled Atlantic and east Gulf weather patterns and generally warm readings except the northwest, no immediate improvement expected locally.
Five people including Johnny Wilson and Edward Lewis were arrested in New York early today as material witnesses in the slaying of Broadway racketeer Frank Marlow. Police plan homicide indictments for two unidentified men. others released.
A long OCR style roster lists individuals with their rural route designations across Thomasville and nearby towns such as Ochlochnee Coolidge Meigs Pavo and Boston. Names include Leon Joiner John R Alexan S J Shepherd W L Brabham G B Singletary J D Wurst Jr M W Davis and many others with R F D addresses. The fragmentary text appears to catalog residents and their delivery routes in a local distribution list.
Three Georgia utilities Savannah Electric and Power Columbus Electric and Power and South Georgia Power filed objections with the public service commission over proposed residential rate cuts. They argue uniform Georgia Power Company schedules should not be used as the basis for rates, claiming earnings reports show no justification for a reduction.
Truck growers of Ware and neighboring counties assemble in Waycross to form a cooperative marketing association. A kickoff meeting is set for 11 a.m. in the Ware County courthouse, following preliminary talks in Savannah with the Farmers' Exchange.
Minneapolis June 26 The Miss Minneapolis airplane claim a world record for continuous miles of flight over a jet course. The sponsors announced the endurance plane has flown 5 000 miles in a single flight as the craft began its record effort.
Atlanta on June 26 reports the Southern Divisional Trapshoot entering its third and final day with practice doubles and the 100 target wolf and lamb and international events. H. C. McKenzie of Atlanta won the zone 16 yard singles at 196x200, his third win in four years, with W. H. Lanier, Mark Arie, and Frank Troeh tied at 195 for next place. Mrs. W. P. Andrews of Atlanta captured the 16 yard zone championship for women, with Mrs. J. C. Wright finishing second.
The son of the President is promoted to first lieutenant in the specialist reserve of the army. Herbert Hoover Jr will be attached to the air corps as his appointment moves through the War Department among 500 others.
Thorwald Thunder Johnson and Owen Haughland of Minneapolis command the endurance refueling flight at five am Sunday. They fly an eighty mile course over Newmore Northfield and Hastings Minnesota. They had been airborne nearly 70 hours as the standard endurance record stands at 172 hours 32 minutes.
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