Saléz Calls for Bids on Surplus Thomasville Electric Equipment
The notice outlines a bid process for surplus equipment from the Thomasville Electric System. It traces historical efforts since 1904 to provide reliable city power, notes war and federal programs influencing expansion, and explains the shift to Georgia Power Company supplies in 1960 with rate savings highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
War Production Boards
North Georgia
Feder
Georgia Power Company
Georgiand Light Company
Florida
The
Power and Light Company
City considers sale of surplus electric plant equipment
The Thomasville City Commission outlines a plan to sell surplus electric system machinery without a citywide vote. The equipment includes generators, boilers and turbines with book values and potential resale estimates, while emphasizing the system cannot be sold and urging public input at open meetings.
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Eitage
City Charter Sparks Vote Over Thomasville Power Plant Sale
A Thomasville city opinion piece questions the legality of selling the municipal electric power plant as surplus without a two thirds voter approval. It argues the charter requires voter consent before selling any water or light system and warns bypassing the vote could set a dangerous precedent for selling the entire plant or distribution system.
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Thomasville
City of
Board of Commissioners
U S action in Far East aims to prevent flare up
Washington outlined that current U S diplomatic and military moves in the Far East seek to prevent fighting between Red China and Nationalist China. Kennedy planned to discuss Formosa and Quemoy Matsu defenses as 7th Fleet units patrol.
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U. S
Far East
Washington
U.S
Red China
China
Kennedy
Formosa
Quemoy
Matsu
United States
7Th Fleet
Formosan
George W. Anderson Jr
Formosa Strait
Las Vegas
Nev
Warsaw
State Solons Maneuver On Re Districting Plan
Atlanta lawmakers press for a reapportionment plan to take effect with the 1964 elections. Rep. Underwood seeks a county by county House seat and population based Senate seat. Sen. Towson warns delays may occur if changes require a constitutional amendment. A federal court has ordered population basis for one house by January.
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State Solons
Atlanta
House
Senate
Joe C. Underwood
Mount Vernon
House Study Committee
Senate Government Operations Committee
Underwood
Dublin
W. M. Towson
Senate Group
Joint Conference
Towson
Georgia
Senate panel hears early warning on Estes deals ignored
Senate investigators were told that the Agriculture Department had advance warning in 1960 that Billie Sol Estes cotton acreage deals were outside the law. Paul Kamerick testified that warnings existed and officials in Texas approved deals later, while Washington did not halt them. The testimony opened a large probe into the Estes collapse and its fallout.
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Agriculture Department
Billie Sol Estes
Paul E. Kamerick
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Estes
Texas
Washington
H. L. Manwaring
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville J. Freeman
Kamerick
Senate
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Saléz
Focal Power
Publisher City
Lee E. Kelly, Sr
Times-Enterprise
Thomasville Electric
Mr. Kelly
Hites
Rais
Asville Electric System
Thase
Shucspaca Savings
Thomasvilly
Thomas
Grady
City Commission
Roy M. Lilly
Jasper C. Davis
Chm
Utilities Commission
R. G. Fleetwood, Jr
F. H. Neel
N. P. Secrest
Thes
Ava
Wal
Commission
Lee E. Kelly SR
Chiang Kai-shek
John Moors Cabot
Wang Ping Nan
Peiping
Fukien
Billie Sol
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