What's Your Opinion of Traffic Here
A series of local readers from Thomasville discuss traffic issues. Pp. C Andrews Jr. says motorists run red lights and pedestrians have right of way. John Mobley calls for adjusted signals to improve downtown flow. Bill Puffer notes double parking as main bottleneck. Osco Hughes favors reinstating no left turns on Broad St to speed traffic and protect pedestrians.
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C Andrews JR
Thomasville
Bill Puffer
Warner’ Brothers Co
Osco Hughes
Broad St
Thomasville Scene Highlights Festival of Roses and Local Affairs
Atlantic Coast Line magazine features Thomasville scenes from the Festival of Roses held April 22 with photos of local girls on the Coast Line caboose. The column quips about city bill discount dates, social climbers, Dodgers reforms, and radio broadcasts. It ends with a vivid soda fountain banana split tasting.
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Atlantic Coast Line Magazine
Thomasville
Broad Street
Jackson
Boy Struck by Truck. Driver Flees Scene on Reid Street
Eight year old John Alvin Turner was hit by a truck on Reid Street and treated for minor facial and neck cuts before discharge. Driver Robert Mickens, a substitute for Whiddon Electric, fled the scene and has not been located. he allegedly sideswiped Mrs. Fred Godwin’s car before striking Turner.
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John Alvin Turner
Alvin H. Turner
Reid Street
Robert Mickens
Whiddon
Mickens
Ceremony to Honor Army Platoon Recruits
A special ceremony will honor recruits from Thomas Grady and Colquitt counties at a luncheon by American Legion Post 31. Brig Gen Werner will speak before the soldiers are sworn in and depart for Fort Jackson South Carolina for basic training.
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Special Army
Army
Thomas, Grady
Quitt Counties
Fort Jackson
U S. C
American Legion Post 31
Werner
Georgia Military District
Carson Pate
Pate
Towns Cannot Ban Low Flying Planes Near Landing Field
A federal judge ruled that communities bordering airports cannot ban planes on approach or takeoff. The Cedarhurst ordinance restricting flights below 1,000 feet near Idlewild on Long Island was declared unconstitutional. Judge Walter Bruchhausen said air traffic regulation by Congress supersedes local bans. U.S. Attorney Leonard P. Moore noted a broad national impact.
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New York
10 Airlines
Nassau County
Cedarhurst
Idlewild
Long Island
U.S
Mars the war god may have roots in farming duties
Early evidence suggests Mars served not only as a war deity but also as an agricultural god. The dual role reflects ancient associations between conflict and cultivation in Roman belief.
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Mars
Thomasville Farm Market Featured In Produce Magazine Campaign
A co operatives advertising push sponsored by Commercial Bank Bank of Thomas County and the Chamber of Commerce highlights Thomasville Ga as a shipping point for spring vegetables cantaloupes and watermelons. Market Manager Grady Knight says the campaign is highly successful with major shipping firms pictured and contributing to the effort.
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Commercial Bank and Bank of
Thomas County
Chamber of Commerce
Thomasville
Packer
Grady Knight
Thomasville Farm Market
Atlanta
Hudson Norman
Thom asville Board Awards School Cafeteria Contract
The Thom asville Board of Education awarded a cafeteria renovation contract to H. H. Construction Company for 35 895 dollars after two bids. The project updates all cafeteria phases to meet state regulations, requiring structural changes and increasing costs beyond the initial plan.
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Board of Education
City of
Thomasville
H. & H. Construction Company
Brewton Supply Co
Weather summary for Thomasville Georgia June 28 1985
Temperatures 2 3 degrees above normal in the northwest rising to about 2 degrees below in the southeast. Light to moderate precipitation from scattered thundershowers mainly in the west and south portions. Highest yesterday 68 lowest 24 hours 68. Highest this month 104 lowest 49. Total last 24 hours 0 00 total this month 2 26 total since January 1 10 23 normal 5 48.
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Thomasville
Idaho Polio Shots Postponed Amid Lost Confidence
Boise officials said Idaho will not sponsor another mass polio immunization after health director L. J. Peterson cited lost confidence in the Salk vaccine. Seven deaths and 79 hospitalizations followed the program begun in April. The state blamed vaccine procedures rather than Cutter Laboratories or Dr. Jonas Salk.
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Boise
Idaho
L. J. Peterson
Wat
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Balk
Jonas Salk
Bipartisan Security Survey Aims to Curb Red Issue in 1956
Sen. Humphrey and Sen. Aiken back a 12 member special commission to study the government's security program and remove the Communist in government issue from the 1956 campaign. The Senate approved the plan. House Judiciary Committee has similarly endorsed. Humphrey says study could depoliticize security. Aiken agrees it may reduce Republican focus on the issue in 1966.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
House
Judiciary Committee
Sen. Aiken
R-Vi
Theu
Polio Cases Rise in Idaho With Vaccination Linkage
Ninety seven polio cases are reported in Idaho this year up to June, far above seventeen by mid last year. Of the total, twenty cases occurred in vaccinated children and sixty four were linked to individuals who had received the vaccine.
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Idaho
Vet Pleads Guilty Of Collaboration In Court Martial
A 26 year old Korean War veteran, Cpl. Harold M. Dunn of Baldwine, pleaded guilty to collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner of war. He and his wife appeared in court where the judge announced hard labor for life as the possible punishment though execution of the sentence remained uncertain.
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New York
Cpl
Harold M. Dunn
Baldwine
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