05 Sep 1931
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1931
Page
1
A collage of opinions and observations on school costs police actions in New York gunman incidents advertising as guidance, fashion and politics, Hoover’s plans, cotton and jute usage, Cuba, Prohibition, autoworker aging, Al Capone, Dempsey, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Route 3 Georgia paving, no-cotton plan support, Jimmy Walker honor, aviation growth, and Georgia farm policy and state legislature concerns.
City editors argue that sirens must be tempered to protect drivers and pedestrians while fire engines race to blazes. They cite Route 3 paving delays and insist additional contracts be let in 1982 to speed completion. They condemn excessive loud signals that disrupt business districts.
The Albany Herald reprints a lengthy Route Three editorial urging immediate completion of paving from Thomasville to Atlanta, noting counties in Thomas, Mitchell, Dougherty, Sumter and Schley bonded funds for the project. It cites unlet hundreds of miles, promises from 1929, and calls for extending paving to connect Tampa via Monticello and Eliminate gaps, arguing the route is vital to commerce and mobility.
Train times list arrivals and departures for the Atlantic Coast Line routes from Montgomery to Jacksonville Savannah Waycross Perry Albany and through sleepers to Montgomery Jacksonville Savannah Cincinnati and Chicago. Ticket agent J T Wells and district passenger agent L P Green are listed with phone numbers.
Joseph F. E. Ransdell of Louisiana, a 30 year congressman turned executive director of the National Institute of Health, aims to study disease cause and cure. He promotes private and federal funding, envisions a global health research center in Washington, and seeks a $50 million endowment while continuing public health advocacy.
U S Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau bulletin notes fair weather in Thomasville and vicinity with 8 am observations. Temperature 75 degrees at 8 am, higher temperatures yesterday and last night’s low not fully shown. Outlook calls for continued fair hot weather Sunday.
In Hammond Indiana Trustee H O Durham posts a notice barring aid to poor residents who own dogs or automobiles. The township will not provide gas for autos or dog feed, declaring one dog feed equals one child's meal. Bryson City North Carolina notes a separate item begins.
On the Great Smoky and Platt Balsam ranges tribal returns trickle in as Jarrett Blythe of Wolftown leads six other candidates in a vote for chief. The piece notes language barriers and cautious tallying from remote reservation sections.
Eastern time timetable lists Cairo Bainbridge and intermediary stops with departures at 9:00 am and 6:45 am. Thomasville serves as origin with outbound trips to Moultrie Tifton and intermediates at 8:50 am 11:15 am and 2:00 pm.
Oklahoma Governor W H Murray proposed cutting ginning costs to 20 cents per hundred pounds and setting a high rate for low quality cotton. He backed drastic gin profit cuts and urged state corporation commission action after filing with Louis Fischl. Hearing set for next Tuesday.
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