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Young Drug Co.
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MULBERRY & COTTON AVE.
Opposite Court House
PHONE SH. 2-7501 MACON, GEORGIA
Commercial
Meeting Room
ALPINE LODGE
1990 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
Ph. SH. 6 6221 - MACON, GA.
B. J. REEVES, Mgr.
91 Rooms - Air Conditioned - Restaurant
Swimming Pool
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MACON FEDERAL
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Complete Home Financing
Savings Insured Up to $1(T,000.00
337 Third Street 900 Pio Nono Ave.
Macon, Georgia
Macon COCA-COLA Bottling Co. * Macon, Ga.
Howard E. Rennett
Director of Public Relations
Bankers Health &
Life Insurance Co.
MACON. GEORGIA
Clisbyr & Co., Inc.
2360 Ingleside Avenue
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Listed and Unlisted Stocks and Bonds
Tax Exempt Municipal Bonds
Mutual Funds—Monthly Investment Plans
Phone SH. 6-6262 Macon. Ga.
DR WEINSTEIN
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the Bataan campaign, he was
wounded by bomb shrapnel
and he was concussed with
resultant loss of hearing and
paralysis of the face.
Lt. Colonel Weinstein be
came a prisoner of the Japs.
In 1944, he was sent to Japan
on a “hell” ship. He was put
in charge of a POW hospital
in Shinagawa, Tokyo. To put
an end to his demands for
more food and medicines for
his patients, the Japs sent him
to a notorious, punishment
camp, Omori, where he did
coolie labor. After three and a
half years of Jap prison Life.
Dr. Weinstein weighed a hun
dred and five pounds.
When the war ended, Dr.
Weinstein was flown to Man
ila, found his Vienese lady and
lost his bachelor status. In the
States, he was a patient for a
year and a half in an Army
hospital, where he was treated
for arm and windpipe broken #
by the Japs and for all the
vitamin deficiencies, including
beri-beri heart disease.
He received three Presiden
tial Citations, a commendation
from General Eisenhower, a
Bronze Star and five battle
stars, two purple hearts, a
medal from the international
YMCA for his Prisoner of War
work, and, citations from the
Philippine government.
He returned to his practice
in Atlanta with his lovely wife
Hannah.
He teas a member of the
Shriners, a 32nd degree Mason
and a director and surgeon for
the Jewish Children's Service.
He was on the staff of the
Georgia Baptist Hospital.
Spalding Pavilion, St. Joseph's
Hospital and the Crawford
Long Hospital. He was sur
geon to the Reserve Officers
Association and a member of
the National Advisory Com
mittee of War Claims Com
mission.
His book. "Barbed-Wire Sur
geon" was featured in 1948 by
the MacMillan Publishing
Company. He has authored
many articles on imrious
phases of medicine and surg
ery, including frequent contri
butions to The Southern Is
raelite of a Jewish nature.
He was formerly chairman
of the Atlanta Chapter of the
American Veterans Commit
tee, commander of Jewish War
Veterans Post 112, and presi
dent of the Atlanta Zionist
District and Gate City Lodge
of B'nai B'rith. He was a lead
ing member of the Southast-
ern Anti-Defamation League
board for the past decade.
He was a winner of the
Barton Prize for literature at
Harvard in 1928; the Muse
prize for literature in 1954,
and in 1956 received honorable
mention for the Danton Walk
er prize for the best literary
work in Georgia (in 1956) for
his article “John Wesley. Phy
sician and Apothecary.
A well known sculptor, he
has exhibited at the Fogg Art
Museum at Harvard and the
High Museum of Art in Af-
lanta.
Dr. Weinstein teas a fellow
of the American Board of Pre
ventive Medicine (section on
Traumatic Surgery), a fellow
of the American Geriatrics
Society, a Diplomate of the
National Board of Medical Ex
aminers, Southeastern Surgi
cal C<mgre8$=and National ln.
dustrial Medical Association.
Fulton Academy of Medicine.
American Medical Association.
Georgia State Medical Asso
ciation, Industrial Hygiene As
sociation, American Heart As
sociation and many o t h e r
medical groups.
Maxwell
Brothers
Furniture Co..
Inc.
P^ONE SH 2-6411
471-473 SECOND STREET
Macon. Ga.
CRESCENT
SNO-WHITE
L A U N I) R Y
DRY CLEANING
STORAGE
21 Locations Serving
Macon
543 Second Street
Main Plant
MACON, GEORGIA
Phone SH. 3-3727
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