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Southern States
Apprenticeship Conference
GULFPORT, Miss, Invita
tions to some 8,000 labor and man
agement leaders in
training in 10 states are
sent by the Southern States Ap¬
prenticeship Conference for its
Eighth Annual meeting in
July 5, 6, and 7.
Apprenticeship committees
the various states represented
have been asked to select
outstanding apprentices in
trades, to attend the
and receive special honors.
The Steering Committee, headed
by H. L. Eskew, Birmingham
plumbing contractor, met in
son in January to appoint
Host Committee Chairman
map preliminary plans for
ing the session. State-wide
bers of the Host Committee
in the Buena Vista Hotel,
site of the Conference March
and 28.
Previous conferences have
held in New Orleans, Miami,
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phis, Birmingham, Atlanta, Fort
Worth and Tulsa.
Some 1,500 to 2,000 delegates
are expected in Biloxi, according
to House Committee Chairman
James R. Moran. Co-Chairman of
the committee is K. A. Parent,
President of the State Association
of Plumbers and Steamfitters.
Members of the Steering Com¬
mittee will meet a day earlier pri¬
or to the Conference sessions
final arrangements, Theme
the Conference this year is “The
Apprentice In Today’s Changing
World.” Panel discussions by
representatives of labor and man
agement will be held throughout
the three-day session with two
main speakers, representing the
gr. ups scheduled.
The climax of the Conference
will be a banquet honoring the
outstanding apprentices, who
be presented gold pins and
tificates.
The ten southern states par¬
ticipating are: Alabama, Arkan¬
sas, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Car¬
olina, Tennessee, and Texas.
POLITICS ON
PARADE
By SID WILLIAMS
In a copyrighted column appear¬
ing in The Atlanta Journal on Sat¬
urday, April 14, Washington ccm
umnist Drew Pearson disclosed the
‘‘acts that on three different oc¬
casions Senator Walter F. George
told Herman Talmadge, or sent
him word, that he (George) would
not offer for re-election and would
support Talmadge for the Senate.
According to Pearson, these oc
easions were in 1950, when George
sent word to Talmadge that he
wouldn’t run for re-election if Tal
madge wanted to run; also in 1952
at the Democratic National Con¬
vention; This and at Miami in 1954.
should serve to put the
quietus on those who insist that
George has NOT broken his word
to Talmadge by running again.
Veteran member of the Georgia
General Assembly, John P. Drink
ard, Lincolnton newspaper pub¬
lisher, has been elected to the
State Senate in a county primary.
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Paul Sikes has been re-elected j
Sheriff of Liberty County with a ;
majority of 2 to 1 over his nearest |
opponent. Sheriff Sikes still has
ouster pi'oceedings pending
him in the State Executive De¬
partment, but they will probably
stay dropped.
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Governor Marvin Griffin has
received widespread praise on his
speech at Harvard University in
debate with the New York State
Attorney-General on the segrega¬
tion issue at Harvard University.
Many Northerners have said that
the Governor's arguments were
both 1 gical and irrefutable.
A prominent newspaperman, af¬
filiated with Atlanta newspapers,
made the statement last week that
“what Senator George needs in
his campaign is a bunch of pro¬
fessional politicians.” This news¬
paperman was eminently correct.
The George leaders issue state¬
ments which border on the fantas¬
tic, such as Representative Love’s
statement that “75 to 80'/, of
Georgia college students are sup¬
porting Senator Gecrge.”
Thi claim was so extravagant
as to be obviously untrue. Any
good politician knows that no can¬
didate, running against strong op¬
position, is going to receive 75 to
80% of the vote of any one group,
except the negro bloc vote. It
didn’t even happen in 1942 when
college students were pretty much
upset with the late Eugene Tal¬
madge over his policies on edu-
Ellis Amall- received only
little better than 50 <To of the
vote.
Talmadge forces might well
759c of the negro vote
George, if the Gecrge leaders
to make such a statement
have it go unchallenged.
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Melvin Thompson, Jr., son of
former Acting Governor, is
longer holding his $3,000 a year
with the State of Georgia. He
employed fcr some months
the Secretary of State’s office.
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The statement of the head of
Georgia Municipal Assoeiatibn
the cities have sufficient
to out-vote the rural
and elect legislators in 140
of the state’s 159 counties is
a bit on the exaggerated
That is unless the Mayor
counting as “cities” every
town and hamlet in all the
counties.
Such controversy between cities
counties would be most de¬
but it can't happen in
where the residents of
the state’s largest cities
a strong rural background.
Several Georgia counties will
to inaugurate the sale of
license tags by mail next
Particularly is this true of
of the larger counties whex'e
buyers waited until the last
days to get their tags and
had to stand in line nearly all
long.
Even the former head of the U.
government’s Revenue Depart¬
says that the income tax
are seriously in need of re
T. Coleman Andrews said
Atlanta last week that “a Con¬
Committee could find
better than the present
tax system.
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The State of Georgia has an¬
that contracts have been
to spen<j more than
in improvements at Jekyll
Island. These will include heat¬
ing, plumbing, and electrical facil¬
ities at the island hotel.
There are mere than 2,000 lakes
within the boundary of the State
of Maine.
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Things © In Georgia r
ATLANTA (GPS) Despite
what President Eisenhower, Sec
retary of Agriculture Ezra Ben¬
son and all the other Republicans
are saying, it appears that the na¬
tional farm program is sure to be
a major issue in this year’s elec¬
tion. At least, that’s what most
Democrats thing. Typical of how
some of them feel was expressed
by Governor Marvin Griffin, who
said:
“The weak part of the Repub¬
lican argument for continuation in
office is the failure of the Re¬
publican administration to ade¬
quately cope with the farm pro¬
gram. With Benson’s bungling
and President Eisenhower’s veto,
I think the farmers of the nation
should arise with unprecedented
spontaneity and show the Repub¬
lican Party at the ballot box just
what they thing about the pro¬
gram.
Re the harrassed farmers, for¬
mer Gov. Herman Talmadge has
advocated an extension of Px-esi
dent Eisenhower’s proposed soil
bank program to sponsor an ex¬
pansion of tree farms. As key¬
note speaker at the Foi-est Far¬
mers Association’s recent annual
meeting in Charleston, S. C., the
Atlanta attorney and Lovejoy
farmer suggested the inaugura¬
tion of a National Tree Farm
Program. Said he:
“As I envision such a program,
the Federal Government would
make available long-term, low
interest loans to all landowners
electing to become tree farmers
and would pay such landowners a
yearly bonus of $5 to $10 per
acre until their new woodlands
became productive.”
AROUND GEORGIA: The Grif¬
fin Daily News, that newsy
that has been “owned at home
and edited at home since the day
it was founded (1871),’’ thinks the
new state flag is so beautiful and
meaningful that it has
one of the first ones made and
flying it atop its building.
new flag, which shows the
seal on a blue field and the
LEADER-TRIBUNE, Thursday, April 28, 1956
white and blue Battle Cross of the
Confederacy, was adopted by
recent General Assembly follow
ing a suggestion by State Demo
eratic Party Chairman John Sam
mons Bell, an Atlanta attorney.
The little heard - of - town of
Quality, Ga., located in Thomas
County about four miles from
Meigs, is the scene of much activ
ity these days. Operators are
busy mining what they describe
as “the richest deposits of Fuller’s
Earth in the world” . . . While
people most everywhere are talk¬
ing about prosperity, Rome Hos¬
iery Mills, a 54-year-old Georgia
concern, has announced cessation
of production. Reasons given:
“High cost, low prices and no
profits. I»
PERSONALITY SPOTLIGHT:
M. M. Kimbrell, executive vice
president of the First National
Bank of Thomson, is the new
president of the Georgia Banker’s
Association . . . Jonesboro’s Post¬
master, Wilber L. Harris, has been
elected president of the Georgia
Chapter of the National Postmas¬
ters’ League. . . Pat McMullan,
Betty Sue, by Peach County Motor Co
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of an older car than a new paint job . . . and you’ll find
that a new BAKED ENAMEL PAINT JOB at the PEACH
COUNTY MOTOR COMPANY costs just $39.50 (body
and fender work excluded).
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1 14-year-old eighth grader in his
first year of FFA work, produced f
Georgia’s Grand Champion Here
ford steer at the recent Georgia
Fat Cattle Show in Atlanta. The
Jefferson FFA member received
$1,314 for his 1,095-lb. steer . . .
Georgia House Speaker Marvin E.
Moate’s friends and neighbors in
Sparta are so proud of him that
they have sponsored a special
.. Marvin E. Moate Day,” with the
Sparta Civitan Club in charge.
The first Prohibition law in the
U. S. was invoked in Kansas in
1880..
A good home is always easy to
go into and hard to leave.
President .James Madison was a
graduate of Princeton.
A chandelier in Radio City is
the largest in the world.
Calvin Cooiidge was vice-pres¬
ident under Warren Harding. He
became President at Harding’s
death in 1923.