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Vol. CXVII, No. 297.
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Fire Victim’s
Body Recovered
HYNDMAN, Pa., Dec. 26—
(AP)—The body of a woman was
recovered from debris in the cen
ter of this burned out southern
Pennsylvania town today.
Dr. John Topper, the town’s
only physician, identified the
body as that of Mrs. Corrine
Ficher, 60, in whose home the
fire started. He said he made the
identification through dental
plates.
Mrs. Fisher was the only per
son killed in the fire, which
started when a Christmas tree in
her home caught fire. The fire
spread rapidly from one old, dry
frame building to another, and
he entire business section of this
small town of 1,500 was destroyed.
More than three blocks of the
business disirret and surrounding
residences were burned to the
ground. The flames methodically
consumed the post office, the
bank, about 12 other buildings and
more than a score of houses and
apartments.
Mayor Ernest Harden estimated
damage at $500,000. Two other
prominent citizens figured losses
would run to at least $1,000,000.
Hyndman is about 14 miles
north of Cumberland, Md., and
the Maryland-Pennsylvania bord
er.
Police Chief Paul Wise said the
fire started in the Christmas tree
of Somers Fisher.
Grant, Drake
Honeymoon
On Desert
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26.—(AP)
~—Cary Grant and his film pro
tege, Betsy Drake, are honey
mooning today after a surprise
runaway marriage Christmas Day
to Phoenix, Ariz,
Howard Hughes, multi-million
aire movie executive and plane
maker, flew them to a home on
the desert for the quiet cere-~
mony.
Thus within & week, two of
Hollywood’s most eligible men
were scratched from the bach
elor Hst. Last Tuesday Clark Ga
ble and the former Sylvia
Hawkes, widow of Douglas Fair
banks, sr., slipped away to be mar
ried at a ranch near Santa Bar
bara, Calif.
Preprations for the wedding of
Grant, who is nearly 46, and Miss
Drake, 26, were made so quietly
that Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Heb
bard, at whose home the rites
were performed, insisted they
didn’t know who was to be mar
ficd until the couple entered the
Jouse,
The single ring ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Stanley H.
S m ith, Methodist minister.
Hughes was best man, The bride
was unattended.
After an informal reception,
the wedding party returned to
Hughes’ plane and flew back to
Hollywood. Their flight plans
were kept so secret that no pho
tographer or newsmen met them
when they landed near here.
Abdullah Leaves
For Baghdad
AMMAN, Hashemite Jordan,
Dec. 26 — (AP) — King Abdullah
left here today for Baghdad, Iraq.
A government spokesman said the
visit is of “a political nature.”
Abdullah, who was accompanied
by the Interior and Education
Ministers, is expected to stay in
the Iraq capital about five days.
ESCAPED CONVICT CAPTURED
Police Action Widespread
During Christmas Weekend
By ED THILENIUS
Police activity during the
Christmas weekend was varied
and wide-spread, the foremost in
cident being the capture of an es
caped convict wanted in a majori
ty of the Southeastern states for
bad checks.
Being held in the Clarke county
jail is H, H. Tolbert, former Ath
enian who told arresting officers
that he “could tell them where he
wasn't wanted lot easier -than
where he was.”
Tolbert was arrested by City
Detective Walter McKinnon, jr.
and Officer Coile Barrett, who
were deputized by Sheriff Tommy
Huff to work on the case.
The two officers arrested Tol=
bert at a service station near
Statham. They had information
that he was headed toward Athens
in a green 1948 Chevrolet pickup
truck. The truck was spotted out=
side the service station and Offi
cer Barrett recognized Tolbert de=
spite the fact that he was parti
ally disguised by dark glasses.
Tolbert escaped from prison in
Florida last July, Durine rvecant
months, Chief of Police Clarence
Roberts sald that he wa:h::fim
passing numerous bad for
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Ice-laden trees bend to the ground to
block this street in Quiney, 111., after
storm which all but isolated the city from
the outside world. Many sections of the
Couple Gives
Each Relative
- SI,OOO Check
OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 26.—
(AP)—Mr, and Mrs, Ezra Rich
ardson celebrated Christmas by
giving each of 82 relatives a
check for SI,OOO. The couple
have no living children of their
own,
Richardson is a retired mer
chant, He said he and his wife
have given away more than
$560,000 since they began the
custom of cash Christmas gifis
to nieces, nephews and other
relatives,
J. A. Roland
Services Held
In Crawford
Funeral services were conducted
this afternoon at 8 o’clock from
Crawford Baptist Church for J. A.
(Pete) Roland, 90, prominent
Crawford resident who died in a
local hospital yesterday morning
after an illness of two weeks.
Rev. J. H. Wyatt, pastor of Lex~-
ington Baptist Church, officiated,
assisted by Rev. J. Ray Melear,
pastor of Crawford Methodist
Church, and Rev. David Jordan,
pastor of Crawford Baptist
Church. Interment was in Craw=-
ford cemetery. o
Pall-hearers were Ralph Bray,
W. M. Faust, J. P. Stokely, J. W.
Stockton, C. R. Crawford, C. S.
Howard, sr.; C. B. Hargrove, and
O. J. Simms. Honorary pall-bear
ers were W. W. Armstead, M.
Blanchard, Earnest L. Bray, J. T.
Faust, E. H, Furcron, J. L. Harris,
E. S. Hurt, and W. A. Wall, dea
cons of Crawford Baptist Church.
Mr. Roland is survived hy a
daughter, Mrs. G. L. Rice, Craw=-
ford; a son, A. G. Roland, sr,
Crawford; and a grandson, A. G.
Roland, jr., also of Crawford.
Mr. Roland was born in Augus
ta, and had lived in Crawford for
the past 81 years. He was a well
known merchant in Crawford for
70 years, and was affectionately
known by the entire community as
“Brother Pete.” Mr. Roland was
a senior deacon in the Crawford
Baptist Church, and took an ac
tive part in the affairs of his
church.
Bernstein Funeral Home ig in
charge of arrangements.
son, Madison and Clarke. He is
also wanted in other states for
investigation on bad check charges
and other crimes.
Sheriff Huff said he had several
warrants for Tolbert in this coun
ty. .
Break-In Here
Chief Roberts also reported that
New Way Dry Cleaners the victim
of burglars during the weekend.
An unestimated amount of clean=
ing and flat work was taken, com=
pany officials told police.
Chief Roberts said that how the
burglars entered the plant was
still a mystery. He said that the
back door bolts from the inside
and the front door locks both from
the inside and outside with ad=-
mission only by key.
A negro nightwatchman, who
sleeps In the building, told police
he heard nothing that night. Both
doors to the plant were found un=
locked the morning after the burg=-
lary, Chief Roberts said.
Recorder’s Court
Drunkenness and disorderly
conduct charges headed the dock~
et in Recorder’s Court today as
Judge Olin Price heard 24 cases.
A total of 14 cases were for
drunkenness, with a majority of
the defendants forfeiting $10.78
Six cases concerned disorderly
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
city are still without power and heat
although communication has been restor
ed.— (AP Wirephoto.)
Weather Is
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Entire Nation.
By The Associated Press
The last day of the long Christ
mas holiday began with typical
winter weather all over the na
tion. How good that is depends
on where you are.
For instance, if you're used to
being around Inernational Falls,
Minn,, it was 18 below midnight
Sunday. That’s close to normal
winter temperatures for Inter
national Falls, At the other ex
treme, it was 73 in Miami. It was
35 in Chicago, 50 at Little Rock,
44 at Los Angeles.
A nartow belt of rain extended
northeastward from northern
Texas across most of Illinois and
ending in lower Michigan. Fore
casters. figured the rain belt
would move eastward and warm
up the East Coast. There was &
50-mile wide strip of snow fore~
cast as forming over lowa, Illi
nois and Indiana.
Northern Utah, southern Idaho
and northern Minnesota were
blanketed in snow.
Earthquake
Felt In L. A.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26—(AP)
—Residents in the southwest sec
tion of Log Angeles wera ghalken
early today by a strong earthe
quake,
Police switchboards were flood
ed with calls from anxious citi
zens. Several reported that their
beds rolled and at the Loos Angeles
International Airport, a spokes
man said the jolt practically
“shook their shoes off.” Police in
the Inglewood, El Segundo and
Westchester districts said there
were no reports of damage.
INMATES RETURN
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 26—
(AP)—Nineteen inmates of the
city jail were released Saturday,
recipients of Christmas Eve par
dons. But police said 13 of them
were behind bars again today.
Most were jailed again on
drunkenness charges, some within
a few hours after their release.
conduct, with four of the defend=
ants being fined $10.75, one being
placed on probation and the other
forfeited a $25.75 bond.
Defendants charged with reck
less driving and speeding forfeited
bonds of $15,75.
Judge Price announced that
there will be Recorder’s Court to
morrow. “
City police reported one humor
ous incident concerning a defend
ant pickup for drunkenness last
night. Officers Carl Allgood and
Ralph Veale found the defendant
lying on Meigs street, out cold. An
ambulance was summoned and he
wag rushed to the hospital. Upon
arrival there he cpened his eves
and smiled at the officers and
commented: “Merry Christmas.”
He was promptly carried to the
stockade in the ambulance where
he was booked on a charge of
drunkenness. He had not proper=
Ly recovered to appear in court to
ay.
Prisoners at the Clarke ecounty
jall were served a first rate
Christmas dinner yesterday, Sher
iff Bull reported.
He iisted the menu as folows:
in:urkey, cra_gbe'rri sauce, dress
gravy, Engiish peas, fruii,
cake, c:ndies. fresh frulis and
nuts plus a plentiful supply of
coffee, -
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1949.
Miss Thurmond In
Serious Condition
Dean Drewry Silent On His Former
Wife’s Story of Reconciliation
Miss Miriam Thurmond, Agricultural College secretary
and a member of one of Clarke county’s most highly re
spected families, today was still fighting for her life as a
patient in Athens General Hospital, the victim of bullet
gou;lds received Friday night at her home on Milledge
ircle.
Meantime, Dean John E. Drew
ry, of the Henry Grady School
of Journalism, who was visiting in
the home of Miss Thurmond and
her mother, Mrs, Dewey Thur~
mond, when Miss Thurmond was
shot, and who also is a patient at
General Hospital, was reportedly
out of danger. Dean Drewr%.hwu
shot, at the same time Miss Thur
mond was wounded.
According to Sheriff Tommy
Huff and Police Chief Clarence
Roberts, Mrs. Kathleen Drewry,
former wife of Dean Drewry has
admitted having shot the two well
known Athenians.
Shortly after the shooting, Mrs.
Drewry: told Ed Thilenius, -city
editor of The Banner-Herald, that
prior to the shooting, on the same
night, she and Dean Drewry and
their son had had supper together.
She said they were to have been
married again soon. Meanwhile,
Dean Drewry has not confirmed
his former wife’s statement about
re-marriage or reports of their
reconciliation. Miss Thurmond is
too ill to make any comment.
Dean Drewry told police Friday
night, shortly after the shooting,
that his divorced wife entered the
living room of the Thurmond
home where he and Miss Thur
mond were sitting and began
shooting and called them both
horrible names.
Divorced In July
The Drewrys were divorced by
Clarke Superior Court action last
July, the suit having been brought
by Mrs. Drewry, Since that time
Mrs. Drewry, and her 17-year-old
son, Milton, have resided in the
Drewry residence on Milledge
avenue, while Dean Drewry has
lived in.an apartment in a private
home.
_According to information ob
tained by the police and Sheriff
Huff, Mrs. Drewry went to the
Thurmond residence about 10
o’clock last Friday night, entered
the front door and walked into the
living room where Dean Drewry
and Miss Thurmond sat talking.
With a five-shot .32 caliber re
volver, which she is said to have
had in her possession, Mrs. Drewry
opened fire upon her former hus
band and Miss Thurmond. Dean
Drewry was wounded in three
places.. Miss Thurmond was
wounded twice. Dean Drewry’s
wounds, while serious, are not
considered critical.. Miss Thur
mond underwent an operation of
several hours duration and is still
in a serious condition, it is said.
Miss Thurmond’s mother, who
with her daughter, has for some
time been on the secretarial staff
at the University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture, and Extension
Division, was in another part of
their home when the shooting oc
curred, She is said to have stated
that she heard the shooting but
thought it was large firecrackers
expolding.
Married 23 Years
Dean and Mrs. Drewry were
Reward For
* 0
Xmas Spirit
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 26.—
(AP)—Sam Crews, a Richmond
contractor, decided to find out
about the Christmas spirit.
Dressed with an overgrowth of
beard, a torn jacket and shabby
pants, Crews approached a shoe
shine boy. He asked for a shine,
but said he couldn’t spare a dime
for one.
The youngster shook his head.
Crews moved on to another negro
shoeshiner, The eame guestion
et e e
And for 12-year-old Douglas
Anderson, who agréeed o give a
free shine, it brought ten silver
dollars. It was Crews’ reward for
having found the Christmas spirit
415 Persons Die In Holiday
Accidents Throughout Nation
War Declaration
Permit Granted
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, DOMINI
CAN REPUBLIC, Dec. 26—(AP)
—The dominican congress grant
ed President Rafael Trujillo au
thority today to declare war
against any nation which know
ingly harbors conspirators plan=
ning to overthrow his government.
The president requested the au=-
thority on Dec. 12 and said it
would be used only when a nation
fails to break up such invasion
conspiracies. His message at the
time, read before a joint session
of the Senate and chamber of de=-
puties, singlea out Cuba and Gua=,
temala as -countries which had
given aid and comfort to contin
gents of plotters against the Do
minican Republic.
married iwenty-three years ago,
when he was an instructor at the
University. Since that time Pro
fessor Drewry has developed from
a class in advertising which he
taught when he first became a
member of the faculty, one of the
nation’s leading Schools of Journ
alism, He is also author of sev=
eral books on journalism, has been
largely responsible for develop~
ment of the Press Institate into
one of the leading publi¢ forums
in the country and founded the
George Foster Peabody Radio
Award, comparable with the Pul
itzer prize in journalism. He is 47,
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Mrs.McConnell
Dies; Rites
Tuesday A. M.
Mrs. J. C. McConnell, a native
of Hart County but a resident of
Athens for the past twenty years,
died at the home of her son, H. G.
McConnell, here Sunday afternoon
following an extended illness.
A member of the Baptist
Church of Cariton, Georgia,
Mrs. McConnell was active
in church affairs until fail
ing health prevented continuation
of such activity. She had many
friends and acquaintances in Ath
ens who will regret to learn of her
passing. She was 80 years of age.
Mrs. McConnell was a warm na
tured person who was happiest
when surrounded by her friends
and relatives. For the past several
years she had been an invalid.
Services will be held at the
graveside in Oconee Hill Ceme
tery Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock
Rev. G. M. Spivey of Young Har
ris Methodist Church officiating.
Pall-bearers are James Farmer,
Robert Farmer, Broughton Power,
J. W. Johnson, Olin Price and
Upson Sanders.
Survivors are two daughters,
Mrs. Upson Sanders, Athens, and
Mrs., Flora Thomas, Athens; two
sons, H. G. McConnell, Athens,
and J. O. McConnell, Carlton,
Georgia; and several grandchil
dren, among them being Mrs. Olin
Price of Athens.
Bernstein Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
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nated anthronologist, has been
elected Woman of the Year in
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choose the year's outstanding
women.— (AP Wirephoto.)
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Nine Deaths
By The Associated Press
Every eight minutes — during
the remainder of this three-day‘
Christmag holiday — someone in
the United States will die a vio=
lent death.
A life will be lost either in a
traffic accident, in a fire or
through some awful violence.
That’s the pattern of violent
deaths this holiday week-end
since the Associated Press began
its nation-wide survey Friday, 6
p. m. (local time).
It was a short holiday for at
least 415 persons. Traffie acci=
dents killed 312 of them. Fires
ended life for 57 and 46 others
were killed in a variety of acci
dents.
The National Safety Council
has estimated that traffic mis
haps would kill 435 by midnight
Monday. Ouring the Christmas
holiday last year—observed for
two days—396 accidental deaths
were recorded, 277 in ftraffic ac
cidents and 119 in fires. For the
first 10 months of 1949, the Coun
cil said, 83 persons were killed
or succumbed to injuries sustain
ed in accidents every 24 hours—
about one every 18 minutes,
Seven Perish
This Christmas saw a family of
seven perish in a blaze at San
Antonio, Texas. A mother and
her six children lost their lives
when flames destroyed their
three-room house Saturday.
Four negroes perished early
Christmas morning in a fire
which attacked three houses in
Newark, N. J.
The death list by states, with
traffic fatalities first, fire second
and miscellaneous third included:
Alabama 5-10; Florida 3-0-1:
South Carolina 8-1-3; Tennessee
10-3-1; Georgia 8-1-0; Illinois
27-0-2; Indiana ‘2-1-3; Kansas
'441-0; Maryland 4~1-0; Missouri
52-1; Ohio 25-0-3; South Dakota
3-0-0; Virginia 9-0-2; Wisconsin
4-1-0; Massachusetts 5-1-4; North
Carolina 14-2-3.
Husband, Wife,
Baby Aboard
Missing Plane
PENDLETON, Ore.,, Deec. 26—
(AP)—The snow-covered moun
tains of eastern Oregon were
scanned today for a plane in which
Sgt. Frank Eaton, his wife, and
baby wvanished on a flight home
for Christmas.
Eaton, {rying fc reach Lake
Tahoe, Calif, for Christmas with
his parents, took off from Walla
Walla, Wash. in clouding weather
Sah.g-.day morning, saying “I guess
'y it
But the weather closed in, and
the LaGrande, Ore. airport, where
he expected to stop, was obscured
by the time he was due there. He
was never sighted by the Ontario,
Ore. airport—which he expected
to reach at 1:45 p. m. Saturday.
Planes took off from eastern
Oregon and Washington towns to
day to hunt the missing plane.
Ten planes searched yesterday un
til a snowfall stopped the hunt.
Eaton, an Army sergeant at
Spokane, Wash., left there Sat
urday and refueled at Walla
Walla. His plane was a single-en~
gined Luscombe,
IN INDEPENDENCE
Statue Of Jackson
Awarded By Truman
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Dec. 26
(AP)—President Truman, in a
speech devoid of controversial
matters, today formally presented
Jackson county with a 12-foot
equestrian statue of Andrew Jack
son.
The statue was unveiled by his
daughter, Margaret Truman, in
ceremonies on the courthouse
lawn here.
Sheriff’s deputies estimated ap
proximately 1,500 persons were
massed around the courthouse.
Mr. Truman said it was “a very
great pleasure” for him to come
here and present the statue.
* He recalled that his daughter
unveiled an even larger Jackson
statize on the eourthouse lawn in
Kansas city in 1934 and told the
audience that he was extremely
happy that she could perform the
same function here.
5-Minute Speech
Mpr. Truman, who spoke for
about five minutes, recalled some
early Jackson county history. He
said the first courthouse in Inde
pendence was built for $l5O and
that $7.50 was spent for four gal
lons of whiskey and tin cups to
drink it with when the building
was dedicated.
Mrs. Truman accompanied the
President and Miss Truman to the
ceremony. Afterwards, he went
inside the courthouse for the un
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Pope Pius XII (center) reading his annual Christmas
message before the Sacred College of Cardinals in Vat:
ican City, Rome. He urged the world to make the issq
Holy Year a turning peint towards peace.—(NEA Telés
photo.)
Pope Opens 1950
Catholic Jubilee
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 26.—(AP)—Pope Pius XII, m
tinuing his strenuous four-day program that heralded
began the Catholic Church’s 1950 Jubilee, today reeecived
10,000 Seminarists and led them fn a visit to Saint Peter's
Basilica. :
Meantime, in Italy, as through
out the world, Catholic organiza
tions put into action the Pope’s
expressed hope that “all men” be
brought -to the Catholic Church
during its holy year “of the Great
Return and the Great Pardon.”
In Ttaly, where leaders of thel
world’s second largest Communist
party are striving to minimize Ho
1y Year, Catholic action planned to
intensify its efforts to cenvert
those fallen away from the church
—including Communists and athe
ists.
Pope’s Bull
The Pope's holy year bull o
Catholies throughout the world
asked that broad petition be made
(to God) that “all those who are
still outside the Catholic Church”
may be brought into it.
Vittorino Veronese, president of
Ttaly’s Catholic Action, whose
supreme head is the Pope, said
today that his organization’s con
stant goal of making conversions
would be intensified during Holy
Year,
The crusade, he said, “wiil be
‘an individual apostolate—one of
person to person.”
~ “Each one of our members,” he
said, “will strive to clarify, to
| elucidate and to bring back to the
‘church those who have fallen
away, those who are confused.”
The organization’s tactics thus
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eviling of a portrait of himself, He
formerly served as presiding
judge of Jackson county -court,
the county administraticve agency.
In the outside ceremony, Mr.
Truman recalled that the 12-foot
statue since it was toc large too
him by the sculptor Charles Keck,
who made it as a preliminary to
the larger statue in Kansas eity.
Mr. Truman related that he had
difficuity fintding a wse for the
statue since it was too large to
put .n the house or the front yard.
He said he thought it was just
about the right size for the court
house lawn here but that previous
county courts had not accepted
his offer.
Brief Introduction
Mayor Roger Sermon of Inde
pendence, an old crony, introduced
Mr. Truman with:
“Ladies and gentiemen, the Pre
sident of the United States.”
The crowd cheered both the
President “and Sermon for the
bevity of the speech, and Mr. Tru
man remarked:
“That's the shortest speech I
avear hoaar.. vay make in mv life”
The weather was clear and cold.
about 23 degrees above zero. It
had begn 18 dasrscs in Tndonen.
dence eariier in the day when Mt
Truman ' took '~ his customary
morning walk., -
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EDITION
Two Killed,
1 Hurt In
Plane Crash
SLIDELL, Tex., Dec. 26—ial}
—Two men Wweéié Riuea anu =
third was seriously injíwhz
a private plane from San ARk
crasned on ithe Bproles Ranch noas
this northeast ’f,exu town early
last night. : /
Mrs. F. J. Hickerson, telephon@
operator here, said the fourth oce
cupant of the piane, a son of 13
of the dead, wandered dazedly
night. He was picked up today
and brought to Slidell where he
gave the alarm.
The dead:
Maj. George Grupei 47, San An=
gelo chiropractor an [
mander of the West 'fexas (gi'::
Air Patrol.
Dr. William L. McLaughlin of
Big Spring, Tex.
Seriously hurt was James Thome
as Livingston, 18, of San Angelo,
a Texae Christian University stu=
dent.
" These three were pinned in the
plane. >
George J. Grupe, 18, son of Dr,
Grupe, was thrown free. He wane
dered around the country and was
picked up by J. L. Leverton of
\Slidell. He was brought to Sli=-
dell at 7:45 a. m. and reported that
}he believed ‘Dr. McLaughlin dead
and that his father had two legs
broken.
Rescuers went to the scene im=
mediately. They found both the
older men dead. Livingston was
in a serious condition from ex=
posure.
The accident occurred at 6:35 p.
m. (CST) Sunday.
LOST CREWMEN
RIO DE JANERIO, Deec. 26 —
(AP) — Brazilian Airlines today
gave up for lost four crewmen of
a DC-3 plane missing since last
Monday on a test flight between
here and Victoria. The flight or
dinarily takes one hour and a half,
3, |
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and cool with fog
and light rains teonight and
Tuesday. Low tonight 46, high
Tuesday 54. Sun sets 5:30 and
rises 7:37.
GEORGIA—CIoudy and coel
with occasional light rain this
afterncon, tonight and Tuesday,
becoming partly cloudy and
warmer in south portion Tues
day afternoon. :
TEMPERATURE
Highest .:.. .ii ¢iun 000
Lowest « ... #:s% cere ...60
MEAN covoe svon seis abn Gl
Normal ... wuis . e .'-“
RAINFALL -~ a&vi.
Inches last 24 hours 4. .. .59
Total Since Dec. 3 -.4 e e ’-‘s‘g
Deficit since Dec. 1 .. ... 1.00
Average Dec. rzinfall .... 457
Total since Jahuary I“w
Deficit since January 3 e 809