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" WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 8.-—-\ ‘S' ) —Hundreds of
blocks of this great prairie city lay benedth 3 sea of muddy
water today 88 troops and ewilian volunteers worked,
wearily to bolster sagging levees against a new flood threat
from North Dakota and Minnesota.
Silt-laden water swirled through many Winnipeg streets,
paralyzing communications and transport on the outskirts,
and authorities warned that the worst is yet to come.
TAXES, LIQUOR
STATE PAYROLL
FLECTION KEY
Voters Can Write
Own Ticket On Sales
Tax Bill For Georgia
ATLANTA, May 8. — (AP) =
Georgia’s 1950 battle for the gov
ernorship is spinning around
taxes, election laws, state payrolls
and liquor.
With four candidates hitting
full campaign steam over the
veek-end, . opposing platform
blanks were hung out today for
11 to see—compare—and shoot - at,
And for the first time in Geor=-
ia, voters can write their own
icket on a sales tax, Former Gov=-
rnor M. E. Thompson and State
ep. C, O. (Fat) Baker of Athens
ire shouting boldly for this storm
rrovoking levy.
They say other candidates are
promising Georgia voters the
moon but don’t have the “cour
age” to say how they will get the
cash.
Governor Herman Talmadge
simply doesn’t mention a sales
tax. But he says he’s against put
ting taxes on people least able to
pay “until all other methods are
exhausted.”
And a fourth contestant, Rome
attorney Pat Avery, bitterly and
specifically fights any sales tax.
And there’ll be lots of thunder
before the June 28 Democratic
orimary about the state payroll.
Thompson and the other Talmadge
oes say the Governor has added
1,000 state workers who work for
Falmadge politicg instead of the
eople, They call them “useless
‘eadbeats.”
Talmadge comes back for a
ead-on collision on this one, “I
‘ant to say here and now,” he
ays, “that we are not apologizing
) anyone.”
The governor says he has cut
nployes in less essential depart
ients but added 1,016 school
>achers, 351 doctors, nurses and
ther employes at Milledgeville
tate Hospital, 100 at Battey Hos
ital, 253 new University System
rofessors and other workers, and
61 new highway planners and en
‘ineers,
He suggests that caring for hos
sital patients and teaching the
itate’s children and building roads
is hardly “useless.”
Liquor Issue
Liquor, yes, one candidate—
Avery—is beating the drums for
outright prohibition. As yet he
hasn't stirred the others into any
position on this delicate point.
On election laws, again its Tal
madge against the field. Thomp
son says point-blank the Gover
nor is trying to “steal” this year’s
election, He hits a law letting the
Talmadge-controlled State Demo
cratic Committee pick its own
primary date, a law letting this
committee rather than the courts
decide who is eligible for gover=
nor and who wins, and the state’s
re-registration law,
The 1947-48 Governor says all
this smacks of a ruthless political
machine, & dictatorship.
Talmadge had little to say
(Continued on Page Four)
InTrain Wreck ‘
NEW DELHI, India, May 8 —
(AP)—Sabotage was blamed by
investigators today for India’s
worst train wreck in which at
least 82 persons died yesterday.,
The crack Punjab mail train
plunged 50 feet from a bridge in
Bihar State. The chief of the Bihar
Criminal Investigation Bureau said
saboteurs had removed fishplates
holding the rails together.
Eighty-two bodies had been re
covered today and more victims
were believed buried in the wreck=
age. More than 100 were injured. |
A. Q. Ansari, Bihar Minister of
Relief and Rehabilitation, said
nearby villagers began looting
among the dead and injured until
he ordered his personal body
guard to open fire. Ansari was
on the train but escaped injury.
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Of Kiwanis Meet
Jesse D, Jewel, Gainesville, will
speak to members of Athen Ki-
Wanis Club on “Poultry” at the
“Zgular weekly meeting tomorrow
at one o’clociy: in the N and N
o tary
van Noy Wier, club secre s
said “Mr. Jewel has had possibiy
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
The city may face two flood
crests as spring torrents pour down
the Red River from the rain
soaked Northern United States.
The first crest is expected within
the next few days.
Meanwhile, the Canadian Army
warned some 1,500 residents in
low lying areas to flee at once be
cause the dikes might break at
any time. More than 4,400 per
sons already have been evacuated
from their homes, from hospitals
and from the city jail.
An estimated 4,000 other per
sons have fled from a dozen smali
Canadian towns engulfed by flood
waters in the 60-mile stretch from
the U. S. border to Winnipeg.*
Brig. R. E. A. Morton, flood re
lief director, said water 23 feet
deep might soon pour over dam
aged sections of the dike protecting
low-lying residential districts of
suburban Norwood and East Kil
donan.
“The danger is real,” he said.
“Everything is continuing to be
done to prevent a calamity.”
More than 2,000 Winnipeg homes
‘already have been abandoned to
the flood and damage estimates
‘range into millions of dollars.
~ The river rose two inches yes
‘terday to a level of 27.3 feet —
‘more than nine feet above flood
stage. Authorities said they ex
‘pected the first crest might add
four more feet.
Relief supplies are being poured
into Winnipeg—a city of 350,000—
frrom all over the Dominion. The
Royal Canadian Airforce is flying
in bedding and food for the refu
gees, who are crowded into rail
way cars, hotel dining rooms and
private houses.
Huge pumps have been flown
in from Canadian Naval installa
tions on the West Coast. =
Three officers of the American
and Canadian Red Cross arrived
by plane yesterday so inspect the
city’s relief set-up.
Colin Herrle of Washington, D.
C., National Director of Disaster
Relief for the American Red Cross,
came to see what contributions will
be needed from the U. S.
City Engineer W. D. Hurst said
the river would have to climb an
other 10 feet before the whole flat
prairie city would be under water.
No one has predicted the river
would go that high.
.
One Killed In
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Politics Dispute
MILLEN, Ga., May B—(AP)—A
70-year-old man and his son-in
law got into a shooting argument
yesterday over the respective mer
its of Gov. Herman Talmadge and
former Gov. M. E. Thompson. The
son-in-law was killed and the
older man seriously wounded.
The dead man was Seab L. New
tonton, 57-year-old Newton county
farmer. Newton's father-in-law,
Lee Practor, was hit twice with
bullets from a.. 38 caliber revolver.
He was reported in serious condi
tion in a Millen hospital.
Deputy Sheriff Walter Johnson
said Newton’s widow told him the
men had been arguing about Tal
madge and Thompson, bitter poli
tical rivals currently campaigning
for Governor.
The deputy added no warrant
had been taken out and no in
quest held. S
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
State Drama Festival
To Be Here This Week
Converging on Athens May 12
and 18 will be hundreds of high
school and college students and
their coaches for the first state
drama festival sponsored by the
University of Georgia’s Drama De
partment.
. The students will attend lectures
and panel discussions by eminent
educators and professional theatre
people; they will attend the final
perfermance of the University
Theatre’s MURDER IN THE
CATHEDRAL; and they them
selves will provide the core of the
festival material; their own one
acts. Altogether, six one-acts will
be presented by high school stu
dents and their coaches.
On May 12, three one-act plays
by high schools in the state will
be presented. O'Keefe High School
(Atlanta) will present “Jinxed”
under the direction of Mrs, Clara
W. Dunn; Washington Seminary
will do “Wrong Numbers” directed
by Miss Ruth Draper; and San
dersville High School will present
“Tost Victory” directed by Mrs.
Gladys W. Thomason. A lecture
on the problems of stage lighting
will follow, delivered by Paul A.
Camp and Charlie Parker, Macon,
an honor student in stage lighting.
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SHE WAS LOST AND FOUND
Two-year-old Anna Pearl Thorpe indicates by her dis
mayed expression that it’s no fun being lost in snake in
fested woods overnight. Searchers found her, minus her
clothes, wandering in a field three miles from her Dun
bar, Pa., home. Her mother, Mrs. Bessie Thorpe, 31,
holds her tight to be sure she doesn’t get away again,—
(AP Wirephoto.)
Acheson Begins Talks
With French Leaders
U. S. Secretary Seeking More Aid
For Indochina Fight Against Reds
PARIS, May B.—(AP)—U. S. Secretary of State Ache
son began a round of cold war talks today on French pleas
for speedy American assistance against Communism in
Indochina. In return, diplomatic sources said, the United
States wants a guarantee of genuine independence for the
Indochinese. ;
Acheson flew into Paris yesterday for Western diplo
matic conferences which will shift Thursday to London,
The meetings will deal with ways to contain Communist
expansion all over the world. LT RP T e
"Uncle Remus™
Highway Meet
Here Tomorrow
Members of the Uncle Remus
Highway Association (Federal
441) will arrive .in Athens late
this afternoon for the Annual
Meeting of that organization which
will begin with a dinner at the
Holman Hotel tonight at 7:30
when Morton S. Hodgson will de
liver the principal address and
committees will be appointed by
President Robert Cowart of Doug
las, Georgia.
The first business session of the
organization will be held at 10
o’clock tomorrow morning in the
Auditorium of the Chamber of
' Commerce when plans will be
made for promoting tourist and
other traffic on Federal 441 and
officers and directors for the new
year will be elected. The meeting
will adjourn with a luncheon at
1:00 o’clock tomorrow in the Geor
gian Hotel.
Representatives from the prin
cipal points along the route from
Gatlinburg, Tennessee to Lake
City, Florida are expected. The
committee in charge of arrange
ments is composed of E. D. New-~
ton, W. G. Sailors, and John C.
Stiles.
Washington Seminary (Atlanta)
will speak on “Proper Play Selec
tion for Secondary Schools”, Fol
lowing her address, {hree more
one-act plays will be done: El
berton, Ga. will present “The Skin
Game” directed by Charles C.
Bell; Winder, Ga. will do “The
Happy Journey” directed by Mrs.
Colleen Williams; and Wrights
ville, Ga. will present “A Marriage
Proposal” under the supervision
of Mrs. A. F, Flanders.
Dr. George Beiswanger, until
recently Associate Editor of
Theatre Arts magazine, will be
the principal spezker in Athens
Friday 12 at a banquet held in
connection with the State Drama
Festival. Dr. Beiswanger who will
speak at 6:30 p. m. in Dawson Hall
has announced that he will talk on
the “Goals for College Drama”.
At 3:30, May 12, Paul Jones of
the Atlanta Constitution will lead
a round table discussion on “The
Professional Theatre in the
South?”; on his panel will be
Elshbeth Hoffman and Don Gib
son, founders and producers of the
Atlanta Penthouse Theatre; Robert
Blackburn of Abingdon, Va., a
Barter Theatre player and the
1949 Barter Theatre Award Win
ner (selected by Tal!ulah(Bank
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., MONDAY, MAY 8, 1950.
_ But Acheson’s meeting with
‘}French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman today was reported to
deal primarily with Indochina.
The French have been fighting a
stalemated jungle war there since
1946 against the guerrilla forces of
Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh.
The U. S. Secretary of State
met Schuman armed with the ap
parently firm U. S. government
conviction that Bao Dai, the
French-sponsored ruler of the In
dochinese state of Vietnam, must
be made a more valid symbol of
opposition to Communism.
Bao Dai’s regime is opposed by
Ho’s jungle government, which is
recognized by Moscow, Commun~
ist China and most of the Soviet
satellite nations. Many Nationalis
tic indochinese have neen reluctant
to throw in their lot with Boa Dai
because of the French so far have
granted only limited autonomy
to _Ql_? French-backed regime.
Diplomatic informants said Ach
eson wil ask Schuman for assur
ance that steps toward independ
ence will be taken as fast as the
Guerrilla war allows.
U. S. Policy
Americans have stated repeat
edly that United States policy con=
tains not the slightest suggestion
of oposition to the French union
which links metropolitan France
with her overseas territories.
All Acheson wants to know now,
informed sources said, is whether
Indochina will get true independ
ence, with the French Union re
tainix:g only some diplomatic links |
like the British Commonwealth,
or whether America is being asked |
to foot the bill for French colonial
conquest. ‘
So far President Truman has
promised $15,000,000 for Indochina
from a $75,000,000 fund appropri
ated by Congress to help stem
Communism in thé Far East.
French statesmen complain bit
terly such aid is too little and too
slow. They said failure to provide
more aid, and promptly, may re
sult in a Communist victory in
Indochina — opening the way for
Red domination of Thailand, Bur
ma and the Malayan peninsula.
Sources close to the conferences
expressed doubt that any final
decision will be reached on Ache~
son’s visit here.
The largest pre-sale banquet in
the history of the Georgia Jersey
Cattle Club was held in the Hol
man Hotel last night.
A total of 83 members attended
the affair, which was followed by
a directors meeting.
Auction sale of some of Geor
gia’s finest Jersey cattle began
shortly after noon today in Harde
man Hall with former Governor
Jim McCord, of Tennessee, acting
as auctioneer.
Between $15,000 and $20,000
worth of prime beef is expected
to be sold at the 22nd annual sale
of the Georgia Jersey Cattle Club
with about 50 aniinals being put
on the block. . . !
STORMY FEPC MEASURE
TAKEN UP BY SENATE
Sen. Thomas Lead-off Speaker:
Southerners Ready Filibuster
WASHINGTON, May B—(AP)—Senator Thomas (D-
Utah) launched the administration drive today to bring a
fair employment practices bill before the Senate—with
southern lawmakers organized to fight.
Thomas told the Senate that discrimination in employ
ment is a flagrant wrong which fairly shouts for a remedy.
And he denied the proposal offered “the open or hidden
threat of a social revolution.”
The Utah Senator won the lead-~
of position as chairman of the Sen~
ate labor and public welfare com
mittee which reported the meas
ure—without recommendation—to
the Senate last October.
Up for action at the moment is
the motion of Senate Democratic
leader Lucas of Illnois to take up
the FEPC. The measure would set
up a commission to enforce a poli
¢y of non-discrimination in em
ployment,
Thomas said that although the
13-man labor committee reported
the bill without recommendgation,
eight members have indicated they
favor ifs passage.
“If the provisions (of the hill)
presented in any way the elements
of, or the open or hidden threat
of a social revolution,” he said “I
for one should be chary.”
And he added: “The proposal
before us contains all the guaran
ties of a polite launching of an
old established right, the right of
an equal place in our Democracy
for all its citizens in the matter
of consideration for that important
element of every man and woman’s
life—the getting and holding of
a job worthy of his talents.
“Discrimination in employment
because of the failure to give sub
stance to equality already abund
antly expressed is a statutory om
ission amounting to a flagrant
wrong, and fairly shouts for its
remedy.”
At the start, at least, the pro
ceedings were mild by comparison
with furious day-and-night ses
sion in the past when fillibustering
southerners fought off repeate
attempts to force a vote.
Lu®as already has announced
that he pians no “round-the-clock
gession” and will allow debate to
run along all this week without
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Truman Takes
"Tough™ Walk
| ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN,
May B—(AP)—President Truman,
traveling in campaign style
through the midwest on his 66th
birthday, led newsmen on their
toughest walk to date at Chicago
today.
It was 6 a. m., Chicago time (6
a. m.) when the President’s train
reached the Rockwell yards where
it switched from the Baltimore
and ohio railroad to Burlington
tracks.
~ Ed McKim, Omaha Insurance
man, met the train, and Mr. Tru
man took a walk with him and
Bill Mox, a circulation official of
the Chicago Sun-Times, during
the hour and 10 minute Chicago
stop-over.
The President walked fully a
mile along the tracks, picking his
way along the ties like an old
hand.
Hungry newspapermen tagged
along. Their diner didn’'t even
have coffee at that hour.
No politicians showed up at the
yards and the President said he
hfdn‘t expected any in view of his
plans to speak in Chicago a week
from tonight.
The President’s train left Chica
go enroute to Galesburg, 111., at
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RITA NIGHTCLUBS AS ALY DENIES RIFT
Rita Hayworth, film star and wife of Prince Aly
Khan, applauds an act in a nightelub in Paris. She is
seated with James Gardiner (left), movie executive. In
Cannes, Aly denied emphatically a report printed in an
Italian newspaper that he and Rita are thinking about
getting a divorce. He said Rita is in Paris to buy some
dresses at a fashion house. Meanwhile in New York,
Katherine Dunham, right, Negro dancer, denied a pub
lished report that she had been receiving attentions from
Aly.— (AP Wirephoto by radio from Paris.) ¢4
Bulletin
ATLANTA, May B—(AP)-=
President R. G. Taber of the At
lanta Gas Light Co. said today
the company “desires and hopes”
to be able to deliver natural gas
to its customers in Athens by
early 1951.
Taber said details have been
cempleted on the franchise
signed by the company with
the city of Athens,
McCarthy Hurls New
Foreign Agent Charge
Accuses U. S. Foreign Minister
With Red Relations; Holds Name
WASHINGTON, May B.— (AP) —Senator McCarthy’s
new charge of “foreign agent” against a United States en
voy confronted Senate Communist investigators today.
McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican, made the accusation
at a news conference after a speech at Janegville in his
home state yesterday.
He did not identify the indivi
dual publicly, but described him
in a speech as “a United States
minister to a foreign country”
whose name he previously had
given to the Senate Foreign Re
lations Subcommittee investigating
his charges of Communism in the
State Department. :
That committee booked a meef
ing behind closed doors today to
arrange for starting a study of
State Department files made avail
able to the inquiry group by Pres
ident Truman. The files cover 81
persons — including the accused
envoy—cited by McCarthy as
either Communists, fellow travel
ers, or otherwise bad security
risks.
~ The committee also was to con
sider action on a recommendation
by its chief counsel, Edward P.
Morgan, that Earl Browder and
‘Frederick Vanderbilt Field be
cited for contempt of Congress.
Browder, former head of the
American Communist party, and
Field, New York millionaire, both
refused to answer several ques
tions when they were before the
committee. Senator Tydings (D.-
Md.), the chairman, called their
attitude an affront to the dignity
of the Senate.
The 81 cases on which the com
mittee will get State Department
files were outlined to the Senate
by McCarthy last Feb. 20. He
named no names then, but later
listed them for the inquiry group.
The names have not been made
public. |
in his speech to the Wisconsin
Federation of Young Republicans
at Janesville, McCarthy said the
U. S. envoy he accused was his
“case No. 2.”
He added that if the State De
partment would provide material
he said is missing from the file on
that case, the man “would be fired
immediately.” He said the file
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Ares’
Cleveland Garrison is a pretly
downhearted young fellow.
Cleveland has been working
after school hours for some time
to earn enough money to buy his
Boy Scout uniform. He is a
member of First Baptist Church
Scout troop.
One day last week Cleveland
had amassed five dollars, which
he intended to apply on his uni
form. The mony was clipped to
Cleveland’s Boy Scout card.
Cleveland lost the money and
it had taken a good while and
lots of work to earn that money.
Cleveland hopes that whoever
found the money and ecard will
get in touch with him at his
home in Park View Apartments
or go to the Boy Scout office in
the Shackelford building and
return him the money and card.
Four Killed
In Accidents
Over Weekend
By The Associated Press
Four persons—two motorists
and two pedestrians - died in
Georgia highway accidents over
the weekend. A fifth person was
killed by a tractor.
The pedestrians were John Man
shell, 42, of (109 Hamilton Ave.)
Waycross and John W. Davis, 69,
of Columbus. Manshell was killed
Saturday as he walked along U. 8.
‘highway 1 three miles south of
Waycross, Davis was killed Sun
day, also near Waycross.
The State Highway Patrol re
ported Mollie Basley, 26, of Bax
ley died Sunday in an automobile
accident two miles north of Bax
ley on U. S. Highway 1.
Louise Blackstock, 22, of Atlan
to was killed when she fell from
an automobile going about 20 miles
an hour on the Rex-Stockbridge
road, near Stockbridge.
The victim of the trac%or was
Mitchell Driskell, 55, conley. The
accident occured near Conley Sat
urday morning when the tractor
overturned, pinning Driskell un
derneath and caught fire.
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WASHINGTON, May B—(AP)—
Four Air Force Corporals have
been missing since they set out
late yesterday in a small row boat
on the Potomac River,
A search by planes and boats
was under way today.
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RIMOUSKI, Que., ml:!y.' B
(AP)—Stunned and weary resi=
dents of Rimouski poked through
blackened ruins today and zrom
ily predicted it would take 28 years
to recover from the economie blow
of a 30-hour fire that caused $20,«
000,000 damage and left 2,500 per~
so%s homeless.
Yy some miracle there were ne
deaths from the weekend fire in
this industrial city of 15,000.
But the flames swept through
312 homes and more than a score
of buildings and stores, large and
small. These included the four
story St. Joseph Hospital, the Sis
ters of Charity Orphanage, the
Rimouski Seminary, the Technical
School, Rimouski Hospital, two
:mtels and a motion picture thea
er.
It added up to one of the most
disastrous fires in Canadian his
tory. The western section of the
city was virtually wiped out.
The fire started -Saturday might.
probably when a power line snap
ped in a heavy wind and set fire
to two Urice brothers bighéumbex
mills, It raced through mills
and spread with almost unbeliev
able speed, whipped by winds that
reached 80 miles an hour.
The flames cut through the
western section of the city, des
troying one building after anoth
er. Through Saturday night and
all day Sunday firefighters bat
tled the flames. Amidst the smoke
and showering cinders thousands
of dazed residents loaded belong
ings on vehicles and fled. S
It was not until 20 minutes past
Sunday midnight that Maj. Gen.
R. O. G. Morton, officer eom
manding the Quebec command,
could announce the fire was under
control. .
Light Snow
A thin blanket of snow fell on
the still smoking ruins this morn
ing.
' Red Cross emergency head
quarters treated many persons for
wounds and minor injuries. During
the height of the fire Mrs. Bdouard
Portugais gave birth to a child.
She had to be moved three times
as the flames spread into buildings
where she was lodged.
Immediate problems for city of
ficials were care of the homeless
and finding jobs for the unem
ployed. They called special meet
ings to consider plans for a%ack
ing the twin troubles. The Army
has brought in blankets, tents and
medical supplies.
No Deaths
Early unofficial reports were
that 10 persons had perished in
the flames, but Army and Red
Cross authorities said a checkup
disclosed no deaths.
Townfolk told of a night of ter
ror when the blaze burst out of
the lumberyard and enveloped the
community.
“The whole town was red,” said
one witness. “There was a low
how! caused by the flames quite
apart from the wind itself. We
were sure the whole town would
burn.”
Another fire victim, Jean Yves
Marois, said: “When the fire came
it took only five minutes to burn
our house, We lost $25,000, ,t'l:-
cluding the house, furniture and
clothes.”
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Rotary Delegation
To Make Reports
Members of the Rotary Club
will hold their weekly lmcheon
meeting Wednesday at the N & N
Cafeteria at 1 p. m.
Reports on the recent Macon
Conference will be made by the
delegation which attended the
Conference from Athens.
DeMolays Plan
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Spring Dance
Frank Hardeman Chapter, Or
der of. DeMolay, will hold its
Spring dance on Friday night, May
19, it was announced today by
the committee in charge of Spring
entertainment.
Site of the dance h2s not yet
been announced, but the Georgia
Bulldogs’ orchestra will furnish
the music.
The Chapter will hold ifs an
nual Mothers’ Day sérvice this
Sunday at the Young Harris Meth
odist Church, when officers for
the ensuing four months will be
installed. .
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly cloudy and ecool fo
night and Tuesday. Low fonight
58, high tomorrow 78. Wednes
day partly clondy and warm.
Sun sets 7:23 and rises 5:36.
GEORGIA — Partly elot
and cooler this afternoen, 1
night and Tuesday, A few scat
tered W‘ in ex
treme sou ~aftersoomy i