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Little Hope For Break
in Heat Wave, Drought
ATLANTA, Aug. 31.—(AP)—More hot, fair weather
forecast for today gave Georgians little hope for a break
in the heat wave and drought.
The Weather Bureau reported that with the exception
of scattered localities, Georgia generally can be considered
in a state of drought. For the state as a whole, rainfall is
about three inches under normal for August.
Edlison B. Stone
Hamed Acting
Posimaster Here
Ellison B. Stone, who has been
connected with the Athens post
office for thirty-eight years be
comes acting Postmaster tomorrow
succeeding J. Fred Bishop, who
retires from active duty today.
Mr. Bishop joined the postof
fice staff June 1, 1909 and ‘has
sarved since that time. Prior to
becoming acting postmaster, suc
ceeding former Postmaster J. R.
Nvers, Mr. Bishop was superint
endent of mails.
Mr. Stone was appointed to suc
ceed Mr. Bishop as acting post
master by the U. S. Postoffice
Department upon recommendation
of Congressman Paul Brown. Mr.
Stone has been supervisor of
clerks Tor several years.
The appointment of a permanent
Postmaster has been in abeyance
for a year a half but it is ex
pected that an appointment will be
forthecoming soon. There are sev
eral applicants.
The year Mr. Bishop joined the
postoffice staff the annual re
ceipts amounted to almost $46,-
000.00. Last year the receipts
amounted to $254,000.00.
The staff at the present time
includes twenty-five clerks and
five substitutes in addition to the
Postmaster. There are eighteen
regular carriers in the city now
in addition to seven substitute
carriers .
At the time Mr. Bishop became
connected with the office there
were about seven city earriers and
the clerical staff was five times
smaller than it is today. The post
office then “oceupied the building
near the Georgian hotel, occupied
now by the U, S. Department of
Agriculture.
Bus Crash Kills
3, Injures Eight
KENOSHA, Wis, Aug. 31 —
(AP)—A greyhound bus rammed
into the rear of a smi-trailer truck
last night on double-laned high
way, 41, bringing death to three of
its 37 passengers. Kight more
hospitalized with injuries.
The truck driver, Carl H. Jack-
son, 47, of Martin’s Ferry, Ohio,
was held by Kenosha authorities.
He was slightly hurt.
Two of the dead were taken
from the wrecked bus. The third
died at Kenosha hospital. Two
were identified from papers in
their purses as Milwakee women—
Susan J. Duebig, about 70, and
Mrs. Elsie Blankenheim. The
third remained unidentified.
7th Polio Death
ATLANTA, Aug. 31—(AP)—
Grady hospital today reported its
seventh death from polio this year
—two-year-old Harold Blackmon,
The hospital also reported that
a new polio patient had entered
the contagion ward last night,
bringing the total to 22, There
have been 111 cases of polio re
ported in Fulton county this year.
France Needs Sherlock
To Solve 3 Mysteries
By ROBERT C. WILSON
PARIS, Aug. 31—(AP)—France
couid use a couple of Sherlock
Holmes’ today to help solve three
baffling mysteries which have
brought violent death to 17 per-
SONS.
Where did the grain come from
thot went into the bread in the
little southern town of Pont-Saint-
Esprit—Dbread that killed four per
sons and set at least 40 others
writhing in the agonies of “St. An
thony’s fire?”
Mrs. Besnard
Did kindly, matronly Marie
Besnard, 53, feed fatal doses of
arsenic to her two husbands and
10 other persons, including close
relatives, in-laws and friends?
They all died between 1927 and
1247 and Madame Besnard—now
in jail awaiting trial—acquired a
great deal of wealth during that
time, much of iti n legacies.
Is it the body of Madame Marta
Smigly-Rydz, that was found un
der a bridge on the Riviera in
July? If so—and police think it is,
though the head, legs and arms
are missing—who did it?
Police figure they’'ve got the
bread deaths partly cleared up.
The bread was poisoned by ergot,
Water The Dogwoods In Front Of Your Home Or Business
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Some areas are running about
normal because of numerous thun
dershowers, but in oth&rs ecrops
are reaching the critical stage for
want of rain.
Extreme Dryness
And with the dryness, Geor
gians are squirming uncomfort
ably in about-90 temperatures.
High readings yesterday included
Albany, 97; Columbus, 94; Augus
ta, Macon, Alma, and Rome, 93;
Savannah and Valdosta, 91, At
lanta, 92.
_ Many rivers and lakes in North
Georgia are reported at their low
est ebb in many months.
In the central Savannah river
area, crops, pastures and lawns
are withering and dying under the
merciless sun. Rainfall in that
area is off 2.71 inches for August
and 12.72 inches for the year —
or about one-third under normal.
Water Cut Off
Because of the sinking Savan
nah river, the city of Augusta has
been forced to cut off the supply
of water to several textile mills
along the Augusta industrial canal.
Frank Themas, superintendent
of the Augusta Trees and Parks
Department, said the dry weather
has placed the city’s some 25,000
azaleas in a critical condition.
The dry weather is coming like
the second half of a one-two
punch to trees and plants in North
Georgia already hurt by the past
winter’s extremely low tempera
tures.
Trees Die
Many hardy oaks have died for
lack of water, reported Fulton
County Agent S, D. Truitt. Many
of Atlanta’s famed dogwoods won’t
survive the dry spell, said land
scape gardner Frank A. Smith.
Corn and cotton in North Geor
gia have been hurt badly.
Georgia Power Company offi
cials said five major hydro-elec
tric generating plants in North
Georgia are maintaining a near
normal output because they are
being W daring pezulfl peri
-ods. . : %é‘me ought can
Be juligeds Chobebmar B o e
fact that plants have 18.7 per cent
less power this year.
Kentucky Night
Clubs Raided
NEWPORT, Aug. 31.—(AP)—
State police knocked off two
northern Kentucky night clubs
early today in the biggest gamb
ling raid in the force’s history,
Led by Guthrie Crowe, Com
missioner of State Police, they ar
rested 68 persons and confiscated
elaborate gambling equipment in
the plush Latin quarter and the
Club Manana, both in nearby
Wilder, ‘
A woman listed ag the operator
of the Manana was charged with
running a disorderly house. Four
girls, clad only in panties and
brassieres, were among those
taken from the Manana. They
were charged with breach of the
pesce.
This northern Kentucky area
was brought into focus by the
Senate Crime Committee several
weeks ago, when witnesses told of
widespread gambling.
Officers carted away a roulette
wheel, slot machines, crap tables
and other gambling e%uipment in
four large trucks. At least $5,000
in cash, plus an estimated $14,000
more in a locked safe, were taken
from the Latin Quarter alone,
Jones said.
they say, a fungus disease that hits
cereals in rainy spells and causes
what was known from medieval
time, much of it in legacies.
Anthony’s fire.”
The weird malady struck the
tiny Rhone river port of Font-
Saint-Esprit Aug. 17. Some 200
persons called urgently for medi
cal help—some of them screaming
they were surrounded by fire and
monsters and some trying to com
mit suicide. There are still 37
persons in the hospital.
1945 Death
Back in 1945, Leon Besnard,
second husband of Madame Bes
nard, died in the little town of
Loudon in Western France. Every
one thought it was from natural
causes until a tip from neighbors
caused police to dig up his body
in 1949. They said tests showed
he died of arsenic poisoning.
This led them to dig up 11
other bodies and sll of them, said
the police, were drenched in arse
nic.
But now a bombshell has ex
ploded on the eve of her trial.
Toxicological experts, acting for
her defense lawyers, say all the
{ soil where the bodies were buried
‘contains an abnormal 200 grams
of arsenic per cubic yard.
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TANK LIES-IN—A Canadian Sherman tank lies-in at the side of a road somewhere
in North Korea, after scouting the area and finding a few of the enemy. An infantry
patrol (background) come in to clean up the work.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Savage Fighting Continues On
Eastern Front; Reds Moving Up
Farm Meetmngs
Tonight And
Tomorrow Here
Farm meetings will be held
in Athens tonight and tomorrow
morning, both at the courthouse,
At tonight’s meeting, begin
ning at 8 o'clock the Clarke
County Farm Bureau will head
a speech by Wilson Still, Macon,
representing the Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation. H. E. Wood
is the Clarke county president.
At tomorrow’s session, begin
ning at 9 o’clock, a discussion
will be held on how farm pro
grams and policies can be im
proved. This meeting will be
sponsored by the county agri
cultural mobilization committee
of which C. A. Ward is chair
man.
The public is invited to atiend
both meetings.
Congress Hears
Eric Johnston
By FRANCIS J. KELLY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—(AP)
— Economic Stabilizer Eric John
ston told Congress today the na
tion faces costly and possibly dis
astrous consequences unless three
restrictions on the price control
program are ripped out of the law
books.
He was the third of the nation’s
economic high command to go be
fore the Senate Banking Commit
tee to argue for repeal of three
amendments to the controls law
which have been in effect only
one month. Defense Mobilizer
Charles E. Wilson and Price Dir
ector Michael V. Di Salle testi
fied yesterday .
Several members of the com
mittee told Wilson and DiSalle
immediate repeal is out of the
question. They did not close the
door on prossible mobification.
One of the amendments Pres
ident Truman and his stabilization
lieutenants want removed would
let a seller pass on to the consumer
all increases in costs between the
start of the Korean war and last
July 26.
A second would allow whole
salers and retailers the customary
percentage margins of profit they
enjoyed before the Korean war.
A third would bar federal
slaughtering quotas onUve;togk:
Johnston, in a prepared state
ment, labeled all three “big, gap
ing holes in our economic defense.”
“If the act stands,” he declared,
“prices will have to go up—un
necessarily. Wages will have to go
up— unnecessarily. The costs of
rearming will go up—unnecessari
ly. The dollar will sink in value—
unnecessarily.” .
LoDolce, lcardi
Trial In ltaly
TURIN, Italy, Aug. 31.—(AP)—
Formal demand for the extradi
tion of two former American se
cret agents charged with the war
time murder of their commanding
officer was forwarded today to
the Ministry of Justice in Rome.
The extradition request, accom
panied by 65 pages of supporting
evidence and warrants for their
arrest, asks that former U. 8.
Army Lt. Aldo Icardi and former
Sergeant Carlo LoDolce be turned
over to Italy to stand trial for the
murder of Major Willian® Holo
han.
SUN ECLIPSE
NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—(AP)—
Early risers tomorrow will see a
partial eclipse of the sun.
The phenomena will be visible
on all of the eastern seaboard and
west of the Mississippl river to a
line approximately between Gal
veston, Texas, and Bismarck, N. D.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GCEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1951,
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Aug. 31.—
(AP)—Thousands of North Ko
rean troops were reported today
moving toward the front in hilly
eastern Korea. Savage fighting has
been in progress there more than
two weeks.
Yesterday and last night, Allied
planes ripped into these reinforce
ments, into their highway supply
convoys and the railroads feeding
down to Communist front lines
all across Korea.
Allies supplied their own front
line troops with the biggest air
drop in two menths,
Rain swollen streams and mud
dy roads cut off truck routes.
A U. S. Fifth Army staff offi
cer today reported the following
new observations of Communist
'_croops in eastern Korea:
A fresh division, about 8,000
men, digging in west of the coas
tal city of Kansong, 25 miles north
of parallel 38.
About 2,000 Reds moving south
toward Yanggu, a city eight miles
north of 38 and 35 miles inland
from the east coast. Allied planes
roared dewn and aftacked this
Two other groups of 5,000 Reds
each in camouflaged positions
west of Kansong and north of
Inje. Allied artillery fired on
these concentrations yesterday.
Allied troops repulsed four
Communist probing attacks north
of Yanggu yesterday.
Drive Safely
During Labor
Day Week-End
Don’t gamble with your life or
the lives of others who wiil be
using the highways over the Labor
Day week-end, warns the Georgia
State Patrol. If you must drive,
take your time. Enjoy your trip
unhurriedly and please remember
to obey all traffic signs and sig
nals. If it is not necessary for you
to travel. stay at home and park
your car in the garage.
In 1950 over the Labor Day
week-end, there were 182 acci
dents in the State of Georgia, with
13 fatalities and 122 persons in
jured.
Holiday driving is always more
dangerous than at any other time
of the year. We can all do our
share to eut down on the number
of costly aceidents by exercising
extra caution, extra courtesy, and
extra hours spent off the high
ways.
If your trip can be postponed,
by all means travel at a more con
venient time when the traffic is
not so heavy. Labor Day traffic
will begin to increase Friday even
ing, and will continue to be heavy
through late Monday evening.
The Georgia State Patrol asks
the cooperation of every driver in
making this Labor Day week-end
the safest and sanest our state has
ever known.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly fair and rather hot
today, tonight and Saturday.
Outlook for Sunday partly
cloudy and neot so hot, with
chance of thundershowers. Low
tonight 69; high tomorrow 94.
Sun sets today 7:01 and rises
tomorrow 6:06.
GEORGIA—Fair and hot this
afternocon, tonight and Satur
day.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast, tonight
through Wednesday, Georgia:
Temperatures average tweo to
four degrees above normal for
Georgia and South Carelina,
rather hot through Wednesday
but slightly cooler Sunday.
Northern portions of Georgia
precipitation light or none, oc
curring ‘mostly Saturday or
Sunday. .
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ALL (T CJ9'S CHILLUN—
This little Korean boy stands
before a pile of rubble iv Seoul
and beams with pride at having
a pair of honest-to-gosh shoes
of his own. He seems not the
least perturbed by their lack of
style and fit. — (U. S, Navy
photo via AP Wirephoto.)
Acheson Leaves
For Peace Meet
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—(AP).
Secretary of State Acheson left to
day for the Japanece Peace Con
ference which he said “will pro
vide a test for those nations that
really want peace and those that
do not.” o, ¥
The secretary with 48 other
members of the U. S. delegation,
took off by special plane for San
Francisco where the conference
opens Tuesday.
His parting statement appeared
aimed directly at Soviet Russia
whose delegation, now enroute to
San Francisco, and has indicated
it will attack and refuse to sign
the treaty.
The name of Senator Connally
(D-Tex,) chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relafions Committee was
missing from the passenger list.
Connally has indicated he con
siders it inadvisable for him to
leave Washington now because of
legislation pending in the Senate.
This also might deter Senator
George (D-Ga.) from attending
the conference. The Georgian is
chairman of the Senate Finance
Commiittee, working on & new tax
bill,
If Connally fails to appear in
San Francisco the assumption is
that Senator Sparkman (D-Ala.),
first alternate, will take his place.
Two special planes taking most
of the American deleégates were
scheduled to reach San Francisco
at 5:55 p. m., Pacific Standard
Time.
N . .
arcotics Ring
Smashed In NY
NEW YORK, Aug. 31 — (AP)—
Police have smashed a $1,000,000
(m) a-year Harlem wholesale
dope ring supplying customers
from coast to eoast, they announc
ed today. :
In an 111-hour roundup yester
day and last night, Narcotics squad
detectives arrested seven men who
had been under surveillance for
the past 10 weeks. All were New
Yorkers and two Negroes.
Allies Investigate
New Red Complaints
Fred J. Ball Is
Taken By Death;
Rises Safurday
Fred J. Ball was a public spirit
ed man, and always ready to do
his part for the betterment of
Atheng. He was a member of the
Rotary Club, and threw himself
whole-heartedly into any eivie
movement which tended to the
enrichment of the city he loved
so well. He was a Mason and
served as Commander of the God~
frey de Bouillon Commandery,
which position he honored by
faithful service. He was a consis
tent memebr of the First Presby
terian Church for many years.
For more than forty years he
was a leading photographer of
Athens; and many of the pictures
which adorn the homes of the city
and refresh the devotions of the
citizens were the work of this
skillful and scientifie workman.
As #« man he had a genuine
brotherly spirit, which had a
sympathy with a passion at its
heart, throbbing with pain and
sorrow for this world struggling
with its problems. When there is
so much feigned geniality, cord
iality and pleasantness in society;
so much pipe-laying and wire
pulling in politices; so many and
varied tricks in business, it is a
genuine refreshment to be able to
say, “Behold an Israelife indeed,
in whom is no guile.” His smiling
face is gone but his gentle spirit
abides.
Mr. Ball died in a local hospital
Thursday afternoon at 3 o‘clock
after an illness of several weeks.
Funeral Saturday
Funeral services will be con
ducted Saturday morning from
Bridges Chapel at 11 o‘clock with
Dr. E. L. Hill, pastor-emeritus of
First Presbyterian Church, and Dr.
H. B. Ramsey, present pastor of
the church officiating.
Interment will be in Oconee Hill
Cemetery with W. R. Bedgood,
Sr., Billy Moss, Richard Blood
worth, Joe Foster, Henry Hill and
William Hartman serving as pall
bearers.
An honorary escort will include
members of the Rotary Club and
members of the Knights Templar.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Oliver Willis Ball, Athens; nephew,
William Allen Ball, Carmi, 111.,
and a nice, Mrs. Howard McFad
din, Rockport, 111.
A native of Fairfield, 111., Mr.
Ball had been a resident of Athens
for forty-six years. .
On coming to Athens, Mr. Ball
established Ball's = Studio which
became one of the best known
photographic studios in the South.
He was the oldest photographer
in North Georgia and was regard
ed as one of the most expert in
the country. Mr. Ball specialized
in portrait photography, although
he was expert in all kinds of pic
ture work. Many of his photo
graphs hang in buildings at the
University.
Failing health forced him to re
tire from his business and other
activities several months ago.
SLANDER SUIT
ALBANY, Ga., Aug. 31.—(AP)
—A City Court jury last night re
quired but 30 minutes to relieve
three Baptist preachers and a
deacon of slander charges brought
by an evangelist.
After the verdict a courtroom
filled to overflowing with church
members sobbed and shouted in
relief.
The charges were contained in a
$25,000 suit for damages entered
by Evangelist Hardin Pearson.
Pearson claimed the preachers
and the deacon had so slandered
him that his evangelistic services
suffered. He charged the four
with spreading false reports that
he was not a fit character to con
duct services.
The defendants were the Rev.
Charles C. Duncan, pastor of the
Camilla Baptist Church; the Rev.
T. H. Wilder, field worker for the
Mallary Baptist Association; the
Rev. C. R. Pittard, pastor of the
Byne Memorial Church in Albany,
and J. W. Preston, deacon of the
Newton Baptist Church.
Both the defense and plaintiff
introduced scores of witnesses and
depositions throughout the four
day trial to testify on the charac
ters of all concerned.
All denied slandering Pearson,
but admitted they had checked in
to his background.
| INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE
] SEOUL, Korea, Aug. 31.—(AP)
| —ls European Communists show
| up on the Red battle line in an
llnternational Brigade, an Allied
| combat officer said ioday “they’ll
be marked men.”
There have been persistent but
unconfirmed reports that the Reds
Ihave recruited several thousand
Europeans for such a brigade.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
BY DON HUTH
TOKYO, Aug. 31.—(AP)
—An Allied spokesman said
today “there is no indica
tion that there will be a per
manent breakdown” in truce
talks to end the Korean war.
The spokesman made the
statement amid a welter of
new Communist charges
that United Nations forces
violated the Kaesong neu
tral zone in Korea.
The U. N. command began an
immediate investigation of the
new complaints. There were three
of them. All previous charges have
been denied.
Mac Master Statement
At Mumsan, abvance headquar
ters in Korea of U. N. truce ne
gotiators, Major James Mac Master
told newsmen there was no sign
of a final breakdown in the talks.
Other sources observed that
neither side wants to assume res
ponsibility for renewing full scale
warfare.
While the Reds have not an
swered Gen. Matthew B. Ridg
way’s offer to resume negotiations,
they maintained official contact
between truce delegations by the
mere act of filing new protests.
North Korean Ge» Nam Il
chief Communist negouator, pro
tested to vice Adm. C. Turner Joy,
head of the U. N. delegation, that
an Allied plane dropped a flare
over Kaesong Wednesday morning.
A Red liaison officer who de
livered the note to an Allied liai
son officer lodged verbal protests
that U. N. infantrymen twice
violated the neutral zone.
Immediate Probe
Mac Master said the U. N. Fifth
Air Force and Eighth Army prom
ptly began investigating the
charges.
He said the U. N. command
“had answered all the previous
Communist accusations and denied
all of them.
~ “They haven't produced one
violation for which we sre re-
SHopene. - >
“If we did violate the zone, we
would take disciplinary action.
“The Communists may be trying
to build up a record of manufac
tured incidents by the U. N. com~
mand tq make us look bad in the
face of the werld.
“We made them look bad on
two previous éccasions.”
On these occasions the talks
were suspended by the U. N.
command until the Reds with
drew armed troops from the Kae
song neutral area and after a com
pany of armed Chinese soldiers
marched near the building in Kae
song where negotiations were be
ing conducted.
Suspension Of
Officials Urged
LAKE CHARLES, La, Aug. 31
~—(AP)—Gov. Earl Long was
asked today to suspend two Cal
cagles Parish (county) officials
who allegedly were defamed in
stories which brought indictments
against five Lake Charles news
papermen. -
The Peoples Action Group (UAG)
a citizens organization formed to
fight gambling in Lake Charles
and vicinity, telegraphed the Gov
ernor last night to ask the Attorn
ey General to suspend Distriet At
torney Griffin Hawkins and Sher
iff Henry Reid. The request was
signed by George Buchanan, Pres
ident of the PAG, and James O‘-
Brien, Chairman of the PAG crime
Commission. .
The Governor also asked to in
struct the Attorney General to
name assistants to handle the in
dictments case and suggested that
they determine if the evidence
justifies prosecution.
The five newspaperman are
Kennth Dixon, managing editor of
the Lake Charles American Press;
publisher Thomas B. Shearman;
his son and co-publisher, William
Hugh Shearman; James Norton,
city editor, and Carter George,
police and court reporter.
They were indicted on charges
of defaming the police jury (the
Parish Governing body,) three
other publie officials and three
admitted gamblers.
JOB RACKET
WASHINGTON, Aug 31—(AP)
—Rep. Burdick (R-Md) asserted
today a jobselling tie-up between
government defense contractors
and private employment agencies
is costing the taxpayers and job
seekers “billions”.
Burdick said he will introduce
in September legislation to make
it illegal to require fees for em
ployment- on any government
financed project.
A bill now awaiting President
Truman’s approval would phohibit
private employment agencies from
collecting fees for helping appli
cants obtain jobs in an executive
agency of the government.
Burdick’s proposed bil would
extend the prohibition fe private
employment agencies dealing with
contractors on government-fin
anced projeets.
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Efforfs Confinue
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.~(AP)
—Efforts to settle the wage dise
pute which has shut dowm mos
of the nation’s copper N\-tla
continued today despite am initi
step by President Truman 0 obe
tain a back-to-work order from
the courts,
The President issued an execu=~
tive order late last night %0 put
the emergency machinery of the
Taft-Hartley labor act in motion
in a strike for the first time in 20
months.
3-Man Board
The President named a three
man board of inquiry which wens
to work at once, in an effort te
report back on the facts by Tues~
day, The board is not authorized
to recommend a settlement.
The board arranged an Organs
ization session today (9 A. m,,
EST).
A court injunction, to foree an
end of the strike, may not be obe
tained before the board mrtn,
under terms of the Taft-Martley
law. Once obtained, it runs for 80
days.
Despite Mr. Truman’s sction,
interest was focussed on the nego
tiations between the Xennecott
Copper Company and the AFL
and independent unions involved
in two ‘major Salt Lake City
plants. 3
Sessions Today
Face-to-face bargaining between
the unions and the company was
scheduled this morning when cost
figures arrive from Salt Lake
City by airplane,
On the basis of those figures
either the unions or the company
could yield and settle their dise
pute.
The board of inquiry appointed
by the President includes Ralph
Seward, chairman; Joseph k'Mil
ller and Allan Dash, jr. ard
and Miller are Wuhmml,g; Ci
arbitrators; Dash is from ilae
delphia.
(Gordon Services
\
To Be Safurday
Toße y |
Mrs. Georgia W. Gordon, former |
}prominent- resident of Oconee
County died in Atlanta, where she
had lived for the past seven years,
Thursday night at 7:45 o’cl_bcfi,{
Mrs. Gordon was 79 years old and
had been in failing health for sevs '
eral years. o
Services are to be conducted r,e
Saturday morning at 11 o'clock
from Johnson Methodist Church
near Watkinsville, with Rev. W.
F. Lunsford, of Ringgold, Ga., lnd;g}
Rev. L. D. Conway, officlating.
Burial will folloy in Johmon?i
Church Cemetery, pall-bearers t¢
be announced later. Mrs. Gordon
is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. R. C. Gray, Baco, Maine, Mrs,
T. W. Osborne, Atlanta, and un.%
‘John Arrendale, jr., Clayton, Ga.,
formerly of Athens; two sons, N.
A, Gordon and M. O. Gordon, both 1}
of Watkinsville; three sisters, Mrs.!
P. F. Waller, College Pm Mrs.
Annie Cason, Columbus, Mrs,
Bettie Odum, Campton, Ga.ji
brother, T. O. Whitehead, College
Park, eleven grandchildrén and
four great-grandchildren. ‘f
Mrs. Gordon was a native of Oco«
nee County and lived there until
moving to Atlanta. She was &
member of the Methodist Church
and had many friends who 4
saddened by her death. 'H
The body will lie in staté in i
church for one hour preceding the
services. g
i e
Altitude Record
| EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 81.
(AP) — A Navy rocket-powered
airplane has shattered all altitude
records, climbing to what aviation
experts unofficially belleve wa
77674 feet (more than 14
miles). It levelled off at 1,300
miles an hour.
The supersonic flight in th
needle-nose Douglas Sk{topke
ship was made August 15 from
Edwards Air Force Base. The ex
act altitude reached by the Dougs
| las test pilot, Bill Bridgenran, wad
| not disclosed.
GIRL’S BODY FOUND 4
CHICAGO, 111, Aug. 31=(AP
|—The body of pretty, fiveufiear
;old Yvonne Georgiana ritz
{ missing from her home since yes.
|terday afternoon, was found in
lvacant lot at the Cicero-Chicagg
city limits today with. the sk
{ bashed in.
i Police and volunteer searche
|had been combing strects, alleys
| and vacant lots through the nig
| for the youngster. Her father, Jos
[eph, 39, operates a restaurant i
Cleero, v+ ’ -
Police Lt. Lester Conerty ®ai
police are questioning one mas.