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4 a Quincy News By MRS. L. G. PRIEST Mr. and Mrs.

Durwood Moody and family were the guests Saturday of Moody's grandmother Mrs. Emma Sage. They were enroute to Tallahassee. Mrs. Mildred Varnadoe of Jacksonville was the visitor here with friends and relatives.

Mrs. John Townsend of Atlanta is the guest for several days of her sister Mrs. Emily Quarterman other relatives. Mr. and Mrs.

Duck had as their guest for the weekend their son Bill Duck who attends the Florida. Dr. Haslam of University, of, Ft. Valley were the weekend guests of their son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs.

G. A. McDearmid and family, Major Herman Davis of Eglin Field was the weekend guest of Mrs. Davis and children, Doris, Jim and Virginia. Mrs.

C. M. Bellflower and Box Office Opens at 1:15 Daily STATE Today Thru Tuesday ACADEMY AWARD WINNER Best Picture of the year! With Marton Brando, Best Actor and Eve Marie Saint as the Best Supporting Actress. COLUMBUS PICTURES presents MARLON BRANDO On The Waterfront -N ELIA KAZAN PRODUCTION so starting MARL MALDEN LEE J. COBB with NO STERER PAT REMOSE and introducing EVA MARIE SAINT Aroduced by SAM SPIEGEL Screen Play by SCISMERS Music by LEONARD Directed by ELIA KAZAN Ticket Office 'Coens 6:45 p.m.

PERRY HIGHWAY OUTDOOR hE BUT OF ON PEORY LAST TIMES TONIGHT VALLEY OF THE DESERT KINGS Robert TAYLOR Eleanor PARKER STARTS TOMORROW CONFLICT DE LOGE NAD PO Tallahassee's RITZ ART THEATRE Adults 45c-Kiddies LAST TIMES TODAY Ingrid Bergman "THE GREATEST LOVE" Tuesday and Wednesdav THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST TECHNICOLOR. MICHAEL: REDGRAVE JOAN: GREENWOOD Chen (:45 CAPITAL IN 1 ant of LAST TIMES TONIGHT LADEN BARBARA STANWYCK BARRY SWILLINAN- RALPH MEEKER STARTS TOMORROW NIGHT LUCILLE BALL DESI ARNAZ. HOWLIN HONEYMOON ON, THE LONG, LONG TRAILER COLOR MAN AND WIN Ti-ekt Office Opens At 1:15 FLORIDA ADULTS Todav Thru Tuesdav A BIG, HAPPY HIT! 5 THE COLOR DECK CINEMASCOPE JANE TONY DEBBIE POWELL MARTIN REYNOLDS WALTER GENE PIDGEON DAMONE RAYMOND Features, Start This, Program News daughter Miss Catherine Bellflower of Tifton, Ga. were visitors for the weekend with the Misses Rachel and Belle Cole and Mrs. Hattie Brown.

P. H. Reynolds plans to leave Tuesday for a weeks business trip to be spent in Jacksonville. Mr. and Mrs.

E. H. Taylor have returned to their home in Savannah after visiting for some time as the guests of Mrs. Taylor's parents Mr. and Mrs.

Obie Watson. W. W. Torbert and daughter Lynn of Thomaston. Ga.

arrived Sunday for visit a with Mrs. Torbert's parents Mr. and Mrs. Obie Watson. Franklin Martin of Quincy who has just completed a course at the Miami Davis Institute of Technology returned to Quincy Friday.

Miss Mary Eleanor Race who is a Florida State University the guest Saturstudent, day of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Guy Race. Mrs. D.

L. Hill Funeral Today CHATTAHOOCHEE Mrs. Della Lanier Hill, 85, who died Saturday night at her home here will be buried at 4 p.m. today from the Baptist church, with Rev. Leslie Sheppard.

assisted by Rev. C. L. Wattenbarger of Sneads. Mrs.

Hill was born in Jackson County and moved here 33 years ago. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Nell Faulkner of Chattahoochee and Mrs. Ruby Kennedy of Atlanta; five sons, T. J.

and C. J. Hill of Chattahoochee, John Hill of Mt. Clemons, J. R.

Hill of Daytona I Beach and Hubert Hill of Panama City; and a brother, Herbert Lanier of Ft. Worth, Tex. Six grandsons will serve AS pallbearers. They are Jimmy Duffell, Hurtis Hill, Jerry Hill, Charles Hill, Cecil Parrish and Quinlan Kennedy. Burial will be in Dykes cemetery.

Clark-Bell and Stewart will be in charge. Dr. Raymond K. Sheline Fellowship Given FSU Researcher NEW YORK (P)-Two Florida researchers won two of 248 grants totaling $968.000 awarded yesterday by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Dr.

Raymond K. Sheline, professor of chemistry at Florida State University at Tallahassee, and Dr. Sanford Marvin Siegel, instructor in biology at the University of Tampa, received the fellowships. Dr. Sheline's topic for research is the "Decay Schemes and Associated Spectra of Selected Nuclear Species from the Viewpoint of the Nuclear Model of A.

Bohr" while Dr. Seigel is making "biochemical studies of the metabolism of lignin and other aromatic substances." Dr. Sheline has twice in the past few years won recognition for his work in the field of atomic research. SEE THE NEW 1955 Costal Standard Carter Craff Boat Best IN VALUE ON THE MARKET TODAY! We use them as RENTALS -therefore, we feel they are good enough for you to own. WE SELL Johnson Motors Carter Craft Boats Gator Trailers Kristal Kraft Fiberglass J.

T. LYNN Shell Island St. Marks, Fla. Phone 992 By CLYDE BROWN Miss Frances Stevenson, the winner of "Miss Apalachicola" beauty contest sponsored by the Apalachicola Pilot Club. She is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Riley Stevenson of this city. by Miss Mrs. Stevenson Solomon was crownRoy of Tallahassee. "Miss Apalachicola" of 1954.

Miss Stevenson will go to Pensacola to the "Fiesta of Flags" to represent Apalachicola. Miss Ruth Hall was the runner Morother, contestants, were Miss Miss Elaine Gordon. Miss Ruthie Jean Brogdon, Miss Janie Polous, and Miss Eloise Wilson. Miss Matilda Branch of Gainesville is spending a week here the guest of her mother, Mrs. Cluette Branch.

Miss Mercedes Murphy, R.N. with the Crippled Children's Department, Tallahassee was a' vicitor here last week. Bill Owens left Saturday for Chicago and High Point, N. C. on business.

Berkowitz left Friday for Atlantic, City, with N. his mother. where he Edd Bockman, Tommy Hicks, Tommy Patten. Jack Meyer, students at Chipola Junior College spent last week at their homes here. Jay A.

Shuler and G. Rodman Porter spent several days this week in Jacksonville where they attended the annual communications of the Florida Masons. Miss Ruth Hall of Tallahassee spent the week-end here the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Hall.

Confederate Memorial Day services will be held Tuesday with a program sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Con Confederate graves in the cemeteries will be decorated with flags and a memorial program presented at Chapman school auditorium at 3 p.m. prior to the program the Chapman school band will parade through downtown section behind color guard. M-Sgt. Francis Bloodworth is stationed at Pine Castle AFB, LIONS OFFICERS QUINCY-Stanley Burns was elected president of the Quincy Lions Club.

He succeeds W. L. Wood. Other new officers include Turner, first vice president; Robertson, second vice president; Forrest Davis, third vice-president; C. W.

Edwards tail-twister; Alex McMillan, lion Willie McNeil G. oneclameron year directors; L. C. Soucy, and John McAfee, two-year directors; and Bob Leynes. secretarytreasurer.

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and Mrs. H. D. Smith this city. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. K. A. Washburn of Perry, former residents of this city. Wakulla News By JAKE PIGOTT Wakulla and Franklin counties had the most sportsmen and traffic this past weekend that has ever been known in April.

Over 500 boats from St. Marks to East Point were out fishing, and by 8 a.m. Saturday not a boat could be rented. One couple showed up at Walker bridge from St. Marks and Live Oak Island and another couple from Carrabelle and offered $10 rent for a skiff boat for Saturday only.

This does not include the dozens of boats rented for fresh water fishing in Buckhorn, Sopchoppy, Dead, Shell, Wakulla, St. Marks and Ochlockonee rivers. In addition, dozens of boats were brought down in trucks and trailers for both fresh and salt water fishing. Mr. and Mrs.

L. S. Marshall, Tallahassee, were social visitors in the county Saturday afternoon enroute to St. Teresa to spend the weekend and also tend the district conference in Apalachicola Sunday. Mrs.

Marshall is immediate state president of the American Legion Auxiliary. J. Love, president of the Viking Boat Corp. in Wakulla Station was a business visitor in Medart Friday afternoon. Bob Porter, sophomore at FSU spent the weekend with his parents, Judge and Mrs.

A. L. Porter and participated in some of the activities at St. Teresa during the weekend. Billy Kenneth Graham.

Jack Trawick, and ray, Legionnaires from Starke: visited friends in the county Sunday enroute to Apalachicola to attend the second district conference of the Legion. Miss Martha McLeod, Thomasville, visited friends in the county Sunday. Miss McLeod is a native Wakullan and is well known and liked. Mr. and Mrs.

T. D. Sparkman and party of Tallahassee visited his mother, Mrs. Mollie Sparkman and others in the county Sunday. A.

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34 8 p.m. in IOOF Hall. PILOT CLUB 6:30 p.m. at. Cherokee Hotel.

Tuesday TALLAHASSEE LITERARY CLUB.p.m. with Mrs. W. P. Arnold, 1511 Marion Ave, FORT.

SAN LUIS CHAPTER. DAR 8 p.m. with Mrs. R. 8.

Jett. 820 E. Park Ave. UNIVERSITY WIVES 3:45 p.m., Longmire building. Tallahassee SERVICE LEAGUE 12:30 p.m..

Dining Room. NATIONAL SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION-7 p.m.. Leon County Health Unit. WINNIE DAVIS CHAPTER, UDO p.m. with Mrs.

Ida Simmons, 206 S. Woodward. VFW AUXILIARY 8 p.m.. VFW Home, Lake Jackson. COUPLES GARDEN CLUB 8 p.m., with My.

and Mrs. Edwin Hart, 2014 Atapha Nene. ALPHA CHI OMEGA ALUMNAE with Mrs. F. E.

Jernigan Jr. 1109 Circle 7 p.m. for covered dish Fire Alarms Saturday, 1:40 p.m., 1601 Mayhew grease on stove, slight damage. Saturday, 8:45 p.m., 1405 Hernando leaking valve on gas stove, no damage. Sunday, 4 p.m., Byrd Woods on Tharpe grass fire, no damage.

DEEP SEA FISHING CAPT. AL DAILY TRIPS 7:30 TO 5:30 SHIP TO SHORE PHONE DEPTH RECORDER $6.00 PER PERSON Capt. Leon Langston and other Ph. 701 Carrabelle George Jackson (Jack) Richardson, 58, 1845 Belle Vue Way, died Sunday night at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital following a short Illness, Funeral services will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church on Wednesday at 11 a.m.

with the Rev. Jeffery Alfriend officiating. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Born in Leon County on Feb. 26, 1897, he had lived in the' Tallahassee area most of his life.

He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church and the Elks Club and was a veteran of World War I. He was a clerk in the state commissioner of agriculture's office. He is survived by his wife, Carolyne: a son, Jimmy, a student at the University of Flor- ida: a grandson; tives. TAPE is visiting his daughter, Mrs.

Rachel Pigott in Fort Myers for several days. Mrs. John Knapik of Buffalo, N. Y. arrived Sunday to spend some time with her sister, Mrs.

Bonnie Vickers in Spring Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Nicholas and their nephew, Bryant Patton, Apalachicola visited in the county briefly Friday enroute to Tallahassee where they visited the Legislature while in session. Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Coggins, Fort Walton Beach, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coggins and children and Parramore Coggins, Panama City visited their mother, Mrs. Alberta Coggins in Crawfordville Sunday and also visited other friends.

State Department Commander Joe Jenkins, Gainesville. Department Adjutant E. A. Rowton and many other Legionnaires from Tallahassee passed through the county Sunday enroute to Apalachicola. Joe Trice and son George P.

Trice visited friends in the county Sunday afternoon returning from Apalachicola. G. J. Richardson Dies At TMH For Whisky Legality Vote CRAWFORDVILLE-Wakulla go to the polls Tuesday, May or not to legalize the sale county which is now legally County Commissioners set the date for the wet-dry election after a petition asking for the was presented signed 600 registered voters. Wakulla officials said today there are 2,565 voters registerin the county.

A simple majority of those voting would carry the election. VICTORY PREDICTED Spokesmen for the wets and drys both are predicting a victory at the Tuesday. An organization 'acainst legalizing whisky is planning a meeting at the Wakulla Methodist Church at 8 p.m. today. It is sponsored by the Better Citizenship League.

Dewitt Cox, pastor of the Sopchoppy Baptist Church is chairman. Dr. Harold Sanders, pastor of the Tallahassee First Baptist Church, will be principal speaker. County citizens will 3, to vote again on whether of alcoholic beverages in the dry. Dr.

Sanders led a successful fight against a proposal to legalize the sale of whisky in Leon County a few years ago. a Wakulla County has been legally dry since 1942. Prior to that time, alcoholic beverages had been sold since 1936, shortly after the end of prohibition. According to law. Wakulla County would be permitted five liquor licenses should it vote wet.

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