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Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 8

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1 8 JOHNSON cm press-chroniclk Thursday Morning August SO 1945 Jackson Theater Brings Jonesboro Modern Entertainment Beginning To nigit iVeip Enterprise Ready To Open' Laijgli-Spree for of complete Instructions to -opening the t--- -v ir r-wo- to attend the afternoon meeting Studenhr have been asked to' report to the schools at 9 a next Monday and class work will begin the next morning Hodges said Slate Meeting Friday None Better ln Oldest Community Will Seat More Than 400 First Offering preparatory new school year Monday September 3 -Supt Hedges announced today The session wlQ follow a meeting of school principals at 10 a no Friday in the superintendents office All teachers are requested ELIZABETHTON Aug A general meeting of all teachers In Elizabethton city schools has been called for 2 Friday In the Junior High School auditorium Of New Theater Ultra Home ownership in the United States increased 22 per cent between 1940 and 1944 troupers and Misi Reynolds Is the young mother Misf Broderick plays Irma a spinster sister Jeff Donnell and Arthur Lake are a young couple who add their complications to family already over-' and baby troubles Walker pnd Terry "Stage Dgsor 2TfV new and only motion picture theater the Jackson will hold its premier showing at 7 tonight signalling the climax of a four months long project which has held the support of civic and Individual interests in Tennessee' oldest town for seventh president Andrew -ir-fcrson Hyr -Ijcu ted on- the -mnnr through--Street oX Jonesboro d'a) ickson is housed in the building formerly occupied by the ''uobyns-f Taylor Hardware company and on property owned by Mr Broyles -Improvements to the building and remodeling were done at a cost exceeding $25000 The Johnson City corporation which also operates the Sevier Theater here is headed by Ray Walker president whq has been 1 in the Javy more than two years and now is on the battle MSy col braWer liberated Best Wishes To The Nev JACKSON THEATER Aug 29 (JP) of the Japanese Bataan Col Pembroke well known veteran Army liberated The informed his the colonel a Manchurian A 'laugh-spree Three a is booked for the initial opening qf the Jackson theater In Jonesboro- at 7 o'clock tonight mxsuirzrSK-mi IliyL-J ht-ts Its Jong of ta tv incJ ml 4- Marjorie Reyn lds Charlie Rug- gles 'ay Bainter Helen Broderick Arthur Lake and Hattie McDaniel Cheryl Walker and William Terry "Three Is A is adapted from John stage hit of last season In this rollicking tale of a careless stork the producer has set a precedent in the field of light comedy on the screen The film screens the wedding between two arts successfully combining the animated cartoon with live ac- tors on the screen The cartoons made by Walt studio are as Important to the film as are the human actors Ruggles and Miss Bainter play Grandpa and Grandma to a pair a crowded with war a fid Miss the sweethearts of Canteen CHATTANOOGA of war since the fall of A Brawner Chattanoogan and officer has been War Department wife yesterday that was freed from camp WHITLOW SIGN Manufactnren NEON AND 103 Tipton St cruiser USS Guam in the Pacifier area Youngblood and 1 1 Donnelly are vice presi- I till 8 LiOWCrCtl 'dents and Miller secretary- Bjf Ropes Give Japs IN OUR TOWN JACKSON' THEATER COMPANY treasurer Latest RCA i Equipment Installed Built with a capacity to seat more than 400 people the Jackson has been constructed as a modern theater in all respects Latest RCA sound equipment has been installed and stage draperies were made for the theater by a Knoxville scenic studio The theater will use a rebuilt Simplex projection machine temporarily hut of PAINTED SIGNS Phono 154 MANILA Aug 29 Lowered by ropes into a precipitous mountain valley to meet Japanese surrender envoys American officers today relayed to the disabled enemy commander a demand for surrender of his southern 1 forces Negotiations also continued a late model will replace It as soon with Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yamashi-as one is available it was ex- ta for surrender of his 10000 plained northern Luzon troops Indirect lighting fixtures and! American negotiators at the an auditorium finished in pastel bizarre parley in the steep little blue and rose also are feature of gorge maintained contact with the Jackson along with a 18-foot I their headquarters by wigwagging deep stage The building includes signal with a Japanese battle a small balcony for Negroes jflag The first attraction! The conference in rugged Compliments of GRESHAM HOTEL Compliments Jonesboro Esso Station Corner Boone Phone 21 We are happy to have had a part in supplying materials for the construction of the new Jonesboro Tenn JONESBORO TENN JACKSOtJ THEATER WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE JONESBORO 4 mountains 22 miles jeast of Ma nila lasted several hours Maj Gen Sumi chief of staff to Lt Gen Yokoyama commander of southern Luzon forces insisted repeatedly he could hot surrender without higher authority Yokoyama had sprained or broken an ankle and could not appear as scheduled at the meeting Sumi said He was told bluntly that unless southern forces capitulated within six to nine days after the final surrender signing In Tokyo they would be treated aa outlaws Maj Peyton Hoge Louisville Ky who accompanied the party became separated from his companions along the steep trail and unexpectedly encountered six Japanese washing messklts In a stream "I breathed in pretty short said Hoge "but I relaxed when one of them said how are 4 IS VERY HAPPY TO HAVE THE MODERN Our Wishes For Successful Operation! The New will be the comedy Is A which will pfty Thursday night and Friday Richard Dix and Albert Dekker In is booked for Saturday Plans are the theater will open at 3 on week days and at 10:45 a Saturdays Features will be shown until about 11 on all days Had Silent Pictures Many Years Ago The Jackson is the first theater In Jonesboro to show sound movies An older one Blue was operated in the early part of the century but closed down about 20 years ago before movies began to Christening of the theater was taken care of by a local contest In which more than 300 names were submitted "The led two to one Popularity of the name stems from early history which was closely tied with that of the soldier and statesman Old Hickory Jackson made frequent visits there in connection with his political career Construction of the theater started last May 1 with Paul Walser and Earl Nidlffer Johnson City hqebiess men heading the buslnesL They sold out their Interests to the Sevier Theater Corporation In Mid-June JACKSON THEATER JACKSON THEATER in Jonesboro PATY Lumber Company And may the persons responsible for this JOHNSON CITY ELIZABETHTON -V circus In 1827 was the first to be transported by raiL new addition to our business district expect our cooperation for its success BEST WISHES ft ft if 1 :1 Vv' ss iv 3 Hilbert's Drug Store I 5 Schools Closed In Polio Outbreak yj Phone 16 McCoy's Lunch Jonesboro Tenn 7 7 856 Jonesboro Tenn Bolivar Tenn Aug 29 (jpi Hardeman county board of health' has ordered the closing of schools here and a quarantine on children under the age of 16 in an effort to stamp out infantile paralysis The action yesterday came wither port of two new cases tn the cmjfiTNfefalsing the total to elcht The state health board at Nashville reported 221 cases In' Fa i Announcing Our Very Best Let Us Extend Our Thoughts of Good Luck and Good Business I in The Operation of The New the -A" Formal Opening CAR KILLS GIRL HAMILTON Va Aug 29 C4V-Judith Ann Rust four daughter of Mr and Mrs Rust of Hamilton died late yesterday from Injuries received when she was struck by an automobile on Route Seven as she crossed the street to return to her mother after going to the hospital The child was taken to the Culpeper Hospital but died soon afterward Wishes To The of the new ii- JACKSON HEATER DIGESTIVE TRACT JACKSON THEATER -v And Stop Dosing Your Stomach With Soda and Alkaliaara exj headache expect to get real relief from our stomach gas and bad id otl by taking soda and othsr breath alka-turn if the true cans of your trouble ia Compliments of Broyles' Cash Store Main St JONESBORO TENN imm Security Feed Seed Cb: Jonesboro Tenn' const! paUon la this case your'raal trouble is not in ths stomach at all But in ths intestinal tract where 80 pf your food is digested And vhsre itgets blocked when it tails to digest properly What you want for real relief la not Soda or sn slkalixer but something to your intestinal tract Something to dean it out help JONESBORO TENNESSEE Nature set back on ber feet" Get Carter' Pill right now Taka thsra aa directed They gently and thoroughly your digestive tract -Thursday August 30th 7 This permita your food to move along normally own digestive juicea can then reach it You get genuine rebel CONGRATULATIONS that malms yon fed really good again Get Carter's Pills at any your intestinal bract log real relief Iron udigestiea with JONESBORO Welcomes The Nev JACKSON THEATER THE PICTURE THAT WILL PANIC YOU! The Stage Hit ffqd Broadway Hysterical 11 To The Builders and Persons Responsible i for Bringing to Our Town the Modern Jackson THEATER IS AFAMILY Tio Story Of A Cakeless Stork- To The Business0 District of Our City 'with Marjorie Reynolds Charles Ruggles Arthuf (Dagwood) Lake Fay Bainter Helen Broderick Hattie McDaniel Cheryl Walker William Terry TWOlPAYS-THURSDAY FRIDAY SPEEDY CAB CO 1- SATURDAY RICHARD DIX in "THE KANSAN" Compliments of FIRST NATIONAL BANK Jonesboro Tenn Phone 64-W 2 Jonesboro Tenn -5 Fine Cabs 24Hour Service i uswtfism i' -p.

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