Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pine Mountain, 37 miles from Columbus, Ga., a group of men awaited their initiation into the Ku Klux Klan one night last week. One by one they were summoned, unsheeted, into a tar-paper shack to "take the obligation." When the last man had been called, three still remained outside. They had not been invited; they were three newsmen from the Columbus Ledger who had been tipped that this was to be the biggest Ku Klux Klan gathering around Columbus in 20 years...
...LAIR Columbus, Ohio...
Pert, plump "Merry" Geissmann, 36, daughter of a Columbus (Ohio) manual arts teacher, has several other success notes in her style book. She has designed furniture and simple dress and accessory patterns. Her biggest success was the Merry Hull "Finger-Free Glove," with three-dimensional fingers to eliminate cramping. In ten years she has collected $200,000 in royalties...
Fair Profit. The Aviation Commission of tiny (pop.: 11,738) Columbus (Ind.) reported that the city's airport last year earned $4,225 from the sale of soybeans grown on the airfield...
...ready to leave this week on a five-day "goodwill visit" to the West Indies. Among the 28 U.S. newsmen accredited for the trip were two Negroes, P. Bernard Young Jr., of the Norfolk, Va. Journal Guide, and Llewellyn A. Coles of Columbus, Ohio, representing the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. Young and Coles would be the first Negro reporters to accompany a President outside...