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...Bartholomew's was obliged to cut all salaries 10% last week. Said Dr. Clifton Macon, assistant minister: "Our receipts from parishioners have not been up to expectations. . . . The plates are getting heavier with collections now. It is silver, and not so many bills...
...Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837) of North Carolina, onetime Speaker of the House, onetime U. S. Senator, vigorous advocate of State sovereignty...
Last week Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, revealed that the airship ZRS-5 abuilding, sister ship of the Akron, will be named the Macon. His reasons: "It is a good short name of a thriving southern community, the name of a famous revolutionary general,*and it has the same number of letters as Akron. It also gives the South representation as the Akron does the Middle West and the Los Angeles the West...
Another reason that Congressman Vinson did not mention was that, as the result of reapportionment the city of Macon (pop.: 53,829) has been placed in his district, needs political cultivation by its new Representative...
...James Allen Smith, young eye specialist who recently opened offices in Macon, discovered Linton Perry's binocular ambivalence, reported him to Medicine, last week answered queries on the case. By all tests the boy can see just as well whether either or both eyes are in or out of their sockets. But when he first learned his performance, he saw double...