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...Needle. In Atlanta, the State Labor Department ruled that the girls who quit their jobs in a Tifton, Ga. 5-&-10? store were entitled to unemployment compensation: "While an employer may prescribe reasonable rules and regulations, a threat to sew up his female employees' pockets is ... good cause for them to quit...
Every night last week, special freight trains pulled out of Tifton, Ga., and sped north over the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line roads. The lo-to-yo-car trains, as well as dozens of chartered airliners, all carried the same load: tomato seed plants. Before the short shipping season ends, South Georgia farmers will ship a billion tender young tomato plants for planting in northern fields, along with hundreds of millions of onion, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potato, pepper and lettuce seedlings...
...this business, now worth some $10,000,000 a year, south Georgia farmers can thank Paul Bearing Fulwood Sr., 56. When he was 16, Tifton-born Paul Fulwood ran away from home rather than become a machinist, as his father wanted. He went to Florida and worked on a tomato farm, where he got the idea for the seedling business. At 17, he returned to Tifton, started to raise plants. First year's yield: 35 Ibs. of cabbage seed, some 350 bu. of potatoes...
...recipients are James H. Wilson Jr., 2L, of Tifton, Ga., A.B. Emory '40; Mallory R. Smith 2L, of Greenville, S.C., A.B. Furman '39; Irivng J. Helman 3L, of Brookline, Mass., A.B. Harvard '39; and Luther E. Birdzell Jr., 3L, of Washington, D.C., A.B. Chicago...
Howard I. Grossman 1L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Philip Kazon 2L, Rutland, Vt; Klaus Braun 2L, Wiesbaden, Germany; Sidney Werlin 2L, Malden; James H. Wilson Jr. 1L, Tifton, Ga.; Lawrence F. Ebb 1L, Dorchester; and Julius L. Shack 2L, Mattapan...