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Corporal Valtin's job in the 24th was gathering Joe Blow stories to be sent to U.S. hometown papers. Much of Children of Yesterday reads like an extended P.R.O. report: Pvt. So-and-So of Topeka, Kans. did this, Lieut. So-and-So of Valdosta, Ga. did that. So many hundreds (probably 500 to 1,000) of individuals are mentioned by rank, name and home address that at points the text must come almost straight from unit rosters...
Columbus' board had calls from the big fields at Albany and Valdosta, Ga., found the same elemental instructor defects there and at Gulf Coast stations. Pilots began flying from the Pacific Coast to be checked out by the Columbus board. Between May, before Columbus started checking up on instructors, and October the accident rate at the station dropped 44%, though the number of students doubled and the number of students-per-instructor rose from two to three and one-half...
...more than 3,200 as "first-rate tourist stops." These Ritzes of the far-flung industry prefer the name motor court to tourist camp (auxiliary name: motel), cater only to bona fide tourists. Typical of them is Pines Camp Cottages and Trailer Court in the outskirts of Valdosta, Ga., on U. S. Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement park builder named Henry Bertram Aldrich, Pines Camp today has a $50,000 plant complete with 55 modern stucco cottages (hot water, steam heat, electricity, private bath & shower...
...easygoing town of Valdosta on the edge of Georgia's great Okefenokee swamp one day last week went some 2,000 uneasy turpentiners & friends for the annual gathering of the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative. Munching barbecued chicken carefully nurtured for the occasion, they saw Mary Newton, 17, a redheaded, brown-eyed Georgia Peach, crowned Miss Turpentine of 1940, stood by for the cutting of a virgin pine-symbol that a new turpentine year...
Chosen to drag the industry out of the woods was a big, burly, hardheaded, quail-hunting Valdosta judge named Harley Langdale. No. 1 U. S. turpentiner, he and his associates grossed better than $500,000 last year from 70,000 owned, 300,000 leased acres of Southern pine. As president and manager of A. T. F. A. he has: 1) borrowed $21,500,000 (1938-39) to tide member producers (over 90% of production) over the industry's rehabilitation; 2) encouraged the building of central stills; 3) produced a standard product, to be marketed in uniform turpentine cans bearing...