Sunday, April 5, 1959
WARM SPRINGS TO GET FOUNTAIN IN MEMORY OF LATE PRESIDENT
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. (UPI) – The water of Georgia’s famed Warm Springs will begin bubbling up at a new spot this summer. Water from the springs near the present polio treatment center will be piped into a fountain to be built in the heart of this city as a memorial to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Groundbreaking ceremonies for the memorial will be held next Sunday on the anniversary of the President’s death at the Little White House in 1945. The fountain is expected to be completed in June. The water piped from Warm Springs will flow continuously into the topmost of four pools, and spill from one pool to another. The fountain is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. (Chip) Roberts, who were longtime close personal friends and admirers of Roosevelt. Roberts is an Atlanta businessman and former Democratic Party treasurer.
Monday, April 6, 1959
FIVE GENERATION FAMILY FEATURES GRANDMOTHER, 34
It was no April Fool joke when Mrs. Harold B. (Pat) Gavin, who had just turned 34 years old, was informed at 7 a.m. April Fool’s Day, that she was a grandmother. Proud as punch Saturday over five-day-old Zena Lynn Maner, who weighed in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces, pretty Grandmother Gavin said, “I’m more excited over her than I was my own children.” Zena Lynn rounds out five generations. Her mother, Mrs. Millard Maner, of 100 Couper St., the former Linda Lewis Grogan, will be 16 years old next month. She was married June 1 last year. Mrs. Maner’s mother, Mrs. Gavin, attended her 34th birthday party a week ago last Friday. A busy grandmother, she owns two beauty parlors. Mrs. Gavin’s mother is Mrs. J.K. Pyle, 54, who is employed with Celanese Corp. Mrs. Sam Jacks, 79, is Mrs. Pyle’s mother and the great-great-grandmother of Zena Lynn. Mrs. Gavin may not be the youngest grandmother on record in Rome, but she very likely is the youngest at the moment.
Tuesday, April 7, 1959
DRAGON BASEBALL NINE IN OPENER TONIGHT
Coach Otis Gilbreath’s Pepperell High School baseball squad, winners of the state Class “A” crown for the last two consecutive years and runners-up in 1956, will open their 1959 campaign at 7:30 o’clock tonight on Legion Field, going out of their division to meet AA West Rome. It will be first of four games this week for the Dragons. They play Darlington at Darlington at 4 p.m. Wednesday, East Rome at Legion Field at 4 p.m. Friday and East Rome in Lindale at 8 p.m. Saturday. Coach Gilbreath plans to start Johnny Savage on the mound tonight, and Ronnie Corntassel, converted first baseman, will be in the catcher’s slot. Clayton Byars will be at first base; Paul Carroll at second base; Gary Henderson at shortstop; Kenneth Shiflett at third base; Jerry Brumbelow in left field; Billy Studdard in center field and Sonny Mathis in right field. All are veterans except Savage, Byars and Shiflett. Others on the squad are Wallace Shiflett, catcher; Jimmy Holcomb, second base; Earl Coley, shortstop; Robert Sewell, third base; Ray Jackson, outfield; Gary Henderson, Larry Gresham, Doyal Peek, Benny Rampley and Ross Blalock, pitchers.
Thursday, April 9, 1959
TWO SHANNON STORES PLAN OPENINGS
Grand opening of the McGowan Drug Store and A. & W. Superette, both located in what was formerly the old Brittain Bros. Store building adjacent to Burlington Mills of Shannon, will be held Friday and Saturday. McGowan Drug Store, owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. John R. McGowan, was previously located on the Calhoun highway. Mr. McGowan, with 30 years in the drug business,, began in his home town of Cartersville, coming to Rome in 1926 as an employee of Hale’s Drug Store, later buying this business. He served five years in the Navy during World War II, returning to Shannon, where he has been located for the past nine years. He is married to the former Miss Grace Tyler, of Detroit. The drug store occupies 38 by 60 feet of the original 38 by 175 feet of the building, and has been completely remodeled and modernized. The McGowans plan to remain open for business from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. six days a week, staying open on Sundays from 1:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. The A. & W. Superette, located in the rear of the building is owned and operated by Annie Lou and Wilson Sherman, who live on Rome Rte. 2, the Barron Road. Mr. Sherman first became associated with the grocery business when the present building was being operated as the Brittain Bros. Store. He remained with the store for 11 years. He then worked for Burlington Mills, and was assistant personnel manager when he resigned to open his grocery business. Sherman said he will carry a complete stock of general merchandise, including do-it-yourself hardware, novelty items and fishing tackle. He will operate the superette, along with Mrs. Barbara Jean Floyd, cashier, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 7:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. This store also has been completely remodeled and the merchandise displayed for more convenient shopping. The U.S. Post Office branch will continue to operate in the same building, being located between the two new stores and connected to both via a hallway. Many grand opening prizes will be given away at separate drawings by the stores Friday and Saturday.
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