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Timing is bad for a rate hike
OUR VIEW
      With gas at $3.50 per gallon and likely only going up, we hope the Thomasville Water and Sewer board takes a long hard look at putting more financial demands on its customers. While the average household's monthly bill may not go up by much, the costs of other goods like gas and groceries have r...
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Practice, practice and practice
From the Editor's Desk Arthur McLean
      Hey folks, remember that old saying what does it take to get to Carnegie Hall? The answer is: practice, practice, practice. Well, thanks to science, we now have a good idea of just how much practice you need, if not to reach Carnegie Hall then to at least be considered a worldclass expert in some...
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Reversing the exodus
By Bob Martin
      Back in the late 1940's and throughout the '50's Alabama's coal miners, small farmers and manufacturing workers began a significant exodus northward, seeking the good-paying jobs in the industrial states of Illinois, Ohio and Michigan, but mostly in the booming auto manufacturing plants in Detroit...
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Tips for surviving a recession
April 30, 1958 Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks The late Earl Tucker
      There are all kinds of sales gimmicks going around in an effort to beat the recession. Some of 'em are working pretty good, but it seems to me like we would all be better off if we just quit talking about it all together. If I walk in a retail store and the manager starts talking about how bad bus...
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HOW TO GET SOMETHING IN THE PAPER
      The Thomasville Times is happy to publish news items for the public, most of which are free-of-charge. Anything brought to the paper should be accompanied by the name of a contact person and phone number, preferably written on the submission itself.
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