Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1948 — Page 28

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For eight years, Tommy Huff was a traffic officer in the Athens

For the first several years Tommy turned up every day at one or another of the grammar schools in the city to pilot children safely across the street. Then he went to war for three and one-half years, and came back in 1946 to the same job and the same duties.

Popular With Everyone

+ Not only was Tommy mighty popular with the children; he was also popular with just about everybody else. Right now he is gofething of a political phenomenon. ~ A few weeks ago Tommy decided to run for sheriff of Clarke County, which has 12,000 registered voters out of a population of. 28,000. The fact that his opponent was silver-haired, popular Walter Jackson, who had been sheriff for more than 40 years, made little difference to the 39-year-old warveteran. Tommy announced his intentions and began campaigning, although it didn’t look as if he had much of a chance,

Children Aid, Campaign’

Then the grammar school children he helped across the street took over. - Without Tommy's knowledge (he didn't find out about it until they'd been at it for two or three days) the youngsters went to work on the voters. “ They enlisted sone of their old grads, too—ex-grammar school students, now seniors in high school or freshmen at the UniGeorgia—some of $hom could vote as well as camPpaign, Sines Georgia's minimum

Yoting age . « When the ballots were all in, Tommy was several hundred Yotes to the good. «= And that's how the grammar hool children of Athens elected sheriff,

gia Grade Pupils Elect

Sheriff

600 Home Furnishings

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clinic last night at the Claypool

Hotel. Principal speaker was Mar tin 'G. Wilkinson, a member of| the merchandising clinics of the president of the Milo Boul-|sylvania Tomato Growers Association, explained-that the Camp- | now {bell Soup Col, Camden, N. J. “sets the price”

Carpet Institute, Inc.

ton conducted a panel discussion.

A. L. Masten, merchandise man-

Ayres & Co.; Fr buyer, Banner - Ralph Cole,

Louis Rainier, Furniture Co.

owner,

REWARDED—Traffic officer Tommy Huff of Athens, Ga. friend of 'most everybody,’ especially grammar school pu-. pils, has been put in the sheriff's office by the pupils.

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Retailers Attend Meeting woopBEURY, N. thousand

More than 600 home furnishings | (UP)—Two retailers

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