Tobacco Road Reappears As Defense Plans Expand
Montgomery Alabama Aug 6 renumbered tobacco road program resurfaces as federal planners oppose renewed relocation efforts. The war department seized 40 000 acres near Augusta Georgia for an army camp while the Farm Security Administration coordinates grants and loans to resettle about 360 families displaced by defense projects at Fort Benning Fort Jackson Port McClellan and other sites along the Chattahoochee river region.
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Als
National Defense Program
War Department
Erskine Caldwell
Augusta
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Syille
Port McClellan
Idge
Fort Jackson
Cooper
Camp Croft
Hunteville
Georgia
Alabama
Chattahoochee
Fort Benning
Mule races captivate Greenwood crowd in charity event
In Greenwood Mississippi on August 6 a mule race spectacle drew 70 entrants from Delta plantations. Negro riders compete for cash prizes while whites vie for the engraved cup in the gentlemen jockey race. The unorthodox start and fielded bets set bold stakes for charity as mules dash on a quarter mile track.
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Greenwood
Miss
Mississippi
Delta
Sweet Charity
Plains Area Feels Heat Across Regions With Varied Rain
The Associated Press reports continued heat in Plains states with minima around 70 in the Ohio Valley and Gulf, highs near 90 in the East, and scorched Georgia coast areas reaching 95 to 98. Showers spread from Georgia to Louisiana, Texas to Florida with notable totals in Chattanooga and Galveston.
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Building permits issued by clerk
Building permits totaling 1500 were issued today at the city clerk's office. Mrs Argie Bowles obtained a permit for remodeling her home at 347 Jackson Street costing 750 with J B McBride and Son as contractor. Fred King secured a permit for a one story frame dwelling at 316 Grove Street costing 750.
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Argie
Rain Floods Birmingham Killing 15 Year Old
A severe thunderstorm flooded streets across Eastern and Southern Birmingham. Lenard Waters, 15, was killed when lightning struck the tree where he stood. his older brother Clarence was shocked. Heavy rain backed up traffic as army movements were delayed and residents were evacuated by boat.
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Birmingham
Ala
Fort McClellan
Louisiana
Lenard Waters
Trussville
Clarence
Penalty rate set for 1941 excess cotton
The Agriculture Department announced a seven cent per pound penalty on cotton marketed above the farm quota, an increase of four cents from 1940. The flat rate applies to all 1941 excess cotton, with a loan rate raised to 14.02 cents per pound for 74 inch middling cotton, and a 60 percent loan to growers on the penalized portion.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Desert heat claims seven on the devil's highway near Yuma
Seven members of a Brawley, California family died of heat and thirst after their truck failed on the desert route called Al Camino Del Diablo. Two survivors were taken to a hospital. one man slit his throat and another cut his wrists while seeking aid.
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Sonora
al Camino del Diablo
Francisco Plores
Durango
Tex
Socorro Cornea
Brawley
Calif
German Cornejo
Filas Cornejo
Rafael Cornejo
Elisa Franciaco
Domingo Rocha
Thomas Ponce
T. H. Newman
Newman
Refeel Cornejo
Man Jumps 80 Feet With Son From Bridge
James M. Hamm 23 and his four year old son Barney leaped from Municipal Bridge into the Ohio River. Both were rescued by coast guardsmen and Hamm was arrested for disorderly conduct. Court records show custody by the mother with a custody order. The incident followed a separation.
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Louisville
James M. Hamm
Jeffersonvill
Ind
Veneer Company
Ohio River
Municipal Bridge
Barney
4Thia Arms
Coast
Raymond Jaegera
New Albany
Hamm
Fire crews respond to Minnesota avenue blaze
Four fire companies two chiefs cars and a first aid car responded to an alarm on Minnesota avenue with 22 firefighters. One man entered the building and extinguished the blaze.
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Kansas City
Kas
Minnesota Avenue
County stays on lucky list
Morgan county remained in the ranks of the lucky ones Thursday as another day came without a report of infantile paralysis but the state still recorded more cases and a new death, Dr. L. B. Murphree county health officer said every physician was now giving far study to any illness of children, the principal sufferers, and were on the alert for the slightest symptoms of the disease.
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Morgan County
L. BR. Murphree
Alabama Polio Death Toll Rises Amid Outbreak Surge
Deaths from infantile paralysis in Alabama climbed to ten with a Birmingham child among Jefferson county fatalities. Etowah county reported two deaths and one case. Six new cases brought total illnesses to 213 since July 1 and 46 in Jefferson county.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Etowah
Holmes Rites Held Today for Betty Holmes
Funeral rites for Miss Betty Holmes of Falkville were conducted by Rev. J. W. Myers at Folk File Cemetery. She died in a vehicle crash near Goshen when the car she rode in turned over. Payne suffered minor injuries.
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Betty
Goshen
India
Folk File
Pweene Payne
Parkville
Payne
Polio Reports Request For County Case Details
In August 1994 Alabama battled its worst polio outbreak with Franklin, Creedh Cleburne, Jefferson and Frustell counties reporting new cases. Dr J N Baker, state health officer, ordered all county health officers to provide onset and paralysis dates, and to report names addresses races sexes set times and dates by letter or telegram.
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Alabama
Franklin County
Creedh Cleburne
Jefferson
Frustell
J. N. Baker
Ead
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