Union Hill Home Demonstration Club Meeting Notes
The Union Hill Home Demonstration Club met at Bobby Lamons home on December 19 with the vice president presiding in the president's absence. Devotional led by Bobby Lamons. Minutes read. Cash on hand four dollars ninety cents. Coupons collected for treasury. Plans for coming year to be made at next meeting. Members reminded to recruit new members by January 15 for Farm Bureau. Next meeting set for January 27 at Mrs Culbreath’s home. One member received a birthday gift. two new gifts planned next month. Social hour featured refreshments.
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Training planes delayed at Turner Field due to Dawson hospitality
Dawson, Georgia reports Turner Field Albany training planes struggle to take off next week blamed on local hospitality. The piece notes 48 men invited to a banquet featuring biscuits, roast turkey, silla fruit cake and ambrosia amid a tuberculosis education focus voiced by Dr. Livingston Trudeau of the National Tuberculosis Association.
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Dawson, Ga
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Industry Meets The Morale Problem
AP report outlines morale tactics for defense era factories. Open houses for families accompany tours. firms offer home town paper subscriptions, free snacks, and post event pep rallies. To combat fatigue, midwest plants provide between meal treats and engaging entertainment.
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Midwest
Steel plants rush to war production amid Pearl Harbor shifts
Steel makers expect as much as 90 percent of output at some plants to be diverted to war needs within 60 days. Pearl Harbor accelerated December shipping changes, with machine tool makers ordered to raise production 50 to 100 percent. Progress in converting peacetime plants to defense work spans auto and electrical sectors while non defense orders fade.
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New York
Pearl Harbor
Steel Journal
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Alabama farm values rise as cotton dominates crop returns
Alabama farm crops increased in value from about 46 million dollars in 1940 to 81 million this year, per the state crop reporting service. While exact totals aren not given, cotton and cottonseed are the most valuable crops with cottonseed returns more than doubling 1940 figures.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
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Christmas Seals Fund Medical Research Program
Christmas Seals provide funds for a highly organized program of medical research now operating in ten great laboratories across the country.
RAF Lieutenant A G Hill Fires Ace at 190 Yards
A Royal Air Force pilot named A G Hill reportedly achieved a hole in one on the No 11 hole at 190 yards during a golf outing. The remark implies his commanding officer may praise his precision with a golf club for future targets.
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Albany
A. G. Hill
Royal Air Force
Dothan Man Paid 2500 in Settlement Over Injury
A Dothan man paid Washington 2500 to Carl Chalker in a settlement for permanent injuries from a post office department truck crash on May 12, 1940 in Dothan. The story notes China held its first Christmas Seal sale in 1938 during wartime with Japan and has continued annually to help TB control.
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Washington
Carl Chalker
Dothan
Ala
Post Office Department
China
Japan
Boston National Guard Insignia Depicts Harbor Emblems
The 10IST Observation Squad reveals a plane insignia for its unit. A blue circle stands for Boston harbor and a wheeling seagull symbolizes the air observers who guard the area.
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Boston
National Guard
Boston Harbor
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