Fireworks at Valley Round in Rotary Kiwanis Golf Faceoff
Chaos erupts at Valley Country Club as Rotary and Kiwanis clubs clash in a free for all golf tournament on July 4. Club presidents urge members to qualify and attend while caddies are urged to work for a fee. A. C. Bailey and John Caddell rally their sides with taunts and bravado.
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The
Valley Country Club
Putledge Thomas
Dwight Mixson
A. C. Bailey
Rotary
John Caddell
Bailey
Caddell
Horton Postpones Legion Sessions
Montgomery Ala June 30 Indefinite postponement of the Alabama Department of the American Legion annual convention has been announced by Col C C Horton. Officers will be named by mail ballot around Aug 1 and the convention will be held later if possible due to government travel restrictions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Department of the American Legion
C. ¢. Horton
Horton
War Production Board approves Robbins Tire plant in Alabama
The War Production Board authorizes completion and reduced operation of the Robbins Tire and Rubber Co. plant at Tusсumbia Alabama. The action allows limited production as wartime needs persist.
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Washington
Robbins Tire and Rubber Co
Tuscumbia
Ala
War Production Board
Farmers On Verge Of Losing Big Amount
Alabama farmers face loss of several thousand dollars of AAA conservation payments for soil building in 1945. Through May 31 only about 25 percent of the $2,244,428 allotted had been earned, with dramatic declines in slag limestone and other materials versus 1944. County reallocations may shift funds to better performing areas later this year.
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L. C. Brackeen
Auburn
Ala
Alabama
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
T.H. Martin
Alabama Aaa
Riverside High expands vocational home economics department gains
The Riverside High School vocational home economics program reports improvements through July 1, adding electric stove a pressure cooker Fostoria crystal service for twenty four and full china service. Elizabeth Griffin becomes the city’s first full time twelve month vocational home economist with experience in Mobile and Fort Payne.
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Vocational Home Economics Department
Riverside
Elizabeth Griffin
Mobile
Fort Payne
Ptolemy Lagus and Egypt as a state farm under guards
The text describes Ptolemy Lagus of 323 B C and his successors running Egypt as a waste state farm under government oversight and armed guards.
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Ptolemy Lagus
B. C
Egypt
Strangelike Big Bird Rescues Five From New Guinea Valley
Native warriors in New Guinea wept as a strange aerial rescue pulled five of the 20 army sightseers from a mountain crash area after a May 13 flare up. Cpl Margaret Hastings Lt John McCollum Sgt Kenneth Decker were among the survivors carried to safety by a parachuted rescue party.
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Ralph Morton Hollandia
New Guinea
Shangri-La
WAC
Camilio Ramirez
Margaret Hastings
Owego
N. Y
John B. McCollum
Trenton
Kenneth Decker
Kelso
Wash
Glider Rescue of Filipino Paratroopers Highlighted
The report notes Capt. Cecil Walters led the rescue party and four other Filipino parachute troops were retrieved. Glider operations were carefully rehearsed and executed without incident as the airborne team landed safely with their cargo.
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Tives
Cecil Walters
Sparks to Mackinac Conference Address
Montgomery Governor Chauncey Sparks left for Mackinac Island Michigan to attend the National Governors Conference. He will speak Tuesday on Postwar Planning and Agriculture accompanied by secretary George Bliss Jones. Eskimo snow houses melt in warm seasons pushing families into skin tents.
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Montgomery, Ala
Chauncey Sparks
Mackinac Island
Mich
National Governors Conference
George Bliss Jomes
Sparks
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