Prison farm at Mery Alabama leads silk and ramie trials
At the state's prison farm near Monroeville an eight and a half thousand acre project blends food production with experimental crops. A 6300 acre row crop program includes corn and cotton while a large mulberry orchard tests silk cultivation, ramie processing is under way at Atmore with product sold to cigarette paper mills. Prison facilities include a 1000 can canning plant and a 40,000 gallon per year dehydrator for sweet potatoes.
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Gy T. M Davenport Mery
Ala
Atwa
Pribur Heustess
Rica
Mon W
Ted States
South
Alex Heustess
Japan
Iig
Ramie
Atmore
Cigarette
Alabama
WACS In North Africa Prove Themselves Good Soldiers
In Algiers 108 WACs stationed in Algeria serve as jeep drivers typists switchboard operators and clerks proving capable soldiers despite no arms. Pic Mary YL Taylor earned praise for gallantry aiding a wounded officer, then driving three miles for first aid with a flat tire. Nan Rae a former New York stenographer works with General Eisenhower as a staff stenographer.
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Algiers
North Africa
WAC
Pic
Mary YL. Taylor
Lake Charles
North African
Eco-nomb Board
Taylor
Wheeta 4
Ernest B. Mayfield
Mayfield
Pre. Taylor
Mary Taylor
WACS
Algiera
Nan Rae
New York
Eisenhower
Nan
Hisenhower
Pie
Mary Helen Lovell
Curtis
Ohio
Mary
Elaine Olmstead
Phoenix
Ariz
Olmatead
Margaret Janeway
Ann Bradley
Philadelphia
Atmorefarm crops thrive with peach orchard profits
Atmores produce includes strawberries, tomatoes, and tadhishes as main crops, with a 6000 tree peach orchard beginning to bear profitably and fetch fancy prices this year. A large dairy herd supplies products for the prison and employees may buy surplus. The extension division of Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the State Department of Agriculture sponsor experiments in sweet potato dehydration, ramie production, and all-worm peer ees.
Geneva 4-H Clubs Hold 18 Picnics
Hartfort country agent W G Eden reports 16 picnics held by Geneva County 4 H clubs in July. Picnics were a wartime measure by the club council and will join the regular 4 H program with the annual county camp when possible. Total attendance reached 740 4 H boys and girls with a recreational program at each site.
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Hartford
W. G. Eden
Resistant
Geneva County
Mr. Eden
Army Grid Ruling Stands Despite Pleas from Congress
Washington AP reports the Army has reaffirmed that soldiers in the Army Specialized Training Program cannot compete in intercollegiate varsity football. Despite a 256-member congressional petition led by Rep. Weiss, officials say the policy is not open to reconsideration. Navy policy differs, with new restrictions on its football participation.
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Army
Tte
Congress
Samuel A. Weins
Pennsylvania
Polia
Stimson
Patterson
Weiss
War Department
Avan & Hope
Navy
Knox
Seven-Shape Singing Convention at St Marys Church
The annual Seven-Shape Singing Convention will be held Sunday at St Marys Church four miles west of Cottonwood. Everyone is cordially invited to attend and bring hooks. Dinner will be served. The text also notes ancient Greek fossils and lists picnic sites including Hartford, Black, Bellwood, Bullock, Coffee Springs, Fadette, Lake Geneva, Hacoda, Kinsaul, Malvern, Open Pond, Mitchells Mill, Union, Gocomb, and Tate.
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St. Mary's Church
Cottonwood
Pames
Fellowship
Atamina
Hartford
Black
Bellwood
Bullock
Cofffee Springs
Fadette
Lake Geneva
Hacoda
Kinsaul
Malvern
Open Pond
Mitchell’s Mill
Union
Gocomb
Tate
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Geneva
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Detes
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I'nse
Yeoman
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del Monte
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Marwell
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Jitney
Foster
E. Main
F. H. Lonsford
ROMCO
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Kellogg's Pep Box
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Prem
Virginia Dare
Pt Bottle
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Armour
Armour's
Armours Star
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