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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1943
Page
2
The vessel, long tied to the riverbed, begins to move as salvors lay a vast device on deck to measure tilt. A giant inclinometer demonstrates the ship’s angle and movement while engineers estimate about 20 degrees more tilt before bulkheads give way. Manneau leads the salvage, stating operations have commenced.
Wiregrass graduates from the Harlingen Army Air Field serial gunnery school receive silver wings and promotion to gunner technician sergeants. They completed courses in radio operator mechanics radar operation and bomber aircraft maintenance. Names include Hugh D. Stephenson Ronald L. Trammell Robert B. Rich Ralph L. Snell and George E. McKnight. Pilot air pressure suits tested above 55000 feet.
Deliberate progress on transforming the Normandie into a troop ship was halted by a February 9, 1942 fire sparked by an arc welder. Salvage costs reach 3.75 million dollars with Navy spending around 20 million to convert before the blaze. The pier cost 2.61 million and the original cost was about 59 million. postwar negotiations with France loom regarding repayment.
Dorothy Dix argues that choosing a spouse by heart over head is wiser as many so called good sons and daughters hinder their own marriages. Mothers care can force men to stay single, and daughters to sacrifice their own happiness for maternal devotion.
A Bay Line employee Miss Frances Tiller was accidentally locked in a vault for five minutes. Her mother, worried after delays, alerted staff who freed her. The incident sparked reflections on family pressure and the burden placed on women in crowded households.
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