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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1950
Page
2
Kathrine Bystrom, 29, stands trial in Alabama on charges of murdering an elderly person in a case reported by AP writer Alexander Cipy. The proceedings center on alleged fatal stabbing in a domestic dispute.
In Tallapoosa County Circuit Court on Monday a missionary case involving Mrs Lilian Euphemis Schliefer of the Seventh Day Adventist Church was indicted. The charge relates to her disappearance last February on a trip from Water Tex to James Brush West Indies, where her body was found near a lake. Mrs Byxtrom and James Lee McGraw were named in the indictment though one suspect had not been taken into custody.
The Marine Corps ruled that Congress is an essential activity and House and Senate members who are Marine reserves will not be called up to build strength to 174000 by December 1. The decision covers more than ninety lawmakers including Sen. Joseph McCarthy Sen. Paul Douglas and Rep. George Smathers. Recall notices begin August 15 with volunteers accepted in the interim. The reserve total is about 80409 and officials seek officers with combat experience while releasing male Marines for combat duty. The move aims to meet expansion needs and may include higher ranking officers with critical skills.
The State Railroad Commission will hold a hearing in August at Apalachicola on a request by Apalachicola Northern Railroad Co to discontinue passenger trains 1 and 2 between Fort Benning and Chattahoochee. A $100 bond was posted as material witness. A separate note mentions Mrs Bystrom and Mrs Sehliefer in a car trip incident and an Alaska sighting service operator.
Area apiary expert William F Doughtry runs 178 bee colonies producing queen bees for commercial sale across the Eastern states and Canada. He lists honey harvests from 175 hives and rents bees for crop pollination, with French and U S buyers. grafting queens is delicate work requiring precise timing and care in queenless nuclei.
Daughtry describes queen rearing steps including royal jelly feeding, moving the larva through two-story hives and a queen exclider, and mating flights in the queen yard. After mating the queen returns to lay eggs, with workers handling hive duties while drones are portrayed as lazy.
A cryptic note mentions Soest 3 Sere and Sankee drones amid plans at a bee world. It hints at formations and arenas, with unclear context and potential events or exhibitions surrounding drone activity.
In Clifton Forge Virginia Jesse Peck grows a plant with 42 blooms arranged in a crown around the top. The stalk measures nearly two inches thick.
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