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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1948
Page
6
An essay by Joan B Kenyon urging self honesty over world driven profit. It questions earthly gains when a person risks lost souls and eternal consequences, using biblical prompts and a Fourth of July anecdote to warn against penny wise, pound foolish living.
Carl M. Lazenby of Montgomery fills the pulpit at First Presbyterian Enterprise today while Rev. Oliver N. Hamby is away on vacation. A Maryville College graduate from Oak Park Presbyterian, he was examined in June for ministry by East Alabama presbytery and plans seminary study this fall, escorted by his fiancée Miss Johnson of Pittsburgh.
Meridian Mississippi AP reports 94 year old George L. Howe of Thomaston Georgia rode a bicycle through Meridian en route from Macon to Los Angeles. He plans to reach Los Angeles by October 15 and has covered 409.4 miles. He wants to test if an aged man and his bicycle can complete the journey. He previously rode through Dothan and paused in Meridian after leaving Savannah.
Latter-Day Saints to hold their quarterly conference at Sink Creek chapel in Marianna Florida next Sunday August 29. The program begins 7 30 p m with youth development emphasis led by the district president. Opening session 10 30 a m Sunday features local church leaders and Elder Albert Choules president of the Southern States Mission. A union meeting of Sunday School officers and teachers and all auxiliaries follows at 1 00 p m with Elder Choules addressing again at 2 30 p m. Special music and public attendance encouraged.
Bowen W Simmons of Opp, solicitor of the 22nd judicial circuit, was appointed by Gov James E Folsom to succeed the late Judge Robert S Reid of Andalusia. The appointment runs through 1950 with voters to elect a judge for the remaining Reid term. Simmons, 58, has served as circuit solicitor since 1993 and was an assistant attorney general in Montgomery in 1937 1938 and 1942. Appointment of a solicitor to succeed Simmons not announced by the governor’s office.
Pack Three Cub Scouts sponsored by First Baptist Church of Dothan held a picnic and swimming session at Kelley Springs Thursday afternoon and evening. About 100 people attended the meeting including 31 cub scouts and parents. Master Bob Weston presided as the meeting opened with a quarm test and flag ceremony.
Kurt Singer, foreign correspondent and author on underground movements, will speak at Temple Emanu-El next Friday at 7 30 p.m. Rabbi Hinchin said civic clubs and church groups are invited and the public is welcome. Singer, author of Spies and Traitors, discusses democracy, cold war issues, and global political currents from Berlin to Chicago.
The summer series finale will originate from Montreal North Carolina in a large auditorium. Over a thousand women will join in singing as a panel discusses Christ the Only Answer for the Home led by Mrs. William C. Pressly with participants from Raleigh Beckley Charlotte Cape Girardeau Houston and New York. The 7 30 a m broadcast may be heard on Station WDIG next Sunday.
Vacation Bible school for children aged four through 12 begins tomorrow at Foster Street Methodist Church and runs through Saturday with daily sessions from 9 30 a m to 12 noon. Three classes kindergarten primary and junior cover The Childs Home Friends at home and in the neighborhood and The story of the Methodist Church. All children are urged to attend.
The Army launches a character guidance campaign to stress moral and spiritual values against promiscuity and venereal disease as draftees head for the barracks. Royall orders commanders to restrain pass privileges for habitual troublemakers and remove officers who undermine discipline while cooperating with health and law enforcement agencies to curb vice.
Tile stoves, widespread in northern Europe, were used in Germany by the 4th century. Alabama ranks 17th in population and 28th in area among U.S. states.
Dothan church services today feature Dr. Henry A. Parker at First Baptist Morning topic Fellowship With God and this evening addressing A Sense of Values. Parker is slated to speak at the First Baptist Church.
Christian Science churches study the lesson sermon today on Mind with the golden text from Proverbs 2 6 The Rev B L Anderson of the Church of Christ preaches this morning on Being of Value to the Church and outlines The Church Organization for the evening service
A layman will lead a prayer service at 9 30 a m at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity.
Dr W F Calhoun will preach Vision Splendid at Foster Street Methodist Church 11 a m and discuss A Character Study at the evening service Rev Charles H Hildreth Lafayette Street Methodist will speak at morning worship on A Wonderful Secret Rev Comer Woodall Napier Methodist will be guest preacher at evening service.
The Rev. R J Essary will preach this morning at the Church of the Nazarene on the topic A Revival. Parishioners are invited to attend the morning service and sermon.
The Rev. Gene Poe of Auburn will preach at First Presbyterian Church at 11 a m on The Bountiful Benefactor. This evening he will also preach at Evergreen Chapel.
A new Masonic lodge to be instituted here next Wednesday evening named Houston Lodge A F and A M. It will be the third lodge of its type in Dothan with rooms in the Masonic Temple. Fourteen charter members will join as officers include Roy G. Young as worshipful master John C. Stanton senior warden and Luther C. Reno junior warden. Grand Lodge officers from Alabama will attend under a dispensation from the grand master.
Alabama state docks switchman Evans received a 3000 dollar judgment against the federal government in a federal case filed after a box car he was switching struck a parked transportation office truck on the night of August 14, 1945. The suit sought 10000 dollars, but Judge John McDuffie approved a 3000 dollar settlement after compromise.
Officials of the French air force scientific bureau said a faint radioactive cloud remains drifting over Puy de Dôme near Clermont-Ferrand since the Bikini Atoll test on June 30, 1946. Researchers conducted extensive aerial atmosphere studies at the 4,500-foot peak and detected radioactive particles only with precision instruments.
President Truman enjoys mild weather aboard the Williamsburg as he begins a nine day pre campaign cruise through Chesapeake Bay and along the Atlantic coast. The trip includes a brief emergency appendectomy on a crewman from Lenore and updates relayed to the White House by press secretary Ross.
A 13 year old received slight injuries after a pickup truck making a left turn was passed by another automobile, causing a crash. No further details on location or identities available.
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