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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1950
Page
1
The Dothan Eagle promotes eggs and shrimp as a dining idea with “900 Ways to Serve Eggs.” A sample recipe from the Eye Book shows poached eggs in shelled shrimp with butter garlic flour tomato parsley cream sherry and shrimp, baked in buttered crumbs and finished with paprika. Serves 3 to 4. Purchase details note the Egg Book for 25 cents.
Georgia high schools were checked by the Southern Association in Richmond. A committee was named to investigate a dispute over administrative control of the education department and fired staff as the accreditation list was extended, with Oglethorpe University recently approved by the association after reforms.
The University of Georgia will close its Savannah center in June. Armstrong College will offer evening courses for freshmen and sophomores, using its facilities and faculty. The Savannah center was opened to serve students affected by the 1949 closure of the Savannah division. The university stated it will not duplicate local services already available.
A man named Larry Nelson and a woman identified as Sylva Van Conant opened fire outside a downtown Saginaw hotel wounding two officers and killing one. Nelson was wounded in the stomach and both suspects surrendered after police halted their car pursuit. Police linked them to an earlier daytime bar incident where they disarmed four officers. Nelson, 33, from Temrby Port Hugo, Mich, had parole history for armed robbery and multiple prior prison terms. The woman, registered as Tan and wife, was from Port Huron.
In November Florida unemployment compensation fell by 240000 dollars, about 37 percent, amid more winter tourist and citrus jobs. Out of state benefits also declined, with 1000 dollars paid to nonresidents down 22 percent from October. Commission chairman Raymond Barnes attributed the drop to job growth in state industries.
Four year old Jewel Vee Edwards was ordered by the State Supreme Court to return to her birth mother Viola Edwards from foster mother Meg Evelyn Sessions in Birmingham Alabama. The transfer followed a prior adoption and a controversial holiday toy exchange. Jewel clutched Sessions as a deputy removed her, while Edwards prepared to take the child to a three room home with relatives.
A Montgomery AP report states Air Force lieutenant J. K Mumford, a former FBI special agent, faces embezzlement and related charges tied to the disappearance of a macrophone at Rusins Air Force Base near Macon, Georgia. He is described as an active duty reserve former photographer.
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