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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1948
Page
3
In Dale County and across the Wiregrass, upcoming elections will intensify as county committees meet to set fees and accept qualification papers. Dale County lists six offices including superintendent of education and two county commissioner seats, with current holders named. Abbeville plans baseball on a lighted field funded by the city council and Lions Club.
Geneva County will hold four races including tax collector Ted Broxson tax assessor Henry Crenshaw and two county commissioners YP. H. Hatcher of Hartford from the second district and Grover French of Samson from the fourth. Voters will not choose a superintendent of education this year due to a 1947 law abolishing elective features of the office.
Coffee County voters will fill seven offices the most in the Wiregrass. At stake are superintendent of education currently A. C. Dunaway tax collector W. T. Whitman tax assessor Gardner Clark and the whole county commission comprising Willis Wilson Fulton Clark J Olle Helms and Fountain Lee.
In Houston County the following offices are up for election Tax collector currently held by A W Gwalt ney Tax assessor is E G Collins Superintendent of education is Solomon Baxter Judge of the Inferior Court is J T Jackson Board of education is Dr D M Hicks Coroner is Smith Hall.
Henry County voters will fill six offices including tax assessor F T Hodges tax collector W L Woodham superintendent of education Major Roberts two county commissioner seats held by J H Oates and Curtis Parish and one school board seat held by Fred Bush chairman. A 1947 bill requires county wide voting for county commissioners though candidates must still reside in their district.
In Abbeville supporters organize a county league baseball board of control and an executive committee for the 1948 season. Frank Carter Sr. serves as president with Robert Fowler as vice president and R W McSween as secretary among others named on the board.
Grey Hodges, formerly a railroader with seven years on the Coast Line, left Dothan two years ago and now runs a growing general store on the old homestead between Headland and Abbeville. He notes a single bad check and an appendix operation, bragging that his scar is the prettiest and that he was back at work in three days.
A dense listing of radio programs across networks with times and show titles. Notable items include Jack Benny NBC Gene Autry Hollywood Show CBS Paul and Alice Blondie Dagwood CBS Edger Bergen Sam Spade NBC CBS 7 30 Fred Allen NBC Man Called X NBC 6 30 Album of Family Music ABC Victor Young Music 9 00 Take It Or Leave It NBC Horace Heidt Show NBC Strike It Rich CBS 10 00 News Variety Dance CBS WAGF Today Wake Up And Live Nat Brandwynnes Orch Sermons In Song Grapelakes Old Fashioned Revival Hour Voice Of Prophecy MBs AP News Baptist Sunday School Baptist Church Services William L. Shire MBs Joe Relehmman Orch AP News Air Force Hour HM Cunningham Lynn Murray Orch Ernie Jee n Omeca Show MBS House Of Mystery MBS True Detective Mysteries MBS The Shadow MBS Quick As A Flash MBS Those Westerns MBS Nick Carter MBS Sherlock Holmes MBS Behind The Front Page MBS Jimmis Fidler MBS News Silent WAGP Monday Early Bird Varieties AP News Rise And Shine Clockwatcher RNAP News Hawaiian Melodies Insallable Time Thomas Poluso Orch Cecil Brown Movie Time Devotional OFA Churches Parading Parade MBS Your Neighbors MRS Bulletin Board Curt Massey Wid0 Kerte Smith Speaks Claudin So Easy Singers Market And News Pine Valley Fotha Garretts Snuff Varities Anderson Band Checkerboard Jamboree MBS Queen For Atlav MBS Martin Block Show All-Request AP News Superman MBS News Sunday schedule includes many network programs and church services.
A scrambled OCR listing shows radio programs and times across ABC and other networks. Entries include Masle and Melody, The Farm Hand, The Sunday Evening Hour, Walter Winchell, Betty Crocker, and Oscar Mayer style segments with various anchors and artists. The fragment captures a dense, period listing of shows, hosts, and durations for a Monday schedule.
The Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee and Birmingham Commissioner Eugene Connor were criticized for a Communist official Sam Hill Birmingham claiming he was Alabama chair of the party. The statement accused the committee of avoiding real problems and noted Connor led the effort to block the Freedom Train in Birmingham due to segregation. Connor denied support for the claim and announced his bid for delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention while calling for outlawing the Communist party in Alabama. Mobile chair Gessner T. McCorvey declined to comment on the criticism.
A compact listing shows program times and sponsors for a local radio day. Entries include Paul Whiteman Club ABC at 2 30, News at 2 39, Juke Box Varieties at 3 35 and 4 45, Social Security at 3 30, Terry and The Pirates ABC at 5 16, and Bkg King ABC at 2 30.
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