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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1947
Page
4
A scanned newspaper page shows the Dothan Eagle from 1978 with publication details, pricing, subscription options, and service notes. It lists prices for mail and motor route delivery, outside Alabama Georgia and Florida, plus Sunday editions. The page includes Associated Press credit, national reps, and a Jefferson quote about tyranny.
Sunday February 2 1947 discusses U S wartime salvage results noting overseas property sales netted 1 59 billion from costs of 6 8 billion and remaining 1 863 million plus an estimated 2 billion to be released. It criticizes efficiency and highlights merit system protections and purchasing faults including rusting vehicle tags and a faulty pact. The piece questions accountability within government departments and praises recovery while urging reforms.
A Mobile City Comptroller received a dated letter and a $5,700 cash parcel after a graft exposure. The missive, signed ambiguously, claims money once belonging to Mobile and references wartime hardships and a Westward move. Officials pursue the source and meaning amid confusion and concern.
President Truman plans a stop in Waco Texas next month to accept an honorary degree from Baylor University. The degree was previously withheld amid pressure from the Texas Baptist General Convention over his stance on drinking and gambling.
The AR board will establish a chemical analysis department to examine the quality of all whiskey offered for sale in State stores. Reports will be awaited with curiosity by state customers who have long wondered what exactly they are drinking.
Washington column notes growing concerns inside the Secret Service about The Sacred Cow plane and weather or mechanical trouble. It contrasts Truman’s preference for air travel with Roosevelt’s train ease, and mentions a possible larger war department plane. The piece also relays cabinet anecdotes, remarks on policy tone with Congress, and political theater around Senate maneuvering and foreign arms issues.
The Atlanta Journal’s Morgan Blake recalls the Georgia capitol night when Herman Talmadge was elected, likening it to a raucous game rich with cloak and dagger politics. Authors rail at Arnall’s governorship and debate the South’s political future amid campus debates about communism and ideology.
A jumble of social commentary and anecdotes from an Ohio audience column touches on school life, a 99th birthday, bicycle markets, Ford price cuts, and everyday curiosities. It ponders dignity, public behavior, and misused phrases while weaving fragmented jokes and reflections across multiple topics.
The article profiles A D Ussery, a longtime Dothan resident, newspaperman, grocer, and insurance agent. It notes his blunt, boisterous leadership in civic groups from the Chamber of Commerce to Rotary, his parish work at Lafayette Street Methodist, and his role as a community organizer since arriving in 1899. His son Jack served as a Navy officer and later joined his business.
The Navy announced that Naval Reserve members may take a two weeks training cruise during 1947. About 35,000 reservists from eastern and southeastern states are expected to participate. Interested personnel may obtain information by writing or visiting the Navy recruiting station at the post office in Dothan.
Excelsior Minnesota Mrs Clara Peck has given her husband the same Christmas card every year for a quarter century highlighting a tender yearly ritual in a small town.
Consumers writing to the Birmingham sugar office must specify whether they seek a new ration book or a replacement for a lost, mutilated, or stolen one. A. D. Simpson Jr. noted many have only asked for a sugar blank, with insufficient information. New coupons go to infants, servicemen returning to civilian life, and others never issued regular books. Replacements for lost or mutilated books require completion of the regular form, and requests should use a one cent postal card.
In Slocomb Friday afternoon a two-car crash at Alabama Highway 12 and Hembyet, Sheams area, injured Mrs. Ruth Resister of Samson and W I Norton of Geneva. Melvin T Bryant of Geneva drove into the Resister car. Nation was ejected. All four names tied to the wreck. Patrol estimates $400 damage. Bryant uninjured. no charges filed.
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