Cross Sections Of Life In The Wiregrass
Houste County eliminations for the American Legion school oratorical contests will be held at Vicksburg on Thursday Feb 17 at 10 am and at Columbia on Feb 22 at 10 am Soloman Baxter county superintendent announced All five of the county s senior high schools will be represented in both contests Scout executives from Region Five attend a Biloxi Miss conference Dothan Lions Club supports a city recreation program and hears Horace Hall publisher of The Dothan Eagle on city manager government One case of chicken pox reported to Houston County health department Delegates from city and school systems attend Alabama Education Association assembly in Birmingham Feb 18 19 Raymond D Hurlbert is association president Houston County grand jury to consider about 45 criminal cases Monday Two Dothan Negroes arrested by city police yesterday
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Houste
American Legion
Vicksburg
Solomon Baxter
Birmingham
Columbia
Baxter
Dothan Lions Club
Horace Hall
The
Dothan Eagle
Dothan
Lamar Trammell
W. F. Calhoun
Ton Jimmy Driskell
Pensacola
Alabama Education Association
Assembly of
Bruce Flurry
Dothan High - School
T. G. Vaughan
B. D. Sellers
Kinsey
B. A. Torrester
Webb School
Raymond D. Hurlbert
Child Welfare Meet Breaks Into Panels For Talk
In Montgomery AP story the Southern regional conference of the Child Welfare League splits into five discussion groups on the second day with a slate of panel leaders. Mrs. Oswald Lord of New York will address the group on international aspects of child welfare as delegates hear about dependent aid sound adoption principles and services for unmarried parents and emotionally disturbed children. Ralph McGill criticizes Truman welfare limits and urges broader security programs focused on marriage and children.
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Helen Taylor
Child and Family Service
Mobile
Sara Ricks
Mississippi
George T. Swartzett
Children's Home Society of Florida
Jacksonville
Frances Burkhalter
Bureau of Public Assistance
Federal Security Agency
Dwight H. Ferguson
U.S. Children’s Bureau
Henrietta Gordon
Child Welfare League of Americas
Leontine R. Young
New York School of Social Work
Henry H. Work
U. S. Children’s Bureau
Richard J. Bernhard
Child Welfare League of America, Inc
Ralph McGill
The
Atlanta Constitution
Truman
England
McGill
Lord
State breeders group meeting lists attendees and officials
Number 4 W. McClure of Greenville O T Vinson of Brewton W A Gardner of Auburn Tom Vinson of Andalusia Paul Agee of Lebanon Tenn and C F Gunnells of Opp attended the state breeders association meeting Officials present were O T Vinson president James Nunn secretary G B Phillips and L L Sellers Auburn special reps Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee members included W D Thomason co chair T A Hartzog executive committee Porter Andrews J B Rogers Bryan Byrit and NG Andrews.
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W. McClure
Greenville
O. T. Vinson
Brewton
W. A. Gardner
Auburn
Tom Vinson
Andalusia
Paul Agee
Lebanon, Tenn
C. F. Gunnells
Opp
State Breeders’ Association
James Nunn
G. B. Phillips
L. L. Sellers
Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee
W. D. Thomason
T. A. Hartzog
Porter Andrews
J. B. Rogers
Bryan Byrit
Ng, Andrews
Cotton futures drift on holiday weekend trading
In New Orleans margins fell as liquidations hit futures during the long holiday weekend. At noon May and Oct contracts showed sizable declines while later activity in New York mixed with short covering and mill buying left late prices varying, with March around 32.00 and May near 31.74 as markets adjusted.
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New Orleans
New York
Lottery charges and a traffic injury report
The article notes charges of operating or assisting in operating a lottery against two women identified as Sam Forrester, about 30, and Queenie Burney, 29, with Burney released on bond and Forrester not yet posting at noon. It also reports J B Jackson, 42, a Black man from Dothan route three, injured when a car struck his wagon. the driver is John Norman Dick, 2, of Blackshear street. A youth service is planned at Church of God on East Lafayette Street at 7 PM.
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Jaw Records
Sam Forrester
Queenie Burney
Forrester
J. B. Jackson
Dothan
Highway Patrol
John Norman Dick
Blackshear Street
Jackson
Church of God
East
Lafayette Street
Shelby Reeder
Chest X-Ray Clinic Serves 100 Here During Week
One of the largest X-ray chest clinics at the Houston County Health Department ended Thursday with 100 persons x-rayed over two days. Of these, 34 were returning patients and 66 were new, many referred by private physicians or urged by tuberculosis family or contact cases. Case histories were recorded by Mrs. Ernestine Bush and Mrs. Roy Driggers. Wallace Thomas operated the new county x-ray equipment.
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Houston County Health Department
Ernestine Bush
Roy Driggers
Wallace Thomas
State Health Department
Bureau of Tuberculosis Control
Detroit Man Arrested On Bad Check Charge
A Detroit youth named Joseph Edward Szymankiewicz Jr., 19, presented a $50 check at a Dothan hotel for a month’s advance payment and received $20 in change. He admitted signing the check drawn on Provident Savings Bank and Trust Co of Cincinnati. He planned to leave town after seeking schooling, asked for a refund, and was arrested by city police for forgery and turned over to the county for prosecution.
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Detroit
Mich
Dothan
Joseph Edward Michel Szymankiewicz, Jr
Szymankiewicz
Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Tests Show A Shout Answered By Shout
Kenyon College speech research shows people cannot help shouting back when shouted at even without facial cues. Students answered simple questions at varying loudness and echoed the questioner’s volume, then adjusted to uniform loudness in subsequent replies.
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Gambier
Kenyon College
Machines Shorten Business Men's Lives
Louis Bromfield, writer and farmer, argues machines shorten lives of leading businessmen. He told a Kenyon College assembly that material plenty does not equal civilization, noting a hermit in a cave can be more civilized than a man with four cars. He praised farmers for intelligent, efficient use of machinery.
Gentry linked to double slaying in Rome and local home
Two Talladega officers questioned Gentry who initially claimed to find the women shot in his home. He later said he killed his wife after she nagged him over money. another woman, Mrs Deal, was also shot. Bodies found in a cesspool. Suitcases belonging to Gentry found at the railroad station. Coroner reports Mrs Gentry shot once and Mrs Deal three times.
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Gentry
Adams
Rome
Talladega
Carl Jacke
Dean
J. M. Hughes
Deal
Auto collision injures man in neck area
In Neck Rock Island, James G. Winters struck a parked ring station, injuring Donald Sylvester who was not in the car. he leaped aside and suffered a neck crick upon looking back.
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Rock Island, Il
James G. Winters
Donald Sylvester
Sylvester
Montgomery Parade Honors France With Gratitude Train
The Alabama section of the Gratitude train from France arrived in Montgomery to a two mile parade through Dexter Avenue featuring four bands and Air Force units. The boxcar loaded with French gifts and relics will be kept as a museum piece.
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Montgomery
Alabama
France
Dexter Avenue
Air Force
Union Station
Morntgomery
National Guard
Academy Award Nominations Set as Strong Field Formed
The 10th competition by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences carries a strong field with 11 560 industry members voting. Olivier appears a sure bet for best leading actor while supporting nominees include Bickford Ferrer Huston Kellaway Bel Geddes Corby Moorehead Simmons Trevor and more. Directors include Olivier Negulesco Zinnemann Litvak Huston.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Olivier
Academy
Miss Wyman
Miss de Havilland
Charles Bickford
Johnny Belinda
Jose Ferrer
Joan of Arc
Oscar Homosky
Walter Huston
Sierra Madre
Cecil Kellaway
Barbara Bel Geddes
Ellen Corby
Agnes Moorehead
Jean Simmons
Claire Trevor
Key Largo
Jean Negulesco
Fred Zinemann
Anatole Litvak
John Huston
All Planes Not Alike To Hungry Seagulls
In Sydney at Rose Bay flying boat base gulls recognize the four engined Sandringham used on Tasman Sea flights to New Zealand. They rise to meet Tasman planes three miles out and escort them to base, ignoring Hythe boats. Gulls favor Tasman planes due to scraps tossed overboard by maintenance men.
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Sydney
Australia
Rose Bay
Tasman Sea
New Zealand
Sandringham
Hythe
Tasman
Father Suffers Too At Fort Ord Birth
Monterey dispatch reports Sgt. Jack R. McDaniel arrived at Fort Ord hospital with appendicitis just hours after his wife gave birth to a baby girl. Doctors stated mother baby and father were doing well.
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Monterey
Cal
Fort Ord
Sgt. McDaniel
Livestock arrivals tally 250 cattle and 3 500 hogs in several plants
USDA reports eight plants in Georgia Alabama and Florida handling 250 cattle 100 calves and 3 500 hogs at Albany Columbus Moultrie Thomasville Tifton Dothan and other sites. Hog market mostly steady with quotes for different weight classes including good and choice barrows and gilts 180 240 lbs around 16 75 to 17 28 and lighter and heavier ranges listed.
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Thomasville
USDA
Albany
Columbus
Moultrie
Tifton
Dothay
Ala
Jacksonville
Tallahassee
Fla
Montgomery Market Cattle Calves Hogs Report Week Receipts
Week's salable cattle receipts about 1175 with a mostly steady Friday market and weakness into week end for slaughter and replacement classes. Calves receipts around 400 with meager Friday supply. hogs 1125 with steady to lower weights and closing ranges for barrows gilts and sows. Prices cited include 650 lb baby beeves 23.00 and various 19.00 to 26.00 range across cattle and calves, hogs from 15.00 to 17.50 for mixed weight classes.
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Montgomery
Mkt
Union Stock Yards
Tax rules eyed for athletic funds in schools
Attorney general said state funds used for athletic receipts affect tax obligations. If funds are state controlled, auditors will question spending. if not, sales taxes may apply to purchases from athletic event proceeds. Carmichael previously ruled on school funds and athletic gear taxes. Audits continue at University and Auburn, tied to state-funded payrolls.
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Eagerton
Atty
Albert A. Carmichael
University
Auburn
Privette Held Awaiting Return of Ally Bridges
Sheriff White described Privette as not jailed and to be available to come. She claimed she traveled with Bridges due to fear and denied knowledge of his plan to kill her husband. Bridges, a native of Early County, had lived near Raleigh since last May and worked for a welding firm.
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Privette
White
Bridges
Blakely
Wake County
Raleigh
N.C
Funeral for Emily Wayne Bradley Held in Abbeville
Emily Wayne Bradley two month old son of Mr and Mrs Shelly Lee Bradley of Newville route one died in a Dothan hospital after a brief illness. Services at Methodist church Abbeville at 10 Saturday morning with burial in Abbeville cemetery Headland mortuary in charge Survivors include the parents a brother Bobby Lee and grandparents I G Bradley Haleburg route one and Mr and Mrs Frank Roland Abbeville
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Billy Wayne Bradley
Newville
Methodist
Abbeville
Emily Wayne -Bradley
Shelly Lee Bradley
Dothan
Paul Duffy
Headland
Drunk Istanbul Restaurateur Arouses Mosque Worshippers
Omer Polat, an Istanbul restaurant owner, drunk after raki, wandered into a mosque and crawled into a ceremonial coffin. Early prayers startled him as the coffin lid moved and he protested that he was dead. Police arrived and took the scene in stride.
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Istanbul
Omer Polat
Omer
Clock Industry Revival Drives English Boom
LONDON AP The revived British clock and watch industry is booming. Alarm clock output topped two million last year and production is expected to double this year. In 1938 Britain imported nearly seven million watch and clock movements. Last year imports fell to under 1.5 million while exports reached 1.1 million pounds to 72 countries in ten months. The government aided new factories in Scotland and Wales to curb unemployment, signaling a potential surge in a key regional industry. George Strauss, Supply Minister, says prospects are strong for this sector.
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London
Britain
Scotland
Wales
George Strauss
Washington notes clash over filibuster and tax plan
A Capitol Hill briefing outlines Senate fights over filibuster changes to curb debate and a two thirds vote proposal. Dixie senators vow to oppose civil rights limits while Democratic leaders push major legislation amid labor law talks and tax reform stalled by Social Security expansion debates.
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Europe
Acheson
State Department
House
Capitol Hill
Dixie
Lucas
Illinois
Doughton
D-Nc
Ways and Means Committee
Atmore Prison Farm Fire Hazard Mentioned by Officials
The Atmore prison farm housing 870 convicts, including 600 Negroes, was built in 1928 and spans 8,000 acres with 6,000 under cultivation. Warden Hixon awaited State Prison Director Frank Boswell's arrival from Montgomery to plan emergency housing and feeding for prisoners as Boswell had warned the farm’s fire hazard to the Legislature.
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Alabama
Hixon
Frank Boswell
Montgomery
Boswell
Atmore
Four Negro boys arrested in string of burglaries
Police say five burglaries were solved with the arrests of four Negro youths, two juveniles. Emmett Thomas of 1205 East Adams and Willie Jones of 1506 Kings Street, both 19, confessed to the East End Cafe Minnies Cafe C J grocery Lester Green's store and Howard's barbecue stand burglaries. Juveniles aged 14 and 15 were also implicated. older suspects sent to county prosecutors, younger to juvenile authorities. Evidence includes stolen goods found at Thomas home and a church yard stash. Warranted charges issued against all four. further charges possible.
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Eddie Chelley
Emmett, Thomas
East Adams Street
Willie Jones
Kings Street
James &. Lewis
East End
Minnie’s
Lester Green
Howard
East Burdeshaw
Thomas
Lewis
C.S. Prior
State Bureau of Investigation
Green
Freewill Baptist
First Baptist Church
Mt. Meigs Industrial School
Warsaw Rebuilding Progress Amid Rubble
Warsaw officials say rebuilding is half finished and optimism grows for the future, yet engineers expect full reconstruction by 1965 after Nazi destruction. Poles have cleared millions of tons of rubble and speed up via machinery from Britain and the USSR. City population now about 600,000, down from 1,289,000 before the war.
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Warsaw
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Churches and church officials faced trial for alleged war rumors
The article lists several church and academic figures including Bishop Paul Garber of Geneva and Major Thompson, tied to a Bulgarian case accusing them of spreading fear of atomic attacks and profiting on a black market. The trial, before a regular criminal court, was slated to begin this month and open to the public.
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All of Churches
Church of Scotland
Paul Garber
Geneva
Switzerland
Duke University
Robert Tobias
World Council of Churches
Elaine Cooper
Lovech College
Sofia
Bridgeport
Conn
Maj. Thompson
Bulgaria
Robert Strong
Col. Thompson
Stanley Andrew
Mellony Turner
Miss Cooper
Topencharov
Legislature Approves $350000 Build Funds Not Released
Warden Hixon commended the cool headedness of Drinkard and Head Hixon noted no excitement or disorder among prisoners after approval of 350000 in funding for new buildings, which was never released.
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Lature
Hixon
Drinkard
Head Hixon
Church tensions rise amid Bulgarian espionage indictments
A daily news conference quoted a spokesman linking the Bulgarian indictment of 15 church leaders to a broader anti religious campaign by Eastern European communists. He tied the case to Cardinal Mindzenty and Bishop Ordas in Hungary and to Russia's 1920s anti clerical history as part of a larger program of communization.
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Tion
Eastern
Europe
Nmow
Cardinal Mindzenty
Ordas
Hungary
Soviet Union
Russia
Canyon Camp Hit by Cushions of Snow and Slides
A Boise River canyon camp for 200 men 200 women and 100 children was cut off by blizzards and landslides. Two broken wires were held to make a connection as crews described critical conditions and efforts to deliver food fuel and radio gear by air. The camp near Anderson Ranch dam site is isolated after slides damaged a main warehouse and blocked the 40 mile Mountain Home road.
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Ters
Reclamation Bureau Oficers
Boise
Delbert Hutching
Anderson Ranch Reclamation
Idaho
Mountain Home
Ida
Embezzler Sentenced In Miami Case
Jr. A Stringer a 62 year old former deputy collector of Internal Revenue at Panama City was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for embezzling government funds. He was ordered to report to the U.S. Marshal to begin serving the sentence.
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Miami, Fla
Stringer
Internal Revenue
Panama City
Fla
Miami
Local Dodge Dealer Hosts Preview of New Dodge Cars
A C Freeman president of Malone Motors Inc returns from Atlanta dealer preview showing the completely new styled Dodge. The first models will be publicly displayed at his dealership Friday February 25 with Freeman joined by Alvis Brimlow and G F McNeil. Freeman cites Army World War II and World War I stats prompting larger interior space while maintaining small exterior dimensions for easier handling. He invites all to the gala open house.
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A. C. Freeman
Robert Malone Motors, Inc
Atlanta
Alvis Brimlow
G. F. McNeil
A. C. Freemi
Generon
Dodge
A.C. Freeman
Adv
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