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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1948
Page
2
The Dothan Eagle publishes its long standing partnership history, subscription rates and staff notes. It notes Associated Press use rights and quotes Jefferson and Ruskin as part of a February 12 1948 issue.
A Federal grand jury in Washington indicted the CIO and its president Philip Murray not for election wrongdoing but for violating the Taft-Hartley Act by spending union funds on articles taking sides in a Baltimore congressional election. Murray and the CIO asked to be indicted to test the act's constitutionality.
A proposal to standardize polling hours across Alabama faces repeated revival after a 1947 logjam. Rural and urban voters now differ, with Dothan extending voting to 6 pm, while rural areas end at 5 pm. The piece notes delivery delays and electoral influence from country returns on city boxes.
The writer argues about absentee voting fraud and notes that the box where crooked work is done is the worst. Before the 1949 session, lawmakers should study the desirability of uniform voting hours. Spring primaries offer a chance to observe effects and act in the next year’s session.
State Prison Director Frank Boswell plans to ask the Governor to set aside a separate unit for young offenders at Draper Prison in Spelgner. The proposal would place all new, short term, and select degenerate inmates in a youth segregated facility to rehabilitate and prevent contagion to older inmates.
In the wake of the first Friendship Train, Americans form more trains and efforts across the nation. Maine’s Bath Iron Works builds 30 fishing trawlers for French fleet replacement, funded by Rotary clubs. Nantes agrees to distribute aid. Maine sardine packs join Unitarian Service Committee. New Orleans adopts Orleans, France, sending surplus tile. Michigan and Kalamazoo host a French city visit. Minnesota seed packages aid European families. Citizens send their own representatives as unofficial goodwill ambassadors, echoing Henry Kaiser’s vision for a coordinated Marshall Plan.
This Afternoon column reflects on science, religion, and the Lenten season amid a waning postwar boom. It notes Palomar telescope ambitions to test if the universe is curved, critiques scientists for dismissing other universes, and ruminates on moral and political divides in the South.
A collection of quotes from Charles E. Wilson, Ethel Barrymore, and Senator Taft, plus Soviet and U S officials, debating labor policy, price restraint, global trade, and postwar recovery. The remarks contrast inflation concerns, planning era economics, and Cold War tensions shaping U S policy.
Markets and politics draw attention as readers weigh whether commodity and stock declines will ease prices for shoppers and whether inflation trends hint at broader declines. The Wallace third party push gains note, potentially shifting a 1952 outcome, while foreign policy remains isolationist.
Frank Stanton of the Columbia Broadcasting System predicts near term advances in communications. He foresees pocket receiving sets powered by sunlight, portable personal sending devices, color facsimile newspapers, and globe spanning color television entering everyday life soon.
John Algman has filed a formal request to Governor Folsom outlining his reasons in the event Folsom is unavailable for continued office. The document details anticipated scenarios and the basis for his appeal.
Singapore customs officers found a 25 foot python hidden in a cartload of vegetables. The snake had swallowed a pig and was asleep when discovered. The Chinese cartman was cautioned. the python was sold to Chinese merchants for medicinal use.
In a colorful Hal Boyle column, the tale of Abraham Lincoln gifting a gold watch to a native missionary who saved an American seaman from a Marquesas cannibal plot is recounted. The boreal story centers on James Kekela, Rev. Kaukau, and a near-fatal barbecue that was thwarted at the last moment. Lincoln reportedly sent $500.
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