Cross Sections Of Life In The Wiregrass Meeting Friday
J P Wilson of the Wire-Brass experiment station at Headland will speak to the Houston County Producers Association at its regular monthly meeting Friday night. The association meets at the state market building in Ashford at 7 30. Lonie Mae Fed a 27 year old Houston County Negro woman was arrested yesterday by sheriff s deputies on charges of assault and battery and breach of the peace. She had not posted bond at noon today. She is accused of assaulting another Negro woman. Wiregrass Post No 3073 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a special business meeting at the downtown club at 8 o clock tonight. Officials urge all members to attend as important matters are to be discussed. Two notary public appointments both with Dale County jurisdiction have been made by Governor Folsom it was reported today by Secretary of State Sibs Pool. One appointment went to Marvin Armstrong of Ozark and the other to J H N Woods Sr also of Ozark. Absentee ballots mailed in for the city Democratic primary March 1 must be postmarked not later than February 24. City Executive Committee Chairman Smith Hall announced today. A city commissioner of Dothan to replace James M O Neal is to be nominated at this primary.
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J. P. Wilson
Headland
Houston County Producers Association
State Market
Ashford
Lonie Mae Fed
Houston County
Sheriff's Deputies
Wiregrass Post No
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Dale County
Folsom
Sibs Pool
Marvin Armstrong
Ozark
J. H. N. Woods
City Executive Committee
Smith Hall
Hall
Dothan
James M. O'Neal
Earth
Congress
London
Hes
Cameron
Mose Harper
W. H. Jones
H. R. Parker
Meetings Planned For Parents Of Cub Scout Pack Here
A series of three meetings for Cub Pack Three registration is planned by Dilman First Baptist Church. Cubmaster Bob Weston says parents must attend all three to keep boys eligible for re registration. First meeting Feb 22, second Feb 25 for parents only, third Feb 28 for parents and boys. Sessions start 7:30 p.m. at the church with Southeast Alabama Boy Scout Council staff guiding.
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Dilnan First
Southeast Alabama Bioy Scout Council
Industrial capacity and allocations powers described
The text outlines government tools to expand essential industry and manage scarce resources. It proposes a national industrial capacity authority to finance needed expansion and, as a last resort, direct construction like steel plants. It also calls for mandatory allocations to steer materials and facilities to vital production, aiming to relieve shortages affecting living costs security and policy goals.
Mailbox Improvement to be discussed by demonstration clubs
Houston County home demonstration clubs plan a Saturday session on mailbox improvement at the home agent’s office with Miss Fran Malette guiding the demonstration. County chairman Mrs. Alton Jeffcoat presides as clubs map plans for community health detorment education and marketing while listing many club members to attend.
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Houston County Home Demonstration Club
Alton Jeffcoat
State Council
Fran Malette
Jack Bruner
Mgr
B. G. Ingram
J. T Harrell
S. W. Reardon
Big Creek
G. W. Parker
Wallace Buie
Center
R. W. Wicker
C. H. Dow
Cowarts
Coley Fooner
S. G. Graves
Cowarta Creek
Truett Jordan
A. L. Jordan
Crosby
Rupert McDaniel
W. A. Womack
Dupree
Howard Register
Gordon
Boyd Roberts
Roy Vickers
Otis Whiddon
Jim Hyatt
Selma
J. P. Whatley
Ida Whiddon
Smyrna
Quine
Clark
P. A. Garead
Skippers Crossroads
Elton Clark
W. J. Peterman
Taylor
Ed Cameron
Ethel Kirkland
Union Hill
Ivan Ivey
Raymond
Livestock Markets at Montgomery Slaughter Steers Rise
Federal Market News reports at Union Stockyards Montgomery Cattle receipts around 300 with gains on most cattle categories. Calves and hogs show varying prices, with steers and heifers mostly 18 to 24 dollars and hogs catalogued from 10 to 19 dollars per hundredweight, reflecting active trading and scarce replacement stock.
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Montgomery Market Montgomery
Federal State Market News Service
Union Stockyards
Connally Proposal on NATO Pact Right to Decide War
The foreign relations committee backed keeping U S right to act in emergencies if allied with NATO. Connally urged a clause tying self defense to Article 51 yet avoiding explicit military action phrasing to deter open war warnings. Secretary Acheson favored clear preemptive unity to meet any armed attack with overwhelming force. The draft treaty remains largely secret with one stated guiding principle.
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Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Connally
United Nations
North Atlantic
State Department
Acheson
Faith healer Curley draws crowds to Geneva Alabama
Crowds from North Florida and South Alabama converge on Geneva for healings by Curley, a bald four foot eight self styled seventh son of a seventh son. He treats only believers in God with 7:30 to 12 and 12:30 to 4 pm hours, handling about 300 patients daily amid growing town business.
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Florida
Alabama
Curley
Public Service Commission
Montgomery
Comdr
Tullis Tyler
U.S. Navy
Curley Place
R. L. Herring
Geneva
Herring
Satellite guided rockets and long range beam control
A historical note discusses military use of satellites for long range rocket guidance and navigation, noting automatic crewless craft, beam riding, and targeting methods. It mentions a potential $200 million ground proving program, tests of 500 mile range missiles, and various control schemes including heat seeking and brainlike pattern recognition, amid alliance defense considerations.
Optimist President Heard At Montgomery Optimist Club
C Milton Morris of Denver spoke at the Montgomery Optimist Club luncheon urging optimism and defense buildup. He warned against Communists and urged youth guidance programs to curb juvenile delinquency and improve home life, community relations, and church beliefs. Americans must stay hopeful to weather future days, he said.
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America
Morris
New Look at Postwar Economy Faces Inflation and Tax Hikes
Quotes from Francis Adams Truslow and Dr. Vergil Reed weigh equity capital, farm prosperity, and industry demand amid inflation fears. Officials including John D. Clark and Sam Rayburn warn of rising taxes, expanded government spending, and wage and price controls while New York City braces for 1954 school needs of over 272 million dollars for 215 000 additional students.
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Francis Adams Truslow
New York Curb Exchange
Vergil Reed
J. Walter Thompson Co
New York Cotton Futures End Rough Course
Cotton futures in New York finished irregular with evening trading around March and later months. Prices shifted with gains of about 35 cents to 1 cent. March at 32.42, May 32.26, and July 31.83, as near term positions were unsettled amid mixed activity.
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NEW York Cotton New York
March
Get Acquainted Kiwanis Meet in Dothan
A Kiwanis club session in Dothan featured a get acquainted program led by C T Schwalb. Each member introduced himself with birthplace and occupation. Judge Robert T Simpson of the Alabama Supreme Court was named as next week's speaker. John Rish will handle introductions. Sixty members and two guests attended. A D Wilkerson was welcomed as a new member.
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Dothan Kiwanis Club
C. T. Schwalb
Momber
Himeself
Robert T. Simpson
Alaame Supreme Court
John Rish
Milt Hinkle
Louie Chase
A. D. Wilkerson
Sheriff Faces Scrutiny Over Mileage Fees and Record Keeping
Examiners found Houston County Sheriff collected 10 cents a mile from convicted defendants but failed to publish pistol permit recipients or remit mileage fees timely. They criticized warrants delays, improper executions, and poor record keeping while urging comprehensive reforms and penalties if not adopted.
Cotton futures slide amid long liquidation in New Orleans
In New Orleans, cotton futures fell as longs liquidated and hedging sold off. Weaker tone contrasted with relief across other commodity markets. By noon, prices were 35 to 70 cents a bale lower.
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New Orleans
Landlord Groups Repudiate Mass Eviction Idea Over Rent Controls
Washington AP Two large landlord associations rejected wholesale evictions as rent controls linger. John E. Owen of the National Apartment Owners Association urged ending rent controls, condemning it as confiscation. William E. Russell of New York City's Metropolitan Fair Rent Committee backed a one year extension with a 25 percent rent rise and called for law changes to ensure fair returns and relief. He warned the law’s failure to provide a fair return drives owners from rental housing while proposing five legislative steps, including review rights and targeted removals from controls for underoccupied units.
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Washington
John E. Owen
National Apartment Owners _Association
House
William E. Russell
Metropolitan Fair Rent Committee
New York City
Congress
Truman
Owen
Russell
Federal
Rehabilitation case for Turner at Georgia prison camp
Allison cites Turner's rehabilitation after multiple jail terms and parole readiness. Turner, now 33, helped as a dental technician and with chaplain duties at Bellwood prison camp near Atlanta. Despite a pending indictment for a 1938 robbery, a typographical error cleared another charge, and Turner's boosters include Fulton County Commissioner Hailey.
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Allison
Turner
Georgia
State Parole Board
W. S
Liberty
Parole Board
Rome
Bellwood
Atlanta
Bill Allison
Fulton
L. Glover Hailey
Alcatraz of the Piney Woods
Reidsville
Bathers Conquer Shark Off Wellington Beach
Fred Rauzie spotted an eight foot shark circling bathers at a Wellington beach. He rushed in grabbed the shark by the tail. A man and a woman helped, and the trio hauled the shark ashore and killed it.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Fred Rauzie
Unclear wording on political switch by Rainwater brothers
Fragmentary OCR notes report that H J Cuby and Edward Rainwater differ from DuQuoin politics and a governor named Stevenson, with a resignation and new successor described as Rainwater’s brother, a Democrat, soon after Stevenson took office.
Georgia House Okays Non Profit Medical Service For Groups
Georgia House approves a plan to let groups organize for selling group medical insurance under a nonprofit structure by a vote of 110 to 5 and sends it to the Senate. The session also debates funding for vocational education and voter registration changes as legislators race to a Saturday adjournment.
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Jack Harvey
Atcanta
Georgia House of Representatives
Senate
Bagis
Dction
General Assembly
James Dykes
Cochran
Georgia
House Senate
Talmadge
House
Blizzard impacts and record heat span nation at once
Maj Gen Lewis A Pick warned of a large flood potential on Missouri River tributaries as blizzard operations shift across the Nebraska South Dakota Wyoming belt. While the west endured snow and cold, the southeast and mid Atlantic enjoyed shirt sleeve weather with record highs including 77 in Washington and 74 in New York. Rain fell in the South and East as Meridian Mississippi logged 1.19 inches in six hours and haylift efforts paused in eastern Nevada.
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Omaha
Nebr
Lewis A. Pick
Nebraska- South Dakota-Wyoming
Missouri River
Dakotas
Montana
Minnesota
Mills City
Mont
North Dakota
Middle Atlantic
Mercury
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Florida
Texas
New England
Appalachians
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Carolinas
Virginia
Mississippi
Meridian
Miss
Nevada
Transit tie up leaves 3 million commuters strapped
On day six of the Philadelphia transportation strike the CIO Transport Workers Union and Philadelphia Transportation Co. negotiations stalled leaving trolley bus and subway service suspended since Thursday midnight. About 3,006,000 daily riders seek alternatives while 11,000 workers walk out demanding higher wages and working concessions. Taxi drivers also join the stoppage with 2,000 cabs off the streets.
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Philadelphia Transportation Co
CIO Transport Workers Union
Yellow Cab. Co
Deaths in Abbeville Area Services Held for Lazarus Wills
Death notice from Abbeville reports Lazarus Edward Wills died Monday. He was a local merchant and farmer with over thirty years in the community. Services at Pilgan x at 2 p m with Masonic rites. burial in nearby cemetery. Survivors include wife Maude Blalock Fily, two daughters Mrs B B tw of Abbeville route and Mrs Hall of Haleburg, sons John Wesley Wills and Ernest Wills, sisters Mrs Ley Abbeville route two and Mrs W O Howerton, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Abbeville
Pilgan
Lazarus Edward Wills
Henry
Wills
Mn Hall
Haleburg
John’ Wesley Wills
Ernest Wills
Ley
Davis
W. O. Howerton
MISS AUTIE LEE HARTFORD SERVICES HELD FOR MARGARET LEE
Special report notes funeral services for Marguerite Lee Hartford who died after a short illness. Officiants were Rev Daniels Rev John J and Rev Seymore. Burial followed in the city cemetery. Survivors include Mrs H P Lee two sisters Buna Parker Valdosta and Grace Adams Mar Fla and four brothers Malcolm O B and Pat Hartford.
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Autie Lee
Hartford
Lee
Daniels
John J
Seymore
Holman
H. P. Lee
Buna Parker
Valdosta
Grace Adams
Mar Fla
Malcolm
O. B
Pat
U N Leaders Shocked as Russia Withdraws From WHO
U N leaders react to Russia and Byelorussia leaving the World Health Organization. WHO chief Lie Doctor Calderone call the move upsetting but stress the agency's work will continue. The episode questions UN unity but officials say it does not end the United Nations as a whole.
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U. N
Lake
N. Y
United Nations
Russia
World Organization
U.N
Lie
Frank A. Calderone
You Fice
WHO
International Health
World Health Organize
Unt
Byelorussia
Food Agricultural Organization
International Civil Aviation Ganization
Egypt
Middle East
Sald
From Who
United
Great Britain
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President's Council of Economic Advisers
Sam Rayburn
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