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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1947
Page
5
Wexford Ireland report notes rabbit trapping has grown into a major Irish industry over six years with more than 45 million rabbits sent to Britain's food market. The practice benefits farmers by removing crop-damaging rabbits, with exports running about 7 600 head per year.
A community notice urges residents to organize a peanut festival to boost Dothan’s profile. It invites participation at fairs and flower shows, promising prizes and urging unified effort to make the event a big success.
A historical report notes Ireland’s rabbit export value from 1940 to 1948 reaching 922,100,000 with Britain paying the British Maisty of Food. Pelts mainly went to Britain and the United States for hat felt and other goods. Peak trapping occurred in 1941, exports later declined yet the industry stayed worth over 2 million annually. Government restricts exports to Oct to Mar to aid rabbit population recovery. Methods include snaring orthodox techniques and, controversially, lamps and sticks with hunters using shoulder-mounted electric batteries.
In Bern the federal justice and police department studies granting permanent asylum to 4 000 to 5 000 refugees in Switzerland. During the war temporary asylum was given to about 20 000 refugees from 28 countries many fled fear of imprisonment or death.
Remnants of Axis forces routed by Allied victory have largely repatriated. About 5,000 remain, mainly aged persons, children, or those unable to move. Many are in internment camps or shelters, with some children placed in Swiss homes as nearly fostered dependents. Swiss citizenship for these children is under consideration.
A world leading program trains pilots to become test pilots, drawing students from RAF, the United States, China and British Dominions. The nine month course costs 40000, with one hundred graduates so far. The course aims to enable designers with essential flight data and aerodynamic insight for future aircraft development.
Oslo reports a survey of Norwegian shipping shows contracts for 340 ships totaling about 2.4 million tons at foreign yards since 1940. Ninety oil tankers and cargo ships are slated for delivery by end of 1951, with owners also contracting 100 ships totaling around 50,000 tons at Norwegian yards.
Eddie Sucharipa six, a Belgian war orphan, arrives in Pittsburgh to join his new mom and dad, the Rosemans. They prepare a bed all to himself after learning he will live with them, while his adoption papers proceed and a Finnish tutor teaches him words like mother and father. He previously spoke only French and spent years in crowded Belgian orphanages after Nazis killed his parents.
New York AP reports Pan American Airways engineers devised a moisture spray gadget for the Boeing Stratocruiser. At 20,000 feet cabin air is bone dry. a small gun injects moisture into the air conditioning system to prevent eye drying.
Yakima patrolman Lee Gaudette stopped a wavering car after trailing it for blocks. He drove the car back to headquarters himself, thinking the owner too drunk to drive, but the vehicle continued to stagger uncontrollably. The police released the driver and held the car.
Dr Clarence A Mills of the University of Cincinnati said in Schenectady that winters are warmer now than in Grandfather s day and that since 1850 earth temperatures have risen more since about 1920 He noted temperatures rise in 2 000 year cycles during a GE Science Forum address referring to global warming trends.
Seaman Second Class McGinty, son of Mr and Mrs George McGinty of Enterprise, serves aboard the destroyer USS Brush with the 7th fleet. The ship left China after months of foreign port visits and anti smuggling patrols.
Cleveland plans a downtown lake front airport within a few years. The project would create artificial land at the lake front by dumping waste into Lake Erie to form the air base site, with the U S Army involved.
Army engineers estimate 900000 cubic yards of oil free earth will be moved this spring with most fill sourced from the Cuyahoga River. Annual river bottom dredging contracts ensure sufficient depth for freighters hauling ore and limestone to up river steel mills.
Leslie Bailey and his brother Roy claim a new Sunday school record at Hardin, according to UP dispatches. The brothers set a time that surpasses previous marks and drew attention from local clergy and participants.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Leslie missing school for 27 years and a perfect streak of atrentimes lasting 30 years, but details are garbled and context unclear.
Samuel Reuben Roberson, seaman second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Roberson of Graceville, graduates from the aviation fundamentals school in Jacksonville Florida. He entered the Navy August 6, 1946 and trained at Bainbridge Maryland.
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