Cross Sections Of Life In The Wiregrass Drive Tops Drive
Dale County March drive proved best in county history with net proceeds of 1695.77, up from 1403.72 last year. Dr Howard Holley of Alabama University will speak on virus disease diagnosis at the Houston County Medical Society meeting March 1 at 7 30 pm. Junior and senior county oratorical winners were Mereta Rudd of Cottonwood and Levonne Reeves of Vicksburg with Ruby Joyce Nowell of Ashford as runner up. Mary Huey Weter of Enterprise named to Owls honor society at Auburn. Carolyn Cannady on Sweet Briar College dean’s list and May Court candidate, Dothan High graduate.
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Dale County
Wilie J. McKnight
Holley
Howard Holley
University of Alabama
Houston County Medical Society
W. Windham
W. H. Ball
I. C. Bates
Public Health
Cottonwood
Vicksburg
Birmingham News
Mereta Rudd
Cottonyoa
Neil Thomas
Columbia
Levonne Reeves
Ruby Joyce Nowell
Ashford
John W. Rish
H.K. Martin
Richmond Flowers
Mary Huey Weter
Enterprise
Owls
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Bean
Carolyn Cannady
N. B. Canady
West Main Street
Dothan
Sweet Briar College
Miss Cannady
May Court
Dothan High School
Cub Pack to Meet at Lafayette Methodist Church
Cub Pack No 22 will hold its Mirch meeting at the Lafayette Street Methodist Church at 7 p.m. tonight. All pack members and parents of boys in the Scout unit are urged to attend.
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Lafayette Street Methodist Church
Lawmakers debate administration bill and race issues in Congress
The committee will discuss the administration bill and vote on proposals to amend it before sending it to the Senate floor for public debate, likely within a week or two. The Senate debate may begin before March ends. Two Negro witnesses urged denying the closed shop and NLRB machinery to unions discriminating by race or religion. Brown proposed adding the Truman administration's Fair Employment Practice Commission to the Thomas labor bill, a suggestion lacking Democratic support. Humphrey rejected the idea, saying it would be fought as a separate bill.
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Senate
House
Bde
Ror G. Brown
Naronal Negro Council
Elmer Y W. Henderson
Aenerican Council
Congress
NLRB
Humphrey
Brown
Truman
Fair Employment Practice Commission
Atsell
Armistice Rowed Toward Israel and Egypt Ends Hostilities
Beersheba line shift and an armistice deal announced in Jerusalem and hotel briefings. United Nations and officials from Israel Egypt and Trans-Jordan met to outline a final peace settlement, evacuation timing, and prisoner exchanges with the ceasefire taking immediate effect upon signing.
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Beersheba
Israel
United Nations
Hotel Des Roses
Bethlebcire Hebron
Trans-Jordan
Faluja
Dotan
Temperature Shifts for Snakes and Cold-Blooded Animals
The article notes that the temperatures of snakes and other cold-blooded creatures vary with near mathematical regularity, aligning closely with surrounding heat changes. It discusses how ambient warmth governs their internal heat and activity levels.
Miracle boy seeks third round with death in Baltimore
Six year old David Tempsey travels from Hialeah Florida to Johns Hopkins Hospital with his mother Mrs Mable Palmer and funds from friends to fight stomach adhesions that block blood supply Doctors say he will not survive the year after three operations and his family hopes for a miracle He has previously survived a misdiagnosed illness and a 1947 automobile crash that left him with severe injuries and a fragile outlook.
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Hialeah
Fla
David Tempsey
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
David
Mable Palmer
Livestock arrivals reported at eight plants across several states
Livestock arrivals totaled around 100 calves and 3,000 hogs at eight plants in Georgia Alabama and Florida including Albany Columbus Moultrie Thomasville and Tifton plus Da ion Jacksonville and Tallahassee Hog market largely steady with soft and semi hard hogs quoted at 17.50 to 18.25 for various weight classes Top price around 18.25 for semi hard and hard finished barrows and gilts.
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Thomasville
USDA
Albany
Columbus
Moultrie
Tifton
Dathan
Ala
Jacksonville
Tallahassee
Fla
Market Report From Montgomery Stock Yards Cattle And Hogs
Cattle receipts estimated at 250 with slaughter steers and heifers slow and mostly 50 lower. Baby beef types up to 26.00 early, common weights 18.50 to 23.30. Cows 16.50 to 18.00, canners 13.50 to 16.00. Calves receipts 75 with prices 18.50 to 26.00, odd high at 25.00 to 26.00. Hogs receipts 250, market fairly active and steady. various weight ranges quoted from 10.00 to 19.00 with midrange pigs around 12.50 to 13.00 and sows 13.00 to 14.50.
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Montgomery Market
Montgomery
Mkt
Union
Fed
Election date set by Judge Deese for March 1
Report notes that meeting number 14 meets requirements and Judge Deese fixed March 1 as the election date. Leaders on both sides say tonight’s sessions are final efforts and after tonight’s discussions the matter goes to the qualified voters to decide next Tuesday.
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Deese
Cotton futures slip on liquidation and textile news
In New Orleans and New York, cotton futures fell as long liquidation followed March notices and unfavorable textile reports. Near noon in New Orleans prices dropped 60 cents to 1.05 a bale. in New York late trading was 60 to 1.00 lower than the prior close. March 32.42 May 32.26 July 31.05.
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New Orleans
NEW York Cotton New York
Working Woman's Day Sleep and Time Use Surve y
A YWCA survey finds the average working woman spends 73 hours 4 minutes in sleep 1 hour 22 minutes on personal care 1 hour 47 minutes eating 7 hours 12 minutes in work 1 hour 29 minutes in transportation and 4 hours 16 minutes in leisure.
Milan Cathedral Modeled in Hand Carved Miniature
The famous Milan cathedral in Italy has been recreated as a full hand carved miniature after over three years of steady effort. The model comprises 1797 individual wood pieces.
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Milan
Italy
Queen ants live up to sixteen years as adults
Britannica notes a vast life span difference with queen ants living as long as sixteen years as adults while mayflies endure only about twenty minutes as adults. The comparison highlights insects with extreme life cycles, illustrating longevity variance across species.
Fees Determination in Inferior Court Offenses
The attorney general ruled that the conviction determines solicitor fees and that judges cannot remit clerks' or sheriffs' fees or the trial tax. Fees in criminal Inferior Court cases align with Justice of the Peace rates for JP-cognizable offenses and with county court rates for other cases. The solicitor's fee under JP scale is $10 and $15 under county court.
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Houston County
Roy O. Hill
Attorney General
Inferior Court
Justice of the Peace Court
J. P
Hid
Justices of the Peace
Justice ‘of the Peace
Justice of the Peace
Welsh Demand Welsh Taught In Schools
In London AP report Welsh activists press for Welsh language to be taught in all Welsh secondary schools. The central advisory council for education of Wales urged adequate provision so any pupil may study Welsh if desired, noting Welsh is already taught in primary schools but often dropped thereafter.
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London
Central Advisory Council For Education of Wales
Minister of Education
Wales
Poland sees 20 percent rise in college enrollments
Poland's ministry of education expects a 20 percent boost in college and university enrollment in 1949. Registrations are projected to reach about 109,000, up from a postwar high of 80,000, as rapid reconstruction of educational facilities supports greater student enrollment.
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Warsaw
Poland
Ministry of Education
Cloture Rule Question Faces Barkley as VP
The article notes that sixteen senators could petition to invoke cloture, prompting Vice President Alben Barkley to rule on whether gag orders apply to debate on motions. It recalls a 1944 ruling by then presiding officer Vandenberg that debate on a motion cannot be gagged, a stance Barkley opposed as minority floor leader. Now as Senate president, Barkley has not disclosed his stance on ruling in such a case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alben Barkley
Senate
Barkley
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Youth Confesses Murder For Detroit Trip In Robbery
A youth admitted killing Mr. Midkiff to obtain funds for a Detroit trip and to steal his car. Currmer was later arrested at his home. Midkiff leaves a widow, a daughter and two sons.
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Midkiff
Detroit
Stiffson
Currmer
Apalachicola Bay Channel Approved By Engineer Corps
MOBILE AP A Corps of Engineers survey recommends a six foot deep channel at East Point and a nine foot channel with a basin nine feet deep and 500 by 500 feet at Apalachicola. In October 1947 a nine foot channel and basin 500 by 1 000 feet was proposed. Reporters found the smaller facilities will be reasonably adequate for current and near term navigation needs.
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Mobile
Apalachicola Bay
Fla
Corps of Engineers
East Point
Apalachicola
County Officials Seek Bigger Revenue Cut for Counties
Sheffield Alabama AP county officials endorsed a legislative program to grant counties a larger share of state revenues. They backed placing all county commissioners on a salary basis, with no dissent. The plan does not raise taxes but diverts more state revenue to counties.
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Sheffield
Ala
North Alabama
Apostolic delegation in Bulgaria ends with Len’s expulsion
Len cites new constitution as guarantee of religious freedom and calls the episode in Bulgaria humiliating. Kolarov asks Parliament to rule churchmen by national law. Pope Pius XII in Rome urges clerics to resist unjust laws. Bulgaria’s proposed law would curb Catholic clergy reporting to the Vatican and prevent them from acting as foreign agents.
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Bulgaria
Len
Apostolic Mission
Kolarov
Pius XII
Rome
Vatican
Double Trouble In Cresk Rescue Crashes To Hospital
Mrs. Katherine Cook 72 saw her grandson George 10 pinned by a car from a second story window. She hurried to aid him, fell down stairs, and both were taken to the hospital in the same ambulance.
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Battle
Cresk
Mich
Katherine Cook
George
Truman says Marshall Plan must span European crisis
President Truman told reporters the Marshall Plan should continue until European recovery is assured, even as British economic gains spur debate on four year funding. He announced two other moves including nominating Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to Commerce Undersecretary and hopes ambassador James Brice may return to Argentina. He joked about self nomination for the Nobel prize with Pearson and Peron.
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Washington
MUP O
Truman
Israel
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Council
Christopher P. Mas’hew
Great Britain
Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney
Air
Commerce
Whitney
William C. Foster
James Brice
United States
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Bruce
Drew Pearson
Peron
Oslo
Norway
Pearson
Bleanor Roosevelt
Elmer Davis
American Broadcasting Co
Persa
Harry H. Vaughan
Vaughan
Aout
Oil Output Pushed In Baku's Fields
Moscow dispatch notes progress in restoring oil output in Baku during 1946 to 1948 with a 21.9 percent rise, refining up 31.4 percent, and natural gas up 23.6 percent. It cites N A Voznesensky's 1946 pledge that Baku oil output would rise 40 percent to 17 million metric tons by 1950 under the postwar Five Year Plan.
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Moscow
Baku
State Planning Commission of the
Ussr
N. A. Voznessensky
Pact aims joint defense pledges amid NATO like talks
The plan envisions each country evaluating emergencies within a general framework. The draft defense pledge falls short of automatic American entry, keeping Congress’s war-declaration power intact. Canada Britain France Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg participate with prospects of Norway joining. key questions remain on duration renewal and inviting other states.
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United States
Russia
Congress
Additon
Canada
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Norway
Florida fisherman fined for catching unlimited fish
Police Chief Eddie D Kelley details a Florida river tale of an elderly fisherman found with a boatload of fish. A game warden checks the license, the man admits excess catch and agrees to be fined, saying he would pay the price for a place to fish as he wishes.
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Eddie D. Kelley
Florida
Werden
Revival of the Klan Faces Public Backlash and Decline
The 1920s Klan left a tainted legacy with vandalism and intimidation, causing members to drop out as secrecy and personal vendettas undermined trust. Modern revival efforts are met with strong opposition from officials and former members, who recall past violence and vow not to repeat history.
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Dothan
Dethan
Invisible Empire
Indiana
Florida
Klan
Axis Sally Reveals Love for Nazi During Treason Hearing
In a treason trial, Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally tearfully said she loved Nazi propagandist Max Otto Koischwitz, describing him as destiny and recounting wartime associations with Johannas Schmidt-Hansen. She spoke of personal struggle, persecution of her people, and the risk of death penalty if convicted.
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Washington
Sally
Mildred E. Gillars
Max Otto Kolschwitz
Hunter College
New York
Miss Gillars
Kolschwitz
Johannas Schmidt-Hansen
Koischwitz
Laughlin
Jove
Kieschwitz
Professor Koischwitz
Meir
Warsaw Court Jails Man for Jeering at Jew
Warsaw district court sentenced Miroslaw Klitzner to three years in prison for publicly jeering at a passing Jew. The judge warned that in Poland’s reconstruction, severe penalties will be imposed on all citizens who incite manifestations against others due to national religious or racial affiliations.
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Warsaw
Miroslaw Klitzner
Poland
Milk Squirts Estimate From Illinois Farmer
An Illinois farmer estimates that hand milking his herd requires about 37 million squirts over fifteen years to yield a gallon every 350 squirts. He illustrates the effort behind dairy production with the long running tally.
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Illinois
First anti vivisection society founded at New England center
The New England medical center, among the world’s earliest hospitals, became the birthplace of the United States first anti vivisection society. The event marks a historic stance against animal testing in medicine, highlighting early ethical debates in medical research.
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New England
United States
Medieval warfare rules and keyboard knights reshaped
The text notes that for two centuries in the Middle Ages the lower classes were barred from fighting in war, with townsmen as the main exception who supplied units in exchange for charters. Much of combat was conducted by armed knights on horseback.
Funeral for C G Hasty Held Near Webb Church
C G Hasty of Blakely Georgia died this morning in a Dene pital native of Georgia. Funeral services are set for Friday at Mig Church near Webb with W G Dean officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery directed by Johnson Home. Surviving are his wife sisters Mrs P E Coker Mrs M J Granberry MCCraney Mrs Ell of Columbia and route to two brothers H Hasty Columbia and J Hasty Panama City along with nieces and nephews. Active pallbearers named Bert J Cena Gordon Ray Dewing Alford and Ug berry.
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C. G. HASty _ Cleveland
Blakely
Mig Church
Webb
W. G. Dean
Church
Johnson
Pe, Coker
M. J. Granberry
McCraney
Agell of Columbia
Fyon Culpepper
H. Hasty
Columbia
Ong
J. H. Hasty
Panama
Denazification in U S Zone Concludes In 1945
Official in charge states Nazification largely ended in the U S zone from May 1945 as Nazis were out of office while cases were disposed of. About 1004 in the U S zone registered, 924,000 Nazi trial results, 22,000 deprived civil rights, 108,000 probation, 473,000 fined as followers, 17,000 freed, amnesties granted.
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Theo E. Hall
U. S
Germany
Hall
Bristly Curlew Discovery Highlighted in Prize News
Ithaca, N Y Dr Arthur A Allen of Cornell University has earned three Burr prizes worth 1000 dollars each from National Geographic Society Spits for his expedition to Alaska locating the nesting ground of the bristly thighed curlew and leading the survey.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Arthur A. Allen
Cornell University
National Geographic
Alaska
One-Armed Pickpocket Charged in Fort Worth Theft
An one-armed pickpocket was charged in Fort Worth Texas with theft in the disappearance of a man’s wallet containing $200. The case prompted police to seek clues and review surrounding evidence.
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AB Fort Worth
Tex
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