Civic Leader Lyde Lovern’s broad Dothan service record
Lyde Lovern a New Georgia native now a key Dothan citizen has led county war bond drives and Red Cross campaigns while guiding church and recreation work. He chairs the Infantile Paralysis Foundation and the county’s March of Dimes, oversees Sunday School and youth programs, and pushes a city swimming-pool funding proposal. He emphasizes staff and pastors behind growth in church and recreation attendance and notes his pleasure in serving children through the Foster Street Methodist Church and local youth leagues.
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Cross
Wat Foundation For Infantjje Ysis
United
Dothan Recreation Agion
Chamber of Commerce
Foster Street Meth
New Ga
Dothan
Igg
Coca - Coining Company
Rome
Lovern
Rotary
Weer
Aloeri
Pat Poyner
Rt Ramsey
Ramsey
Ion County
Red Cross
Ing
V’ceman
Notas
Ough Levern
Ir.e Paralysis Foundation
Rds
Kenneth
Betty
Dothan Athletic and Recreation Association
Crawford Mosley
Levern
Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Sacrt
Houston County
Scintillation Counter Developed at University of Rochester
Dr. George B. Collins of the University of Rochester unveils a scintillation counter to detect rays from radioactive atoms. The device, 19 times more sensitive than a Geiger counter for some rays and capable of faster counts, may be used in medicine and research with the university’s new 250 million volt cyclotron. It uses light flashes in a naphthalene medium recorded by a photomultiplier tube to count particles, and aims to study mesons and decay products to advance atomic energy understanding.
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Rochester
George B. Collins
University of Rochester
Collins
Soo
Milkman's Tommy Loves Doughnuts on Route
Cleveland report tells of Tommy the milkman's horse famed for craving doughnuts jelly powdered and glazed. For 15 years he carried milk and for six years rode the same route. Arthur Hofer bakery driver fed him daily and Tommy now seeks Hofer's truck, blocking delivery until doughnuts appear.
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Cleveland
Tommy
Procticers
Milx Co
Arthur Hofer
Hofer
Ofin
Man shoots 338 wolves from plane in Soviet tale
A Tass dispatch from Kazane reports Sergei Gorbunov, a war veteran, killed 338 wolves with a hunting rifle fired from a PO-2 aircraft. He blended winter and current flights to total 251 wolves last winter and 87 this season. Also noted as a note on suffrage pioneers Beecher and Stone.
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Moscow
Sergei Gorbunov
Tass
Kazane
Gorbunov
Lovern led Coca Cola promotions and civic service arc
Lovern, after early work with wooden crates and Coca Cola start in 1926, rose to sales promotion across the Southeast. He served as Rome Exchange Club president, held roles in the Rome Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club, and led civic affairs committees in Dothan. His career included a Rome posting and later managing the real bottling company in Dothan.
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Warm Springs
Lovern
United Charities Chest
Newnan High School
University of Georgia
Coca Cola Company
Coca Cola
Southeast
Texas
Oklahoma
New England
Kenneth
Rome
Dothan
Real Bottling Company
Rome Exchange Club
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Charter
Ither Club
Hohenzollern Silver Returns To Germany
Frankfurt reports the Hohenzollern silver ware returned from the United States to Berlin deputy mayor Ferdinand Friedensburg. The 45 boxes, weighing about seven tons, include 500 silver settings and imperial crest pieces valued around $200,000. Stored in Frankfurt for now due to airlift dangers, the collection has belonged to Berlin since the 1918 revolution.
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Frankfurt
Hohenzollern
United States
Berlin
Ferdinand Friedensburg
U. S. Army
Washington
U. S
Friedensburg
1945 occupation prompts transfer of Benin City artworks
City officials in Benin in 1945 decided to hand over collection safekeeping to American forces after learning of requisitions by Rutsten troops. The move involved the famed Berlin Gallery of Art paintings and other items as a precaution against looting.
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Benin City
Rutsten
Berlin Gallery
Prime Minister Backs Malaya Girls Sports Movement
Kuala Lumpur AP. Johore Prime Minister Dato Onn Bin Jaafar backs Muslim girls challenging seclusion to join Malaya sports. He leads UMNO pressure for equality in future national life, calls criticism a storm in a teacup, mails support and donates $50 to Kuala Lumpur Malay women's hockey team.
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Kuala Lumpur
Johore
Malaya
Dato Onn bin Jaafar
United Malaya National Organization
Federation
Kuala Lumpur Malay Women's Hockey Association
Annie Kreps Straley Ends 7 Year Pipe Habit At 103
In Chambersburg Pennsylvania Mrs Annie Kreps Straley 103 has given up pipe smoking begun at 96. Her son in law Jacob R Bitner says she has not asked for her pipes in months and will eat most foods except toast or prepared cereals due to her diet. She has had no doctor visits in over three years and has lived through five wars including the Mexican Civil Spanish American and World War I. Also noted is Postman Pete Cyril Slaugh a tap dancing mail carrier and a line about the FBI operating 51 field offices across the US Puerto Rico Hawaii and Alaska.
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Chambersburg
Annie Kreps Straley
Jacob R. Bitner
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Clarence Streetman
Clyda Hvern
Clyde Lovern
Magic Grill
Blakely, Ga
U.S. 27
Westinghouse
Foster St
Milkman
Henry Ward Beecher
Lucy Stone
American Woman Suffrage Association
J. H. Glanton
Glanton
East Newton Street
Eagle Staff
Germany
RITZ
Colutabia Pictures
Mark Twain
Fig Buchanan
Anna Lee
Robert Shayhe
Gay Gray
Calaverzs Gorety
Ero
John
Ted Richmond
Don Red
Barry
Mickey Rooney
National Velvet
Elizabeth Taylor
Phis
Brick Bradford
Pete
Cyril Slaugh
The
FBI
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Alaska
London
Martin
Tom Conway
Horten
Rashers Hatress
Robert Montgomery
Susan John Hayward
Payne
Audrey Totter
Houston Theatre
Great Double Features
Roger Pryor
JO Ann Sayers
Stanley Brown
Bry Karl Frown
Nick Grinde
Fezzy i
Houston
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