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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1943
Page
4
Women in multiple towns including Headland Enterprise Bonifay and Shorter seek WAAC enrollment. Recruits Grace Mixzaca Sybil Ball Eve pers Es Middlebrooks and Jennye Mae Fields were listed among applicants. Dothan recruiting officers supply the necessary application information and indicate Montgomery induction plans.
Hundreds of AVES and SPARS positions open for women with business, machine, and clerical experience. Yeoman Harry Wave oversees a Navy recruiting station gala highlighting roles across fields in the WAVES and SPARS program.
Navy official urged women in Southeast Alabama to apply at the recruiting station for clerks, photographers, switchboard operators, librarians, storekeepers, and radio operators. Training will be provided locally, with assignments in civilian and military roles, ages twenty to forty-nine eligible.
Approximately 800 Negro men aged seventeen to fifty are urged to enlist at the Naval Air Station Pensacola Florida. Chief Petty Officer Charles L Martin says recruits may receive up to 88 dollars monthly plus free clothing lodging food and medical care with the lowest pay at 34 dollars a month.
Logue laments food supply worries and urges home gardening amid wartime scarcity. He rails against stray dogs, traffics at drugstores, and unsafe street crossings, proposing a cleaner city with better lighting, traffic rules, and courtesy. He stresses the Eagle’s affordable delivery and calls for civic effort.
The notice outlines wartime rationing items including stamps for coffee gas and shoes with specific booklet numbers and dates. It warns that no person will be registered for War Ration Book One or Two after March 14 and notes that can goods including baby food become rationed starting tomorrow.
Marriage licenses issued for the week ending February 27 list George Wade Austin and Irene Purvis. Theodore August Kretzmann and Lydia Adelinde Heinzen. William Ssotos and Cameron Mae Lee. Earl R. Rawls and Clara Baxter. A Z Tyson and Mary Clyde Traylor. B Knowles and Ann M Scharabin. William F Quarry and Irene Lether. Lt Irving Tra Wasserman and Camp.
A fragment notes rising illegal trade in Belgium with references to Antwerp and Brussels markets. The item mentions ASN and VAL rows and a Diggatinn area, highlighting a surge in black market activity and concerns from authorities.
A damaged OCR fragment lists numerous personal names and places including Paes, Matilde, Anna Mary Keaga, Paul Lewis Sawyers, George W. Bedsole, Elizabeth Wilkins Cayce, and Robert W. Buoy. Locations mentioned include Route One, Hat on Rouge, La, and Champalene Urbana Hi. The text hints at municipal or personal notices but is too fragmentary to specify action or event.
A report notes South Africa's start in rice cultivation as drought and imports tighten supplies. The shortage pressure grows especially in Natal where 173,000 tons per year had been cited, prompting policy and agrarian responses by authorities.
Be and Fb appear in a cryptic fragment about Ed D and Vrated terms. The readable text hints at a digital or social media note, possibly a timetable or rating reference, but lacks clear events, places, or identifiable persons to confirm a reportable item.
County health officer Dr W T Burkett returned from Montgomery where he joined the Conference on War Time Venereal Disease Control. Attendees included all Alabama county health officers and officials from federal and state authorities.
A garbled OCR fragment notes a nighttime event involving a copper figure, a veto, and various names. Readable items include mentions of a person named Joan, a place or group abbreviated as LO K Vien, and references to a browned outcome. The text is incomplete and ambiguous.
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