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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1948
Page
7
Fort Bragg dispatch reports Pvt. Reuben Ayers, a paratrooper, made countless leaps from thousands of feet in the air. The article notes the dangers and challenges of parachute duty and hints at hidden risks associated with airborne operations.
Abbott and Costello deliver Buck Privates Come Home at the Ritz Theatre on Thursday. The duo, following Buck Privates, portrays two ex soldiers adjusting to civilian life after leaving France and smuggling a young war orphan aboard a ship.
A 19 year old resident of Lawton Oklahoma fell from a four foot table while painting a mess hall and died Friday.
Enterprise prepares for WIRB The voice of the peanut farmer beginning test broadcasts next week with open house scheduled. Owners Robert E. James and Lt Ralph M Stafford plan tentative March 10 inaugural air. Station on Dothan Highway will have 250 watts and 50 mile daytime reach, with noon Peanut Farmers Hour and church services on Sundays.
A wild cross country chase unfolds as Beverly, pursued by deportation authorities, is hidden by Abbott and Costello who team with Tom Brown, a midget racer, to win a race and secure her future. Mistaken thrills lead to a dramatic stadium crash before a happy wrap.
Errol Flynn leads in Escape Me Never at the Ritz Theatre with Ida Lupino Eleanor Parker and Gig Young in a musical drama. Flynn plays piano and concertina with Korngold music and a Ballet Russe ballet sequence directed by LeRoy Prinz and Peter Godfrey.
Citronelle Alabama district reports a fatal truck crash injuring Allen Blankenship and Pat Harrison Denitt. Denitt of Leakesville Mississippi died. crash damaged a utility pole and cut power for five hours Friday night. Town Marshal G C Hobbs identified the deceased and noted multiple injuries to the other survivor.
Interior fuel experts warn of an acute gasoline shortage at harvest time unless the public cuts consumption. Record oil output cannot meet surging demand, forcing manufacturers to store crude and produce no excess gasoline. Gasoline stations may be scarce and heaters require more fuel oil this winter.
Harper's Joy Assembly of God in the southeastern Dothan area hosts a Fifth Sunday Fellowship all day. Field representative J L Rice invites the public, noting a noon dinner with baskets requested from attendees.
Humphrey Bogart stars in The Two Mrs Carrolls a dramatic love story showing Geoffrey Carroll living in England who loves Sally Morton while his first wife is believed dead. Cecily Alexis Smith seeks his portrait as blackmail and romance entwine amid secret meetings and a shocking fate.
Fragmentary notes describe a civic or family reaction to the death of a man’s first wife. The text hints at future arrivals and an exciting development, mentions television pictures and surgical operas as teaching tools, and references Civil War soldiers numbering about 109 in the Union States.
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