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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1943
Page
6
A jumbled sports roundup discusses New Year football drills and Army Air Force training. It mentions a $3 campaign start and quotes Jim Pisles on daily athletic conditioning for pilots, noting there is no easier way to stay fit than hard exercise.
Phoenix AP report quotes Bill DeLancey predicting grim prospects for minor league baseball. He cites funding needs, fading farm systems as draftees enlist, travel costs, and small crowds as major hurdles for relocating and sustaining clubs. He recalls managing Asheville farm team and a Richmond game near a distant park with few spectators.
Jackson County consolidates five three man rationing panels into Rationing Board 281 based in the Harrison building Marianna. Raymond Cartledge of Cottondale named chairman with staff from other offices. Panels cover Gasoline Tire Price Food and Miscellaneous with chairs Davidson Hodges Hightower McGowan Cooper.
Henry Armstrong returns to the ring in Los Angeles for his sixteenth bout of a remarkable comeback. Opponent Jimmy McDaniel seeks a win to slow Armstrong’s march toward a lightweight title. Armstrong has won fourteen of fifteen since his eye scar operation.
Los Angeles report says Georgia Bulldogs left the city at 12 15 am after a 9 to 0 Rose Bowl victory over UCLA Bruma minus their backfield star Frankie Sinkwich who scored the only touchdown. Sinkwich flew to Pendleton and San Diego bases then to Washington DC to appear before the touchdown club for the Walter Camp Memorial Cup. In Hollywood he spoke with Columbia executives and reportedly accepted a film offer before enlisting in March. His wife Adeline also received a movie offer which he turned down for now. Fifty five players left by Santa Fe train No 4 for home tonight.
Rhode Island State coach Frank Keaney chuckles over his team’s 84 to 75 setback at Madison Square Garden to Fordham. He jokes about his coaching style and plans to defend the New England title at home in Kingston while preparing for Big Ten and Southern Conference battles elsewhere.
Officials expect more doubleheaders as leagues plan a shortened 1943 season. Discussions focus on April start, trimming to about 140 games, reducing travel squads, and whether spring training occurs near home or at home. Several teams favor home training as minor leagues await majors guidance.
Albert T Logue writes of Christmas leave and a New Year church gathering with hundreds of youth and parents. He muses on peace, future journeys for young people, parental hopes, and the value of time as the old year ends and the new one begins.
A dense listing of radio programs for tomorrow across networks, listing Musical Clock, AP News, devotions, orchestra performances, interludes, dance hours, news briefings, concert features, and variety shows with numerous named acts and times throughout the day.
A historical Q and A covers choosing hooded milk buckets to reduce bacteria during milking and maintaining standard, seam-free milk cans. It also advises cockroach control using borax and sodium fluoride powder, applied with a small puffing duster into cracks, with caution to keep foods and pets safe and to avoid immediate cleanup for several days.
A tone of civic resolve asks readers to seek happiness and prosperity in the coming year, pray for health, and replace sorrow with smiles. The plea emphasizes doing duty to country and to peers represented globally, urging cheerful, honest effort to become better citizens and men.
Auburn Alabama advice on winter orchard care focuses on dormant spraying to control peach tree borers and other pests. With labor shortages, prune major limbs first, then await fuller labor to trim smaller branches, ensuring trees stay healthy and productive.
Marianna Kiwanis inducted A. J Cobb as president in a special ceremony directed by Lieutenant Governor R. Allen Willis of Greenwood. Other officers installed include J. T. Kelly as vice president and secretary, plus a slate of directors: 8. L. Morrow, Frank Hudnall, Rev. Valentine G. Lowery, Henry Burke, M. H. McCrary, Franklin W. Tyler, J. W. Hightower, and Otte Padgett. Cobb succeeds Padgett as head of a club with about 30 members.
A Q and A column explains a dry cure recipe for 100 pounds of meat using 5 pounds salt 2 ounces saltpeter 2 pounds sugar. Meat is divided rubbed with half the mix packed in oak barrels skin side down top layer seven days then repacked with remaining mix and cured two to three days per pound before smoking.
A garbled farming note discusses feeding cattle with turnips and feeding tomatoes in pots this month. It mentions using an oil emulsion spray on crops and notes guidance on crop care.
Lacking tin packers store kraut in barrels with cabbage still on hand for sale during winter. Extension nutritionist Mildred Simon urges households to help save a food crop by using sauerkraut at home or in meals. Suggestions include kraut with macaroni and meat, scalloped kraut with potatoes and cheese, and meat pairings like sausage or ribs. Serve hot. kraut can be varied with onion apple potato and juices.
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