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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1949
Page
3
Hal Boyle narrates a New York scene in which a well fed man argues about wrong change with a tired restaurant cashier and her anxious husband. The couple mistake a twenty for a five and dismiss the man after his payment. The fat man ponders what a Good Samaritan would do next.
Suzanne Howell of Bakersfield Calif was named the 1949 Maid of Cotton in Memphis over 18 contestants to serve as goodwill ambassador. Runner up was Mary Patterson of Knoxville and Katherine Wright of Pascagoula placed third. Howell will tour the U S England and France after New York wardrobe reception, while attending UC Berkeley as a sophomore and working on campus activities.
The Mobile Housing Board announced completion of wartime housing removal. A total of 4,309 housing units were moved mainly to college campuses in other cities, including 1,610 apartments 342 houses 1,734 dormitory spaces and 403 trailers. The board also gave up 247 trailer spaces rented during the war while continuing to supervise 5,838 government owned housing units.
The first week of the new year shows ongoing food price declines. Butter and eggs drop in wholesale markets, hog prices hit lows since 1946, and fruit cocktail leads canned goods price cuts. California frost threatens orange and tomato crops, while Congress and President Truman discuss farm price supports and parity.
Jackson County council of Home Demonstration clubs meets January 11 at 9 30 a m in the courthouse. Mrs Alyne C Heath announces the session with President Mrs Leo Kirkland of the Graceville Ideal club. Officers will be chosen and plans for the new year adopted. The group will air on WTVS from 12 45 to 1 p m and a luncheon hosted by Heath follows with officers and two representatives from each of six clubs attending.
Two Montgomery police officers, Patrolman W. D. Durden and Winkler Campbell, were suspended after a trial board found they beat a 28 year old white man, Paul Patrick, with a blackjack and fists last month. The board recommended outright dismissal. the officers appealed to the City Commission with a hearing set for tomorrow.
A railroad passenger train the Everglades of the Atlantic Coast Line struck a 173-foot landing craft infantry that had broken moorings and drifted 300 feet onto a trestle over the Ashley River. Both vessels suffered only minor damage.
The list notes various commodities and livestock including rye lard butter milk cottonseed cocoa eggs currants steers hogs and lambs reflecting agricultural trade activity and supply items in the period.
In Marianna special session the Jackson County Board of Commissioners named Curtis Jackson as chairman for a fifth year. Clyde E. Mayhall reappointed county attorney and H. A. Bowles as deputy clerk under E. W. Bowles, now clerk. Sheriff Ernest Barnes deputies each receive $1000 bonds, with R. H. Ward and James Langford among others. New jail and courthouse staff were named, including Jim Skeete as jail watchman and Harrison Byrd as courthouse janitor. New board members M. V. Patrick and Jodie Sketo join carry overs Curtis Jackson J. K. Powell C. L. Peacock. Other official personnel organized include Circuit Judge E Welch and Mrs. Nelle Heath, Probate Judge R. L. McCrary and Mrs. Bernice Jordan, E. W. Bowles as clerk with aides H. A. Bowles, Gladys Padget, Sallie H. Mears, Sheriff Ernest Barnes and Elizabeth Baker, Leo Sims tax collector with Olin Brewer, Luther Duncan tax assessor with aides Clemmie Lane and Marvy KE. Meyfield, Alyne C. Heath home demonstration agent and clerk Myrtie Cox, and W. J. Mitchell supervisor of registration.
Washington reports the Allied powers contemplate a New Ruhr Authority to govern German industry, a multi nation panel amid a maze of committees. Six nations and Allied governors negotiated a four page communique and a 14 page draft, with approval expected by March 1. Experts call the plan experimental as postwar Germany lacks a peace treaty and the permanent solution to Ruhr ownership is not addressed.
The Ruhr Authority is presented as an independent agency aimed at allocating distribution of Ruhr coal coke pig iron and steel between domestic use and exports. Its lack of enforcement power and unclear authority raise questions about its overlap with ERP and OEEC programs while coordination with Marshall Plan bodies is unofficial.
Elyria Ohio report of a paralyzed World War II veteran, Oscar E Riley, who after many years in a wheelchair, completed a four room bungalow starting Oct 1 1948. He financed and supervised the project himself, doing siding, painting, plumbing and masser up work from his chair with help from his 8 year old cousin and three friends. The piece notes a county health milestone from Guilford County North Carolina in 1911.
The draft agreement states that if the Ruhr Authority makes a decision increasing the financial burden on J. Sot occupation of Germany, the American Military Government may veto the decision. This reduces the Ruhr Authority’s potency and authority.
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