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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1943
Page
7
Poetic fragment by Phillipe Kloss from the women’s page memorializes a desert scene and a distant whistle. The verse contemplates loss, time, and human soul with a somber, drifting tone. It evokes longing and sadness without clear narrative events or names.
Mrs Victor Sellers hosted the Ruth Sunday School Class social at her home 205 N Lena Street. Eleven members attended as Group Two led by Captain Mrs Dewey McGill carried the program with a devotional by Mrs Frank Gwaltney and entertainment led by Mrs H Le Brown. Refreshments were served.
The Houston County Chapter of the American Red Cross will hold its regular meeting at 11 am Friday in the main dining room of the Houston Hotel. A Board of Directors for 1942 will be elected and a report of the past year will be presented. The public is invited. After the business session, the board will meet for luncheon and chapter officers will be elected.
Hartford special report describes the W S C S installation at the Methodist church. Mrs W Daughtry as president and Mrs Besa Muiris as vice pres were among officers sworn in by Hey Goren Cartrell. A business session followed with gifts for past leaders and a long list of attendees.
The Hartford Parent Teacher Association held a Victory program in the school auditorium led by president Miss Agnes Pate. Pupils from the elementary school performed with Jeff Brannon as Uncle Bom and Beth McCormick as Victory, with 6th grade pupils presenting the playlet Uncle Ram's Defense Guards in costume.
A long string of personal notices from Tuscaloosa and nearby areas lists Mr and Mrs Paul Tubb and daughter Joyce visiting en route to Starke Florida where Mr Tubb will serve as USO director at Camp Blanding. Other items note travel, visits, and hospital discharge, with several staying in Pelham, Montgomery, and Panama City. A line mentions a new hydroelectric plant at Parker Dam supplying power for industrial production in the southwest.
Guest speakers will address the Do than Study Club at 3 pm Friday in Mrs Leelee Smarty’s home. Newcomer Mrs ROC Quakenwen will discuss conditions in the Philippines during a two year stay on a major assignment. Mrs LOB Wil by also speaks on wing conditions in Pest o Ture before the war. A business fashion and social hour are planned. all members are urged to attend.
Installation of officers at the Lafayette Street Methodist W S C S occurred Monday at the church led by Rev W O Phillips. New officers include Mrs Fred O Brien president and several others, with committee chair appointments made after the service.
Marianna C F 8 installs officers with Worthy Matron Mrs Dorothy Maddox and other officers named. Installation set for January 12 with officers including Lambe, Kelly, Lowrie, Simonton, Lambe, Casmaugh, Marhall, Hodges, Sandusky, Shores, Stirgie, Pherson, Ravin and others.
The notice reports a birth for Mr and Mrs W F with details of a named child, then shifts to a Russian push north of Prokalandensa with advances toward Apolonskaya and Mirtrainye Vodty. It notes recaptured settlements near Stalingrad and the middle Don, plus Axis casualties totaling 339,150 since the winter campaign, and the Bralin grad pocket under heavy pressure.
The report details Russian forces advancing along both banks of the river through Teimiyansk and nearby villages including Kargaivke-Beliansky Jamishev nxate Yaurev and Kholodny as the front moves into Rostov in the Sea of Azov region. Rostov’s fate looms as its loss would enclose German troops in the Caucasus and cut off German lines, with control having shifted between Germans and Soviets multiple times.
Brig Gen Grendison Gardner announces the death of a twenty six year old airman from Eglin Field after a failed emergency routing to Maxwell Field. Weather hampered search as locals found the scene near Freeport Road and Nesbarken Tenn. The airman, a Hero named Wegner, received the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in battles, with past feats described as legendary among comrades.
The text is garbled and incomplete but describes a fighter named Yaane faster on Level Might and a climber near Welcome Watt Ha chasing the Jape. No clear event details or outcomes are readable.
Officials at the Dothan Branch Laboratory report 1225 tests conducted in December with 154 positives, 1152 negatives and 14 inconclusive. Diphtheria had 3 positives from 31 tests, tuberculosis 30 tests with 4 positives, malaria 42 tests with 1 positive and 4 negatives.
Marianna officials announced the city commission voted to remove HOA Bowles as city clerk and appoint Miss Fisiyn Davis, assistant clerk since 1935, to the post Bowles was reappointed by the commission at its recent meeting Then a separate note mentions an Annamese official titled Mister of Sorrows who curses at weddings to drive away spirits.
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