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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1948
Page
3
Publisher subscription rates detail daily and Sunday mail options for Alabama Georgia and Florida with rates for various service areas. Obituaries resolutions and a boilerplate policy note accompany standard telephones and missives. The piece closes with quotations attributed to Thomas Jefferson Romans 6 5 and William Mountford.
In a 1948 reflection, the piece urges readers to aid vulnerable children, linking faith to action. It highlights postwar Europe orphans, polio victims, and youth welfare, endorsing the March of Dimes and National Youth Week as means to serve. It warns religious training must shape daily life and calls to welcome children to God.
The FBI reported on loyalty checks for about 32 million federal employees saying 1,990,957 were cleared and inquiries on 277 others were largely unfounded. Only four cases lacked evidence and resignations occurred in 15, with no widespread abuse or rights violations seen. The piece argues the probe was orderly, not a witch hunt, aimed to sow confusion rather than jail breaks.
A 22 year run for Freeman Golden and Charlie Correll’s Amos and Andy is praised as a permanent success. The piece notes clean humor's appeal and contrasts it with off color jokes, while touching on public taste, fuel shortages, Henry Wallace third party prospects, and Italy’s 160,000 tax collectors strike for a broad, era-tinged newspaper snapshot.
Congress passed a lobbying law requiring registrants to disclose receipts expenditures and payers. About 900 individuals registered. Justice Department plans to press a grand jury investigation led by Attorney General Tom Cla s bes into possible violations.
The article notes a district of Columbia inquiry directed by an assistant attorney general. A letter from Clark authorized use of the grand jury to enforce the Lobbying Act and related statutes against various entities. The piece questions Congress actions and the seriousness of enforcement versus mere window dressing.
Porter jokes about a taft word on price controls while Truman fires top air regulators. CAB and CAA depart leaders, morale sours, and new appointees face tough posts. Mayflower ancestry quip triggers exchange. ongoing battles over health policy, housing, and disaster aid surface as Taft and Murray propose rival bills.
A 1948 reminiscence by Joan Temple Grava reflects on Josephus Daniels the longtime editor and politician. It recalls his close ties to Wilson and Roosevelt, his defense of Southern liberalism, and his four autobiographies The Tar Heel Editor Editor in Politics The Wilson Era and Shirt Sleeve Diplomacy. It notes Daniels view of New Freedom as the precursor to the New Deal and his famous anti grog order in the Navy.
W L Johnson the recently inaugurated Malone mayor says the city should view the proposed fire truck as a spark for a new era. He notes Malone has lingered in stagnation, with weak revenue, and relies on public donations to fund the truck while pledging future improvements and renewed civic pride.
Corporal Leo Bush Jr son of Mr and Mrs Leo Bush of Dothan re enlisted in the Army Air Forces at Tyndall Field Florida home of the Air Tactical School. He is assigned as a baker in the Airbase Bakery Shop and previously worked for the Dixie Baking Company before entering service in January 1941. Bush served nine months with the Eighth Air Force in England and is entitled to wear American Theatre American Defense European Theatre Victory World War II and Good Conduct ribbons.
Funeral services for Mrs. Israel Shack, sixty six, of Worcester Massachusetts, mother of Al Shack of Dothan, will be held today in Worcester after a long illness. Survivors include her husband three other sons Arthur Lewis and Phillip and three daughters Mrs Sam Chafetz Mrs Archit Friedman and Sara Shack. Mrs Al Shack is the former Mrs Beryl Dean of Dothan.
A historical note recalls a man reaching an implied 7200 degree Fahrenheit temperature and mentions Sommering discovering the yellow spot of the retina in 1816, the area of sharper vision in the human eye.
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