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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1945
Page
9
Mrs Hamm leads a pioneering program teaching deaf children to speak and read lips. She recounts Philip, once shy and speechless, now a normal, lively boy who teases and talks. The article highlights early intervention, oral training, and the goal of mainstream education.
Porat Beath members Myer Blumberg and Nathan Kraselsky named to a Alabama committee to raise funds for a new Hillel building near the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa. Dr Abram Leon Sachar to speak at a mass meeting in Dothan while committees form across Alabama towns and cities.
Margare Deal of Cottonwood was selected as Citizenship Girl after judging dependability service leadership and patriotism. Other finalists included Melrose Wetford Asa ford Dine Resnolas Louise Morne and Zela Pate.
The German resistance and counter-offensive have forced broad shifts on the American home front. Food, fuel, clothing, and industry are constrained, with meat and canned vegetables limited, civilian production capped, homes shelved for war needs, yarns and coats rationed, tires reduced, and fuel saving measures in effect. Draft boards widen eligibility up to age 38, with new lists of essential work guiding calls to service. The War Manpower and WPB impose ceilings and suspend nonessential activity, including trains, conventions, and horse racing.
Private first class Spurgeon Peters from Slocomb route two has been missing in action in Luxembourg since December 18. The War Department notified his mother Mrs Izor G Peters of Slocomb.
Dr. W. T. Burkett Houston County Health Officer spoke at the Headland Study Club on health in the home and food health. Mrs. Chalker reviewed an article on Parent Insufficiency while Mrs. Hols and Mrs. Weston sang Bless This House. Bond sales noted, yearbooks issued, new member welcomed, and staff served refreshments. Marine Captain Ralph Martin, 43, brother of Mrs. R. Thornton of Abbeville, has returned to the Marines in California after a South Pacific assignment with dive bomber squadron. He previously served overseas, stationed at Hawaii, Johnson, Palmyra, Emirau, and in the New Hebrides and Wake Island prior to December 1, 1941.
A proposed tire plant for Tuscaloosa will employ many workers and occupy about 760,000 square feet of space across multiple buildings. The project, linked to the Defense Plant Corporation and the Goodrich Company, aims to produce heavy duty tires and related products with a large female workforce expected.
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