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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1944
Page
6
The garbled lines describe rivers and winds and a joint world under a law. Images of mountains oceans and moonlight mingle with a plea about sisters and brothers and a sleeping earth. The piece reads like a damaged poem fragment with no clear narrative.
Thirty five service men's wives gathered at the Dothan Recreation Center for a luncheon and to organize a social for soldiers wives. Meetings will be at noon every Thursday at the Recreation Center. Mrs Selma Epstein was elected chairman with Mrs Jean Zimmerman Mrs Lillian Davis and Mrs Marion Wynsocks on the program committee for the first regular meeting on February. Projects include surgical dressings and volunteer work at the center. Mrs Dennis C Cox of Ashford has learned her husband PhC Cox is in a San Francisco hospital receiving treatment for Guadalcanal injuries.
New York AP report notes a Presbyterian led effort behind the Councils of Churches Six Pillars of Peace. John Foster Dulles, chairman, promotes international fellowship, economic cooperation and peaceful change as churches voice opposition to imperialism and seek unity among religions.
A World War II recruitment appeal highlights Mary as a model of wartime service. The message urges women aged 20 to 50 without young children to join the Women’s Army Corps, noting training options and the need for diverse skills from mechanics to typing and driving.
The technical sergeant George R. B. Mathison Jr and Mrs Mathison announce the birth of a son, George Bertram, at a focal hospital. The family has left the hospital for their home at 1007 Lafayette Olivet.
Red Cross regional conference announced for Wednesday with Alfred V. Eaton and Patrick Poyner leading talks on Your Red Cross and Your Red Cross in Action. The meeting covers Red Cross programs for armed forces, home service, and hospital camps, with officials from nearby towns and Army camps attending.
Circles of the First Baptist meet at multiple homes for study and devotion preceding a church wedding. Miss Mary Frances McCarty, daughter of Dr and Mrs Robert McCarty, united in marriage with Lieut. Otho Beall Bruce USNR at the parental home with Rev. Sam C Reeves officiating. Guests from Birmingham Savannah and beyond attended. The couple planned a Gulf coast wedding trip before Bruce reports to Pensacola.
Misa LaMerle Penn, director of public school music in the Dothan doals, will present Highland School fifth and sixth graders in a fifteen minute radio program on Station WAGF at 9 45 a m Wednesday. Mrs Nash Moates returned from a week with relatives in Charlotte North Carolina, bringing her daughter Mrs M D Curle and sons David and Donald to meet Sergeant Curle in Aiken South Carolina.
Volunteers from Webb and Cottonwood joined Dayton High School girls at the Surgical Dressings workroom. The total group completed 2700 dressings with participants including Mia sha Blanche Baxter W M Lewis Jr Carolyn Mullins Margaret Delaney Marshall Tony B Marshall Reatrice Opa Ivey Ethel Hatcher J N Deal Roscos Kelley Mary Ette Joiner Mary Buie Lucile Lamb Kay Ward Tiny Hutchings Lillian Martin Ann Bliss Celie Brackin Martha Bozeman Yvonne James.
A reader’s column provides a roster of women and men including Mrs F. EF. iisk, Mrs Leedy, Mrs J. J. R A Gerth, Mrs Mercer, Mr Wa Akers, Mrs Cenney, Wilson Jr., Mrs land, Miss Ailes Elliot, Useery, Mrs Dan Joces, Igy Pridgen, Mrs O. V. Boren, T- J. Creel, Mrs Dan By, Mrs Roy Mercer, Mrs J. my, Mrs W. Heed, Mrs Morgan, Mrs HO Met Me CC. Hughes, Mrs Sullivas, Miss Bara Hathcock, Miss Eleanor Goldthwaite, Mrs Goldthwaite, Mrs J. N. Ardie, and Mrs Rank Byrd.
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