Cross Sections Of Life In The Wiregrass in Ozark concert
The Dale County March of Dimes will host Seaborn Eades and the Harmony Boys of Birmingham for a gospel concert at Ozark High School Thursday at 7 30 p.m. Admission is free, donations to the March of Dimes welcomed. Houston County Baptist pulpits will be filled Sunday by Howard College ministerial students, with 42 of 180 participating. Young peoples rallies are planned at Southside church Dothan Mount Gilead Webb Ashford and Cottonwood at 7 p.m. Saturday. A mass meeting follows Sunday services at First Baptist Dothan at 2 40 p.m. Boy Scout Week in Southeast Alabama Council runs Feb 6-12 with Scout Sunday Feb 6 in uniform. Executives from Region Five councils meet in Biloxi Feb 12 for a five day conference. Three year old Richard Kelley of 704 Vassar Street bruised his cheek after running into a moving car on East Main near St Andrews. driver Buford Williams of Dothan arrested for DUI, released on $300 bond. Ann Norton will represent Vicksburg High School in the county Good Citizenship Girl contest this week based on scholarship and activities. Foster Street Methodist Men’s Club hosts wives tonight at the church with an outdoor on the back lawn if weather permits, then indoor fellowship. hundreds expected. Five sisters Ara Era Ira Ora and Ara named in Jackson Ala.
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Dale County March of Dimes
Seaborn Eades
Harmony Boys of
Birmingham
Ozark
Willie J. McKnight
the Dimes Drive
March of Dimes
Houston County
Howard College
Young Peoples
Southside Church
Dothan
Mount Gilead
Webb, Ashford and
Cottonwood
First Baptist
Robert McRight
Frank Gaines
Southeast Alabama Boy Scout Council
Biloxi
Miss
Richard Kelley
Vassar Street
Seah Lane
Buford Williams
East Main Street
St. Andrews
Ann Norton
Vicksburg High School
Ann
Wicksburg School
Wicksburg
Keep Sick Children Home Warned By Health Dept
Houston County health officer Dr. W. T. Burkett urged that children with fever cold or sore throat stay home or be sent home from school. Isolate the ill child from the family until illness passes or a physician diagnoses the condition.
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Houston County Health Department
Dothan
W. T. Burkett
Hog market holds steady as eight plants report cattle hogs
Livestock arrivals totaled 469 cattle 250 calves and 4500 hogs at eight plants in Georgia Alabama and Florida and quots show soft and semi hard hogs priced 11 to 18.50 per hundredweight. Top price in area reached 18.50 for best finished hogs with weights 160 to 240 pounds.
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Thomasville
JUSD
Albany
Columbus
Moultrie
Tifton
Dothan
Ala
Jacksonville
Tallahassee
Fla
Montgomery market cattle and hog summary report
Cattle receipts about 100 with mixed early sales leaving trend uncertain. Calves estimated 125 with slow, uneven sales and prices mostly steady to down 3 dollars on early lots. Hogs receipts 300, market fairly active and steady with midrange barrows and gilts 180-240 pounds at 17.75 to 18.00, lighter hogs 15.50-17.75, sows 10-14.00, stags 10.00.
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Montgomery Market
Montgomery
Feail
State Market News Service
Union Stock Yards
Mon
Sally Anna trees draw attention at Dothan camellia show
Number 14 from C. W. Bush and Sally Tou’s father plus Robert and Emilee Bush siblings are noted for an impromptu Sally Anna trees display. The display drew interest alongside the Dothan camellia show as locals appreciate fine flowers and timber. Sally and Anna, observing in Dothan, wonder what all the fuss is about. Anna is listed as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Morris of 1903 West Main Street.
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C. W. Bush
Sally Tou
Robert
Emilee Bush
Sally Anna
Dothan
Sally
Anna
Arthur Morris
West Main Street
Pilgrims Used Water-Power For Grinding Corn In 1628
American Indians did not use water power but the Pilgrims harnessed it to grind corn as early as 1628, demonstrating early colonial adoption of hydraulic technology.
City Commissioners To Oppose Senators On Taxing City Bonds
The Dothan city commission agreed to oppose Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman over taxing income from municipal bonds. Ed Reid of the Alabama League of Municipalities said they backed a housing bill sleeper taxing such income, potentially raising bond costs. The city urged Hill and Sparkman to withdraw support. commissioners Adkins and O Neal prepared an opposing resolution for telegraph and letter submission. Brennan was absent due to illness.
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Dothan
Reid
Alabama
Treasury Department
Dgthan
John Adkins
Maston O'Neal
Hill
Senate chaplain selection spurs partisan debate
The Senate debated Dr. Marshall's chaplaincy amid claims of political motive in replacing Jer Harris. Barkley decried partisanship, while Bridges and Wherry argued Republican emphasis on Lincoln era pastor of New York Avenue church. Marshall won by voice vote and vowed nonpartisan public service.
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Senate
Barkley
D-Ky
Jer. Harris
Marshall
House
Harris
Bridges
Abraham Lincoln
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Wherry
Neb
America
Scotland
United States
New Jersey
the News
Birmingham
Ala
Columbia Theological Seminary
Decatur
Cryington
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Atlanta
New York Avenue
Truman
Sonny
Sometimes It Pays To Be Crossed Eyed Optometrist Says
AP reports Dr. T D Murroughs of Linton Indiana cites case histories to claim cross eyed vision can be advantageous in traffic and work. He notes a bus driver who could see ahead and to the side simultaneously and a florist who inspected plants on both aisle sides in one pass, leading to higher pay.
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Tampa
T.D. Murroughs
Linton
Ind
New York
Ex-Rucket Surgeon Aboard Lost Driftwood
Five men aboard the cabin cruiser Driftwood disappeared after leaving Port Everglades for Bimini. Air force planes and a Coast Guard cutter combed east of St Augustine for wreckage. Among the crew was Dr Albert Sullivan of Nashville who served as chief surgeon at Camp Rucker.
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Miami
Fla
Air Force
Coast Guard
St. Augustine
Port Everglades
Bimini Island
Bahama
Albert Sullivan
Nashville, Tenn
University leader urges stronger Alabama education drive
Dr Gallalee urged Alabama to fund and expand the University of Alabama. He called for stronger graduate schools a school of social work a collegiate nursing program and expanded medical and dental schools. He warned that underfunding yields poor schools and graduates while overcrowding and veteran enrollments strain capacity.
State Officials Strike Back Over Spending Tactics
In Montgomery AP three state officials led a counterattack against senators criticizing department spending. Finance Director Bill Drinkard Revenue Commissioner Philip Hamm and ABC liquor administrator R P McRee held a press conference arguing tax collections rose sharply since 1945 46 with no new revenue laws, and urging stricter enforcement and cost cuts. They accused selfish groups of hindering progress and defended salary increases and welfare funding while blaming lawmakers for fiscal imbalances.
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Montgomery
Bill Drinkard
Philip Hamm
Birmingham
Bruce Henderson
Wilcox County
Liquor Control Board
Revenue Department
Henderson
Drinkard
Hamm
McRee
ABC
Turmoil as Nanking evacuates amid looming bombardment
The article describes Nanking residents fleeing a threatened Communist shell attack as government offices empty and trains jam. Chiang Kai-shek sits at his tomb as Li Tsung-jen calls 50,000 troops from the west, while peace talks stagnate and rival warlord friction grows.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Chekiang
Li Tsung-jen
Chikow
China
Peiping
Shanghai
Democratic League
Farmers plan five year corn and tree project with subsidy
Whidden announces federal subsidy to farmers and a five year corn project with about 125 participating farmers. Demonstrations will be on participating farms with extension service support. Other topics included berries poultry beef pork, but focus stays on corn and trees for now. stock and hog shows continue under a separate committee.
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Whiddon
Extension Service
Whidden
Pat Poyner
Ling
Solomon ‘Baxter
Charles A. Ah
AL AL “Middleton
Wasps and Pulp: Paper Making Recalled in Frayed Text
Fragmentary note recalls wasps as original paper makers using chewed leaves or wood fire to pulp materials, hinting at early papermaking methods. The readable fragments point to improvised processes and caution about the rough, unfinished OCR.
Foes of Napier's Incorp Meeting Set for Thursday
Interested residents oppose Napier Field incorporation and attend a Thursday night meeting at 7 30 oclock at the veterans club led by J R Phipps a campaign leader. Conflicting factions split over incorporation with Dowling Jr leading pro group and Arthur Johnson Phipps opposing.
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Napier Field
Veterans Club
J. R Phipps
Phipps
Dowling, Jr
Arthur Johnson
Dowling
Marianna Hosts Farmer's Day For New Dairy Market
Marianna salutes a new Southern Dairies dairy market with a Farmers Day parade at 10 a.m. and a program featuring dignitaries. Residents will supply free lunches and ice cream as 3000 to 4000 people attend, under the Marianna Jackson County Chamber of Commerce sponsorship.
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Marianna
Southern Dairies
Chasl
Marianna-Jackson County Chamber of Catamerce
Optimist Club Sets Time For Meetings
Dothan Optimist Club selected a regular meeting time and place last night with Collier Freeman presiding. Meetings will be each Monday at 7 p.m. at the Houston Hotel. The session covered the constitution by laws and committee appointments as twenty five members attended.
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Dothan Optimist Club
Collier Freeman
Houston Hotel
Aerial Hay Drops Aid Nevada Stockmen
United Stockmen's Association president Swallow and Albert Fallon praise air drops as vital to eastern Nevada livestock. Loyd Sorensen says flights救 saved thousands of sheep and many cattle as crews targeted inaccessible camps. Fifteen urgent cases remain, winds and water needs threaten, ranchers urged to guide planes at Ely airport.
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Swallow
United Stockmen's Association
Albert Fallon
Prazier
Loyd Sorensen
Nevada
Ely
David Underwood
Grass Valley
Calif
Pfe
Merle Seaver
Pine Bluffs
Wyo
Air Force
Seaver
Drive appeal urges immediate contributions at local booth
Number 20 reminded special gifts contributors that many letters sent have not been answered and urged them not to defer sending subscriptions. He asked everyone to drop an extra dime in any coin box or the wishing well bucket at Foster and Main streets booth. The drive has less than a week to go, ending March 11, and the chairman urged deeper effort to meet the quota.
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Foster
Main Streets
Veterans Training Progress In Area Draws High Praise
State Associate Supervisor L. L. Sellers of Auburn told a county wide meeting of veterans teachers that Alabama's veteran vocational farm training is strong. He cited 6,872 veterans becoming farm owners in the program with 1,500 titles last year and 6,000 expected to buy during training. The effort emphasizes planning, production, marketing, farm mechanics, soil conservation and management. In Houston County 33 instructors give four hours classroom and two hours individual instruction weekly. One in 14 South farms is veteran operated. 206,000 Southern veterans are enrolled in the program across 14 states. national total 290,000. In 1948, monthly national enrollment averaged 10,000 veterans. by year end 1956 an estimated 90,000 more trained. By June 30, 1948, 46,000 veterans had loans totaling 179 million 717 thousand 910 dollars and 4,756 repaid over 5 million dollars. Alabama 1948 farm purchases show 180 FHA loans, 131 Federal Land Bank loans, 762 local loans, and 251 GI guaranteed loans.
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Alabama
L. L. Sellers
Auburn
Sellers
Sam Norris
Geneva
Houston County
South
Federal Land Bank
Gillars Axis Sally programs cited in testimony
Witness Kelley summarized several Axis Sally broadcasts including Home Sweet Home Midge at the Mike and Medical Reports. He said Miss Gillars used German propaganda elements and attacked Roosevelt and Britain to divide the Allies while laughing at the idea of a war against Jews. Laughlin defended Gillars as a product of a broken home and noted her cooperation with German officials while preserving American citizenship. He also said her passport was seized and she had no money, asserting she rejected propaganda material.
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Kelley
James J. Laughlin
Laughlin
Miss Gillars
Germany
Sjitler
Goering
Goebbels
Cotton futures slip on profit taking in New Orleans
New Orleans AP reports cotton futures fell as traders took profits and hedge selling weighed on prices. Trading remained quiet with noon quotes showing unchanged to 40 cents per bale lower.
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New Orleans
Death of E L Colebeg Longtime Educator and Leader
Dr E L Colebeg state educator and college scholar died unexpectedly at home at 7 am. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 4 pm from Boro Methodist Church. Born in Nottingham England he came to Amelia at age 12 and held chairs at Norwich, Western Town, Yale, Harvard Wisconsin and Birmingham Southern before returning to Hale County to manage properties and serve as education superintendent.
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Greensboro
Alaar
Edward
Laughton Colebens
Hale County
Supe
Boro Methodist Church
Nottin
England
Amelia
Norfiess University
Western Town
Yale
Harvard
Ung of
Wisconsin
Glaern University
Greenstom
Poten Birmingham - Southern Cas
Coalboro
Senate debate flags buster abuse and Hartley bill delay
Number 23 urged the Senate to halt what he called the abuse in the daisy debate and warned it harms institutions. Republicans threaten to stall the Taft Hartley labor bill as eight Democrats on the labor committee backed a Feb deadline to wind up. Democrats aim to replace Hartley with an improved act in one step, with hearings starting Friday. Senator Morse said the GOP has its day when the bill reaches the full Senate, while Senator Taft echoed the demand to be heard. Pepper’s resolution was said to be not meaningful.
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Senate
Hartley
New York Cotton Prices Slip Amid Slow Trading
New York cotton futures showed irregular action in slow trading. Late afternoon quotes fell about 30 cents a bale from the previous close with March at 32.80, May and July around 31.45.
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NEW York Cotton
NEW York
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S. Oates
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Paymondie
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