Soldier Honored At Evening Party
M oC Miller of Cottonwood will report for induction at Fort McPherson July 10 and was honored Wednesday at a party hosted by his parents. Dozens of friends and relatives attended, including Millard Lee and many Miller family members. Other news notes visitors and family travel in Cottonwood area.
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M Oc Miller
Cottonwood
Fort McPherson
U. S Army
Mra
B. Miller
Relaves
Millard Lee
Junior Hodges
Mike Whitehead
Joe Nobles
James Thompesn
FR. L Halt
Myras Granberry
Lower Chambers
Grover Miller
Bur! Lee
Gerald Register
Cecil Miller
J. H. Dickerson
Raymond Register
M. Miller
Ralph Capps
Jimmie Johnson
J W Braewell
May Henkins
Kenneth Adams
Silay Whitehead
Hobart Whitehead
Sarah Napier
Lonnell Igogo
Dorothy Las
Mary Thompson
Dorothy Miller
Clarice Thompson
Ethelyne Womack
Brondell Braswell
Gwendolyn Adams
J R. Miller
O & Anderson
Roy Miller
C. B Miller
Indians Get Sulfa Medicine Man Goes
Fort Hall Idaho AP report notes federal efforts over 15 years to provide medical care for Indian wards. sulfa drugs have been a godsend says Fort Hall official Bupt L Graves. He adds sulfa helped curb trachoma and marks a shift away from traditional rituals in treating illness.
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Fort Hall
Idaho
Bupt . L. Graves
Fort Hall Reservation
Graves
Miss Burdeshaw Weds Lieut LeRoy Foster in Abilene Church
Miss Elaine Burdeshaw daughter of Mrs O A Burdeshaw of Abilene wed Lieut LeRoy Foster son of Mr and Mrs A RL Foster of Little Rock in a single ring ceremony at St Paul Methodist Church Abilene on June 23. Attendants were not present. The organist played standard wedding selections and the bride wore aqua crepe with gardenia corsage. Both families and local connections noted, with the bride’s Alabama and Texas ties and the groom’s Arkansas and New York educational background. The couple will reside near Camp Cooke California.
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Miss Burdeshaw
Lieut
LeRoy Foster
Abilene, Texas
Abilene
Texas
Elaine Burdeshaw
O A Burdeshaw
Headland
RL Foster
Littlerock
Ark
St Paul Methods
Church Hers
J O. Haymes
Louise Spie
Gelmire
Schubert
Victor Herbert
Atwulng
Cadman
Lohngein
Wagner
Mendelssohn
Foster
Asbury College
Wilmore Ky
Abe
McMurry College
Mission Band
Btu
Chanters
McMurry
Hendricks College
Conway
Columbia University
New York City
Army
Camp Barkeley
Camp Cooke
Callf
San Luie Obiapo
Elba Bride Gladys Whitman Weds James Baxley in Church Nuptials
Miss Gladys Whitman of Elba and James Russell Baxley of Tuscaloosa and Alexandria were married at Elba Baptist Church on Wednesday June 23. The ceremony featured candlelight, white crepe myrtle decor, and music by Mina Blake Mia Carnley and others. Bridesmaids wore powder blue organdy, with Francis Conner as maid of honor. The couple will reside in Alexandria Virginia.
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Elba
Ala
Gladys Whitman
James Russell Baxley
Tuscalooay
Alexandria
Virginia
Elba Baptist Church
Charles W. Barnes
Tuscaloosa
Mina Marjoria Brunson
Mig Faye Blake
Birmingham
Mia J A Carnley
Mina Blake
d'Hardelot
Mia Carnley
Traumerel
Schumann
Migs Briannon
McDowell
Lohengrin
Mendelssohn
W TT. Whitman Jr
Jake Bonneau
Prickard
Sammie Rowe
Elizabeth Taylor
Union Springs
Mabel Weasley
Talladega
Ida Isabell Whitman
Ozark
Marjorie Baxley
Tuscaloons
Francis Conner
Amalda
Misa Judy Prickard
Rome
Tommy Whitman
Lovaty
W T Whitman
Robert Lasseter Whitman
Elba High School
Alabama College
Montevallo
J. & Baxley
Tuscaloo
University of Alabama
Southern Railroad Laboratory
Alexandra
Virciia
Baxley
Whitman
Patsy Piichard
Virginia Ruth James
Sara Young
Martha Frances Dowling
Milton Edmondson
Mra Baxley
Russians Spoof German Defenses In Humorous Cartoon
Moscow AP reports a Soviet humor periodical publishes a full page colored cartoon spoofing German Channel defenses. The scene shows a lone gun and a one legged soldier with Goebbels at a picnic table amid wine bottles with captions about Berlin ordering vassal nations to describe reinforcements. Also notes Cherokee origin of Tennessee name from chief town on the Little Tennessee River.
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Moscow
Shores
Goebbels
Berlin
Tourna- Nata
Little Girl Celebrates Tenth Birthday Party at Home
Mise Jo Ane Hall hosted a Saturday evening party for a group of friends in her home to mark her tenth birthday anniversary. The room featured a patriotic color theme with red white and blue streamers, decorated tables, place cards, and water tapers. Dancing lasted into the night as guests enjoyed the celebration.
Birth of Karen Irene Schr er at Camp Rucker Station Hospital
Mr and Mrs James B Schr er of Headland announce the birth of a daughter, Karen Irene, born June 26 at the Station Hospital Camp Rucker.
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Ee Capain
Mra
James B Schrrer
Headland
Karen Irene
Camp Rucker
Women Help Build Tanks At Gary Armor Plant
Women workers at the Gary Armor Plate Plant join men in running roaring furnaces and cranes, cutting and fitting seven ton slabs of steel for Army tanks. Superintendent Yost says they are doing well and will improve with experience as the plant, formed on desert dunes beside Lake Michigan, rapidly increases output. Army contracts sped the project from sand to armor plate in under five months, with women expected to comprise about three quarters of armor plant staff.
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Bennett Wolff
AP Featerce
GARY
Jnd
Sia
EN Yost
Lake Michigan
United States
Pearl Harbor
M Jenks
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
the Steel Corporation
Vast
Jenka
Gary Works
Jenks
Yost
Jess
Changes Save Zinc For Penny And Jar Tops
Government saves 4300 tons of war material by zinc plating steel for the new penny and saves 900 tons yearly by altering canning jar tops from zinc to steel. The move aims to conserve strategic metals while maintaining product integrity across currency and packaging.
Puerto Rico Doctor Homemakers Warned Says War Hardest Of Fuel Shortage On Children
Doctor Dolores Pinero, Puerto Rican director of School Hygiene, warns war era fuel shortages will hit children hardest after the war. She cites malnutrition, emotional distress, and mothers away at work as risks, urges parental education and better care for kids.
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Puerto Rico
Adelaine Kerrap
Dolores Pinero
Doctora Pinero
New York
Doctora Pinera
Doctor
Lawyer At 89 Feels Too Young To Retire
SALT LAKE CITY AP D H Wenger the oldest practicing member of the Utah Bar Association says at 89 he feels too young to retire. He notes some sight and hearing decline but plans to continue working as long as able. Wenger was Salt Lake City's first city judge when Utah joined the Union in 1894.
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Salt Lake City
Wenger
Utah Bar Association
Ftrat City
Utah Wee
Union
Army Mail Through Camp Polk La
Army officers say Camp Polk postal service handles mail like a city of 1,500,000 and forwards about 9,000 letters monthly worldwide, yet an average of only some letters each day must be returned to senders due to unreadable or incomplete addresses and other issues.
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Camp Polk
Camp Postal Service
Specialist Advises Non Fruit Pures For Home Canning
Auburn extension agent Lavads Gy Ha counsels families to allocate 165 quarts of fruit drinks and canned fruits per month. He describes canning methods to reduce waste, selecting soft ripe fruits, washing and crushing, and heating to sterilize jars to ensure ample preserved supply.
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Auburn
Bey
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W. P. Burnham
Cochran Lawson
Tony White
Fort Benning
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Montgomery
W.C Strickland
Jerry Anthony
J C Anthony
W E Mtreyar
Atlanta
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J. R. Baxley
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