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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1946
Page
4
Buie Furniture Co reports arrivals of fuel oil heaters and 1,000-hour heavy duty radio batteries. Heaters available while supply lasts at Buie Furniture Co with battery sets priced at 5.95 each.
The fourth annual all night Sacred Harp Sing Convention finished successfully with W C Lisenby presiding. Rev A J Renfree offered prayer and Dr W T Burkett gave the welcome. Thirty minutes of the broadcast aired on WAGF. Midnight lunch was served and many class directors were listed for two songs each. Next convention set for the last Saturday night in July 1947.
Inglewood California reports blue arrows painted on downtown streets labeled adventure foreign lands career. A venturesome passerby followed the arrows to the army recruiting station, drawing consternation but culminating in a recruitment link.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry leader, reportedly had as many as 29 horses shot from under him in battle, yet he was never seriously injured.
AP News describes thousands of former Nazi party members in Munich and other German cities taking up pickaxes and shovels to clear rubble after bombing. One ex-Nazi drafted a cheeky set of rubble removal commandments posted on poles, urging workers to forget the Hitler salute and denouncing past indoctrination. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung notes the plan spurred more active labor and less idleness.
University of Pittsburgh journalism students surveyed 250 adults in 50 occupations about the share of space given to sports crime and scandal news and comic strips. Estimates averaged 9.3 percent for sports vs 4.5 percent actual, 19.25 percent for crime and scandal vs 2.75, and 9.25 percent for comics vs 3.75. Twenty four Pittsburgh newspapers were included in the poll. The United States is noted as a leading producer of corn starch in decorative uses.
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