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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1947
Page
14
Boston City Hospital plans to photograph 100000 images annually focusing on the chest. Every person entering the hospital will be X-rayed for signs of tuberculosis regardless of injury or ailment.
Carter reports House appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Chattahoochee river project. Delegation from Alabama Florida Georgia pressed for a River Junction dam with a 3 090 000 appropriation to start work and planned progress toward a Columbia hydro plant. Carter remains confident a dam and hydro electric plant will be built someday.
The town celebrates a municipal swimming pool finished last summer with stone bathhouses planned at 8500. Councilman Ware Expy notes financing from cigarette and beer taxes yields about 500 to 600 dollars monthly, delaying a community house until prices fall. Plans also discuss extending city limits by a quarter mile north, half mile east and west, and a mile south, potentially adding 200 to 400 residents.
Howard Bland, chief clerk for Probate Judge Tea Ward, aims to study Henry County’s ancient volumes including land grants to the county from the Cherokee Indiana and old newspapers. The dusty records span land and marriage entries and many papers no longer circulate. Howard joined the office last January as the judge’s chief aide.
Navy veteran of World War II served more than a year in the North Africa theater. The note highlights his wartime service and location of deployment.
Gordon Mobley who farms 12 miles southeast of Abbeville on the Chattahoochee river was in Abbeville the other day seeking calcium arsenate. He reported a heavy weevil infestation on his farm and other nearby fields.
A farmer with 100 acres of cotton, about a third his typical plant, seeks to beat weevils. He notes poison scarcity as cotton acreage dwindles and suppliers hesitate to stock up.
Louis Reker reports burglars stole two black and gold uniforms from his Chicago shop. In Spokane a will by the late Earl Green leaves 37 500 to widow Anniette Green on condition she stops operating slot machines or loses the entire amount.
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