State Liquor Board To Take Loss On Brandy Surplus
Montgomery AP The State Liquor Board plans to take a loss of 36 000 to 42 000 dollars on 3 000 cases of brandy bought during the war. Demand now 200 cases monthly and 5 200 cases on hand. Purvis said Wisconsin firms Chicago and California offered 20 dollars a case. Board votes to sell 3 000 cases at that price and to trim store hours to reduce staff.
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State Liquor Board
Montgomery
E. ©. Purvis, Jr
Wisconsin
Chicago
California
Purvis
Frank Bunkley
Girl Scouts Close Camping Activities At Dothan Camp
About half the registered Girl Scouts and Brownies in the Dothan council attended the summer day camp at Kelleys Springs. Miss Helen Andrews reports 64 girls registered with an average of 51 attendees including staff. Overnight group Wise Owls stayed Friday night. Brownie units wrapped up with camp crafts and Explorer and Yellow Jackets cooked outdoors.
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Dothan
Jane Brunner
Sarah Ann Collier
Betty Jean Jernigan
Patricia Phillips
Sandra Ray
Sara Carl Beasley
Jo Ann Ford
Lyn Bentley
Mary Elizabeth Harrison
Barbera Burns
Jean Mullins
Patricia Ann Cook
Jean Norris
Mary Alice Hughes
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Miss Andrews
Ruby Sherer
Joe Wise
Snead
C. A. Lawshe
Owens Alexander
Charles Beck
Carolyn Ward
Mary Ann Sanders
Jane King
Pat Hutchings
Connie Hill
Road Builders to Meet Chicago This Summer
Road builders from about 40 countries will meet in Chicago to study developments of the American Road Builders Association. The program will include discussions on finance design research maintenance and construction of modern highways.
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Chicago
American Road Builders’ Association
Merit system cuts save store operations costs
Bunkley noted the cutback, under merit system ratings, will save from 70000 to 75000 dollars annually in store operations costs, according to board members.
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Bunkley
Convention's Serious Business Follows Songs Talks Eating
Washington NEA writer Peter Edson surveys a political convention from keynote to platform, noting the parade of bands, banners, and speeches. He describes roll calls and seconding speeches, hotel headquarters, and behind the scenes bargaining as delegates seek to nominate a presidential candidate.
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Igus
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Ber
Truman
Diplomatic stance shapes postwar world balance
Dewitt Mackenzie surveys US Russia tensions and a new bipartisan foreign policy. The 80th Congress advances a positive program including the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan to halt Bolshevik expansion, while Western Europe unites toward a potential United States of Europe.
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Committee Forms To Study Alabama Prisons Conditions
A committee of legislators and private citizens will investigate Alabama prison conditions. Rep. Paul Meeks leads as temporary chairman, with members including Rev. Max Shirley Canty and Dr. Hallie Farmer. They will report to the 1949 legislature, while Prison Director Boswell refines recommendations on reform and abolition of misused practices. Missouri fish shock concerns reported as a separate note.
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Montgomery
Wiregrass Men Join Army or Navy Enlistments Reported
Officials announced enlistments of 35 Wiregrass men with 20 choosing the Navy and 15 entering the Army and Air Forces. Names listed include Jack D. Yates Bonifay Byron Waters Newton Thomas A. Smith Chipley James Dansby Ashford and many others from Dothan Geneva Graceville Ozark Enterprise and nearby towns.
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Air Forces
Jack D. Yates
Bonifay
Byron M. Waters
Newton
Thomas A. Smith
Chipley
James Dansby
Ashford
Charles A. Patrick
Dothan
Hubert King
Enterprise
Carl D. Johnson
Geneva
French L. Hines
Graceville
Josep E. Blalock
Hartford
William E. Killingsworth
Slocomb
John W. Bedford
Westville
Fla
Welton R. Medley
Charles R.trawick
Ross H. Barnes
Grover Hawkins, Jr
E. North Street
First five string banjo on display at Los Angeles museum
The first five string banjo, invented around 1830 by Old Band Joe Sweeney, father of American minstrelsy, is shown at the Los Angeles County Museum. The relic passed to Sweeney’s niece and later to a Los Angeles music teacher in 1890, who presented it to the museum after his death.
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Wall de
John AL Logan
Grant
Qae
Toon Ath
Los Angeles
Joe” Sweeney
Los Angeles County
Sweeney
Five Kmes in Powder Plant Blast Injures Workers
A powder company in Kenvil New Jersey reported five workers killed or injured after a blast at a powder plant. The first explosion occurred shortly after 1 30 pm as three nitroglycerin mixers blew up in a building. The force toppled structures and sent debris up to 50 miles away. A later glycerine blast near Hercules California injured two workers and affected about 200 others in Contra Costa County.
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Hercules
Calif
Cisco
Contra
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