Reading room and personal shop services planned for hospital patients
A program to provide a personal shop service and a magazine distribution at the State Tubercular Here hospital was announced. Mrs A C Abwaho will direct both projects with shelving and rationing starting March 7. The hospital shop plan will offer regular purchases to patients each Friday. The reading service will be sponsored by the Woman's Missionary Union first Baptist church and supported by the Chipola association community mission department and various churches. Dr G Mosborough, medical director and superintendent, praised civic group support for the hospital's early equipment efforts.
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Qobianna
A.C. Ab“waho
I Woman’s Missionary Union
First Baptist Church
Chipola Association
of & Coset
Alanna
G. Mosborough
Sanrim
Two U S Officers Reported Captured by Chinese Communists
War Department announced that Brig. Robert B. Riga and Capt. W. Collins were captured near Changchun in Manchuria while neutrals serving as observers. Riga, 34, from Chicago, attached to China since 1945, and Collins, 26, of Evanston, previously in Europe, had wives joining them in China last year. No further details were given pending a full report.
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Washington
Manchuria
Mraj
Robert B. Riga
Chicago
Sistant
China
Snce
W. Collins
Evanston
Nanking Eiat
Spember
War Department
Chiluntich
Changchun
Nanking
Mrs. Mattie Norris Dies At Abbeville
Abbeville Special funeral services were held for Mrs. Mattie Hall Norris seventy one who died at the home of her daughter Mrs. R E Hodge in Abbeville. Rev Mark A Lewer and Rev Bush officiated burial followed in Bethel Church cemetery Kennedy Funeral Home in charge Surviving are two daughters Mrs Hodge and Mrs Robert Berry Troy a sister Mrs M C Gillis Selma and a brother L A Riggs a cavalry reserve officer who attended the command and general staff school at Leavenworth Kan.
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Abbeville
Mattie Hall Norris
R. E. Hodge
Bethel Church
Mark A. Lewer
Mr. Bush
Troy
Kennedy Funeral Home
Hodge
Robert Berry
M. C. Gillis
Selma
L. A
Riggs
Command and General Staff School
Leavenworth
Kan
Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Hall Union Springs Notice of Survivors
Hall of Union Springs is survived by three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews as listed in the family notice.
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Hall
Union Springs
Amateur Radio Club Adds Two Licenses and Hopes for Station
M. L. King of Dothan and Raymond Brannon of Ozark have received amateur short wave licenses and joined the Ben Lane Amateur Club. President Oren Anderson notes the 18 member group, with 12 holding licenses, meets Thursdays at 7 30 p.m. at the Dothan Recreation Center as officers seek a new meeting place and a club station.
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M. L. King
Dothan
Raymond Brannon
Ozark
Ben Lane
Oren Anderson
American Radio Relay Scene
Dothan Recreation Center
Stokes Wins Raymond Clapper Award At WHCA Dinner
Thomas L. Stokes, veteran Washington correspondent for United Features Syndicate, won the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for 1946. President Truman presented the $300 prize at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, also marking Felix Belair Jr. as its new president.
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Washington
Thomas L. Stokes
United Features Syndicate
Tard
Raymond Clapper
Stokes
Truman
White House
United Feature
Bes
Barry Faris
International News Service
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
Philip L. Graham
Carleron K. Matson
Cleveland Press
Rep. A
Mike Monroney
D-Okla
Atlanta
Capital
United Press
New York World Telegram
Scripps - Howard
Alliance
Clapper
WPA
Kentucky
Marines Extend Recruit Training to Ten Weeks
U S Marine Corps announces expansion of recruit training from eight to ten weeks. Training will start immediately at depots in Parris Island South Carolina and San Diego California to add subjects and shorten the workday from ten to eight hours.
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Marine Corps
Maine
Parris Island
S.C
San Diego
Calif
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Gallion
Ala
West Point
Europe
Pennsylvania Railroad
Gallitzin
Mattie Norris
Jim Brennan
City Commission
Officers’ Club
Napier Field
Dothas
Friends of
Thomas Stokes
True Saturday Review of
Magasine
Icagues
Raymond Clapp
Raymond P Brandt
The
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Bert Andrews
New York: Herald Tribune
U.S. Marine Corps Headquarters
Babee-Tenda
Bass Ferces
Parents’ Magazine
Consumer Service Bureau
Idtoore
Baby Safety League
Panama City
Fla
American Medical Association
Fred T. Adams
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