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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1950
Page
3
James Marlow surveys postwar coal pay losses and productivity shifts as miners endured 100 days away from work and reduced schedules. He notes demand drops, higher output per day, and a 1.40 daily revenue boost from a wage and welfare fund, urging readers to weigh long-term costs to owners and workers.
Washington reports the Senate debated President Truman's pick of Martin A. Hutchinson of Richmond Va to the Federal Trade Commission amid Byrd faction opposition. Hutchinson, a longtime Byrd foe, faced questions about qualification and potential political impact in Virginia. Committee reviews invite Byrd and Sen. A Willis Robertson for input.
In Memphis reporting, evangelist Earl Fly and a friend discovered a cafe meal in Arlington, Kentucky that fed two for one dollar. The order included sausage, eggs, biscuits, butter, and three jars of jams, with a second plate of biscuits as the first was eaten. They also bought doughnuts to accompany the meal, and reheated them with cinnamon and sugar under a broiler for a snack.
Fourteen student nurses at Frasier-Elig Hospital lines corridors to receive caps after a capping ceremony marking their probation ending and entry toward Florence Nightingale ideals. The event in the new clinic waiting room featured a Nightingale pledge, speeches, and a reception.
In Eastman Georgia a third Dodge County farmer M Smith of Chauncey was jailed on bond for his role in a masked group visit to Johnny Grahams home on February 3. Graham said 12 men dragged his farmhand and accused him of selling whiskey. Sheriff Ollie B Peacock said two other Dodge County farmers Theo Lewis and Alfred Cramley were arrested and freed on bond after charges of assault and battery and shooting at another were filed. The incident followed the previous week’s arrest connected to the alleged forging of Negro tenant Jessie Lee Goodman.
Students from 19 high schools in the Sixth District will take part in the annual music festival at Mercer University on Friday. The Georgia Music Editors Association sponsors the event, running from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. local time.
Saul Herbert Sternberg, 16, of the Bronx, won the 32,800 Westinghouse grand science scholarship in the ninth annual Talent Search. He led 39 finalists from 15 states, measuring helium atom tracks on a photographic plate to take top honors at the Science Talent Institute banquet. Second prize went to Donald Bruce McCormick of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for his study of abnormal outgrowths on goldenrod. Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer addressed the event, warning that hydrogen bomb abolition is not the only ultimate political aim.
ADYHNSTOWN PA UP A gold pocket watch engraved with family names was found during land clearing at Grandview cemetery near Johnstown. George Warner of Johnstown received the watch in 1892 as a birthday gift from his father and believed it would turn up someday. Workmen recovered it and planned to return it to the rightful owner Charance and Frank note the watch’s whistling sound nickname.
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