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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1948
Page
13
Tokyo AP reports Nippon Keizai claims about 300000 "ghosts" on rolls eating over 10000000 bushels of food annually. The paper suspects dummy names are used to obtain extra rations.
MEMPHIS Tenn AP A husband and wife serve as pastors at First Congregational Christian Church. When the pastor travels, the wife Reverend Mrs Wingfield leads the pulpit and weddings. She directs children and youth and aids the choir when he is in town. Both are prolific writers and active in civic life. Mrs Wingfield holds a religion and education degree with music and home economics majors. The pair are book reviewers and lecturers. The wife keeps wedding fees when she officiates. Beersheba today is an Arab town 45 miles south of Jerusalem.
Monday's program at the Ritz Taratrewi features Ray Milachi and Teresa Wright with Brian Denlevy in The Trouble With Women, paired with the western Arizona Trail shown Sunday. Miland plays a psychologist who argues some women prefer male violence and gets involved with a newspaper, while Wright as a reporter helps force him to drop a suit and flirts with the professor, delivering comedic lessons in love.
Boston manufacturer leads nationwide drive to counter a supposed prohibition threat. He warns against bubble blowing gum etiquette by kids and urges clubs, rings, badges, and vows to keep gum from wrong places. He claims no danger from chewing but opposes loud bursts and gum discarded indoors.
Antelope Valley Union High School district, the nation’s largest, serves students from a 3,476 square mile area spanning parts of Kern County and 45 percent of Los Angeles County. About 79 percent of its 1,052 students ride 16 buses, covering 1,200 miles daily with average trips of 76 miles.
In Fort Wayne Indiana the Rev Erwin Kurth pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church wondered how many listeners truly paid attention during a Sunday sermon. He commented The church is too hot and later urged ventilation as many in the congregation remained unmoved and apparently asleep.
Charles B. Pettes of Oxford displays a Swiss music box whose spring runs so powerfully that the mechanism can play for one hour on a single winding. The astonishing device highlights a rare example of precision craftsmanship and mechanical ingenuity from a private collection.
Ven Johnson and June Allyson star in High Barberee a drama of everlasting love shown Tuesday alongside Battle of Greed with Tom Keene at the Ritz Theatre The plot shifts from a South Pacific plane crash to a small midwestern town following Alex Brooke and Nancy Fraser childhood to adult life with Alex now an airplane company executive who forgoes medicine under his boss daughter Diana’s influence
Carmi Illinois report says Bill Stanford paid ten dollars after an icy plunge in the Little Wabash River. He stripped to swim on a February morning and faced the penalty for his chilly dare.
A man swam across an ice clogged river and, despite his hard effort, received no praise. He was greeted by a policeman on the far bank who took him to the station to tend frostbitten feet and pay ten dollars plus costs on a charge of drunkenness.
In Zurich AP reports Soviet sports leaders at St Moritz said they would have joined the games if invited. IOC chancellor Otto Mayer said the Soviet Union has not formed a national Olympic committee yet, so no invitation was possible. If a Soviet committee is formed by May, the USSR will likely be asked to participate in London summer games.
The statement notes that finding general evidence of life beyond Earth would need telescopes far larger than those currently available. It implies limitations in observational capability and the scale of instruments required to identify broad signs of life on other planets. The focus remains on instrumental constraints rather than specific discoveries.
Yvonne DeCarlo stars in a ballroom themed program at the Ritz Theatre with Donlevy and Jean Pierre. The feature blends musical dances includingArabesque Caprice nol Scheherazade and a Bumblebee style number alongside Coq D Or style routines all set to Korsakoff rhythms.
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