Vocational Rehabilitation Aids Wiregrass In 1946
The Vocational Rehabilitation Service of the Alabama Department of Education helps Houston County disabled workers return to jobs or start new careers. About 400 people in Houston County receive training, with broader state and local agency support. Benefits include physical exams, counseling, training, placement, and medical care at no cost where needed, aiming to make applicants self sustaining regardless of race or sex.
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Houston County
Vocstional Rehabilitation Service
Vocstional Education Division
Alabama Department of Education
W.T. Porter
Phortly
Coffee
Covington
Crenshaw
Dale
Geneva
Henry
Houston
Porter
State Departments of Education
Whet Res
Liv Agepeies
Melhan
Log Cabin Club Destroyed By Fire
Fire destroyed the Log Cabin Club early today. Investigators say the vacant structure burned to its foundation within about 30 minutes after ignition. A temporary precaution was tested against the club operator on March 14.
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Log Cabin Club
Giboo
Taylor
Fare Yast Gayl
Bate
Burdick
Vie
Dames
H.C. Willis
Iejab
Eperson
Youth For Christ Plans To Be Mepped Meeting
Dothan ministers will convene at the Houston Hotel tomorrow to organize operations for the Youth For Christ movement. The interdenominational gathering will include interested laymen and aim to plot broader community involvement.
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Youth For Christ
Poon
Houston Hotel
Cantinurd Frem Page One Missing Text Context
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Cantinurd Frem Page One with unclear terms. The passage mentions Vets, CAV Ue, rape mention, field 22 and other garbled phrases, lacking coherent events or identifiers for a concise news summary.
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Muman
Tibet
Waele
Canlised From Page One Item Details Escape and Indictment
New York counts 9 Hendyia tiwl fieve touted the address frown at per std and anghes, a former Downan res suet, alformued him he had seen Vows on New Yo. Davis, indicted in September, 184 for die util deerre murder, ape pened his secund degree murder ceussetern yet the ecusetion was Jtlained He outlined rehesring Pbuline Supreme Court reassumed as previges deciacon ox dan. He had served only a short tane on the once when he escaped on gas. Local authorities were noti fied at the escape for several weeks. Laser, wihose birthplace is listed on prison records as Cullman County, Ata, would be fifty-one years of age now.
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New York
Hendyia
Anghes
Downan
Wihose
Cullman County
Ata
Gromyko Byrnes discuss wary on U N relations
A State Department spokesman said no discussion of any shift in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union occurred. He noted Gromyko and Byrnes had not met since the January London UNO summit, as UN secretary general Trygve Lie prepared for his New York departure with the UN staff.
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Graemyko
Byrnes
Burritus
Resident requIrEments for Alabama voters
The article states that a person must have been a resident of Alabama for at least two years to register. Newcomers to the state may qualify by residing there for two years and paying two years of poll tax.
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Alabama
Hickman Added To Dothan Club
Dewey P. Hickman of Ashford a former Camp Shelby hurler has been signed by the Dothan Baseball Club. He is the sixteenth player signed and the fourteenth ex serviceman on the roster. The right hander stands six feet and weighs 190 pounds and pitched Camp Shelby to a service championship in 1943 with 14 strikeouts in seven innings. Manager Frank Martin arrives in Dothan tomorrow to open the baseball school at Wiregrass Stadium Monday assisted by Coach Rip Tiewes and veteran players.
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Dewey P. Hickman
Ashford
Camp Shelby
Miss
Dothan
Walter Morcis
Hickman
Shelby
Rehabilitation Conferences Set for 1944 Crippled Children Drive
Geneva County Rehabilitation Supervisor W T Porter schedules a series of conferences with county leaders to organize the 1944 Drive for Crippled Children. County quota is 1500 dollars. 128 children need treatment and 66 have already received it. Mrs Lillie T Fain chairs schools division. Eva Pearl Jordan leads Negro schools drive. drive begins April 1.
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Geneva
W. T. Porter
Geneva County
J. J. Collins
Samson City Hall
R. M. Watcher
Hartford City
Slocomb Methodist Church
Geneva Cobnty
Lillie T. Fain
Eva Pearl Jordan
Culling
Mrs Mary Mathews Rites Held Yesterday
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Mathews seventy six died at home on Springvale Ga were held yesterday at Beulah church with Rev J Norton Dendy officiating Burial followed in Beulah cemetery Johnson & Wilkerson in charge She was a native of Bullock County and moved to Houston County in 1925 Surviving are six sons L G Warren Tumpkin Ga W L Warren Experiment Ga C C Warren Banks Ala C R Warren Banks and F F Warren Vallejo two daughters Mrs J F Perkins Springvale and Mrs W Th Perkins Cuthbert Ga
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Mary Mathews
Springvale
Beulah Church
J. Norton Dendy
Beulah Cemetery
Johnson & Wilkerson
Bullock County
Matiews
Houston County
Muvoly
Georgia
L. G. Warren
Tumpkin
W. L. Warren
Experiment
C. C. Warren
Banks
Ala
C. R. Warren
F. F. Warren
Vallejo
J. FR
Perkins
W. Th. Perkins
Cuthbert
Draft extension eyed to boost Army volunteer strength
Patterson said a longer draft could stimulate recruiting and cover shortfalls, potentially avoiding further inductions. Eisenhower stated the Army would accept conditions in any extension, including not inducting more fathers and releasing those in service, with a proposal that no man serve longer than 18 months.
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Page
Patterson
Eisenhower
Congress
Army
Lincoln pursues family after attempt to help child
An incident described as a gudden urge to help a girl led Lin coln to follow the child on foot toward her parents farm home. The mother said the father was in the fields and Lincoln waited for authorities after the father was notified and the sheriff called.
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Lincoln
Sheriff's Office
Conservation rules for bread and fats during wartime rationing
A wartime guidance document outlines baking and food distribution measures to reduce bread weight and waste. It advises thinner bread slices, smaller loaves, reuse of fats, and substituting alternate foods. targets include saving at least ten percent bread weight and cutting wheat products while promoting potatoes fish eggs and seasonal vegetables. It also urges consumer habits like using less bread per meal and preserving fats for cooking to free up wheat for export over 90 days.
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U.S
U. S
300 County Farmers Get Crop Insurance
Approximately 300 Houston County farmers have crop insurance. J A Culbreth administrative officer of the Production and Marketing Administration said today.
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Houston County
J. A. Culbreth
Production and Buarkering Administration
Prospective farm crops outlook from survey report
The survey indicates vegetable and rice plantings may be ample if favorable weather continues. Livestock production could fall slightly due to labor shortages and slow wartime labor recovery, with farmers relying on hired help expressing concern about availability.
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Amaid
Louise Peacock
S. Ostesatrees
Iis
Vocational Rehabilitation Service
Peaurock
Area Rent Control Office
Berkeley
X Superior Stnetes
Klock Speigner Concrete Bioce CO
Dixie Transfer & Storage CO. 215
Belt SE
Cotton Opera
New Orleans
Mets
David Bradley
Bermuda
Sears, Roebuck & CO
Coty
Your Walgreen Agency
Foster
Woodham’s Grocery
Cees Ac
Palmolive
Capiin
Iona
Meddox Texaco
Wetl
Allstate Auto Accessories
Allstate
Ford
Abo
Chrysler
Cleas
Wong
J.C. Higgins
Sears
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