Subscriptions Rates and Notices May 1 1947
Territorial and mail subscription rates listed for Daily and Sunday editions in Alabama Georgia and Florida with multiple plans including daily only and motor route delivery. Includes prices per month and year and notes on service availability. Also contains Associated Press and United Press credits and a Jefferson quote with a Bible verse about faith as life force.
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Oah
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Esath
Alabama bus schedule disclosure letter sparks public interest
The Alabama Public Service Commission sent a letter to motor carriers urging full and complete information when asked about bus schedules at terminals. The commission says sharing schedules serves the public interest and notes inquiries by phone or in person should be answered.
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Alabama
The
Commission
Plea to fund the needs of Alabama's forgotten wards
Amid budget talk for roads and pay rises the welfare report highlights dire conditions at state facilities. Deaf and blind children at Talladega face aging buildings, while Bryce Hospital runs crowded, understaffed wards. Juvenile facilities and Searcy Hospital for colored patients show chronic neglect. The piece argues funds should prioritize vulnerable wards before broad spending.
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Alabama Deaf and Blind School
Talladega
School For the Deaf
School For the
Alabama Boys' Industrial School
Colonel Readjustment Reduces Colonels in 1948 Plan
The Attorney General orders 640 Colonels demoted effective July 4 to lieutenant colonel or lower, excluding medical and chaplain corps, to cut the active force to 5,628 in fiscal year 1948. Of those stepping down, 509 are from Cedar Argo with the rest from other units. Those refusing demotion face removal from active duty. The reassignment ties into wartime manpower and a push to lower ranks across services.
Dothan Forum reports on state legislature three days’ work
In an April 30 1947 Eagle column the editor notes the Legislature met three days to review interim committee reports. No laws passed. Conservation recommendations include forest fire protection stream pollution and teaching conservation in two grammar grades. The park funding request of 526000 includes cottages and dining halls. some favored slashing the 826000000 figure to zero. Resolutions urged a special session to amend the constitution on income tax funds. opinions varied but consensus supported submitting an amendment before next adjournment.
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the Eagle
Death of Evalyn McLean closes Washington chapter
Washington mourns Evalyn Walsh McLean famed for the Hope diamond and charity toward servicemen. Her life intertwined celebrities, politics, and humility, ending with seclusion after personal losses. Chief Justice Fred Vinson failed to gain entry to her Georgetown home, reflecting her lingering privacy. The labor conference unfolds with union leaders Green and Murray negotiating for broader peace amid AFL CIO tensions.
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Washington
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Hope Diamond Fame
Elliott
Hope
McLean
Cold War Era Labor Tensions and Global Power Talk
A 1947 Bell Syndicate piece surveys postwar U S power, unions and politics. It cites Secretary Forrestal on sea power and unification ideals, Eleanor Roosevelt on information, and Gen Spaatz on air power. It discusses CIO AFL labor maneuvering, purging communists, autonomy, and potential cooperation against the Butler bill, with Murray and Green as key figures.
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CIO
World Federation of Trade Unions
Green
AFL
Murray
AFIT
Apis
Labor
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Nartley
Bell Syndicate
This Afternoon by John Temple Graves
John Temple Graves critiques a liberal statement condemning communism and urging disassociation from the American Communist Party. He argues liberals must acknowledge communism as incompatible with democracy and liberalism, urging a deeper reckoning beyond mere signatures. He questions signatories including Struthers Burt Thurmond Arnold and others.
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American Comunist Party
Struthers Burt
Thurmond Arnold
William L. White
Henry St. George Tucker
Henry Seidel Canby
Howard Odum
Francis J. McConnell
Dean Christian Gauss
William F. Cogburn
Abolishing untouchability in India’s new constitution
The World Today argues that the constituent assembly’s vote to end the doctrine of untouchability would right a grave wrong. It describes 60 million untouchables facing exclusion, landlessness, and dependence, forced to perform degrading tasks and shunned by caste Hindus, including restrictions on wells and water.
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India
Constituent Assembly
Anyother
Untouchables in India and Gandhi’s Harijan vision
SIDE GLANCES describes the untouchables as friendly yet untouchable in 700,000 villages. Dr. Ambedkar, educated in Columbia, advocates regrouping scattered settlements into self-contained villages funded by government aid to end untouchability within twenty years.
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India
Mahatma Gandhi
Radio Programs On The Networks Thursday Schedule Highlights
A dense listing of radio programs across networks for Thursday night and Friday early hours. Entries include the Jack Smith Show, Burns & Allen, Five Minute Newa, Eddie Cantor, Abbott and Costello, World Security Workshop, and various musical and dramatic segments, with a last item noting Lawrence Massachusetts police set 30 mph speed limit for fire apparatus.
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Kradio
Abe
Ebs
World News
Jack Smith
Cba
Raymond Swing
Girand Maraure
Draringa
abe-Dancins Music
cbeDide
Keen
Kaltenborn
Aldrich
Cbe
Tamami Abner
Burns & Allen
Newa Leviod
Cbs
Music Hall
Eddie Foy
Dick Haymes
Jack Maley
Abbott and
Coatella
Che
Eddie Canter
Calleal
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Jotaran Eagle
Fee Earle Publishing Co
William Theodore Hall
Julian 0. Hall
Ace Hall
Rea
Dothan, Alabama
Postoffica
Associated Press
Qaleso
United Press
Ny-Smith Co
National Representatives
Tybar
New York
Michigan Ave
Chicngo Yker House
Boston van
Vecer
Atlanta
atom-Liberty
Philadelphia
Detroit
Montgomery
San Francisco
God
Thoman Jefferson
Alabama Public Service Commis
Sion
All Motor
Central de
Bate
IAPSG
Legislative Interim Committee On Welfare
Tolstoy
Lems
Juvenile Negro Law
Trish
Bryce Hosptial
Bryca Hospital
Bryce Hospital
Bryce
Partlow State School For
Searcy Hospital
Searcy Hospital For Colored Insane
Mt. Vernon
Chile
Attmty
Rmedical Or Chaplain Corps
Brecedar Argo
Gemotian
Arns
Evers
People’s Forum
Dothan
Drew Pearson
Australia
William Green
Phal Murray
AFT
APL
AFT & Cio
John VT. Lewis
Carpenters
Bill Originally
John T. Lewis
Bill Hutcheson
George Meany
Plumbers
GOP
Labor Witz
Rasualt Jaint
Teamsters
Dan Tobin
David Dubinsky
Bill Green
America
Navy
Forrestal
Eleanor Roosevelt
U. S. United
Natons
Carl Spaatz
Army Air Forces
United Nations
Truman
Henry A. Wallace
Frederick Wyatt
Harvard Uo
John Temple Graves
Iits
the World Today
Dewitt MacKenzie
Ambedkar
Guekwar
Baroda
Columbia University
Delhi
WAGF
Falton Jawix Jr
Tabke Ho
Monte Crista
Robbins Record Shop
Vieter Lambardoty
Malone Praxent
Apy
Cloelwatcher
AP News
Southland Efehops
Houston County Schools
MBS
Garrett's Snuff Varieties
Goodyear Band Review
Johnson Family
AP Neves
Tom Mt
Lawrence
Mass
Indianapolis
Weist
Weiss
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