Dixiecrats Map Platform for Comeback in 1950
States Rights Democrats in Jackson plan a constitutional amendment to impeach any president who threatens states’ powers and to expand state authority over civil rights, elections, wages, hours, and federal taxes. Thurmond and Wright did not attend. Wright was hospitalized after surgery.
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Jackson
Miss
Truman
Hencoe
J. Strom Thurmond
Carolina
Mississippi
Nd Wright
States' Rights amendment set for national referendum
A States' Rights push moved yesterday to a national referendum. The proposed amendment imposes fines up to 10000 dollars or ten years in prison for violations. It also makes violations grounds for impeachment of a president or a governor, with a sub committee continuing work.
States' Rights Democrats push sweeping amendment plan
Former Arkansas party chairman Laney led a States' Rights gathering that won 39 electoral votes from four Southern states in 1948. Sen A Willis Robertson said approving the sweeping constitutional amendment would be very difficult. The plan would give states control over most government functions except national defense and bar UN civil rights programs, risking impeachment grounds for presidents or governors.
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Sented
America
Ben
Laney
Arkansas
Washington
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
Jackson
Miss
Robertson
Truman
United States
United Nations
Rehobeth Groups Plan Chicken Supper for Band
Two Rehobeth groups the school PTA and the community home demonstration club sponsor a chicken supper Friday night to raise money for school band instruments. Plates are fifty cents from six to eight p m at the school. Thelma Deal and J F Hadden handle arrangements. An elementary operetta follows with admission at fifteen and twenty five cents.
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Rehobeth
P.T.A
Community Home Demonstration Club
Thelma Deal
J. F. Hadden
Ency Britannica notes century of cooking method advances
Britannica says the century just past shows greater improvement in cooking methods than all previous years. A separate perhaps unrelated fact notes that turtles have no teeth but possess sharp biting surfaces in their jaws.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Worries of Mice or Minds in a Stage of Life
Hal Boyle surveys a 103 psychologist worry timetable from the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago. The piece humorously traces anxieties from age 18 to 45, noting shifts from idealism and self image to job security, health, politics, and marital strain, amid critique of researchers studying human behavior.
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Kinsey
Henry Wallace
Worries Over White Mice Among Psychologists
The piece questions which group fears the white mice most: the explorers of the mental jungle or the psychologists themselves. It notes their unfulfilled ambitions, ongoing health concerns, and the unsettling disillusionment of their worry table as it contrasts professional bravado with common anxieties.
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New York
Midwestern Psychological Association
Chicago
Probation Parole Association Sets First Annual Meet
The Alabama Probation and Parole Association will hold its first annual meeting on May 18 in Birmingham. E. R. Wilson, a Dothan district probation official, says the event is open to the public and urged interested Dothan residents to contact him. Speakers include Mrs Edward Gresham, W. C. Turnbladh, James V. Bennett, and Fred.
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Alabama Probation and Parole Association
Birmingham
E. R. Wilson
Wilson
Dothan
Wiregrass
Edward Gresham
Bureau of Adoption and Foster Homes
State Welfare Department
W. C. Turnbladh
National Probation and Parole Association
James V. Bennett
U. S. Bureau of Prisons
Fred
Future of Corrections in Alabama Panel Set
Bryant state probation officer announces a panel on the Future of Corrections in Alabama with members of the Alabama Prison Investigating Committee at 11 a.m. The afternoon will host a round table on probation and parole practices with federal juvenile and state authorities. Tumbladh and Bennett will deliver addresses at the evening session.
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Bryant
Alabama
Alabama Prison Investigating Committee
Tumbladh and
Bennett
Mothball Warnings Signal New Nuclear Alarm
Officials warn that mothballing measures may prove crucial in countering dangerous radioactivity and preventing atomic mishaps, as new facts emerge about detection methods and evolving safeguards.
Detection Devices Highlight News of Radioactivity
A brief item notes competing devices including the Geiger counter for detecting radioactivity. It cautions about fashion, advising round eyeglasses not to be worn with a round face, reflecting lighthearted newspaper tone of the era.
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