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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1944
Page
6
Dorothy Dix counsels a young woman torn between career and marriage. She argues marriage can be an asset to a husband, warns that many women sacrifice their ambitions, and notes war and family duties can force abrupt career choices. The column also touches a teen’s secret wartime marriage and its implications.
A teen faces pregnancy and secrecy with a high school romance and a military student seeks guidance. An adult columnist urges confessing to parents to gain support and responsibility. A reader asks about suitable marriage age and the adviser warns teens marry early risk divorce, recommending waiting until adulthood.
The article lists daily film lineups offering Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Gover Girl, Tex Ritter in Marshall of Gun Smoke and Black Parachute, Humphrey Bogart in Passage to Marseilles, Lupine and Henrich in In Our Time, Bogart again in Passage to Marseilles, Richard Arlen in Aventura Gunner, Bulldozer in Calling Wild Bull Ellie and The Grim Doctor's Strangest Case, The Lodger with Laird Cregar and Merle Oberon, Adolph Menjou and Dennis O Keefe in He Diddle Diddle, Oklahoma Kid final show, Blocked Trail with Three Menquiners and Lupe Velez, Grace McDonald and Leon Errol in Hot Cheese Honey, Red Skelton with Ann Rutherford in Whistling in Brooklyn, Paulette Goddard and Fred MacMurray in Standing Room Only.
Doris Ruth McEachin daughter of Mr and Mrs Thad McEachin Opelika formerly Houston County graduated yesterday from the Naval Training School for WAVE Storekeepers at Indiana University Bloomington Selected for this specialty on boot training aptitude test scores and civil experience completed a course including property and financial accounting typing English and correspondence She is a Cottonwood High School 1941 graduate and will report to Camp Wallace Hitchock Texas after a visit to Opelika Mrs G P Myers is recovering after a ten day illness Archie Carmichael Jr son of Mr and Mrs A J Carmichael convalescing after two week illness from typhoid fever Winter pneumonia risk noted for horses not dogs.
Washington report urges Children's Bureau action to protect young farm workers aged 16, detailing medical checks, safe hours, transportation, and no-cost insurance. Mentions need for proper conditions, phased work weeks, and timely repairs amid wartime shortages and weather concerns.
AP dispatch from London recounts a wartime joke about stamps and Berlin. A Berliner notes the new Nazi postal stamp is ineffective when wet, comparing it to a standard stamp after spitting on glue. The tale ends with a courtroom aside referencing a judge in Shreveport.
George Harty faced a distracted moment when his speech at a March banquet was cut short as his five year old son cried out Daddy when asked to go home. The incident added a candid domestic note to the event.
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