Plan Drawn By Farm Leaders On Parity Price Debate
Washington AP Farm leaders began drafting farm program changes to support parity prices. The plan aligns with 90 percent parity for major crops and may include experimental payments. Rep Pace stresses agriculture stability and fair parity to sustain wages and prosperity. Details preview a clash between Aiken law and administration production pay proposals.
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Fy Francism. Lemay
Washington
House
Agriculture Subcommittee
Rep
Pace
D-Ga
Truman
U.S. Treasury
Howe
Graduation pictures printed in today's Eagle
The Eagle prints more senior class portraits from several high schools including Coffee County High at T end and Abbeville High. Additional class pictures and honor student photos appear in the Sunday edition and the following week with space allotted for each.
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Eagle
Coffe County High School
Abbeville
Ap- Nat
Ory
U N Declaration of Human Rights on Senate Covenant
A page five note highlights the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a proposed covenant in treaty form. The piece urges readers to read and learn how the document could become the supreme law if adopted by the Senate and implemented by the country.
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Senate
United Nations
Six Convicts Escape Georgia Prison Farm
Six long term convicts escaped from a Milledgeville Georgia prison work gang after overpowering guards and seizing weapons. One fugitive was footed and possibly wounded while a second group fled in a minister’s car toward Gordon about 20 miles away. Five rode off in the car and one ran afoot. a search was underway for the getaway driver and the wounded man. The state hospital unit stated the suspect list included Henry C Keller Lamar McCormack Albert Faunce Rhodine Rainey and Dan Ben Thomas with various sentences for robbery theft and counterfeit offenses.
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Milledgeville
Gordon
State Hospital For the
Clyde
Berry
State Hospital
J. J. McClung
Reidsville
Henry C. Keller
Lamar, McCormack
Bibb
Albert Faunce
Chatham
Rhodine Rainey
Dan Ben Thomas
Two New Classrooms To Be Added At Young Junior High
City Superintendent Bruce Flurry announced bids are requested for construction of two additional classrooms at Young Junior High to relieve overcrowding. About 142 more students will enroll next year, with two new teachers added to handle the increased enrollment. Construction planned for this summer on the south end of the west wing at an estimated cost of 20,000 dollars. bids due June 3 at 2 30 p.m.
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Bruce Fiurm
Young Unior High
Flurry
Young
Junto
Dothan
Spa
Southside
Heard
Besidas
Truman nominates Conger to Georgia federal judgeship
President Truman nominated Abraham Benjamin Conger for a Georgia federal judgeship, a move seen as thawing Dixie opposition. Senator George of Georgia backed Conger, signaling a split in civil rights policy and politics within the Democratic Party. McGrath framed the nomination as party unity while acknowledging George's independent stance on spending and the Taft Hartley issue.
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Jack Bell Washington
Truman
Abraham Benjamin Conger
Georgia
Conger
George
D-Ga
Senate
Anc
J. Howard McGrath
McGrath
White House
House
Dixie
Mr. Truman
Folsom Commutes Death for Young Montgomery Man
Gov James E Folsom commuted 22 year old Samuel Taylor to life imprisonment hours before execution after Taylor faced the electric chair 16 times. Taylor had been convicted in Mobile in 1946 of assaulting an 11 year old girl and repeatedly narrowly escaped the chair through reprieve or court action.
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Montgomery
Samuel Taylor
James E. Folsom
Taylor
Mobile
Folsom
Mney
Nesbitt
Elmore
Hospital Tax Election Delay Urged by County Official
County Commissioner W Perry Calhoun asked the Attorney General whether a special four mill hospital tax referendum can be delayed and held with another election next year to save an estimated 1500 in ballots. He seeks to postpone due to costs and possible state aid, with Hill Burton Act financing a third from federal funds and a third from state and county.
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W. Perry Calhoun
Calhoun
A. A. Carmichael
J. Albert Logue
Wilton Sturges
Board of Revenue
State Supreme Court
Work Certificates Required for Minors Under 17
Bruce Flurry, city superintendent of education, announced that youths under 17 must obtain work certificates before summer employment. Certificates are issued at the high school office. Alabama Child Labor Law bars employment of minors without certificates and sets age-based restrictions on permitted work and hours.
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Bruce Flurry
Alabama
Flurry
Four Birmingham Police Fired Over Jewelry Theft Case
Police Chief Floyd Eddins announced the dismissal of four Birmingham officers in a theft from a jewelry store probe. Officers C L White J Z Mad ex WW Gammel and Tb tT Giesel were named in the decision and disciplinary actions followed.
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Birmingham
Floyd Eddins
C.L. White
J. Z. Mad
Gammel
First Red Shells Fall In Shanghai
Shanghai reports tell of four Red shells landing in the city near Rue Lafayette amid near front lines by the Whangpoo. Nationalist defenses claim repelling new Red pushes while observers report limited damage and ongoing airfield activity at Lunghwa as evacuation rumors circulate.
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Fred Hampson
Shanghai
Sarrison
Pootung
Whangpoo
Rue Lafayette
Kaochzo
Yangtze
Woosung Fortress
Lunghwa
Lunghwa Field
Liuhang
Central News Agency
City UKs Warrants To Clear Bank Debts
City Commission approves issuing and selling 110000 in warrants to consolidate two short term loans from Dothan banks. Funds will clear debt tied to Carver High School for Negroes construction. Plans include borrowing 100000 for a recreational program and park site surveys progress.
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City Commission
Dethan
Commission
Jim Brennan
Dothan Bank and Trust Company
First National Bank
Carver
Garmarked
Inter-Club Council
West Position At Paris Best Since Yalta Talks
Berlin reports rate West Britain and France as holding the strongest positions since Yalta ahead of the Paris Foreign Ministers Conference. The West can press and the Soviet Union is economically weakened. Western Germany shows booming industry, higher living standards, reforming currency, and a resurgent political role.
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Wes Gallagher
Berlin
America
Britain
France
Paris
Yalta
Russia
Soviet Union
Moscow
London
Germany
West Germany
Russia told to stop aiding guerrillas to seek Greek peace
The United States urged Russia to halt aid to Greek guerrillas if peace in Greece is desired. Washington said no relaxation of aid to non communist Greece will occur until Soviet support ends. State Department rejected Soviet moves to place Greece UN problem under great power settlement.
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Russia
Washington
United States
Greece
Guerrilas
State Department
United Nations
Soviet Union
Tass
Britain
U. S
Talmadge Shaken Up In Auto Accident
Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge was knocked unconscious when his car ran off a bridge on the governor’s Forsyth farm. He recovered enough to rest at the executive mansion, with physician Dr Kells Boland ordering him to take things easy for the week.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Herman Talmadge
Benton Odom
Talmadge
Governors Farm
Forsyth
Odom
Kells Boland
D. Boland
Fireworks ban bill roils Alabama Senate session
In Montgomery AP a bill to outlaw fireworks in Alabama triggered a long Senate debate and delay with no vote. Senators questioned timing linked to a temporary clerk hire fund, while other measures, including a $20,000 out-of-state college training appropriation for Negroes, moved toward advancement.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Senate
Folsom
Ben Glover
Washington County
James B. Allen
Etowah
Tom Blake Howle
Calhoun
Sen
Allen
Gov
Inter
House
Vernon Summerlin
Crenshaw County
Mac Golson
Lowndes
Sens
Bruce Henderson
Wil
Mother Kills Baby Then Shoots Herself
In Mount Juliet Tennessee a young housewife shot and killed her two and a half year old son soon after dinner then wounded herself. Sheriff Atkinson said the mother Mrs Alvin Hutchens 29 was in critical condition at a Lebanon hospital. Neighbors found the child Charles on the living room floor after hearing shots. the mother was in the yard. No motive was known and the husband was away. The mother told hospital staff I shot myself and my baby.
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Mount Juliet
Tenn
Ewing Atkinson
Alvin Hutchens
Lebanon Hospital
Atkinson
Hutchens
Charles
Reds and Economies Congress Topics
Congress focused on communism and the economy as three committees studied anti subversive legislation. The Senate pressed a $75 million river and harbor and flood control appropriation while a House subcommittee explored subversion actions. AEC withheld clearance for a Boston research scholar amid security concerns.
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Congress
Senate
Senate Appropriations
Boston
Atomic Energy Commission
Communist Party
Arnold Johnson
House
Douglas
Ilinois
Ferguson
Mich
Bridges
Greek Archbishop Dies Suddenly at 58 in Athens
Archbishop Damaskinos, 58, former regent of Greece, died today in Athens after heart trouble. He led Greece as regent from 1944 until a plebiscite restored the monarchy, then relinquished the post as the king returned to power.
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Athens
Damaskinos
Greece
Damzski- Bos F
Contracts Awarded Dothan Firm For Marianna School And Gym
Chapman Construction of Dothan wins contracts to build a new elementary school and a gym in Marianna. The elementary set at 97 764 dollars with eight classrooms and an administrative block. The gym costs 125 193 dollars, attached to the high school by a covered corridor, and includes facilities for football, basketball, showers, dressing rooms, and restrooms. Total project cost about 218 193 dollars, with work expected to begin in about two weeks and completion around January.
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Mahianna
Marianna
Chapman Construction Company
Dothan
John D. Mill Ss
Jackson Couny Schools
Boos
Milten Sac
Piang
Ucket
Ction
M‘iton
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