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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1948
Page
3
A chaotic OCR style summary outlines rats as a vast global problem blamed for diseases, with figures from a Texas rat tail contest and dire warnings about urban and farm infestations. It notes rats’ breeding capacity, wide diet, and resistance to poison, while stressing the challenge of eradicating them.
In Buffalo Edward Bender, 61, was found on a sidewalk and taken to the station after a patrol wagon crash during transport. The city paid 3090 for the incident. Bender later received 3000 from a Supreme Court jury after a public intoxication conviction.
Six Wilmington College students both men and women will help construct a new dormitory as a self building project. The effort grows from high material costs and tight funds and spans about five months with regular craftsmen handling skilled work.
Experiments at Cornell University show that people who drink coffee to stay awake should consume a cupful roughly each hour to maintain alertness.
London report notes Western Union powers study west European air defenses as Britain lacks enough transport planes. Britain has under 300 transport aircraft, could not exceed 500, while the United States maintains about 1,000 and may grow to 5,000 in war. Government spending and personnel in air services are being cut, with jet reequipment for bombers delayed and Lincolns due this year. Civil aviation profits are unlikely for state airlines, with a projected $40 million deficit for the year.
CAPLEVILLE Tenn UP twelve year old William Ellis credits a cow with his piano talent. His father urged milk daily to keep his fingers nimble for playing. Bill says the cow has kept his fingers in shape and aided his music study despite early doubts.
Robert Uncle Bob Wilson, a 112-year-old Black man who once shined boats for a Confederate officer, died at Elgin State Hospital. Born January 13, 1836, in Richmond, Virginia, he later became a Baptist evangelist in the South before moving to Chicago. Hospital staff honored him with an obituary party. Gov. Dwight H. Green visited and gave him a 50 cent piece, and attendants say his long life was aided by abstaining from drink, chewing tobacco, and late nights.
In Memphis small fry Ann aged three and Jimbo aged four joined grandfather Frank Graham digging worms for bait. He equipped them with tiny fishing poles and they caught one small bream, highlighting their early angling skills.
A loon shifts its stance in the water, sometimes floating high and skimming the surface, other times dipping so low that only its head and neck emerge, prompting curiosity about its balance and breathing rhythm.
Kansas City Missouri sheriff J A Purdome organizes a volunteer air squadron to combat crime in Jackson County. The 200 members include pilots and medical staff with about 20 planes, donated equipment, and readiness to respond within 50 miles. They aided an infantile paralysis case in an iron lung flight and later helped retrieve bloodhounds for a murder manhunt. Time is crucial in life or death and crime resolution.
The ancient craft is resurging in central Illinois with seven residents running home studios. A paralytic crafts from a wheelchair, a former bus driver works light duty, and a city park employee weaves in winter. Decatur resident Eleanor Craw, a busy rug maker, also produces table settings, draperies and upholstery fabrics to support her two children.
The Pan American cargo clippers are expanding with six Missouri mules flown from Miami to Havana. Cattle, horses, pigs, and millions of baby chicks have traveled on PAA planes, forming a growing roll call of barnyard livestock aboard these flying barns.
The town named for Benjamin Franklin observes its 170th anniversary as 82 of 116 books donated by a Philadelphia friend await at the town library. Franklin, touring France in 1778, advised selecting volumes valued at about 25 pounds that promote sound religion and just government.
In Spokane Wash a belated alert traced to a fire department radio operator Jay Wallace who was tuning his radio during a broadcast about Mount Vesuvius eruption. He relayed the catastrophe to all fire stations and the safety commissioner as the program described on the spot radiomen would report the disaster.
New York report notes the opaque projector, once used to educate troops during war, will be shipped to deteriorated countries by UNESCO to support peacetime education. It enables projection of solid objects for visual learning across subjects from anatomy to dental hygiene, with thousands planned for use in U.N. affiliated schools.
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