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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1947
Page
3
Local groups organize demonstrations to improve home lighting methods across counties. Meetings list volunteers and dates from November 4 to November 17 at multiple towns, with names of coordinators and host locations in a period newspaper voice.
Fragmentary OCR text references names and places like Panse Mi OH OM MCal Gordon and Union Hui and Crove roads with no clear event or outcome.
Frasier T. Galloway, a Hartford junior in the API School of Agriculture, won an expense paid trip to Chicago for the International Livestock Exposition and market study program. His 2,500 word essay How Meats Poultry Butter and Cheese Get from the Packer to the Retail Trade won the Auburn essay contest. Galloway, a 1941 Geneva County High School graduate, has served in the U S Marine Corps and is first vice president of Sigma Pi at Auburn. He is the son of C H Galloway of Hartford.
Georgia's textile manufacturing is reported as the state’s No 1 industry by Labor Commissioner Ben T Huet with lumber second. Textile mill employment rose 241 percent since 1930 and wages increased 199.7 percent, signaling a rapid growth in the sector.
Ninety boot blacks employed by the Union News Co. at Grand Central Terminal went on strike and for its duration small boys with homemade shoeshine boxes reaped a harvest outside the railroad station.
Army reserve officers with two years of college or high school graduates with a passing exam may apply for active duty toward Regular Army appointments by November 30. Age limits apply by branch: 27 for most, 32 in medical, 30 in medical service, 34 for chaplains. Deadline also applies to officers already appointed who must take oath or reject commissions by November 30.
Bay Rum Commission in Ga has blamed bay rum for about 40 percent of weekend drunkenness cases and levied a 1500 Loeise fee on its sale. Only barber shops may use bay rum externally, and are exempt from the tax.
In Birmingham two men suspected in a $75,000 jewelry store robbery were released yesterday while two others were taken into custody in Atlanta for questioning. Detective Ly C. Lt. Peres withheld identities. The owner Lou Perry said insurance would cover $30,000 of the loss. Perry and his 12 year old daughter were menaced. the bandits, after tying them, drove away in Perry’s car before returning to the house and leaving with the captives’ belongings. The daughter later freed herself and alerted authorities.
A Headland convict was captured within hours of his escape after fleeing with a wagon driver named Boswell. The vehicle was pursued about ten miles north of Clinton where the escapee was recaptured and tied, facing charges of forgery and assault with intent to murder as Warden Garrison Stallings reported.
Mareo Palo, a soprere wacid trace ller, is noted in a fragmentary report about a person living in an elderly residence. The text mentions erpetgeias er and a link to Chinese with poor 6 ht, indicating unclear historical details and possible misreadings in the OCR.
The General Assembly urged South Africa to place Southwest Africa under United Nations trusteeship with a 41 to 10 vote. Britain opposed, the United States and Russia supported, and Australia voted against after Deputy Prime Minister Evatt called it a censure. The resolution, altered to remove a one year deadline, now awaits full assembly approval amid Soviet opposition and later debate on related measures and international aviation membership.
Alabama’s July 23 1947 law requires the State to pay court appointed attorneys for indigent capital defendants, not the county. Houston County had paid $75 to attorney R Clayton Wiggins for defending Jackson Calloway in a first degree murder case concluded Oct 1 1947, but Attorney General Carmichael ruled the State bears liability. Calloway, an aging Black man, was found insane and committed to Mt Vernon asylum after a Circuit Court jury verdict.
Roswell E B Truett, son of Midland City residents, completed Officer Candidate Course at Fort Benning and was commissioned after serving as staff sergeant. Ervin H Odom, seaman second class, of Midland City, assigned to destroyer USS Furse under Western Pacific forces. Wade Baxley, electrician's mate third class of Dothan, serving aboard USS Massey visiting Sardinia Italy Turkey and Greece after attending Festival de Marino in Taranto.
AP Mobile camellias will take back seat to none as Mobile's Camellia Growers challenge Greenville Alabama The Greenville Advocate editor J G Stanley issued a call for a competitive flower exhibit Stanley said Greenville The Camellia City is ready to match plantings with any Alabama or Florida town Twitty invited Greenville growers to respond and compete in a formal show rivalry between the cities unfolds with awaits for participants and judges.
Twitty voiced confidence in the city’s ability to compete with any U S city in hosting careering events and claimed strong performance, though he granted Greenville a rightful claim to the title Camellia City for its early floriculture efforts.
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