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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1947
Page
3
The fourth annual peanut festival in Dothan runs Friday to Saturday with a gala parade featuring more than 14 bands and 50 floats. Officials project over 100 million dollars in peanut crop value for Alabama Florida and Georgia, highlighting the peanut as the region’s key cash crop and booster for local families.
Representative Jamie L. Whitten proposes setting aside a portion of federal revenue, possibly the gasoline tax, to retire the national debt which nears 260 billion dollars. He says Congress could live on the rest and apply any surplus to debt, warning the plan may be rejected for its simplicity.
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James E Burke a 60 year old politician from Morriston Tennessee recounts waking to a looted safe with 409600 in cash and 100000 in war bonds. He vows to begin anew despite the loss insisting he is still young enough to rebuild.
After a month delay licenses finally go on sale at courthouses prompting a mad rush of applicants. Public Safety chief James F. Brawner says 676,064 licenses were sold in 1945-46 and the state aims to sell at least 300,000 for 1947-48, promising longer lines.
Washington reports that Republicans applaud new air corps and war department appointments, including Arthur Barrows of Sears Roebuck as undersecretary and Cornelius Whitney of Pan American Airways as assistant secretary. Critics warn such ties to Wall Street firms may echo prewar Germany financing and policy.
A columnist lauds Taft’s Tacoma remarks as evidence of a vigorous postwar campus and a nonpartisan approach to foreign policy. He notes student Federalists at Princeton and calls Gordon Cray’s Army appointment a sign of enduring American leadership and spirit.
A string of wartime quotes and opinions from leaders like Herbert Lehman Forrestal and Marshall highlight concerns over emergency displaced persons measures, free enterprise limits in Europe, and U S aid posture as Congress weighs swift action and information disclosure.
Sir Stafford Cripps is named economic czar to lead Britain out of the economic wilderness, with new powers to centralize policy and compel unemployed workers into essential jobs. James Harold Wilson, 31, is promoted to head the Board of Trade to aid Cripps in the recovery drive.
E C Etchison, 64, built a three room Kindlelow home in Burlington using thousands of wood blocks from a wartime ordnance plant, sold by a lumber yard at 6 to 8 dollars a ton. Construction began in 1945 and finished after 26 000 blocks, with a cement roof and a porch planned. He and his wife lived with their daughter during the shortage era and spent 2000 to 3000 dollars on the project.
Portland reporter notes butcher hesitancy in quoting meat prices as high costs push scales beyond their range. W H Baughn, local agent for a scale maker, describes a new device capable of prices up to 1.70 per pound. He says many existing scales start at one and a half cents per pound and stop at a low limit. The item also mentions soil conservation programs in Nebraska with thousands of farms receiving aid.
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