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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1946
Page
12
Veterans Administration conducts a survey of veterans enrolled in on the job training. Questions explain how the survey affects trainees. Deadline for approval or disapproval is January 1, 1947. State agencies determine whether training institutions meet legal standards.
Readers probe inherited epilepsy and related training and veteran benefits. Questions cover approval of training establishments under Public Law 689, veteran subsistence, on the job training, reporting requirements, and income rules for subsistence calculations.
John J. Martin, newcomer to Dothan and part owner of the Dothan Steam Laundry, recounts his three and a half years as a prisoner of war after surviving the Bataan Death March. He endured near starvation, untreated diseases, and lost toes from beriberi.
A Dothan newcomer recalls harrowing World War II experiences in the Philippines. He describes half rations on Bataan, the Death March route to Camp O’Donnell, brutal captivity, and high mortality from beriberi and disease. He was later liberated in September 1945 and led a life as a teacher and lawyer in Alabama. He served as a captain then lieutenant colonel in the 41st Infantry Division and married Bestrise Jones of Birmingham.
In Mobile Alabama AFL longshoremen filed a claim for unemployment compensation for about 200 workers idle because of a maritime strike. George Dixon, business agent for the Mobile local of the International Longshoremen's Association, said picket lines by striking seamen and other unions blocked work. The strike also halted 40 vessels in port and affected engineers and masters and pilots.
El Paso incumbent mail carrier James D. Ihing, famed as the goldfish doctor, tends 10 000 goldfish and 10 000 snails in his backyard. He grows water plants, maintains green water tanks, and uses green flies, ground shrimp, oatmeal, and bread crumbs to feed fish and worms. Snails help by scavenging while gambusia minnows control lice.
Funeral services for Mrs Warren Payne eighty one died at her home on Skipperville after a long illness were held at the Skipperville Church with Rev A S Taumpkin officiating. Burial was at Bersheba cemetery Holman Funeral home in charge. Survivors include two daughters Mrs Worthy Phillips Skipperville and Mrs O H Wenzel Ocala Fla two sons J A Payne and Coy Payne both of Skipperville a sister Mrs A C Stephens Skipperville nine grandchildren five great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
The Sacred Harp Singing Society holds its monthly session Sunday at the Houston County courthouse in Dotiag. Singing starts at 1 p m with officers F M Roney president and W C Lisenby secretary inviting the public to attend.
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