State Building Commission Faces Fund Shortfall
The administration appears to inherit a State Building Commission almost without funds with at least half of its members unavailable. AP reports the commission has 11 members and is down about 386 040 in funds after using 23 293 960. Next legislative session will see six members stepping aside including Gov Chauncey Sparks and others while others like Dr B F Austin Dr A H Meadows and several representatives are expected to attend.
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Associated Press S
Commission
B. F. Austin
A. H. Meadows
KB. L Roberts
Gadsden
Oe E. Stone, Jr
Mobile
E. Duffee
Dadeville
Reforms Loom as New Legislature Debates Public Building Funding
Officials report Tucker will leave office with Sparks administration ending. Incoming lawmakers face whether to inject funds into public buildings amid rising costs. Commission allotments include Bryce Hospital 1.33 million, Searcy Hospital 705 thousand, Partlow School 247 thousand, state institutes and schools totaling numerous six-figure sums and several contracts pending signing. Florence State Teachers College and A M Institute for Negroes show contracts not yet signed for amounts around five hundred thousand.
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Tucker
Sparks
Commission
Supreme Court asked to rule on Alabama jurisdiction issue
In Montgomery the high court is asked to decide if the Alabama Court of Appeals can rehear a case after the State Supreme Court has already ruled. Amos Cotney received a 20 year term for a 1943 Clay County murder. The Alabama Supreme Court alternately affirmed and reversed, ending with a writ prohibiting further action.
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Montgomery
U. S. Supreme Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
State Supreme Court
Alabama
Amos Cotney
Buster Adams
Clay County
Cotney
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeal
Conney
U. S
Food Poisoning Feared In Brazil
Rio de Janeiro AP report cites Jornal do Brasil warning black market food operations are large and growing. Consumers pay high prices and receive little, with adulterated foods posing poisoning risks to the public.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Jornal Do Brasil
Mortality Rate High In Warsaw
Warsaw reports alarmingly high infant death rates with 60.9 percent of children under five dying in the last six months of 1915. The data compare 18 percent overall to 3 percent in Sweden and 4 percent in London, highlighting regional health disparities amid wartime strain.
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Warsaw
Sweden
London
Alabama and Florida Senators Back Immediate Reorganization Bill
Newly elected Senators Sparkman of Alabama and Holland of Florida say they favor enacting the reorganization bill without delay. The measure would cut House committees from 48 to 19 and Senate from 83 to 15, abolish private bills, and leave damages fixing to department heads and the courts.
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A. F. Mahan, Jr
Washington
Alabama
Florida
Rep
Sparkman
D-Ala
John H. Bankhead
Holland
D-Fla
Charles O. Andrews
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
Army Engineers Remap Korea to Replace Japanese Names
Army engineers in Korea start remapping the occupied southern half to fix errors and replace Japanese place names with standard Korean terminology on existing maps.
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Sequl
Korea
S. Army Engineers
Druggists Host Crab Feast To Court Doctors
In Norfolk Virginia pharmacists hosted a crab feast to promote a closer working relationship with physicians. The event aimed to strengthen ties between the two professions and encourage collaborative prescription writing.
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Norfolk
Driver Goes Wild After Getting Gate
Cincinnati report says William Taylor drove onto the sidewalk and into a boulevard light pole after leaving his girlfriend's house. He admitted he was distracted by relationship trouble and not focused on driving.
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Cincinnati
William Tayor
Taylor
Dothan Eagle reports on driving charges and city enforcement
An October 3 1946 item notes a man charged with reckless driving after criticism of parking enforcement. It mentions cars parked in restricted areas including one owned by John J Crowley and references a police action in Woonsocket Rhode Island. Also a Western Australia hotel scene with a fence of beer bottles dubbed dead marines.
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John J. Crowley
Petard Woonsocket, R. I
John J. Growley
Junction Hotel
Western Australia
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Stanton
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Phillips
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