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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1947
Page
6
A large, eager crowd packed rooftops and gutters for the National Peanut Festival parade. Spectators lined streets from early morning, with families, children, and vendors filling the scene as floats neared the courthouse area and minor mishaps occurred without injuries.
In Atlanta traffic court Eugene Garner claimed a dip in the pavement caused his car to launch him and his friend Richard Trollinger, who rode the accelerator into a telephone pole. Garner still received a $12 speeding fine and $7 for reckless driving.
A Colonial Office commission to list and examine war damage claims in the Solomon Islands and nearby islands in the South Pacific has been established. Ramsay Main was named claims commissioner. Copra plantations, many British owned or mixed British and other ownership, suffered damage during the Solomons fighting.
Gerald D. Michelman adapts a truck into a mobile clothing store to beat high rentals. The slogan proclaims Store at Your Dover Why Pay More as he travels to customers in the Springfield area.
Squirrels damage telephone infrastructure by chewing lead from cables, causing about 500000 dollars in yearly losses. The issue prompts concerns from telecom firms and local authorities seeking preventive measures.
Miss Margaret Sheldrick chased a hawk with a broom after it swooped on a chicken in Wilton New Hampshire. The scene underscores hawk threats to poultry. Nearby Lavana Cuba lies about 90 miles from Key West Florida.
A rooster perched on the bumper rode home in style after a four mile trip from South Windham with Clarence E. White. The unlikely stowaway settled on the back seat as White returned to Gorham. The note adds that Gibraltar was captured by Britain from Spain in 1704.
Floorshine Products Co. Inc opens offices at 210 South Bell Street in Dothan. Founders John Sanders, Louie Meyrovitz, and E Berman lead as president, vice president, and secretary treasurer sales manager. The wholesale firm supplies soaps, including liquid and surgical types, waxes, disinfectants, mops, and brooms.
Walter A. Whitehead, seventy two, died at his Ashford home yesterday morning after a long illness. He was a Houston County native and longtime farmer who retired six years ago. Funeral services will be at Johnson Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Ashford. Surviving are one sister Mrs J P Dupree of Ashford, a brother O Z Whitehead of Dothan, and several nieces and nephews.
A nine year old boy wading in Lake Michigan felt pain in his foot and pulled from the water a set of false teeth. The incident occurred in Milwaukee indicating a startling discovery from a routine water outing.
Delegates at the Alabama NAACP conference voted unanimously to pursue court action against the Boswell Amendment and racial discrimination in polls schools and public transport. Emory Jackson outlined a plan for fund raising legal counsel county offices and multi court tests to challenge registration laws and admit Black students to Auburn University Polytechnic Institute.
Japan's Transportation ministry unveils plans to revive tourism. Foreign visitors are projected to spend 4,400,000 yen in Japan over five years to 1952, with arrivals rising from 23,000 next year to over 200,000 by 1952. Government and private sectors will share the effort, including new hotels, deluxe trains, and upgraded railways.
A movement launches efforts to end discrimination on railroad and bus lines, seeking policy changes and equal treatment for riders across transit services. The initiative mobilizes community groups and advocates to push officials for concrete remedies and oversight.
Private interests will administer the bus lines and rare Sere courses, with management extending to desert operations. The arrangement implies oversight shifts and potential pricing or scheduling changes under new operators.
A thunderbolt damaged the W. T. Biggs property in Springfield Missouri. It hittiti the garage door ripped through the back glass of a car damaged chrome molding shattered a wing shield and ran along a light wire to the house. It burned the meter box and seared house wiring then knocked the refrigerator door off its hinges.
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