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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1946
Page
1
Approximately 55 persons were arrested Saturday and Sunday by city and county law enforcement for misdemeanors. The county record showed 21 arrests in the blotter recorded 4. Most offenses were public drunkenness vagrancy gambling and highway drunkenness. E. A. Vincent a Negro was arrested by city police Saturday night for fortune telling and released on a $102 cash bond.
Grant recalls wartime shifts in allegiance as he notes three men who turned coat and escaped punishment while the war raged in the Pacific and Europe. He cites presidents and Confederate leaders to argue wisdom and justice prevail in recalling those choices.
The Girl Scout Council will meet at the office at 7 30 on Tuesday. New leaders Mrs C H Poitivent and Mrs Paul Anderson announced a service troop for girls 14 or older with vacancies. Troop to offer Wing Scouting monthly. Girls must apply for activities during Girl Scout Week October 27 to November 2. Questionnaires with four activities distributed. sign up required.
Funeral services for Mrs. G. M. Turner, 53, who died at her Slocomb route home after a weeks illness, were held at 10 a.m. at New Teamon Church with Revs Balcom Cozart and Mcintosh officiating. Burial followed in New Tya mon cemetery under Ward Wilson charge. Surviving are her husband two daughters a son her parents five sisters and two brothers. Active pallbearers were Bryant Snell Henry Bell C. P. Myers Robert Sweatt Edgar Mandar Ervin Bass.
A report alleges healing cults draw 125 million dollars each year from the American public, highlighting significant financial impact and calls for scrutiny of fundraising practices and oversight.
Paul Burdeshaw forty formerly of Dothan died Sunday afternoon in Fort Valley Ga. Funeral services will be held in Okeechobee Fla Wednesday. He was the son of J T Burdeshaw of Birmingham and the late Essie Burdeshaw. He lived in Dothan during his early years and is survived by his wife two sons and two daughters all of Okeechobee Fla, plus three brothers and four other sisters living in Florida Virginia and Alabama.
White House discussions last night centered on controlling meat prices and the possibility of decontrolling meat. OPA chief Paul Porter and Reconversion Director John Steelman weighed in on general controls while Rep. Jenkins urged immediate and permanent elimination of all OPA price regulation for livestock and meat industries. Secretary Clinton Anderson faces a formal petition from the beef industry, with a decision expected to be announced by President Truman.
Civic clubs and the Chamber of Commerce back a county wide park in Dothan with city and county officials planning immediate action. Ayres notes funding limits and two potential sites on Porter estate or Edgewood Drive, with Edgewood sale aiding Porter cost. A special pre year meeting is set to discuss a public hospital center and grant filings.
The freight rate order is to be reviewed by the high tribunal after arguments. It was appealed by nine northern States the Governors of six New England States and 183 western railroads.
Paris reports show France approved a new constitution by about 1 million votes amid 31.2 percent abstentions. Metropolitan France tallies were 9,109,217 for and 8,046,651 against with opposition linked to De Gaulle. The charter creates a two chamber Parliament and a president with limited powers, while De Gaulle favored a stronger presidency.
A four day Houston County circuit court session opened with Raymond Helms charged with bastardy. Helms, in the army in 1941, faced trial as the case originated before the war. Elvert C. Culbreth had a charge of aiding an escape pressed, while Amos Williams false pretense and Dan Joanson grand larceny cases were continued.
A joint strategy meeting on a stalemate between unions and shipowners was set to resume tomorrow. The unions demand hiring preference forms a major obstacle to settlement while wage differences with owners remain wide. AFL hotel engineers in Washington consider joining a walkout of 5,000 capital hotel service workers amid guest discomfort. In films, IATSE members vote to respect nine studio picket lines amid rival union pressure, despite official opposition. CSU mass picketing centers on Columbia Studio today.
The speaker criticizes a so called policy aimed at controlling a small country under the guise of concern. It accuses the policy of echoing prewar maneuvers used against Finland, where reactionary elites were manipulated to make Finland an instrument for Hitler.
City Fire Department issued a building permit this weekend to Lee McMichael for a general mercantile store at Garland and South St. Andrews priced at 1500 dollars.
President Truman announced there are no atomic bombs outside the United States. White House aide Eben Ayers said only bombs outside the U S were those used in the Bikini test and against Japan, disputing a Drew Pearson radio report.
Firefighter Grady Wilkes nailed The Eagles football forecast this week by predicting all winners and the exact total of 264 points. Upsets like Duke over Navy and Wisconsin over Ohio State did not derail his run for the five backs prize, with other winners listed from two to fourteen.
Follow-up work in Houston County s typhus control program is more than half completed, Dr. W. T. Burkett said today. Crews started work in Bent Seven around Cameron's Mill. In Dothan follow-up re check work began in Division Three in the southwestern city area.
C C Jordan aged 73 died at his home on Ashford route two after a three week illness. Funeral services were held at Howard Grove church with Rev. Floyd Cherry officiating and burial in the church cemetery. He had lived in Houston County all his life. Surviving are his wife three sons Henry W Jordan Emmett O and Horace W Jordan of Ashford two daughters Mrs J A Pate Eldorado Ga and Mrs Hardy L Carr Atlanta Ga and Mrs Bob Jordan Cottonwood route one a brother W H Jordan Cottonwood route one active pallbearers and honorary pallbearers were named.
Raindrops fall at about two and a half feet per second in drizzle, while larger drops in a shower reach around 10 feet per second, according to the U S Weather Bureau.
Prague police unearthed a prewar training school for would be thieves and burglars. The institution offered a daylight robbery course and taught methods for breaking into homes and shops. Local authorities described the operation as a formal school for crime with a clear curriculum.
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