Bronze Star for Lt Walter H Bryan Air Force
Lt Walter H Bryan of Columbia awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service as officer in charge of air tactical control in the Pacific theater period July 16 1940 to July 27 1940. He directed 300 plus air attacks from advanced posts and provided valuable intelligence after flight operations. Bryan is a Columbia High School graduate who joined the Navy before earning Air Force wings and serving in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Butler Manufacturing Buys Birmingham Plant Details
Butler Manufacturing Co of Kansas City announced purchase of the W. L. Coston & Sons plant in Ensley, estimated value over 1 million with expansion to more than double capacity. The deal includes supplying steel from Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Co and market the plan to employ several hundred workers. The purchase supports Birmingham’s industrial growth and includes plans for a northside factory completion in about five months.
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Educators Study Plans To Expand Dixie Development
In Daytona Beach, presidents of 31 universities and about 200 deans and professors from the South convened to expand a revolutionary educational program. Governors McMath and Browning and former Gov Caldwell joined in final sessions to shape plans for regional science, technology, and cultural education, promoting cooperation across states and ending isolation as a barrier. The initiative, already in its first stage, aims to boost Southern educational progress.
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Family ties mark local military service and honors
Two years ago Cuddy, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bryncs, a Coffee County High School graduate, attended Marion Military Institute. Captain Sam B. Harrison, son of Mrs. R. J. Harrison of Dothan, has been assigned to an Air Communications unit at Robins AFB, Macon, Ga. A World War II veteran, Harrison earned battlefield promotion from master sergeant to second lieutenant in 1943 while serving in North Africa. He served in the Mediterranean area for over two years and returned to the United States in 1948, with last duty at Tyndall AFB in 1945.
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Training program boosts graduate medical fields
Caldwell notes nearly 500 students are entering training in medicine dentistry and veterinary medicine with graduate training and research identified as the second major phase of the program across states lacking such advanced study.
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Unemployment Drops in State Despite Modest Gains
In Montgomery Albany unemployment fell by an estimated 19 hundred to 3 500 as new claims for compensation remained low. About 123 non agricultural payroll jobs were added lifting total employment to 38 295 with gains seen in construction, wholesale and retail trade and government work.
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State Industrial Relations Department
Dismissal of 30 Jobs Highlighted by Labor Dept
The labor department announced the dismissal of 30 employees as of September 15 and noted only 9,653 new unemployment claims for August. The prior figure had fallen below 10,000 in November, with $1071.02 in unemployment benefits paid that month. Collie T. Pryor, a Texas cattleman, served in the Civil War at age 29.
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