Nurses Join Wartime Health Effort At Los Angeles County Hospital
Nurses weary from wartime toil rally to fight illness at Los Angeles County General Hospital. Red Cross and Infantile Paralysis Foundation funding supports 123 fighters and 300 paralysis cases last week. Canadian and Western volunteers from Utah to Washington arrive by plane and start duty in the contagion ward.
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Katherine’ Laux
Red Cross
Louie Floyd
Laux
West
California
Scon
Washington
Idaho
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
County
Infantile Foundation
Gurses
Alice Lietch
Santa Rosa
Cal
Sixes
Gursés
Salt Lake City
Judy Shiozawa
New group of nurses arrives to aid hospital wards
Veterans of Army and Navy unite at the hospital to share notes on duty in distant theaters such as Hollandia Tokyo Manila and Italy. The nurses will continue their work with patients through months of treatment until a cure is found, despite public attention shifting away from the outbreak.
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Army
Navy
Hollandia
Tokyo
Manila
Italy
Two Year Foreign Trade War Predicted by Store President
BUFFALO N Y UP It will be two years or more before international economies are well enough adjusted to permit foreign trade on pre war levels according to Harold M Hecht Buffalo department store president Hecht recently returned from a five week European tour during which he attempted reorganization of his stores foreign buying offices said European businessmen are grimly aware that they must build up their exports before they can buy needed goods from the United States The chief stumbling block to a more rapid return to normal economic conditions Hecht said is a move some countries including France and Italy made at the end of the war to revalue the American dollar too highly in relation to their own currencies Imports which America formerly bought because they were cheap under favorable exchange rates now are too expensive to encourage their purchase we explained The English Hecht said are getting along on a bare subsistence level and importing only raw materials which can be manufactured and exported at a profit The picture in Italy and France is much
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Buffalo
N. Y
Harold M. Hecht
Buffalo Department Store
Hecht
United States
France
Italy
America
Know Your Neighbors Charles O Burnett Of Waterman Airlines
Charles O Burnett, a Navy veteran and new Waterman Airlines operator in Dothan, balances family life with aviation dreams. He, his wife Emma, and their son Michael live at 2001-2 N Lenn St. Burnett, a Memphis-born Mississippi native, offers warm airline service on a busy schedule while exploring meteorology and aeronautics in night study. His hobbies include fishing, rifle practice, and Jaycees, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars participation.
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Charles O. Burnett
Dothan
Waterman
Charlie
Emma Carlie
Michael
Mike
Navy Blues
Jaycees
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Burnett
Navy
Normandy
Surnett
Tuscumbia
Ala
Mississippi
Memphis
N. Lenn Street
Charlie Burnett
2000 Attend Song Convention Held At Marianna Last Week
About two thousand people from Georgia Alabama Tennessee Mississippi and Florida attended the Jackson County Singing Convention in Marianna. The event featured loudspeakers for the program by various quartets assembly singing and solos plus a memorial service for founder Emous A. Branton who died at 65 in Altha. Curtis Jackson was reelected president for a sixteenth year with I S Fiveash and Sheriff Barkley Gause as vice president and secretary. Pianists included G Jodan Owens Dean Wolfe Parrish Cook Howell Eloise Craven Brookins and others from Cripple Pensacola Blountstown Chipley and Panama City.
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Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Florida
Jackson County
Court House
Emous A. Branton
Altha
Marianna
Curtis Jackson
I. S. Fiveash
Sheriff Barkley Gause
G. Jodan
James Thomas Owens
Cripley
Dean Wolfe
Pensacola
Ottis Parrish
Blountstown
Chester Cook
Clarkeville
Lillian Howell
Eloise Craven
Chipley
James Ray Brookins
Panama City
Whisky Loving Chimp Forced On Wagon
Erie, Pa. UP. Scrap the chimpanzee famed for whisky, raised on whisky coffee, now can’t get spirits as liquor rationing limits access. He still receives daily coffee and shows no signs of addiction, zoo keeper Carl Rip Mangold says.
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Erie
Scrap
St. Louis
WCTU
Carl ‘‘Rip’’ Mangold
Turkey Feather Dress Proposed As New Fad
In Roseburg Oregon Mrs Barbara Orr a Roseburg seamstress is developing a new Pacific Northwest industry. She previously made hats and purses from Oregon bird feathers and recently sewed a turkey feather gown. The project required 1800 hours of labor.
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Pacific Northwest
Roseburg
Ore
Barbara Orr
Orr
Oregon
Liberal European goods to flood U S stores this fall
He noted that government control in those countries is looser and less enforced. A liberal sampling of European merchandise will be arriving in American stores this fall. By early 1947 merchandising houses plan to begin making treks abroad.
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Hecot
Vegetable Oils Used In Industry Beyond Common Types
Article notes that industrial applications rely on various vegetable oils besides corn, coconut, and cottonseed. It highlights alternatives with potential for broader use in manufacturing and processing, signaling a shift toward exploring diverse plant-based oil sources for commercial applications.
Porcupine Attacks Backwards to Fend Off Enemies
An African black porcupine fights predators by sprinting at them in reverse, a distinct method from its North American relative which uses a different strike approach. This behavior showcases species-specific defense tactics and mobility.
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Porcupine
Lunch program reports low cost meals in county schools
The supervisor of county schools reports the director of the lunch program ensures facilities and room management conform to Federal and State requirements. Lunches are served at a low cost, from five to three cents per meal. Lunchrooms in operation are located at Marianna, Campbellton, Graceville, Greenwood, Bascom, Central Union, Sneads, and Cherokee.
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Marianna
Campbelton
Graceville
Greenwood
Bascom
Central
Union
Sneads
Cherokee
Schools plan early opening of two more lunch rooms
The district plans to open two additional lunchrooms at Grand Ridge and Magnolia schools and Marianna schools, described as the largest to date in the county, serving around a thousand students daily. The new lunchroom will be housed in a modern fireproof concrete block building on the high school campus.
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Cypreas
Mack
Ued
Grand Ridge
Magnolia
Marianna ‘ Schools
Reunion of Willi Parvin families at Eugene institution
An article notes a non profit organization in Eugene plans annual picnics for Willi and Parvin families. The group holds events to engage own-people and acquire support while operating under its mission.
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TNE Dothan
Tharedey
JRC
Waterman Airlines
Joe Conble
Charles Burnett
Waterman Airline
Eagle
Turkey
Spann-Daffin Inc
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