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The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 2

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The Dothan Eaglei
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Dothan, Alabama
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KI THURSDAY EBRUARY 80 1958 THE DOTHAN EAGLE DOTHAN ALABAMA PAGE TWO Today's Prayer $5 1 War Hot Or Cold Business Of All has SUNSHINE Winter weather Mobile Ray Outfit Jaycees Will Help Debt Ceilina Dothan Baseball Slates Extra Time Hike Approved Mysterious Tremor the com LITTLE ROCK PROBLEM Business Men Aski Integration Stop Strictly Grade Dressed Best Buy 39c America 49c LARGE GRADE SUPERB CRATSMANSHIP AMAZING ECONOMY AMILY SIZE! ALL LOAN MURPHY'S GROCERY MARKET ft 9 4 AV Good right arm when you want want some need filled A Do than Eagle Classified Ad Dial 3 3535 for a trained ad taker gov But met well Gov Averell out troops if upstate New snow Drifts feet in some expected the floor Treasury WASHINGTON IR The Senate inance Comipittee approved to dig the 25 LITTLE ROCK Ark A group of business and civic lead ers yesterday asked the Little Rock school board to seek a stay in a federal order for inte gration of Central High School If such a stay is granted it ap parently would mean withdrawal of eight Negro pupils now attend ing the big school which has been the center of an integration dis pute since last September The 24 man committee of citi zens did not indicate whether it wanted the stay to be temporary or permanent Specifically the group asked the school board to petition US Dis trict Court a stay of compli ance with the adopted schedule of In a letter to the board the Committee said that "in the light of our experiences of the past sev eral the school board's the increase lars made my fight in he said The senator said he the bill to come up on early next week The yet Air EI CIIICAGO UR War hot or cold is business one of the thoughts that stuck in the mind of a reporter who listened fur three days to men from the armed forces business education science and govern ment Their mutual bralnplcking end ed late yesterday at the National Military Industrial Conference And then the reporter sat down and typed out suggestions he had heard Like this: We have to formulate our na tional strategy now We as we did in past wars wait until In order to chest ray ort Rucker persons not able to get into the city before 5 pm be ginning Monday the mobile unit at the courthouse and City Hall will remain open till 5:50 pm each day uptil the close of the sur vey eb 28 Charles Stringer field repre sentative of the State Health De partment conducting the county wide survey said he was pleased at the number of per sons over 50 who have respond and urged others of the same age group to take the free test State law requires every per son living or residing in Alabama between the ages of 13 and 50 be chest rayed for pulmonary tu berculosis Stringer then pointed out more than 12733 Houston County resi AUU 4 lJ Tt HO mUIIVf VAI that the administration had over roadside several hours before the Mrs Murphree of Head land observed a joint anniver sary yesterday It was her 26th wedding anni versary and coincided with her first anniversary as a corre spondent for The Dothan Eagle The double occasion was too much not to share so Mrs Mur phree baked a triple decker cake and brought it to The Eagle news room for the celebration On hand to help with the cake cutting ceremony were Mrs Ju lian Hall woman's editor Nat aulk editor and Miss Abby El lard state editor Employes of The Eagle took time out from their duties to en joy a sample of Mrs culinary art which was proof no more was that she knows her way around in the kitchen Hardly a week has gone by during the past year that she brought candy cookies or cakes to her friends on the staff Up to 39 mflei por gallon 4 door convenience Crvlsos easily at turnpike speed Room for 9 big people Heater standard equipment being considered by legislative committee composed of Senate and House members from Macon and five other counties The committee is to make a rec ommendation to the Legislature next year Reduction in size would be pref erable to completely erasing the county from the map committee members have agreed ruiHse of the proposal is to prevent Negro political control of the county by breaking up the heavy concentration in Macon White spokesmen have said they fear the new civil rights law will enable enough Negroes to vote to politically control the county where Negroes outnumber white residents nearly 7 1 Currently white voters have a 2 1 edge at the polls Testifying before' the committee last week a Negro leader GomlUion of Tuskegee County denied that political domination is sought by the Ne groes A public hearing set for Tuske gee earlier this week was can celed Other hearings scheduled are eb 27 at Montgomery March 6 at Union Springs in Bullock County and March 20 at Opelika to help the good people of the Wiregrass meet those unexpected bills making money available without delay an red tape billion dollars a Byrd said he would not push JQg I IHCD HUrf? the Senate floor his move to hoMi thro hillinn Hnt conomon crmcai EMERGENCY LOANS BLACKBURN SYRUP the shooting starts This time it has to be an over all strategy political military economic and social We should have a systematic study of strategy to relate foreign and domestic policies civil and military viewpoints private and governmental interests Industry and business should take a hand "now in shaping strat egy The enemy has to be on the economic front as as in the military" sphere Money handed out by the 1emment series a purpose private'capital should be invested to help build industry and job skills in the underdeveloped coun tries Then the have not peoples will have something going for them and they will be less in clined to listen to the Commu nists Some of our best brain power should be put to work for the 'com mon good to checkmate trained Soviet propagandists Ed'xation has a basic role The quality of teaching sboyld be im proved Performance standards for students should be raised That means among other things more homework In science we need a labora tory for handling new projects and more accurate information on high grade manpower avail able We also need cooperation and common planning by all West ern powers iq the field of science all of Dothan Dismissals for the same period ihcluded Morris Edwards Mrs Melba June Trub and Suz ianna Virgie all of Dothan Mrs Louise Reynolds of Ashford and Mrs Ida Glover of Ozark into a can is Mary Lou Doolen Other models are Diana Herndon left and Karen Mitten Tucson temperatures have been riding in the mid 80's this week (AP Wirephoto) plan of gradual integration at Little Rock should have further court review 1 This obviously referred to a series of clashes between white and Negro students at Central High Several white students have been suspended Minniejean Brown one of the nine Negroes who started attending Central High Sept 25 under federal troop protection has been expelled for the rest of this semester Gov Orval aubus informed of the letter said its con tents sounded much in conformity with what I have urged in the past I think it is a very good School Supt Virgil Blossom said he saw nothing wrong with the group's suggestion for going back into federal court Wayne Upton president of the school board declined comment the hardest hit storm sectors in eluding upstate New York and and northern Indiana Many rural families remained isolated ood and fuel have been brought to many of the marooned families In northern Indiana Army helicop ters have rescued about 60 per sons from snowbound homes this week Gov Harold Handley of Indiana last night declared a state of emergency in the storm stricken region as fresh snow threatened the South Bend and Michigan City areas In Albany NY a dairy farmer group appealed to Harriman to call necessary to York out of ranged up to areas The long spell of vcold and storms since the weekend was blamed for at least 247 deaths in 25 states and the District of Co lumbia Most of them resulted from accidents on snow and icy highways overexertion in clearing snow and fires Ice choked the Mississippi River 30 miles above Cairo Ill virtu ally shutting off traffic from the upper Mississippi to the lower river and back A sudden drop in the Ohio River which joins the Mississippi at Cairo left several towboats and their barges which had put into shore for shelter high and dry Hie fall in the Ohio was caused by pileups of ice which created dams preventing a free flow of water The Ohio was blocked to traffic with heavy floating ice floes from Pittsburgh to the mouth of the big stream WASHINGTON Wl In a new antirecession move the ederal Reserve Board has acted to In crease the lending capacity of its 6400 member banks The board did this yesterday In lowering the reserve requirements of the tjanks by one half of 1 per cent or some banks the action is effective a week from today or others it takes effect March 1 Tie reduction will release about 500 million dollars from reserves which the banks are required to hold against demand deposits This is expected to broaden their lending capacity by about three billion dollars under a banking theory that caeh dollar freed from reserve generally yields six dol lars in lending capacity Accord ing to this reasoning money loaned by a bnk usually is re deposited eventually cither in that bank or another institution Much of the deposit can be loaned again with the process being repeated Officials said the reserve re quirement reduction could push down interest rates by making more money available for lending The last cut in reserve require ments was ordered in 1954 also a recession year Under the new action the re duction in New York and Chicago banks is from 20 per cent to 19Vi per cent This will free about 125 million dollars in reserves in these "central cities In other large cities called "re serve the reduction will be 'from 18 to per cent This will release about 195 million dol lars in banks there The change for these two groups of cities is set for eb 27 On March 1 the reserve requirement in "country banks" in smaller dents have filed past ray ma chines so far The campaign started eb 10 Visitors Welcome He added persons from surrounding out of the who happen to be in Do than are welcomed and urged to take advantage of the test Many persons he continued especially from Headland have called and requested they be permitted to have a chest film made? A downtown survey of mer chants showed only 43 per cent of the store employes had re ceived chest rays they deal directly with the public they are urged to String er explained Those store employes who have taken the test are wearing Had A Chest Ray Have You' lapel cards A mobile unit will be stationed at the county courthouse tomor row for white persons from 8 am till 5 pm Negroes can be rayed at the Lincoln Recreation Center unit tomorrow during the same hours This will be the final day for the unit at the Center Students of Cottonwood High School will be filmed from 8:30 am till 12 noon tomorrow also Cottonwood general public can be rayed at the school from 1 4:30 'pm (Tills prayer is offered by the Rev Glenn Pearce pastor of the Cloverdale Methodist Church in keeping with the fact that World Day of Prayer will be observed here tomorrow Special services will be held at the irst Methodist Church and will be sponsored by the Dothan Council of Church Women) boost in the debt celling asked by President Eisenhower effective until June 3o 1959 It did so after rejecting by a vote of 10 5 a proposal by Chair man Byrd (D Va) to limit the in crease to three billion The committee acted on a bill passed by the House a month ago 328 71 to raise the amount of the debt the government can have outstanding The increase is from 275 to 280 III Liiiiun uuuaia 0 God our heavenly ather Thou who art from everlasting to everlasting spenk to' our hearts when courage fails aid we faint for fear and there is distress throughout the earth Keep ua resolute and steadfast in the things that cannot be shaken abound ing In hope nnd knowing that our labor is not in vain In Thed Restore our faith in the triumph of the good renew in us the love that never fails: and make us to lift our eyes and behold beyond the things that are seen and temporal the things that are unseen and eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord AMEN Dothan Commanders No 25 I will NXl meet tonight 7 pm Ve Annual oonelave Alection of officers Ail members its urged to attend JONES Recorder MONTGOMERY tn Citizens of surrounding counties will be given their first chance today at a hear ing In Reeltown to express their views on the projKised abolition of Macon County The Reeltown hearing will be the first in a series to determine popular opinion jn affected areas the county is abolished Tai Iaoosa County in which Reel town located is one of five surrounding counties which would absorb the heavy Negro popula tion of Macon The problem of 4ping away with the county or shrinking it in size YELLOW RIPE BANANAS Marriage Licenses Only two couples applied for marriage licenses in Houston County during the past week Hiey were Gather Jones to Anna Lee Bell and Loyd ranklin Henderson to Nell Senn all o( Dothan Eagle's Headland Aide Celebrates year and underestimated the Linch and his family live at 1 61" Ashland Dr CANNED played havoc with the North and East so these pretty models are canning sunshine at Tucson Ariz to send to snowbound climes Using a piece of aluminum to deflect sunshine The Dothan Jaycees have de cided to back the Dothan Base ball Club Inc in a concerted drive to help raise $5000 which would be used to assure the suc cess of the ball club President Alfred Saliba said day the full five billion dollar the board of directors voted unan imously to undertake the proj ect through the sale of bux seats season tickets and ballpark ad vertising Murray McDerrman was 'ap pointed head of the project The association plans to raise a total of $15000 Saliba said be fore this season begins REQUIREMENTS Set Aside General Hospital our admissions were record ed at the Southeast Alabama fishiest Byrd said "I am confident thecar failed to make a curve Senate inance Committee 4 3 ROBERTSON BROS MOTORS 105 OATES ST DOTHAN ALA LB IQ Trustees inance Thrift Co 115 Troy Ph 2 6044 OPEN ALL DAY PARKING U4 Crawford St THURSDAY I IV El DELIVERY Phones 3 3420 3 4795 Pure Pork PAN SAUSAGE 3 lbs $100 Smoked SLAB BACON lb Yellow HOOP CHEESE lb Banks' Lending Capacity Upped Meet the Vauxhall a masterpiece of British genius for practical living In spite of ita trim silhouette actually room for the average family and all of their luggage uel economy is a miracle of austerity and it manoeuvres with a close coupled ease that lets you park virtually anywhere All this plus bulldog ruggedness and the classic good taste of its styling makes this a truly extraordinary ertr and one you really must see! Blakely Church Schedules Prayer BLAKELY The World Day of Prayer will be observed at the Blakely Methodist Church to morrow at 3:30 pm with Mrs Dunbar Grist in charge of the program The theme for this year is Bread of The music will be presented by Mrs A Singletary Others taking part on the program a Mrs Singletary Jr Mrs Paul Morrell and Mrs Richard Grist The Blakely Methodist 'church will join with thousands of other Victim Of Plane Crash Known DOZEN LARGE NO 10 JUG trembled the ground rattled win and dishes and caused at estimated the income for the next was discovered least one glass jar to bounce off a shelf Cold Weather Stings lorida (Continued rom Page One) ward into the Atlantic However communities throughout theiQenera Hospital during the past United States in observing the 4 hours They are Ruby Nelson World Day of Prayer Observ Aton Akridge Lingo ances are held in 144 countries mings and Shelly Mae Roberts The World Day of Prayer 2s sponsored by United Women National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA A 23 year old North Carolina aviation cadet who diqd in the flaming crash of his 28 training plane 13 miles north east of Gra ham Air Base yesterday morn ing was identified by the Air orce as James Woody Elkins of Clarkton Elkins was killed instantly Wit ness to the crash which followed a routine training maneuver over 4 the outskirts of Bascom la was another pilot flying a 34 out of Graham Cause of the crash has not been determined Graham Base authorities said Cadet kins was midway through his pri mary pilot training when the ac cident occurred He was a member of training! temperature drops were reported class 59 His instructor was the upper Great Lakes region Cyrus of Marianna The body is being shipped to Clarkton by uneral Home of Marianna Survivors are his parents Julius and Hazel Elkins of Clarkton WILMINGTON NC WI all shook up in the Wil mington area again today Well not shook up bad but jarred anyway from an earth tremor that's beginning to be a habit and has'the experts puzzled or the fourth day running resi dents along a 25 mile stretch of ocean front from Southport to Wrightsville Beach and 15 miles inland repord a mild earth jn which its cash position is 45 was driving approximately 20 shock this one about am All have come about the same time of day Though not as long or as severe proved the increase in the debt Tuesday night and the vic as the three others the shoqjt limit only because of its belief Jim who was alone lay on the as skies cleared Rescue operations continued in communities will drop from 12 per cent to lf2 per cent This wilt re lease about 180 million dollars Citizens Meeting On ate Of Macon Joe Mack Linch Dothan used car dealer is in critical condi tion at University Hospital in Au gusta Ga it was learned here has been pressing for quick action Itoday because the current period is one Reports said that Linch about miles out of Augusta when his inCrvai laucu lv jjuuxc a vuivv ap The accident reportedly occur iwl Timwfiv Tutrhf anx It k4 fcilfwii A ct rt Tx I 1 1: I W5 £3 si 1 I 111 II! 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