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The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 11

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The Dothan Eaglei
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Dothan, Alabama
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PAGE ELEVEN TUESDAY MARCH 13 1062 THE DOTHAN EAGLE DOTHAN ALABAMA She Wants Orbit Job Do GEORGE GRANT A contest (Advertisement) Thurs Glen his ex Highway Department Phi fra aMmaiiaii Connections with We've Got Good DALLAS DC 7 CONNECTION TO £AS WHEREVER YOU'RE GOING CALL SOUTHERN AIRWAYS OR YOUR TRAVEL AGENT Big wladionl Big vawd Se your Buick Dealer for Double Check tiled Card 6A I Strypeeze EH Bill baseball the old for 1935 of contest contest find was get its first inspect according to Jeff er Commissioner Gen 1956 ru's until day A Man Says "Nerves" Ruined His Home Life CALL THIS NUMBER SY 2 2471 i Strips Paint ast Semi Paste or new Non lammable ly calls com INCOME TAX SERVICE GEORGE BRAGAN 401 Cottonwood Road Newsman Dies WICHITA ALLS Tex James Allison 82 one of the best known newspaper men died Monday Allison retired as vice president of the Times Publishing Co of Wichita alls at the age of 75 He was a former publisher of the old ort Worth Record and of newspapers in Nashville Tenn and Ranger Tex A son James Allison is publisher of the Midland (Tex) Roporter Telegram was president of 1936 Recently a local man said his nerves were always on edge and caused him to be so mean tem pered with his family it ruined his home life He says he took tranquilizers with no relief i nally he got SYS TONE and says he was amazed at results Now he is free of nerve tension also says he sleeps better than in years Sys Tone quiets nerves without harmful drugs also is a vitamin iron tonic Costs only a few cents a day So get Sys Scarbrough Drug Store oster St TROY George Grant i Troy the author of legislation i which saves an estimated $50 mil lion a year for hog growers across the nation is seeking his 14th consecutive term as a member of the House of Representa lives The measure outlawed use of virulent hog cholera virus which spread instead of reduced the number one hog killer when used in vaccination programs Grant a key member of the House Agriculture Committee al so is the author of the Multiple orests Use legislation which au thorizes to the fullest extent the national forest lands for all peo ple By virtue of his membership on the agricultural committee Grant also has been in a position to render assistance to Wiregrass peanut growers whose crop Is un der the almost constant attack of other legislators less sympathetic to peanut problems Under the 9 plan Alabama must give up one congressmen and lose a district because the state has lost population The eight who receive the largest number of votes will be declared the Democratic nominees The district of the low running man will be divided among other districts Grant served his first term at Washington as a member of the 75th Congress He also is a mem ber of the Southern Policy Com CASH BUYERS are reading the Dothan Eagle Classified Ads everyday looking for good TV sets If you have one for don't wait Dial SY 2 5312 right now Adv be League Alabama lorida TO BUY OR SELL STOCKS OPP Lester Sayers vice president in charge of production of the Opp Micolas Mills was found dead of a gunshot wound here yesterday shortly before noon Covington County Coroner James Ethridge ruled death was self inflicted and said Sayers was found lying on a 22 rifle Letters found in his car at the scene in the rear of the general indicated he intended to take his life the coroner said uneral services will announced by an Enterprise neral home Mr Sayers was active in the irst Baptist Church and was a member of the Rotary Club He previously had served as general superintendent of the mills and about 18 months ago fiecame an official of the Enterprise mill Surviving are his wife and three sons Tommy Jerry and David Kennedy's Mother Under Surgery BOSTON (AP) Rose Ken nedy the mother un dergoes surgery today at St Hospital for correc tion of a hernia The operation was termed by Dr Roy Heffcrman as ately serious but not especially He said tests did not indicate any malignancy Mrs Kennedy 71 entered the hospital Monday afternoon for a checkup The decision to operate on a pelvic hernia was made later in the day Pierre Salinger President Ken nedy's press secretary said in Washington the chief executive fully informed about his mother's President Kennedy did not plan to come here immediately Iowa Alabama Tag Accord Sought DES MOINES Iowa (AP) Iowa and Alabama officials sought agreement Monday in a dispute over reciprocal truck reg istrations Iowa notified Alabama in 1960 that it would not recognize truck license plates issued in Ala bama Iowa officials contended a number of truckers doing busi ness in Iowa were registsred in Alabama to take advantage of low registration fees The Iowa Reciprocity Board met with James I Ritchie gen eral manager of the Alabama Trucking Association male Mercury astronauts when they first aspired to the job Mrs Hart and her group have logged more than 1000 hours of flying time She is a licensed air plane and helicopter pilot Accompanying her Thursday will be Jerric Cobb of Oklahoma City a widely known woman pilot who was the first to take the tests Mrs Hart has written mem bers of the Senate and House space committees urging them to invite Miss testimony and to include women in future space plans In her letter to space committee members Mrs Hart said is my belief that the Russians will have successfully space flown a woman by next September I sin cerely hope that your interest in this matter will serve to help get this program off the ground" Mrs Hart emphasized that her purpose is not seeking equality for women want to see this done for its scientific value she said women are going to be needed They might as well start in the early stages they start setting up these satellite stations from which trips to far distant points will be made people will be liv ing on those stations for months if not she said going to have to pro vide some kind of family arrange ments" phone operator of diverting to his establishment to a petitor Hussey said The speaker president of oral in the Southeast since was elected president of United Telephone Telegraph Co in December of 1961 and also presi dent of the remaining Kirk prop erties A member of the Durham (N C) Rotary Club he has served as a director of that United und and as a director of Chamber of Commerce Rotary President Alto Lee III said the club was being represented at the Rotary Dis trict Conference in Mobile by for mer District Gov Sam Windham and Bart Nelson Kiwams Club Woodmen of the World Elks Moose and is a Ma son and Shrmer Married to the former Matabc Carter (1938) he has a son George Jr and a daughter Alicia Lee WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Phil lip A blonde mother of is asking Vice President Lyndon Johnson to help break up the "men exclusiveness of the Americans in space pro gram She would like to be the first woman in space herself The wife of the Michigan demo crat wants the United States to launch a woman in space pro gram So far she says she has gotten the cold shoulder from the National Aeronautics and Space Agency A program for female astro nauts be gotten off the ground very quickly if we could just convince men it would not destroy their she said If she be the first woman in space she is determined that an American woman will and not a Russian cosmomiss To further her campaign Mrs the former Jane Briggs daughter of a Detroit millionaire has an appointment Thursday with Johnson in his role as chair man of the National Aeronautics and Space Council She hopes Johnson will be able to swing' a little weight with James Webb NASA head Up to this point she told a reporter Webb has treated her proposal with reluctance How has her husband reacted to the idea? never asked him" she said Hart pressed on the matter re sponded: always thought my wife was an extraordinary woman and this is most interest ing Mrs Hart who Is in her early 40s is one of 12 women to have successfully undergone the tough physical tests given the seven orests and Domestic Marketing Bom at Louisville Ala in Bar bour County Grant attended the University of Alabama a graduated with an LLB degree in 1922 In 1950 he was awarded an honorary LLf) degree at Bob Jones University He is a mem ber of the board trustees A lawyer by profession Grant was the Pike County solicitor from 1927 until 1937 During that time he was chairman of the county Democratic Executive Committee in 1935 38 Grant is a veteran of World War I and was elected state com mander of the American Legion in 1929 He was national secre tary of the Pi Kappa temity in 1922 Always interested in Grant was president of Dixie Amateur and headed the through 1938 In 1944 45 he Baseball League from the Alabama Society Washing ton Grant is also a member of the Mrs Kennedy Luncheon Guest Of India Chief Mountain Road Project Studied BIRMINGHAM (AP) An pressway route across Red Moun tain was to ions today son County Kendrick The State has approved plans for the ex pressway to link Birmingham with suburban communities on the south side Kendrick said The commissioner said excava tion is expected to begin by No vember The federal government will pay $1750000 and the state $750000 for the first phase of con struction ormer Priest Must Answer Rifle Wounds Kill Opp Mill Official NEW DELHI India (AP) Jac queline Kennedy rested today from her hard trip from Wash ington and after 12 hours of sleep drove off bareheaded to a glitter ing luncheon given by Indian President Rajendra Prasad Tired out after the excitement of her arrival in India Monday and only 3'i hours of sleep on her flight from Rome the US wife slept late this morning and did not appear in public until she went to the sprawling presidential palace for lunch Prasad invited 79 guests in cluding top government officials and their wives to meet Mrs Kennedy and her sister Princess Lee Radziwill The ailing 77 year old president sat on the sidelines while Prime Minister Nehru escorted Mrs Kennedy around the horseshoe shaped line of guests Mrs Kennedy's schedule also i included a visit to the children's wards of the AU India Medical Institute and a dinner in her hon or tonight given by Nehru or her first day and night she was the guest of US Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith staying in a bungalow he borrowed from the local manager of an American airline because the embassy resi dence is small Before dinner tonight she was to move to Neh residence to be his guest she leaves for Agra I Equipment permitting the ad dition of 1600 telephones to the Dothan exchange will be added to United Telephone Telegraph Co this year and explansion plans are estimated to cost a half million dollars Herbert Hussey president of General Telephone Co of the Southeast made that announce ment in a talk before the than Rotary Club yesterday "All of this is intended course to provide service those of you who need it and do not have it as well as to improve the quality of service you are now he said adding: "We are also planning con siderable construction in the rural areas around Dothan to provide telephone service to the people out there" Hussey said another project to be completed is the construction of micro wave facilities to supple ment the land lines for handling toll traffic This will include a 180 ft tower sending and receiving messages to a from Troy with intermediate tow ers at Ozark and Brundidge Land lines now between Do than and Troy and on to Mont gomery he said filled to capacity and the need for ad ditional facilities is The speaker introduced by Arn old Swallows manager of the local company and a vice presi dent of the company which has acquired United had this to say of Swallows: Commends Swallows "We were fortunate to have in our organization a young man with the capabilities required to direct our operation here in Ala bama Arnold Swallows in a na tive Tennesseean and a graduate of Tennessee Polytechnic Insti tute His career thus far has giv en him experience in varied fields of telephony and he is well quali fied to give leadership to our program for your telephone serv ice here in Dothan I am certain that you will find Arnold a good business man a good neighbor and an asset to this community" Describing the growth of telephone industry Hussey said there are more telephones in the United States than all the rest of the one for every three persons in this nation as com pared to one for 90 persons out side the service in this coun try is furnished by the Bell Sys tem and by over 3000 independ ent telephone companies ranging in size from single exchange oper ations with less than 50 tele phones to giant corporations with over a million telephones "We in the General Telephone he added largest of these independents the word meaning not a part of Bell System although the independents connect with Bell lines to provide world wide communications Assist Dothan residents he said now enjoy what is known as matic telephony the ability to dial your own calls without as sistance from a local operator" This system was invented in 1889 by Almon Strowger an un dertaker who suspected a tele George Grant Seeks 14th Term In House SAN RANCISCO DALLAS HOUSTON LOS ANGELES SAN RANCISCO (AP) former priest whose wife says he was spirited to California by the Catholic church must appear in Domestic Relations Court March 19 to answer charges of failure to support his four children Walter Ryan 57 turned up here last week after his wife sued the church in Mineola NY for $2375000 over his disappearance The child support action began in January 1960 at the request of New York authorities Just before Ryan reappeared an assistant dis trict attorney here said nothing had happened in the case because never been able to The order to appear given Monday The wife Alice 41 of Head LI said Catholics spirited her husband away in 1955 and mittee He is chairman of two kept him a prisoner in monaster subcommittees of the agricultural les They were married in i9tu while he was assistant pastor of the Glen Cove parish Ryan said he came to California on is own free will and lived quietly excommunicated by the church because he broke his vow of celibacy He maintains he con tributed more than $10090 to family since leaving Man Crazy orget your agel Thousand! are peppy al 70 Try "pepping up" with Ostrer Contains tonic for weak rundown feeling due solely to body's lack of Iron which many men and women call "old" Try Ostree Tonic Tablets for pep younger feeling this very day 8 day "gel acquainted" size costs little Or save money get "Economy" sire (nearly 4 timet as many tablets) saves you $147 All druggists ON: NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE MIDWEST STOCK EXCHANGE AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE Call SY 4 6657 While commission rates ore the same with all Brokers at irst Alabama Securities "Dependable personal Investment service makes the differ ence" KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 PROO THE OLD TAYLOR DISTILLERY COMPANY RANKORT I LOUISVILLE KENTUCK DOTHAN BUICK COMPANY 901 MAIN ST DOTHAN ALABAMA irst Alabama Securities Inc HOUSTON HOTEL Dothan Alabama Member Midwest Stock Exchange Wicksburg Girl In Beauty Contest The Wiregrass Poultry Associa tion is sponsoring Dolores Hol land 18 year old Wicksburg sen ior in the State District Poultry Association beauty contest Thurs day night at Montgomery Dolores who is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Bill Holland of Newton Rt 1 was Miss Wicks burg in the 1961 National Peanut estival The association president A A Middleton said Dolores will com pete with girls from all counties Southeast Alabama If she wins the district she will go on to the state at Birmingham May 15 The winner of the state will represent Alabama in the Miss Universe contest Mrs Rockefeller Divorce Action Seen Thursday RENO Nev Mrs Nilson A Rockefeller may sue for a quick Nevada divorce from the governor of New York Thursday If she satisfies a court that she has not left the state in six weeks her slx wcek residency re quirement will be met An uncon tested divorce then can be grant ed in minutes Her attorney has given no indication where or when she will file Both married daughters are vis iting her at the ttonner Trail Ranch in the Sierras west of here Mrs Robert Pierson 28 ar rived riday night about a week after her sister Mrs William Strawbridge joined Mrs Rocke feller at the resort The three take frequent horse back rides despite near freezing temperatures eno Tonight try an Old Taylor 86 bourbon sour on the "rocks Delta Jets Buick Le Sabre gives you the best STOP inned aluminum front brakes are the reason Aluminum dis sipates braking heat in seconds to give you safe sure stops time after time And brake linings last longer These superior brakes are standard only on Buick LeSabre In its price class Among other LeSabre plusscs are: the getaway surge of Advanced Thrust roaring Wildcat 8 'trigger quick urbine all at no extra cost In the year's best price value See LeSabre Drive it Buick LeSabre is the buy SAVE TIME money and shoe leather! 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