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...reason, says Lister, is television, which has lured readers away from the newspapers' back pages. For example, in Dothan, Ala., which has no television reception, comic-strip readership is 68%; in Anniston, Ala., which can tune in on six TV stations, readership is down...
Handles. In Portland, Ore., two autos had a brush in traffic. The drivers: Vernal Forrest and Sylvan Woods. In Dothan, Ala., Private Harvard Yale Princeton reported for duty. In Washington, Earl Wedding sued for divorce...
...Dothan, Ala.. John Sowell, ex-Texas convict was arrested, imprisoned. The Sheriff removed two hacksaw blades from his person. Later guards found his cell empty, a note: "Dear Sheriff. You miscounted...
With Negro Johnson in tow the mob stomped out, drove off toward Tumbleton in 25 automobiles. After day broke City Editor Joseph David ("Red") Brown of the Dothan Eagle received a telephone tip that Negro Johnson's body could be found near the Tumbleton farm home of Rupert Bond in which the alleged attack had taken place. Editor Brown grabbed his camera and dashed off for Tumbleton. There on the brink of a sparsely wooded ravine, 50 yd. from Farmer Bond's house, he found the bullet-riddled body of Negro Johnson. Tight-lipped farmers, who seemed...
Nobody in Alabama thought for a second that Editor Hall meant it. However, to reassure Dothan whites, he explained that all he wanted was a test case on his right to advocate sedition or anything else. Then he sat back to wait for the police. The police never arrived because the Legislature had already moved to repeal the offending antisedition bill. It had, furthermore, put through a bill drafted by Editor Hall and sponsored by Dothan's Representative, exempting newspaper men from contempt of court sentences when they refuse to reveal news sources in judicial investigations. Several States have...