The Prattville Progress from Prattville, Alabama • 1

fqictokyI ifanViCTORY BUY V'H STATS if Vg ASUMPS Burn ItHE. FRATTV1LLE PROGRESS Cfi VAK SONDf VOLUME SIXTY PRATTVILLE, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, MAY 31ST, 1945 NUMBER 20. rorr BELOVED LADYtTyphoid Fever Plane Crash Kills Maxwell Of ficer In Autauga QUICK FREEZE PUNTJSSURE BUILDERS TO SUBMIT APPLICATION FOR PRIORITIES THIS WEEK Second Lieutenant Heinz H. Meer, 21, of Worden, Montana, was killed Thursday afternoon of last week, when the training plane he was piloting crashed in the Bridge Creek Lake six miles from Prattville. Lt.

Delbert L. Squires, of Manchester, a passenger in the plane, was only slightly injured. Members of the Senior Class of the Autauga County High School and a group of students fronjt Hurt's School in Mont- comply with federal govern-gomery, were swimming in the ment requirements for release lake when the crash occurred, of materials and machinery for Members of the group immed-' construction of this plant by PASSES AWAY MRS. J. F.

POSEY DIED WEDNESDAY MORNING A 8:00 O'CLOCK Mrs. Emma Beatrice Jackson Posey, 65, one of Prattville and Autauga county's most beloved women, died at eight clock Wednesday morning following a lengthy illness. At times, dur- ing the past several months, Mrs. Posey's condition had grown critical, but she proved a patient sufferer with a faith which enabled her to maintain the cheerful and happy person- ality which had made "her a favorite with her acquaintan- ces and friends. The deceased was born at Titus, Coosa county, on June 14, 1879.

Growing to young ladyhood in the community in which she was born, she mar-, ried. J. F. Posey, a young farm- er and school teacher of that county, in 1896. Moving to Prattville around 1900, Mr.

and Mrs. Posey became two of our most substantial citizens. The husband has served Autauga county long and faithfully, first as Superintendent of Education, and as Probate Judge' for 18 years. He represents Autauga county in the Alabama Legislature at I fir lirTWt N. jpyf -ffi i County, At this season of the year for the past decade the incidence of typhoid fever in this county has gradually decreased.

In fact, in 1943 there were no typhoid patients in the county and I am certain that an explanation for the absence of this dreaded disease was the population had been careful in seeing that they kept inoculations or rather, shots up to date. With the decrease in absence of the fever carelessness has replaced care. Last year and this year we unfortunately had a few sporadic cases in the county and these eases will increase in number if the population persists in not availing themselves of the free protect- ion offered by the. local Health Department. The prophylactic treatment is available every Saturday morning at the Office and we will be glad to make clinic hours to give shots in any, community that can assure us of a group of 20 or more.

Perhaps later we will try to have scheduled clinics over the county. Our efforts last year on the whole were disappointing. Be sure your Health Department wish- ip I -tSla For MIGHTY the present time. In her public 'es to protect you and any re-life, as well as her home life, quest will receive our prompt Mrs. Posey proved capable and attention.

resourceful, contributing much to the success which crowned 1 BONOS TIE HOME FRONT TO BATTLE FRONT Huudreds of war bond workers, volunteers on th borne front battle lines, this week were asking their friends and neighbors to bur war bonds so that th war In the Pacific can be speeded to a victorious end. On the farm, In the factory, and in the home, the volunteer salesmen were carrying their -message that "It takes plenty of bonds over here to keep the fight going over there." Laggard bond buyers were being urged to get In the fight. her husband's efforts many years she faithful and active Si.y Evening Bond Job Only Half Done State Chairman Tells State Mr. Henry S. Long, president of the Autauga Quick Freeze Corporation, informed The Progress yesterday that applications for locker rentals in Autauga's proposed quick freeze plant were well over the three hundred mark, and that is is expected sufficient applications will have been made to the latter part of this week.

Application for priorities will be made immediately following receipt of required number of rental applications, and every effort will be made to speed construction of the new plant, which' will be located just east of the Griffin Funeral Home. Mr. Eric Alsobrook, who will supervise construction and op- eration of the new plant, is al- ready in Prattville and has temporary offices in the John- son Feed and Seed Company's building. He will be glad to meet Autauga county citizens (interested in the facilities of niant oni Due to the fact, that a cer- tan number of lockers will reserved until the plant is in full operation, Autauga county farmers who desire to rent one of the cold storage lockers should act at once. It is possible that all available lockers will have been rented within the next two weeks.

DR. W. H. WYNNE DIED MONDAY OF A HEART ATTACK Dr. W.

H. Wynne, prominent physician of Ensley, died Mon- dav of a. heart attack, accord- in to information received Tuesday by his brother-in-law, Mr. H. H.

Cory, of Prattville. Mr. Cory attended the funenl services in rMisiey Dr. Wynne married Mi3S Lottie Cory daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

T. D. Cory, of Mulberry. Summer School Notice Announcement is made that there will be a summer school for high school students opening June 4th at the high school building. Both new subjects and make-up subjects will ba offered.

Those interested will meet Friday at 10 A. M. at th school for classification. Beginning On June 6th WE WILL CLOSE AT ONE O'CLOCK ON WEDNESDAY. THIS IS EFFECTIVE UNTIL AUGUST 29TH.

BANK -OF PRATTVILLE. MAKING HIGH QUALITY ALFALFA HAY IS EASY the Baptist church. Twelve children were born I Uls Delma Foster W1 to Judge and Mrs. Posey, and her PPls in recit- eleven of them survive, Stan- I1? fer-in June 1st at ley, one of the sons, died in 8:3 clock ttie high school 1944. Those surviving are: ftonum.

The puhhc ig cord-Mrs. George Dismukes, Mem- invited to altend. phis; Mrs. Ruth Monroe, St.1 MOxrmFF Louis; (Mrs. Askew Godwin, nirrra Selma, and Miss Ora Posey, 0f BALK IN -s- A' Prattville; M.

Posey, Prattville; Paul Posey, Santa! According to information re. Monica, Travis Posey, "lved. yesterday Lt. M. G.

Selma; Vernon Posey, Cleve- Moncnef, Jr. has arrived in land; Fred Posey, U. S. Army Francisco. Lt.

Moncnef Air Forces, Southwest Pacific; has served the Pacific thea-Rufus Posey, San Francisco, m.ore than a year as a "We have made splendid progress, but two weeks of the official Seventh War Loan are gone and only seven counties have been able to announce that they have gone over the top. "There is still a big job to be done, and while I know that every county in the state will not stop until it has the Seventh War Bond flag flying at the top of the flagpole, we have still 48 per cent of the job to do. "There can be no action the Pacific without action here at "Unless the men and women on the farms, the men and women in the the offices and the stores, and the men and women in the BOND SALES ARE LAGGING IN AUTAUGA WITH TIME SPEEDING ed out to the plane, a portion of which was above the water. The injured flier was rescued and the body of the pilot was recovered from the front cock pit of the plane which was under water. Lt.

Meer, the son of Mr. John jll, Meer Worden, Montana, was a student officer at well Field. Youth Center To Open Center, un-i Prattville Youth der the sponsorship of the lo- cal Lpns Club will be open Friday, night to all teen agers of Autauga County who have paid their one dollar membership fee. At present the center will be open Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 7:30 to 10:30 and on Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 5:30. If desired other hours may be announced later.

I After much deliberation over the many names submitted the' Jr. Board of Directors "finally selected the name "Teen Tavern." For her suggestion Miss Jeanne Beaty has ben awarded a free membership. I Memberships may be purch raaA tv. ocu xvill any iiiciiiuci Ul tile Junior Board of Directors, con- sisting of Jack Hargis, Jeanne Oillesni Mawia Rnwpra Saiw Stephens and Evelyn Smith. Only members, their guests and local service men and women in uniform will be admitted.

Later, plans will be announced for an Open House to which the general public will be invited. At present the games offered are: ping pong, do do board shuffle board, darts, checkers, Chinese checkers, dominoes, pool. There will be a piano for group singing. As yet the reading room and lounge is not completed but under the sponsorship of the Home Demonstration Clubs, it is expected to be ready for use soon. LIBERTY Remember the home coming the first Sunday in June.

Come and bring full baskets. The service will start at 9:30. Everybody is invited and especially singers. Mrs. W.

B. Rainwater and children of Montgomery, Mrs. Mosor Till and Mrs. Ray White and children of Elmore visited Mr. and Mrs.

O. T. Rainwater Saturday. Pvt. Alfred R.

Hunt of Ft McClellan was the guest of Miss Edna Dean Hollon Sun- ay Mr. and Mrs. Wilberi Hand daughter were guests of Mr and Mra. Hand and children Sunday, JMr. and Mrs.

A. F. Hollon and children had as their' Sun- day guests Mi. and Mrs. Reevie Baker and son.

Mrs. Doycle i'luam was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.

Cook Sunday. Cecil McCord Slc was the guest of Miss Edna Dean Hol- lion during last week. I homes buy bonds, there can be no mass air raids on Japan, the navy cannot keep its magnificent task forces in action and our armies cannot move from Europe to the Pacific "This is the time for all of us to work together so that the war in the Pacific can be ended as quickly and victoriously as the war was ended in Europe. part of the job is to buy bonds and we still have a big job to do. The quicker we buy our share the quicker the whole business will be ended.

"Let us make sure in every county in Alabama that we quickly put that Seventh War Bond star in our home front service flags. No county has failed to make its quota in any bond drive. We cannot let our boys over there down in. the Seventh." $1,000 CLUB While $50, and $100 Bonds will be sold be tween now and the end of the drive, Autauga county must depend on bonds of larger denominations to put us over the top. Emphasis must be placed on the two honored Clubs of Bond Buyers the $500 Club and the $1,000 Club which is being organized thi3 week.

To become eligible for membership in the $1,000 Club, a person must have bought an War Bond on or after today. May 31st. Only a hundred families are needed for membership iii this $1,000 Club to put Autauga over the top. "Let's dig deep, and early, too. You'll want to be able to look the returning veterans in the eye and feel that you did everything possib' to further the war effort.

our next club day. Mrs. Steph Oats will entertain the club 'in June. The demonstration for June wU1 be iven by Mrs- William Cranmore. Tucker served a deh- cious Plate whlch vaa en iyf Dy The meeting then adjiurned, Mrs.

John Cranmore, Reporter. Buy that extra I100.N War bend today! Every Citizen Urged To Get In Fight By Buying Their Share Of Victory Alabama has only' half done its Seventh War Bond job. This was the warning that State War Finance Chairman Ed Leigh McMillan gave to counties that had not made their quotas this week as he announced that the state had bought $25,482,000 in series bonds. "Alabama must still buy $23,518,000 in bonds to make the state's quota of $49,000,000," Mr. McMillan said.

Charles Farrior Enroute Home First Lieutenant Charles Farrior, recently liberated by the victorious Allied army from a German prisoner of war camp, is enroute home, according to a cablegram received by his wife, Mrs. Mary Louise Wil- Sanson Farrior, the past week. I The cablegram stated that jthe young officer is well and that he "will be seeing them soon." Reported missing early in January, nothing wa3 heard from Charles until late April, when Mrs received a card telling her that he waV a prisoner of war and held in a German prisoner camp. Nothing further had been heard until Mrs. Farrior received the cablegram the past week.

Notice Truck Open ators The Autauga County Board of Education will receive bids until noon June 2, 1945 for coal hauling as listed below: 1. From Boothton mines to the several schools of the county. 2. From freight cars at following rail points: Marbury, Billingsley and Prattville, to schools located in said communities. Bidders may enter bids for either or both hauls on tonnage basis.

Approximately 400 tons will be involved, J. B. King, Superintendent. and John Posey, Santa Monica, Calif. Several a1sm survive.

grandchildren Funeral arrangements had not been announced Wednesday afternoon pending information as to arrival of the children. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, with Spigener in charge. Active pallbearers will be Walter Vinson, J. T. Gresham, Dr.

James Tanflcersley, Spigner McDonald, Lonnie. Ray, and John Anderson. Allen Stewart, Clyde White, W. A.McKay, T. A.

Deason, Lewis Kilpatrick, Mima Davis, Dr. S. Strock, and Dr. R. O.

Dickinson will serve as honorary pall bearers. SENIORS ENTERTAINED Mrs. G. E. Thompson and Mrs.

J. W. Bateman entertained the members of the Senior class of the Autauga County High SchooJ at the home of the latter Thursday night. A salad plate with punch was served and dancing was enjoyed. Those enjoying the occasion included Malcolm Campbell, Paul Cayton, Joe Ed Hasting, Herman Scott, James Earl Spigener, Leon Spigener, Ray mond Yarbrough, Cora Alexander, Phyllis, Bateman, Eloise Biles, Margaret Cook, Sybil Pauline Fuller, Jewell Gnmore, arnces Hardy, Louise Higgins, Dot Kilpatrick, Mary E.

Seamon, Sally Stephens, Bet fighter pilot. He is expected home within the next few days to spend a leave with his Parents, Mr, and Mrs. M. G. iUUU-ei" DOG TIME IS HERE AGAIN All dog owner's living in town please start bringing your dogs to have them treated.

I will be at home from 11 to 2 from 5 till. County people please watch the paper for next week schedule. Dr. F. L.

i MILLER. ltp. BILL WADSWORTH PROMOTED TO TECH SERGEANT AN ADVANCED R-TEENTH AIR FORCE BASE, WESTERN CHINA The promotion to Technical Sergeant of SSgt. William W. Wads-I worth, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles D. Wadsworth of Prattville, has been announced Jby the Commanding Officer of 'the "Globe Trotters" Air Service Group at a Fourteenth Air Force advanced base in West-I em China. TSgt. Wadsworth, (23, has been in the China thea ter ior the past six months and was a student at the University of Alabama prior to entering the armed forces.

He is working as a chief clerk. U. D. C. CHAPTER TO MEET AT JONESBORO The Merrill E.

Pratt Chapter of the U. D. C. will meet Wednesday afternoon June 6th at 4 o'clock at Jonesboro. Judge Walter Jones will address the chapter after which a picnic supper will be served.

Sale of War Bonds in the Mighty Seventh War Bond Drive is lagging in Autauga county, as half the drive period has. gone, by. With the utmost "effort 'expended by volunteer War Bond Salesmen, $82,000 in E'iBonds Sales must' be made yet to put Autauga county over the top in the Seventh War Loan Drive. Beat one has made a splendid record in Bond sales since the opening of the present drive. Several other beats of the county have made good reports while some beats have reported no Bond sales to date.

In next week's Progress, a standing of the various beats, with their quotas and sales of Bonds wilV be published, and, according to the head of Autau ga war Finance uommiwee, this information will be kept before the people of the county during th remainder of the drive. HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT'S NOTES New Prospect Club: The New Prospect Club met on Wednesday, May 23, at the home of Mrs. J. B. Tucker.

The demonstration "Furniture Ar- rangement" was given by Miss Bill. She showed us' how to arrange a room correctly and incorrectly. Since our former president resigned, Mrs. Stephen Oats was elected President. We 1 planned the meeting place for Quality in alfalfa hay is largely influenced by methods of hay production, say forage crop investigators.

Because Jeaf color and percentage of; leaves are important in hay quality, the best. time to cut- alfalfa is between early bloom and full bloom stages. The best method of curing alfalfa to obtain quality is to allow thehay to wilt in the swath and finish curing in the windrow. Windrowing after wilting but before the leaves are dry enough to shatter prevent! much leaf loss. Hay cured in this way will go into storage with a higher percentage of leaves, carotene, and protein.

ty Jane Williams, (Mr. And Mrs. H. C. Brier, Miss Elizabeth Davis, Misses jMary Edna Wall-ace, Jamie Stephens, Miss Stephens, SSgt.

and Mrs. M. K. Bateman, Mr. and GThompson, Mrs.

S. JE.f and Mrs. J. W. Bateman..