Decatur clubs plan meetings and elections this week
The Decatur Business and Professional Women's Club votes Thursday May 1 for officers and State Convention delegates with May 16 to 18 in Birmingham. Jack and Jill Juvenile Music Study Club holds chorus practice tonight at Central Methodist Church and review of operas designed for the program.
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Decatur Business and Professional Women’s Club
Birmingham
News Service Committee
Phyllis Hames
Jack and Jill Juvenile Music Club
Jack and Jill Juvenile Music Study Club
Central Methodist Church
Kay Wilder
Lynn O'Donnell
Emaline Rogers
Roy Hendrix
Montgomery
Elaine Avery
Mary Frances Shaw
Charles Gounod
Richard Wagner
Meyerberr
Ann Howard Fenn
Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck
Phil Butler
A. L. Frazier
J. E. Barthelemy
Spanish America
Henry Turner
Tommy McRae
Personal notes on travels and family visits
Mr and Mrs John Penney and children Charles Jimmy and Bob return to Attalla after visiting E T Branum. Mr and Mrs I M Eubanks come back from visiting son-in-law and daughter Hoyt Bonner in Birmingham. Mrs R B Mangrum visits Little Rock with L H Mangrum. Mr and Mrs Charles Berryman and daughters Nancy and Betty return to Peoria Illinois after visiting Willie Mae Berryman. Mrs Jack Rose and Beverly return to Birmingham after visiting parents and grandparents.
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John Penney
Charles
Jimmy
Bob
Attalla
E. T. Branum
R. B. Mangrum
Little Rock
Arkansas
L. H. Mangrum
Charles Berryman
Nancy
Betty
Peoria
Illinois
Willie Mae Berryman
Jack Rose
Beverly
Birmingham
National Music Week Observed in Decatur May 4 11
Decatur Music Study Club sponsors National Music Week with elementary school cantata Stars Fell On Alabama at Decatur High School Auditorium Friday May 2. Cantata Hymn Of Praise opening May 4 Central Methodist Church at five. Members visit schools, library displays special music books, clubs host programs, and cantata solos duets listed with names. Club members attend Alabama Federation of Music Clubs State Convention in Birmingham May 5 6 7. Final cantata practices set for Central Methodist Church tonight and Saturday.
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Decatur Music Study Club
Decatur
Alabama
Decatur High School
Decatur Public Library
Central Methodist Church
Roy Hendrix
National Music Week
Ed Pirie
W. K. Wilder
Warren Gamble
E. G. Hamilton
I. B. Schmidt
W. W. Wright
Ruby Sandlin
Music Club
Alabama Federation of Music Clubs
Birmingham
Legion Home
Milton Norris
Rutledge Thomas
Bill Wright
Cecil Timberlake
Robert McCracken
Pirie
Reneau Carrell
Ribbons Awarded Posthumously For Boys Prize Cattle
Blue and red ribbons for prize cattle were awarded posthumously to Johnny Reddoch a Montgomery County 4-H leader who died in a February motorcycle wreck. His Shorthorn steers won the grand championship and reserve at the county stock exhibit.
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Montgomery
Johnny Reddoch
Montgomery County
Young Reddoch
Former Nazi paratrooper becomes U S Army top sergeant in Korea
Master Sgt. Lothar A. Pallentin of the 245th tank battalion, 45th division, Korea, is a former Nazi paratrooper captured by the 101st Airborne during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. He spent war years in camps in Virginia and New York, later worked for occupation forces in Germany before immigrating to the United States in July 1949. He lived with an uncle in Belleville New Jersey until enlisting in October 1950.
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U. S
Korea
Lothar A. Pallentin
101St Airborne Division
Pallentin
Virginia
New York
Germany
Belleville
N. J
U. S. Army
Local Citizens Attend Farewell to Decatur Resident Couple
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. McCullough recently moved to Decatur. Pfc. Douglas Berryman of Cherry Point North Carolina is spending leave with his mother Mrs. Willie Mae Berryman and other relatives.
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Ents
E. M. McCullough
Decatur
Douglas Berryman
Cherry Point
North Carolina
Willie Mae Berryman
Mrs. Truman Takes Husband to Opera Politely
Washington notes Mrs Harry S Truman accompanied her husband to the Metropolitan Opera in Washington for the first time in 31 years. The boxholder sat with a 3,400 audience as the Met returned to the capital with the performance of Aida.
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Washington
Harry S. Truman
Trumans
Metropolitan Opera Company
Met
Duke Pitcher Skippy Lewis Aims to Match 0.90 ERA
Duke University ace pitcher Joe Skippy Lewis seeks to repeat last season's earned run average of 0.90 after a standout campaign.
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Joe
Skippy) Lewis
Duke University
Lawmaker Reid Murray Dies in Bethesda Hospital
Rep. Reid F. Murray of Wisconsin dies at 64 in Bethesda Naval Hospital after entering the hospital on April 16. The Republican veteran was serving his seventh term representing Wisconsin's seventh district.
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Lawmaker
Washington
Reid F. Murray
Wis
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Wisconsin
Murray
One Man Injured as Strikers Halt Car Near Rail Yards
One man was injured and police fired a shot to quell a disturbance near the Eastern Massachusetts Railway yards in Quincy as about 30 picketing strikers tried to stop an automobile from passing the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Mass
Eastern Massachusetts Railway
Bank Shortage to Be Probed by Federal Grand Jury
A federal grand jury will probe an alleged 800 dollar shortage at the old Thomasville Bank and Trust Company. The investigation starts May 26 and will take about two to three days. J Moody Drinkard, Myrtie N McCrory, and W P Stutts were arrested in December and released on 10000 bond each. Drinkard and McCrory face false entries charges. Stutts faces misapplication of bank funds under the Federal Reserve Act.
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Mobile
Old
Thomasville
Ala
FBI
Drinkard
Mrs. McCrory
Stutts
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Ware Foster
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Linda Kay Yarbrough
Mary Rodgers
Tommy Gayle McRae
Joan Odom
Central W.M.S
Woman's Missionary Society of the Central Baptist Church
W. O. Lipscomb
J. N. Freeman
T. A. Patterson
Walter Jackson
Paul Glenn
Louie Glenn
L. B. Wright
Roy Cowen
Patterson
C. E. Malone
Hawaii
Circle Two
Caudill
S. E. Caudill
Frank Holle
J. B. Kelly
L. B. Cropper
Mason Crow
Roberts
Ed Waites
Pearl Stewart
Circle Three
Sheffield
H. S. Sheffield
C. E. Spurlock
Woman's Society of Christian Service
The
First Methodist Church
D. D. McGehee
Murray King
Decatur Mother’s Club
M. E. Barrett
East Walnut Street
William Jenkins
District One
Athens College
Annice Whitman
C. C. Whitman
East Moulton Street
Miss Whitman
Baptist Student Union
Mac
PFAFF
A. E
1St Ave
George Perry
RADIO
SHACK
Youngstown Kitchens
Lafayette St
Lane Cedar Chest
Ing
Advernseow Life
Feam S Ba Ores Pressere
Cromo
Bank Street
Down
Tdemark
U & Patent Office
Brenda Davis
Woo Woo Tu Kee
Armory
North Alabama Kennel Club
Blackwell Florist
Ferry St
Johnston St
Decatur Cleaners
Alabama Drug CO
Chrysler
Mel Alsbury
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Sun Valley
America
T Finest Car
Smith Motors, Inc
Oak Street
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