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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1952
Page
9
Classified ads list a 7 foot G E refrigerator at 98 dollars and a 5 piece Chrome Dinette Suite at 69.50 with color options. Also offered are cheap kitchen and bathroom fixtures from a duplex including cabinets, electric range, windows and doors. Contact Robinson Furniture Co at 2231 day or 3563 night, 702 Canal St.
Officials from the Bureau of Mines estimate nearly 12 000 tons of low grade beryl await extraction in the Black Hills South Dakota. Beryl a rare mineral found in pegmatite has military and industrial uses with early mining dating back to 1914 and total production through 1949 of 2 358 tons.
A list of Democratic primary candidates in Morgan County Alabama announcing their candidacies for Clerk of Circuit Court, Member of Board of Revenue and Control District 4, Probate Judge, and Judge of the Circuit Court. Each urges voters to support them in the May 6 1952 election.
Queen Juliana observed Ford's assembly line and asked why cars finished the same day aren't painted in the same color and a different color the next. Henry Ford II replied he had not thought of that.
Thieves took a cast iron heating installation weighing 800 pounds from a four section plant. Each section weighed 200 pounds and vanished without a clue.
Thousands of workers fought Utah's worst flood crisis as melting snow swelled streams. The waters swept away a railroad bridge and a dam, forced evacuations, blocked highways, and spread across farmland while Salt Lake City prepared with sandbagged streets and emergency channels.
Lawrence Cove school directed by Mrs Floy K Walling and E N Chandler will host a memorial service Sunday at Rock Creek Baptist Church. Students will sing and recite. all parents and friends are invited.
An aviation ordnanceman from La Jolla California prevented a catastrophe on the carrier USS Boxer when a 25 pound live bomb jammed on deck after a Panther jet returned from a North Korea mission. He inserted a finger between the striking pin and fuse body and kept the arming mechanism from triggering until the bomb was moved aside and the fuse removed.
About 500 Purdue University students raided sorority houses in Lafayette last night collecting undergarments and other items. Police report 30 officers responded, some minor damage noted at five sororities and Wood Hall dormitory. No arrests were made as the disturbance ended in about two and a half hours.
Two Fish and Wildlife Service agents reported killing 110 wolves in three weeks of hunting in a light two man plane while four other agents claimed 61 wolves killed. Three airplanes supported what was described as the biggest scale campaign ever waged in the Far North against wolves threatening caribou herds.
Peiping radio reports the Chinese Communist army will set up fourteen mechanized collective farms each over 3000 acres to supply troops. The first four are already operating in the remote northwestern Sinkiang province.
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