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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1936
Page
8
A bus overturned after skidding on a rainy road twelve miles west of Huntingdon. Frank Haluk of Youngstown and Kukich of Pittsburgh died. Two women survived, with Lois Kelly of Pa and another passenger badly injured. The driver escaped injury.
In Los Angeles an ex husband surfaced to oppose actress Joan Bennett s petition to change daughter Dianna s surname to her new husband Gene Markey. John Marion Fox a former playboy described his past and urged keeping the child s name Fox during a continued hearing slated for August 19.
R H Walker of Athens Alabama, speaker of the state House of Representatives, is confined to his home with serious illness. He had recently been sick at home for about a month and is not yet recovered, with plans to be out again in a week or so. Walker owns and edits the Limestone Democrat, a local weekly.
A burglar attempting to enter Drew Bankston’s home on Tenth Avenue West was shot by Bankston who fired both shotgun barrels as the intruder climbed a window. The burglar fled and Bankston was not struck by pellets.
The Decatur Rotary Club will donate nasal spray to prevent polio and will provide syringes. The health department cooperates by sending a nurse into city and rural communities to conduct house to house canvasses and spray all residents desiring the treatment.
Guards cite no pet rule at municipal Kenilworth beach but interpret it as dogs only. Bobby Moss and his duck Imogene continue daily swims while villagers wait for the board to decide at the September meeting.
J K Ayers former Lawrence county sheriff and Moulton resident has been appointed as a state patrolman. He is the first man from Lawrence to hold this post and is widely known across Alabama.
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