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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1952
Page
6
Dinners at the Lyons Hotel private dining room preceded the Tweedy Carey wedding. Mr and Mrs Robert H Tweedy Jr of Courtland hosted guests including wedding party and out of town attendees with bridal place cards and gifts to attendants.
Veterans Administration provides authoritative responses on three questions. First, vets receiving arrested TB compensation on a graduated rating will get statutory awards automatically. those not on graduated rating must apply. Second, GI loan guarantees may rise from 2000 to 7500 or yield a 5500 guarantee on new loans. Third, VA will not treat a temporary ROTC teaching assignment as school teaching for GI benefits, so summer courses toward a degree aren’t covered if not employed by a school.
In Carbondale Illinois Mae T Smith an English teacher recalls Robert Lewis Taylor then a poor student who produced a wild incongruous story with no connection to the assignment. She remembers red ink and wonders if she had kept the zany tale it would be worth to his publishers.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy I. Hendrix are visiting relatives in Louisville with Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Hendrix. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Stone of Mobile attend their son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Frank Keown and plan to witness Melvin Keown wed Vivian Sheats at the First Methodist Church on Saturday.
In Milwaukee Wisconsin Mr and Mrs Howard Greusel hosted friends when thousands of bees swarmed the living room after the fireplace flu was opened. Fire and smoke drove many bees away as screens blocked the chimney and rain cooled the swarm. Greusel appealed for farmers with hives to help relocate the bees.
Hubert R. Mitchell owner of Morgan county's Ranch Drive-In announces the new theatre is open with a 450 seat capacity. Opening night traffic control reported about 1,000 cars turned away as the house filled. The building rose in nine weeks between U S 31 routes with plans for a motel on the 23 acre site. All film types available with programs updated four times weekly.
The state reports 18 new polio cases last week, the year’s second largest weekly total. Through 1952 Alabama has 122 cases, far below 1951’s pace. In Jefferson County two cases are critical, including 18 year old James Ramsay Adams Jr. and two others in Birmingham hospitals.
Hagerstown Maryland Park Board orders police to remove women in shorts from public parks. Chairman Paul L. Snyder says the only limbs welcome are those on trees.
Those seeking further information about their benefits should write to the VA Regional Office at Montgomery Alabama for guidance and assistance.
The Cuban government funds a five and a half million dollar tunnel under Almendares River in Havana. It is over halfway finished, 708 feet long, and due to open later this year. Four lanes will ease congestion at two drawbridges to Mira-Jaimanitas and Country Club, which frequently close for boat traffic.
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