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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1949
Page
6
The marriage of Miss Rovettea Mills of Toledo Ohio to Mr Leon Nix son of Mr and Mrs B D Nix of Decatur was solemnized on August 8 in Decatur. After several days with friends and relatives they will return to Toledo to make their home.
Danville reader endorses Arrid deodorant with Creamogen promising long lasting odor control. Ad proclaims no crystallization or drying, state ment that unused portion refunded, and price 39 cents plus tax. Includes address on package for returns.
Mrs. Thomas J. Hendrix announces a called meeting of the Decatur Junior Service League for Friday evening at seven thirty. The gathering will take place at the Lyons Hotel Annex as an important event this week.
Announcement says those interested in the Irene Jones Studio of Dance may meet Mrs. Irene Jones at the Decatur Armory on Friday August 12 at ten o’clock in the morning.
Miss Lucinda Caddell spends the week with relatives in Mobile. Mrs. W J Duncan Jr and Miss aryleen Duncan visited in Birmingham Monday. Mrs H B Hutchinson Sr.
Washington reports consumer incomes rose 26 percent in the first half of 1949 from the same period in 1948, boosting buying power to an annual rate of 213.4 billion dollars. Personal incomes fell briefly from December, then rebounded by June, aided by higher farm receipts and factory payroll gains, while inventories were reduced to about 51.579 billion dollars.
ta Georgia returned home Tuesday after visiting her son and daughter in law Homer Hutchinson and son Tommy. Mrs Charles Norman and infant James Christopher travel from Corinth Mississippi to return home today. Mrs Clarence Strother returns tonight from Nashville Tennessee after visiting Mr and Mrs Robert Strother. Mr and Mrs S F Hosey will move soon to Talladega Alabama. Mrs A A Powers returned Tuesday from relatives in Vina Alabama.
Friends note Mrs Lonnie Pettey ill at 614 Sixth Ave West. Clarence Strother up at his Johnston Street home after an operation. Robert Holloman ill at Seventh Ave West. Mr and Mrs J W Goode and Mrs Johnny Goode visited in Birmingham today. Dr and Mrs Robert Bryant Tiptonville TN guests of Dr and Mrs Thomas C Bingham at McNeill Apartments. Henry A Richeson Tuscaloosa left for Camp Winnataska after visiting grandmother on 8th Ave West Miss Elizabeth. Jane Black Aniston arrives for visit with Misses Willie and Nina Hodges. Miss Marjorie Cain spending week in Pensacola with Mr and Mrs Thomas Whaley and Birmingham family. Mrs Floyd Smith and Beverly Ann depart for Kentucky. Mr and Mrs Herman Jernigan Troy AL and Mrs Felix Horn Laverne AL arrive Thursday for visit with Mesdames Jernigan and Horn and Mrs Minnie B Hamill. Mrs Frank Stone and Mrs Rus 02 Logane visited in Birmingham Tuesday. Mrs John A Caddell and sons Jack and Hank spending week with mother and grandmother.
Senate voted to raise federal funds for hospital and health center construction from 3 to 6 million dollars yearly, increasing national funding from 75 to 130 million. A two thirds cost share would apply in Alabama, with program extension to 1955, under a new variable formula favoring Southern states and expanding Hill Burton act impact. Alabama’s Langdale hospital and Birmingham public health center mark early completions amid twenty two approved Alabama projects.
Ten thousand polio cases are reported nationwide with 36 states having more cases than last year. Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director of the National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis, announced the figures after a conference on pooling finances for polio care. Arkansas and Oklahoma are among the states most in need, with 490 and 521 cases respectively through July 30.
Six more infantile paralysis cases were reported to the state Health Department last week increasing the year total to 117. Montgomery county reported three new cases bringing its 1949 total to 35, with additional cases arising in Jefferson, Henry, and Pike counties.
George Baldanzi, a former Pennsylvania coal miner, named director of the CIO southern organizing campaign to succeed the late Van A. Bittner. The appointment was announced yesterday by CIO President Philip Murray.
A reader asks if death by own action could be justified when career distress harms family. Dorothy Dix condemns suicide as cowardly, urges changing jobs or quitting the field, warns remarrying wife and children’s pain, and cautions against harming the family.
A worried wife asks Dorothy Dix whether love can be revived after years of cruelty and a change to kindness. The columnist replies that life cannot be breathed back into a corpse, implying troubled marriage cannot be revived by mere change in conduct.
The small amount of steel produced in U S colonial days was primarily employed in weapons and cutting implements such as bayonets swords and various tools.
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