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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1955
Page
7
At the South Carolina Penitentiary officials assign white trousers and shirts to trusted inmates for small tasks. To prevent escapes or mixing with civilians in white clothing a black stripe is added to the trouser leg. The new prison attire replaces blue denim and black white stripes.
The submarine at the Naval Armory remains berthed while Lt. Keith K. Nicolls takes command. The Silversides is used to simulate crash dives maneuvers and torpedo attacks but does not move.
On Monday morning Circuit Judge S A Lynne will hear two of 30 suits by Wolverine Tube employees. N A Palmer and Lloyd McAbee seek 50000 punitive damages and lost time, with three cases already tried.
At the Texan annual watermelon festival 5,000 slices were handed out free. Police and Boy Scouts flagged motorists and helped serve attendees at the event.
Jesse Q. Sewell is named manager of a new Prudential agency in Decatur located in the State National Bank Building at 624 Bank Street. The office serves a ten state area from the south central home office in Jacksonville Florida. Sewell, a Decatur native, attended Sewanee and worked at Oak Ridge during the war before entering Prudential in 1949.
A 33 member group from Indonesia Thailand Iran Turkey Formosa Brazil Panama Colombia and Paraguay visits Alabama sites this week. They tour the Alabama Flour Mill electric company Reynolds Metals T V A Chemical Plant Muscle Shoals and a poultry plant at Albertville via Guntersville as part of an Institute on Economic Development program under the U S International Cooperation Administration. The aim is to study growth problems in the American economy and compare them with conditions in their countries.
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