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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1966
Page
12
A Tennessee reader reflects on a little girl’s remark about a mother in a pretty dress and the lesson it holds for adults. The piece considers how children view beauty and kindness, urging parents to present their best selves privately as well as publicly, for the sake of their children. It closes with a Georgia Florida tobacco market note about record prices and rising auction averages.
The Alabama Farmers Cooperative will hold its annual meeting in Decatur to showcase a new office building and warehouse. Notable members Peter Garrett George Braly and Walter Burch recall the cooperative’s growth from a one room office to a major southeastern organization. Also notes a week of rain at Mud Tavern with dew laden meadows and floods, plus a forecast of a moderate rise in fall duck migration across the four flyways and Mallard population not yet at long-term average.
In warm dusk bells toll from a night pasture as cows finish grazing. The muted music pleases, recalling bells’ farm role from dinner summons to fire alerts. Farmers still favor Swiss bells, creating a medley of harmonizing tones for evening listening.
VALDOSTA AP reports Georgia-Florida flue cured tobacco markets held a steady to slightly weaker tone. Losses averaged around one dollar for about one third of grades while other offerings remained near Wednesday levels. Water stages at Woodruff dam tailwater and Blountstown river indicators noted today with slight declines.
Joe Weaver of Hartselle and Byron Turney of Cullman represented Morgan County at the one day District 4H Shortcourse in Cullman. They learned about firearms safety, game management, trapping, bait casting, skeet shooting, fish pond management, and rodent control taught by Earl F Kenna mer and Extension staff from Auburn University.
The Agriculture Department plans a cooperative research agreement with Purdue University to find more effective ways for supermarkets to cut food distribution costs and to apply cost-saving findings.
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