Rural Bookmobile Extends Library Reach in Two Counties
The Wheeler Basin Regional Library nose in Decatur operates a bookmobile with 53 stops in Morgan and Limestone counties serving 38 schools monthly. It stocks 1,500 volumes and offers books, records, and film strips with restocking and a Wednesday headquarters visit from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. for drop ins.
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Wheeler Basin Regional Library
Decatur
Morgan
Limestone County
Hartselle
Huntsville
Athens
Nancy Agnew
Agnew
Erin Hardiman
Ben Aaron Maze
Wheeler Basin
Limestone Counties
Aging Communist Leaders Fade From the Scene
In the non Communist world party chiefs are aging with Palmiro Togliatti at 71 in Italy, Waldeck Rochet 59 in France, Max Reimann about 60 in West Germany, Luis Carlos Prestes 66 in Brazil, Sanzo Nozaka 70 in Japan. Maurice Thorez of France is dead and Dolores Ibarruri La Pasionaria is 69.
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Italy
Palmiro Togliatti
Waldeck Rochet
Rance
West Germany
Max Reimann
Luis Carlos Prestes
Brazil
Japan
Sanzo Nozaka
Maurice Thorez
France
Dolores Ibarurri
Spain
la Pasionara
Communist Leaders Ages Highlight Change in Global Parties
The article notes aging Communist leaders across nations, from Pham Van Dong to Wladyslaw Gomulka and Tito, with many in their 60s and 70s. It contrasts their rigid outlooks with younger figures like Janos Kadar and Blas Roca, while referencing Castro’s Cuba and ongoing party tensions.
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Communist International
Viet Nam
Pham van Dong
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Poland
Tito
Yugoslavia
Walter Ulbricht
East Germany
Gheorghiu-Dej
Romania
Europe
Janos Kadar
Hungary
Cuba
Blas Roca
Moscow
Havana
Castro
Bookmobile Schedule and a Brooklyn Rabbit Origin Tale
The document lists a Monday bookmobile route for Owens Junior High School with stops at Cross Key Griffin Piney Chapel Rainey Pleasant Grove Peek Cedar Grove Davis Cherry Grove Patterson Cairo Cleveland Coney Island, with times from 9:15 to 2:30. It then notes Coney Island was overrun by rabbits before becoming Brooklyn's seashore playground, with the name said to derive from the Dutch ko nujn meaning rabbit.
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Owens Junior High School
Cross Key
Griffin
Piney Chapel
Rainey
Pleasant Grove
Peek
Cedar Grove
Davis
Coney Island
Brooklyn
Konujn
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Ben Maze
Robert Hardeman
Homeland Insurance Agency
2Nd Avenue
S.W
Ala
Harold Lentz
RCA
Theo Hill
Exclusive Surgitator ® Agitator
East Moulton St
Thunderbird
Beth
Krediters - Opticians
2Nd Avenue S.E
Cherry Grove
Patterson
Cairo
Cleveland
Anderson Business College
Decatur, Alabama
Norman Albright
Tennessee Valley State Vocational Technical School
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
United States
Congress
United States Office of Education
Laat
Chevrolet
Corvair
Corvair Monza Club
America
Alo
Dial
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!