Kiwanis Hear School Objectives From Decatur High Principal
W H Jenkins principal of the Decatur high school spoke to the Kiwanis club at the invitation of the boys and girls work committee Bruce Spencer chair. He outlined school aims to meet youth and public needs with several new objectives including plans for all students to have noon meals at school.
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W. H. Jenkins
Decatur High School
Kiwanis Club
Boys and Girls Work Committee
Bruce Spencer
Six Accidents In County Fatal Accidents of 1949
Alabama reports 352 accidental deaths in January to March 1949. Morgan county adds six deaths to the total. The state total falls from 490 in the last quarter of 1948 but is higher than the same period in 1948. Provisional figures from the Bureau of Vital Statistics may differ from final reports.
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Alabama
State Department of Health
Morgan County
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Wolverine Tube Division Public Forum Thanks Decatur Paper
Frank W. Oakes Industrial and Public Relations Manager expresses appreciation to The Decatur Daily for courteous treatment of the Wolverine Tube Division Second Anniversary observance as a producing plant. The letter thanks Miss Mary and Sam and notes the intention to inform the community of the event.
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Ben Bloodworth
Decatur Daily
Decatur
Alabama
Bloodworth
Mary
Sam
Wolverine
Wolverine Tube Division
Frank W. Oakes
Decatur Kiwanis hears plan for new high school curriculum
Fred Hunt presided at a Kiwanis session outlining interest in a civic bowling league and praising the Kiwanis softball team. Principal Jenkins described Decatur’s new million dollar high school program designed to meet youth needs with courses in diversified occupations, distributive education, health, civics, and reading and spelling.
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Fred Hunt
Kiwanis
Civic Bowling League
Jenkins
Dr. H. A. Morgan Dies at 82 in Tennessee
Dr. H. A. Morgan retired TVA director died at his Belfast home at 82. A Canadian native, he helped develop Southern agriculture, led the University of Tennessee beginning in 1919, and served on the TVA board from 1933. His work spanned farming integration and tick control research.
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Belfast
Tenn
H. A. Morgan
The
Tennessee Valley Authority
Dr. Morgan
Canada
South
Mason and Dixon Line
University of Tennessee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
East Tennessee
Kingsport
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Institution
University of Tennessee College of Agriculture
TVA
August drought forecast for downtown Montgomery
An all time August drought with 21 consecutive rainless days was forecast for downtown Montgomery. Weatherman Arthur Long predicted clear skies to break the 1943 drought record, noting the city’s longest drought on record reached 55 days between September and November 1904.
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Montgomery
Ala
Arthur Long
Seminole County Snake Hoax Ends in Exhibition Purchase
Seminole County Attorney says the reported 26 foot snake was bought for 450 dollars from a Maryland firm and brought to WEWOKA for display. Zoo keeper G. W. Hall of Tonkawa admits plans to capitalize on local rumors after exhibiting a 250 pound snake measuring 7 12 inches in diameter.
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Wewoka
Okla
Seminole
Jack Scott
Maryland
Scott
G. W. Hall
Tonkawa
John Sandlen
Bill Nicholson
Hall
Wild Horse Canyon
Here
Funeral planned for three tiny triplet sisters
In Tuscaloosa Alabama funeral services were planned today for three newborn triplet sisters who died within a day of birth. The report notes the largest of the infants among the deceased.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama Motor Vehicle Registrations Rise in Nine Months
The Alabama Revenue Department reported 601,688 vehicles registered from Oct 1, 1949 to June 30, 1950, surpassing the 563,568 registered in the 1948-49 fiscal year. This shows stronger motor vehicle activity in the current period.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State Revenue Department
Alabama docks bid opens on $600,000 ore tipple
Mobile Alabama docks begin bid openings for a $600000 ore tipple expansion. Docks Director E S Morgan says the project will raise the capacity of the bulk handling plant by more than one third and move the expansion forward.
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Mobile
Ala
Alabama State Docks
E. S. Morgan
Sugar Pine Trees Discovered by David Douglas in 1826
The sugar pine was first discovered by David Douglas, a Scottish botanical explorer, on October 26 1826 in California.
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David Douglas
California
Three Died After Noon Weight Totals Small Bargain
Three individuals died yesterday after noon with combined weights of six pounds nine ounces. The others who perished earlier in the day weighed a total of six pounds nine ounces.
Indians Grow Butter Bean Variety in New Mexico
Indians cultivated a butter bean variety in New Mexico when Spaniards arrived in 1540, marking an early agricultural introduction by explorers to the region.
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New Mexico
Agriculture study finds chick warmth optimum
Department of Agriculture scientists report newly hatched chicks thrive best when kept at 94 to 95 degrees on their first day.
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Department of Agriculture
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Grayco
Williams Auto Parts
2Nd Ave
Rainbow Drive-In
Pitts Motel
Best
Gobble Tite Company
West Market Street
J. F. Armstrong
Town Creek
Fred Hunt Jr
John Davis
Davis-Hunt Cotton Company
Armstrong
Empire Variety
Wheeler Dam
Decatur Pump
Holly ST
J. W. McCant CO
DAY and Steenson
Universal Concrete Pipe Co
Front St
Wyker’s
Bank St
Decatur Ready Mixed Concrete CO
E. Market St
Willo Products Co
Robin
U.S. 31
Sinclair. Products
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