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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1952
Page
6
In Mrs. Walter Marvin Penney and Mrs. Frank Stone home on Jackson Street an informal party honored Miss Annie Sue Cain bride elect. Twenty friends attended with navy dress and white corsage as zinnias highlighted the lazy Susan centerpiece and buffet table. Other notes mention guests and local movements in Atlanta and Nashville.
In Miami Mrs. John Moskal rushed to find a lawyer for her 57 year old husband charged with murder. She arranged for the funeral of their 18 year old daughter Adela who died after Moskal allegedly killed her to end her long suffering. Moskal, a recent Newark retiree, claimed he killed Adela to end her pain.
A long list of neighbors and travelers share recent movements. Ida Elliott returns to Columbia Alabama after visiting Mrs Carl Jones in Decatur. Mrs E W Kennedy heads home from Monteagle Tennessee. Mrs William Koster visits her daughter in St Louis while Mr Koster works in New York. The column records multiple family visits, train trips, hospital stays, and upcoming weekend plans across Decatur Courtland Road and surrounding towns.
In Pascagoula Mississippi an Ingalls Shipbuilding crane operator was saved from his cab about 50 feet above a burning ship the Amersand after a line was lowered to him by a fellow crane operator. He escaped with minor facial and hand burns as fire crews battled the blaze that damaged the Amersand, an ore carrier and other building work at the yard.
The Decatur Association of Life Underwriters will hold its regular monthly meeting Friday at Woodalls. The program features each committee chairman outlining plans for the coming year. Members and all others in the insurance business are urged to attend. Some electric plants now generate one kilowatt hour with less than a pound of coal, down from three pounds 30 years ago.
In Bellingham Washington a 17 year old amateur mechanic Duane Partlow suffered a valve bite when a cam shaft valve trapped his finger while a friend turned the engine. Firemen doctors and mechanics worked three hours to release the finger and the end of the finger may be lost.
TVA reports roughly 666 000 fishing expeditions to tailwaters below Tennessee river dams in the year ended June 30. TVA and fisheries staff will conduct a Chickamauga lake survey including creel census and population sampling. NC Wildlife asks TVA for fish population studies on Glenville Nantahala Cheoah and Apalachia lakes. Norris Lake tagged fish indicate a 10 percent harvest on South Holston Lake and 27 percent harvest elsewhere. Waterfowl food production at Kentucky Lake will be light for a second year due to rainfall variability and soil moisture.
Robert Miller a 22 year old inmate from Cassopolis is still jailed after getting stuck trying to squeeze through an eight inch opening in his cell. He was freed after 15 hours with a blow torch and is serving 60 days for bad checks. Officials say stripped mattress rope and a missing iron bar from a mess table were found in his cell.
A public hearing will be held in the Russell County Courthouse on Friday September 5 to consider a milk price adjustment and the consolidation of Chambers Lee Randolph and Russell Counties into a single milk shed.
Mr. Texas the world's first Christian Western will be shown Saturday at 7 30 in Riverside school auditorium. Billy Graham and staff present the film with praise from religious leaders. Red Harper and Cindy Walker star. Walker is a Texas native and Hillbilly songwriter. Admission is free. presented by the Northside Baptist church youth revival.
The National Geographic Society notes about 00,000 insect species cataloged in museums, suggesting insects may outnumber all other animal groups combined.
Alvis W. McLemore and George Edwin Little were initiated into the local Moose lodge as new members at a small meeting last night. Gov. Fuel Garrison spoke on highlights of the national Moose convention held in Chicago August 17 to 21, with a buffet supper following the session.
In North Carolina, per capita consumption of milk in fluid form is higher in rural households than in urban ones, with rural figures about double the urban level. This reflects differing dietary patterns between rural and urban populations within the state.
An old advertisement promotes Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as relief for menstrual cramps backaches and jitters. It claims results on the first day of the period and also markets new tablets with added iron for monthly relief and for hot flashes during changes of life. The copy emphasizes uterine soothing effects and broad usefulness.
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