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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1948
Page
4
A column reflects on fiscal policy and local hopes in North Alabama. It cites taxes, farming forecasts, and public pleas for an auditorium in Decatur. The piece notes Governor Long’s tax increases in Louisiana, critiques federal tax proposals, and argues for repealing polls tax via state action. senator Lister Hill prefers state level repeal.
Opinion argues municipalities need more revenue as local services grow. Cites Mississippi laws allocating 7.5 million to localities, max 100000 per city, bond retirement use. Urges Alabama legislature to pass similar measure to reduce reliance on state and federal funds and stabilize municipal debts.
The Tennesseean urges wider inland waterway use of the Cumberland as rail costs rise. An advisory panel seeks 20,000 tons of monthly steel for barge building, with the aim to speed oil and grain transport. TVA reports record river tonnage as winter freezes limit other regions.
A visitor to Decatur lauded the city’s park system, noting its large early-planned park acreage and ongoing acquisitions. He said Decatur leads similar cities in park and recreational development and expects growing use of the parks to keep the city in front in recreation.
Gov. Dewey maps a rapid mid September start and sustained pace to election eve, intends a Labor Day speech, and coordinates major addresses with running mate. stresses teamwork with Congress and New York legislature while avoiding hard budget promises, focusing on administrative gains and waste reduction amid a cautious foreign outlook. A Western cattle-raiser notes steers selling at 26.80 per hundred pounds, hinting at local market trends.
Former OPA Director Paul Porter resumes his private law practice after serving as President Truman's special assistant in the emergency session of Congress. Thurman Arnold greets Porter with a hearty welcome and notes the close call had the session continued longer.
Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer faces a decision on licensing a large fourth quarter export of steel oil piping to the Middle East. Four major U.S. oil firms seek the piping to complete an 1100 mile Persian Gulf to Lebanon line, with only 300 miles installed. Domestic critics fear crippling shortages and defense leaders doubt wartime defensibility.
A religious meditation by Franklin van Zelm cites Corinthians reminding readers to do all for the glory of God. The piece underscores daily conduct as a form of worship and reflects on moral duties in ordinary acts.
A collage of historical cases shows leaders holding multiple offices. John Sparkman in 1946, Garner in 1932, Garfield in 1880, and Huey Long illustrate how officials have simultaneously held, or quickly shifted between, offices from house to senate to presidency.
A late blooming fisherman grows insistent about his catches. To prove his claims he buys scales and weighs every fish in his library. A neighbor returns thrilled, claiming to be the proud father of a 24 pound baby boy after witnessing the weigh in.
A torn and badly damaged book page yields a collage of quips and cartoons. The records include schoolboy definitions of hypocrisy a sergeant insult incident and a railway booklet claiming democracy and communism show wealth and poverty differently.
Oil firms push a Western hemisphere source while backing a pipeline expected to pay off quickly in large supplies. Israel attacks the route through Arab lands, accusing companies of favoring Haifa, where a British refinery lacks crude and Romania offers refined products in exchange for crude. The British stance remains firm.
The body of James Crowell 60 a Mobile district manager of Gulf Refining Co and active in the Mobile Chamber of Commerce will be brought home for funeral services and interment after dying of a heart attack in Tuscaloosa. He was visiting his daughter Mrs Sam Johnston Jr wife of a University of Alabama student when he collapsed. His wife remained in Higgins Texas due to a brother's illness.
A Labrador iron ore field is described as possibly as rich as the famed Mesabi deposits in Minnesota and potentially larger, suggesting major ore prospects in the northern region.
Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan arrives from Greece with substantial testimony on the unsolved George Polk murder. Rep. Dan Reed, a 72 year old New York Republican, is renominated for a 16th term after not visiting his district, and he breaks a leg before returning home. Pentagon officers press Gene Raymond for his autograph and he jokes about his rank. Carroll Reese, former Republican national chairman, seeks a Senate seat in Tennessee and hires an ex-Washington correspondent as publicity agent.
In a tense session led by Merriwell Book, witnesses accuse senior State Department figures of subversive patriotism. Comrade Book and George Spelvin testify of alleged plots to insert pro American phrases into Roosevelt speeches, while the White House denies any such activity and defends officials as not compromised by misconduct.
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