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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1950
Page
6
Ford car with four good tires six wheels and extra good motor for sale cheap. Reason leaving for Chicago. Also nineteen months old jersey heifer gives two gallons of milk first calf. Will sell for 150 dollars. Elmer Allred Route 2 Decatur.
TVA shows 1,102,300 power customers in June up 12 percent from last year, served through 145 municipal and cooperative systems. Farms total 347,500, over 80 percent of regional farms. Average annual residential use hits 3,079 kilowatt hours, 74 percent above the national average, with an area rate of 1.48 cents, 49 percent below the national average.
In Talladega Alabama Aug 30 state Baptist Sunday school workers map evangelism and expansion. President Dr Brady R Justice urges avoiding a super church as past organic union efforts caused division with speakers Dr Jasper N Barnette and Dr A H Reid also addressing the gathering.
River traffic remains steady at levels seen since March as tonnage for January through July 1950 totals 269,250,000, about five percent above 1949. Coal moves less, but higher value commodities compensate, with Tennessee River internal July coal traffic comprising all movements.
Virginia Gibbons, a 19 year old blue eyed blonde, was selected as Montgomery’s maid of cotton from six finalists. She will compete for the Alabama maid of cotton title at the State fair in Birmingham on October 5.
Fishermen counts for the fiscal year 1950 show tail water fishing heaviest below Kentucky Dam with 151 483 trips. Guntersville 148 185 Pickwick 122 451 Fort Loudoun 58 728 Wheeler 50 822 Watts Bar 49 513 Hales Bar 32 432 Wilson 27 902 Chickamauga 25 174. Fourth consecutive year of rising tailwater fishing activity. Douglas Dam tailwater produced 67 867 trips, nearly double last year and triple 1948.
Alabama readers learn seven misdemeanor fire violations including starting fires on others land escaping to neighbors failing to prevent escapes discarding heat sources near woods and burning ground without notifying the forest ranger or patrolman Morgan County spans 120000 wooded acres the ranger urges notice of time and place for safe burning.
Ancient Romans believed Vulcan was a blacksmith deity with a forge in Mt Etna. The volcanic site symbolized his workshop and fiery craft shaping weapons and tools.
A Birmingham figure received a $50 cash award from the Montgomery Cotton Exchange and will undertake an expense-paid trip to New Orleans as a guest of the Montgomery Base Ball Club.
Thirty eight students begin the school year in the Danville High vocational agriculture program under Mr. J H Rew. The list includes Morris Brown Lewis Depreast Frank Ellis Legrande Hogan Richard Jackson and others across Sr I and Sr I1 classes.
During July mosquito populations of Anopheles quadrimaculatus remained unusually low at TVA lakes except Kentucky. High counts near depopulated zones lack control. The Wheeler lake area saw 25 adults in a week, while adjacent non-reservoir areas reached 650.
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