Army Starts Reserve Training Plan Enlists 4500 in Eight Weeks
The Army reports about 4,500 six month trainees joined the new reserve program in eight weeks. Some defer training to finish high school. The Defense Department targets 95,000 trainees by next June and a 2.5 million eventual pool, with officials calling the six month phase off to a slow start. Chairman David Sarnoff cites understanding and congressional action as potential barriers.
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Washington
Army
Defense Department
Security Training Commission
Commission
David Sarnoff
Congress
Liberty National Opens New Decatur District Office
Liberty National Life Insurance Company announces the formal opening of its Decatur District Office Building at 4th Ave and Johnston St in Decatur. Manager J H Turner and a staff of 26 will operate in Decatur and Morgan County as Frank P Samford, company president, lauds the new owned building as a sign of faith in the Tennessee Valley’s progress and the local pride.
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Liberty National
Brown Service) Life Insurance Company
Decatur
4Th Ave
Johnston St
J. H. Turner
Morgan County
Frank P. Samford
Tennessee Valley
Hen pheasant discovers refuge in Ogallala hardware
Jack Lanigan of Ogallala heard a rustling and found a live pheasant crouched in an open cabinet among shotgun shells in his hardware store. The bird had flown in from the country where pheasant shooting is in full sway and sought shelter where shells were thickest.
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Ogallala
Neb
Jack Lanigan
Bird blamed for bus crash injuries in Greenville suit
A Greenville man sues a bus company for 2500 claiming a guinea hen crashed through the windshield striking him and causing great pain and suffering. He says drafts from the broken windshield gave him a severe cold and lists the bird as the cause.
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Bird
Greenville, S.C
Union Hill Clubs Elect 4 H Officers
Union Hill Girls 4 H Club elected Laquita Owen as president with Mamie Segroves as vice president Peggy Smallwood as secretary and treasurer Elsie Criscoe as reporter and Betty Bramlett and Martha Fletcher as song leaders The Boys Club chose Ronnie Brock as president Larry Parker as vice president A Q Oldacre as secretary and treasurer Lafett Hendrix as reporter John Ransom Coy Bramlett and Troy Bramlett as song leaders Miss Mary Gore County 4 H Club leader met with members for the organizational meeting.
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Union Hill
Laquita Owen
Mamie Segroves
Peggy Smallwood
Elsie Criscoe
Betty Bramlett
Martha Fletcher
Boys Club
Ronnie Brock
Larry Parker
A. Q. Oldacre
Lafett Hendrix
John Ransom
Police Check Minor Mishaps
Two minor traffic accidents were reported in the city this week. Robin Thomas 51 of 805 Line St collided with Roy C Johnson 51 of 1203 5th Ave SE on 6th St Monday at 4 17 p m with no injuries. Officers Hunter and Collier investigated. A truck and car collision near Somerville Road SE and Grant St noon yesterday involved O J Garner 46 of 1418 Beech St and Jessie James Zills 61 of 206 1th Ave SW. Investigated by Broadrick and Self. No charges were filed.
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Robin Thomas
Line St
6Th St
Roy C. Johnson
5Th Ave
W. C. Hunter
Bill Collier
Somerville Road SE
Grant St
O.J. Garner
Beech St
Jessie James Zills
Lth
Ave
J. P. Broadrick
Pack Self
Emory Receives $5000 From Late Judge Black
The will of Judge William H. Black provides five thousand dollars to Emory University to fund annual five hundred dollar awards for essays by freshmen at Emory or other University System of Georgia colleges. The essay topic asks writers to discuss how Georgians are often their own worst enemies when using colloquialisms instead of standard English.
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Atlanta
William H. Black
Emory University
Emory
University System of Georgia
Area servicemen to return home from Germany
NURNBERG Germany Specialist Second Class Joe G Lane 26 son of Mr and Mrs Henry C Lane Elkmont ends service with the 9th Division in Germany and heads back to the U S He was a mess steward in Headquarters Company 39th Regiment entered service in 1948 last stationed at Fort Eustis Va and arrived overseas in March 1953 BREMERHAVEN Germany Specialist Third Class Gerald R Smith 22 son of Mr and Mrs J R Smith Vinemont 1 returns to the U S soon after serving in Germany with the 33rd Station Hospital He is a medical technician who entered the Army in January 1953 and arrived overseas the following November a 1951 Cullman High School graduate
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Nurnberg
Germany
Joe G. Lane
Henry C. Lane
Elkmont
U.S
Lane
39Th
Fort Eustis
Bremerhaven
Gerald R. Smith
J. R. Smith
Vinemont 1
Smith
Cullman High School
Green patches dot Cullman County woodlands
Soil Conservation District notes show Carlton Ragsdale with 14 acres of volunteer rescue grass and 600 pounds of fertilizer per acre. Major Miller promotes winter cover with oats fescue and clover as woodlands need thinning and timber focus. A. J. Hyatt will mark trees to be cut with SCS workers assisting in 80 acre pine woodland thinning plans.
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Cullman
Cullman County
Carlton Ragsdale
Dripping Springs Road
Ragsdale
Bailey Mountain
Major Miller
Miller
Bill Nunnelley
Soil Conservation District
Baileyton
Nunnelley
A. J. Hyatt
State Department of Conservation
Huntsville
SCS
Cullman Work
Hyatt
Town Creek Civitan Hear Lee On Vote Issue
Town Creek Civitan club met in the Educational Building of the Methodist church. Mayor Lewis Sanderson was welcomed as a new member joining the group alongside State Representative W. J. Lee Jr who spoke on School Amendments 1 and 2.
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Town Creek
Elon Monument Displays Giant Watermelon in Texas
A massive red watermelon sculpture sits on a white concrete pylon in Dilley, Texas. The display honors a local watermelon yield averaging 15 million pounds annually for the past five years.
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Elon
D Y. Tex
Dilley
Dilley Area
Gibraltar Window Shatters in Local Hailstorm
At the Boyd home a friend praised a newly installed window saying it could not be jarred. A hailstorm 35 minutes later shattered all south side windows including the one installed “like Gibraltar.”
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Gibraltar Falls Radin
A.D. Boyd
Boyd
Gibraltar
Sacred Cranes to Live in Palatial Residence in Kushiro
Japan builds a guarded palace for Sacred Cranes in Kushiro with gardens bathing pools and nursery grounds. The birds, white with scarlet crests, are reportedly unique to this area in Japan.
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Kushiro
Japan
Roosevelt Makes First Presidential Plane Flight
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane marking a historic moment in aviation and political history. The event highlights early air travel's reach into national leadership and public life.
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Theodore Roosevelt
U.S
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Union Hill Clubs
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4Th and
Johnston Street
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Soil Conservation Service
Town Creek Civitans
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Belk-Hudson CO
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Jersey
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Nash
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