December Community Notices and Friday Events Summary
Local announcements include a selective service draft call lottery update and multiple Friday gatherings. Mizpah Chapter 19 meets 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple. Cotillion Christmas Dance table reservations today 3 to 5 p.m. with Mrs. Lloyd Nix. O Edwards Circle of Christian Women Fellowship meets 7:30 p.m. at First Christian Church. Decatur Duplicate Bridge Club at 7 p.m. Aquadome. Morgan County Mental Health workshop 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Sixth Avenue Church of God. Parents Without Partners 7:30 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Parish House. American Legion Christmas party 7 p.m. at Family Steak Barn. Decatur Christmas Parade 5:30 p.m. starts on Bank Street. Also a Christmas bazaar and bake sale noon to 7 p.m. at Tanner Crossroads sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Le Club Entre Meres meets 3:15 p.m. at Mrs. Robert G. McAfee’s home. stock prices and names listed for New York exchanges.
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Morgan County Association For Mental Health
Sixth Avenue Church of God
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Tanner Crossroads
Untitled Stock Ledger Fragment Shows Market Listings
Fragmentary list from a late New York stock section includes equities such as Halliburton Harris Hecla and Howmet with varied figures. The readable items show prices or codes like 1.4 and 1.60 along with percentage hints, though much is garbled. The piece reads as a partial market brief or selected list with several company names and numbers.
Christmas Luncheon and Club Events Weekday Notices
Burningtree Ladies' Golf Association hosts a Christmas luncheon at Burningtree Country Club at noon. Various clubs meet with speakers and demonstrations across Decatur and Hartselle including the Belleview Baptist Church talk at 7 p.m. and the Daughters of the American Revolution luncheon at Decatur Country Club.
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Burningtree Ladies’ Golf Association
Burningtree Country Club
Stephens
Daughters of the American Revolution
Decatur Country Club
L. F. Jackson
R. B. McWhorter
Decatur Art Guild Christmas Show at St. John's Parish Hall
Decatur Art Guild hosts a Christmas show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church Parish Hall. Falkville High School holds a beauty walk at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium.
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Decatur Art Guild
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Falkville
Falkville High School
Athens Christmas Parade Set to Start at 2 30 P.M
The Athens Christmas Parade is scheduled to begin at 2 30 this afternoon in Athens. Organizers expect floats bands and performers from local groups to join the procession through downtown.
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Athens
Arrests in Tate Case Shake Los Angeles Slayings
Police nabbed Charles D. Watson 24 and Patricia Kernwinkel 21 in the Sharon Tate killings. Linda Kasabian 19 remained at large as officers prepared murder indictments against four to five more suspects. Authorities linked a touring hippie group to the seven murders and additional grotesque slayings in the area.
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Sharon Tate
Miss Tate
Bel Air
Charles D. Watson
Capeville
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Patricia Kernwinkel
Linda Louise Kasabian
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Area
Draft Lottery Reform Sets 1 Year Uncertainty Window
The President approved a major reform to the draft system, ending the long deferment period seen since World War II. The new lottery aims to reduce uncertainty to one year, reviving a 1942 practice where men aged 19 to 25 enter the draft line as 1-A or 1-A-O for noncombatant service.
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Selective Service
Wall Street Ends Mixed After Late Firmer Hum
Wall Street prices firmed slightly in late trading after earlier broad declines. The Dow fell to 802.34 at 2 p.m., down 2.70, lingering near its yearly low, with 14 of 20 active issues down and a looming rail strike shadowing sentiment.
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Dow
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London
Cat Symbol of Liberty in Ancient Rome Debated
Early drawings depict the Goddess of Liberty with a cat at her feet, serving as a symbol of freedom in ancient Rome. The pairing reflects historic iconography used to represent liberty and civic virtue.
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Rome
Liberty
Tennessee cattle and hog market report opens in Nashville
Cattle and calves 400 head with receipts curtailed as Tennessee Finished Cattle Sheward Sale begins. Early slaughter cow and bull prices steady to higher, vealers up 1 to 2 dollars, feeder cattle steady. Bulls and calves mixed, hogs with mild declines. sheep none.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee
Poultry Market Report from Birmingham Alabama
Alabama buyers show solid interest in Avery and light poultry types. Prices range from 12.5 to 14 per pound at farm and plant levels, with heavy birds at 21 to 22.50. Estimated slaughter today reaches 1,218,000 head, up from 856,000 last Tuesday.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Decatur Dairy and Grain Prices Reported in Market Ledger
Quotations show cottonseed at 40 per ton, milk Grade A at 655, milk at 3.20 per cent, wood prices 65 45 35 per cord for pulpwood 15.25, No 2 white shelled corn 4.0, milling wheat 125, barley 90, yellow corn unspecified, NASD interdealer prices near 10 a.m. with no retail markup.
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American Legion
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Travelers Garden Club
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Central Tisou
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Bank of Alabama
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