Post Offices Brace for Christmas Rush in Decatur
Decatur post office expands staff by 12 and adds three parcel trucks to handle holiday deliveries. Officials urge clear addresses, first class mail, early out of town cards by December 15, and mail sorting before dropping to speed service as daily volume surges toward 70 000 letters by December 18 19.
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Cullene Morgan
Santa’ Claus
Decatur
Albany Station
Bank St
E. Self
Self
Iowa Tops Beef Cattle Density Report
Iowa leads in beef cattle density with an average of 82 head per square mile, highlighting its prominent role in United States cattle production and regional agribusiness significance.
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Iowa
Church plans face vote on First Methodist addition
Plans for a new educational building at First Methodist Church will be submitted to the congregation for vote during the 5 PM service. The brick addition, cost estimated at 83 000, will join the present structure and include a 250 seat fellowship hall, modern kitchen, infant and nursery spaces, and a chapel on the south end. Architects Hall and Colvard of Decatur, with building committee chair Noble Russell, led the bid process in which Ray Childs was the low bidder.
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First Methodist Church
Ray Childs
LaFayette St
Hall and Colvard
Decatur
Noble Russell
Norman Harris
F. O. Smith
Tom White
Billy Boswell
Carl Hoyer
Wiley Cox
Paul Robinson
Funeral arrangements for Roy es announced
Funeral home Reynolds announces arrangements for Roy es who died Friday evening at 415 10th Ave NW. Details of services will be announced later by Reynolds Funeral Home.
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Royes
10Th Ave
Reynolds Funeral Home
Rural Improvement judges to visit Massey and Oak Grove communities
Massey in Morgan County and Oak Grove in Limestone County near Ardmore will be judged Tuesday in district finals of the Alabama Rural Community Improvement program. Massey’s event starts about 10 a.m. at the community center and school auditorium, with Oak Grove judging at 2:30 p.m. One major Oak Grove project is a new club house. Massey won Morgan County honors in October and competes with 15 other counties for district and state finals. Miss Ruth Gayle Cost of Hartselle, a Morgan County High standout, received a $25 Lion Oil merit award for her essay My Definition Of Good Citizenship. sponsor Miss Lizzie Reed Penn also received $25.
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Ruth Gayle Cost
Morgan County High School
Lion Oil Company
William M. Cost
Morgan County High
National Honor Society
Future Teachers of America
Massey
Morgan County
Oak Grove
Limestone County
Ardmore
Alabama Rural Community Improvement Program
F. K. Agee
Reid
Cedar Hill
Oakdale
The
State Chamber of Commerce
Liberty National Life Insurance Company
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Kirby to address theology students at Vanderbilt School Religion
The Rev Otis Kirby head of the Decatur District North Alabama Conference will speak to Vanderbilt theology students in Nashville on Thursday. He will be joined by Rev Ralph Jolly and Rev Emory Calvert for the 5 30 p m supper meeting. He preaches at Eva Methodist Church at 11 a m and attends a District Youth Rally in Hart selle at 2 30 p m before preaching at Falr ville Methodist Church at 7 p m. He travels to Birmingham Monday for a Conference Board of Evangelism meeting.
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Otis Kirby
Decatur
North Alabama
The
Methodist Church
Vanderbilt School
Nashville
Kirby
Ralph Jolly
Athens First Methodist Church
Emory Calvert
Elkmont Methodist Church
Eva Methodist Church
Hartselle
Falrville Methodist Church
Birmingham
California Nurse Enters Fifth Year Of Unconsciousness
A 32 year old Stockton nurse Mrs Abbie Selah Howland has lay unconscious in a hospital for four years after a brain injury from an auto accident. Doctor Duane Deakins calls the coma a record and says there is no hope of awakening. She is fed intravenously and cared for daily. Her husband’s whereabouts are unknown.
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Stockton
Calif
Abbie Selah Howland
Duane Deakins
San Joaquin County General Hospital
Deakins
Methodist preacher to speak at Bethel and Somerville churches
At Methodist headquarters the Rev. Kirby is scheduled to preach and lead a quarterly conference at Bethel Methodist Church Tuesday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. mid week service he will preach and hold quarterly conference at Somerville Methodist Church Wednesday 7 p.m.
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Methodist
Bethel Methodist Church
Kirby
Somerville Methodist Church
Sergeant Lost In Mock War As Wife Lands In U S
Fort Polk dispatch reports Sgt. John N. DeGiovanni, a mock prisoner in Exercise Sagebrush, still unlocated while his wife Rosa Maria Breu De Giovanni and their 3 year old daughter Joann arrive penniless in New York. Red Cross aids the family as authorities struggle to reunite them.
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FT. Polk
Army
John N. DeGiovanni
New York
Europe
Red Cross
Rosa Maria Breu de Giovanni
Joann
Red Cros
Louisiana
DeGiovanni
82Nd Airborne Division
Rosa Maria
United States
1St Armored Division
Ft. Hood
Tex
Isle of Jersey
La Prensa Reopens Plan After Government Closure
Buenos Aires reports La Prensa was shut by the government and will reopen under Alberto Gainza Paz after a decree restoring it to the Paz family. The last Gainza Paz issue dated January 26 1951 and a new reopening date is not yet set.
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Buenos Aires
la Prensa
General Confederation of Labor
Alberto Gainza Az
Juan D. Peron
Pedro Aramburu
Peron
Paz
Gainza Paz
Italy Forms Supreme Court After Eight-Year Deadlock
Rome Italy Dec 3 After eight years of gridlock Italy finalized a 15 member Constitutional Court the highest tribunal of the nation President Giovanni Gronchi named the last five judges shortly after Parliament split by dissident factions since 1947 agreed on the five judges earlier naming the remaining five members by top judges.
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Rome
Italy
Supreme Court
Constitutional Court
Giovan
Ni Gronchi
Gronchi
Providence College as Dominican Fathers Run North American Campus
Providence College stands as the sole college in North America run by the Dominican Fathers, marking a unique institutional presence in the region.
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Providence
R.I.) College
Dominican Fathers
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