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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1939
Page
3
The AAA lays out a voter guidance packet via local farmer committees for a Saturday referendum on continuing marketing quota restrictions for the 1940 cotton crop. Q & A cover quotas, penalties for excess sales, acreage allocations, and 1940 payment provisions including soil conservation benefits.
Five negro farm women from Morgan County travelled for a ten day training at Tuskegee Institute starting December 5. They would study poultry year round gardening farm dairying home improvement and turkey raising with C A Gee Negro Home Demonstration agent in charge. Participants include Bulah Chatma Talucah Gladis Draper Valdermosa Springs Ar mand Keys Somerville Estella Aldridge Priceville Catherine Stewart West Decatur.
Alabama Governor Dixon orders a ban on Christmas gifts from state employees to department heads calling the practice bad and abused. He plans to attend a Southern governors conference in Asheville to discuss the class rate case before the Interstate Commerce Commission noted as a substantial victory in the recent ICC decision.
A December 5 1914 Associated Press item snippets a Burlington Vermont setting with social tensions. The scene centers on D P Rowe ill in hospital, his daughter Ernestine substituting as geometry teacher, while a tense plot involving Gertrude and Nicky unfolds as Fabienne hatches a plan to confront her mother.
Anne Adams Pattern 4320 markets a smart little tween suit for sizes 3 to 8 with an eight gore skirt, matching jacket cap and cap, plus a two piece dress option. Instructions suggest fabric amounts and pricing, plus a winter book offer for children and coeds with gift tips and slimming options.
Three region men recently completed final exams at Fort McClellan Anniston and join the Regular Army. James Marven Vickers heads to the Quartermaster Corps at Fort McClellan Birmingham. Marion Andrew Whitehead goes to the 29th Infantry at Fort Benning Georgia. Percy Pence enters the Quartermaster Corps at Fort McClellan from Woodville Marshal County. The recruiting station noted openings in Infantry 5th Division at Fort McClellan and Air Corps squadrons, with additional vacancies in the Maton Department Regular Army at the post office.
The Christmas seal sale committee urges more funding for tuberculosis fight. It contrasts American medical progress with Europe’s warfare research and notes 70,000 deaths and 700,000 infections annually, calling for greater donations to keep laboratories working and preserve hope.
Isador Lubin, commissioner of the Bureau of Statistics, told the joint economic committee that a war prolongation could lift prices and trigger a broad cost of living increase. He warned of expanded production, higher mortgage burdens, and potential wage demands as the economy adjusts. Lubin noted modern industry’s greater adaptability to substitutes and the lower risk of explosive basic-commodity price jumps, though over-expansion remains possible with elevated prices.
Roy Acuff and his Grand Old Opry troupe appear in Danville Friday night at 7 30 in person. Old time music songs and comedy feature Roy Acuff Little Rachael Pap and Oswald. A large crowd is expected to hear Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys.
The Jones School concert was postponed due to the death of Jack Jones a prominent community resident. It will be held Thursday night at seven with a large attendance anticipated.
Brief notice encourages readers to use Want Ads to confirm results and contact Phone 46 for courteous assistance.
Obscure health advice warns that excess acids and toxins cause backache. It urges regular elimination to avoid headaches and urinary symptoms. A four day test box is advertised from any druggist, with local availability at Caddell Drug Co.
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