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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1946
Page
8
President Thomas W. Martin announced a major expansion program in Gadsden Alabama predicting thousands of jobs from a new 25 million steam plant. He cited survey results and the state's readiness for growth as justification.
Troop 63 held a regular meeting Monday night with new gear for the troop. Leanne Nelson presented on better handicraft. Scoutmaster J. P. Sims and Nelson closed with benediction. Col. O R Hood helped organize Alabama Power Company. Meeting sponsored by Gadsden Chamber of Commerce.
The Treasury reports Alabama residents held $61,116,000 in U S savings bonds during the first ten months of 1946. Of $647,308,000 in bonds purchased in the war and after, 27 percent had been cashed, with Alabama’s retention above the national average.
Local society items list numerous Thanksgiving visits and weekend gatherings among Wallace, McAbee, Stephenson, Garrison, and related families. The notes mention travels from Decatur, Birmingham, Gadsden, Falkville, and Somerville, with several couples hosting relatives and a monthly singing at Neel Baptist church.
The United States spends more than 100 million dollars annually to operate school buses. In Britain the law still forbids eating meat on Wednesdays and mince pies at Christmas, reflecting unusual food regulations.
U S Senator Walter F. George of Georgia said after addressing the Kiwanis Club in Savannah that neither major party is hostile to the nation's interests. He noted that Democrats could do a better job if all who bore the name were true Democrats. The report also mentions Brazil’s Oiticica tree producing oil similar to tung oil for paints.
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