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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1957
Page
14
TVA announced that at the end of the 1957 fiscal year 214 industrial firms with demands over 1,000 kilowatts were served by TVA distributors, a 91 percent rise from 112 firms in June 1950. Of these, 81 exceeded 2,500 kW and 35 over 5,000 kW, with Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville home to many.
TVA reports twelve tracts of land on Kentucky Lake sold at public auction for 33,325 dollars. Ten of the tracts are in Stewart County Tennessee and the buyer details are undisclosed.
Athens Alabama city council amended the 1958 license code with new annual fees for various trades. Advertising agents and solicitors pay 25 dollars. ammo dealers 25 dollars. itinerant tire vulcanizers 100 per year. credit bureaus 20. fish dealers 50 and itinerant fish dealers 150. newspapers and job printers 25. laundries 50 and itinerant laundries 150. magazine solicitors 25. merchandise dealers 10 per week or 10 per year for goods under 500. itinerant music boxes 45.
Morgan County farmers benefit from Auburn University agriculture research. Collier cites improved cotton varieties, hybrid corn, high yielding grains, forage crops, fertilizers, meat-type hogs, and beef sire testing. He urges funding for new research buildings and equipment. The article notes a Sunday movie theater fee drop from 250 to 75 dollars.
Playwright Maxwell Anderson previews The Golden Six for Boston University after giving the script last spring. The university plans a production about Roman emperors from Julius to Caligula and marks donor papers at the University of North Dakota. Amendment 5 funds 40 million dollars in bonds with no new taxes for campus facilities and agriculture improvements.
Alan A Wade manager of the county ASC lists polling sites for cotton growers on December 10 to decide if marketing quotas will apply to the 1958 upland cotton crop. Locations include Hillsboro Coffey's store Blythe's office Moulton courthouse and many others across Lawrence County. The Pan American Highway project from the U S Mexican border to the Panama Canal is expected to finish by end of 1959.
City police logged eight burglaries and 280 court offenses in November. Stop sign violations led with 58 failures, followed by disorderly conduct 47 and intoxicated on a public street 45. Other counts include gaming 20 vagrancy 17 driving without license 16 speeding 15 and over parking 12. Fines and forfeitures totaled 4,733 with 2,610 from meters and 290 from curb cops. Police investigated 32 accidents, four with minor injuries.
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