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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1952

Page

6

Christmas society events fill Decatur schedule

Christmas activities fill the Decatur calendar with numerous Society meetings. Winsome Sunday School Class hosts a Dec 9 social at Mrs Kathleen Malone s home. Seekers Bible Club Luncheon Dec 11 at Loyas Hotel. Decatur Women s Chamber of Commerce event at District One Sanatorium Dec 17 with gifts due by Dec 15.

Seekers Bible Club Loyas Hotel Raymond Parks Horace Lovin Paul Bryan W. W. Dinsmore Decatur Women’s Chamber of Commerce District One Sanatorium Buttrey’s Warren Ratliff Second Avenue Sam Frank Moore Bank Street Eddie Self Bennie Malone Wiseman Dinsmore George Sletcher Eldridge Guire Rufus Peerson John McGehee Tom Edgil W. J.williams Frank Yaney

Detroit Strike Scenes Painted by American Artist in Venice

Edward Melcarth, 38, born in Louisville, creates a 36 by 12 foot four panel canvas in Venice's Giudecca showing Detroit 1937 strike episodes with 60 workers, police, and street scenes. He plans to send the painting to the UAW in Detroit for exhibition.

Venice Detroit Edward Melcarth Louisville Mitchell-Bank Yorkshire Britain Melcarth The Giudecca Grand Canal Club S Winging London Chelsea United States Paris Persia Italy Melearth Automobile Workers Union UAW

Christmas Devotional and Exchange Evening at School

Clarence Light led carols while Mrs. Ruby Bussey read the Christmas story from Luke 2. Cathy Day and Joan Howard sang Away In A Manger. Reverend Jack Carroll offered the closing prayer. A brief business session followed the Christmas play The Perfect Gift. The association announced a date change for the evening games to December 16 at seven in the school cafeteria. Cakes and coffee were served to thirty five members and five guests.

Clarence Light Ruby Bussey Cathy Day Joan Howard Jack Carroll Luel Shaneyfelt Randy Johnson M. E. Busby Gilbert Edwards

Personal notes from Decatur and area

Wesley M. Turney a Hartseller business visitor in Decatur today. Mrs A T Faulkner returns home Tuesday from Gadsden after visiting the bedside of her friend Effie Conway who died at her home Sunday. Robert Long ill at home of Judge and Mrs W H Long returns Sunday night to Birmingham to resume studies at the Medical College of Alabama.

John Paterson Wallace London Sir Delaval Cotter Bart D.S.O 18Th Royal Hussars Wesley M. Turney Hartseller Decatur A. T. Faulkner Gadsden Effie Conway Robert Long Judge W. H. Long Birmingham The Medical College of Alabama

Hidden hazards in real estate contracts warned at town hall

A Home Title Guaranty Co symposium in New York gathered 1,500 real estate lawyers to discuss contract risks before closing. The debate covered post signing damage, under insurance, and delays that threaten buyers and sellers.

New York Town Hall Home Title Guaranty Co

Inflation Hits Crime In Nebraska Pushing Value Threshold

The Nebraska County Attorneys Association recommends raising the monetary dividing line between felonies and misdemeanors from 35 to 100 dollars. The change would redefine crimes in certain categories by the amount involved, with felonies carrying higher penalties.

O Uaaha Neb Nebraska County Attorneys Association

Dear Miss Dix Advice Column Highlights

Dorothy Dix counsels on jealousy in love marriage issues and moral guidance. Readers ask about trust, dating, sex education for a child, awaiting commitment, and infidelity in a mailbox affair with married friends.

Miss DIX B. J

Dorothy Dix Addresses Alcoholism in Home Tragedy Leaflet

The columnist notes a leaflet labeled Alcoholism in issue D-24 and invites readers to obtain a copy by sending a 3-cent stamped self-addressed envelope to Miss Dix at this newspaper.

Miss DIX Dorothy DIX

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Malone Central Baptist Church Kathleen Malone James Sims Ford W.C Gordon-Bibb School A.A.A.W American Association of University Women Lyons Hotel Richard Rad Emblem Decatur Emblem Club Elks Mizpah Order of the Eastern Star Joe S. Elliott Luna McKelvey Centennial Circle First Baptist Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church Johnny Wallace Earl Payne Erskine Chenault Sherman Street Charles Norwood W.C.T.U Woman's Christian Temperance Union Central Methodist Church Sixth Avenue Church OF God Woman's Missionary Society of the Sixth Avenue Church of Bert Allen Sixth Avenue West Louis Argend Cecil Bartlett Argend Lee Billions Robert Bradford Christ J. W. Hinkle Houston Rogers Bob Blackwell D. A. Clements National Defense Program D-A.r Terry Moore Alabama Jack Montgomery Tuscaloosa W. M. Woodries Decatur Country Club First Methodist Church John Simpson Richardson Richardson Maryleen Duncan William Joseph Duncan Jr Roswell Hine Richardson Athens Charlotte North Carolina Florida Joseph Ned Frazier Bill Frazier Dix Company Bank St Don's Floor Service Don Williams St. S E Storchij 2Nd Ave Jewelry the Record Shop Whos-Fm AP Newsfeatures Ira’s Boox & Girt Suor George Perry Youngstown Youngstown Kitchen ‘Center Lafayette St Phene By David G. Bareuther AP Real Estate Editor J. D. Manning Co Martin Muriel Nissen O. WN M. M S. S Patsy Kodak Duaflex Inc Fed. Tex Rudolph CimetaLy Gavie Singer Sewing Center Mig
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