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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1936
Page
9
The army and navy unveiled a broad industrial preparedness plan proposing drastic regulation of industry and finance. It includes government control of prices and aims to ensure uninterrupted military supplies in war, revising 1931 and 1933 mobilization programs. The plan will go to Congress with draft legislation.
The second rehearsal of the cast for the Christmas pageant Transfiguration of the Gifts will be held tonight at Central Methodist Church at 5 p m. The cast comprises 18 people with eight speaking parts. Mrs H O Troup is musical director and Mrs W F Darrow directs staging.
Homer Doster of Huntsville is due to arrive to serve as assistant resident engineer in the Public Works Administration. He will assume duties overseeing county projects and public works programs.
Doster fills the vacant county office at the courthouse succeeding W A Sanders who recently resigned. The change places Doster in charge of county operations and marks a leadership transition for local government.
Market news from New York reports a settlement of Britain's royal crisis following the king's abdication spurring buying in stocks. Many issues rose fractionally to several points before gains narrowed in the late session as optimistic business news and bond and commodity strength provided support. Several major names led the session while a merger talk between Motor Products and Riggs Manufacturing barely moved.
Slaughter cattle steady to weak with steers priced 1 1 2c to 5 1 2c. veal calves 2 1 2c to 8c. Hogs listed from 7 15 to 9 15 per 100 lbs, sows 8 15. Lambs and sheep varied. Liverpool cotton at 7 08 to 7 68 per pound with 9,000 bales traded. Chicago live poultry unsettled with various weights and breeds priced from 11 to 16 per unit.
Lynn and family faced a life threatening incident when 16 year old Law son Lynn choked on a cedar fragment while making a Christmas tree. Dr T B Brindley in Hartselle directed urgent transfer to Ponce De Leon Clinic in Atlanta where a delicate operation removed the cedar piece and saved him.
A Morgan unit contributed 594 dollars to a relief drive. Churches and groups including Antioch, Bethlehem, and Rural Route areas provided donations totaling across several communities such as Central Decatur, Danville, Hartselle, and Union Grove, with multiple churches listed and various small gifts recorded.
Trinity city council members hosted a turkey dinner at Trinity School with attendees from Morgan County Board of Revenue and the Works Progress Administration. Present were Mayor Herbert Siviey and others including city attorneys J C Gilmer and A Caddell, WPA supervisor R W Shepherd, and former mayor O W Bass. Ed Humphrey prepared the meal.
At the HI Y Club meeting in Decatur High School it was announced that several boys will register for the Y M C A Conference in Tuscaloosa on January 13. Captain Rubber Nisbet of the Tide football team and a Hoover representative will speak. The club supports Christian character and citizenship with a yearly project and contributions to a Junior High cafeteria.
Governor McAlister agreed to convene a special session on December 16 in Nashville to enact legislation qualifying Tennessee to receive federal unemployment insurance grants.
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