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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1944
Page
3
A local sale notice lists an International hammer mill in good condition two circulating heaters and two or three turning plows offered by Grace M. Hough of Lacey's Springs. Set 13.
Enough first class used lumber to build four or five room house with windows doors sheet metal roof no framing. One G M C 112 ton truck five new tires and tubes one recapped tire in good running condition with new tag. Pair of warm mules wagon and harness. H A Wallace located one mile west of Speake School house in Lawrence County.
Gene Ahern reports Eva elementary and high school 4-H clubs demonstrated dairy feed mixing using 300 pounds crushed corn 100 pounds cotton seed meal and 4 pounds salt and advised feeding 3 pounds of mix per gallon of milk. The piece also notes A D Ward earned 80 bushels of corn per acre on a small 3-4 acre 4-H project and discusses pasture management and cotton storage for CCC loans with Morgan County Farm Bureau president B E Braswell. It highlights cotton storage readiness at Union Compress and Storage Warehouse in Decatur and urges farmer contacts for arrangements. A test by E C Smith shows vetch-grown corn yields 49.25 bushels per acre on 2 acres, vs higher yields on land with no vetch.
The Alabama court of appeals ruled Birmingham attorney D M Griswold 72 entitled to 5000 bond for the October sidewalk slaying of Thomas Dozier Sr 55 reversing Jeffer son county circuit court. Luther Berry charged with rape in Calhoun county also granted bond after appeal.
Plainview junior high will stage Lonely Little Liza Lou in three acts Friday night December 15 at the school. Cast includes Mrs Denman Ellion Maples Clarice Mayne Aline Speegle Billy Wilcox Chester Hale Liza Lou Wilcox Maxine Hale Pete Paul Blankenship Fred Norworth Erskine Speegle Elmer Peeting Roy Burnham Lady Juliet Stanton Rachel Sims Lord James Osmond Stanton Earl Covey Louden Harold Webster Nibby Vera Floyd Louden s assistant Horace Plemons
Gov. Chauncey Sparks answered a telegraphed appeal from Army Major General Frederick E. Uhl and urged an immediate meeting of the state labor supply committee to promote plans for increasing urgent and needed war production employment.
Chicago December meeting of newspaper publishers asks ITU representatives for a mutually satisfactory interpretation of laws and resolutions from the ITU convention this year. Spokesmen contend convention actions vest sole power in the ITU executive council to interpret and to abrogate local contracts.
A fragment notes woolen items shrink if rubbed or twisted during washing. The tip implies gentler handling to prevent damage to wool fibers.
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