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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1952
Page
8
Dorothy Dix advises honoring family traditions on New Year Eve, urging a 16 year old and her 17 year old sister Beth to stay home with their father. She encourages contributing a home celebration idea and stresses preserving family rituals over attending external gatherings.
Two separate crashes on Somerville Road and Sixth Street SE caused about 75 dollars and 150 dollars in damage. One driver was arrested for driving while intoxicated after ramming a parked car. officers named Charles Edward Vaughn and Charles B Riggs as involved.
The Nippon Times reports two 900 year old swords were taken to the United States as souvenirs by U S soldiers and later returned with help from the U S military government after authorities recognized their historic value to the Hakozaki Hachim man shrine on Kyushu.
A sequence of property transfers and deed corrections including J G Burden to G Burden for 1.00 Ray Ashwander to Bennie W Malone for 10250 W R and Virgie Bates to Azle and Lillian Kirby for 1000 The Decatur Land Company to Daniele L Worth 1000 W M Chenault Agency to Hardin and Ruth Hughes 7601.75 Elbert F Compton to William Johnson 2200 Elmer Morris to Elbert Morris Sam Pepper to Billy Nails 2800 R Wilson Orr administrator to The Housing Authority Hartselle deed of correction Curtis Albright to H H Wright deed of correction Birmingham Trust National Bank to Eugene Chenault 5 A B Dobbs to Claudie Morris 3500 J S Pepper to Kate Tucker 25 W E Russell to Gaines Lovelady 3150 J C Russell to Joe Wear 1700.
The document lists John William Goforth a 42 year old sergeant of the guards at Chem strand living at 1403 Eighth Street SE transferring to Hettie Anderson Young age 36 of 204 Sixth Street SE. It also notes Leslie Smith Guffey a 24 year old show man of 803 East Moulton Street transferring to Maudie Leona Durham an 18 year old Decatur receptionist.
Dr James S Tapp Chemstrand group leader on polymer problems will speak at the North Alabama section ACS December meeting at Decatur Country Club The talk on Chemistry of Synthetic Elastomers begins at 730 after dinner at 630 Tapp joined Chemstrand in August after six years as assistant manager of research at Polymer Corporation of Sarnia Canada He was with the National Research Council at Ottawa until 1946 and holds degrees from Western Ontario McGill and University of London He is a native of Canada and earned a PhD in chemistry
The fourth annual Southern Regional Phosphorus Work Conference opens at Alabama Polytechnic Institute with scientists from nine Southern states Puerto Rico and Washington DC attending. Radiophosphorus experiments on fertilizer uptake and root activity will be presented along with phosphorus source tests. A preview of 1953 research plans sulfur studies and a business meeting close the conference Wednesday.
Highway Patrol reported two weekend crashes in Lawrence County with no injuries. A 1949 Ford driven by Elmer McCaghren collided head on with a 1950 Chevrolet pickup driven by Daniel Black at Five Points, $200 damage. A 1942 Mercury left the road after being blinded by lights near Wheeler Dam, uninjured driver Royce White, $175 damage to sign and car. Pluto, the outermost planet, was discovered in 1930.
New York reports Scotland opened a reindeer herd on Northern moors with eight animals and three deaths this year to boost milk and meat. Ten more Norwegian reindeer will be imported as part of the program.
Two letters from Decatur residents urge support for the school bond plan. Belle Chenault advocates YES to fund education and civic growth, while a former teacher argues for more school buildings despite tax questions.
The opposite young is born an embryo and incubates in the abdominal pouch, a process which Dr Hartman has observed and recorded pictorially in his book.
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