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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1940
Page
3
A Christmas tree and program will be held at Shoal Creek Church Tuesday evening with public invited to attend and place gifts on the tree. The event begins at seven o'clock following a Sunday program featuring preaching at 11 and a Sunday evening singing.
The Census Bureau reports the 1940 census shows the average household size at 3.8 persons, continuing a 50 year trend of declining families. California Oregon and Washington average 3.2, while the South Atlantic region averages 4.2 and North Carolina leads with 4.5.
The state board of education requests bids by December 30 for 80 000 dollars in revenue bonds to be issued for Florence and Jacksonville Teachers Colleges. Receipts from the bonds will retire by student fees and fund new dormitories and recreational facilities built with WPA labor.
In a tense scene from Central Press Association fiction, Kit confronts Vance about his careless lifestyle and rumored affairs as she reflects on their strained relationship. Vance returns with excuses and violets, begging forgiveness, while Kit resists and asks him to leave. The moment closes with Kit nursing hurt and Vance departing, hinting at deeper conflict to follow.
Census Bureau reports cotton crop ginnings through Dec 13 at 11,433,304 running bales up from 11,276,225 last year and 11,412,189 two years ago. Round bales total 3,482. American-Egyptian and Sea Island counts are 23,560 and 4,520 respectively with state tallies for Alabama Florida Georgia Mississippi South Carolina and Tennessee.
The steamer Norman Crawford of Arrows Transportation passed Johnsonville Tennessee with a barge carrying about 150 automobiles bound for Guntersville Alabama. Autos were trucked from Detroit to Evansville Indiana and loaded onto a special auto carrier barge. Unloading will occur at Guntersville by derrick for distribution to Alabama and Georgia. This marks the beginning of an ongoing shipment movement.
Lincoln the post office project yields a surprising rediscovery as carpenter E. A. Ellingston locates the long missing brace and bit in a crevice of an earlier addition. The tools, lost twenty five years ago, are found in good condition.
The Rock Creek club met at Mrs. Oliver Holmes home, presided by the president. Members exchanged Christmas gifts and O. J. Self demonstrated baking cookies and crafted a cedar and bell table decoration. Refreshments were served. one visitor attended.
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