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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1950
Page
8
Prices moved widely on the New York cotton exchange with a general advance in all futures by Friday night. A government request for a voluntary price freeze created temporary confusion, later clarified that the freeze covered cotton goods, not raw cotton or futures.
The Hartselle City School and Morgan County High School will close for a Christmas break from December 22 to January 1. Saturday afternoon a birthday party for Jane McClanahan featured Christmas decor, games, Santa, and numerous attendees from Hartselle and Decatur. The Census Bureau reported November cotton consumption at 1,008,872 running bales, above expectations, with mill stocks and weekly exports noted amid demand and price considerations ahead of policy goals.
Mrs. R. O. Mosby of Mississippi, sister of Highway Patrol Captain C. M. Thorson of Decatur, died Friday night in a traffic accident just south of Memphis. Funeral services were held at National Funeral Home in Memphis. Capt. Thorson, with 25 years in traffic control, has lost four close relatives to wrecks including a brother in law mother in law an uncle and now a sister.
Mobile bondsman Roy E. Dickerson a former lawbreaker and honorary colonel on Gov. Folsom staff recovers from injuries after a head on collision near Prattmont. He was treated at Prattville General Hospital for cuts bruises and a broken kneecap and discharged. Michigan State football under Coach Clarence Munn has lost only four home games in four seasons. Rams and Yanks offensive starting units average 212 pounds per man.
Mrs. J. F. Stewart Jr hosted a Hart selle Garden Club Christmas gathering with co hosts Mrs. W. H. Lovelady and Mrs. E. H. Sharpley. The home displayed Yuletide decorations centered on a mantel pipe organ with angels. Guests answered roll call with Bible flower quotations and awarded a gift exchange prize to Mrs. W. M. Booth. Twenty six members and one guest attended.
Mrs. L. G. Martin hosts Iris Garden Club on East Main Street. Miss Italyne Hardwick greets guests and handles gifts. The group features a Christmas program and prayer, with twenty members present and one new member welcomed.
The Crepe Myrtle Garden Club hosted a Christmas luncheon at Mrs. Pearl Huff’s home. Twenty-six members and four guests attended as Carroll Johnson led a brief invocation and a program including readings by Mrs. D. D. Lindsey, a Christmas story by Mrs. Herman McKee, and poems read by Mrs. Lindsey. The meeting closed with carols. Guests included Miss Martha Schroeder of Pontiac Michigan Miss Louise Groy of Cullman Mrs. E. T. Giers of Lynchburg Virginia and Mrs. Lee Dodson of Osborne Ohio.
Commanding generals of the 31st Alabama Mississippi and 47th Minnesota North Dakota National Guard divisions meet with General Mark W Clark at Fort Monroe Virginia December 28 and 29 to plan active Army service. Attending are Third and Fifth Army reps, Department of the Army, and the National Guard Bureau as both divisions prepare to enter active federal service January 16.
A three year old girl from Somerville Alabama writes to Santa Claus describing illness and requesting gifts including a doll, dresses, iron, garden tools, a ball, a color book, and stocking candy and fruit. She signs Drucilla Sharp and asks Santa to bring gifts for other children as well.
Col. F. R. (Riggs) Crump a Confederate veteran who saw Lee surrender at Appomattox is 103 years old. He is one of Alabama's two surviving men who wore the gray and remains a deacon at Refuge Baptist Church which he helped organize.
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