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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 29, 1946

Page

9

Allen Named Midshipman in Holloway Navy Plan

Robert A. Allen a 19 year old son of Dr Speeds DL Allen of Decatur is among the first announced for the Holloway plan officer candidates program. The scheme funds a four year college education with early flight training and results in commissions as ensigns or second lieutenants after two years of service and flight instruction.

Robert A. Allen Speeds DL. Allen Decatur Navy America Marine Corps Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps NACP NCAP USN E Hy

Daily Crossword Clues Fragment List

A garbled word puzzle item list presents crossword clues with partial phrases such as sour apple kind, explosive missile, covering on the head, dried cat nut meat, needs, measure in chin units, boat, letter C, highest cara, epoch, skin of an ge, egg cells, birthplace of, applaue, covered with small figures tar, grampur, epex, affirmative animal, weep, the old English, bulky piece of timber, parrot tN Zea, gram abbr, young dog, lament, twisted fabric we ve em pty, Laughs loudly and harshly, trouble, courage slang Mohammed, to list again, place where, chum bread is, civet-like made animals.

Mohammed

Monk s cowl and other puzzle clues list

A cryptogram quotation puzzle presents clues such as a monk s cowl and a list of cross words with numbers. The cryptogram shows substitution letters and ends with a dated quote. Yesterday s Cryptoquote recalls a famous line about memory and worth.

Late Bob Sparkman remembered as pithy Texas writer

Robert E. Sparkman a Morgan county native who moved to Texas was longtime Dallas News correspondent noted for humorous oddities and memorable stories. He also served in public office and the legislature while pursuing local memorial efforts for Confederate veterans and distributing walnuts to lineages.

Bob Sparkman Robert E Bob) Sparkman Morgan County Texas Dallas News Mr. Sparkman Gynn C. Sparkman Elizabeth Means Sparkman Minnie Ward First Methodist Church of Italy Sparkman Trinity River Dallas Europe Mussolini Hillsboro Ellis County Reno War Department

Rent Reports Due December 31 1946

About four percent of hotels tourist courts and rooming houses have filed supplemental registrations. The extension act requires separate classification of transient hotels residential or apartment hotels and rooming houses. Landlords must file a one page form by December 31 1946 at the OPA Rent Office Decatur to establish four categories.

Holmes Decatur OPA

Family Reunion at the Hawkins Home in Decatur

Mrs. H. D. Hawkins hosts a large family dinner at 1530 Fifth Avenue South with numerous relatives from Decatur Baytown Birmingham Somerville Hillsboro and beyond including Mr and Mrs Jack Hobbs Ross Hawkins Avery Hawkins Hoyt Bedingfield and others.

H. D. Hawkins Fifth Avenue South E. H. Leeman Bird Larry Joe George Hodge Charles Mattie Willis Decatur Jimmy Hawkins Baytown Texas J. O. Hawkins Birmingham Mason Hawkins E. N

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