Fire units battle multiple city blazes and grass fires
Mooresville home of Frank Richardson Jr. was consumed by a upstairs bedroom fire around 12:35 p.m. Saturday with flames seen ten feet from a window. booster lines saved the house though heavy loss is insured. Other fires nearby included a 3:20 p.m. Friday wiring blaze with no loss and several grass fires with no damage.
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Mooresville
Frank Chardson Jr
Floyd Elkins
Elkins
Fifteenth Avenue
Johnsony Street
Knights
Highway 31
Grant Street
Ninth Street
Market Street
Third Avenue
Ninth Avenue
Fourth Street
Rent controls remain in effect after 1949 leases
Rent controls stay in force though some leases expired. Area Rent Director E R Carter Jr notes under the 1949 housing and rent act the legal maximum sets rents. Landlords may not collect more until an official order and notice to owner and tenant is given. A fact sheet is available at the rent office 401 East Cain Street or by phone 342.
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E. R. Carter, Jr
Carter
East Cain Street
U S Tourists Spent Substantial Sum in Canada Last Year
The estimate places U S travelers in Canada as spending about a quarter of a billion dollars during the prior year. The figure highlights cross border tourism activity and reflects consumer spending patterns by U S visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Canada
Price Fluctuations in 1949 Cotton Less Than 1948
New Orleans cotton market showed narrower price swings in 1949 than 1948, with spot declines around $10 per bale. Futures ranged from 2.10 to 10.60 beneath 1948 year end, and the December 8 average was 30.11 cents vs 32.29 a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Frendling
New Orleans
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
New Orleans Exchange
Farm curb on 1950 crop debated amid price support wrangles
A 1950 51 crop outlook shifts with a two parity formula compromise. If controls apply 90 percent parity, otherwise the old parity or a streamlined method may prevail. Market sentiment improves as textile exports and loan movement rise. Futures volume halves from the prior year, trading scarce in the final two months.
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Economic Cooperation Administration
Proram
Congress
Brannan
Brdman
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Valentino Named Greatest Lover of the Twentieth Century
HAL BOYLE ranks Rudolph Valentino as the era’s top lover, arguing his dark charm captivated men and women alike. The piece traces Valentino’s lasting romance icon status, noting other famed idols and a pop culture gaze on love’s era, while acknowledging limits of polemical polls.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Rudolph Valentino
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Valentino
Redy
Boulder Dam
Francis X. Bushman
John Barrymore
John Gilbert
Gilbert
Clark Gable
Tommy Manville
Gary Cooper
Ronald Colman
Charles Boyer
Bing Crosby
Aly Khan
Farouk
Egypt
Ezio Pinza
Apostle of
Croatian Lad Now is Here Heroic Sixth Grader Foils Robber
In Cleveland on December 31 a 12 year old Croatian immigrant John Badovinac Jr. confronted an armed robber at his father’s beverage store. The masked gunman fled after the boy and a store employee subdued him. Detectives later arrested George A. Green, 24, nearby.
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Cleveland
United States
Croatia
John Radovinac, Jr
John
Clarence Lavan
Young Badovinac
John Badovinac, Sr
George A. Green
Back to School for Young Folks in Hartselle
Hartselle and Morgan county students return after a Christmas break with classes resuming Monday in elementary and high schools. PTA meets Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Hartselle elementary. Homemaker’s Club hosts Christmas party at Morgan County High School Vocational Building with Mrs. Ben Bean presiding and readings by Mrs. S W Praytor. The group shared carols and a reading of The Littlest Angel, followed by refreshments. Personal items note visits from Pensacola, Brinson, and Birmingham relatives.
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Hartselle
Morgan County
PTA
Parent-Teacher Association
Guy Roberts
Morgan County High School
Ben Bean
S. W. Praytor
D.g.channell
Ruben B. Orr
Pensacola
Fla
Falkville
W. S. Thornhill
H. B. Thornhill
Charles Terry
Brinson
W. D. Murphree
Tuscaloosa
Decatur
G. P. Wiggins
Jimmy
Birmingham
Hart
Local Residents Share Christmas Visits and News
A parade of holiday guests visits include Mr. and Mrs. Harry Puckett of Birmingham staying with G. W. Puckett and Jim Cain family. Mrs. Ollie Holder improves after illness. Lt. Col. Joe W. Burleson of Columbus, Ga visits relatives. Several families travel to and from Eastaboga Paint Rock Birmingham Columbus and Detroit for Christmas and New Year family time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Winn
Eastaboga
Jim Cain
Josephine Puckett
Nashville
Doris Roberts
First Baptist Church
Paint Rock
P. R. Chenault
Moulton
S. L. Sharpley
Talladega
E. H. Sharpley
Bush Gilchrist
Little Son
Birmingham
George Butler Jackson
Alexandria
Mr. Jackson
A. E. Jackson
Services today for Mrs Carr at Christ Church
Funeral services for Mrs Na Elizabeth Carr 74 will be held today at 2 p m at Christ Church on Ninth Street conducted by Charles R Brewer and B Gen wi. Interment at New Garden eight miles north of Athens with Brown directing. Mrs Carr died Friday at 1 pm in a local hospital after a heart attack. She had been in ill health about a month. Surviving are daughter Mrs Ross Little of Decatur, three sisters Mrs Nora Webster Athens Mary Webster Elkmont and Alvie Reyer Ardmore, a grandson and several other relatives. Pallbearers named will serve. Widow of T M Carr. Native of Tennessee earlier resident of Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Na Elizabeth
Carr
Seaan Christ
Charles R. Brewer
B. Gen Wi Church
Christ
New Garden
Athens
Brown
Ross Little
Decatur
Nora Webster
Mary Webster
Elkmont I
Alvie Reyer
Ardmore
T. M. Carr
Tennessee
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B. Frank Chenault
Grant St
Roy D.hicks
Bobby Ann Hicks
Winston- Salem
N.C
W. R. Burke
Winston-Salem
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Florida
S.S.S
S.S
Mark
Has Boyle
Scott
R J. Scott
A. Clark
Mississippi Pe River
Pacific
Alaska
Harold Doss
Florence
C. C. Doss
Paul Hodges
Carbon Hill
Hodges
Carrie Hutchinson
Washington, D. C
A W. T. Stewart Sr
W. H. Thompson
Chi
Cago
Ill
W. C. Thompson
Ruth Thompson
Osler “Lang
Camp Hill
Stephenson
Hal Penn
Hubert Penn
Hartselle Hospital
Mrs. Carr
Ferry Street
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