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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1948
Page
4
A collage of clippings notes Truman tax talk and a veto fight, Sugar Bowl chatter, and post season plans for Decatur’s Red Raiders. It cites Eleanor Roosevelt’s critique of Henry Wallace, Sugar Bowl crowds, and local political interest ahead of a Democratic primary.
Governor James E. Folsom campaigned intensely and lost the self-starter amendment as rural voters rejected the plan funded by a large debt for mail box roads. The defeat leaves Folsom and the legislature distant and the rural road system blamed for the outcome.
Secret code reports Czechoslovakia will imitate Russia in devaluing its currency. Unofficial exchange rates reach 306 crowns per dollar, six times the official 50 to 1 rate.
The Interior Department proposes an 80 million dollar ten year Navajo rehabilitation plan with six focus areas: range and soil protection education health roads resettlement and small irrigation. It aims to stop soil loss by wind and water and to expand schooling and medical services on the reservation spanning Arizona New Mexico and Utah.
Mrs Rosa Lemmond and Mrs Victoria Mason visited Mrs Arlene Sivley and children Monday. Play Always In Trouble at Center Springs church New Year’s Eve raised 35 dollars. Families listed visit relatives including McGee McGee Vaughn and Sivley households. Mrs Arlene Sivley and daughter Nell visited Lorene Turney Saturday afternoon.
A medical explanation of intussusception in young babies, detailing age range, causes, symptoms such as colicky pain vomiting and blood in stools, and the progression to pallor shock or collapse. It notes diagnosis by abdominal lump and possible anesthesia and X-ray, with treatment usually involving surgery. Also includes a Q and A about pins and needles in legs and possible causes.
Two days before the 1948 presidential nominating process Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York criticized Truman over high living costs and invoked Roosevelt's 1930s policies, signaling the GOP may stress Roosevelt themes in next year's race.
Westbrook Pegler notes Judge Conger of the Southern District of New York granted Isidor Lipschutz Belgian-born citizenship after a lengthy case. The column accuses Lipschutz of espionage ties and political meddling while criticizing the judge’s opaque proceedings and absence during the decision.
The virgin hardwood forests across Kentucky Ohio and Indiana grew so thick that a rider on horseback could rarely pass through.
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