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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1949
Page
9
A controlled exposure in a warm room at 89 F and 85 percent humidity showed rheumatic fever patients improved, with many symptom-free and able to work. Rheumatoid arthritis patients also fared well though relapses occurred after leaving the hot environment. Blood flow increased, skin temperature rose slightly, and throat streptococci diminished in heat.
More than 300 boys from about 100 Alabama communities are expected to attend the Boys State program at the University of Alabama. Opening June 11 the event runs through June 12 with attendees electing officials from governor to the supreme court to serve one day at the state capitol. Rev. Claude M Hagood, Americanism director for the American Legion, notes the program teaches youths how government works and sponsors the event annually.
Mobile Alabama January 27 civic leaders joined with a Gadsden delegation in urging Congress to appropriate funds to start work on the Alabama Coosa waterway. The Gadsden group had urged Montgomery and plans a visit to Selma. The effort is led by Mayor J H Meighan.
The piece notes rising US life expectancy from 1900 to 1948, with white men and women living longer and more babies reaching 65. Advances in medicine and public health reduced deaths from typhoid, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diarrhea, enteritis, and tuberculosis, and maternal deaths fell to one-fifth of two decades prior.
A large crowd attended the Sunday afternoon singing at Oak Ridge. The M Y F of Oak Ridge Methodist church joined Moss chapel for services Sunday night. Families and friends visited and hosted meals, with updates on illness and recovery. Portar Haynes continues to improve at home while Earl Legg remains ill.
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