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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1956
Page
9
Cotton futures prices held steady this week on the New York Cotton Exchange. All active contracts posted modest gains except July, with March up to $1.00 a base and the spot month down 5 cents at the finish. No news developments were reported.
Dr. Frank J. Soday announces Edward V. Burnthall as senior section leader in charge of the dyeing and finishing division at Chemstrand Corp. Burnthall, born in Crewe England, has 20 years with Canadian firms and has represented Canada at ISO conferences. He and his wife Mary and children Paul Stephen and Michael live at 1301 Eleventh St. SE Decatur.
The tanker Maxton, converted to carry loaded trailers, sails for Houston as the third ship in Pan Atlantic Steamship Corp's water-truck service. Mobile Ship Repair Inc converted the T-2 tanker with a deck to hold 66 trailers totaling 2,800,000 pounds. Trailers are loaded at factories and moved to ship with chassis removed, then reattached at port. Pan Atlantic aims for 20 more tankers for the sea land operation as Ideal X and Alemena pioneer the service between Newark and Texas.
Negro Jesse Shelley dies Thursday at his residence 708 Fink Street. Final rites will be announced later by Reynolds Funeral Home.
Faribault is in Rice county and not a county seat. Blue Earth is in Faribault county, while Mankato is the county seat of Blue Earth county.
A young girl in New Ulm asks her mother to avoid letting stamps go unloved as she finishes pasting stamps in a collection book saying she has run out of lickem.
A four year old boy named Michie Pace ran into the side of a 1955 Buick on old Moulton Road near Montgomery store and was uninjured. Geneva Vaughn of Decatur, who drove west, swerved into a ditch to avoid the child as a companion walked nearby. police W C Hunter and W D Collier investigated. Workers in over 200 skilled occupations were deferred by U S World War II draft programs.
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