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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1952
Page
9
Mrs Nina Harves of Birmingham Alabama receives a special Gold Star Mother pin at the sixth annual Old Hickory Infantry Division Association convention. Dr Alfred Treherne of Atmore Alabama is named third vice president.
A New York chemical firm investigated a Utah sheep herder for a large order of nose drops. The sheepman said he put drops in ewes to compel parenting of orphan lambs, claiming one drop made a lamb appear maternal to the ewe.
The 53rd annual Hartselle Camp Ground meeting opens with old fashioned singing and preaching. Farmers and nonfarmers from Hartselle and Decatur join others from several states for protracted services. The event, begun 52 years ago, preserves the traditional schedule with day and night services and on the ground meals.
Mobile building trades workers returning to work next Monday will receive a general 20 cent an hour raise with an additional 5 cent bump in 60 days. Unions sought 25 cents, some northern jobs paid it, contractors had offered 16 cents. Estimated 2,000 quit on Monday, later reduced as many found work elsewhere. Existing scales listed include bricklayers 2.80, carpenters 2.16, brush painters 2.00, plasterers 2.35, iron workers 2.46, operating engineers 2.44, laborers 1.16.
Mobile delegate Marvin Mostellar from Alabama's First District remains uncommitted though his alternate A. S. Whiting leans toward Eisenhower. Mostellar has met both Eisenhower and Taft and won’t decide until Chicago. Four Alabama delegates are for Eisenhower, nine for Taft.
The Lebanese government blocks screening of the anti Jewish film Jude Suss despite a censorship board approval. A Beirut theater sought permission but the interior ministry forbade the presentation. The note mentions Lebanon's stance toward its Jewish minority during war with Israel. Telescopes note Jupiter surface features belts of light and dark materials.
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