Decatur Civitan Club Hosts Meeting and Convention Photos
The Decatur Civitan Club met at the Why Not cafe for a monthly business session. Delegates headed to the Dallas convention shared trip reports while Dr. A. M. Roan filmed the group, capturing pictures of the Decatur delegates at the event.
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Decatur Civitan Club
Why Not
Dallas
Texas
Elmer Angesident
Watson Carlisle
Sam Evans
T. E. Putnam
A. M. Roan
Decatur
Decatur Civitan reports self funding and convention greetings
Elmer Chamberlain promotes a pay-as-you-go motor fund scheme on his boat. Decatur Civitan Club tops the convention attendance besides Dallas host. A thank you letter from the Tennessee Valley Scout council praises the donation for two boys to attend a national event at Valley Forge. The club marks ten years in August and plans officer and committee meetings.
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Alton, Dil
Elmer Chamberlain
Decatur Club
Civitan
Dallas
Tennessee Valley Scout Council
Valley Forge
Decatur Civitan Club
Why Not
Dix Co
B. B. Comer Lyle
Rutledge Thomas
Peta
Tennessee Valley
Nation Today explodes NSRB role in wartime planning
James Marlow details the National Security Resources Board led by W. Stuart Symington. The NSRB, with seven cabinet members and a 280 member staff, outlines eight offices studying manpower production materials energy utilities economic management foreign activities civilian mobilization and transportation to ready the country for wartime.
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Washington
National Security Resources Board
NSRB
W. Stuart Symington
Air Force
Truman
Symington
Treasury
Defense
State
Interior
Agriculture
Commerce
Labor
Congress
NLRB
Los Economics
Armed Services
Munitions Board
Negro Couple To Continue Labor On Bombed Home
In Irmingham Alabama a middle aged negro couple pressed on with their dynamited home project hoping for harmony with white neighbors. The Boykin residence office faced white homes and had about $5000 in damage covered by insurance under an FHA loan. An armed watchman guards the site with police protection promised.
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Irmingham
Ala
J. A. Boykin
Boykin
Floyd Eddins
Boykins
Pacific
Watauga Dam Earns Top Safety Record 1946 48
Watauga dam achieved the lowest injury frequency and severity among large earth dam builders from 1946 to 1948. Its frequency rate was 5.1 injuries per million man hours versus an 18.4 industry average, and its severity rate was 2.0 days lost per thousand hours compared with 5.31 industry average.
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Watauga Dam
Watauga
National Safety Council
Council
Poland Israel trade pact eyed for December
Poland and Israel plan to sign a new trade agreement before December 1 after extending a prior pact to that date. Israel continues to import cement wood iron and other building materials from Poland while exporting citrus fruits dental supplies and special chemicals to Poland.
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Jerusalem
Poland
Israel
Eight NLRB Offices Seen as Wartime Drafters for Agencies
The article argues the eight NLRB regional offices could seed wartime bodies like a manpower commission, civil defense agency, and a war production board. It notes cabinet members on the NSRB could leverage diverse government thinking, enabling Truman to issue executive orders for home-front mobilization while Congress handles price control and rationing.
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NLRB
Manpower Commission
Civil Defense Agency
War Production Board
NSRB
Truman
Symington
Congress
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TMS
American Rational Red Cross
Nation Today
James Marlow
Sally
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Decatur Super
Kentucky
Young Okra
Bologna, Ib
Pride OF Dixie Flour
Meslion Mrs
Clarence Lime Trinity
O. Craft Morris Minor
Super Market
First Ave
Faye Tow
Clarence Sims Trinity
Eee
Princess
Monarch
Jean Foster
Mother’s
Bacon
Fryers, Ib
Bologna
OLEO
Gallen
Mick
Mama TeQay
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