Bridge Bonds Suit Challenges Alabama Toll Projects
A Mobile resident filed in Montgomery circuit court to void a financing agreement by the State Bridge Commission for four toll bridges costing 6.5 million dollars. The Birmingham firm Sadler and Sadler represents H. L. Dozier. The suit alleges bad faith by excluding bidders and questions the bank’s authority to purchase bonds, naming bridges from Dauphin Island to Coffeeville, Verbena, and Flat Rock with costs ranging up to 2.5 million.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Bridge Commission
Mobile County
Commission
Sadler and
Sadler
Birmingham
State National Bank of Decatur
Gulf Coast
Dauphin Island
Coffeeville
Verbena
Tennessee River
Flat Rock
Debater D. Horace Dome Kept In The News
The piece mocks D. Horace Dome for glib talk and vague claims, noting he never cites dates and always says He has heard. It observes public fatigue with his debates and references a separate Detroit Free Press line about Franco’s daughter’s Madrid royal wedding and seven million in presents.
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D. Horace Dome
Zoo
Dome
Karl Flaster
Franco
Madrid
Asants
Detroit Free Press
Spring Bawl In Pee Se Poets Rave Of Love
A fragment poetry note points to spring as a season of love and romance. Poets praise flowers vows and playful lines about courting and courtship in a light whimsical tone.
Community notes list visits and illnesses in regional towns
Local residents are noted visiting family and friends across Wheeler Town Creek and Courtland. Illnesses include Martha Dewey and Wilda Bynum with mumps. Various social gatherings occur with neighbors from Camp Westmoreland Sheffield and Guntersville.
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Will
Cora Aston
Maggie Terry
Ethel Cross
Wheeler
Town Creek
Courtland
Ike Terry
Dewey Bynum
Wilda
Martha Dewey
Prentice Norne
Brown Norn
Youth Activity Week Observed by Methodists
The Methodists held Youth Activity Week with 36 enrollees and strong attendance. Projects included window boxes church signs census and painting doors in the new educational building. Four new members Genese Gipson Rayburn Gipson Ray Garrett and Delores Butler joined. baptisms held at Joe Wheeler Dam.
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Methodists
Methodist Church
Phyllis Stuckey
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Martha Almon
Florence
Genese and
Rayburn Gipson
Ray Garrett
Delores Butler
Joe‘ Wheeler Dam
Porter Kimbrel
J. R Rush
Cora Howard
Ruth Anderson
Norton
Phillis Stuckey
Charles
Martha Howard
Ann
Peggy Gibson
Genese
Betty
Nellie Mae Trousdale
Gwendolyn
Jerry Nell Streater
James Carlton Brackin
Herschel
James Edward Owens
Margie Dell Crisler
Delores
Peggy Butler
Joe Wesley Sanderson
Jo Ann Stypes
Gary Brackin
Nina Jean Slaton
Read it and weep quip on talk labeled as conversation
Richard Wheeler jokes that small talk differs by gender, noting that when women and the speaker engage in elated chatter it is labeled conversation while when men do the same it is simply called talking. The quip satirizes social double standards in everyday talk.
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Richard Wheeler
Local Readers Visit Relatives Across Town and States
Mr and Mrs Warren of Oak Tennessee visited Mrs Clara art and other relatives here and at Courtland last week. Morris Ray of Camden Tennessee visited Mr and Mrs E r-e last weekend. Miss Lucy Greenhaw was a Moulton visitor Saturday. Mrs Mary Conner and daughter and Mrs Guy Smith are guests of their aunt Mrs Rosy Jenkins of Caddo Mills Texas.
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R. R. Berrymas
Fort Walton
Florida
L. W. Roberts
Tommy
Frances
Fred Adkins
Hubert Coffey
Reynolds
Mae Crook
Peabody College
L.F. Crook
Robbie
Owens
Joe Wheeler Dam Park
Riley Garrett
Gorgus
Oscar le
A. R
Vincent
Alabama
Colley
Georgia
Jack
Pensacola
J Mongomery
Decatur
Theda
Betty Roe
Prattville
Homer Giddens
Morris Ray
Camden
Er—e
Abrams
L. W. Sarderon
Moulton
Lucy Greenhaw
Mary Conner
Guy Smith
Rosy Jenkins
Caddo Mills
Texas
Aes
Land of the big feet: explorers name Patagonia
Early explorers in Southern Argentina dubbed the region Patagonia meaning land of the big feet after discovering unusually large footprints. The term reflects their awe at the vast landscape and unfamiliar geography.
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Argentina
Patagonia
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Automobile
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Cain
Bank St
Wilda Bynum
Jackie’ Montgomery
Harry Fennel Anderson
Whey Norton
Camp Westmoreland
Henry Norton
Willie Norton
Slaton
Emma Owens
Ed Owens
Earl Owens
Dickey
Tri-Cities
Etta Sanderson
Lucille Brackin
Don
Margie
Eastern Star
Sheffield
Sanderson
C. T. Manley
Mississippi State
John Manley
D. H. Talley
Chattanooga
R. O.brackin
U. S
Suwon
South Korea
North Korea
Enris A. Nolan
Los Angeles
N. Y. Central
Commodore Vanderbilt
Grace G. Fisher
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Johnny
Mamma
Jock
Pat
Celia B
Martin
Wesleyan Guild
Mary George Roberson
Mildred Houston
Roberson
Houston
Almon
R. Rush
Marie Lee
Nita Carter
Wo Spangler
Ruth Nndetects
Hall Place
J. R. Rush
Rev. Smith
Meeting OF
Lawrence Baptists
Lawrence County Baptists
Baptist Church
Clifford Reding
Kelly
Bro
Cartee
Santa FE
Santa Fe Railway
Galesburg
el Capitan
Kansas City
Chicago
Sud
H. Ryan
E. Moulton
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