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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1946
Page
3
Spot cotton prices rose sharply with middling 15 16 inch lint averaging 33.90 cents in ten markets on Thursday, up from 31 cents last Wednesday and 32.78 a year ago. The gain puts the weekly average at the highest since 1923 24 and about nine cents above parity amid a government crop report showing 18 316 000 acres in cultivation on July 1.
Auburn Turner 32 from Blount County had bond denied by Circuit Judge A A Griffith after a habeas corpus petition. Turner and Auburn Meade 21 remain jailed awaiting September circuit court term on charges they raped 16 year old Arzelle Haynes in a Holly Pond woods incident after giving her a ride.
Production on this acreage would be about 9,200,000 running bales at last year's yield per acre. Bales reported in the ten markets totaled 70,100 compared with 43,200 bales last week and 67,600 bales in the corresponding week a year ago. Mill buying of raw cotton increased a little in early July but the volume was moderate. New crop cotton was said to be moving to markets from Southern Tex as. The demand for this cotton was said to be strong. Cotton textile markets continued inactive. Demand was said to be strong, but most mills and selling agencies were said to be with drawing offers because of unsettled vice conditions.
A cross match between Joe's and Dill's blood proved compatible and the transfusion started at once. Mr Walsh requested Mr Palog be contacted by phone. About a quarter of the Netherlands lies below sea level.
Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Smith hosted a July 9 party at Delano Park for their daughter Nancy Lou Smith turning 12. Attendees included Eloise Latham, Philip Stinson, Betty Reeder Banks, Dean Lyle, Jo Ann Livingston, Kenneth Mc Daniel, Mary Battle King, Joe Allen Price, Sue Berry, Roy Nixon, Billie Glynn Garnett, Raymond Nixon, Cecil Timberlake, Arthur Howard Garnett, Florence Adams, and the Coffman and Garnett families.
Alabama shippers confer with the Public Service Commission in Montgomery to present freight problems to the Interstate Commerce Commission. A special hearing is set for July 22 in Chicago.
The record lists numerous loan transfers with names and dollar amounts, including W. A. Brown and others to various recipients, plus property and indebtedness notes. It ends with several marriage licenses issued for residents of Moulton Town Creek Decatur and surrounding areas.
The Decatur public summer school closed its first term on Friday July 12 reporting the largest enrollment for summer work. Seven teachers under R. Riley conducted classes with five veterans aiming to complete high school. The second term begins Monday July 13 at Decatur junior high with W. T. Jordan in charge and a staff including Mabel Peer and others. Students must register by eight o clock Monday. classes depend on sufficient requests.
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