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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1952
Page
7
Dorothy Dix describes a reader in law case living apart from her married daughter yet sharing meals and shopping support. The adviser praises the one-room setup as practical, noting only potential monotony without outside activity and suggesting it as a model for other families to reduce in-law conflict.
AFL and CIO leaders press for a New Deal type ticket and platform at the Democratic convention. They reject Barkley Isell Kerr and back Harriman Kefauver or Stevenson. They oppose Truman's renomination and urge liberal party promises and action against Dixie Democrats to enact civil rights legislation.
Funeral services for State Sen. Ben R. Fant a Blount County native from the Walter community near Hanceville where he owned a farm were held after illness. He served on several Senate committees including constitutional revision and amendment corporations agriculture public roads and highways fish and game aviation and traffic. He survived by his widow two sons Alfred and Jimmie Fant and two daughters Mrs Sybil Tipton of Cullman and Donna Lou Fant Boaz.
Dorothy Dix outlines the advantages and drawbacks of ending marriage in leaflet D-2 titled Divorce. Requests for copies require a 3 cent stamp, self addressed envelope to Miss Dix care of this newspaper.
The Courtland Order of Eastern Star 498 held a candlelight installation Thursday night with Mrs. Rhoda Roe as installing officer. New officers for the year include Mrs. Abel Terry as Worthy Matron and Price Terry as Worthy Patron. An elaborate banquet followed at the Legion Hall with about fifty members and visitors attending.
Mr and Mrs William Hudson returned Monday after a two weeks visit in Pennsylvania and Ohio meeting their daughter Miss Mere Hudson in Pittsburgh who was returning from an extended visit in Canada Niagara Falls and other places of interest Claude Lee Terry has gone to Kalamazoo Michigan Mrs Claude Lee Terry spent Monday night with Mr and Mrs Harold Terry Mr and Mrs Charles Pippen Bessemer visiting Ed Pippen Miss Jewel Blaxton vacationing in Gadsden visiting brother Dillard Blaxton Jr Mr and Mrs Harris Pippen and Bert shopped in the Tri Cities Monday Mr and Mrs A H Vines and Melba visited friends in Russellville Sunday Mr and Mrs Bruitt Gray St Louis Missouri Mr and Mrs Pruitt Gray and daughter and Mrs Garo Flor
The heat wave tightened its grip across Alabama with Birmingham recording 100 degrees the first time since June 28 and a Montgomery man dying of heat prostration. Temperatures reached or neared the century in Birmingham Tuscaloosa Anniston and Huntsville while no rain fell statewide and crop and forest damage worsened.
Floyd T. Gullion of Florence State Teachers College earned platoon leadership and sergeant roles during a six week field training at Camp Gordon near Augusta Georgia. He and 40 peers gained hands on military police training and will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve after graduation.
The songwriter Stephen Foster was born on July 4, 1826, the same day that Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, marking a notable coincidence in American history.
The term symbiosis defines how two organisms live together for mutual advantage as plants and algae form lichens.
Navy recruitment officials announced vacancies in the Naval Aviation Cadet program for young men. Eligible applicants must be American citizens 18 to 27 with at least two years of college, single until commissioned, and pass physical and aptitude tests. Cadets join the Naval Reserve, serve four years active duty with 18 months flight training in Pensacola, Florida, and receive lodging, board, and $110 monthly in training.
Navy pilot on sea duty amounts to more than 375 dollars per month. Preliminary processing of Nav Cad applicants is done at the Office of Naval Officer Procurement on the 6th floor of the new U S Courthouse in Nashville. Additional information can be secured at Navy Recruiting Stations and at Naval Officer Procurement offices and at Naval Air Stations in Birmingham Memphis and Atlanta.
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