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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 02, 1946

Page

11

City to Run Summer School Under Board of Education

Summer school students must appear at the junior high building to arrange classes. The program becomes a city board of education project, functioning as a summer quarter of the curriculum with fees and teachers’ salaries paid through the city. The six weeks first term lists principal W R Riley and teachers Miss Lillian Odom Miss Ethel Rhinehart Miss Lila Pritchett Mr Aubrey Fuller Miss Bernice Simmons for elementary classes.

Mer School Ori City Board of Education City Board W. R. Riley Lillian Odom Ethel Rhinehart Lila Pritchett Aubrey Fuller Bernice Simmons

Maine's Unique Border Neighbor Count

Maine stands as the only U S state touching just one other state, sharing a border solely with New Hampshire along its southern edge and the Canadian provinces to the north and east.

Maine United States

Daily Crossword Seeps Through Aged Clues For Answers

A reader puzzle lists across and down clues including sorrow expression and desert in Asia with entries like period of fasting and god of love. Several entries appear garbled and incomplete but hint at typical crossword structure and theme.

Cryptoquote Puzzle: Shakespearean Quotation Clue

A cryptogram puzzle item presents a Shakespeare quote clue about a fire that burns most due to being closest kept. The note references binary-like cipher text and the prior day's quote. The fragment hints at a wordplay puzzle common in newspaper cryptograms.

AFL Outlines Drive Plans in Southern Recruitment

AFL Southern representative George L. Googe outlined a coordinated campaign to organize Southern labor under the national act. He warned plant operators of possible resistance and pledged a secrecy‑driven plan with local federations forming a mobile force to press for better wages, hours, and conditions.

BEM Price Atlanta American Federation of Labor George L. Googe AFL Goodge South CIO Googe William O. Hare Alabama Federation of Labor C. W. Mowery Arkansas Oe A Labor Oate Misney É Pate Hand Pennant Harry W. Acreman Charis P. Gramling Georgia Volney Andrews West Virginia W. L. Hines Mississippi C. A. Fink North Carolina

Voter letter condemns Handy Ellis tactics vs Dewey in Alabama campaign

Mrs. Homer Draper of Decatur argues that Handy Ellis mirrors Dewey by attacking opponent figures rather than presenting his own platform. She cites pension cost figures, education funding, and CIO ties, urging Alabama voters to back Big Jim Folsom and vote for free American choice in June.

Alabama Handy Ellis Thomas E. Dewey U. S Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt Ellis Big Jim Folsom State of Folsom Dewey Montgomery CIO Big Jim

Montgomery Welcomes New Navy Vet as Chaplain

P Candler E Tatum has been appointed chaplain at the veterans hospital in Montgomery after 22 months in the Navy during World War II. A graduate of Emory University and Yale Divinity School, he was ordained in 1935 and served as a pastor in Heflin and Odenville before directing youth work for the North Alabama Methodist Conference. The note also mentions stocking size is based on foot length.

Montgomery Ala

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