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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1952
Page
11
A survey shows about 900 directors and trustees from 146 locally owned municipalities and cooperatives run TVA electric power networks. Among them are 33 manufacturers, 57 bankers, 3 capitalists, and 8 newspapermen shaping local power distribution.
Taft asserts political resilience built by longer career as farmers lead TVA power board. He targets Eisenhower over air power while both vie for the Republican nomination. Eisenhower replies with a military minded defense of soldiers in war. The confrontation signals a heated primary clash ahead.
Jakarta faces daily electricity outages as the dry season returns. One third of the city lacks power from dawn to sunset while hydroelectric plants still have enough water. The note also mentions a high cattle count on U S farms and 13 million Bible texts distributed in Japan during occupation.
In May, 137 visitors from 24 foreign countries toured TVA sites. Notables included Prime Minister Dato Nik Kamil of Kalentan Malaya and Dr Abdul Aziz Khan of Baluchistan Pakistan. Visitors from Europe Asia and Africa studied agriculture electrification and engineering at TVA and the University of Tennessee.
Social notes record visits among Winton families in Morgan County including Whitten Doss and Turney households. Dorothy Smith and James Harold Winton wedding May 27 noted, with multiple kinship visits to Decatur Somerville Hartselle and La Porte events.
George L McCrary will serve again as mayor of Mooresville after yesterday's election. The board of aldermen elected alongside him includes Robert Riddle Raymond Pepper W G Peebles Jr Douglas M Hagan and Frank T Richardson Jr.
A brief note observes the Dead Sea lies nearly a quarter mile below the Mediterranean. It also states that about 30 million people visited U S national forests for recreational purposes in 1951.
Elmer Wheeler highlights William "Willie" Foster president of Merit Clothing Co Mayfield Kentucky as a hard working leader who shares profits with workers. The firm runs a private library 5000 volumes a free day nursery 18 bus fleet and a spacious estate used as recreation for staff. Foster now plans a large club house on Kentucky Lake to serve 32 company clubs.
New drugs including vitamin D-2 help treat lupus vulgaris or tuberculosis of the skin. The skin form is less common now but still appears without lung infection in many cases. Men and women are affected about equally, and young adults are usually first involved.
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