City Parks Set to Open Monday in Decatur
Decatur will open six city parks on Monday with full-time supervisors and a 13 week run. Facilities include two lighted softball fields, four softball fields, five baseball fields, swimming pools for white and Negro communities, and youth programs. Parks will offer tennis, badminton, croquet, and playgrounds under Joe Jones and the Park and Recreation Board.
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Decatur
Patie el
Supervisors
Park and Recreation Board
Delano Park
Blue Haven Pool
Joe Jones
Decatur High
Lester Smith
Wiley Cox
John Short
W. R. Wright
Albert R. Melton
Blue Haven
Decatur High School
Bill Isbell
Wes Thompson
Bear Whitsett
Life Guards
Lynne Fisher
Wayne Terry
Boyce Thomas
John Thomas Morgan
Paradise
William L. England
Ben T. Davis
Delano
Walter Jackson
Westside
Eastside
Golf for 'K' love for the game sparks hopes
Spier told a party meeting that golf could bring happiness and peace if people learned to play like President Eisenhower, promoting the game as a unifying force.
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Eisenhower
Spier
City fine and revenue report shows January totals
City records show January fines and forfeitures at 6 270 dollars with meters at 3 478 10 and curb caps 1 647 34. Total offenses 422 led by overparking 81. Burglaries six. transports to county jail and one grand larceny. thirteen injured in sixty wrecks. listed offenses include disorderly conduct 48.
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Decatur
Investi
F.B.I
Electors Name the President in Alabama Votes
AP reports on the role of presidential electors, clarifying the difference between electors and delegates. Alabama's 11 electors, part of the electoral college, will meet December 19. Loyalists likely back the Democratic nominee while States Rights electors may back another Democrat sympathetic to the South.
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Electoral College
U.S
Harry Truman
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
W. F. Turner
Montgomery
Walter B. Jones
Adlai Stevenson
State Capitol
Truman
Marriage Licenses and Deeds Listed in Daily Records
Marriage licenses record multiple couples led by George Griffin and Altha Mahan in Athens and Elkmont with ages ranging from 15 to 39 and occupations including merchant, inspector, steel worker, lumberman, and baker. Deeds show transfers of land and small sums, including properties in French Subdivision and various estates, with nominal payments and monthly rental agreements.
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George Franklin Griffin
Elkmont
Merchant
Altha Faye Mahan
Athens
Alvin Edmon Brown
Decatur
Inspector
Lola Pearl Thomas
Ignacio Zaragoga
Chicago
Ann Mora
Wayne Oscar Hawkins
Bethany
Okla
Lumber Company
Betty Fay Holder
Bobby Wayne Martin
Bakery
Vicki Mae Williams
Samuel Wayne Haskins
Belfast
Tenn
Jessie Lee Tate Nix
Lewisburg
Charlie W. Adams
Maurice Wayne Kirk
Acre
Lucian C. Cox
Carlos McGrew
R. W. Norton
John J. Huber
William C. Finley
Wayne B. Jennings
James David Gordon
Alvis Boone Stinnett
Mary Ethel King
William Bailes Stinnett
Madeline Stinnett Lewis
John W. Boyd
Lena G. Boyd
Carole Dale Kimbrell
Oakley Elders
J. H. Hill
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Golf
H. Leon Reeves
Phon
Blake
Repub
Limestone County
North Ala
Council For
Davidson Coal & Feed Co
AAA Fence CO
Mommie
Daddy
American Legion Auxiliary
Princess Theatre
Robinson’s
Penney’s
Dan River
Penney
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