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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1962

Page

3

Calumet & Hecla defends Stockpile copper contract profits

Senate inquiry chair Sen Stuart Symington questions a 5.5 million profit to Calumet & Hecla, parent of Wolverine Tube, after release from a copper delivery contract to the United States Stockpile. Bassett defends the company in a stockholders letter detailing contract terms, deferrals, and cost dynamics through 1957.

Stuart Symington Senate Calumet & Hetela Co Wolverine Tube S H. Y. Bassett Armed Services Committee United States Senate Calumet & Hecla United States Congress

Hints From Heloise On Potatoes And Household Tricks

Reader tips from Heloise cover potatoes without knives, adding vinegar or lemon juice to boil water for fluffier, whiter spuds and using butter with water in restaurants. Also includes paint removal with rubbing alcohol, onion soup in salad dressing, jar opening with hot water, vitamin stain removal for babies, rug storage with newspapers and moth crystals, and a nostalgic note praising women as scientists. Copyright 1962 King Features Syndicate.

Heloise

Two Stills Are Hit In Lawrence

Lawrence County sheriff's force Saturday destroyed two stills south of here. One 400 gallon still loaded with live mash was destroyed about a half mile south of Pinhook Church. A 500 gallon still was destroyed about 200 miles south of Moulton.

Moulton Lawrence County Sheriff's Force Here Pinhook Church

Morgan County Pines Mrs Peck Family News

Mrs Adrian Bowen received treatment at Dr Block's Hospital this week. Mr and Mrs Ben Russell visited relatives in Paducah Kentucky this week. Construction has started on the Russell Peck house on the new highway.

Adrian Bowen

Arrests Drop Fines Climb In May Police Report

May docket lists 460 offenses, 20 fewer than April, with total fines and meters at 12,993.03 up from 12,482.68. Police investigated 121 complaints, 62 traffic accidents with 17 injuries, and parking related offenses topped the list alongside 65 public drunkenness charges.

Police Department

Trout Pool Project Captures Weston Students’ Interest

Weston High School field trip ends with a live trout scooped from a stream near the school. Irene MacLeod leads classmates in studying the fish as a biology project. A trout pool is built in front of the school with state support. The project progresses toward a formal plan.

Weston Mass Irving Keene Weston High School Irene MacLeod

Daily Records Of Local Transfers And Donations

A list of names with ages and hometowns records moves between individuals and employers in Athens and surrounding areas. Transfers include service members, workers, and students with destinations or workplaces such as Hartsville Huntsville Columbus and Lester while donations total 250 to improve a local pool area plus 50 from a sportmen's club.

Weston's Country Garden Club Irene

Auburn faculty spur renascence in humanities writing

The Auburn Alumnews May issue lauds a surge of scholarly and creative activity by Auburn University English History and Speech faculty. Multiple contracts and publications reveal books essays poetry abstracts and lectures across topics from public speaking to Elizabethan drama and American literary history. The piece highlights dedicated professors producing work despite limited time or pay.

Auburn Auburn University Alumneus Alum News Alabama Benjamin Franklin

Clayton Sets Wallace Day

Gov design ate George C Wallace returns to Clay ton to receive a hero s welcome. Townspeople led by Mayor Winn Martin plan a George Wallace Day program with speeches barbecue and a street dance for the farmer s son who won the Democratic nomination for governor. An intended crowd of 5 000 to 6 000 is hoped with the Legislature invited as it meets in Montgomery. Wallace will be the No 1 speaker of the day.

Clayton Ala George C. Wallace Winn Martin George Wallace Martin Montgomery Wallace

City Athens Youths Win AU Program Enroll in Summer Life Sciences

Hank Caddell of Decatur High School and Gary White Gross of Athens High School are among 20 high school juniors from 19 Alabama and one Georgia school selected for Auburn University second annual summer life sciences program funded by the National Science Foundation. The session runs through Aug 3. Students will live in campus dormitories and receive supervised educational experiences beyond typical high school offerings.

Hank Caddell Decatur High School Gary White Gross Athens High School Alabama Georgia Auburn University National Science Foundation

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Decatur Daily Mr. RE. F King Features Syndicate, Inc Lawrence Morgan County Pines M. G. Peck Max Sobotka Curtis Delamar Horace C. White Johnston Limestone Thomas E. Davis Athens U.S. Air Force Elaine Vinson Frank R. Villafana Harrison N. J Ohau Scale Corp Anita Louise Tankersley Hartselle James Cantrell Birmingham Brick Mason Tillie Dobbs Huntsville Marvin E. Miller U. S. Army Carolyn Faye Mc Means Alfred B. Wilgerson Margaret Ann Baughter Charles E. McShann Columbus Miss Doris Elaine Yarbrough William R. Bailey Worthington Corp Dorothy Smith Anderson Minnesota Mining and Mfg City Scott Big Boy and Field Petunia and Coleus Paul C. Davis Belk Hudson
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