Paroles Granted for Ten Convicts by Alabama Board
The Alabama pardon parole board announced ten paroles granted last week. Recipients include Marvin Hughes from Montgomery serving life for robbery and others from Etowah Montgomery Chilton Jefferson Shelby Hale Pike and more for burglary grand larceny manslaughter forgery and acid throwing with varying sentence lengths. Six applications were denied and three paroles revoked.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Pardon-Parole Board
Marvin Hughes
Montgomery County
Hughes
Sammy Carter
Etowah County
Sylvester Lattimore
Negro
Edsel, Montes
Chilton
Donald Montello
James Wilburn Musgrove
Jefferson
Chigger Detectors and Insecticides Warned by USDA
USDA entomologists advise a simple chigger detector using black cardboard to reveal mites on the ground. If yellowish or pinkish mites appear along the edge, the spot is infested. Three insecticides chlordane toxaphene and lindane are touted as more effective than sulphur for control.
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Washington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department States
Dear Miss Dix explores marriage and work for single women
Dorothy Dix answers readers on marriage prospects for women nearing 30, advising to seek social contact with men and jobs near eligible bachelors. She cites stenography nursing teaching and restaurant work as potential paths, warns against costly summer resorts, and argues marriage is luck and not guaranteed.
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Miss DIX
Bread-box’s Yellow Hearts and White Enamel Irony
A humorous household tale recalls a cheap bread-box that arrived in gleaming white enamel provoking a paint spree as the wife dictates a kitchen redo. The piece ends with a weary, reflective note on thrift and looming pension inflation by the state.
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Yny Wifey
Karl Flaster
Financial Trouble leaflet offered by Dorothy Dix
Readers with money problems are urged to request leaflet D-12 titled Financial Trouble. Send a 3-cent stamped self-addressed envelope to Miss Dix c/o this newspaper P. O. Box 98 Times Square Station New York 18 N Y.
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Dorothy DIX
Miss Dix
P. O
Times Square Station
New York 18
N. Y
Room and Board by Gene Ahtern
A humorous dialogue sketches government waste and wage anxieties. A father questions thrift and a sweater girl while a Decatur couple debates naming their baby Nanette and Mary. The piece ends with a quip on civilization progressing and a note about vision.
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Decatur
Nanette
Hubby
Young Mother
Mary
Decatur Man-Came Voice at Social Event
A guest at a musical gathering overheard a remark about a singer, suspecting the performer was the host's wife. The exchange reflects social snobbery and a quip about a self penned song. The dialogue ends with a pointed remark on childhood films and second chances.
Paper Speculates On Retirement Of King
The Sunday Pictorial speculated that ailing King George VI may retire in favor of Princess Elizabeth. At 55 he is said to suffer from a small cataract inflammation and aftereffects of a circulation block in his right leg. Court sources note he looks strained and tired. the piece stops short of using the word abdication.
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London
The
Sunday Pictorial
George VI
Elizabeth
the Pictorial
Poker Chips Mock Battle Lull Turns On Cards
In Korea a veteran talks of a quiet moment during lull in battle when a new replacement arrives and a poker game is proposed. The question of what to use as poker chips prompts amused chatter among soldiers.
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Central Front
Korea
Local residents host visitors and report rain in community
Mr and Mrs C R Garner and boys of Birmingham were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Fred Jaeger and family and visited Mrs Law in the afternoon. Mrs McKinney injured her elbow with scissors. Mr and Mrs C R Law and children of Trade and Mr and Mrs J D Law visited Saturday. Mrs Alvin Hodge and children of Berlin spent last week with her mother Mrs J D Law who is home with an infected leg. Farmers proud of recent rain. Mr and Mrs Ervil Baker and children from near Birmingham visited relatives here last weekend.
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C. R. Garner
Birmingham
Fred Jaeger
J. D. Law
McKinney
C. R. Law
Melba Sue
Margaret and
Brent
J.D. Law
Alvin Hodge
Keith
Rebecca
Annette
Berlin
Ervil Baker
Pattie
Buddy
Coy Baker
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J D Law
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Bob) Keller
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