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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1943
Page
3
American farmers use the Agriculture Adjustment Agency program to raise overall production of food and fiber for war needs. The program has increased output by about 5 percent over the decade before 1933 and by nearly 13 percent over the last six years, with 1942 output 42 percent above 1918 WWI levels.
The Baptist revival starts the first Sunday in August and the Methodist revival the last week in July. Liberty church will hold services next Sunday at eleven. Public invited. Miss Betty Joe Dunn visited Huntsville Monday. Crops need rain. Mr and Mrs Bogle of Talucah plan to move here. J W and Maggie Brown of West Huntsville visit grandparents A J Boyett this week. Pvt Howard Sharpe has returned.
Lawrence County adds Mrs. William F Roberts notes an ice cream social at the Caddo Methodist church Saturday night June 19 to raise funds for painting the building. Nearby residents visit relatives and army service member Pvt. Lee Standridge returns home on leave.
Mr and Mrs Herman Roberts Woodland Mills Otto Roberts Courtland and Mrs Lavern Knighten Decatur visited Mr and Mrs Claude Roberts Tuesday night. Reverends Harden and Parker preached Sunday with a large crowd. they will return next second Sunday after a brief leave.
Jean Marsden quits her modeling career to become Steve Landis secretary at a new Mexican rubber plant. She aids injured trainmen, helps police identify suspects, and balances work with social intrigue at the Rancho Carolina and with Mrs Parkinson. The story follows the unfolding mystery and Jean's evolving role.
Harold Parker of Hartselle cooperates with the Northwest Alabama Soil Conservation District Harvests sixty six bushels of wheat from three acres and oats yield over forty bushels per acre on sandy foam soil without commercial fertilizer. Mor gan county farmers report strong poultry milk returns. Morgan oak plant supplies war effort with chestnut timber. cotton grading improvements and Decatur Cheese Plant May payroll peaks.
The Los Angeles Times reports an unimpeachable source that Charlie Chaplin and Oona O Neill 18 daughter of Eugene O Neill will marry today by a justice of the peace at an undisclosed place.
A historical note describes Persian players who risked fingers or arms in chess bets. The loser severed the specified limb and applied ointment to seal the wound, keeping cauterization materials nearby for rapid healing.
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