District Diary highlights local college enrollment and community news
Jacksonville State College hosts two Morgan County students for summer session Jane Collier from Priceville and Wilma Nell Wheeler of Union Grove. Jane majors in home economics with a science minor. Wilma Nell majors in elementary education. The section also covers church gifts, a cattle-bull purchase, Town Creek police hire, and YWA officers at Town Creek Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Morgan County
Jacksonville State College
Jane Collier
Priceville
Wilma Nell Wheeler
Union Grove
Jane
J. T. Collier
Wilma Nell
Union Hill High School
J. H. Wheeler
Lawrence County F H A Chapters Hold Workshop
Newly elected officers of the Lawrence County Chapters of the Future Homemakers of America learned their duties at a county workshop held last week. Represented were Moulton Halewood and Hatton. Officers organized into groups with Mrs. Mary Roberson directing the first group and Mrs. Stitcher directing Hazlewood’s group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hatton
Lawrence County
Future
Homemakers of America
Moulton
Halewood
Mary Roberson
Hatton F.H.A
Rachel Hughes
Hazelwood
Marcella Campbell
Sandra Bass
Cynthia Streater
Hazlewood
Arlene Moats
Jane McCullough
Bonita Craig
Barbara Terry
Mona Simmons
Dean Jackson
Stitcher
Acenieth Rigsby
Robbie Gaye Terry
Glenda Terry
First Baptist Church class outlines plans for hospital trays and events
Prayer chairman Betty Bunnell and other officers met with Mrs. Bob Neal for a covered dish supper at her home. Missionary leader Willard Healy requested tray cards for Lawrence County Hospital. The group also planned a swimming party and visitation night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town Creek
Sandra Neal
YWA
Town Creek Baptist Church
Glenn Campbelle
Bob Neal
Joyce Moats
Jackie Booth
Murl Campbelle
Faye Campbelle
Intermediate Training Union
First Baptist Church
Willard Healy
Lawrence County Hospital
Athens College student wins National Methodist Scholarship
Athens College sophomore Eugene Wilcox receives a National Methodist Scholarship from the Methodist Church board. Wilcox, son of Mrs. Ross Wilcox of Ethelsville Alabama, attends Forest Methodist Church. The award covers tuition and fees up to 500 dollars based on academics leadership church activity character and need.
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Athens
Eugene Wilcox
Athens College
Board of Education
The
Methodist Church
Wilcox
Ross Wilcox
Ethelsville
Ala
Forest Methodist Church
Keller Memorial Bridge Dedication Captured in 1928 Photo
A 1928 image from the Dedication Day of Keller Memorial Bridge across the Tennessee River is highlighted. The March 6 photo shows the ceremony with Gov. Bibb Graves and other officials, a Bee Line Highway dedication, and remarks on traffic growth for Highway 31.
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Keller Bridge
Keller Memorial
Tennessee River
Decatur Daily
Decatur
North
Alabama
Keller
Clyde Hendrix
John Patterson
James Allen Smith
Central Baptist Church
Thomas A. Bowles
A. G. Patterson
W. R. Spight
C. W. Sarver
Athens
Limestone County
Patterson
Morgan
Woolsey Finnell
Bibb Graves
S. A. Lynne
Fred J. Cramton
Montgomery
Bee Line Highway Assn
William S. Keller
Annie Larey Keller
Chamber of Commerce
A. J. Dinsmore
E. P. Gilbert
T. H. Alexander, Jr
Franklin County
Tenn
T. H. Alexander, Sr
Negro Charged With Murder in Decatur Shooting
George Wiggins 34 Alma Street was charged with murder after confessing to fatally shooting Robert Glass 736 Sykes Street Thursday night. Glass died at Decatur General Hospital about 9 pm. Wiggins was moved from city jail to Morgan County jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
George Wiggins
Alma St
Robert Glass
Sykes St
Wiggins
Morgan County
Glass
Decatur General Hospital
Home Market Balanced in Chicago Savings League Forecast
A United States Savings and Loan League survey of 6,000 associations finds home construction supply and demand near balance. The League expects about one million new homes to be produced in 1957.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States Savings and Loan League
Savings and Loan Associations
Alexander recalls his Decatur ties in Nashville column
The Nash ville Tennessean columnist Mr. Alexander, a native Alabamian and former Decatur paper staffer, reflects on his aging self at 32 and his rare returns to Decatur after his parents’ deaths in 1941 and 1942, seeking remembrance from relatives and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Nashville
Americans Die in Moscow Plane Crash Including Grand Rapids Pair
Three American tourists and a Polish stewardess died in a Warsaw to Moscow flight crash near Vnukovo Airport. Surviving Americans include Richard Cheverton WOOD-TV and Mrs. Margaret Tremper and daughter Michelle. Tremper critically injured. The wreck left nine dead and involved a tour sponsored by WOOD-TV with several reporters among the party. Sitka and Juneau are mentioned in a separate Alaska note.
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Moscow
Vnukovo
U. S
Harvey Beuker
Grand Rapids
Mich
Beuker
Wirsaw
Pureviya Bator
Richard Cheverton
Wood-Tv
Margaret Tremper
Michelle
Tremper
Warsaw
Russia
Britain
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
Broadway tunesmiths rise as top writers gain share
Trade magazine Variety notes higher pay for song writers on Broadway with top tunesmiths earning about 10 percent of box office and often a show share. Newcomers now recruited at higher rates, expanding a staff dominated by Rogers and Hammerstein Porter Loesser and Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TOP Money
New York
Variety Reports
Tyros
Rogers & Hammerstein
Cole Porter
Frank Loesser
Irvin Berlin
Nature's Chiropractic Law Explained by Dr Pitts
Dr Pitts outlines chiropractic as a life force based science not a drugless fad. He says Innate Intelligence guides health through the nervous system from the brain and frames health as normal function. disease as deranged function. birth as vitality. The Pitts Chiropractic Clinic will open at 916 6th Ave SF around June 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitts
Letom
Ieee
Pitts Chiropractic Clinic
6Th Ave
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Hartselle
Mt. Tabor Methodist Church
Jimmy Maples
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P. C. Nunn
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American Guernsey Cattle Club
C. W. Harp
Cullman
Robert Hill
Avery Thompson
Charlie Lansdell
Hill
James Griffin
Leighton
Paul
Paul C. Davis
Moulton Street
the Daily
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F.H.A
Betty Bunnell
Mary Lou Hogeland
Patricia Crisler
Grant Street
Neil Kirk
Jackson Street
George Cleer
Austin Pear
Tennessee
Lonzo
Oscar
Grand Ole Opry
By Roy Essoyan
Harold Milks
Roy Essoyan
Associated Press
Irving R. Levine
National Broadcasting Co
Levine
Essoyan
Vnukuvo
Helsinki
Milks
Cheverton
Mrs. Tremper
Sitka
Alaska
United States
Juneau
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Ork
Depo
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