Childersburg Plans for Postwar Growth Amid Boom
Childersburg Alabama battles rapid population surge from an $80 million Army powder plant while pledging no ghost town. Mayor W D Wilson cites long term zoning and planning to keep permanent facilities, handling housing sanitation roads and schools as construction shifts to support a postwar future.
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Paul Duncan
Childersburg
Ala
W. D. Wilson
East Alabama
War Department
Wilson
Talladega County
Wilson Seeks Aid as Childersburg Plant Promise Upset Town
In a wartime note, Wilson and the town council operate on a 515 population budget using congressional allotments for defense costs. He recalls the War Department locating a powder plant at Childersburg six months earlier and warns the community to prepare for rapid prosperity that could destabilize life, urging state and federal planning help.
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Wilson
War Department
Childersburg
Dixon
Mobile rent problem fixes voting machine funding
Mobile Alabama faces a budget dispute over paying the county 1773.09 dollars annually for ten years toward voting machines while three elections occur this year but none are planned next year. The city commission questions the ongoing rental bill and awaits the county's next collection effort.
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Mobile
Ala
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Robert Redus Trial Is Set and a Murder Mystery Unfolds
Henry Potter attends a rainy evening at a Wildwood lodge with a model railroad club where John Ives is found shot. Stanley King is arrested but later released as ballistics show the murder weapon did not come from his pistol. Henry faces police scrutiny as the case stirs tensions at home.
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Henry Potter
Wildwood Lodge
Hans Swenson
Professor Bisbee
Stanley King
Marcia
Susan Baker
Henry
Laurence Harkness
Louis Spinelli
John Ives
The
Coast Railroad
Mr. King
Ives
King
Mrs. Potter
Martha
Dimsdale
Stanley
Richard
Pop
Henrry
Menam
John
Local Folks Attend Singing And Visits Across Lawrence County
A crowded gathering from the community attended a Sunday singing at Land evelville. Hollis Curby and family visited his wife's parents Mr and Mrs Henry Blakenship. The district reports several visits and social events including CCC camping, and relatives from Hatton to Moulton spending weekends at home with kin.
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Hollis Curby
Henry Blakenship
Landeveville
Haske C
Walhertte
N.Y. A
Luther Copeland
Enis Copeland
Glen and
Marice Reed
Hatton
Carl Mardis
Okalona B. T. U
Luther Wright
Woll Springs
Bunter Paterson
Paris Copeland
Will Christian
Gerald Parker
Garth’ Parker
Athens men launch third Chiis-Craft cruiser on Elk River
Athens Alabama June 20 Henry Littrell and M P Littrell launched a $3000 olive and white Chiis-Craft cruiser on Elk River Thursday afternoon. It is the third cruiser launched here following two others by W V Gilbert Jack Gilbert Estes Jr and Carlos Wood.
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Athens
Ala
H—L and
M. P. Littrell
Elk River
W. V. Gilbert
Jack Gilbert
W. Ke, Estes, Jr
Carlos Wood
Strange Cargo Brings 26 Snakes and Two Humming Birds
Pete French, a St Louis insurance man known for collecting jungle creatures, received a new cargo consisting of 26 snakes and two humming birds. He noted that 20 humming birds started the trip but most perished en route, and he aimed to deliver the survivors to St. Louis.
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Mobile
Ala
Pete French
St. Louia
French
St. Lute
St. Louis
Truck crops doing well in Alabama after rains
Montgomery June 26 Rail shipments of potatoes topped the 1939 record by about 1,300 carloads and rose over 40 percent from last year. Harvesting was 90 percent complete in commercial areas. Beans and cucumbers showed damage from drought but later plantings and watermelons fared better. The market revived after a midseason slump, with recent sales offsetting some losses.
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Montgomery
Ala
Lincoln begins whiskers as election nears
Historians estimate Abraham Lincoln started growing whiskers around January 1, 1861, during a visit to Springfield. An ancestor wrote that “Old Abe” is raising whiskers and not as ugly as he was, placing the moment midway between his election and inauguration.
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Alton
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Abe
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