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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1951
Page
8
Morgan county Boy Scouts will start the 1951 summer camp at Camp Westmoreland on July 1 for three weeks. Hundreds have registered with some vacancies left. Progress on the new dining lodge and Adirondack cabins is near completion. Interested boys should call Lilbourne Hall, Emmett McClary, or George Perry for details.
Reverend and Mrs. M. S. Palmer visited Galeysville relatives. A surprise birthday dinner honored Mrs. Walter Ford on Sunday June 17 as she turned 62. Attendees included extended Ford families from Decatur Birmingham and Eva along with friends from Hartsville and Florence.
A page presents a full crossword with across and down clues plus a cryptogram quotation puzzle. Includes listed numbers and hints, with Yesterday's cryptoanswer and instructions for solving.
A collection of social notes shows M Holmes visiting his daughter and Mr and Mrs Runge near Falkville, Jimmie and Rita Adams staying with grandparents in Decatur, Geral dine Turner visiting relatives in Gadsden, Gwin Pirkle visiting parents in Decatur, and Harvey Turner and Cephas Turner visiting in Gadsden. Also notes mention the potting soil history, coronation era air mail in Britain, and that wood ashes contain potash.
George F. Wingard credit manager for Monsanto Plastics becomes general credit manager succeeding the late Robert J. Widman. Wingard joined Monsanto in 1939 and has led plastics division credit in Springfield Massachusetts since 1946 after earlier roles as sales correspondent and assistant credit manager.
The WFM S of the Nazarene Church met at Mrs Edna Story’s home on East Wilson Avenue June 18 for the second meeting of the month. Mrs E J Kanady led the program and devotional, with Mrs Story guiding the study. Refreshments were served to eight members and two visitors. Attendees included Mrs E E Story Mrs Grady Robbins Mrs Tommy Eaton Miss Shirley French Mrs H M Watson Mrs Joe Frazier plus guests Mrs D F Lee Mrs W W Johns and the president Mrs Kanady and hostess Mrs Story.
A Burma manifesto from the People's Democratic Front outlines nationalization of foreign properties under a communist planned regime. The Front unites the Burma Workers and Peasants' Party with the Burma Trades Union Congress and is led by ex Labor Minister Thakin Lwin. The document promises people's councils to govern the army police and people.
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