Camp Westmoreland Draws Big Crowd in Lauderdale County
Camp Westmoreland on Shoals Creek Lauderdale County hosts a large turnout with Tennessee Valley Council Boy Scouts of America reporting its most experienced staff season. Senior staff include Charles Wagner as camp director Tom Small as program director and Bill Copeland as waterfront director. Junior staff hail from Florence Decatur Sheffield Town Creek and New Hope with cooks John J Sims and Alton Phillips. Week one and week two attendees feature numerous scouts from Florence Sheffield Decatur Huntsville Town Creek and Tuscumbia earning woodsman and brave awards and several candidates for Order of the Arrow Kaskawampo Lodge 310 TVA.
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Rufus Hibbett
Florence
Tennessee Valley Council
Boy Scouts of America
Westmoreland
Shoals Creek
Lauderdale County
Hibbett
Charles Wagner
Tom Small
Bill Copeland
John Sims
Camp Westmoreland
J. C. Sims
Alton Phillips
Russellville
John McIntosh
Sheffield
Donald Williams
Howard Williams
Joe Fischer
Christie Summers
Charles Nelson
Jimmie Nelson
Matthew Hayes
Billy Gean Goggans
Kelley Elmore Jr
Huntsville
Marshall Keith
Decatur
Charles Doss
Town Creek
Harry F. Anderson
Stanley Norton
Tuscumbia
Harry Bigbee
George Norris
Pete McNees
Bob Martin
George Hooper
Brooks Jackson
John Ennis
Laughlin Ashe
Archie Kisser
Charles Olim
Jimmy Porter
Jimmy Creel
Bill Countiss
Joe Anderson
Robert LeMay
Ralph LeMay
Ardra L. Lindsey Jr
Roy Farneman
Norman Davis
Ernest Bishop
James Russell
Earl Brown
Jimmy Nelson
Bill Clark
Dave Clark
Dave Aycock
Jimmy Dillworth
Bill Sefton Jr
Gene Emfinger
Thomas Pike
Henry Anderson
Edward M. McGill
Jack Davis
Joe Price
Bill Wise
Ted Dupes
Jimmy Jones
Harry F. Aanderson
Larry Bigbee
Ronald Baker
George Morris
Order of the Arrow
Kaskawampo Lodge
Stanley Elmore Jr
Mack Graham
Dan Collins
Don Mosher
Truman Plans Reorganization Steps For National Security
The Nation reports President Truman continues Hoover era guidelines to streamline government in a step by step process. Congress has passed a State Department reorganization and debates on unifying the armed services continue as Truman pursues seven reform plans. The proposed office of the president would absorb the National Security Council and the National Security Resources Board, with their heads appointed by the President to advise on national resources.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Truman
State Department
Department
Acheson
Armed Services
Senate
House
Secretary of Defense
Johnson
Armed Forces
Army
Navy
Air Force
Defense
James V. Forrestal
Naval Hospital
National Security Council
National Security Resources Board
Security Council
Test Flight For Aerial Forest Survey In Tennessee
TVA launches test flights this month in the Chestnee Creek Star area near Etowah Tennessee to map forests. The valley wide survey will be flown solely for forest inventory purposes with collaboration from the U.S. Forest Service bureau of plant industry soils and agricultural engineering and the Production and Marketing Administration.
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TVA
Chestnee
Etowah
Tennessee
U.S. Forest Service
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering
Production and Marketing Administration
Ban on Fireworks Becomes Statewide Law in Alabama
Governor James E. Folsom signed a new law outlawing sale possession or use of fireworks in Alabama with exemptions only for toy cap pistols and public displays approved by the state fire marshal. Several cities already restricted fireworks and the measure makes the ban statewide.
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Montgomery
Alabama
James E. Folsom
Alabama Baptists Seek Judson Funds
In Marion Alabama Baptists plan to raise 100000 dollars Sunday for Judson College. Dr J J Riddle the school president announced the drive and outlined the appeal at the kickoff event.
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Alabama Baptists
Marion
Ala
Judson College
J. J. Riddle
Christianity Hope Against Communism Cited by Wells
Charles A. Wells, a writer and lecturer, told the Decatur Kiwanis Club that Christianity can overcome Communism in Russia. He spoke at the weekly meeting presided by Redus Collier, with guests including Carol Smith Jr and other attendees. Wells urged faith in the Marshall Plan but warned it alone cannot resolve Europe’s feudal capitalism and communist threat, envisioning Christian influence as the ultimate answer.
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Charles A. Wells
Russia
Decatur Kiwanis Club
Redus Collier
Collier
Jimmy Willams
Atlanta
Charles Winston
Kiwanis International
Carol Smith, Jr
U. S. Naval Academy
T. J. Cottingham
Joe Burleson
W. W. Glass
Wells
First Methodist Church
Europe
Morgan County Social News Highlights
Morgan County residents shared visits and family updates. Mr and Mrs Jason Smith returned from California and live with her parents. Mr and Mrs Lee Hornbuckle and Mr and Mrs Ruby Brown spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs C C Garrett near Falkville. Families welcomed newborn sons to Woodrow Williams and Bagwell households. Mrs Evelyn Campbell and Mr Campbell greet a daughter with Mr and Mrs Carl Abercrombie. Frank Whisenant of Nashville visited W G Whisenant. Several couples spent weekends with relatives and neighbors, including Mr and Mrs John Paul Young, Mr and Mrs Herman Myrick, Mrs Claudie Edwards and Wiley, and Mrs Roy Bowling with son Melvin. Herman Myrick traveled to Huntsville to visit an ill brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jason Smith
California
Lee Hornbuckle
Ruby Brown
C. C. Garrett
Near Falkville
Woodrow - Williams
Willard. Bagwell
Evelyn Campbell
Campbell
Carl Abercrombe
Frank Whisenant
Nashville
W. G. Whisenant
Huntsville
Fund to Rebuild Jewett Hall Set at 600000 Goal
The drive funds will be used to rebuild Jewett Hall, the main campus building destroyed by fire two years ago. The campaign aims to raise 600000 as part of the rebuilding program. Southern Baptists will observe Sunday nationwide as Christian Education Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewett Hall
Southern Baptists
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Stanley Elmore
Jackie Montgomery
Joe Sanderson
Don Mosher Jr
Barry Marsh
New Hope
Wiley Sharer
Killen
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Tommy Grubbs
Troop
Buddy LeMay
Sonny LeMay
Sonny Lindsey
Brave
Woodsman
Don Williams
CPT
James Marlow
Moody’s
Cain
Bank St
Somerville Road
Lakeside Cafe
H. R. Hood
Mgr
Shrvich
Pontiac
Kennedy Motor CO
FIRST
English Channel
Dunkerque
France
Dover
England
London
NTIAC
Pontiac CO
Sally
Aerial Survey of Forests
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Clay R Pollan
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Chevrolet
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Swe Sne As
Joe Hagler
Kiwares
J. Hugh Jackson
Palo Alto
Calif
Allo
Atlantic City
N. J
Stanford University
Morgan County Rescue
W A Helms
Dillehay
The
Department Store
Caddell Drug CO
Aaa
Briggs & Stratton Motors
Call A. L. Johns
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