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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1952
Page
7
A 15 year old girl describes her daily chores to help her widowed mother. Cathy praises her, while Muriel Nissen advocates shared duties for all children and suggests pay for special outside tasks. Libby M seeks guidance on seeing her ex-husband while supporting her mother and planning remarriage.
A Red Cross bloodmobile visit originally planned for Central Baptist Church on July 1 will instead be at the Elks Club. It runs 9 to 11 A.M. and 2:30 to 5 P.M. A donation pledge reminder and transportation help are announced by Mrs. James King.
Washington must decide by Monday whether to extend wartime price and wage controls set to expire June 30. Congress faces four possible paths from letting controls die to passing a compromise bill, with Truman signaling preferred continuation but party lines risk a veto or messy hodgepodge.
Waxey Gordon also known as Irving Wexler died at Alcatraz after a heart attack in the prison hospital. The 63 year old was a famed underworld boss linked to New York prohibition brewers and a coast to coast heroin network. He faced a 25 year narcotics sentence in New York and had pleaded for death in prison after his arrest in 1951.
Aniston reports Calhoun County's first polio case of the season. A four year old boy, W. B. Stephens Jr., is under treatment in Aniston hospital with his condition listed as fair after admission yesterday.
A 24 year old woman asked if she should marry a young man while secretly involved with a married man for six years. Frieda condemns pursuing marriage while still in love with another, urges honesty, ending the affair, and admitting the past to the suitor.
Dorothy Dix analyzes philandering as the most serious issue a wife can face in leaflet D-9. To obtain a copy, readers must send a 3 cent stamped self addressed envelope to Miss Dix care of this newspaper.
For the twelfth month in a row the Tennessee River exceeded the prior year. May 1952 traffic reached 261000 tons and 54730000 ton miles, with five month totals at 1237000 tons and 281032000 ton miles. Coal to Johnsonville Steam Plant and rising traffic in autos grain petroleum products scrap iron and sulfur drive the gains.
May commercial fish harvest in TVA North Alabama reservoirs topped 276000 pounds worth over 62000 dollars. The catch included 30000 pounds spoonbill 160000 pounds catfish 16000 pounds drum 20800 pounds carp and 49500 pounds buffalo.
The Program Based TVA board approves a $30,000 ton ammonium nitrate fertilizer plan for the valley watershed across seven states. Distributors may offer discount material from July 1 to October 31, 1952, while farmers may buy July 1 to November 30. The program emphasizes permanent pastures, grazing, grass seed, and winter cover crops with cooperation from extension services and farming agencies.
The dry spring of 1952 spurred more forest fires and larger burn areas in TVA zones. In the Valley of North Carolina, 130 fires scorched nearly 2,000 acres. Tennessee’s South Cumberlands suffered about 17,000 acres burned.
The text states the scientific name for the domestic dog is Canis familiaris. It identifies the species by its formal taxonomy.
H. G. Williams, local district manager for Commonwealth Life Insurance, attends a company sponsored leaders' convention at Mayview Manor in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Williams is among Commonwealth's leading underwriters and earned his place by membership in the Commonwealth club, a group of top producers.
Fossil shell remains have steered geological study since geology began, guiding theories about Earth's history and the fossil record as researchers interpret ancient life.
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