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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1952
Page
9
A collection of short anecdotes about school life and humor. Tales include the mascot misnomer from a school, a farmer's dinner hospitality easing a young man, and quips about heat and literacy. The pieces echo rural and small-town humor with a focus on everyday scenes and punchlines.
Contains a large themed crossword with Across and Down clues, a cryptogram quotation decode with a hint key, and a misattributed Shakespeare line shown as yesterday’s Cryptoquote. The page also includes the standard daily puzzle format and instructions for code solving.
A dialogue mix recalls a joke about a Kentucky woman with calloused feet and a farmer’s quip about standing on a live coat. It juxtaposes modern film discussion with a regional humor vignette.
Fort McClellan expansion moves forward with an architect engineering contract awarded to Pembleton and Mims of Birmingham. Apparent low bids include T C Bateson Construction for three new warehouses at the Anniston Ordnance Depot at 4 663 775 21 dollars and R B Tyler Co for road and railroad repairs at Fort McClellan at 33 171 40 dollars. Peyton Higgison of Mobile submitted the apparent low bid for a new armory in Mobile at 244 529 63 dollars.
Deputy U S Marshals seized 700 cans of spoiled peas and 2 184 cans of tomatoes in Birmingham. The peas were declared unfit for human consumption and buried in a city dump. The tomatoes await a court order for disposal. The items were shipped from Wisconsin.
Elmer Sims rose from poverty to head a large trucking firm, renaming his outfit Sims Motor Transport Lines after a payday dispute with Supreme Motor Transport Lines. He now operates over 400 trucks, moving about a million miles monthly and 225 million pounds of steel yearly, with Indiana limestone shipments and a $2 million offer refused.
Henry Haralson won the Fort Payne mayoral election with 828 votes. He defeated former Rep. Bill Beck who received 445 votes and Pelham Green who had 138. Beck previously led the Alabama House during the Folsom era and had run for governor in 1950.
A new federal gambling stamp was issued to James Bush of 1605 23rd St Phenix City according to Internal Revenue Collector William E Davis. Bush purchased the stamp as several hundred stamps have been bought in Alabama since the law began last November.
Scientists note 92 known chemical elements and current theory suggests no additional stable elements beyond them. The discussion centers on superheavy elements, nuclear stability, and the potential for undiscovered isotopes or synthetic creation in particle accelerators.
The U S district attorney's office said tomatoes were shipped from Maryland in a statement outlining the case.
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