New Oil Records in Alabama Reported
Oil production in Alabama rose to a new May record of barrels, up 5,218 from April and 617 above the prior May 1946 peak, state gas supervisor Walter B. Jones said. The Gilbertown field added a new producer since June 1, totaling 30 wells. Amerada Oil, Baillie, Carter, and Shell conducted or continued tests and drilling across Fayette, Marengo, Choctaw, Clarke counties as operations reached several depths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
Walter B. 0
Gilbertown
Amerada Oil Co
D. H. Wright
Fayette County
Baillie
J. L
Marengo County
Carter Oil Co
T. E. Long
Choctaw County
Daryl Davis
Ee Bollinger’ and Co
Choctaw
Shell Oil Co
C. C. Brooks
Clarke County
Market Gains Pause as Oil Demand Buoys Wall Street
Demand for oils at year highs helps the market trend up after a slow start. Quotations firmed by midday with gains of two or more points for favorites, though late trading trimmed some advances. Transfers totaled about 800,000 shares as railway bonds edged forward and cotton rose to $2.10 a bale.
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New York
Decatur Grain Prices From Alabama Flour Mills
Decatur cash grain prices listed by Alabama Flour Mills. No 1 soft wheat at 2.25 per bushel, ear white corn 74 lb at 2.24, ear yellow corn 74 lb at 2.13, rye 100 cwt at 3.20, barley 1.53 per bushel, oats 0.85 per bushel.
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Decatur
Alabama Flour Mills
North Georgia Poultry Market Sees Sluggish Demand
North Georgia poultry market firm reports bulk of weekly supply sold and weak demand. Prices paid FOB farm for 21 to 22 34 pound chickens ranged Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning from 32 to 33 1/2 cents, with most at 32 1/2 to 33 cents and scattered at 33 1/2 cents.
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Poultry Market
Atlanta
North
Butter And Eggs Prices In Chicago Market Report
Butter firm receipts 783,836 with scores AA 66 and A 65.5 92 and B 63.25 89 C 61.75. Eggs firm with receipts 20,481. Cars 90 B 63.75 and 89 C 62.25. June 26 market notes show unchanged egg and butter quotations.
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Chicago
Nashville Livestock Market Report June 26
Nashville Tenn June 26 Federal State Departments of Agriculture cattle receipts light with slow trade and mostly lower grade offerings. Hogs 500 mostly lower with barrows and gilts 180-240 lbs at 24.00. spring lambs 60-90 lbs 20.75-23.00. calves 250 lbs medium to choice vealers 50 lower. cows and bulls generally weaker with various prices listed.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Good and Co
Markets at a Glance New York Stocks Lead Oil Advance
Market notes show firm stocks with oils leading a selective advance. Bonds are steady with rail obligations steady. Cotton trades higher while other commodities mix with light activity. Wheat closes, corn mixed and July futures lower after a new high.
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New York
Grain futures slip after record high on board trading
Chicago reports show corn retreating after a session peak with oats turning modestly higher at times. Wheat finished 3 to 4 cents lower, July at 2.17 1/2 to 4, corn 1 to 3/8 higher and 2.01 1/2 to 2.01, oats down with July at 97 5/6 to 3/4.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Clean Diamonds Process Brief
The fragment mentions soaking diamonds in very hot water and drying soaps. The text is incomplete and unclear about full steps or purpose.
Three Decatur High Graduates Enlist in U S Army
Karl Gray Mittwede Sammy Clay Blackwell and Manford C Chaffin, all 1947 graduates or residents of Decatur, have enlisted. Mittwede and Blackwell join the Army medical corps for three years, while Chaffin enters the regular Army for 18 months. Chaffin is a veteran and active in the American Legion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Senior High
U. S. Army
Karl Gray Mittwede
Walter J. Mittwede
Nourth Avenue
Sammy Clay
Blackwell
R. B. Blackwell
East
Johnston Street
Army Medical Corps
Manford C. Chafin
Clara Chaffin
Fifth Avenue West
Regular Army
Chaffin
Decatur American Legion Post
Mittwede
Key Club
D” Club
Dramatic Club
Red Raiders
Eagle Scout Troop 11
World statesmen pledge in constitution and UN work highlighted
Attlee urged listeners to overlook Security Council debates and focus on constructive UN activities in economic and social fields, noting that the country uniquely enshrined a charter pledge in its constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attlee
Security Council
United Nations
Kramer Advances In Tennis Tourney
London June 26 American ace Jack Kramer moved into the Wimbledon fourth round with a straight set 6-0 6-2 6-0 win over Gianni Cucelli of Italy. John Bromwich defeated Meredith 6-2 6-1, while Tom Brown of San Francisco beat Hedley Baxter 6-2 6-2 10-1 6-4 despite a difficult start.
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London
Jack Kramer
Kramer
Gianni Cucelli
Italy
Australia
John Bromwich
Meredith
Britain
Tom Brown
San Francisco
Hedley Baxter
Funeral Rites for Mrs Morris Today
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p m today at Roundtop for Mrs Frank Morris 73 who died at her home on Falkville Wednesday Rev Leroy Simmons will conduct the service Peck will direct burial in the adjoining cemetery The deceased is survived by her husband three sisters Mrs William Hill Knoxville Tenn Mrs Leander Smith Cullman and Mrs Jeff Smith Falkville five brothers Grover Powell Falkville Davia Powell Decatur Ben Powell Cullman Jim Powell Wilson Arkansas and Riley Powell Iron City Tenn Pallbearers include Henry Shoemaker Homer Shoemaker William South Jack Wilhite Wesley Hutcheson and Jim King
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roundtop
Frank Morris
Falkville
Leroy Simmons
Peck
William Hill
Knoxville
Tenn
Leander Smith
Cullman
Jeff Smith
Grover Powell
Davia Powell
Decatur
Ben Powell
Jim Powell
Wilson
Arkansas
Riley Powell
Iron City
Henry Shoemaker
Homer Shoemaker
William South
Jack Wilhite
Wesley Hutcheson
Jim King
George M. Sparks Victim of Stroke
Funeral services for George M. Sparks aged 79 were set for 2 PM at the Moulton residence after a Wednesday stroke. Retired by Reverends Emmett Byars and Isaac Eddy, with Brown directing. he leaves a wife, four daughters, five sons, a brother Timans, and a sister Mrs Kittgarren. grandsons to serve as pallbearers and granddaughters to arrange flowers.
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Moulton
George M. Sparks
Emmett Byars
Isaac Eddy
Brown
Effie Black
George Fuller
Ernest Jackson
Ennis Mulligan
Herman
Jess
Luther
Ernest A. Sparks
Birmingham
Tim Ans
Kittgarren
Gadsden Girl Named Miss Alabama Dairy Queen
Peggy June Elder aged 18 from Gadsden won the Miss Alabama Dairy Queen title in Birmingham finals representing Tro-Fe Dairy of Gadsden. Olga Houser a 19 year old University of Alabama student from Birmingham took the runner up spot.
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Gadsden
Birmingham
Peggy June Elder
Alabama
Tro-Fe
Olga Houser
University of Alabama
Newest Cargo Ship Frostburg Victory Assigned to Alabama
Mobile Alabama State Docks Director Henry W Sweet announced that the U S Maritime Commission will assign the Frostburg Victory to Alabama as a floating exhibit ship touring Latin American ports The vessel commissioned in 1946 needs less conversion than expected It can carry 80 passengers and measures 455 feet long 62 feet wide with four steel decks radio photographic and cold freezing facilities.
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Mobile
Ala
State Docks
Henry W. Sweet
U. S. Maritime Commission
Des Moines Flood Destroys Levee Threatens 25-Block Area
Des Moines river breaks a mile long levee, flooding 63 blocks as two flood crests converge near downtown. About 1,800 residents are evacuated in Iowa's capital, with curfew imposed to aid river control efforts. Rivers also surge along Missouri river basins with multiple levee breaches reported.
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Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Scott Street
Rule
Nebraska
St. Louis
Glasgow
Raccoon
Five Month Old Boy Attacked by Rats in Crib
Five months old James Hansen was under a physician's care for severe rat bites on the hands and scalp after two separate attacks in his crib. The mother, Mrs. J L Hansen, said she was awakened by screams during both incidents, and saw a large rat emerge from the crib. The baby’s condition was reported as good.
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Mobile
James Hansen
J. L. Hansen
Shockingly wasteful housing program exposed in aid scrutiny
Washington reports that Chairman Taber stated a housing appropriations committee probe into the federal public housing authority uncovers waste and inefficiency. He cites fraud and payroll padding and claims the CIO allows broad payroll abuses especially in the San Francisco regional office with alleged Communist on the payroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taber
N.Y
House Appropriations Committee
Federal Public Housing Authority
CIO
San Francisco
Carmichael Rules On Lime Cola Case
State Securities Commissioner Albert Carmichael was to rule on whether Lime Cola Co may submit confidential exhibits to a commission hearing on registering 1,686,100 shares of common stock. Company attorneys refused to reveal certain operations details unless kept confidential. The issue centers on information possibly valuable if disclosed.
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Montgomery
Albert Carmichael
Lime Cola Company
Commission
Sates Bs
Writ issued against Alabama Employment Service in Cartage dispute
A writ of mandamus was issued today against the Alabama State Employment Service to show cause why it refused to refer applicants to the Alabama Cartage Co in a labor dispute. Judge J Russell McElroy set a hearing for June 30 after a complaint by Horace Wilkinson on behalf of the Cartage firm. Lloyd W Taylor Birmingham manager for the employment service is accused of blocking referrals per a directive to refrain from sending workers to firms in a dispute, a move said to violate constitutional rights by not serving public agency duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Alabama State Employment Service
Alabama Cartage Co
J. Russell McElroy
Atty
Horace C. Wilkinson
Lloyd W. Taylor
Alabama
Alabama Employment Service
McElroy
Five Die and Nine Hurt in Shipyard Blast
In Mobile, a blast aboard the former Navy attack transport Waukesha at Waterman Steamship yards released carbon dioxide. Five workers, all Black, died two hours after the explosion. nine others were overcome and rescued, one of them a white man. The gas came from fire extinguisher lines, says Assistant Fire Chief Dan Sirmon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Navy
Waukesha
Waterman Steamship Corp
Dan Sirmon
Red Cross To Offer Instructors Course In Decatur
A 30 hour instructors course in water safety will run in Decatur from July 14 to 25 under Gordon Esterline a special field representative of the American Red Cross Southeastern area. George Porter Morgan county Red Cross water safety chairman invites interested applicants to contact him at 637 or Morgan county chapter headquarters phone 358 for more information. Applicants must be at least 19 and able to swim.
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Decatur
Gordon Esterline
American Red Cross
Atlanta
George Porter
Morgan County Red Cross
Morgan County
Women Against Rent Control Law Debate At Federation
The General Federation of Women's Clubs defeated a resolution urging continued equitable rent control in the United States. Mrs. Horace B. Ritchie of Athens Georgia chaired the resolutions committee and said the measure aimed to aid young people seeking homes and families. The Alaska Federation’s Mrs. William A. Smith supported rent control, noting it has helped many veterans.
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New York
Theeneral Federation of Women’s Clubs
United States
Horace B. Ritchie
Athens
William A. Smith
The
Alaska Federation
Medalist Wesley Reaches Second Round in Alabama Junior Golf
Medalist Gilbert Wesley of Greenville moved into the second round with a 2-1 victory over Sam Morgan of Selma in Montgomery. Birmingham’s Charlie Hall Jr and Selma’s Kenneth Cooper also won 2-1 to stay in the running. Annis ton’s Jimmy Meigs upset Mobile’s Tom Martin 2-1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Gilbert Wesley
Greenville
Alabama
Sam Morgan
Selma
Charlie Hall, Jr
Birmingham
Kenneth Cooper
Jimmy Meigs
Anniston
Tom Martin
Mobile
Bids Opened For Ammunition Disassembly Plant
Mobile district engineers report Andrew Dawson Shen essy of Anniston as apparent low bidder with $37,602.50 offer for construction of an ammunition disassembly plant at Anniston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Mobile District
Andrew, Dawson & Shenessy
Anniston
Legion Auxiliary to elect officers Friday night
The American Legion Auxiliary will meet Friday at 8 p.m. at the Legion home on Bank Street for the annual election of officers. Sheriff C. B. Humphrey reports six county arrests Thursday night including five for assault and battery and one for public drunkenness with bonds set at 300 dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Home
Bank Street
C. B. Humphrey
Coal Mines Battle Over Welfare and Safety Codes Looms
Industry negotiators seek to revive talks halted after the Taft Hartley law era with John L. Lewis pressing for higher wages and fund contributions. Landis floats compromise on welfare royalty and seven hour day plus travel time while Southern operators push separate bargaining and lawmakers call Lewis rebellious. CIO moves to shape strategy under the new labor law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
Congress
Truman
UMW
John O'Leary
Lewis
Landis
Hartley
House Labor Committee
New Jersey
John L. Lewis
Howard Smith
CIO
Lee Pressman
Russia's Molotov joins three power talks on Europe aid
Paris reports Russia's V M Molotov arrived for three power conferences on European aid as Britain and the United States reach broad conclusions on recovery. British and U S talks, led by W L Clayton and Lewis W Douglas, aim to align policy. Molotov to confer with Bevin and Bidault on Marshall plan framework. Poland shows interest, coal output key to revival. Spain and Portugal absent.
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Paris
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Europe
U. S
London
William L. Clayttn
Lewis W. Douglas
Washington
Clayton
Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
George C. Marshall
Poland
Marshall
Spain
Portugal
Johnston Has Cotton Plea
In Memphis Tennessee on June 26 the National Cotton Council reported President Oscar Johnston wrote letters to cotton state senators urging restoration of five budget items cut by the house He pledged full support to major farm groups for funds needed to sustain national agricultural programs especially the research and marketing act of 1946 section 32 funds for promoting U S cotton consumption pink bollworm control Bureau of Agricultural Economics actions and Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations Johnston warned that cutting vital programs would harm agricultural health and efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
National Cotton Council
Oscar Johnston
Cotton State
Department of Agriculture
House
Johnston
U. S
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
Council
Congress
Marriages and Deeds in Daily Records
Vernon Pullen of Akron wed Elnore Kimmel of Akron. Mitchell Heidt married Olene Southern of Danville. Elmer Sandlin wed Ruthie Frost of Moulton. Deeds include Earl Glenn to J R Stone for 200 dollars, Morris Lowery to J C Hill for 300, Phil Vaughan to Thomas Eddins for 300, C D Wood to L E Black for 5500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon Chester Pullen
Akron
Ohio
Elnore A. Kimmel
Mitchell Franklin Heidt
Danville
Olene Southern
Elmer Lee Sandlin
Moulton
Ruthie Anneyene Frost
Deeds Earl Glenn
J. R. Stone
Robi
Morris Lowery
J. C. Hill
Phil H. Vaughan
Tho. S. Eddins
C. D. Wood
L. E. Black
Pow Offers to Resign as Director of Legislative Service
June 26 report from Montgomery notes Director Alex Pow offered to resign yesterday but the new legislative council adjourned without action. Rep. Lawrence Dumas said the council would likely decide at its meeting in about 10 days whether to reelect Pow. He added no opposition to Pow’s reelection was known. Pow’s move would let the newly named council select another director if desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Alex Pow
State Legislative Reference Service
Legislative Council
Lawrence Dumas
Jefferson
CIO Unions Plan Local Meeting on Taft Hartley Act
CIO unions planned a general discussion on legal issues raised by the Taft Hartley act. Tomorrow CIO President Philip Murray will meet with his 51 member executive board including the heads of 49 CIO unions, Murray, and Secretary Treasurer James B Carey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
James B. Carey
Morgan Stanley Leads Southern Bell Debenture Offering
An investment syndicate headed by Morgan Stanley and Co publicly offered 75 million dollars of 4 1 2 per cent 40 year debentures of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co at 102.80. The yield to the purchaser was 2.75 percent and the syndicate won the issue in competitive bidding at 102.40 or an interest cost to Southern Bell of 2.775 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Morgan Stanley and Co
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co
Telephone Company
Caravan to Visit Central Methodist Church in July
The Meth odist Caravan will come to Central Methodist Church July 19 to 26 led by a director and four youths. Bible study and church programs will run with recreation. Rev G M Davenport will preach on the Sermon on the Mount and another sermon about Christ joining a church in decatur. Miss Wendellyn Gray will pantomime Rock of Ages. The church hosts evening services with strong attendance and a cordial welcome. After the steward’s meeting on Tuesday the third quarterly conference will be held, followed by an entertainment committee meeting to plan fall hosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Central Methodist Church
G. M. Davenport
Aurch
Decatur
Wallace Meadows
Bruce Spencer
J. E. McClary
Marvin Eubanks
H. Branum
Woodall's
Statewide bill would create county unit road system
Opponents from across the state denounce a proposed measure to establish a mandatory unit road system for all 67 counties, replace district supervision, and centralize equipment purchases. Senator Robin Swift defends the plan citing better use of funds. critics warn of excessive county engineer authority and potential confusion as lawmakers recess and prepare to resume debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Igislature
Robin Swift
Escambia
Charles Bentley
Coosa
Putnam Family Opens Grant Street Super Market
Three generations of Putnam grocers expand from Second Avenue to a Grant Street store. J. H. Putnam founded the first shop in 1893, T. E. Putnam joined in 1927, and T. E. Putnam Jr. has returned after 18 months service. Store hours are 8 A M to 6 P M weekdays, Thursday afternoons closed, and 8 A M to 6 P M on Saturdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putnam
Second Avenue
T. E. Putnam
Put’s
J. H. Putnam
Fourth Avenue
L and N
T. E. Putnam Jr
Putnams
Grant Street
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Wall Street
Detroit
Johnny Kielb
Johnny
Avery Bruce
Iowa City
Carmichael
ASES
RED Cross
Wesley
Gradison Woodall
Alden Ridgeway
Chattanooga
A. H. Hogan
Third Avenue West
Decatur General Hospital
J. L. Harris
California Street
Huntsville
Elien Gibson
Decatur 3
Howard McCulloch
Louisville
David Inman
Stanley M. Harrison
State of
North Alabama
Putnam’s
Koolvent
Morgan and
Limestone Counties
Fourth Ave
Holly Sts
Sam J. Evans
Alabama Metals CO
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