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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 26, 1951

Page

10

Air Force Seeks Volunteers After Induction Pause

Men who have had pre induction physical exams may volunteer in the United States Air Force from June 15 to July 15. MSgt. Judd Mason, local recruiting officer, cites expanded training, new facilities, and many openings in radio radar air traffic control meteorology and armament with promotions and travel potential. Volunteers report to the joint Army Air Force Station at 1008 Ferry Street between 8 AM and 5 PM daily except Sunday with pre induction notice and draft cards.

United States Air Force Judd Mason Air Force Defense Department Mason U. S. Army U. S. Air Force Ferry Street

Globemasters Serve As Vegetable Wagons in Puerto Rico

Two C 74 Globemasters are repurposed as flying vegetable wagons delivering fresh fruit and vegetables to military personnel in Puerto Rico. Officials say island food supplies have been cut by shipping disruptions and will resume once normal conditions return. The Alcoa Corsair and Alcoa Clipper cruise ships remain tied up due to ongoing strike actions affecting CIO seamen radiomen and marine engineers.

Mobile Ala Air Force Puerto Rico Military Air Transport Service Globemas Alcoa Steamship Company Caribbean Alcoa Corsair Alcoa Clipper CIO CIO Marine Atlantic Gulf

SpearsRecovery Ads Highlight Patient Progress Story

Readers are urged to write for recovered patients who share their stories of overcoming disease and affliction at Spears. The message contrasts mothers and farmers witnessing new life and regained function with the progress charts used by doctors.

Spears

Dear Miss Dix Advice Column On Love And Snoring

Dorothy Dix addresses three reader questions on broken engagements and trust in love, waiting for a suitor to marry, and a newlywed wife seeking relief from her husband's snoring with a hint to a forthcoming book How to Stop Snoring by David Horwich Exposition Press.

Miss DIX Brownie David Horwich Exposition Press Fourth Avenue New

Japanese minister cites Christian power over atomic bomb

Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto from Hiroshima tells a Riverside California audience that American Christianity outshines the atom bomb as a weapon. He tours the U.S. to fund a service center for orphans and juveniles in Hiroshima and says occupation forces softened Japanese resentment.

Ontario Calif Hiroshima Japan Kiyoshi Tanimoto Nagasaki U. S Kyoshi Nagaregawa

Dorothy Dix tips on social and domestic relations leaflet

York City price two dollars and fifty cents. Dorothy Dix offers advice on improving social business and domestic relationships in leaflet D-7 Disposition. To obtain a copy send a 3 cent stamped self addressed envelope to Miss Dix c/o this newspaper P O Box 98 Times Square Station New York 18 NY.

Dorothy DIX

Tornadoes and Windstorms Ravage Four States

The Associated Press reports tornadoes and high winds across Iowa Nebraska Colorado and Southern Minnesota causing extensive damage to crops livestock and property. At least five injured with Duncan Iowa town center wrecked and Crystal Lake town buildings devastated. Damage runs into hundreds of thousands with cattle and poultry losses and widespread power outages.

Iowa Nebraska Colorado Minnesota Duncan Crystal Lake Sidney Nebr Holyoke Scottsbluff Nebra U.S. Weather Bureau Today Mississippi Valley Ohio Valley Missouri Kansas

Man requests jail time then crashes into city property

A Pomona man asked a police sergeant to arrest him for an urge to hit a telephone pole. He was refused, but 15 minutes later another man drove into a lamp post near a city intersection and was jailed for destroying city property.

Pomona Calif

Record exports of radioisotopes from Harwell in May

Britain shipped 236 consignments of medical radioisotopes from the Atomic Research Pile at Harwell in May. Destinations included Australia and Ireland by air, with 71 packages sent by sea to France, per the Ministry of Supply.

London Britain Atomic Research Pile Harwell Ministry of Supply Australia Ireland France

Weather Across Regions Reflects Variations in Climate

The report notes cooler conditions in the Northeast and Northwest with fair and warm weather prevailing in the Southwest as a broad Gulf States to Ohio and Mississippi Valley movement influences regional climates.

Gulf States Ohio Mississippi Valley

Archbishop Beran Sent to Frontier Monastery Camp

Vatican radio reported Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague has been moved to a frontier monastery near the Austrian border, now used as a concentration camp by Czechoslovakia's communist regime. He had been under house arrest in Prague for a long period.

Vatican City Vatican Radio Josef Beran Prague Czechoslovakia

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