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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1958
Page
6
About 400 Decatur parents answered a state funded survey on education. They favored modest tax increases for higher teacher salaries and school buildings, with demand for more teachers and classrooms as the top need.
TVA will inventory Morgan County forests beginning June 26 with four foresters to work about a month. John C. Mitchell notes 150 fifth-acre plots will yield estimates of timber volume and quality for the county. The Morgan survey expands a TVA program completed in 1940 and 1950 and now covering 56 counties and seven small watersheds.
The Associated Press notes a strong summer market with big crops and low prices across peaches cherries berries melons and citrus. Experts predict peak food prices have passed and meat prices may ease five to ten percent by late summer or early fall.
Miss Wanda Jean Smith wed Travis Ray Givens in a Sunday ceremony led by Rev. Dean Simpson. Visitors include Mrs. Zula Laws of Houston and Charlotte Delbeck of Florence visiting relatives. Local travels show Rev Jimmy Caudill family vacationing in Florida and others visiting Birmingham, Jasper, Chicago, and Oxford.
Michigan marks a three day celebration opening the world's longest suspension bridge the Mighty Mac at the Straits of Mackinac The five mile span cost 100 million dollars and links Michigan's two peninsulas The dedication shines with parades fireworks and speeches by Gov G mennen Williams and federal officials The project employed nearly 3 500 workers with five fatalities and is touted as a major engineering feat by designer Dr David B Steinman
The passage states female mosquitoes transmit malaria to humans while males do not bite. It asserts females carry the disease transmission and males are harmless due to lacking blood-feeding behavior.
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