Californias Nor Hoff cycles border tour toward Canada
A 19-year-old San Diego woman named Nor Hoff rode a 0 mile bicycle journey around the United States borders. She travels about 60 miles daily through deserts, mountains, and beaches, aiming for New London Connecticut then Canada, planning a book from her experiences.
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Nor- Hoff
San Diego
Calif
Califorst
Indaaion
Mobile
United States
New London
Conn
YWCA
Labor unions push against Taft-Hartley and open shop bans
Padway outlined union plans to resist the Taft-Hartley act as AFL CIO move to challenge constitutionality. He said unions will avoid board use, fight affidavits as unconstitutional, and press for nationwide unity against political expenditures while awaiting state cases reaching the Supreme Court this fall.
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Internationaljons
AFL
CIO
Green
Florida
Nebraska
South Dakota
Arizona
Supreme Court
NLRB
Typographical
Ited
UMW
Adway
Alabama names new medical officer to lead VA office
Dr. George L. Johnson, former Veterans Administration staffer at Tuscaloosa and Thomasville, has been appointed chief officer of the Alabama VA office in Montgomery. He succeeds Dr. Harley B., reassigned to head regional medical in Miami. Johnson previously served 12 years at the Tuscaloosa hospital.
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Montgomery
Ala
George L. Johnson
Ger
Veterans Administration
Tuscaloosa
Thoile
Alabama
Reg- VA
Harley A. Smith
Alabama VA
Harley B
Miami
Alabama Medical
Thomasville Shenpttel
Tuscaloosa Hospital
Ingalls Shipyard Wins Large Reconstruction Contract
The maritime commission awarded Ingalls Shipyard a reconversion contract at Pascagoula Mississippi. Four C-3 cargo vessels used in trans service will be converted and later sold, including units tied to the USS Mon, USS Hamblen, and others.
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Pascagoula
Miss
Maritime Commission
Ingalls Shipyard
Tion Space
Resoels Ee Eons Corp
Hamblen
Fourth of July Traditions Grow From Early Observances
The Fourth of July evolved from church and speech observations with noisemaking becoming common soon after. Philadelphia marked the first anniversary with a banquet in the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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America
Philadelphia
Local births and hospital transfers noted in Decatur area
Medical patients and operations listed at Hamil clinic Baughs infirmary and Decatur General hospital include John Angela Falkville Mrs George W Young Town Creek and others. Rotary president Stanley Wyatt announces Monday noon meeting moved to Greystone restaurant due to Lyons dining room closure. Bertha Mae Timberlake of Decatur praised for hair washing in Fresno California weather appeal.
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Stanley Wyatt
Rotary
Rotary Club
Greystone
Hotel Lyons
Lyons
Bertha Mae Timberlake
Decatur
Ben Hogan Leads Chicago Victory National Golf Tourney
Ben Hogan of Hershey Pennsylvania shot 66 to reach 200 after 54 holes at the Chicago Victory National Golf tournament. The five under par effort put Hogan five strokes ahead of Sam Snead and Ferrier, with the field bunched at 36 holes.
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Chicago
Little Ben Hogan
Hershey
Sammy Snead
Ings
West Point Military Academy Rules Shock Public
A notice states married men are not permitted to enter West Point Military Academy grounds in an unusual admission policy. The terse text signals ongoing restrictions affecting applicants and attendees.
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West Point Military Aca
Alabama approves Decatur seaplane base license and Muscles Shoals airfield
Montgomery announces licensing of Alabama's first commercial seaplane base at Decatur on the Tennessee river to be operated by James C. McAlister with two docks and a ramp. The Cisco harbor boat basin stalls also provide facilities. McAlister plans veterans flight training with E. S. Page as chief instructor. A second commercial airfield, Muscle Shoals Sky Park at Florence, is licensed under supervision of E. Winfield Allen.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Decatur
Asa Rountree Jr
Tennessee River
James C. McAlister
State Aeronautics Department
Rountie
Cisco Harbor Boat Basin
Rountree
McAlister
E. S. Page
Muscle Shoals Sky Park
Florence
Carnegie-Illinois Cuts Blast Furnaces and Open Hearth Units
Carnegie-Illinois lines slashed 31 production days bank to add 10 blast furnaces for a total of 14 1 2 of 28. Open hearths reduced from 130 to 50 units. Hugh Clairton coke works cut to 38 percent of capacity. Other firms Republic, Sharon, and Wheeling Steel announce cuts. Wheeling idle about 6,000 workers by July 7. Railroads warn of passenger curtailment if miners stay off the job. Norfolk and Western and Virginian Railways furlough 975 in Roanoke area. Nashville officials foresee progressive layoffs in Knoxville division.
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Hugh Clairton
Republic Steel
Sharon Steel
Wheeling Steel
Federal Transportation
Norfolk & Western
Virginian Railways
Roanoke
Nashville, Tenn
Southern
Louisville & Nashville
Knoxville
Fred G McCollum Named Troy Coach
Fred G Buddy McCollum, former Auburn athlete and coach, was named head coach and athletic director at Troy State Teachers College. He will succeed A E Choate, who remains as superintendent of buildings and grounds. McCollum will start duties in July after preparing for a coaching school at Livingston State Teachers College.
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Montgomery
Ala
Fred G
Buddy McCollum
Auburn
Livingston State Teachers College
Troy State Teachers College
Max Moseley
Montgomery Advertiser
Advertiser
C. B. Smith
Troy Institution
McCollum
A. E. Choate
Troy
Smith
Choate
World Society Rested on the Individual Man, Hepburn Says
William M. Hepburn, dean of the University of Alabama law school, spoke in Montgomery Alab ama that world society rests on recognizing the importance of the individual. He linked this to the San Francisco conference and a proposed Universal Declaration of Human Rights within the United Nations, stressing food, housing, employment, and education. He had served as vice chairman of a regional war labor board and spoke at a statewide employment security training conference.
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Montgomery
Als
William M. Hepburn
University of Alabama Law School
San Francisco
United Nations
Regional War Labor Board
Congress At A Glance Heads Into Final Month
Washington runs through a June box score of action and inaction. Passed measures include Taft Hartley labor reform, portal to portal pay, two term presidency, and rent control changes. Likely to pass with broad support are wool price supports, export controls, State Dept info program funds, veteran terminal leave bonds, Army Navy unification, minimum wage rise, and speaker presidency linkage.
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Congress
United States
State Department
Foreign Information
Army
Navy
House
Western Hemisphere
Europe
St. Lawrence Waterway
Decatur program awards prizes to local buyers
In a Decatur program both buyer and seller were described as consumers. Ed Coney of Hartselle won a $50 prize from the Decatur Truck and Tractor Company and J. D. Pittman. Other winners from Decatur area firms included L. J. Harrison, Walter H. Thomason, George T. Woodruff, A. B. Sharp, C. C. Mitchell, W. R. Sharp, B. O. Maxwell, Greer Powell, H. P. McDonald, B. Collier, J. M. Dunaway, J. R. Barcliff, Harold Nunnelly, and Pee A. Whisenant. Harold Black and his Tennessee Valley Playboys provided hillbilly music before the program.
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Hartselle
Walter H. Thomason
Somerville
George T. Woodruff
A. B. Sharp
Decatur
C. C. Mitchell
W. R. Sharp
B. O. Maxwell
Greer Powell
Falkville
H. P. McDonald
B. Collier
J. M. Dunaway
J. R. Bar
City softball games rained out again
The City Softball League postponed all games after a Friday afternoon shower left the fields too wet to play. This marked the third rainout in the past week.
Vocational Courses Offered for Veterans Education Levels
Veterans Administration announces continuation courses for veterans in the Court House Annex. Auto Mechanics Machinist Electricity Refrigeration and Radio provide 12 to 24 month programs with specific grade requirements. On the job training available for veterans with less than five grades. contact the VA to enroll and make up grammar school work.
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Eterans
Veterans Administration
Courthouse
Cumberland River Floods Hit Pineville and Harlan
Floods from the Cumberland River caused over half a million dollars in property damage in Pineville Kentucky with water flooding the business district and blocking travel. Rainfall of 5.2 inches fell at Harland as the river rose, with a crest expected downstream and no lives lost.
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Pineville
Cumberland
Kentucky
Harland
Harlan
El Greco Named Neo Nico Seepteenandt
The painter El Greco, born in Crete and trained under the Tallon school master Titan, died in 1614.
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el Greco
Nenico Seepteenandt
Crete
Tallon
Titan
Fragmentary report on a rifle-tile incident at a facility
A garbled OCR fragment describes rifles used to break tiles in what appears to a controlled or inadvertent collision with hot surfaces. Details on place date or entities are unreadable.
Patty Upsets John Brownich to Reach Wimbledon Quarters
Budge Patty a 23 year old ex GI from Los Angeles defeated Australia's second seed John Brownich at Wimbledon 6-4 0-6 6-4 1-6 6-4 to reach the quarter finals joining Jack Kramer Bob Falkenberg and Tom Brown. The unseeded American caused a major upset on center court before about 15000 spectators including Prime Minister Attlee and ambassador Lewis Douglas. Kramer beat Torsten Johansson 7-5 6-2 6-3 and Falkenberg beat Hans Redl 6-3 6-3 6-4.
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London
Budge Patty
G. I
Los Angeles
Australia
John Brownich
Patty
Jack Kramer
Bob Falkenburg
Tom Brown
Wimbledon
Center Court
Clement Attlee
Lewis Douglas
Kramer
Torsten Johansson
Falkenburg
Hans Redl
Domestic production of ceramic tile replaces imports
Prior to 1880 all tile used in American buildings was imported, but today almost all ceramic tile is produced at home.
Market prices in Decatur for crops and grains
Cash grain prices at Alabama Flour Mills in Decatur show No. 1 soft wheat at 2.20 per bushel, white corn at 2.35 for 74 lb ears, yellow corn at 2.13 for 74 lb ears, rye at 3.20 per 100 pounds, barley at 1.53, and oats at 0.85 per bushel.
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Decatur
Alabama Flour Mills
Flu And Measles Dominate Alabama Communicables
Influenza led with 9,508 cases, measles 3,369, and whooping cough 1,449 in the first 24 weeks of 1947 as reported by Dr. D G Gill State Health Officer. Other diseases counted: scarlet fever 297 diphtheria 126 typhus 91 undulant 62 poliomyelitis 21 typhoid 18 tularemia 13 amoebic dysentery 10 smallpox 5 paratyphoid 1 encephalitis 1.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
D. G. Gill
Beigin predicts long Irgun fight over Palestine
Jerusalem June 28 Menachem Begin chief of Irgun Zvai Leumi says in a secret interview the United Nations will not grant their aims in Palestine. He warns many of his generation may die outside their beds and notes pessimism about UN Commission plans. Begin details his underground fighters and past as a Polish lawyer who fled Poland in 1939 and rose to Irgun command.
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Jerusalem
Menachem Beigin
Irgun Zvai Leumi
United Nations
Palestine
Irgun
United Nations Commission
Holy Land
Australia
Bergin
Poland
Hitler
Europe
Wilno
Lithuania
Wladyslaw Anders
Probable pitchers list for today’s major league games
National League games list Lombardi Taylor Koslo Iott Heintzelman Hughes Spahn Sain Voiselle Higbe Passeau Van der Meer Walters Dickson Brazie Page Drews Johnson Wynn Masterson Marchildon Fowler Ferris Zuber Chicago Cleveland Embree Newhouser Trout Note includes one NL win and one AL loss.
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Brooklyn
Lombardi
Taylor
Koslo
Iott
Philadelphia
Boston
Heintzelman
Hughes
Spahn
Sain
Washington
Page
Drews
Johnson
Wynn
Masterson
Marchildon
Fowler
Ferris
Zuber
Chicago
Cleveland
Lee
Embree
St. Louis
Detroit
Jmurechef
Kinder
Or Sanford
Newhouser
Trout
How to pack deviled eggs for a picnic without mashing
To carry deviled eggs without mashing, fit the two filled halves together, wrap in waxed paper, and place in an egg carton for protection during transport. An egg carton helps keep them intact and clean until serving.
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Hamil Clinic
George W. Young
Town Creek
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William Lee
Olive Street
J. D. Lawrence
Vinemont 1
Baugh's Infirmary
Tom Garrison
Elkton, Tenn
R. L. Abernathy
Decatur General Hospital
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Seventh, Avenue South
Decatur , General Hospital
Perry H. Williams
Jackson Street
Myrtle McGaughy
Fifth Avenue West
Myrtle McGoughy
Brown's
Herman
Lambert
Seventh Avenue East
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Fourth Avenue East
Howell Ambulance
Ben Hogan
Fred G. McCollum
Harold Black
Tennessee Valley Playboys
Cumberland River
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Decatur Grain
Beigin
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