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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1949
Page
6
For Paris fashion crowds pirates copy designs from Dior shows and steal sketches, facing raids and fines. Separately Juliette Gordon Low’s Girl Scouts celebrate 37 years, now with nearly 1.5 million members and active in communities worldwide.
AP Special dispatch from Washington reports Senator Hill leverages his chair on the Senate appropriations panel to advance Alabama programs while Senator Sparkman, a two year veteran, sits on public works and banking and currency. They coordinate on river development, flood control, roads, housing, and farm programs, giving Alabama two coordinated votes on key committees and aiding small business.
Senator Hill's library service bill becomes the first measure on the calendar as Dorothy Lull returns to Washington. Rep. George Andrews urged urgent federal funds for the Chattahoochee river project and dams at Columbia and Buford, noting a total program cost near 93 million dollars. Construction began September 1947 at River Junction Florida.
Mr and Mrs Charles W Stuckey formerly of Birmingham visit Rep Battle en route to Panama where he will fill an embassy post Others previously of Birmingham include Foster Etheredge Gilmer and Alfred Mize of the University of Alabama W R Kent an apnap
Decatur Girl Scouts celebrate the thirty seventh anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United States. The piece notes founders and early leaders including Maj. Eli R. Pershing and R H Holcombe Jr with mentions of George W. Cameron and other regional figures in Mobile and Birmingham.
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