Spur Station Here Expanded
Spur Service station on Sixth Avenue at Holly Street undergoes remodeling to double driveway facilities and pumps. Gasoline storage rises from 21 000 to 36 000 gallons while a four room office is renovated and the current office becomes a ladies lounge. Frank Webster is station man.
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Sixth Avenue
Holly Street
C. T. Hughes
Nashville
National Chain
Hughes
Decatur
Seaboard
Frank Webster
Rental Hikes Will Be Slow Under Terms of New Curbs
President Truman signed a 15 month extension of rent ceilings and urged the law be enforced with teeth. Housing expediter Tighe Woods will survey landlord income to set a new fairness yardstick. Officials say no immediate rush to raise rents, and hardship rules remain in effect while the government develops a decontrol plan.
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Sterling F. Grreen
Washington
Tighe Woods
Truman
Woods
Congress
Spur outlet expansion under way in Decatur
William Jenkins district manager for Spur, Winchester Tennessee, is in Decatur supervising the expansion program of the local Spur outlet.
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Ager
Spur
William Jenkins
Winchester, Tenn
Decatur
Churchill To Speak Tonight At Tech Convocation
Boston March 31 Churchill 14 year old statesman will address a mid century survey at MIT on The 6ff Century Its Promise And Its Realization. The event inaugurates Techs tenth president and features leaders from the Western world in discussions on atomic age progress and world peace.
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Boston
Winston Churchill
Britain
Fulton, Mo
Europe
British Commonwealth of Nations
United States
Boston Garden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tech
James Rhyne
Jane Churchill
Christopher Soames
New York
Queen Elizabeth
Churchill
Harold E. Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Truaman
France
Belgium
India
Brazil
Mexico
Traffic Deaths First Two Months Of 1949 Rise
The National Safety Council reports 4,400 traffic deaths in January and February 1949, up four percent from the same period in 1948. February toll totaled 2,090, three percent higher daily average than a year ago, with Western snow reducing travel and deaths, while milder Eastern weather boosted activity and fatalities.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Truman backs local rent control reform amid housing plan
The president framed the joint effort as a step extending local rent advisory boards to decide when federal rent control is unnecessary. Decentralization requires state governor approval for local decontrol decisions, urging officials to study facts and act for their communities. An AP survey showed governors and major mayors likely to proceed slowly with the local decontrol machinery.
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Congress
Truman
Associated —Press
Panel Discussion on TB Education In Decatur Dinner
North Alabama Tuberculosis Association held a dinner meeting at Somerville Road School Decatur. Dr. Carl Grote Dr. Kellie Joseph and Dr. William Grosfeld led a panel on treatment hospitalization and education as Alabama faces the states highest TB death rate.
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Carl Grote
Huntsville
Kellie Joseph
Birmingham
William Grosfield
Morgan County Sanatorium
Decatur
North Alabama Tuberculosis Association
William Grosfeld
Somerville Road School
T. L. Flynn
North Alabama
Joseph
Alabama
Mississippi
Frances Nungester
Katherine Ivey
Virginia Balch
F. M. Cook
Alabama Tuberculosis Association
K. W. Grimley
Steele McGrew
North Alabama Association
H. R. Summers
Erskine Chenault
Herschell Littrell
Limestone County Tuberculosis Association
William H. Johnston
Madison County Tuberculosis Association
Morgan
Holmes A Turner
D. L. Blackwell Jr
Martin Kerlon
L. R. Murphree
John C. Bragg
E.S. Loyd
J.W. Darrah
W A. Wales
Elizabeth Lamon
Phil Mitchell
W. B. Eyster
Jack R. Mason
Otis E. Kirby
R. B. Bagley
W. H. Meadows
L. G Connell
W. F. Boswell
Garrold Nungester
E. M. Chenault
Limsetone County
Milton Holmes
Lillie Mae Glasscock
Charlie King
Pat Breeding
O. G. Johnson
Gilbert Johnson
Leola Cox Sides
Luke Pryor
Joe B. Sarver
R. H. Richardson Sra. Johnson
B. L. Rich
W W. Malone Jr
Carlyle Cook
C. F. Turner
J. M. Holt
D. A. Patton
Julian Newman
C J. Morrell
Grady Paul Vinson
Edward Puryear
Hoyt Williamson
Horace Freeman
Hugh Maplesden
Paul Gish
Madison County
Ermon Glenn
Gretchen Strong
Margaret P. Askins
J.O. Kelly
W. H. Johnston
R. L. Stone
Carl Morning
H. H. Chase
A. M. Shelamer
J. D. Wigley
Anna K. Busbin
Velma Owens
Gradt Giles
Jack Giles
Goon Charges Fly In New York Taxi Strike Threat
New York taxi owners vow to operate as many cabs as possible as a union linked to John L. Lewis's United Mine Workers threatens a citywide strike. The union warns that no wheel will roll after 4 30 a m tomorrow in the 100 000 000 a year taxi industry.
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New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Taxi Strike Fears Prompt Mayor’s Calm After Violence Threats
New York taxi strike heightens tension as Mayor William O Dwyer vows to prevent beatings and cabs overturning. Union leaders dispute claims of out of town goons while 100 United Mine Workers organizers assist in the city. Drivers seek immediate union recognition without a formal election.
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William O'Dwyer
Jack J. Jackman
Jackman
Leon Zwicker
Taxi Union
Zwicke
United Mine Workers
Birthplace of Edward I the First Prince of Wales
Edward I, the first Prince of Wales, is believed to have been born in Caernarvon, Wales. The historic claim links the monarch to the Caernarfon castle region where early royal life is associated.
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Edward I
Prince of Princes
Caernarvon, Wales
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