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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1939
Page
8
Senators and White House clash over neutrality and wage hour revisions while proposed relief and crop support funds spark budget battles. A four point tax plan faces criticism as lawmakers push to balance expenditures with higher revenue.
Here Tonight Fields and the Rippling Rhythm orchestra appear at the Armory in Decatur for a dance. The group was arranged by Morgan County Post No. 15 through the Music Corporation of America. The band leader explains a special bubbling device to amplify tonic sounds, recalling his Chicago Palmer House visit.
Dr. B F Tingle preached to a near full house at First Methodist on Sunday, stressing Joshua and a Christian home as the path for nations and individuals. The church revival will run May 14 to May 1 with Dr. M M Dayborge, Tuscaloosa district, preaching and the benevolences goal under $100 from completion.
A group of Eva and Danville home economics students toured educational exhibits in Birmingham and Montgomery on Friday April 21. They viewed Alabama cultural displays at Loveman's, visited Tuskegee Institute facilities, Kilby prison dairy, and the Alabama rabies research stations, with guides detailing industry, agriculture, and dietetics education.
Danville High School releases a senior class Who's Who listing 32 "mosts" for girls and boys. Highlights include most popular, best all round, most handsome, best dressed, best athlete, most in love, and class bookworm among others with students Trannie Aldridge James Orr Hester Holt Neal Battles Lorene Dutton Blunt Wallace Estelle Hunter Evaline Stephenson Doris McAbee and more.
Rev. William E. Waterhouse, newly chosen pastor of the First Baptist, will arrive today from Horse Cave Kentucky to begin duties. He will lead his first service Wednesday evening as First Baptist, joined by the First Methodist and First Presbyterian congregations, extend a welcome to the new minister.
Plans are nearing final form for a revival campaign to begin on the second Sunday in June at the Sixteenth Avenues church. Rev. Leon Macon of Athens will preach and W. R. Wallace will oversee the music.
The Ardmore creamery in the northern part of the county currently processes 27 000 pounds of milk daily and expects to reach 30 000 pounds shortly after May 1. Daily collections come mainly from Madison and Limestone counties with about a third of the milk sourced from those areas.
The Danville high school senior class stages the comedy Cyclone Sally in the auditorium on Saturday night May 6. The show starts at 8 o'clock with a cast including Jack Webster Ralph Hill Reggie Manners Howard Landers Jim Jerkins Milton Aldridge Willie Clump Blunt Wallace Sally Graham Trannie Aldridge Jenny Thatcher Estelle Hunter Ruth Thatcher Doris McAbee Effie Warden Lorene Dutton Vivian V Ernine Wright and Webster Living Room as the present scene.
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