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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1957
Page
9
A survey of Cleveland Transit System officials shows that most top executives drive to work by car. In Bristol Rhode Island the Hassenreffer Museum of the American Indian houses a notable collection of Indian relics and curios.
Local Civitan members elect A. E. Berryman as club delegate to the International Convention in Chicago. Officers to be elected at the May 13 meeting at Hazlewood High School lunchroom. R. R. Berryman presides as others attend including J. Yates and Q. V. Amberson.
Traffic Judge James Demopolos sentenced James Nix, 18, a chronic violator with nine accidents and 40 citations, to two hours per night for 30 days in Mercy Hospital emergency room. He was also ordered to donate a pint of blood to the Red Cross as a symbolic gesture of the blood that could have been spilled on the highway.
Wally Fowler presents an all night singing at Decatur High School on May 2 at 8 p.m. featuring the Blackwood Brothers with Jackie Marshall the Oak Ridge Quartet the Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister and the Lakeside Quartet of Tuscumbia with Bill Mays. Tickets are sold at Goidel and Loyd’s Drug Stores and the high school.
In the Arkansas Gazette a dog owner offers a reward style plea for a collie missing from Tucker State Farm. The ad suggests the finder could be identified by their vehicle license and hints at prison time if not returned.
Birds survive 500 to 2000 mile migrations over land and sea by burning fat for energy, enabling non stop flights without feeding. Researchers explain fat reserves fuel endurance while birds navigate vast distances.
Malone Asbury Malone Morgan County service officer will attend the annual Department of Veterans Affairs conference in Montgomery in May 2022. He says the event offers group study of procedures and problems to improve service to local veterans. A banquet is planned for May 21 at the Whitley Hotel for Sen. Joe Calvin and two Morgan County representatives Albert Brewer and Bob Gilchrist.
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