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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1950
Page
7
Dr. J A Boykin a 56 year old dentist in Birmingham says he will rebuild his bombed home on the street corner where it stood April 13 He writes his son Joel S Boykin a Union Springs teacher who says he served in Saipan and urges sacrifice for home. Police continue investigations into six negro houses bombings in border areas with no arrests.
One story Killup 5 rooms home example of sound modern design with large living room natural fireplace dinette two bedrooms and bath. Bow front window dominates living room open porch may be screened or glazed as outdoor living area hall vestible abundant closet space built in cabinet data lists living area 846 sq ft ceiling heights 8 ft 3 in basement ceiling 7 ft.
Friends of Fred Singleton report he is in a Tuscaloosa hospital after a wreck Friday night while returning from work and suffering a broken back. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Cathcart and their sons visited relatives in Decatur. Evie Beddingfield and Harris visited the James and baby at Oak Ridge. Connie Roberts visited her mother Leeda James. Gaines McNutt and family plus others visited Danville and Clifton Sparkman families Sunday. Addie Wallace spent Saturday with her sister in Hartselle. Dyers Lemmonds near Somerville visited A. W. Taylor and Junior Wednesday. Harold Bell visited Gaines McNutt’s family Sunday night. Gertrude Betterton of Decatur spent Saturday night with Evelyn Edwards. Mary Long was visiting.
Dr. Oliver R. Bryant reports a new treatment using antihistamines during the excitable phase of manic-depressive psychosis. In six patients the drug rapidly quieted agitation within 24 hours and improved thinking, with sustained benefits over weeks though not a cure. No adverse reactions were noted to blood or urine tests.
Mrs. John Wallace in Hartselle and Frazier Vest of Sheffield were mentioned in health updates. The Vest family spent Monday with their sister and brother in Birmingham, visiting Mr. and Mrs. Silous Leeman and their children.
Dewey Lee Caylor, missing since Saturday, drown while fishing in the Tombigbee river near McIntosh bluff. Coast Guardsmen, Highway Patrolmen and volunteers found his body yesterday after a squall capsized his boat.
A tense man rushes into a bar and orders drinks before admitting he has no money. The bartender complies, the drinks vanish, and the man hints the trouble starts now. The scene shifts to local humor with a line about a parking space and a rural jab about hog killing in Johnston County.
A proposal to raise the national minimum wage to one dollar an hour won unanimous approval from the CIO Textile Workers Union convention in Boston as 400000 members debated 40 resolutions. Delegates urged higher unemployment benefits and a federal 30 hour work week to boost employment amid textile area hardships.
Mackenzie's column cites John Foster Dulles arguing that Communist capture of Hainan heightens the need for US action to prevent Red control of Formosa. He notes guerrilla pockets in Szechwan, estimates up to 200,000 nationalist troops in the Yangtze valley, and the aim to cripple tax support by disabling Formosa’s government and military centers.
The text notes Formosa, a 100 mile from China coast, with about 6 million people, ample coal and oil resources, serves as a major airplane base, and hosts Japanese bomber activity against the Philippines. It mentions nearby Okinawa and U.S. bases, implying Dulles's point to keep Formosa out of Red hands.
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