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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1948
Page
5
The Danville Garden Club held an April meeting at the Methodist church featuring a bird house contest. Boys built and competed for three weeks with Gilbert Spencer Jr winning a boys utility knife. Mrs F E Martin gave an illustrated talk on common birds.
The Oakton is a National Plan Service design featuring a curved lower front roof and large picture window. The living room holds a natural wood burning fireplace with vented air, a front guest closet, and a single-wall kitchen leading to a full dining room. A large bathroom includes a linen closet, and the home plans allow two extra bedrooms on the second floor later. Blueprints and details are available from local lumber dealers.
Ten men and twenty women worked on day one, about twelve on day two, and seventeen on the last day. Schoolboys and girls helped, and the club thanks Chase Nursery in Chase Alabama for supplying much of the shrubbery and all individuals who cooperated.
A burned and buried body in Meriwether County backs murder charges against four men and an accomplice in the death of Wilson Turner a 26 year old tenant farmer. Wallace Sivell Wallace Mobley and Broughton Myhand are jailed for murder with Wallace cousin Tom Strickland held as an accomplice. A two week search led to the discovery of the remains in a swampy woodland on a 2000 acre dairy farm. Sheriff Howell credited state agent E J Hand with guiding the discovery and noted the body was burned with wood and gasoline and partly destroyed.
Arthur G G Geist a 63 year old retired Chicago insurance broker baffled police by claiming he tipped a cab driver $1000 for a hand injury treatment. Police say Vincent Callargo Westfield New York arrived with $1340 in cash as the cabbie escorted Geist home. Geist was booked on a technical disorderly conduct charge.
Tulane University's Southeastern Conference tennis champions will leave tomorrow night to play Georgia Tech, the University of Virginia and the U. S. Naval Academy. The Green Wave has a record of one defeat and one tie.
A fragmented narrative sketches fashion obsessions from ground sweeping skirts to revealing summer wear, then shifts to scenes at a dentist and job hunt. It couches social expectations around marriage, money, and class with snippets of dialogue showing tensions between appearance and reality.
An old quip notes that some men show no respect for age until it is bottled to drink. The line reflects a dry humor about aging and folly in a concise, period voice.
A light potshot speech tale has a heckler asking how long the lecture has lasted while the speaker jokes about four years in teaching. A humorous aside notes the three stages of the enterprising Yankee. A woman asks for a streetcar, and a boy points to the door handle as the best place to catch one.
Seven matches this season will see teams travel to Atlanta on May 6 to face Tech, then Virginia at Charlottesville on May 7, and the Naval Academy in Annapolis on May 8.
The text argues that American strength underpins democracy, while reconstruction in the Soviet Union and postwar planning test resolve to avert global conflict. It weighs whether free nations will confront communism, if Britain and the United States will act, and how the United Nations may be reshaped to secure peace and deter jihadlike wars. It notes the Jewish homeland issue may be settled by negotiation or force.
Mackenzie's column notes President Truman fears the year could decide the Cold War's trajectory. He cites risks of a shooting war with Russia, Western Europe alignment, Marshall Plan viability, and how democracies might meet Moscow's challenge. He questions Italy France England and Eastern Europe ministers.
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