Landersville Club Holds April Meeting in School Lunch Room
Landersville Home Demonstration Club gathered in the school lunch room for its April session. Mrs. Earl Malcolm led the meeting, readings and jokes enlivened the roll call, and dress revue winners were named. A Red Cross drive pledge and Easter themed refreshments followed as planning shifted to May.
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Landersville Home Demonstration Club
Earl Malcolm
J. H Free
Bill Latham
J. H. Free
Glen Radford
Latham
Radford
Star Theatre
Red Cross
Lucy Blackburn
Hubert Sutton
Irene Byars
B. B. Montgomery
Rush Martin
Walter Sivley
Sarah Aldridge
Addie Crow
Roy Free
Robert Page, Decatur
Slackburn
Posey Montgomery
Lacey's Spring Home Demonstration Club Meets
Mrs Karl Hough hosted the Lacey's Spring Home Demonstration Club for their April meeting. Miss Hawkins presented on buying and caring for electrical appliances stressing buying from established dealers for repair parts. Eleven members attended and two dollars dues were paid for the county council.
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Karl Hough
Lacey’s
Hawkins
Omer
His Heart Was Bad But Frank Holley Shows It
In Huntington West Virginia Frank Holley 58 collapsed after telling a neighbor child to stay back from a ball rolling into the street A doctor said he died of a heart attack Holley had been sidelined from work at a shoe factory but showed kindness and quick action before the tragedy.
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Frank Holley
Huntington
W. Va
Holley
Dad Guesses Wrong and Faces Big Repaint Job
In Los Angeles a week before the ninth child arrives for George von r and Olga Euder, the couple painted the baby's room pink and the house exterior pink. Olga made pink baby clothes though the destined child turned out to be a boy. The article notes a mix up about the baby's gender and color expectations.
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Los Angeles
George von R
Olga
Euders
Pegape Nydas No. 9
Gary Christopher
Euder
Franti Ee Adie
Government Plans Oil Sale Amid Iraqi Economy Reforms
The Iraq cabinet intends to sell crude oil under an arrangement with the British Iraqi Petroleum Co. as part of broader economic reforms. The move targets a sale of a large crude export volume to stabilize markets and boost revenue.
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Iraq
Brit- Iraq Petroleum Co
Dress Revue Tea Draws 200 Plus County Women and Girls
More than 200 Home Demonstration Club women and 4-H girls registered for the Limestone County Dress Revue and Tea at Athens College. Judge and club leaders presided as aprons and dresses were modeled by junior and senior divisions, with winners advancing to state events in Auburn and ongoing county demonstrations planned for fall.
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J. V. Rudder
Limestone County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs
McCandless Hall
Athens College
George Braly
County Council
Tom Strain
Robert N. Simpson
First Christian Church
Etheleen Hill
Ripley
Etheleen
Robert B. Hill
Athens
Judy Houston
Mooresville-Belle Mina
Judy
D. Houston
Tanner
Revie
Route 5
Amy
Limestone County
Auburn
Doorothy Ann Smith
R. H. Smith
Clements
Joe Worthy
South Limestone Home Demonstration Club
Thomas McDole
East Limestone Home Demonstration Club
Anne Maples
Mack Maples
Route 2
Elkmont
Girls Demonstrate In Apr 19 4 H Baking Show
Eight girls from junior 4 H clubs baked biscuits at the Morgan County Home Economics Building using identical recipes. Vida Milton Stone of Flint 4 H Club won first place and received gifts from local merchants. A picnic followed as rural youth leaders hosted. Miss Jane Elkins won the Skirt and Blouse Revue. her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Elkins of Mount Hope.
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Morgan County Home Economics
Virgil Bailey
Lucille Hawkins
Betty Lou Horton
Jane Collier
Vida Milton Stone
Flint 4-H Club
Vida Mae Stone
Hartselle
Groover, Grocery and Market
Stephenson Hardware
Kuhns
Western Auto Supply
Belk-Hudson
Clements Hardware
Marcile Terry
Trinity Club
Barbara Jane Russell
Pleasant Hill Club
Willie Jo Summerford
Danville Club
Mary Alice Harden
Falkville Club
Evelyn Penn
Massey Club
Carol Wooten
Cotaco Club
Peggy Louis Fair
Banks of
Priceville Club
Home Demonstration Clubs
Jane Elkins
Eldred Elkins
Mount Hope
Lavelle McCain
Lawrence County
Moulton
McCain
Hatton Group Plans May 6 Stew Sale for Fundraising
The Hatton Home Demonstration club met in the grammar school first aid room with Mrs. Lyndon Randolph presiding. Plans were laid to sell stew on May 6 to raise money for community improvement and support youth and 4 H activities.
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Hatton
Hatton Home Demonstration Club
Lyndon Randolph
Claud Sandlin
Gentle Savior
Haze Boyd
Jim Hagood
Corinthians
Almer Jeffreys
Thelma Forbes
Malcolm Hurst
Claud Jackson
Hill Carpenter
Elephant sits on circus worker and survives in Long Beach
Scott Anderson, 55, an attendant for Clyde Beatty Circus elephant Inez, was knocked down when the elephant sat on his chest. He was hospitalized but credits a helper with a bull hook for saving his life.
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Long Beach
Calif
Scott Anderson
Scott
Clyde Beatty
Inez
Anderson
Langtown Home Demonstration Club Meets in May
The Langtown Home Demonstration club met at Mrs. W. G. Smith’s home with Mrs. Harold Lang in charge in the president’s absence. Members reported planned equipment purchases, and demonstrations covered sewing equipment selection. June’s meeting is set for Mrs. Paul Lang’s home with several members and one visitor in attendance.
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Langtown Home Demonstration Club
W. G. Smith
D. C. Wade
Harold Lang
Archie Lang
Jim Stewart
Bill Murray
Howard Glenn
G. H. Wade
Hubert Richardson
Jerry Holland
Regina Delashaw
Paul Lang
Claud Dyar
Patsy
Perry Glenn
Dwight Holland
White and Negro Churches Unite in California Merger
Westminster Presbyterian Church in San Francisco merged with the Hope Church uniting all white and Black congregations for the first time in the West. Speakers called the act a great adventure and urged humility over racial pride as members voted to combine the shrinking main church with the growing congregation in a converted house.
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San Francisco
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Negro Hope Church
West
Carl Thomas
Pyron McMillen
Board of National Missions
Big Westminister Church
Hope Church
Warden Seeks Hidden Thief Inside Ohio Jail
Ohio penitentiary warden Ralph W. Alvis admitted there is a thief in the jail after word spread that the commissary was looted about a month earlier. He estimated the burglar stole 50 cartons of cigarettes and candy, peanuts, and gum valued at 100 dollars, breaking in by tearing a screen and prying a window.
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Columbus
Ralph W. Alvis
Ohio Penitentiary
Alvis
Alumni placement shift urged by Colgate official
Dr. George H. Estabrooks, Colgate University's placement director, says Uncle Sam will absorb college placement offices into alumni offices by June 1953. Graduates will move from uniform to mufti and seek first business contacts, with colleges urged to create cooperative alumni placement centers in major cities. Yale, Cornell and Colgate already provide such services.
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New York
Sam
George H. Estabrooks
Colgate University
Mufti
Yale
Cornell
Colgate
Well Filled Pantry Demonstration At Chalybeate Home
The Chalybeate Home Demonstration club met at Mrs. Clark Buttram's home for an April session led by president Mrs. Buttram. Miss Blackburn presented an "A Well Filled Pantry" demonstration. Plans were made for a chicken stew at the school on Friday April 18 to raise funds for school rest room finishing.
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Clark Buttram
J. D. Filyaw
Elva Lanier
Clara Anderson
Marjorie Bell
Violet Lanier
D. L. Hames
E. Bowman
Ruby ‘Terry
Manor Filyaw
Olene Lovett
Lorene Holland
Ethel’ Wade
Joy Copeland
Fed Board ends voluntary credit restraint program
The Federal Reserve Board suspended its voluntary credit restraint program designed to curb lending and fight inflation. Banks were urged to restrict loans to defense or essential civilian use, with regional committees screening applications. The drive began in March 1951 and remains on standby if needed.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Soldier Faces Slaying Trial
A 19 year old soldier, Stanford Ellis Fewell, faced a preliminary hearing in Birmingham on charges of murdering 9 year old Phyllis Dean Carver in 1949. Fewell, brought from Camp Hood Texas, gave several conflicting statements about the death after staying at the Carver home before she disappeared. Her body was found stabbed and beaten in underbrush near a road the day after she vanished from a suburban theater.
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Birmingham
Stanford Ellis Fewell
Camp Hood
Tex
Phyllis Dean Carver
Carver
Montreal Bordeaux Jail Riot Suppressed After Hours of Fury
Police used truncheons to quell a five hour riot by about 570 prisoners at Montreal's Bordeaux Jail. Rioters demanded better food and a new governor, setting fires with three injured, two inmates and one guard, as officers restrained the crowd without gunfire.
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Montreal
Bordeaux
Sailor Ray E. Haynes Visits Quebec Aboard Submarine Runner
Seaman Ray E. Haynes of Decatur 2, son of Mr and Mrs Iverson C Haynes, completed a brief early American history course during a Quebec visit. He serves on the Norfolk based submarine Runner, which paused liberty for the crew before continuing its conversion shakedown cruise.
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Ray E. Haynes
Seaman
USN
Iverson C. Haynes
Decatur 2
Quebec
Malayan Officials Propose Rewriting Chinese School Texts
In Kuala Lumpur Malaya education authorities say Chinese school textbooks are overly focused on Chinese nationalism. They plan to Malayanise the books and have appointed 18 Malayan education experts to advise on steps.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
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