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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1958
Page
3
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt notes a lack of litter in Moscow during a Tucson visit attributing it to Russian discipline. In Vancouver Canadian notes Alder man elect Tom Alsbury vows to push for afternoon and night council sittings.
Mrs. Helen Masterson of Birmingham, a former Decatur resident, died Sunday in a Birmingham hospital. Body to arrive in Decatur Tuesday at 1:16 a.m. Funeral services Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Sixteenth Ave. Baptist Church with burial in City Cemetery. Brown Funeral Co. directing. She is survived by husband Harvey H. Masterson, four daughters, four sons, four brothers, 21 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
George S. Cobb 59 of Falkville 3 died Saturday at his home. Funeral services were held at Bell Springs Church at 2 p.m. Burial followed in Bell Springs Cemetery. He was a farmer. Survived by widow Lucille Cobb and four daughters Frances Hogland Ruth Geneva and Pamela Ann Cobb.
The farm population in Sweden has fallen by about 500000 since the middle of the 1930s. Urban migration and changes in agriculture reduced rural labor as cities attracted workers and farm consolidation grew.
An all-girl drill team from Maxwell Air Force Base Montgomery competes for the Alabama Civil Air Patrol precision drill championship. They performed in high heels at the state meet with boys teams from Maxwell Birmingham Homewood Jefferson County Anniston Muscle Shoals and Tuscaloosa. Judges will pick a winner after viewing the Mobile team absent. The winner advances to a regional against Georgia Tennessee Florida Mississippi and Puerto Rico teams.
In North Little Rock Arkansas a minister at a dinner meeting asked guests to join hands around the table. During the grace he noticed the hand on his left was grease stained and appeared to be his son’s. He glimpsed that what looked like his son’s hand was actually a pork chop hidden on the table.
Springfield Ohio report notes Stanley M Hanley class of 1923 repaid a 200 loan by giving 1 million dollars to Wittenberg College. Hanley, now president of a Columbus Ohio electronics company, returned to campus to present the unrestricted gift.
Lightning reportedly struck a television antenna atop a home on the north side of U.S. 31 in Flint City, igniting a blaze that destroyed the residence around 8 30 p.m. No occupants were home. The house was reportedly owned by Forest Motel Huntsville and occupied by his daughter and her husband Clarence Morgan and their two children. Firefighters from Hartselle and Decatur arrived too late to save the structure.
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