Priceville students nominated for Alabama career conference
Four Priceville school students are recommended by Principal G T Woodruff for invitations to the thirteen student career conference to be held June 22 to 25 1949 at Alabama College. Helen Sharp Mildred Hunt Clark and Gladys Bean are the nominees with Miss Helen Shell as conference co ordinator. the event aims to broaden occupational outlook for women through talks and one on one sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priceville
G. T. Woodruff
Alabama Lege
Helen Sharp
Mildred Hunt
Clark
Gladys Bean
Helen Shell
Conteader
Miss Shell
Educam
Wright Aeronautical Ration
Alabama Col
Alan College
Veterans Affairs DVA Meeting At Decatur Legion
Flake ley VA manager leads a Decatur Disabled American Veterans gathering at the Legion. Newly elected commander P H ig presided as officers and committees reported. Melvin Owens outlined support for a war dead monument drive. John Smith from the Elks club presented a $50 check to the rental fund. Next DAV meeting set for May 20 at the Legion on Bank Street. new members welcome and wartime veterans with medical discharges eligible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. H.ig
Melvin Owens
John Smith
Elks Club
DAV
Legion E
Bank Street
Labor Strikes and Negotiations Ripple Through Major Industries
CIO stockhandlers at Chicago and livestock centers press for wages as mediators seek to restart talks with packers. UAW ends Chrysler wage talks and plans for a strike by 75,000 across 16 plants. New York transit averted strike as workers gain 24 cent hourly increases. Boeing rejects federal mediation as 14,500 machinists continue walkout. Telephone workers seek 30 cent raise with improved vacation and benefits. 23,000 long line workers await extension on a contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Chicago
CIO Fed
Autos
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
Fed
New York City
CIO T
Boeing
Pany
Cot Company
Mach
Con
A.com
Markets at a Glance New York May 7 Stocks Rise Bonds Mixed
Markets show higher stocks on selective strength while bonds mix with rail issues improving. Cotton irregular with liquidation, grains weak, hogs up early but steady final, cattle steady to higher with top at 32.75.
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New York
Cotton futures close higher as markets respond to week
New York notes futures up 90 cents per bale with change from prior close. Mixed intraday quotes show higher open and varied highs and lows. Atlanta reports North Georgia live poultry market steady with strong demand and clean up buying. fryers sold at 35 to 36 cents FOB farms, with few heavy off quality birds offered.
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Cotton
New York
Atlanta
USDA
North Georgia
Nashville Livestock Market Mildly Weak Amid Mixed Trade
Nashville Tenn May 7 Farmers report light cattle sales with undertone softening. Steers and heifers show mixed gains early then end trading largely steady to higher in midweek. cows and bulls fade late. Hogs rebound slightly under 300 lb while lighter weights rise. lambs ease a dollar with ewes and rams slipping.
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Nashville Livestock
Nashville
Tenn
Federal State Departments of Agriculture
Walkout Tabulation Shows First Nine GOP Presidential Electors Lead
Hill Sparks and Ellis hold majorities on the current tally with 11 electors to be chosen. If trend holds, the next ten go to runoff. Election results list Abernethy through Parker with margins and box totals indicating potential June runoff for two spots.
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Hill
Sparks
Ellis
Abernethy
Lusk
McCorvey
Albritton
Wilkinson
Bloodworth
Givhan
Harris
Blair
Miller
Goodwin
Withers
Snyder
Bains
Darnley
Castleberry
Cowart
Elmore
Hanna
Maxwell
Mayhall
McCary
McCollum
Meighan
Parker
McCorvey Leads Alabama Democratic Primary Vote Count
Party Chairman Gessner T. McCorvey heads a large staff tallying official returns from Tuesday's Alabama Democratic primary. Completion is expected around next Wednesday with a Montgomery canvass planned for Thursday to determine runoff lines for presidential electors and delegates. The second primary is set for June 1.
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Mobile
Gessner T. McCorvey
Alabama
State
Democratic Executive Committee
McCorvey
Montgomery
Decatur Kiwanis to send Winston to 33rd International Meet
Kiwanis International 33rd convention runs June 6 to 10 in Los Angeles. C H Winston, vice president, will attend as delegate for Decatur. About 10 000 business and professional leaders from across the United States Canada Alaska and Hawaii are expected.
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Kiwanis Club of
Decatur
C. H. Winston
Kiwanis International
Los Angeles
Calif
United States
Canda
Alaska
Hawaii
Winston
Shrine Auditorium
Oscar Johnson
World Baptist Alliance
Johnson
Charles W. Armstrong
Salisbury
N. C
Wayne Guthrie
Indianapolis News
Bikini
Armstrong
Guthrie
Kiwanis
Hollywood Bowl
TVA questions on power sales and amortization terms
Congressional hearings focused on TVA power sales to private interests and the agency's obligation to supply surplus power. Arguments covered potential trend toward government subsidized steam plants, amortization plans, and whether TVA should be limited or reorganized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TVA
Tennessee
Whitten
Smith
The
Mississippian
Coudert
R-Ny
Clapp
Congress
Commonweath and
Southern’ Utilities
Ploeser
Gore
Treasury
New Yorker
Koeser
Jerusalem Cease-fire Talks Amid Palestine Tensions
News from Palestine reports Jews holding Yehudia near Lydda airport repelling an Arab armored counterattack. U N commission aims new talks in Jericho with Arab negotiators for a cease-fire in Jerusalem as pressure from Russia looms in the region.
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Palestine
Yehudia
Lydda
Trans- Jordan Arab
Jerusalem
United Nations” Commission
United States
Jericho
Security Council
Arab League
Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha
Alan Gordon Cunningham
Washington
Middle East
Europe
U .S
Iran
Turkey
Greece
Cotton Total Revised Today
The Agriculture Department revised the 1947 U S cotton crop to 11 851 000 bales up 157 000 from December s estimate. The report cites Census Bureau ginnings and notes the crop exceeds 1946 by 3 200 000 bales but trails the 1936 45 average by 539 000. The combined cotton and seed value reaches 2 291 202 000, second highest on record. State figures include Georgia and Alabama with revised area and yield data.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Census Bureau
Georgia
Alabama
Morgan County Social Roundup in Rocky Ford
Mrs Etta Wallace visits daughter Mrs George Sims. Miss Bertha Garrison weekend with parents Mr and Mrs Frank Garrison. Harold Bell and family visit Gaines McNutt. Andrew Taylor family with William Taylor. Lovie Hensley stays with brother Pruitt Hensley. Ora Cathcart visits uncle Charlie Long Neel. Attendees atDecoration Ball Knob and Forrest Chapel. Marshall Garrison family moving from Double Springs. Pruitt Hensley visits sister Mrs Walter Brown.
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Etta Wallace
George Sims
Bertha Garrison
Frank Garrison
Harold Bell
Gaines McNutt
Andrew Taylor
William Taylor
Lovie Hensley
Pruitt Hensley
Ora Cathcart
Charlie Long
Neel
Ball Knob
Forrest Chapel
Marshall Garrison
Double Springs
Walter Brown
Cutter halts multiple drugs over bacterial contamination
Cutter Laboratories asked hospitals to stop using a full line of dextrose and related IV solutions after a mold was found in dextrose 10 percent in Ringer's solution. The recall covers preparations used for mass intravenous injections.
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Berkeley
Calif
Cutter Laboratories
Cutter
Property earnings critique on service funds
The discussion centers on whether earnings should be reinvested to sustain service or used to improve amortization. Ploeser counters that view, calling it an opinion.
Baldwin's Potatoes Rush to Beat Time Embargo
Baldwin County potato growers hasten harvest to meet a rail embargo deadline. The Louisville and Nashville Railway modified its embargo so shipments could reach destinations by Monday, aided by a large regional truck fleet. This year’s crop is valued at about 3 million dollars and 4,500 cars are estimated for transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Ala
Baldwin County
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
South
Officers Selected For Girls Hi Y Club
Glenn Green to preside over the Girls Hi Y club for the coming year. Marion Watson as vice president Eleanor Gregg secretary treasurer Mary Penn scribe Jean Gregg program chairman. Mary Louise Garrett is the club sponsor.
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Glenn Green
Marion Watson
Eleanor Gregg
Mary Penn
Jean Gregg
Mary Louise Garrett
Western powers press UN over world atomic control
The United States France and Britain told the United Nations that world atomic energy control is impossible without Soviet openness. They urged the UN atomic energy commission to shelve plans for a world pact unless Moscow changes course. They blamed Russia for the failure to reach an atomic pact and warned of a possible Security Council veto and a full Assembly debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
United Nations
Russia
United States
France
Britain
U. N. Atomic Energy Commission
U.N
Security Council
Commission
U. N
Regular Assembly
Paris
Local Marriages and Property Transfers Itemized
Daily Records lists marriages including William L Johnson and Edna M Kamps. Ronald Weaver and Wilda Goodwin. Deeds showing transfers such as George Blelew to Tom Russell for 1350 dollars and W L King to B I Brown for 1 dollar. Also Beatrice Adams to Hettie Jackson for 1 dollar and Speake Burleson to Julia Edwards for 60000 dollars with city transfers to A P Johnson for 200 dollars and other small sums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Leroy Johnson
Birmingham
Edna Mary Kamps
Ensley
Ronald Gene Weaver
Decatur
Wilda Faye Goodwin
Cullman
George Blelew
Tom Russell
B. I. Brown
James R. Houston
Nell Plemons Dodd
Malcolm H. Smith
W. L. King
Beatrice
J. Adams
Maxie. Speake
Burleson
Julia B. Edwards
City of
A._P. Johnson
Joe B. Edwards
D. W. Speake
R. W. Roan
A. W. Roan
Collision at Canal and Church Streets Injures One Passenger
One person sustains slight injuries after a two car collision at the Canal Street and Church Street intersection. Stella Ratliff was treated at Decatur General Hospital and released. Dr Sam Pruitt and Charlie Toney were the drivers involved in the crash causing heavy damage to both vehicles.
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Canal and
Church Streets
Stella Ratliff
Las Fayette Street
De‘eatur General Hospital
Charlie’ Toney, Negro
Decature 1
Sam Pruitt
Johnston Street
Dr. Pruitt
Canal
Toney
Church
Terry
Kennedy
Man Electrocuted in Gadsden Construction Accident
A crane beam entangled with high tension lines at a Gadsden construction site caused one death and three injuries. Golden Lanier, 36, of Atlanta, died. Dewitt Spraggins of Anniston and Alfred Barber of Birmingham were hospitalized in serious condition. Henry F. Harris of Atlanta was treated and released.
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Gadsden
Ala
Golden Lanier
Atlanta
Jess Cox
Dewitt Spraggins
Anniston
Alfred Barber
Birmingham
Spraggins
Henry F. Harris
Service Saturday for Mrs Pauline Young
Funeral services for Mrs Pauline Lowry Young 34 of Moulton 2 will be held Saturday at 2 pm at Antioch church with Rev O S Gamble officiating. She died today in Flint sanatorium. She is survived by husband Charles E Bod Young mother Mrs Bert Lowery sister Grady Mae Lowery brother Earnest Lowery Will Hill and Mrs Annie Lowery grandmother. Pallbearers include Ray McWhorter Max McWhorter Carol Hill Louis R West Emmett Young and R S Lowery.
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Pauline Lowry Young
Moulton
Antioch Church
O. S. Gamble
Young
Flint
Lawrence County
Methodist Church
Red Hill
Highsmith of
Charles E. “Bod” Young
Bert Lowery
Grady Mae Lowery
Earnest Lowery
Decatur
Will Hill
Annie Lowery
Danville
Ray McWhorter
Max McWhorter
Carol Hill
Charles
Emmett Young
R. S. Lowery
English Teacher to Study in Decatur for One Year
Local officials announce Miss Trafford will teach in Decatur for a full school year while her pay comes from her British school. The Decatur Teachers Association and Superintendent Jackson welcomed her, and the community plans warm support to ensure a delightful stay for the English guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Decatur City
England
United States
Decatur
Fashion Show Delights Decatur At J C Penney
Decatur residents toured a summer fashion preview at the J C Penney store lobby. The event showcased career and school girl outfits plus two piece linen dresses and sun backed styles. Miss Modell Davis, Mrs W A Jacob and Harry Higdon led the show.
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Decatur
Alabama
Second Avenue
Modell Davis
W. A. Jacob
Harry Higdon
Collision on Moulton Road Leaves Two Uninjured
Two persons escaped injury in a collision on Moulton road near the negro cemetery at 5 10 p m Thursday. James Newton of Decature driving a 1942 Ford tried to pass Homer Mc Ginnis of 301 W Wilson Ave in a 35 Ford. Newton cut back too sharply and bumper hung on Mc Ginnis left fender. Minor damage reported to both cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton
Negro Cemetery
James Newton
Decature
Homer McGinnis
W. Wilson Avenue
Carter
Stanford
Newton
McGinnis
Air Force build urged as wartime defense shift ends
Senator Bridges pushed for a larger peacetime air force as 1948 closes the window to start a stronger sky defense. Senators Cain and Taylor voted yes though Cain called it the saddest vote and Taylor warned the administration is already warlike enough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridges
R-Nh
Cain
Rwask
Taylor
D-Idaho
Congress
Henry A. Wallace
Service Held Sunday For Negro Veteran
Funeral services for Severn-Ro mine a World War II veteran will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at Curry's chapel. The cortege departs Reynolds Funeral home at noon for burial in Draper's cemetery at Talucah. He died at the U S V A hospital in Tuskegee Wednesday at 3:45 a.m.
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Curry’s Chapel
Reynolds Funeral Home
Draper's Cemetery
Talucah
U.S. V. A. Hospital
Tuskegee
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Morgan County
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Baldwin
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Pauline Young
Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Sive
DeWitt MacKenzie
D. Harolp Oliver
White House
Congressional
Victor Eubank
Financial Review
Gayle Talbot
Australia
Davin J. Wixie
Decatur Daily
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