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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1955
Page
17
A 45 year old man was jailed in Fort Worth tavern after asking officers to help him "get my wife out of this joint." The woman proved he was not her husband and he was booked on a drunkenness charge.
Cecil T. Cobb, 17, son of Tye Cobb of Decatur, is completing basic training at Lackland Air Force Base described as the Gateway to the Air Force. The program includes aptitude testing to guide future career field selection. Lackland near San Antonio hosts entry training for men and women and the Officer Military School.
Zsa Zsa Gabor will not marry Porfirio Rubirosa, her mother announced in Westport Connecticut. Mrs Julie Gabor cited Zsa Zsa’s Hollywood career and TV venture as factors she would have to give up, along with potential stays in Paris. Zsa Zsa, in Cannes, reportedly finds Rubirosa jealous.
Western diplomats in New Delhi express deep concern over the widening breach between Pakistan and Afghanistan and urge both sides to end name calling. India remains officially quiet amid its support for an Afghanistan campaign for an independent tribal state. They fear halting trade across the border could have serious consequences.
Dr. Albert Mayer of Wayne University predicts Michigan college enrollments will nearly double from 99,000 to 167,000 by 1970 and reach about 215,000 as more families send children to college. He bases projections on current development and age-weight trends.
The Muscle Shoals Life Insurance Company of Florence organized with H. R. Williams elected president. Clyde W. Anderson becomes vice president and Ralph W. Hicks secretary treasurer. Directors include William Eyster Leonard Beard Jess Clark James A. Lowery Lloyd Trapp Lonnie Gentry Alex Markowitz Rev Otis Kirby. Stock oversubscribed with 252,800 paid. authorized capital 500,000. First offerings are ordinary life policies with future plans for combination insurance.
In San Diego Mrs Frances Lea found unidentified insects in her high school classroom and sent a note to the janitor reading I have bugs. The class speculated on his reply and the janitor answered Be right over illustrating a light moment in school life.
In Warren Ohio farmer Ralph Gallant found seven cows electrocuted after a short circuit damaged water bowl stanchions. He says the current had likely run to the cows for some time before they were killed, affecting herd behavior and milk output.
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