Livestock Market In Decatur Sees 70000 First Quarter Cash
The first quarter of 1967 saw about 70000 dollars in cash payments for livestock from Morgan Lawrence Limestone Cullman and Madison counties at the Decatur market. Prices average around 20 per head as higher grade cattle and hogs replace earlier yard-cleaning sales. Market growth reflects Chamber of Commerce effort and suggests a total yearly value well over a quarter million dollars.
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Morgan
Limestone
Lawrence
Cullman
Madison
Decatur
Chamber of Commerce
Alabama
Ning
Decatur High 1935 Class Bequeaths $75 for School Stage
The senior class of 1935 left $75 to Decatur High School. The funds financed a new scenery set for Riverside auditorium stage, installed after money from plays and other activities left a balance.
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Decatur High School
Riverside Auditorium
Women Help Defend Bilbao Amid Spanish Civil War
Basque and Austrian troops with Bilbao women reinforce defenses around Bilbao. Government battalions block insurgents on routes to Begona and Graidacano as fighting rages near Mount Sollube and the city’s northern, eastern, and southern approaches. Insurgents claim and Basques report gains on Mount Sollube Summit.
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Associated Press
Emilio Mola
Bilbao
Biscayan
Spain
Begona
Graidacano
Basque
Mal- Aga
Mount Sollube
Market calm as stocks slip modestly on quiet day
New York May 10 Merely a slight push was necessary to tilt markets backward. In slow dealings stocks yielded fractions near 8 points with limited rebound. Bonds steadied and major commodities faced difficulty as trading rested pending a clearer business and political outlook.
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Victor Bellbank
New York
Bethlehem
Youngstown Sheet & Tubé
American Rolling Mill
Republic Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
Yellow Truck
Mack Trucks
Allis Chalmers
American Trephone
Western Union
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit
Santa Fe
N. Y. Central
Southern Pacific
Great Northern
Southern Railway
Northern Pacific
Anaconda
Kennecott
Cerro de Pasco
International Nickel
Seaboard Oil
Shell Union Oil
Shelly Oil
Barnadall
Douglas Aircraft
U. S, Rubber
Sears Roebuck
Goodyear
Goodrich
Weatinghouse
General Electric
Allied Chemical
National Supply
Loew's
Container Corp
Gleanese
Otis Elevator
Markets At A Glance May 10 In New York And Chicago
New York markets show heavy and steel shares down, bonds mixed, U S up, curb trading ragged with some specialties slipping sharply. Foreign exchange mixed with the pound at 1.9387 and franc lower. Cotton easy on rains in Texas, sugar easing but spot demand weak, coffee firmer on Brazilian markets. Chicago wheat lower on prospective moisture in the southwest, corn weak due to higher domestic receipts, cattle steady to 25 lower, hogs up 10 cents to a top of 10.55.
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New York
Texas
Easler
Chicago
Cotton futures close steady with modest declines
New Orleans reports cotton futures ending steady with net declines of 17 to 19 points. Trading mixed across May July Oct Dec and March contracts with prices around 12.8 to 12.9 cents per pound.
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New Orleans
Liverpool Cotton Prices Quiet As Futures Close Steady
May 10 Liverpool market reports no receipts and quiet spot trading. Quotations show American cotton at various grades from strict good middling 8.29 to good ordinary 5.79, with futures closing barely steady at July 7.22, Oct 7.16, Jan 7.12, March 7.12.
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Liverpool
Poultry Market Prices Report Chicago May 10
Chicago poultry sale data shows live stock movement with 1 car 87 trucks steady. Hens over 5 lbs priced 17 1 2, leghorn hens 15, fryers colored 24, Plymouth and white rock 2 1 2, broilers colored 238, Plymouth and white rock 24, leghorn 20, turkey hens 16, toms 15, ducks 4 1 2 lbs 16, geese 11.
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Chicago
Plymouth
White Rock
Plymouth Rock
Roosters
Leghorn Roosters
Butter and egg market summary for Chicago details prices
Chicago market report lists butter at 9 745 steady with creamery specials at 93 score and various price intervals. Eggs unsettled with local extra firsts at 20 3 4 and fresh graded firsts at 19 3 4. Current receipts and storage packed items noted.
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Chicago
Potatoes steady as supplies moderate in Chicago market
Old stock potatoes show steady prices in Chicago on May 10. Idaho Russets sell in U. S. No. 1 at 2.50 to 2.70 per cwt, No. 2 at 2.35, demand remains good and supplies moderate with sacks per cwt.
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Chicago
U. 8
Idaho
May Day Fete a Grand Pageant at Athens College
Athens College staged a May Day fete on its campus led by Miss Mary Noble Oliphant with Miss Sarah Esther Cobb assisting. Over two hundred students participated in antebellum themed tableaux and rhythms, featuring a Queen of May, blue and gold costumes, a prewar alma mater, a 19th century drill, and a cotillion finale watched by more than a thousand spectators.
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Athens
Athens College
Mary Noble Oliphant
Sarah Esther Cobb
Founders Hall
ABC Rhythm Orchestra
Graves Alibi For Late Freight Talks In Atlanta
Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama offered daylight savings confusion as the reason for arriving more than an hour late to a pre conference discussion of freight rates with Southern governors in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Bibb Graves
Alabama
War games begin on the West Coast in California
The giant Army war game opens in California covering over 40,000 square miles with a massive concentration of fighting planes. The exercise, set in a desert patch near Los Angeles, simulates enemy air force actions as part of a national training program. Insects with various blood hues are noted, and tennis claims a seven century history per records.
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Maroc
Calif
Angeles
California
United States Army
Agricultural Quotations and Market Notes from Regional Prices
The report lists varied fruit and vegetable quotes by grade and origin. Maine Green Mountains and Louisiana Bliss Triumphs show multiple U S prices, with U S No 1 and No 2 listings, washed and unwashed stock, andLouisiana, Alabama, California, and Mississippi items priced across 1.80 to 3.50 in recent sales.
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Maine
Green Mountains
U. S
Louisiana Bliss
Alabama Bliss
California
Decatur Social Notes and Local Updates
A roundup of visits and events across Decatur highlights Joe Crawford and Miss Ola Barnard visiting on personal business, teachers and students at Gordon Bible School hosting a busy Visitors Day, and several residents receiving medical care or relocating. Included are transport moves, social calls, minor legal notices, and community transitions with names and places from Decatur, Birmingham, Ardmore, Nashville, and Chattanooga.
President Roosevelt Trolls for Kingfish at Brazos Mouth
President Roosevelt, aboard at Galveston Texas, enjoyed an eighth share of a 16 tarpon catch in ten days and trolled for kingfish at the mouth of the Brazos River.
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Galveston
Texas
Roosevelt
Brazos River
Du Pont recounts high call loans and GM stake in bull market
In a June context, Du Pont notes millions on call loans at Bankers Trust Company before the crash. A memorandum to McHugh proposed selling General Motors stock at 76 after a split, a move tied to Du Pont and Raskob’s prior heavy GM investment. If executed, it could have added about 15 million to his call loan totals.
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DuPont
Bankers Trust Company
McHugh
General Motors Common
General Motors
Raskob
Man Slain in Lauderdale County Family Trouble Case
Florence Alabama May 10 Alice L Seals 34 died today from a shotgun wound to her left side suffered last night in family trouble Sheriff J L Potts said George C Berlin Seals father in law was arrested on a murder charge Berlin claimed self defense Seals an oiler at Cherry Cotton Mill had come from Mobile where his parents reside
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Florence
Ala
Alice L. Seals
J. L. Potts
Montgomery County to graduate over one thousand students
Simple exercises will mark the graduation of more than 1,000 Montgomery county boys and girls from junior and senior high schools in the coming weeks. Superintendent Dr. Clarence M. Donnelly said commencements will skip lengthy orations as modern educational trends favor concise ceremonies.
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Montgomery. Ala
Montgomery County
Clarence M. Donnelly
Falkville to Present Play Everybody's Crazy
Falkville High School senior class stages a three act comedy farce Everybody's Crazy in the high school auditorium on Tuesday May 11 at 745 pm. The Baker royalty selection follows Treasure Trove Tavern with spiritualism chest secrets and a sleep walker as the plot lines. Proceeds go to equip the principal's office in the new building.
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Falkville
Falkville High School
Treasure Trove Tavern
Herbert Stanley
Wiley Hardwick
Elmer Sneed
Nelson Wiley
Tommy Wilkins
Owen Reeder
William Bates
Trevor Beasley
Ketura Katt
Elizabeth Griffin
Julie
Opal Harris
Spooner
Audie Laney
Godfrey van Gordon
Vaughn Crowe
Caroline
Liby Rowe
Celia
Annie Sue Moore
Adam Pottle
Jack Hart
Libby Ann
Thelma Holmes
Gladiola
Margaret Cloud
Jasper
Harvey Teague
Hugh Parker
Senate Today: Wheeler Resume In Railroad Financing Probe
Senate routine business and committee hearings open today. Wheeler committee resumes investigation into railroad financing while Judiciary reviews the Roosevelt court bill. The House considers minor legislation and labor subcommittee hearings examine textile industry regulation. Flood control committee discusses a bill to regulate floods on major rivers and Rivers and Harbor studies the Bonneville Dam project.
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Associated Press
Senate
Wheeler Committee
Judiciary Committee
HOUSE
Labor
Flood Control
Rivers and Harbor
Bonneville Dam
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Matt Murphy
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Ralph Hallmark
W. Rhoads
Huntsville
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Henry Clark
Southside Baptist Church
Lola Cooper
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Virginia Prince Calvin
Calvin
Hubert Praytor
Nada
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J. L. Praytor
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Veto
L. L. Miller
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Sparta
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Ferry ‘Street
Bonnie Young
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T. H. Broadus
Park National Bank
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T. L. Beauchamp
Alabama Power Company
Tuscaloosa
Mrs. Beauchamp
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Benevolent Society Hospital
J. C. Conley
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Warner Sherrow
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L. O. Stout
Mr. Stout
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Minnie Clark
Iuka, Miss
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Sixth Avenue West
Brown
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Don Ameche
DU Pont
Lauderdale
Nang Sma
E. E. Forbes
Second Avenue
Congress
Alabama Motor
Studebaker-Packard Agency
B. O. Sims
Oak St
Packard
Vivian Lowry
Danville
Studebaker
F. R. Benson
Line St
Firestone Tire
John Ballas
Canal St
Southern Battery
L. B. Warren
E. Church ,St
F. S. Gillette
Whiteside
Edith Riddle
4Th Ave
South
G. C. Rieves
5Th Ave
Firestone Tube
A. L. Craig
7Th Ave
Liz Walker
Simonize
J. B. Hartsock
Texaco
E. E. Peden
Walnut St
Wash Job
D. L. St. John
Falkville, Ala
J. F. Ray
Ferry St
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