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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1949

Page

10

Bunche Calls U.S. Racial Problem More Baffling Than Palestine

Dr Ralph J. Bunche, acting U N mediator for Palestine, told a New York dinner that the U S race issue is perhaps more baffling than the Palestine problem The diplomat urged fairness and equal rights for 14 million Negroes and warned of ongoing trouble on the Syrian front until Israel and Syria reach an armistice.

New York Ralph J. Bunche United Nations Palestine United States Bunche Holy Land American Association For the United Nations Trvgve Lie U. N Germany Sanaa Israel Syria

Community Notices From Morgan County and Nearby Areas

A crowded deco ration at Johnson Chapel marked the weekend. Local residents and visitors share news of family visits, illnesses, and travels including Linda Gail Sparkman with mumps and Alice Livingston’s passing in Pasadena. Other names include McNutt, Sparkman, Vest, and Taylor families with multiple Saturday and Sunday gatherings.

Johnson Chapel Jessie Lemonds Somerville Etta. Wallace Edd Aldridge Gaines McNutt Linda Gail Sparkman Wheeler Long C. B. Cathcart Roy Price Robert Likins John Owens Arkansas Lee Sinkleton Loa Mae Wilma Sparkman Clifton Sparkman Roy Thompson Ann Coy Breedlove Harold Bell Imogene Vest Decatur Alyne Vest Birmingham Herman Vest William Taylor Henry Taylor

Detroit Strikes Over Ford Speed-Up Rule

Detroit workers halt Ford line changes as 65 500 employees walk out to protest speed up. The piece recalls 1837 carpenters strike for shorter hours and higher pay as Detroit embraces youth and industry.

Detroit Ford Ford Company Steiba Wene Detroit Daily Advertiser United States

Local Visits Highlight Morgan County Community Ties

Weekend guests include Mr. and Mrs. Carl Livingston of Michigan at Mrs. Bell Rogers’s home and Mrs. Rebecca Prince of California visiting relatives. Relatives from Arkansas Texas Florida and nearby towns gathered for family occasions and a funeral in J. J. Hitt’s circle.

Carl Livingston Michigan Bell Rogers Ethel Glasgow Elmer White Falkville Chess Yancy Athens Douglas Birmingham Danis Roberts Liberty Laverne McLaughlin Janet White Austinville V. A. White Rebecca Prince California J. M. Hitt Ted Arkansas J. J. Hitt Joseph Hitt Texas Trudie Osborn Odell White Venetta Ann Massey Bra White Inez Frances Hill Mary Lois Maples Jack Garner Long Bottom Hoyt, Bruce and Raburne Clark Upton's Chapel Hal Moore Charles Maples Stricklin Wintergarden Fla Grady Jackson

One-liners and quips from a humorous page

A collage of jokes and cartoons notes about kind words stress on sense and daily absurdities. It features lines about talking to yourself, memory, dating, insurance and bankers with quick punchlines and light domestic humor.

Fellowship at Falkville Busy in Community Service

The Methodist Youth Fellowship of Falkville presented a system of tower music to the Falkville church. Led by Mrs. Woodfin Grove the group aids the church and community preparing boxes of supplies for those in need worldwide. Peggy Springfield is president with Charles as vice president and Betty Wilson as secretary treasurer.

Methodist Youth Fellowship Methodist Church of Falkville Woodfin Grove Peggy Springfield Charles Betty Wilson Herve

Scene of peace and quiet hinges on Mom's diet

A fragmented dialogue about a quiet scene disrupted by talk of a mother's diet. The exchange features a filmgoer annoyed at a neighbor in the next row and a Decatur man described as a blotter who soaks it all in yet reverses it. The snippets include a man asking about his wife and another asking if the listener got home all right.

TOF SONS Vine Fireside Socials After Church

The TOF SONS Vine conducts a fireside program after church services, meeting in members homes for social activities. This evening program is described as interesting and profitable as part of their broad activities.

TOF Sons Vine

Stratford Ont Can Beacon Letter Reflects Shared Struggles

A reader writes that knowing others face problems helps bear one's own. The note laments lack of change and recalls a street incident where someone stepped on their fingers while turning into their street, ending with a reflective Canadian perspective.

The Hole Knows and Other Aphorisms by A. S. Flaumenhaft

A compact collection of wry remarks and quips centered on social manners and miscommunications. The author offers pointed one liners about flirtation speech and everyday errors in communication.

No Title Given Exchange in a Droll Dialogue

A quirky dialogue unfolds with a young man offering a pint of blood for transfusion and a joke about shaving. A lonely chick inspects an incubator of unhatched eggs. A fuse blows. references to city and country living frame a light, comic scene.

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