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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1949
Page
7
Claude Jarman Jr plans to stay in Nashville while film work comes calling. He is in ninth grade at a private academy and will attend studio school only for picture shoots. After finishing Intruder in the Dust soundtrack he will return home, making Hollywood trips less frequent.
Thirty three national teams will compete for the World Soccer Cup in Brazil next year. The announcement outlines a global tournament with teams from major regions slated to participate.
The Belmont offers four comfortable rooms for a small family with cross ventilation, a central hall, abundant wall space, and roomy closets. The modern kitchen features a window sink, adjacent range, and a refrigerator at the far end. Exterior walls are frame with siding or shingles and a concrete block option is noted.
A May 10 1949 reflection on global tensions between Russia and the West. The piece muses on the Berlin blockade, rising communism in China and Russia, and Europeans building defenses while statesmen seek peaceful coexistence. The poem-like commentary ends with a baseball aside about Lippy Duracher and fans.
A Sunday May 8 birthday dinner was held at Mrs. Savanna Tucker’s home to celebrate her 59th birthday. Attendees included Asbury Tucker Freeman Tucker Henry Hamilton Clyde Tucker Betty Ernest Tucker and their children Jeanette Margret Wayne Earl Jewel Dean Shirley Mae Grady Tucker Marvin Wayne and James plus Miss Virginia Shelton and Della Mae Glenn. Visitors in the afternoon were Mrs. Gladys Shelton Mac Arthur Buddy Josephine Glenn and Neal Shelton.
A states rights tax plan proposes splitting federal income tax receipts 50 50 with states and abolishing state income taxes. The plan aims to limit Congress funding power and shift duties to states as part of a states rights campaign next year. Governors Wright and Thurmond miss the Mississippi gathering. Thurmond attends a dinner in Columbia, South Carolina.
A temporary restraining order in Montgomery circuit court blocks state officials from diverting surplus funds from the prison department into the treasury. Judge Walter B. Jones issued the order affecting Ralph Eagerton John Graves John Brandon and Dan Thomas, at the request of Prison Director Frank Boswell who says about 471999 arises from convict labor and cattle sales and should stay to continue buying and selling goods. The attorney general says the funds are not special funds but part of an accounting system. No hearing date set.
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Mrs. Emelia Miynarczyk endures mourning as her husband Frank, 40, dies at the hospital after being struck by a car. The Polish refugees arrived in Canada as displaced persons six months ago. He had visited his wife in hospital and their newborn daughter is their latest child. The driver was released by police pending further investigation.
Historical note recalls the U S frigate Constitution once bore a figurehead statue of Andrew Jackson. The detail highlights the ship’s early 19th century symbolism and the era’s political iconography.
The article lauds Western Germany’s new constitution for democracy and rights, calling it revolutionary and a potential path to a United Europe. It contrasts it with the Kaiser era and Weimar failures, notes abolition of capital punishment, and mentions Allied supervision guiding Germany toward independence in three zones.
Newark May 10 Professor Eugene G Rochow of Harvard predicts future diet will rely on trees as the main food source. He argues creatures currently used for meat will be replaced by synthetic clothes made edible and foundations dug from sand derivatives. He won a $1000 prize for sand derivative research and envisions adobe like homes built by machines.
Primitive peoples practiced tattooing mainly for ornament with figures decorating the body. The practice also served other cultural purposes.
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