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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1961
Page
10
Classified notice offering two homes for rent starting June 1 at 1414 and 1408 7th St SE. Main house features 6 rooms with electric heat and city water. a 4 room mother-in-law unit. 3% acres with 547 front feet. fenced garden. chicken area zoned Tourist Commercial. Rent listed at $85 each.
Vintage classified page lists multiple houses with prices from 9 500 to 22 000. Properties include 3 to 4 bedrooms, baths, carports, air conditioning, and built in features. Financing options mention FHA pay equity and small down payments with monthly payments. Listings note locations in SE and SW areas and nearby schools.
A classified listing advertises homes for livability beauty and workmanship near schools and churches. Prices range from 6 500 to 20 250 with 3 to 6 rooms plus baths many zoned for business and FHA or conventional terms to fit every budget.
Real estate list offers multiple properties for sale near Hartsville Decatur Somerville Huntsville Redstone Arsenal and TVA backwater with various acreages from 1 to 215 acres. Highlights include stock farms brick veneer houses stock ponds and land with water access all priced around 60.00 per acre. Call for appointments.
Local sale listing from Railroad Factory Salvage Furniture Co at 23 Church St. N.W. with phone EL 3-3774 offerings include 3-Pe Mahogany Bedroom Set poster bed $229.95 large drop leaf dining table $89.95 Duncan Phyfe sofas $139.95 each baby beds and wardrobes priced, Windsor rockers maple, early American couch that converts to bed with mattress $179.95, extra small rocker $17.95, plus a natural finish chest and an unfinished dresser.
Allied Sales Co offers a complete set of bar bells for 20 dollars. Also selling used home freezers chests and uprights, used bicycles, metal office desk, electric sewing machines, treadles, metal cots with pads, lawn mowers, used suits, red a way beds, show cases and wall cases. Phone numbers illegible.
Notice is given that William Sutherlin Jr and Charcey Lee Sutherlin defaulted on a mortgage held by Federal National Mortgage Association. The mortgage, originally to Jackson Securities & Investment Co, is recorded in Morgan County Alabama and has been assigned. the association has elected to foreclose under the mortgage terms. The action is pursued by the mortgage assignee as authorized by law.
A fragment listing Decatur area radio and TV program schedules across multiple stations and times. Entries include news briefs, morning shows, religious programs, music, soap operas, and late night lineups with channel identifiers and show titles.
Public sale of Lot 21 Block 4 Westlawn Subdivision Decatur Alabama at the east door of the courthouse in Decatur on May 30 1961. Legal action in Morgan County Circuit Court to establish Beatrice Pruyn as owner of Lots 12 13 and 14 of the R W Stewart Subdivision and to clear title against Hattie Vaughn A H Bichon and heirs or devisees and unknown claimants.
According to the Morgan County Alabama probate records Hattie Vaughn A H Bichon and heirs or devisees if deceased and any other persons claiming any interest in title or encumbrance upon Lot 12 13 and 14 in the R W Stewart Subdivision per plat on file.
Senate Republicans launched a two-pronged challenge to President Kennedy's aid to education program and his government reorganization orders. Senator Styles Bridges said a closed session Tuesday would seek general party lines, with a split stance on education though many may back a tax rebate substitute for the administration's $2.55 plan.
The notice details a chain of title from 1943 to 1959 asserting Complainant ownership and possession of land, naming W. E. Farmer Blanche F. Farmer J. L. Bates J. F. Osborn R. W. Stewart Bryan McAfee Ben F. Holmes and Will Gaines Holmes, and warns that no other claimants have held the property in the prior decade. It orders publication in Decatur Daily and lists June 8, 1961 as the pleading deadline.
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