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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1955
Page
10
Extension Service notes a strong demand for food with exports up 15 percent since last July. Heavy stocks and near record production suggest prices will stay about the same as last year despite higher consumer spending.
Decatur Daily lists a dense sequence of radio and TV programs across stations WBRC and WABT with time slots from 12:35 pm to 2:00 am featuring farm market segments, music shows like Top Tunes and Sundown Serenade, game and talk programs including The Morning Show and Arthur Godfrey, plus news and sign offs. The schedule also notes late program changes the paper isn’t responsible for.
Farmers face a mixed year with 42 cents per dollar to the farmer in the first quarter, down from 45 cents a year ago. Total farm output may be near 1954, with hogs up and poultry and eggs down. Crops likely unchanged with average weather, and most diverted acreage going to feed grains and soybeans. Government held carryovers of wheat corn cotton and other crops remain high, keeping prices near current levels with slight seasonal shifts. Cash receipts expected to dip 1954 levels, offset by lower production costs.
Dr. Bob Pierce presents the 40 minute black and white film Dead Men On Furlough at Moulton Heights Baptist Church Friday at 7 30 PM. Open to the public with no charge the documentary dramatizes a Korean martyr story amid Cold War themes. Produced by Great Commission Films and directed by Dick Ross it features Keye Luke Richard Loo Jean Wong Victor Sen Yung and many Korean American actors in Los Angeles.
The text notes a 1950 invasion linked to a personal friend of Dr. Pierce and reports World Vision Inc providing Bibles and relief funds to a village. The organization, a non profit channeling funds to missions in the Orient, faced suspicion and wrath from communist authorities.
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