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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1957
Page
7
The Howard Hughes drama stars John Wayne and Robert Ryan as Marine officers clashing over pilot management in the South Pacific. Realistic combat scenes draw from Guadalcanal and Okinawa, under director Nicholas Ray.
A university quiz led by Prof. Herbert Pingarette tested students on Lindberghs transatlantic flight and the Spirit of St Louis. Most answers correctly identified Lindbergh as the aviator and his plane, with a few misidentifications. The Spirit of St Louis plane is at the Smithsonian. the Lindbergh film with James Stewart runs at Bowline Theatre in CinemaScope.
Limestone County extension agent F K Agee announces a Weigh A Day A Month program to boost dairy efficiency. Ten farmers have joined to weigh milk and feed on the 15th each month, compute per cow and herd production, adjust rations, cull underperformers, and study best practices. Cost is five cents per cow monthly.
Vagrant desert winds hindered atomic test blasts at the Nevada site delaying the summer series. High upper air cross currents and sand picked up by winds disrupted the detonation and raised concerns about dispersing radioactive clouds into southern Nevada communities.
Rescue workers labored on their second day to free 34 year old David Snyder trapped 25 feet underground after a mine cave in near Short Mountain east of Lykens Pennsylvania. Communication came only by hammer taps as about 40 workers moved debris at a rate of roughly a ton and a half every two hours. The scene lies near the site of a deadly coal slide that claimed three local men 23 years earlier.
Lawrence County deputies recaptured Eddie Gonzales a 13 year old Tennessee reform school escapee in Landersville after a February arrest. He fled Nashville Tennessee Preparatory School on Monday and hitchhiked to Landersville returning to see friends. He remains jailed awaiting transport back to Tennessee. Natural gas is now the sixth largest industry in the US.
Paul M. Millians a Baltimore based vice president of Commercial Credit Co is set to speak at the Decatur Rotary Club meeting Monday noon His topic is Net Results Millians held posts in finance and government service including director of the budget for the US Shipping Board and later executive departments of American Credit Indemnity Co and Parant Co He has led national credit and cost accounting associations and served as disbursing officer in Paris during WWI.
A Hartselle man, John Linderman, 29, suffered slight injuries Friday at 7 15 p m when his 1956 Chevrolet on US Highway 31 just north of Hartselle overturned. The car wound up in the center section of the four lane highway. Damages to the vehicle.
The estimate of 1200 dollars was given by Patrolman M P Braswell who investigated the incident. The wreck occurred on a curve.
Mrs. John G. Lee of Connecticut is described as a prominent clubwoman and granddaughter of Hiram Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun. Her father is credited with inventing the silencer for that firearm. Four women cadets study at Turkey’s Military Academy, the Turkish counterpart of West Point.
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