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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1955
Page
9
Work on Limestone Park on about 85 acres leased from the TVA advances satisfactorily. Frank P. Turner, chairman of the Limestone County park and recreation board, reports drives are being built parking areas graded and shoreline sloping underway.
Turner reports ongoing development along Lucy's branch southwest of Athens with work on the east and west sides of the Snake road in the park area. County crews will cast concrete picnic tables and benches during bad weather and place several throughout the park while plans include an overseer's home fishing docks and barbecue pits.
The 85 acre tract lies on the north bank of the Tennessee River and is accessible from Athens by turning south at Coxey on US 72, following Snake road to the park area.
The National Geographic Society notes in the Atlas mountains' Ait Haddida tribe that a woman may legally divorce her husband for 15 cents. Some women reportedly have had as many as 20 husbands.
A description compares fish swimming to the motion of an oar in sculling a boat, noting the similarity in propulsion and technique used by aquatic creatures.
A class of 28 graduates at Snead Junior College will hear Dr John O Gross executive secretary of the Board of Education of the Methodist Church speak at 10 30 a m Thursday in the college auditorium He was born in Kentucky earned an A B at Asbury College and a Doctor of Divinity in 1930 He has led Union College and Simpson College and has worked with the Methodist Board of Education since 1941.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa highlights the graduating class with Annettie Ellenburg Arab Harold Glenn Garrison Brennan and Clay Dewitt Mann Cullman among the named members.
The Morgan County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will hold its annual meeting Wednesday at 7 pm in the Electric Department auditorium on Johnston Street. R C Dobson, state representative, will discuss the Salk vaccine program and officers will be elected. Fred Hunt Jr. chairs the meeting with Merrill Doss, Mrs. Meredith Woodall, and Harold Michelson as officers.
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