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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1948
Page
14
Decatur city schools plan to add a driving safety course to physical education. The program aims to teach safe driving habits to boys during class and may extend to girls from study periods. The move follows Red Cross first aid and home safety courses already offered in junior high.
Town marshal Santiago Sanchez gives speeders a lesson by making them read traffic signs, as a fiery panorama of mishaps and odd interactions unfolds. A highway curve leads to a fatal head on, a landlady confronts a nonpaying boarder over a chair hole, and a hosiery clerk recalls an unseen suitor.
A Los Angeles court fined Mrs. Patrician Winiman 25 dollars after she claimed her baby on the floor pushed the accelerator causing a 54 mph run in a 20 mph zone. The quip about cars from the boss and the pedestrian applicant add a playful tone to the column of jokes.
A Windsor eight year old girl confessed to police that a car kidnap story was fictional. The remark suggests she may later craft soap operas.
Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma will marry former King Mihai of Romania in a Greek Orthodox ceremony in Athens on June 5. The couple plans the event with family members briefly commenting while traveling from Denmark to Rome and then Athens. Lilacs are noted as Balkans natives likely in the US before 1750.
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