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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1949
Page
4
The county will get 4786 this year directly on site TVA in lieu of taxes and Huntsville will receive 42000 from the Huntsville Electric System. This amount surpasses previous city or county receipts from private or public electric taxes.
A concise graduation message urges graduates to shun easy security and focus on intelligent hard work. It stresses not making money the primary goal, fearing God, loving others, and recalling that life offers little that is free. A call to think, plan, and consider others on life’s road.
A local insight lauds Decatur Transit for reliable support of base, training school, and industrial sites. The writer notes repeated successful coordination for Courtland Army Air Base, Southern Aviation Training School, Wolverine Tube Division, and the baseball park, praising the system as among the best seen by visiting guests.
The Daily seeks well preserved vintage photos to publish in a series about Decatur’s growth. Readers share images like 1900 Decatur Advertiser pages, 1888 1893 police photos, 1924 Rinkydinks and girls basketball, and a 1902 1903 baseball club with umpire, awaiting rephotography and engraving.
The column honors Memorial Day across wars from Anzio to Guadalcanal and beyond. It recalls crosses, graves, and the unfulfilled pledge to peace, noting shifts from era to era and the public’s growing belief that peace requires active citizen effort, not just diplomacy.
The piece extols people to people diplomacy through the Gratitude Train and dress gifts, noting American tax funding of the Marshall Plan and citizen letters to France as peacemaking. It cites Governor Garvey and compares peace to marriage, urging tangible daily actions to lift the iron curtain and foster Russian American friendship.
The piece argues state laws ban rioting and unlawful assembly, criticizing CIO tactics and police responses in Michigan and across the United States. It warns of a coming clash between government and mobs, especially in the South, and questions the failure to curb goon activities and protect workers.
ARLIE B DAVIDSON argues knowledge grows with life stages from childhood to adulthood. The piece reflects on education as a path to broader understanding and notes gaps in government, work, family life, religion, race relations, and world peace as humanity’s unfinished art of living.
The Cuban flag was designed in a New York rooming house and first flown over a New York building in 1850, marking its early adoption and historical ties to the city.
Detailed discussion of infectious polyneuritis including causes such as suspected viruses, nose and throat infections, lead or arsenic exposure, and vitamin B deficiencies. Describes symptoms like paralysis, tingling, numbness, facial and tongue involvement, fever, and skin changes. emphasizes nursing care, pain relief, hot packs, possible respirator use, and later rehabilitation.
Paris gossip column details Louella Parsons and Rita Hayworth wedding gift hunt in Paris amid publicity buzz. Aloof Aly Khan, Aga Khan’s heir, looms large as Rita’s star allure dominates French press while Parsons, John Haskell, Dorothy May, and Bob Considine chase a modest 30 franc present amid lavish nuptial frenzy.
James Marlow surveys the Paris talks among the United States Britain Russia and France over Germany. He notes the size of nations makes outsider arbitration unlikely and outlines Russia’s stalled proposals and the Western stance on German reparations amid cautious diplomacy.
Miss Julia Leigh Lynne will deliver the winning essay on Good Roads and What They Mean to Morgan county at the Princess theatre Saturday night. She will receive the first prize of 25 dollars from the Albany Decatur Chamber of Commerce.
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