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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 30, 1955

Page

3

Ardmore Rotary backs big truck crop project for area farms

Ardmore Rotary Club members lead a multi-state effort with about 700 farmers to plant 400 acres of sweet potatoes and tomatoes, 600 acres of field peas, and 13,300 pounds of seed peas. The project, funded by 12 Rotarians who pledged $15,000, aims to create a new cash market and is supported by local canneries and lenders.

Rotary Club Homer Boggs Thoran Jones Morgan Mims Mabron Lewter Charlie Berry King- Pharr Co W. T. Yeager W. H. Hancock Cullman Athens Pulaski Fayetteville Ardmore Farmers Home Administration Tse U.S Cowan Forbes J. G. Jones H. R. Mangum E. L. Bailey Cornelius Coffman A. C. Austin John B. White

Insect Life and Reproduction From Early Radio Logs

A fragment combines radio schedules with a science note on insect reproduction. It cites house flies and aphids multiplying rapidly, mentions queen ants and bees laying many eggs, and notes a termite queen laying up to 43 000 eggs daily, illustrating rapid population growth in ideal conditions.

Karl Escherich Nebraska

Father Hoppenjans Ordained Priest In Kentucky

Terence E. Hoppenjans of Decatur was ordained a priest by Bishop Mulloy in Covington at St. Marys Cathedral. He will celebrate his First Solemn High Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church in South Ft. Mitchell and next Sunday at St. Anns in Decatur with Father Horgan delivering the sermon.

Terence E. Hoppenjans Bernard J. Hoppenjans St. Ann’s Decatur William T. Mulloy Covington St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption Hoppenans Blessed Sacrament Church South Ft. Mitchell Covington Latin High School Nazareth Hall St. Paul Seminary St. Paul, Minn Father Hoppenians

How many insects in the world debated by scientists

AUBURN reports the current puzzle in entomology the number of insect species and total insects. Estimates range from 700000 to one million species with varying per acre counts. Studies note 65 million insects per acre of forest soil in Illinois and 3000 to 7000000 insects in flight per square mile depending on time of day.

F. E. Guyton Auburn Margaret Windsor University of Ilinois Ilinois H. E. McClure Dif

Debt rises from 1945 to 1955 in United States

The combined U.S. public and private debt increased from 493 million dollars in 1945 to 709 million dollars in 1955, reflecting a substantial postwar borrowing expansion.

U.S

US hall housing boom from 1900 to 1950 era described

A historical note says the United States hall shows nearly three and a half times as many dwellings in 1950 as in 1900, with an expansive area described as half a mile high, one hundred miles wide, and three hundred miles long.

United States

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