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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1957
Page
7
Decatur area teacher and principal Mrs Royer announces retirement after half a century in education. She led Riverside and Lafayette schools for 34 years and taught six years in Decatur and Elkwood School near Huntsville. She plans no definite post retirement task.
After 34 years as principal of Riverside Elementary in Decatur, Mrs W M Royer retires this Friday. She leaves with sadness but says a younger teacher should take her place. A retirement at age 70 is required by law.
A dense log lists multiple radio and TV programs across Birmingham and Decatur including News and Sports, Morning Roundups, musical features, and local shows. Key names include Alabama News and Sports, Channel 4 9 00, and WMSL stations with Drake and local hosts.
The Strong Silent Type becomes a reformer as Secretary Humphrey shocks with a blunt forecast of 1957 budget cuts. He warned of Depression if spending stays high, blurring the line between loyalty to Eisenhower and public pressure.
Billy Graham leads a multi creed gathering at Madison Square Garden in New York with 19 000 listeners. Denominations include Methodists Episcopalians Baptists Presbyterians Catholics Seventh Day Adventists Mormons Lutherans and Jews. He calls for unity and warns against backbiters and false witness as revival chatter grows and 9 485 decisions are recorded.
The Alabama Milk Control Board adjourned without a decision after two days of testimony on audits of payments to Delview Dairy of Tuscaloosa. Auditors J. W. Sanford and Walter C Newberry testified, and the full six-man board was not present for all sessions. The board will reconvene June 18 to review the testimony.
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