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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Oct 09, 1972

Page

11

Senate to hold hearing on wheat sales after election

Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia will chair a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on large grain dealers and how the wheat was sold. Separately, Davy Crockett lore from East Tennessee and tales of his survival captivate locals near Rutherford.

Herman Talmadge Georgia Senate Committee On Agriculture East Tennessee Davy Crockett Crockett Union City Trenton forTexas Rutherford Lick Creek Old Davy

Morning colors and cotton labor echo farm shift

A farm page notes dawn colors over fields and a large flock of blackbirds moving south. It reflects on cotton picking labor, estimating 860 workers for 86 bales and discusses mechanization’s impact on northern Alabama farms and farm migration to towns. The piece also mentions debates over American wheat sales to Russia and Nixon-Butz.

Midwest Trinity Mountain Mocker Alabama Russia Nixon-Butz

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