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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1964
Page
8
Massey School hosts its annual Halloween Carnival Friday with lunchroom food from 5:30 p.m. and a royal coronation in the auditorium from 7 to 7 30 p.m. The king and queen will reign over games, bingo, cake walk, fish pond, refreshments, and a fruit basket drawing. Proceeds benefit the Massey School PTA.
Dr. H Sherman Oberly of the Association of American Colleges visits Athens College to assist President Virgil McCain, faculty, and students. He emphasizes advisory work aimed at policy review and problem solving, not accreditation or inspection, funded by the Lily Foundation.
L&N Magazine profiles Decatur Iron and Steel as a major jail facility maker with a lengthy Alabama operation history. It notes the firm supplied Los Angeles County with the LA County Men’s Detention Center, housing 3,300 inmates with 1,000 more cells planned yearly and $2,450,000 in equipment costs. The article cites first assembly at the plant before shipment and credits J F Scroggins as the president who joined the firm in 1934 as a salesman.
ST. PAUL Minn The 3M Co reported the highest sales and earnings for any three months in its 62 year history. For the three months ended Sept 30 1964 sales reached 230.6 million up from 210.9 million a year earlier. Net income exceeded 24 million or 50 cents a share versus 23.8 million or 45 cents a share in 1963 third quarter.
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