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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1936
Page
7
Mayor James A. Nelson proclaims municipal election for Decatur Alabama to elect a Mayor and five at large Aldermen. Voting occurs Monday September 21 1936 at designated polling places, term from October 1 1936. Notice published weekly for four weeks thirty days prior within city limits. Official seal and city clerk attest.
William Wallace Reid, 19, son of screen star Wallace Reid, began a 15 day county jail term after a two mile pursuit in Hollywood on Aug 17. Patrolman E L Hoover testified Reid drove about 45 mph before being overhauled. His father died when he was a child and was famous for an automobile racing pilot role.
The peninsula section of Daytona Beach surveyed minor damages from a water spout that formed offshore yesterday and moved across a narrow land strip, razing a small iron roofed shed and scattering benches in a tourist playground.
Ronald Bas, 27, begins a lengthy trek toward the 1940 Tokyo Olympics. He plans to travel through Turkey, Persia and China, hoping Olympic committees along the way will assist him.
Local churchgoers heard a message by Rev E Byars circuit court clerk of Lawrence county. Residents plan trips to Texas and Centennial events while several families visit relatives and arrange fall schooling for Hatton Mt Hope Moulton Town Creek high schools set Sept 7. Cafes new in Moulton and local doctors and teachers travel for conventions and duties. Jane Bragg to David Lipscomb College for term.
At a Cook Inlet oil camp Carl Beal Jr lassos a full grown bear with three ropes tied to saplings. The bear uproots the saplings and Beal later cuts the ropes with a knife on a pole. The bear disappears into the woods after the escape.
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