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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1946
Page
9
The city closes the summer park program supervised by the City Recreation Board. The season expanded with Greenwood park and Delano park, offering free wholesome recreation to thousands. Decatur, under Quince E. Eddens, runs one of Alabama’s best park programs at low cost.
Voters in Haleyville will ballot within 40 days on adopting a commission form of government instead of aldermanic. Mayor R. G. McAfee announced this after receiving a certificate from Probate Judge G. R. Dollar confirming a petition with sufficient signatures.
A historical note states that more than half of the United States proved oil reserves are concentrated in Texas, highlighting the state's dominant role in national energy resources.
Reedy sketches Heinz Koerner a former Wehrmacht soldier who details the Berchtesgaden Eagle Nest tea house used by Hitler Goering and Bormann. He notes visits, cost estimates of 25 000 dollars per cup, restricted access via tunnels and guards, and German visitors outweighing Allied tourists.
Doctors from Boston report cod liver oil used in the bladder helps several bladder conditions. Five leuko plakia patients improved within 48 hours and seven with tuberculous bladder infections gradually recovered after treating the primary infection. Burns from bladder surgery also healed notably faster with cod liver oil. Some cases of unexplained inflammation showed limited benefit but overall potential as relief for stubborn bladder disorders.
Funeral services for Mrs. Rosa Dotson, 53, are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Graham Cemetery officiated by Rev. Oscar Allen. She died Saturday morning at Moulton Hospital after a sudden illness. she leaves husband Preston H. Dotson of Hillsboro 2 a daughter, her mother Mary Hutto, three brothers Johnie Walter Howard Hutto, and three sisters Annie Gregory Sallie Terry and Emma Grissom. The cortege will depart Hillsboro 2 at 1 p.m. for burial in Graham Cemetery.
Robert Hutson at 483 Johnston Street has opened a general practice in the Mutual Savings Life Building on Bank Street. He earned a 1940 BS from the University of Alabama and a 1941 law degree, served in airborne communications, and did radar training at major labs before returning to Decatur to practice.
A 27 year old Alabama textile worker married by trans Atlantic telephone to a British girl met in England. The ceremony lasted about four minutes with Dorothy Gallozzie in London awaiting air mail certificate. Probate Judge J C Grady performed the ceremony. the groom paid just over five dollars per minute.
The bride is helped by her mother as Jasper Wood acts as best man when the judge calls for the ting. Wood takes the telephone to confirm with Mrs Gallozzie that the device is ready. The bride receives the ring on her finger. Denny left the Army last November after over three years overseas. He is seen on a train on Christmas Day, 1942.
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