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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1950
Page
3
Reporter travels along the Kyongju front noting quiet fronts and ongoing dangers as convoys move through rough roads. Heavy rain softens dust while signs warn Danger Forward. Soldiers and damaged equipment signal continued fighting and casualties in the area.
Yolande Berbeze of Mobile Alabama plans a year of stage modeling and TV work worth about fifty thousand dollars after winning Miss America 1951. She aims for musical comedy or opera, holds a five thousand dollar scholarship, and has no set fiancé. She lives with her widowed mother and shifts from a Southern accent to improve stage diction, while praising Southern accents for others. The Mobile community plans a civic reception, and Azalea Trail directors invite her to head future winter events.
Berlin reports confirm another Field family member, Mrs. Robert Wallach, adopted daughter of Noel Field, missing. The disappearance follows Noel Field’s vanishing in May 1949 and prior cases linked to East European authorities as the U S State Department seeks answers from Poland Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
A Birmingham quartet led by Mrs. Joe Howlett captured the team-of-four championship at the Tennessee Valley contract bridge tournament in Chattanooga. The group totaled 3612 points and swept 23 of 28 afternoon matches. An Atlanta foursome and an all life master quartet finished behind them with 34 point totals.
A husband gifts a parrot to his wife. She discovers strings on the bird’s legs and pulls them to hear reactions. The parrot greets her and jokes that pulling both strings would cause it to fall, delivering a humorous household scene.
A collage of humorous anecdotes and snippets from Hamilton Georgia Savannah Chicago and Burlington Wisconsin including a toasty car deal giveaway a concealed weapons fine a Georgian gun accident and a shoe mishap from a Liars Club.
Five Russian atomic bombs could cause more industrial damage in the United States than 20 American bombs dumped on Russia, an atomic scientist said in Chicago. Dr. Eugene Rabinowitch, editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, urged a massive effort to lessen U S vulnerability and warned leadership in weapons alone will not ensure an edge. The bulletin issued a civil defense special, with planners and officials urging systematic preattack defense measures.
Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw, aged 94, was taken to a hospital in Ayot St Lawrence England after a fall in his garden. Officials say a thigh fracture will require surgery tonight as Shaw recovers.
E W Dill of East St. Louis says HADACOL improved his recovery from severe deficiencies in vitamins B1 B2 niacin and iron after a 1947 railroad accident left him nervous dizzy and fragile. He reports restored health now running a candy store and urges others to try the product with a money back guarantee.
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