Alabama Vote Record Listed
Washington reports how Alabama members of Congress voted on key roll calls including Kilgore amendment to the communist control bill and its detention clause. Senators Hill and Sparkman opposed the amendment. both supported the bill’s passage on other votes. House votes covered veteran care, naturalization, and Gen. Marshall’s Defense Secretary appointment with mixed support among Alabama lawmakers.
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Washington
Alabama
Congress
Senate
Kilgore
Dva
Hill
House
Andrews
Battle
Boykin
DeGraffenried
Elliott
Grant
Hobbs
Jones
Rains
Gen. Marshall
Secretary of Defense
Hickenlooper
Marshall
Iowa
Johnson
McCarran
Nevada
Truman
China
Spain
GOP
Two Alabama newspapermen named to UA news bureau staff
Two Alabama journalists, John T. Hamner of Anniston and William E. Bates of Tuscaloosa, were named to the University of Alabama news bureau staff. The appointments were announced by Dean R. E. Tidwell of the extension division.
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Tuscaloosa, Ala
Alabama
John T. Hamner
Anniston
William E. Bates
Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama News Bureau
R. E. Tidwell
Extension
Courland youth groups tour Decatur and aviation thrill
Mrs Sam Berry and Mrs Price Terry guided two youth groups on a day trip joining a sub district meeting at East End Methodist Church in Decatur. They toured the new high school, then Courtland Air Field where Douglas Terry rode his first plane piloted by J Glenn Wells.
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Sam Berry
Price Terry
East End
J. Glenn Wells
Roy W. Terry
Doris Ann Terry
Martha Jane Terry
Marie Waldrop
Ida Wayne
Marion
Harvey Lee Hitt
Edna Raye Marion
Ernest W. Terry
Douglass Terry
Wheeler Memorial Association Holds Annual Birthday Meeting
The General Joseph Wheeler Memorial Association met at Wheeler’s historical home with Miss Annie L. Wheeler presiding. Judge Robert T. Bell of Huntsville delivered an inspiring message to the assembly. Local attendees from Courtland included numerous Gilchrist and Ballentine relatives among others.
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General
Various Local Residents Engage in Travel and Visit Relatives
Local notes describe Mrs Guy Terry visiting son Pvt Charles G Terry at Brooks General Fort Sam Houston. Several families including Clabhorn Collins and Terry groups shop, travel to Cleveland Ohio, Memphis and Columbia Military Academy. Induction prep dwarfs others with fifteen Courtland youths undergoing pre induction physical in Gadsden.
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Guy Terry
San Antonio
Texas
Charles G. Terry
Brooks General
Fort Sam Houston
J. C. Clabhorn
B. H. Collins
Price Terry
Buford Givens
Grady Terry
Tri-Cities
Adleese Grimesly
Fayette
Helen Sherrod
William Mosely
Fish Pond
Paul Horton
Mr. Horton
J. W. Horton
Dan Clabhorn
Cleveland
Ohio
Mr. Claborn
Bob York
Louis French
Birmingham
Jack Simpson
Carrie H. Simpson
Bob Simpson
W. D. Gilchrist
Col
W. D.gilchrist
Dayton
Col. Gilchrist
Louis Gilchrist
A. F. Redman
E. P. Bynum
Memphis
Bobby Tweedy
Sykes Martin
Hunter Marsh
Columbia
Tennessee
Columbia Military Academy
Martin
Marsh
Young Tweedy
Tate Hollenbeck
Highland Baptist Hospital
Lavinia Chardavayne
James Tolley
Belle Mina
Thomas Adcock
National Guards
Camp Campbell
Lizzie Adcock
E. H. Blaxton
Paul Blaxton
Decatur
Melba Vines
Edgar Norton
Maude Norton
Lester Conner
Conner
Detroit
Michigan
Cottingham
James Cottingham
Courtland
Route 2
Wallace Murphree
Gargus
Highland Park
Sheffield
Eva Burden
Oscar Staton
Mays
Edward Odell
Town Creek
Elbert Green
Cave Springs
Huntsville and Decatur Bid Rounds Over School Bond Issue
Bids for a 1.5 million school bond sale formed a long round series with multiple syndicates dropping out by the fourth to fifth rounds. Huntsville representatives joined the bid, with rates starting around 2.99 percent and ending near 2.864 percent. City Attorney John Caddell praised his oversight of the sale and the prospectus development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable
White, Weld and Company
Berney- Perry and Company
Broadnax and Knight
Cumberland Securities
Dempsey and Company
Coutts
Huntsville
Vance Thornton
C. D. Howard
Electric
K. A. Woltersdorf
Thornton
Caddell
Mineral wool insulation process described
The article explains mineral wool insulation produced by forcing steam under high pressure to break rock into fluffy fibers.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Courtland News
Mrs
Youth Fellowship
Gilchrist
Annie Wheeler
United Daughters of Confederacy
Wheeler Memorial Association
NEW Presbyterian
Baptist
Methodist
Presbyterian Church
R. A. Wails
Kentucky
General Wheeler Memorial Association
Sam Terry
Moulton
Amos Terry
Melvin Terry
Oscar Terry
Jake Blaxton
Jim Gilchrist
Charlie Vaughn
Ui Agerty Arr
Walgreen Agency
Garth Gilchrist
Hector Lane
James Gilchrist, Sr
Mississippi
R. L. Morgan
Russellville
Annie Godfrey
Harriett
Brownie Godfrey
James
Red) Bradford
Flint
Mary E. Hunt
William Aday
Charlie
L. A. Sparks
M. J. Aday
Vicky
Lock A
M. M. Barnes
Junior Martin
Mary McMillian
Bill Collier
Harold Hames
Clifford
Allen
Jimmy Adcock
Lock
Jake Collier
Pauline Weems
Leighton
Margaret
Buddy Terry
Ave. W
Johan D. Devis
Fred Hunt, Jr
Gingham
Belk Hudon Co
Mr. “T
Mr ‘B
Belks
Berkshire
Gabardines
Undershir
Belk
Gabardine Sport
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