Leveling Off of Incomes Shifts U S Wealth Gap
Champaign, Ill. UP reports University of Illinois professor P. D. Converse finds a leveling off in income growth that shrinks both poverty and top brackets while expanding middle income families. Using adjusted class thresholds, he notes subsistence level households declined from 10 to 4 percent between 1929 and 1949, and top brackets required higher incomes over time.
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P. D. Converse
Toerketing
United States
Converse
Knwest
McCain Reagan Engagement Planned For August 31
Mrs. P. P. McCain of Southern Pines announces the engagement of her daughter Jane Todd McCain to John M. Reagan of Hartford. The wedding is set for August 3 at Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church. The couple will reside in Decatur after September.
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P. P. McCkin
Southern Pines
N.C
Jane Todd McCain
John M. Reagan
J. M. Reagan
Hartford
Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church
Miss McCain
Paul Pressley McCain
Agnes Scott College
Decatur
Rock Spring Presbyterian Church
Adlant
Reagan
Jean Ford
Army Air Forces
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Kings Mountain
Dison Presbyterian
Kings, Montain
Columbian Theological Seminary
Brakefield To Speak At Two Meetings Here
Dr. J. K. Brakefield of Birmingham will be the principal speaker at two local meetings this week. The first is a joint meeting of civic clubs at the Houston Hotel at 12 15 p m Thursday with the Lions Club as host. Friday he will address the Dothan Life Underwriters Association. Brakefield, educational director for an insurance firm, is a former college professor and has held roles with the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and other national groups. He holds AB AM and PD degrees from Union Baylor and UC Berkeley, respectively. Also noted are former National Leaguers Al Cuccinello Gar Del Savio Tony DePhillips and Al Zachary playing for the Bushwicks in Brooklyn.
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J. K. Brakefield
Birmingham
Houston
Lions Club
Brakefield
Dothan Life Underwriters’ Association
Annourance
Bimingham Channel of Commerce
Alabama
Dr. Brakefield
Union University
Baylor
University of California At Berkeley
Secrets of Charm by John Robert Powers
A cosmetic guidance column advises on disguising facial blemishes from broken veins under the cheek. It warns against extreme temperatures, bans home massages, and prescribes careful, upward strokes and feather-light touch. Readers are invited to request a full booklet with costs.
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Secrets OF Charm
John Robert Powers
Powers Laboratory
Miss Williams Weds Robert Glenn Brown at Methodist Chapel
Miss Beny Jean Willie daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Foy Williams and Robert Glenn Brown son of Mrs Samuel Joseph Brown and the late Mr Brown united in marriage at the Lafayette Street chapel. The ceremony featured candles, organ music, and a double ring rite with Rev Charles Hildreth officiating. The couple planned a wedding trip to St Augustin Daytona Beach and Tampa and will reside at 213 W Lafayette Street.
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Lafayette Street
Methodist
Beny Jean Willie
Samuel Foy Williams
Robert Glenn Brown
Samuel Joseph Brown
Mr. Brown
Charles Hildreth
Helen Howell
Sanist
Betty Seymour
Mascagni
Provost
Mendelssohn
Misa Seymour
Opelshaw
Stewart
Wallace Dowling
Jerry Higgins
W. Lafayette Street
Dothan
Malone Motor Company
State Vocational Trades School
Napier Field
J. B. Higgins
W. G. Johnson
Curtis Jones
Tom Williams
Sam Wiliams
Luther Snell
Delabra
Two Birmingham Girls Die In Auto Crash
In Laverne Alabama two Birmingham women died when their car overturned during a trip to Florida. Patsy Jane Sartsin and Dorothy Jean Miller were killed. Polly Cooper and Margaret Sanders were injured. two male companions escaped Injury. All victims worked for Southern Bell Telephone in Birmingham.
U S Armed Strength Declines From War Peak to 1950
Gen George C Marshall warns against rapid demobilization as postwar strength figures show a sharp drop from 11.58 million in uniform during World War II to 1.438 million by May and 239 active warships, with the air fleet thinning to about 21,000 aircraft as of May.
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Washington
Averege
George C. Marshall
Army
Clearcut Plan for Immediate Armament in Total War
Fragmentary text outlines urgent arming steps and procurement. mentions serving guns, ten guns, and a call to face a real patient crisis with immu nation to serve weapons. Sources unclear. lacks concrete names, dates, or places.
Oak Land Oaks Split Third Base Duties
Augie Galan and Billy, both former National Leaguers, have been sharing the third base duties for Chuck Dressen's Oakland Oaks as the season unfolds.
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Augie Galan
Billy
Chuck Dressen
Oakland Oaks
Ashford Man Gets Seed Group Post
MONTGOMERY Alabama seedsmen elect W. C. Kitchens of Guntersville as president of their state association succeeding Raymond Shreve of Andalusia. Other new officers include J. W. Womack of Ashford as first vice president Frank Parker of Birmingham as second vice president and Al B. McFerrin of Memphi Zumery as secretary-treasurer.
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Montgomery
Apt
Alabama Seedsmen
W. C. Kitchens
Guntersville
Raymond Shreve
Andalusia
JW. A. Womack
Ashford
Frettive
Frank Parker
Birmingham
al B. McFerrin
Mepnt- Zumery
Reasurer
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Suly
Jewell Adcock
B. B. Adcock
Newton
Jack Holmes Sconyers
W. 8. Sconyers
Headsand
Newton Baptist Church
Adcock
Headland
New York City
Orange State Oil Company
Miami
Fis
Seonyers
U.S. Army
John Deere Pian Company
Columbia
5. C
Harden’s
Foster
Speigner Concrete Block Co. Old Pairgrounds
Dial
Miss Jane Todd McCain
al Cuccinello
Gar del Savio
Tony DePhillips
al Zachary
The
Bushwicks
Brooklyn
Breske
He FO
Miss Williams
Methodist Chapel
U.S
Sales & Service Dial
Standard Heating & Ventilating Co
Ostes
Chapman Housing Company
Dual
Super Kem Tone
Travey Maunara
Esse
Sherwin-Williams Paints
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