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LOUISVILLE KY Pi "MY COUNTRY MAY SHE EVER BE RIGHT, BUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY" -conwmou mnm oeoitto VOLUME 37 DECATUR, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1949 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 28. 1912 NUMBER 301 rvi uvu LTQU JV EMM Awards In Corn ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY win Aiy' Protestant Leaders Under Communist Pressure as 75 Face Trials by Bulgarians Grime Comic Books Blamed In Killings 6 Cell Blocks Are Destroyed By Fire Today No One Hurt and 1st Check Shows No Escapees BY HENDRIX CHANDLER By The Associated Press Protestant leaders behind the iron curtain le under communist pressure today. Communist-led Bulgaria announced she will 15 Protestant ministers and officials on trial soon on charges of treason, violating currency laws and spying for Britain and the United States. Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Topencharov said the churchmen already had "fully confessed" to the spy charges. The government named 12 American and British churchmen, educators and officials who it said acted as "contacts" in the spying activities.

A Baptist official in New York said the charges were a "terrible thing" and linked them with the treason trail of Josef Carlinal Min-dszenty. Roman Catholic primate of Hungary. It is part of a communist persecution of all religions, he said. The 15 indicted are leaders of the United Evangelical church. Represented in the church are the Methodist.

Baptist. Pentacost and Congregational faiths. Lange To Leave Norway's Foreign Minister Hal-vard Lange arranged to leave Washington tonight, taking with him Secretary of State Dean Ache-son's final word on the benefits and responsibilities in the North Atlantic defense alliance. (C i r--r I i i i AIR" DEFENSE" AIR NATIONAL GUARDSSS I i l. ft i riA AIR pEgSNSLAjC4pg) PROTECTIVE RADAR WALL PROPOSED Gen.

Muir S. Fairchild (left) vice chief of Air Force Staff, and Maj. Gen. Gordon P. Saville ingnu, Air Defense Command chief, explain to the House Armed Services committee in Washington how the United States could be protected against enemy attack by a radar detection wall.

The chart in front of them shows how coastal (left) and seaborne radar stations would give warning of impending air attack. The Air Force chiefs presented the chart (bottom) to show headquarters of. air defense forces for protection of continental United States. Nation is divided into an east and west defense area (dotted line vertically near center). Regular air force areas (solid lines) are further divided during war time (broken lines).

Regular headquarters (stars) are in New York, Syracuse, Tallahassee, St. Paul Albuquerque. New Mexico. Great Falls, Seattle and San Francisco. Air National Guard centers (dots) are in Boston, Washington, Atlanta, Columbus, (X, Chicago, St.

Louis. Houston, Bismark, N. Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Albuquerque. (AP Wirephoto). Program Will Be Made Here John A.

Lite Is Leader In Production in Morgan County By MARY WILLIAMS One-hundred forty-two Morgan county farmers and 4-H club members have gotten together to prove how green the Tennessee Valley can be. The results: Agriculturists participating in the increased corn production program have produced an average of 71.74 i bushels per acre. In 1947, the county's average corn yield per acre was 17.1 bushels. The difference is 54.64 bushels ot rn per acre. These figures were furnished The Daily by L.

T. Wag-non, county agent. There is another favorable indication in these revealing statistics. It is Morgan county's rapid replacement of "dirt farming" methods with scientific agriculture. The increased corn production was made possible by high fertilization and thick spacing, Mr.

Wagnon said. John A. Lile. well-known Decatur 1 farmer, led in a farm production competition program by producing a corn yield of 125 bushels per acre. Mr.

Lile will be among seven white Morgan county farmers to receive special awards today for producing over 100 bushels of corn per acre, or far more than five times the 1947 county average. Negro Wins Award A respected negro farmer, L. G. Orr, Danville 1, was in the top eight and will receive his award at a later meeting. Orr produced a fine yield of 106.6 bushels per acre.

Other negro farmers who participated in the program and showed a greatly increased yield will be present at this future meeting. Today's meeting, at which about 140 farmers are expected, will begin at 4:15 P. M. at the Why Not cafe. A banquet is scheduled at 6:15 P.

M. A special award will be given to teen-age 4-H club members Miss Merlene Owen, Falkville 2. Miss Owen toDoed feminine corn pro- ducers with a yield of 80.04 bushels per acre. In addition to certificates of merit producers of more than 100 bushels per acre will receive leather billfolds as gifts. Certificates will be awarded by P.

O. Davis, director of the Auburn Extension service. Other officials present for the panel discussion and banquet will be John Boseck, assist ant superintendent of the Belle Mma experimental substation and Coun ty Agent wagnon. Seven business groups are credited with sponsoring the increased farm production program. Serving a.

hosts at today's meeting, they are the State National bank, Morgan County National bank. Citizens Bank of Hartselle, Tennessee Valley Co-operative, Alabama Flour Mill, Hartselle Chamber of Commerce, Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Roberts to Participate Guy Roberts, president of the Hartselle Chamber of Commerce, is expected to participate in the program. In addition to Mr. Lile, top white Morgan county farmers and their corn yields per acre are: Harold Dunaway, 4-H club member.

Somerville 1. 118.32; Roman Higdon. Hartselle 1, 117.74; W. T. Watkins, Somerville 2, 115.28; Hor- See AWARDS on Page 2 Industrialists Dies At The Age ot 92 BIRMINGHAM, Feb.

11 (P) John H. Adams, 92, industrial leader and widely recognized zoning expert, died at his home here yesterday after a long illness. A native of England, Adams came to the United States in 1870 and became associated with the rolling mill and mining industry at Chat tanooga, Tenn. There he helped build the first open hearth furnaces in the South. He came to Birmingham in 1880 as superintendent of the newly or ganized Birmingham Rolling Mill company.

He supervised the rolling oi the first iron bars produced in this district Training In Is Revealed years of college (rank IV) dropped to 50 from 65. and those with less than two years of college training (rank V) decreased to' 41 from 79 in 1947. By FalL 1350. Leeman says the survey shows that the county sys-tem'can expect 27 rank I teachers; 101 rank II teachers; 48 in the third rank, with the number of rank IV teachers dropping to 30, and rank disappearing. Of the 41 in rank today.

18 plan to have raised their certificates to rank IV, by Fall, 1949, and 5 more by FalL 1950. Eighteen of these now in rank V. Leeman said, have shown their intentions of not continuing in the teaching profes- BETTER on Page I ARlAS PEACE TIME SECTORS WAR TIME SECTORS New Cold Wave Strikes West By The Associated Press A new cold wave moved into sections of the snowbound Western states today and snowslides and minor floods menaced areas in the Pacific Northwest. Strong winds continue to swirl the mountainous snow in the Wes tern plains, hampering the reopen ing of highways and clearing of rail lines. An Army troop train remained stalled at Rawlins, Wyo.

But the Army, Red Cross and other agencies planned no letup in the fight to save the lives of humans and livestock. The Red Cross at Rawlin had planes ready to make low level flights to drop rations to isolated ranch families. At least 10 families are believed distress in the area. The mining town of Burke, Idaho, was reported isolated bjr a 300-foot wide snow avalanche which buried roads, rail and communication lines. No homes were in the path of the slide, which was estimated 150 feet deep in some places.

Early, it was not determined if any travelers were caught in the slide. Slides Close Highways Other snowslides in Western and Northern Idaho yesterday, as temperatures rose, closed several highways. Slides in some areas buried several homes, but no one was injured. See NEW on Page 2 Better Teacher County Schools "Fair this afternoon and tonight; not quite so cold in North, frost in central portion tonight; Saturday partly cloudy and warmer; moderate Northeast and East winds on the coast" was the weather outlook for the state today. The Decatur cotton ir.irkct at noon today quoted middling at 32 and strict low at 29.5.

On Tuesday evening at 7:00 at the Why Not Cafe the junior board of stewards of the Central Methodist church had "Ladies Twenty-five junior stewards and their wives enjoyed this dinner. Haywood Reems presided over the gathering and definite plans were 4iade to canvass the church for securing subscriptions to the Alabama Christian Advocate. Rev. G. M.

Davenport, pastor of the Central Methodist church, is preaching a series of Sunday evening sermons on some women of the Bible. On Feb. 13 he will preach on "Woman's Triumph," on Feb. 20 on "Woman's Leadership," on Feb. 27 "Woman's Daring," on March 6 'Woman Redeemed," on March 13 Mary, The Mother of Jesus." Police Chief J.

B. Whitmire reported the following cases were to be tfied in city court this afternoon: four for disorderly conduct, one for driving without a driver's one for draving without a driver's license, two for violating the traffic law. Mrs. Fred Knight has returned to Florence after visiting friends here. The associate board of stewards of the Memorial Drive Methodist church will meet tonight at the church at seven o'clock.

All mem bers were urged to be present. The Austinville young people's group will motor to the Fairview Church of God tonight to attend and participate in a monthly youth rally. The counsellor, Mrs. Herman Linderman, the pastoi and several of the congregation will also be in attendance for this occasion. Sunday services will be held at the usual hour at the Church of God in Austinville.

The morning message will be titled: "The Two Resurrections" and will be delivered by the pastor. Rev. Selvidge. The evening message will be entitled: "The Lostness of Man" and will be delivered by Rev. Eva Selvidge the assistant pastor.

Three grass fires took the attention of the Decatur fire department Thursday an investigation reveals. No loss was reported. The fires were at 1:05 p.m. in the 1100 block. Second Avenue.

5:05 p.m., 11 block Third Avenue and at 1006 Olive at 6:20 p.m. Fire department members explained that -tmr-wind and sun had dried the grass out to where it will burn easily. The office of Morgan county sheriff. C. B.

Humphrey reports that on arrest for vagrancy was made. See DIAKl on Page Mobile Princess Of Azalea Court Takes Own Life MOBILE, Feb. 11 (JP Yesterday studious, pretty Joan Davis was named a member of the court of Mobile's 1949 Azalea Trail queen. Today the 17-year old Murphy high school senior was found shot to death in her suburban home. Mobile County Coroner H.

S. J. Walker called the shotgun shooting "suicide." A classmate of the dead girl was named queen at a luncheon yesterday which Miss Davis and other contestants representing Mobile's five high school attended. Members of the family said Joan rtidied until 3 a.m, today. Her Vrents gave her permission to remain away from classes when she complained of feeling "ill." A spokesman for the family issued a statement saying "she was an 'A' student and had been brooding lately because she had been falling down in her grades because of expanded social activities." Coroner Walker said the girl was at home with, a negro maid.

The maid heard a shot and ran into the girl's bedroom. She had been shot once through the chest. Miss Davis was treasurer of the Southern (Association of Student Governments. QUICKIES By Ken Reynold A all of these Daily Want Ads I was going to answer and you have to ueezel Lights Flash On For Oak Ridgers For First Time Fred Sparkman. who soon will have lived at Oak Ridge for 67 years, came into town today with this exclamation, "I'm living in the light." He meant that electricity over the lines of the Joe Wheeler Cooperative had reached Oak P.idgt.

community on Hartselle 2. Sparkman, one of the oldest residents of the community, said folks have been waiting a long time for i electricity, that several have had electric appliances for a long while. waiting for the day that the power would go on for that community. Mass Housing Plea is Voiced WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 Housing Expediter Tighe E.

Woods proposed today a temporary halt to single-family home building and a switch to mass housing for so lution of the shelter saortage. He testified before the senate- house economic committee which had just heard evidence of a slight turn toward lower construction costs. Raymond M. Foley, housing and home finance administrator, reviewed building cost rises since the war and concluded: "There is some evidence that construction costs may be stabiliz ing and that a turning point may have been reached." Woods told the committee multiple apartment construction is both cheaper and faster. He went on: "If our total supply of manpower and building materials cannot be expanded rapidly enough to produce more than 1.000.000 units a year, then I would recommend temporarily the deliberate discouragement of the construction of single family units for sale." The switch, Woods suggested, could be achieved by "a deliberate tightening of credit and risk insurance requirements for homes, and by giving additional incentives to builders of multiple unit structures." Unity Sought Secretary of State Acheson said today the United States wants Europe to achieve political unity but this government will not dictate what European nations should do.

See MASS on Page 2 Hospital Board Is Selected In a meeting at the Lawrence county courthouse this morning, the county hospital board selected its nine-man executive committee, and appointed the medical advisory board for the proposed Lawrence county hospital. Frank Martin, Oakville, was elected president of the executive committee, and Kelly Littrell, Moul-ton was chosen to be secretary-treasurer of the group. Other members picked by the hospital board to the executive committee include: J. E. Counts, Mt.

Hope; Hubert C. Coffey. Wheeler; Otis Gentry, Fairfield: Abner Berryman, Town Creek: Frank Co-burn. Courtland; Claude Jackson, Hatton; and W. E.

Bass, Morris Chapel. The medical advisory board appointed by the executive committee consists of Dr. J. P. Dyar.

and Dr. C. G. Farish. Moulton; Dr.

J. A. Ussery, Courtland; Dr. Thomas H. Pritchett, Jr, Town Creek, and Dr.

W. R. Taylor, Hatton. Dr. Taylor is also county health officer.

Selection of the executive committee and the medical advisory committee is the outgrowth of a meeting Tuesday, when the Lawrence county board of revenue and control selected 17 men to form the hospital association. Other members of the association other than those on the executive committee are: W. A. Standridge, Kitchens; R. F.

Clark. Chalybeate Springs: S. O. Hardin. Hillsboro; W.

P. Lemay, Red Bank; Henry England, Center; Jack McDowell, Pinhook: B. S. Springles, Flat Rock and Silas Norwood. Mt.

Moriah. Eection plans to finance' the hospital with an assessment up to 4 mills are now being drawn by the county solicitor, R. L. Almon. Shrine Will Accept Crippled Child For Clinic Treatment Word has been received from the Shrine's Zamora temple in Birmingham that a Decatur child will be accepted for treatment at the Shrine, crippled children's clinic, local Chriners were told at a meeting Thursday night at the Masonic halL A supper was served by wives of Shriners.

Attendance was' 23. Plans were discussed for a Shrine party, to be held within the next few weeks. Discussions are now underway as to what Decatur child; will receive treatment at the crippled children's clinic. A name is expected to be announced within a few days. Youth Admits Slaying Wife And Her Friend Nude Bodies Found in Cess Pool at Gentry Home TALLADEGA, Feb.

11 OP) A 19-year-old youth who told police a crime comic book gave him the idea of shooting his wife and another woman to death was held on a murder charge today. Police Chief Willis Dean said Herbert Hoover Gentry, a machinist, signed a statement admitting both slayings. The victims were Gentry's pretty 19-year-old brunette wife and her childhood friend, Mrs. Louise Deal. 23, of Rome, Ga.

Their nude, bullet riddled bodies lay in a back yard cesspool for five days until they were found yesterday. Gentry, a former student at the Alabama school for the deaf, has partial speech and hearing. He readily re-enacted the crime. Dean said, after telling him he had thought of killing his wife for some time, and had read of ways to do it. Married 18 Months The Gentrys had been married 18 months.

They had been separated for two weeks, but began living together again last Saturday. Dean said Gentry told him he had seen his wife with other men. According to the statement made to Dean, Gentry shot his wife and Mrs. Deal Saturday night as the two women sat on a sofa in the Gentry home. Gentry then dragged the bodies to the cesspool about 30 feet from the house and took off all their clothes.

"I threw my wife in first." Dean quoted the young machinist: "then the other, woman. I dropped rocks on them, then mud, then papers from the house." A search for the two women began when Mrs. Gentry's parents, Mr. and Mis. U.

S. Adams of Rome, were unable to find their daughter on a visit here. Two Talladega officers picked Gentry up yesterday for questioning. Patrolman Carl Jacks said Gentry first told them he found the two women shot to death in his home. Later, Gentry made the statement to Chief Dean.

Says Wife Nagged Dean quoted Gentry as savins he decided to kill his wife because she nagged him over money. Mrs. Deal, the officer quoted Gentry as sajing, naa encouraged Mrs. Gen. try to leave him.

Patrolmen Jacks and Walter Jhackerson made the gruesome discovery of the bodies in the cess pool some three hours after they uegan questioning Uentry. Grappling hooks were called for. News of the slayings brought a See YOUTH on Page 2 Jurors Accuse Madison Mayor HUNTSVTLLE, Feb. ll-OP) The Madison county grand jury recommended today the impeach ment of Mayor G. Walton Hughes of the nearby town of Madison.

lhe jury charged corruption in office in that he has operated, or caus ed to be operated, a gaming table in the city of Madison and xxx kept, exhibited, or was interestered in exhibiting a gaming table." Mayor Hughes was reelected last September. A controversy developed recently in Madison over the city council's approval of a beer license there. The State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board approved and then revoked a license to sell beer at Clint's Place, operated by Clint Lanier. A petition requesting a special election to change the town's form of government to a city cominis- sion has been given the probate judge. Mayor Hughes asked the state supreme court to throw out the pe tition on grounds that Alabama law does hot provide for the commission form of government in towns of less than 500 in population.

lhe grand jury -said the corruption charge against Mayor Hugh es was in connection with alleged gambling at a place not named. Porter Haynes Will Have Check-Up By Birmingham Medico Porter Haynes, Hartselle poultry farmer, will go to Birmingham Saturday for a checkup in regard to his physical condition. Arthritis has left Mr. Haynes severly Crippled. He has not been able to sit down for a long time.

In the hope that another operation will help the Hartselle citizen, friends are collecting funds to finance further treatment. ATM ORE. Feb. 11 iJP An early morning fire destroyed six cell blocks, dining rooms, and offices at Atmore state prison farm today. No one was injured, and a preliminary check indicated none of the prisoners escaped.

The fire broke out in the loft of a long wooden building, erected 20 years ago. A guard, C. W. Drinkard. called the night warden, C.

W. Hood, and the two led the prisoners to a wirt enclosed yard. Drinkard said the prisoners, carrying clothing and bedding, left the burning building in orderly fashion. The fire was discovered about 4:30 A. M.

(EST) and was brought under control two hours later by the prison fire department and equipment from nearby Atmore. Mrs. S. W. Hixon, wife of the warden, drove to Atmore to ask for help when the fire burned telephone lines leading to the prison.

Four cell blocks in the prison were saved. The burned out area housed 278 white and 80 negro prisoners. Wiring Blamed Drinkard said he believed tht fire was caused by defective wiring. The farm houses 870 convicts, 600 ot them negroes. It was built in 1928, and is a major source of food for the Alabama state prisons.

It has 8.000 acres, 6,000 of them in cultivation. Warden Hixon said he was awaiting arrival of State Prison Director Frank Boswell from Montgomery before making arrangements for emergency housing and feeding of the prisoners. Before leaving for the scene, Boswell said he hoped temporary ar rangements could be made at the prison farm so" that it could be kept in production. Boswell frequently has told the state legislature the Atmore farm was a fire hazard. The 1947 legislature approved $350,000 conditionally for new buildings, but the money was never released.

Warden Hixon commended the "cool headedness" of Drinkard and Hood. Hixon said there was no excitement or disorder among the See 6 CELLS on Page 2 Philly Hit by Transit Strike PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 11 OF) Detoured bv a strike of transit workers. Philadelphia's 3,200.000 subway and trolley scrambled into the city today oa foot, by thumb-flagging of passing cars and by Iigting tneir w.iy aboard packed suburban railway trains.

The massive operations of the Philadelphia Transportation company halted at one minute past midnight, throwing workers in the nation's third largest city on their own resources. The strike of 11.000 members of the CIO's Transport Workers Union was in support of a demand for a fourth round wage increase. The work stoppage was orderly and PTC officials said the company will make no attempt to operate over its 1,500 miles of lines. Many workers were late. Some were hampered by a four-inch snowfall that piled into drifts in suburban areas and never got to their jobs.

Auto traffic was tremendous. Parking lots were choked long be- fore the usual start of the morning 1 huuj. AUiomooues puca up ouniper bumper on Broad Street, leaving lines as long as four blocks at traffic signals. Many plants dispatched trucks to transport people to their jobs. No progress towards a settlement was reported by either union or management, with negotiations deadlocked over a 17-cent spread.

The workers originally demanded a boost of 25 cents an hour but later reduced this to 20 cenU. The company's initial offer was two cents, boosted to three cents shortly before the strike deadline. Workers now average from $1.09 to $1.63 an hour. 70F FAM0U5 PEOPU IGNOtANCf WHSN VOtW. ilk i if V.

S. RETALIATES WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 UP) The United States today retaliated against Hungary for expulsion of two American officials from Budapest by ordering a top Hungarian diplomat out of this country. The diplomat ordered to leave "as soon as possible" is John G.

Fiorian, first secretary of the legation here. The State Department notified Minister Andrew Sik yesterday that Fiorian is no longer "persona or acceptable as a representative of his government The notification gave no reason for the demand that Fiorian leave. State Department Press Officer Michael J. McDermott told reporters it was "pure coincidence" that Florian's expulsion followed the ejection of the American officials from Budapest in the last two weeks. The treaty is intended to bind the United States, Canada and Western Europe into a tight ring against communist expansion.

R.u i a strongly attacking ihe whole idea, has made Norway a counter-offer for a non-aggression pact. The Russians, meanwhile, staked out a claim to participation in any international discussion over the vast Anatrctic. Tass claimed Russian priority in discovery and investigation of the South polar region. The Soviet news agency state ment was made public after a meet- ing in Leningrad of the all-union geographic society on the question oi nussia ana tne Antarctic. A multi-million dollar British-American plan for development of See PROTESTANT on Page 2 20 Are Hurt In Union Rioting EAST MOLINE, 111., Feb.

11 OP) About 20 persons were injured, including two top officials of the CIO United Auto Workers, in a 20-min-ute pitched battle yesterday between some 300 members of two rival CIO unions. Both officials were arrested after the bloody brawl at the gates of the East Moline works of the Interna tional Harvester Companv. On one side were some vbu uaw organi zers. They were opposed by more than 200 workers at the plant, members of the United Farm Equipment Workers Union. Thirteen of the injured received treatment at a hospital for bloody and broken noses, cuts, broken arms, bashed heads and cracked ribs.

Only one was a plant worker. The UAW unionists injured included John W. Livingston of Detroit, UAW vice president and director of the union's agricultural implement department, and Pat Greathouse of Chicago, UAW regional director. Later Livingston and Greathouse were arrested on a disorderly conduct complaint signed by Arvid Sheets, president of FE local 104. Sheets said he will ask state warrants today, charging the two CIO officials with inciting a 2 Trucks Collide at Intersection Here A half ton truck- collided with another half ton truck which had stopped for a traffic light Thursday afternoon, causing small damage, city police stated.

A truck driven by James Standridge, Decatur 1, struck the' back of a vehicle driven by L. K. Orr. Hartselle 1, at Sixth Avenue S. with Gordon and Prospect, police stated.

The Orr truck had stopped behind a car driven by Walter Stockton, Hartselle 4. There were no injuries. Officers Taylor, Jacobs and Self investigated. Slender Link In 'Spy' Plots BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON.

Feb. 11 (fl) A re-check of files in the congressional spy hunt showed today two slender threads linking Russian espionage in Japan and in the United States. Whittaker Chambers, who says he was a onetime courier for a Red spy ring in America, told the house un-American activities committee last year he helped obtain recruits and money for an "apparatus" in Japan in the mid-30's. And one person Chambers says was in contact with the leaders of that apparatus is mentioned in a report the Army released yesterday. The report told of a big Soviet espionage ring in Tokyo that operated from 1933 to 1941 and stole secrets from the Japanese cabinet and German embassy.

There is nothing in the Chambers' testimony to show any definite or close connection between the American ring he served and the net-work described by the Army as probably the all-time boldest and best. The committee wasn't looking for any such tie when it heard Chambers behind locked doors last December. It may look now. Officers To Meet Army and Navy intelligence officers were invited to sit in on a meeting this afternoon. The main purpose was to discuss ways of improving teamwork between the services and the committee.

But Chairman Wood (D-Ga) told reporters members were sure to ask about the Army's sensational report. Just where the committee might See SLENDER on Page 2 Five Animal Heads Examined at Lab Five animal heads were examined by the Decatur branch state laboratory this week. They included a cowhead from Tuscumbia, and one from Madison county, both showing positive to tests for rabies; a doghead from Tuscumbia. and one from Florence which showed rabies, and one from Decatur that did not indicate rabies. Tennessee Valley Basks In The Sun This Tennessee Valley city basked in the sun today, welcoming rare and pleasant weather, as the mercury hit 47.

at noon. Low during the night was 30, Thursday's hieh of 52 came at 2 nm Hourly readings today: 8 a.m, 33; 9 i.m. 38; 10 a.m. 41; 11 ijd, 44; noon, 47. By VIC BUBBETT Teachers in the Morgan county school system with four years or more college training has nearly doubled in the past four years, H.

R. Leeman, county superintendent of education, said today. This reflects the advancement made by all teachers in the county in the past two years according to a recent county-wide survey to determine present and future educational training of the teachers. The survey is part of state-wide program to determine the teacher's current educational background, and also to estimate what rank certificates teachers will hold at the beginning of school in the Fall, of 1949 and 1950. This survey is being made 20 that state educational leaders can anticipate teacher salary expenses in the two years to come, Leeman said.

Surrey Recalled The Morgan county, survey revealed that in 1947. only seven teachers held rank I- certificates (holding masters' degrees or better); in 1949 the county has 19 -rank 1 teachers. Those with Rank II (four years of college) in 1947 was 49, today it is 85. In' two years the number of rank III (three years of college) teachers went from 29 to 34, while tht aumor mt tMctoen with two.