Word: sylacauga
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...small town of Sylacauga, Ala., about 40 miles south of Birmingham, was enjoying its noontime peace under a blue sky. In the living room of her one-story frame house, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Hodges, a pleasant, plump housewife of 32, was napping on a sofa. She was lying on her side, covered with two quilts, one hand resting on her hip. Her mother, Mrs. Ida Franklin, was sewing in the next room. Her husband, Hewlett, a telephone company tree surgeon, was away at work...
Recipients are Nathan Kravetz, vice principal at the Cathay Center School in Los Angeles; David B. Muirhead, instructor at St. Cloud State Teachers College, Minnesota; Futrelle L. Temple, principal of the Sylacauga, Ala., high school; and Alvin Warren, educationist with the United States Indian Service in Albuquerque...
Tornado freakishness was plentiful. At Cassville, Ga. chickens were stripped of their feathers. An automobile owned by a Nashville, Tenn. family went hurtling through the side of a barn without puncturing a tire. Luther Kelley of Sylacauga. Ala. lost his second wife. His first died in the tornado of 1917. At Cleveland, Tenn. an infant was snatched from its mother's arms, dropped into a well, drowned. An Alabama farmer hung on a barbed-wire fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there...