Valley Champion Visits This Week
Tennessee Valley figure David E. Lilienthal arrives in the Muscle Shoals area for a seven day tour. He will keynote Athens College on Tuesday at 6 30 p m as part of a growth and development program.
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Athens
Tennessee Valley
David E. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Muscle Shoals
Lilienthal
New York City
Athens College Citizens Board
TVA
Glimpses of Your Community
A brief community snapshot outlines local events and happenings. Citizens share small surveys and notes on programs, schools, and civic activities affecting daily life.
Decatur High School Biology Trip and Local Easter Egg Hunt
Eighty members of William Isbell’s Biology Classes at Decatur High School toured the Memphis Zoo and prepared zoo charts and essays on the trip. Reynolds Funeral Home sponsored a Morgan County Easter Egg Hunt for Negro schools at different sites.
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William Isbell
Decatur High School
Memphis Zoo
Isbell
C. P. Tuck
Price Landers
Reynolds Funeral Home
Morgan County
Courts In Three States Move To Curb Picketing
In Alabama governor James Folsom refused to deploy the National Guard but sent the State Highway Patrol to protect lives without taking sides. Courts in Birmingham Florida Lauderdale and Asheville issued injunctions to limit picketing by strikers as Southern Bell offers a 6.5 million dollar pay raise and urges workers to return.
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Atlanta
Ala
James Folsom
National Guard
Bessemer
Birmingham
Highway Patrol
Fl. Lauderdale
Fla
Asheville
N.C
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Sheriff Raids Decatur Elks Club Amid Prohibition Concerns
Sheriff Jimmie Collier's deputies raided the Decatur Elks Club around 5 p m Friday searching for illegal liquor or gambling. Two arrests were believed made. a small amount of white lightning was said to be the personal property of a Negro employee. Affidavits for warrants were signed by County Solicitor Ralph Slate.
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Jimmie Collier
Decatur Elks Club
Ralph Slate
Slate
Collier
Clark Rountree
The
Elks Club
Katie May Up Puzzle Ante In Daily Contest
A note from Katie Kash warns that if no one with a winning claim appears by Monday 5 p m she will raise the puzzle stakes adding 25 dollars to the prize. Readers urged to submit solutions by Tuesday midnight or at the Daily office by 5 p m.
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Katie
Divided South Faces Historic Decision Soon
A split South faces a major choice on whether to accept or reject the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. The court will hear arguments on public school desegregation as states must decide within the year how to comply with any order, since the court has already ruled desegregation required.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Head On Crash Claims Another Lawrence Victim
Cordie Opal Cole, a resident of Moulton, became Lawrence County's second traffic fatality for the year after a head on collision occurred around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. The crash involved a 1949 Ford driven by Cole and a 1953 Mercury driven by Cecil McLemore, 22, of Danville. Three others were injured, one critically. The incident happened on a straight gravel road about four hours earlier on Shirley Smith road near Highway 33.
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Wren
Here
Moulton 3
Cordie Opal Cole
Lawrence County
Ford
Cecil McLemore
Danville 2
Shirley Smith Road
Highway 33
Death Threat Reported in Arch Ferrell Case
An important witness in the Arch Ferrell murder trial in Birmingham on April 18 says he received a death threat. Janitor Qunnie Kelly, a state witness, reported the call to Sheriff Lamar Murphy.
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Phenix City
Arch Ferrell
Birmingham
Russell County
Lamar Murphy
Qunnie Kelly
Kelly
Kelley
Albert Fuller
Ferrell
Albert Patterson
Patterson
Dedication Day Planned For Decatur School System
Decatur launches a full day of ceremonies April 22 to mark the new 3 million dollar school building program hailed as the most thrilling story in Alabama Public Education. The schedule runs 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. with tours, a barbecue lunch, performances, a city tour, and a dedication address by Dr. Walter D. Cocking.
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New Decatur
Decatur
Alabama
Zebulon Judd
School of
A.P.I
Walter Jackson
P.T.A
Jackson Spoons High School
Gordon-Bibb
Decatur High School
Walter D. Cocking
Calvin Seeks To Clear Record On Filibuster Stand
Alabama senator Joe Calvin and Lawrence Morgan plan to appear on a Birmingham TV program to answer Gov. Folsom and explain that most filibustering senators supported old age pension funding. Calvin says the protest aimed at blocking moves to stack the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee, not opposing pensions, and that existing rules could have moved bills to the floor.
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Joe Calvin
Lawrence Morgan
Birmingham
Folsom
Sen. Calvin
Senate Finance and Taxation Committee
Calvin
Sen
Rains May Dampen Some Easter Frocks
Rains dampen Easter outfits as Decatur forecasts cloudy mild weather with showers. Local churches hold services including a city-wide Sunrise at Decatur High School stadium and a Sixth Avenue Church of God musical program by the Anderson College Choir. Pilgrims gather in St Peter's Square for Pope Pius XII address as Easter celebrations spread worldwide.
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Decatur
Decatur High School
Sixth Avenue Church of God
Anderson College
Anderson
Ind
Eisenhower
Rome
St. Peter’s Square
Pius XII
Cost In Air Arms Race Comes High Worth It
Washington April 9 Senator Stennis agrees with Secretary Talbott that obsolescence costs of one to two billion dollars in converting to new heavy jet bombers are not waste. He says the price of air superiority in a tense world comes high but is worth it.
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Washington
Sen. Stennis
D mMiss
Stennis
Air Force
Talbott
Weather and River Readings for Decatur Area
Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge measured 21.78 feet on Saturday morning, down .04 in 24 hours, sea level reading 556.08. Friday high 70 at 4 PM, low 48 at 3 AM. Saturday morning 8 AM temperature still missing, forecast cloudy and mild with scattered showers and thundershowers today and tonight.
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Decatur
Keller Memorial Bridge
Two Room Home Destroyed By Fire on 11th Ave NW
A two room home at 438 11th Ave NW was completely destroyed by fire yesterday at 9 40 AM. The sole resident Mrs Laveunice Wilson a Black woman was away and did not save any belongings. Assistant Fire Chief Jim Roberson said the fire likely started from a stove inside the house. He could not estimate the damage.
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11Th Ave
Laveunice Wilson
Jim Roberson
Friends Help Tiny Burn Victim Easter Hope
On a February night in front of an open fireplace five sisters slept on a floor at the Brinkley residence. Bobby Jo Brinkley suffered third degree burns over much of her body and entered Decatur General Hospital February 18. Her slow recovery included a blood transfusion this week.
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Decatur General
Jo Brinkley
Decatur General Hospital
Bobby
Trinity 1
Brinkley
Georgias Senator George Signals Re election Bid
Sen Walter F George 77 longtime chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he expects to run for re election and would announce next year his decision to seek another term in the Senate.
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Vienna
Walter F. George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Georgia
Kefauver urges stand on treaty curb amid hearings
Sen. Kefauver says a definite and strong stand by President Eisenhower could defeat the proposed Bricker treaty amendment. He notes many senators support hearings starting later this month and expects the subcommittee to approve the amendment before sending it to the full Judiciary Committee. Kefauver opposes both the Bricker plan and George's substitute.
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Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Eisenhower
Sen
Bricker
Ohio
Judiciary Committee
George
D-Ga
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Alabama Democrats back convention plan for reapportionment
The State Democratic Executive Committee endorsed Gov. James E. Folsom's proposal for a constitutional convention to reapportion the Legislature and approved forming a committee to draft the party's first state platform since 1820. The move marks a shift from earlier States Rights influence and contrasts with Folsom's earlier court clash.
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Montgomery
State
Democratic Executive Committee
James E. Folsom
Folsom
Alabama
Harry Truman
ALA
Senator warns of bold plan over Asian crisis
Senator Mansfield says the free world risks losing South Vietnam and Japan without a bold new program to replace crisis diplomacy. He notes deterioration in strategic areas and warns Vietnam could see civil war with the United States legally unable to intervene.
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Free World
South Viet Nam
Japan
Far East
Formosan Strait
Asia
Viet Nam
Formosa
Mansfield
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Fuller Planning Re Trial Motion in Murder Case
In Birmingham on April 9, attorney Roderick Beddow said a new trial motion for Albert Fuller will be filed Monday. He lists 92 assignments of error challenging the verdict from the March trial of the former Phenix City deputy sheriff, convicted of killing crime fighter A. L. Patterson last June 18.
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Birmingham
Albert Fuller
Roderick Beddow
Beddow
Phenix City
A. L. Patterson
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