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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1952
Page
3
Donald Ross Jr. 14, son of a prominent Nashville family, was killed by lightning while camping near Sparta Tennessee. His father, president of Castner Knott company, was in New York on business at the time.
June sales tax receipts in Alabama reached 4,451,336, nearly matching May's 4,605,799 despite a predicted drop from a steel strike. Revenue Commissioner Joe M. Edwards cited two fewer working days in June. Tobacco tax rose to 723,698, while gasoline sales declined to 3,298,921 from May's 3,534,250.
Hollywood gossip notes Janet Blair says she has performed 919 South Pacific shows as of last night. She credits health and persistence, recalling seven years at Columbia and a shift from movies to stage and TV.
A high speed ambulance line carried a 9 year old polio patient from Moulton to Birmingham last night. Betty Ruth Ligon of Moulton Rt. 4 was placed in an iron lung after arrival at the Birmingham hospital as highway patrol cars escorted the 115 mile run.
In a lighthearted analysis, Frank Carey notes that if Mars and Venus sent flying saucers to spy on Earth, round trips would take years. It outlines distances, relative speeds, and planetary orbits, estimating 762 days Venus-Earth rounds and 971 days for Mars-Earth routes, including long waits between legs.
Mrs. Jane Gambill and Miss Florence Hower, Birmingham secretaries, offered to spend part of their vacation in Washington to aid Sen. John Sparkman’s bid. Edd Hyde, Sparkman’s secretary, assigned them to work in his Capitol Hill office, as they are employed by Beddow and Jones law firm in Birmingham.
Asao Wataguchi reports that 164 last-ditch troops from the vanquished Japanese Army settled among Okinawans and made homes on the island. The veterans seek inquiries about war pensions and disposition of remains of Japan's war dead on the island, now a major American base.
University of New Mexico scientists tested a black porous substance believed to be meteorite remains from a green fireball. After extensive lab work and even a skeptical sniff test by Mrs. La Paz, the material proved to be burned toast, not extraterrestrial matter.
In Owensboro Kentucky Wilbur Hicks thirty two blew himself up with an explosive in a tavern after telling his wife she could have a divorce. The blast killed Hicks and injured his wife and Harold Feldman thirty two who was seated nearby. Coroner Allen Haley said a half stick of dynamite was hidden in Hicks belt and triggered when he touched a wire to a flashlight battery. The explosion happened as Mrs Hicks turned away after the divorce agreement.
In Auburn a joint meeting of federal loan agencies and private banks pledged to provide all credit possible to drought damaged Alabama farmers. P O Davis noted the extreme crisis, worse than 1930, with pasture losses and a large livestock program.
In the Mobile district during the first five months of 1952 iron ore imports total 2.37 million dollars, nearly matching all of 1950 imports at 2.53 million. Long ton shipments rise slowly with 235,653 tons in five months 1952 versus 426,774 tons in 1950. Principal sources are Brazil and Sweden, with new shipments from Liberia starting January. Liberia has sent 39,200 tons so far. The Mobile terminal by U S Steel is expected to boost future imports from Labrador, Liberia, Venezuela, and Chile.
A reckless driving charge against ex Birmingham Police Capt. C. E. Bud Huey was postponed to next Monday. The case stems from a 22 mile chase July 26 from Leeds through Irondale to Birmingham, during which a Highway Patrol car collided with a private car, killing a 47 year old Birmingham teacher. Huey had resigned as head of the Birmingham Detective Bureau days after the chase and had previously been fined $25 in Leeds for speeding.
Syrian Ministry of Agriculture reports near 800000 tons of wheat and 250000 tons for export plus 250000 tons of barley with 75000 tons for export. The crop export outlook remains strong even as locust fears loom. A tunnel sits on the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge.
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