Funds Sought For Taft Memorial Tower Finance Drive
Thomas E. Coleman of Madison heads the finance committee for the Taft Memorial Tower to be built on Capitol grounds Washington. Katherine Kennedy Brown Dayton and Preston Davie New York join him as fundraisers as Ben E. Tate helps oversee. The foundation seeks up to 1,200,000 in private gifts with no government funds.
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Capitol Grounds
Washington
Robert Taft
Ohio
Thomas E. Coleman
Madison, Wis
B. Carroll Reece
Taft Memorial Foundation, Inc
Coleman
Katherine Kennedy Brown
Dayton
Preston Davie
New York City
Ben E. Tate
Cincinnati
Radio TV Schedules Log for Birmingham Area
A dense listing of radio and television time slots and program titles across WREC TV and WART channels. Schedules include news headlines sports blocks cartoons dramas game pregame music and late night sign offs with programs like Mystery Playhouse Star Time Tonight With Steve Allen and World of Mr listing daily and weekday slots.
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Birmingham
Sigs OF Teesday
Fevorites
Grace Baptist Charen
Sammy Kaye Sere
Power Co Op Seeks Double Debt Limit For Joe Wheeler
The Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Corp. plans a loan-ability expansion from five million to ten million dollars to meet rising power demand. Voting, by mail and in person, will occur at the Decatur Legion Baseball Field during the annual meeting with a prize drawing to encourage participation.
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Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Corp
Moulton and Hartselle
Floyd Anderson
Rural Electrification Administration
Anderson
Alabama
J. W. Counts
Hope
Joe Wheeler Co-op
Legion Baseball Field
Decatur
Joe Wheeler News
Counts
Sparkman Seeks Restoration of Farm Housing Program
Sen. Sparkman asks President Eisenhower to reinstate the 1949 farm housing program eliminated two years ago. He cites Senate action and a Budget Bureau plan to use existing funds, with early next session funding. The project honors former Sen. Taft and has Eisenhower and Hoover support, with donations welcomed at 109 South Webster St Madison Wis.
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Washington
Sen
Sparkman
D-Ala
Eisenhower
Senate
Senate House Conference
Senate Appropriations Committee
Budget Bureau
Coleman
Webster St
Madison
Wis
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Foundation
Bob Taft
Madison- Kipp Corp
Congress
Hoover
Taft
Selma Real Estate Leader Claughton Johnson Dies at 67
SELMA A heart attack at midnight Saturday claimed the life of Claughton N. Johnson 67 prominent Selma real estate and insurance agent and brother of the late Marshal Johnson. He operated the family real estate and insurance business for 40 years and was an ardent horseman noted for owning and showing fine horses. Funeral services were set for 3 p.m. today in Selma.
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Selma
Claughton N. Johnson
Marshal Johnson
Alabama
Claughton Johnson
Union Men Head For TCI Parley
Two Birmingham labor leaders R E Farr and Howard Strevel traveled to Pittsburgh at the request of CIO United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald to discuss a strike at the Tennessee Coal and Iron division of U S Steel. Farr indicated the purpose likely concerns the South's largest shutdown.
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Birmingham
Tennessee Coal and Iron Vision
U.S. Steel
Pittsburgh
David J. McDonald
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
R. E. Farr
Howard Strevel
Farr
McDonald
South
Well Known Merchant John Crumrine Dies in Sheffield
Funeral services were scheduled here for John A. Crumrine aged 54 a widely known wholesale merchant who died Saturday after a two month illness He owned a vending machine company and was connected with a chain store organization in Sheffield Alabama.
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Sheffield
Ala
John A. Crumrine
Decatur Girls Head For GA Camp At Shocco Springs
Twenty seven Junior G A members from Decatur churches plus Linda Head of Vinemont depart Central Baptist Church by bus for five days at the North Alabama Junior G A Camp at Shocco Springs near Talladega. Mrs. Leon Posey will serve as camp counselor. Camp is owned by Alabama Baptists with sponsorship by the Alabama Woman's Missionary Union.
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Morgan County
Shocco Springs
Talladega
Central Baptist Church
Leon Posey
Decatur
Vinemont
Deecatur
Good Hope _ Baptist Church
Linda Head
Posey
Shocco
Alabama Baptists
Alabama Woman's Missionary Union
First Baptist Church
Beth Short
Jance Bass
Nellie Blankenship
Brenda Marion
16Th Ave. Baptist Church
Camellia Nell Finchum
Oletta Perkins
Joyce Counts
Betty Richards
Myra Brown
Dora Jackson
16Th Ave. W.M.S
Pamela Browning
Nancy Guffin
Peggy
Sandra Blalock
Linda Holt
Martha Gaye Posey
Martha Faye Patton
Judy Kelso
Lela Carolyn Wright
Mary Linda Hodges
Emaline Rogers
Mary Frances Shaw
Joy Margaret Posey
Elizabeth Ann Drain
Vicki Rogers
Marguerite Garnett
Georgia Homicide Rate Compared to Vermont in 1952
Georgia recorded a homicide rate of 14.6 per 100000 in 1952, roughly thirty times the rate seen in Vermont, highlighting a stark regional disparity in the era.
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Georgia
Vermont
New Non Surgical Pile Treatment: Preparation H
A New York special reports a scientific breakthrough with Bio-Dyne for shrinking hemorrhoids and easing pain without surgery. The Preparation H suppository or ointment claims thorough relief and shrinking results with a money back guarantee.
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New York, N. Y
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Decatur Daily
Whiting Girls
Alabama News
Cowboy Playhouse
Arnold "Morgan
Echo Vi
Huntsville
Sam Taverne
Showtime
Wrec-Tv
Chasse
Selma Realtor
TCI
Steel Mill
Goidel’s
Gtb Ave
W. Decatub
Chrysler
All America
Wits
First Church
Benson Nell
First Bi
G.a.’S
Smith Motors, Inc
Oak St
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