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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1955
Page
1
Hardaway Corp. reports final paving of the widened Highway 31 from 6th St southeast to Legion Field should finish by Tuesday if weather cooperates. About three and a half miles still require paving within the overall widening contract from Decatur to north of Hartselle.
Bedsole, 37, who escaped from a Florida work gang by sitting under a tree, plans to appeal Circuit Judge D. C. Halstead's ruling. The judge ordered Bedsole placed in custody of Houston Sheriff A. D. Dolene Sellars for extradition to Florida. Bedsole challenges the transfer as unlawful, while still serving a six month sentence for highway drunkenness.
The Mutual Savings Fire and Auto Insurance Co operating from Montgomery, with a capitalization of 575000, plans a 300 person statewide force. Directors include E. E. Hale, Miss Addie Lee Farish, Mark Hode, Redus Collier, and Troy Brannon. Hale to serve as acting president.
Nationwide AP survey shows over a million received the second Salk shot with Dixie leading the campaign. Polio fatalities drop 46 percent year over year, 65 percent in states supplying second shots, and 247 cases with nine deaths among 6.6 million inoculated children. Outside the South, resistance delayed the second campaign and plans for a third shot are scant.
The Deca Daily’s Bonanza runs 18 weeks with a looming $500 jackpot as readers chase the next winner. A $475 contest remains unsettled and a reader may have solved the puzzle after a 19 week wait.
CHICAGO Adlai E Stevenson and Gov. Averell Harriman of New York appear to have a working agreement to back one candidate for the 1956 Democratic nomination. If Stevenson falters in the next year Harriman could gain backup support. Stevenson holds Illinois strength and aims to leverage New York support to clinch the nomination at summer convention. Harriman’s chances depend on Stevenson’s preconvention campaign and a November declaration.
Decatur Tennessee River reading this morning stood at 20.58 feet with a 24 hour rise of 51 inches. Yesterday’s high reached 95 degrees, with a low of 73, and 8 am temperature at 76. The high today is forecast near 91 degrees with a low around 68.
The message hints at evading a guard with the phrase gave the guard the slip and notes last night around building as the time and place of the break-in. The text suggests avoiding patterns that imply force and spy avoidance for Metropolitan Motors.
Calumet division of Calumet & Hecla Inc will be liquidated after wage talks with CIO United Steel Workers failed. Endicott R. Lovell authorized liquidation, following a union vote rejecting a settlement offer and strike action set for May 2, 1955. The firm cites marginal operations and inability to absorb union demands.
The Alabama Legislature overrode Gov. James E. Folsom's veto of a Wilcox County measure by 57 to 4 in the House and 18 to 11 in the Senate. The law would impose a 200 annual license on NAACP like groups, plus 50 per organizer and 5 per member signed in Wilcox County. The body also advanced the Goodwyn school tax plan, sent to voters for a statewide referendum. The Senate provisions define taxable income and adjusted gross income before passage to the voters 90 days after adjournment.
Lawrence County Circuit Court opens with grand jury full report and multiple indictments. First degree murder charges are returned against Horace Bates Willie Jane Dunningham and Roy Langham. A manslaughter case is filed against Frank Shackelford in the May 5 wreck near Courtland.
The Air Force moves to appoint Donald A. Quarles as a shy research engineer to a key post, with Harold E. Talbott resigning amid controversy over profits from an outside enterprise. Quarles, chosen by President Eisenhower, faces Senate confirmation and will be sworn in Monday after a recess.
Arco Idaho population 1200 became the first U S community to receive all its electricity from nuclear energy. For over an hour on July 17 power came from an experimental plant at the Argonne National Laboratory 20 miles away. A U S spokesman noted the residents were unaware of the event.
U S ambassador John E Peurifoy 48 and his nine year old son Daniel died in a head on collision on a narrow bridge 125 miles south of Bangkok near Hua Hin. His 14 year old son Clinton was critically injured.
Gov. James E. Folsom named Rev. W. H. Swearingen to the Alabama State Pardon Parole Board for a four year term worth 7500 dollars annually. Swearingen, 57, former Kilby Prison chaplain from 1943 to 1951, led Phil Campbell and New Hope Baptist churches before his appointment succeeding Neil O. Davis.
U S Steel's Tennessee Coal and Iron Division mills resume operations as 100 conductors end a two week strike. A W Wiebel reports some finishing mills out 10 days while wages and reopening terms are negotiated with USW. Conductors return at request of USW president with intent to press for a fair settlement.
TRAIL Air Force Base California reports 11 American airmen freed after 32 months in Communist China. They landed in Hawaii and California on the way to reunion with families. Col John Knox Arnold met his brother during the stopover as crowds gathered to welcome the returnees. The journey began in Hong Kong and continued toward home with the men exiting Hickam and awaiting final leg to Travis.
Hurricane Connie rakes the North Carolina coast with sustained winds near 100 mph and high seas. Forecasters warn of damaging winds along the Eastern Seaboard as warnings stretch from Virginia to Massachusetts while Connie moves north-northeast offshore. Diane expected to become a hurricane later today.
South Korea saw a fatal shooting and riots as President Syngman Rhee demanded pro Communist truce inspectors exit by Saturday midnight. An informed source says Rhee warned the U S he cannot control demonstrators without UN troops restraining weapons. General Lemnitzer reportedly pressed Rhee over government involvement in protests.
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