Community notices and local hospital updates report
Local notices detail funeral attendees for Porter Vaughan including Lee Davis and families from Alabama Ohio Kentucky and Texas. Police report a Bollfast bicycle found near the ball park. Church services pause midweek at First Presbyterian. Master Sergeant Henry Lorenzo arrives from Japan at Mare Island hospital and may be moved closer to home by August 21. Verdon Lowery returns from Washington, recovering at home after surgery in Birmingham. E O McCluskey improves at Nashville veterans hospital. Joe Rogers recovering from polio and to begin Emory therapy soon. Robert W McCracken visits from Southern Bell. Permit issued to add a residence at 812 14th Avenue SE costing about 1000 dollars. Eight cases in recorder’s court with violations including prohibition intoxication and traffic issues. Wesleyan Service Guild meets at Central Methodist church planning a Delano park picnic. Rev Lee Franklin to preach on Do We Need The Church at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist. Jack West dismissed from Baugh Wiley Co. See diary on page 2.
Thompson Qualifies in Cullman City Alderman Race
One other candidate for alderman joined seven men and two for mayor in the Cullman September 15 city election race. The city clerk said Thompson qualified late yesterday afternoon. Deadline for qualifying is Friday.
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Cullman
Thompson
Moulton Mayors Race Sees Five Candidates
Qualification ahead of the city's election deadline raises the mayoral contest to five entrants with mayor J. L. Weatherwax not seeking reelection. Dr. George Carraway and H. H. Slim Hambrick join the field along with two aldermanic hopefuls in Moulton. Other towns Courtland and Town Creek report growing alderman slates with nine and seven qualified respectively.
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Lawrence County
Moulton
J. L. Weatherwax
the Daily
George Carraway
H. H
Slim) Hambrick
P. R. Chenault
Raymond Stephenson
B. J. Hogue
Town Creek
Homer P. Giddens
Joe Taliaferro
Robert Neal
Tom B. Lemay
E. F. Weems
Lonnie W. Roberts
H. W. Gibson Jr
Three More Announce For City Council In Coming Election
Three more candidates qualified today for the Decatur City Council race in the September 15 election bringing the total to eleven. Marvin J. Terry of College Street Southeast a Baptist church deacon and Decatur resident for 23 years seeks progress and a cleanest city in Alabama. Joe M. Renneker of Jackson Street owner of Renneker Sales joined the field after 15 years in Decatur with five in the Army including Europe. Renneker is 36 married with one child and active in First Methodist and church volunteer groups.
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Decatur
Marvin J. Terry
College Street
Southeast
Terry
Fairview Baptist Church
Alabama
Joe M. Renneker
Jackson Street
Renneker Sales Company
Europe
Renneker
City Hall
First Methodist Church
Lowe
Ranch Hand Held In Slaying Near Santa Ana
William F. Rupp Jr., 18, a ranch hand and beekeeper at Harry Dyer’s Yorba Linda ranch, was booked on suspicion of murder in the slaying of 15 year old Ruby Ann Payne a babysitter. He allegedly hit her with a hammer and shot her with a .22 rifle after she resisted advances. He surrendered after being recognized ordering food in a Brea cafe.
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Santa Ana
Calif
William F. Rupp Jr
Orange County
Jess Buckles
Ruby Ann Payne
Brea
Here
Los Angeles
Young Rupp
Harry Dyer
Yorba Linda
Payne
Buckles
Rupp
Hearing Held On Gas Extension Plan
Southeast Alabama gas district presented its case before a Power Commission examiner as a hearing continued on expanding natural gas service into parts of Alabama Georgia Florida and South Carolina. John A. Warren of J W Goodwin Engineering Co Birmingham testified for the district.
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Washington
Alabama
Power Commission
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
John A. Warren
J. W. Goodwin Engineering Co
Birmingham
Kilby convict escapes Lawrence county jail by sawing bars
Leland H. Bull a 22 year old prisoner from Kilby prison who was brought to Moulton to stand trial for arson escaped last night after sawing through steel bars with a hidden hacksaw blade tied to sheets. He had been awaiting trial on arson charges stemming from burning a stolen car in Jefferson county.
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Kilby
Moulton
Lawrence County
Leland H. Bull
Bull
Earl Proctor
Jefferson County
Mother Stabs Son Then Cuts Own Wrist
New York reports Mary Papkowich 33 stabbed her three year old son Johnny and attempted suicide after returning husband John Papkowich to a scene of a torn and bleeding child on a couch. Police said she carried him to the living room, turned on the TV, and said she wanted to end everything. The child’s condition was poor.
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New York
John Papkowich
Johnny
Papkowich
Mary
Four Hurt in Head on Collision Near Hanceville
Four people were hospitalized after a head on crash on U S 31 inside Hanceville city limits. Injured are Mr and Mrs William C Gotschet of Wichita Kansas and two teens Miss Helen Rainey 18 Cullman and Miss Paula Binion 18 Birmingham. Rainey suffers broken leg head injuries and lacerations. Binion has lacerations and bruises. Gotschet and wife have facial injuries including a broken jaw. Car toppled over a 15 foot fill trapping Mrs Gotschet until bystanders lifted the Oldsmobile. Authorities from the Highway Patrol and Hanceville police investigated but could not determine the cause.
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Cullman Hospital
Hanceville
Highway Patrol
William C. Gotschet
Wichita
Kansas
Helen Rainey
Cullman
Paula Binion
Birmingham
W. E. Richey
Gotschet
Miss Rainey
U. S. 31
Miss Binion
Richey
Police: Loud Voices Triggered Probe In SE Neighborhood
A resident on Seventh Avenue SE called at 10 09 pm about loud voices outside a home. Police radio chatter revealed the car parked nearby heard squeaky transmission prompting a brief check with no prowlers found. Chief Whitmire urged residents to report disturbances promptly.
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Seventh Avenue, SE
Marines Repel 150 Reds On Korean Ridge
U S Marines repelled a third Chinese counterattack at Bunker Hill on the Korean western front Wednesday night. For about an hour and ten minutes 750 Red troops attacked pre built bunkers but failed to take the ridge as Marine fire and flares lit the sky and artillery roared through the darkness.
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Seoul
U. S
Bunker Hill
Yegg Uses Eggs To Thwart Pursuit In Elyria
Grocery clerk Roland Roberson chased a thief who fled with stolen eggs. Each close reach ended with an egg splat on Roberson’s face as the robber escaped. Hours later police arrested Tarlee Jones near a railroad track and charged him with petty larceny.
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Elyria
Roland Roberson
Tarlee Jones
Accused Nurse Slashes Wrist Before Murder Trial
A mid dle aged nurse, Earle Dennison, slashed her wrist with a razor at Tutwiler Prison for Women hours before a murder trial over arsenic deaths of two children. Sheriff Holley said she shed a pint of blood before guards found the wound as Dr. Edwards prepared a blood transfusion. The case involves the deaths of Shirley Diana Weldon and Polly Ann Weldon, two-year-old sisters, tied to Dennison.
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Rex Thomas Wetumpka
Ala
Lester Holley
Earle Dennison
Tutwiler
Holley
Dennison
Shirley Diana Weldon
Shirley
Polly Ann
Winston A. Edwards
Mrs. Dennison
Petition to Change Morgan County From Dry to Wet Begun
Judge T C Almon said name checking on a petition to shift Morgan county from dry to wet began yesterday. Over 1 200 signatures must be verified as qualified voters. 25 percent needed. If valid, an election would be called in September.
Propriety Of Arms Briefing Questioned In Election Storm
Gov. Adlai Stevenson’s White House visit sparked a political uproar as Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Richard Nixon questioned the propriety of briefing the Democratic nominee by military and security chiefs. They argued the move could imply federal funds aimed at aiding Stevenson’s election.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
White House
GOP
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
Sen
Richard Nixon
California
Byrnes backs independent Eisenhower electors in South Carolina
Gov James F Byrnes joined a growing list of South Carolinians signing a petition for an independent slate of presidential electors pledged to General Dwight Eisenhower. He had previously said he would vote for Adlai Stevenson but reserved the right to decide later.
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Byrnes
Columbia
James F. Byrnes
Dwight Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Stevenson named hand picked candidate by Truman
Stevenson was called the hand picked candidate of Truman by Nixon in a reply to Eisenhower's criticisms. Sen John J Sparkman urged the Truman administration to provide Eisenhower complete information on international affairs at a news conference and questioned if he would accept an invitation to Washington.
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Stevenson
Nixon
Truman
Sen
John J. Sparkman
Eisenhower
Sparkman
President To Take Orders In Stevenson Truman Tie Up
Illinois Governor Adlai E Stevenson tightens control of the Democratic presidential drive and President Harry S Truman agrees to be a subordinate, with decisions on timing and role to be set later. Truman offers a whistle stop tour but Stevenson will run the campaign.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Truman
White House
Stevenson
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Russell Little
Otto Little
Paducah
Kentucky
Harry Huffman
Fred Yates
Findlay
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Claude Vaughan
Ft. Worth
Texas
Ball Park
J. B. Whitmire
Harris Manufacturing Company
First Presbyterian Church
Henry Lorenzo
Japan
U. S. Naval Hospital
Mare Island
Naval Hospital
Verdon Lowery
Jefferson-Hillman Hospital
E. O. McCluskey
Veterans Hospital
Nashville
Joe Rogers
O. B. Rogers
Dalton
Joe
Grady Hospital
Atlanta
Emory Hospital
Robert W.mccracken
The
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Montgomery
14Th Avenue, SE
M. R. Rankin
Recorder’s Court
Wesleyan Service Guild
Central Methodist Church
C. J. Martin
Delano Park
Lee Franklin
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Jack West
Union Grove
Baugh-Wiley Co
Lawrence
Weatherwax
Courtland
James Blythe
E. S. Balentine
T. E. Crow
Price Terry
Charles E. Black
John Sparkman
Gov
Valley Drouth
FHA
Julian Brown
Farmers Home Administration
North Alabama
Mr. Brown
W. H. Hardin
L. €. Jones
Athens
T. B. Chestnutt
Huntsville
C. T. Cash
Hartselle
John Vandiver
Marines
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