Community notices and church events fill the week
Mrs Virgie Masterson travels to Birmingham to be with her gravely ill brother Albert Potts. The Business and Professional Women's Club hosts a picnic at Woodall's grounds at 6 30 PM with Mrs Dorothy Woodall as hostess. St Ann's Council Knights of Columbus meets tonight at 8 PM. Rev T J Chitwood returns from vacation. Roberts Family reunion at Harmony Grove Church Sunday. Revival begins Sunday at Harmony Grove Church at 7 30 PM led by Rev D M Dutton. See Diary on Page 2.
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Virgie Masterson
Birmingham
Albert Potts
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Woodall
Dorothy Woodall
St. Ann’s
Hoover Defends Commission Work Against Democratic Smear
Former President Hoover denounces Democratic charges of partisan bias in his government reorganization commission. He says both parties on the commission testified to fair and steady conduct of his work. Hoover notes he is implementing commission recommendations as his administration moves forward.
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Democratic Digest
Democratic National Committee
Hoover
Casaday Joins Wagnon Staff as Assistant County Agent
Gerald Cassaday of Milstead Alabama has accepted the Morgan County assistant county agent post, replacing Harold Thornhill who left for Franklin County. He began Tuesday and will work with unit test demonstration farmers and other extension duties. Cassaday is a 1933 Alabama Polytechnic Institute graduate in Agricultural Science, ex Tuskegee High School, and dairy farm experience. he and wife Kay Hammonds Casaday of Tallassee reside in Hartselle with three month old Jerry.
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Gerald Cassaday
Milstead
Ala
Morgan County
Harold Thornhill
Franklin County
L. T. Wagnon
Casady
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Casaday
Tuskegee High School
A. P. IL
Oil Well Gusher Triggers Lease Scramble in Citronelle
In Citronelle Alabama a deep oil well wildcat test blew in as a gusher prompting a lease scramble. Bids reportedly reached up to 100 dollars per acre with major oil companies seen bidding as high as 300 dollars per acre. The discovery drew geologists and prospects to the site where the oil showed a high gravity 40.5 and a 160 foot spout before it was capped after eight hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citronelle
Ala
Alabama
H. R. Corners
Mississippi
Adm Burke Receives Navy Helm in Historic Ceremony
Admiral Arleigh Burke takes over as chief of naval operations from Admiral Robert Carney in a ceremonial transfer at the Naval Academy. The event includes a 17 gun salute and marks a departure from the usual carrier deck swearing in due to Hurricane Diane.
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Annapolis
Command of the
Navy
Robert B. Carney
Arleigh A. Burke
Naval Operations
Naval Academy
Carney
Burke
Washington
Cnos
Norfolk
Academy
A Small Boy and Grandad Out After Trout
President Eisenhower and his 7 year old grandson David plan a trout fishing outing in the Rockies. They traveled from the Denver area to a mountain ranch near Estes Park and will fish as part of a family holiday, with the boy trying a dry fly for the first time.
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Fraser
Colo
Eisenhower
David
Rocky Mountains
Denver
White House
Continental Divide
Estes Park
Aksel Nielsen
Indian Nationalists Press Forward Toward Goa Border
About 800 Indian nationalists from Belgaum trek toward Goa's border as part of a nonviolent invasion amid ongoing protests over Monday killings. Leaders urged restraint though many insist on entering the Portuguese enclave to demand merger with India.
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Belgaum
India
Goa
Calcutta
Oeat
Goa Liberation Committee
Banda
Praja Socialist Party
Belgium
All
Indian Communist Party
Portugal
Actor George Hall admits Communist past before HUAC hearing
New York actor George Hall testified he joined the Communist party for about nine months in 1946 47 while active on Broadway in Call Me Mister He named six fellow actors linked to the Midtown Branch and said he came to the United States in 1938 becoming naturalized in 1943 during Army service He said he acted on television radio and stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George Hall
Communist Party
Hall
House Un-American Activities Committee
John Randolph
Randolph
Sarah Cunningham
Alan Manson
Joshua Shelley
George Keane
Keane
Betty Winkler
Miss Cunningham
Winkler
Toronto
United States
Waco
Tex
U.S
Killer Snake Testimonial Draws Church Attendance
In Pineville Kentucky a snake handling cult plans a Sunday service across the line in Virginia to honor Lee Valentine who died after a rattlesnake bite. Alabama authorities investigate the 52 year old preacher’s death after a funeral that featured snake handling and multiple eulogies.
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Pineville
Oscar Sutton
Scelleee Line
Virginia
Lee Valentine
Flyne
Ala
Kentucky
Alabama
Valentine
Straight Creek
Wilson St Highway 20 widening project moves forward
Preliminary work has begun to move gas lines along Wilson Street for the Wilson St Highway 20 project from Bank Street to near Chemstrand Corp. Garner Pride of the city gas department says 800 feet of main line will be relocated near the western city limits. Alabama Tennessee National Gas Company also works outside the city. W A Waugh state highway right of way engineer aids efforts to clear obstacles and advance the project.
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Decatur Gas Department
Alabama-Tennessee National Gas Company
Wilson St
W. A. Waugh
State Highway Department
Wilson
Two More Days To Wait For $500 Answer
Readers race for the Bonanzagrams with entries pouring in from Logan Myrna St. John Joppa Baileyton Falkville and Athens. Mrs Ruth McKay and others sign as Dicky hoping for a winner as two more days remain to reveal the prize.
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Katie Kash
P. O
Alabama Senate approves 116 million school appropriation
In the waning days of the 1955 session the Senate approved a 116 million dollar education appropriation for two years by a 30 to 3 vote, despite warnings it depends on a new gross income tax. A substitute to limit funds unless tax measures pass was killed 23 to 11, while an integration funding amendment was defeated 21 to 12.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Senate
House
Albert Boutwell
Jefferson County
Boutwell
James S. Coleman
Greene
E. C. Eddins
Marengo
Sam Engelhardt
Macon
Albert Davis
Pickens
House Approves 6 TB Pay Bill in Michigan Legislature
The Michigan House passed a bill to pay up to six dollars per TB patient daily for care. The companion general appropriation bill would fund four dollars per patient per day, with counties covering any excess. District One Sanatorium in Flint houses about 188 patients. Dr. Arthur Calix endorsed the measure, saying it would aid sanatoriums statewide.
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Montgomery
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hous
Arthur Calix
District One Sanatorium
Flint
Calix
District One
Rebellion Quelled at Nebraska State Penitentiary
A 12 hour prison uprising at Nebraska State Penitentiary ended without shots fired as armed troopers and National Guardsmen entered the cell block. About 225 prisoners had set fires and smashed furniture while demands to release two segregated inmates were heard. No guards were hurt.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Victor Anderson
Joseph Bovey
Gov. Anderson
Bovey
Nebraska
Hendrix Trial Faces Jurors In Town Creek Case
Hendrix stands trial in circuit court for the 1954 death of J. W. Tidwell in Town Creek and has been tried four times previously. Jurors in a separate case, George Hames, reported a lack of progress as verdicts remained unlikely. The term includes continuations of two other cases and runs into a final week.
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Moulton
Woodrow Hendrix
George Hames
Newton Powell
Hendrix
J. W. Tidwell
Town Creek
Tidwell
Hames
John Blankenship
Hershel L. Lindsay
Wesley Davis
New disorders erupt in Buenos Aires protests
In central Buenos Aires near the Plaza de Mayo riots broke out after mass as Catholics confronted a hostile group. Police used water hoses amid arrests while fights spread from the cathedral to Avenida Diagonal Norte and Florida street. No injuries reported.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Avenida Diagonal Norte
Florida Street
Florida
Catholic Church
Peronista
Radical Party
Peron
Congress
Rome
Manuel Tato
Msgr
Ramon Novoa
Vatican
See New
Weather and River Readings for Decatur and Vicinity
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning 19.33 feet, up 0.27 in 24 hours. Sea level reading 553.63 feet. Yesterday’s high 90 at 1 PM, low 70 at 4 AM. 8 AM 74, 11 AM 82. Forecast: partly cloudy today tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. highs near 90, 68 tonight, high Thursday.
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Decatur
Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
Decatur Youths Halt Attack On Tennessee Man
A Tennessee man hitchhiked near Nashville and was beaten after letting a passenger drive his 1949 Cadillac. Two Decatur youths stopped the assault, helping a driver flee. police seek a suspect, a 30s male about 5'10 to 6', 165 to 175 pounds with brown hair. The victim, Joseph W. McKenzie, 53, of Knoxville Blountville, was treated for head cuts and a hand injury. The incident occurred eight miles south of Athens on highway 31.
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Tennessee
Decatur
Decatur City
Joseph W. McKenzie
Blountville
Tenn
McKenzie
Nashville
Columbia
Athens
Highway 31
Ewell Gregg
Douglas Lovelace
10Th Ave E
Mike Stone
Brookmeade Rd
GI Slays Two Korean Marines
An unidentified U S soldier killed two South Korean Marines in a dispute over Korean prostitutes at a battalion area of the ROK 1st Marine Division. Two other Marines and a civilian were wounded as the assailant fired after walking away then returning with a carbine. Police noted the soldiers were seen with two local prostitutes who disappeared.
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Seoul
U.S
Army
ROK 1St Marine Division
ROK
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Rev
Mrs
T. J. Chitwood
West Palm Beach, Fla
Wagnon
Buckley
Southwest
Adm
Grandad
Daniel E. Burns
Dayton
Ohio
Louisville
Joseph Adkisson
R. C. Walling
William Cummins
Cummins
Burns
Okehs
Lawmen
By Phillip Kyle
By Ken Reynolds
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