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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1949
Page
1
Fragmentary notes offer brief glimpses into upcoming events and local happenings, hinting at plans, schedules, and public concerns. The readable phrases reference community figures, places, and potential projects, signaling an active civic year ahead.
The Associated Press reports Premier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia drawing surprise support from German communists signaling a growing split in world communism. The Kremlin presses Tito to bend knee while Borba accuses Moscow of using Yugoslav citizens as spies as the Soviet note threatens action to protect Soviet citizens in Yugoslavia.
Walter B. Herman 41 an amateur radio operator was electrocuted at his set in Tuscaloosa Alabama last night He was found by his wife after a groan and a fall His chest and right hand were burned Herman a druggist and former Navy pharmacist during World War II had recently been an amateur operator in Newsai La before the accident.
Patricia Higginbotham, 3, fell from a car door on highway 31 south of Decatur between 7 and 8 am. She was treated at Decatur General Hospital for facial and limb abrasions and a left eyebrow laceration, with no internal injuries or fractures. The father, driving at 20 to 30 mph, and the Birmingham family traveling back from Tennessee, reported the incident.
MONTGOMERY Ala Aug 22 A state supreme court decision upends Alabama school officials plans for first grade entrants The court upheld a 1947 law letting a child start in the fall if six by January 15 The result could add thousands of pupils and require hundreds more teachers while boosting payroll costs, leaving districts short on staff See SCHOOL on Page 2
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE Fla Aug 22 The hurricane forecasting plan moves forward with a practice evacuation despite the absence of storms last season Col K K Compton deputy for operations says no expected impact on Northwest Florida but a tropical system formed in the Atlantic Sunday about 525 miles east of Miami moving west northwestward
Philadelphia today saw a feud between George Barr and Phillies management over a bottle barrage at Shibe Park that helped trigger a forfeit loss to the New York Giants. Barr threatened to report police protection failures to NL president Ford Frick while owner Bob Carpenter vowed an eye test for Barr if the club faces fines.
In Montgomery on August 22 officials noted only four legislative days remain as the Alabama Senate prepares for round three in the general appropriations bill debate. Vying for votes are three to four measures including the bill financing state agencies and the house appropriations bill, with a substitute by the senate finance and taxation committee largely shelved after Friday’s voting.
PRESS FOR LAW HUNTSVILLE Aug 22 A drive to get election law revision bills up for a vote in the senate took definite shape to urge Ryre Weeteee to do all possible to gain consideration before time runs out in this session. The Madison county post 37 American Legion committee held a conference with Senator Lowe and reported his cooperation on their request. Senator Broughton Lamberth was contacted and promised to cooperate with county veterans on election bills.
Time ran short as Senator Rankin Fite from Marion urged a four hour and forty five minute journal reading slowing the morning. If the reading extends through the final four legislative days, remaining time will be sharply cut. The Friday session ended with the House bill status unclear as See WIDE on Page 2.
MOBILE Alabama August 22 An increased margin of votes in favor of sending instructed delegates to the national democratic committee meeting was announced today The Alabama democratic executive committee members were polled by mail last week The count stands 33 to 9 in favor of sending National Committeeman Marion Rushton and Committeewoman Mrs Lennard Thomas to Washington The group also voted 42 to 8 in favor of refusing to accept Rushton s resignation Rushton resigned almost a year ago but it had not been acted on The vote also named Bart Cowart Haleyville and William Collier Florence as latest instructed delegates. D Carter Montgomery voted against sending delegates but joined the majority in refusing Rushton s resignation Winston county democrats urged Rushton to resign as he is not in accord with the national party Winston is in the free state of Winston a republican area amid Alabama.
Washington August 22 The senate reopened the rent control dispute over a 17.5 million dollar appropriation for the rent director Tighe Woods to sustain controls. He warned a cut endangers enforcement, possibly lifting ceilings in one third of areas. The bill also funds 31 other independent agencies including the Veterans Administration and Atomic Energy Commission.
Harris Biggerstaff twenty-year-old farm youth from Ardmore is jailed in Limestone County on forgery charges and placed in solitary confinement after multiple suicide attempts with a safety razor. Judge Newton Powell postponed a verdict, awaiting further developments as doctors treated his self harm injuries.
The report notes a mild spell with temperatures around 63 degrees at the U.S weather station and 74 to 76 at mid afternoon. It mentions light precipitation totals near 0.59 inches in the prior 274 hours and suggests residents still wear coats and light jackets.
Morgan Board of Revenue and Control discussed county budget constraints and urged economizing across offices. The Decatur Grain Cooperative received a five year property tax exemption on a $20,000 plant expansion, after input from Charles Eyster Sr. and debate over state law limitations.
President Truman urged swift approval of a $1.45 billion foreign arms aid package at the Veterans of Foreign Wars golden jubilee in Miami. He said peace cannot be bought cheaply and praised Congress for aiding Greece and Turkey to resist communism. Crowds greeted him as he traveled to the 10,000-seat auditorium and back to Washington.
The Al Metcalfe second degree murder case, charged in the death of James Emory Terrell, is postponed to September 9. Judge James H. Crow Jr. granted a second delay because attorney Noble Russell is a state legislator, noting precedence for cases of lawmakers when court and legislative sessions clash. Russell must be in Montgomery this week due to Senate duties, with the trial date set amid the fall session of Judge W. H. Long's county court and no county docketed for September.
Philadelphia report describes the Binac as an electrical brain able to perform 500 000 additions and 200 000 multiplications in two hours. Eckert and Mauchly, noted as former Penn physicists, discuss Univac plans and the possibility that machines may one day think or compose music.
Global storms sparked deaths and damage as a small Atlantic hurricane threatened Florida while vast forest fires ravaged southwest France. Tremors hit Canada and Alaska with power lines down, and seismographs recorded intense quakes in New York and West Bromwich as fires burned across six states and Britain logged major tremors.
A hurricane alert was sounded for the Northeastern Bahama islands as a storm center, about 525 miles east of Miami, moves westward. The note places the Bahamas across the gulf stream and east of Florida with the alert issued by Grady Norton, chief storm forecaster.
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