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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1955
Page
2
Mayor H R Summer issues a proclamation designating September 5 to 11 1955 as Union Labor Week. The document cites the American Federation of Labor and the Union Label and Service Trades Department and urges observance as a tribute to organized labor.
President Eisenhower announces a Hartford meeting with Harriman and six state governors to coordinate federal and Red Cross relief for flood areas. He will inspect the damage from the air and use his plane as an office at Bradley Field while Val Peterson attends and receives a “blank check” for emergency funds.
A deadly summer disease wiped out a private camp and devastated Stroudsburg and nearby East Stroudsburg along Brodhead Creek. About 25 summer visitors were affected. only nine believed to survive. Food was dispensed in churches and theaters as cleanup continued. Bridges were lost and boat transit was hazardous.
Listing of showtimes and films including Princess Blackboard Jungle with Glenn Ford and Anne Francis at AMUSEMENTS PRINCESS and Cult of the Cobra at ROXY with Faith Comergue and Richard Long. Other runs include Drumbeat with Alan Ladd at SUNSET and Fox Fire with Jane Russell at BOWLINE plus Hell’s Island with John Payne at HATFIELD Athens and Dragnet with Jack Webb at RANCH Hartselle.
An electric motor that caught fire at Slate's Market, 212 W. Moulton St., at 11 09 last night was extinguished by city firemen. The only loss was to the motor. Sixteen cases were docketed for police recorder's court this morning.
Nine cars of a Southern Railway freight train derailed and plunged into the Cahaba River near Trussville. Officials reported no injuries and said the cause was not yet determined. The northbound train from Birmingham to Gadsden cleared the line by noon and affected northbound and rerouted services.
A mosaic of daily tragedies in Alabama includes multiple deaths from car crashes in Tallassee Montevallo Helena and Pell City. Drowned children include Kenneth Wayne Barnhill in the Escatawpa river and two boys Joseph Stein and S T Taylor in a Tuscaloosa creek. A freight line worker Greeley Manning Snider and others die in collisions and a guardrail of misfortune claims lives across Birmingham Bessemer Jasper Crossville Cordova Union and Union areas.
Egyptian military spokesman Col. Salah Gohar said three Egyptian soldiers were killed and five wounded in a two hour exchange of fire with Israelis near Gaza. He charged that the Israeli attack aimed to precede Maj. Gen. Edson Burns’s Cairo visit for frontier talks. An earlier report had said one officer and four soldiers were wounded.
In Delrose Tennessee a 110 car north bound Louisville and Nashville freight broke up early Sunday causing 40 cars to pile up. No injuries were reported as 100 crewsmen worked overnight to clear wreckage. An abandoned station building was demolished. Cause undetermined and officials hoped tracks would be cleared by noon. Thousands visited the scene near Fayette, near the Alabama line.
The Alabama Legislature returns to finish tax bills and finish the school expansion program with only four days left in the 1955 session. The General Education appropriation bill of 116 million dollars per year passed both houses but several related issues remain unresolved. The Senate and House disagree on the Goodwyn school tax amendment and proposed bank and insurance company tax exemptions.
Graveside services for Jonas Fitzpatrick 65 who died Aug 20 at his home 635 13th Ave W Decatur will be Aug 28 at 2 30 p m from the Reynolds cemetery Giles County Tenn The funeral cortege leaves Reynolds Funeral Home at 10 a m Survivors include wife Kathine Fitzpatrick Decatur two daughters Marie Fitzpatrick Tennessee and Mary Draper Chicago Ill and four sons William Jonas Allen Bennie Fitzpatrick all of Tennessee and Decatur
Secretary of Agriculture Benson lauded visiting Soviet farm chiefs as good ambassadors of peace and urged the virtues of the American free enterprise system. He spoke at a luncheon after a cordial welcome and gift exchange, noting American abundance stems from farmers freely making decisions.
A Senate subcommittee report on the Dixon Yates power contract calls for tightening conflict of interests laws and better disclosure of private ties among government advisers. It faults officials for concealing details and questions executive privilege practices, outlining future testimony from key regulators and aides.
Market figures show Grade A milk at 610 per hundred and 92.95 hundred for manufactured milk. No 2 yellow ear corn and white ear corn at 1.25 each, No 2 oats at 60c, cows 9.00-10.50, calves 18.50-22.50, hogs 200-240 pounds at 17.00.
New York stock market opened with mixed results as gains ranged fractions to about one point and most losses were fractional. Steel, metals, rail and copper shares fell while aircraft, radio television and chemical stocks gained. American Telephone rose on an ex rights to subscribe debentures and opened up 2,200 shares at 179. Bethleham edged up while Republic declined.
AP reports North Alabama live poultry market steady with 3 lb offerings and suppliers short of good demand. Prices paid up to 10:30 a m Monday show broilers or fryers at farms 26 and delivered to Atlanta markets around 27, with varied per pound ranges and limited odd lots.
AP report from Birmingham notes a steady to firm egg market with continued shortages and good demand. Prices up to 10:30 am show wholesale ranges including 49 to 54 cents for quality A and 51 to 55 cents for large whites, with other grades listed on a loose basis.
Report from Nashville shows cattle prices steady with utility cows at 9.50 to 11.00 and steers 15.50 to 19.00. Commercial heifers bring 16.00 to 18.50 while butchers 200 to 240 lb sell around 17.50. Lambs weaken about 50 cents, good spring and choice lambs at 20.00 to 20.50.
The AP reports new trading patterns in cotton futures with emphasis on hedging activity and liquidation pressures impacting the market.
A snake handling demonstration near the Kentucky Virginia border was halted by state police. The Rev William Vernon was arrested for handling deadly snakes while about 2000 worshippers watched. he was released on bond pending trial. The event was not arranged by the Pentecostal Holiness Church as reports indicated.
Chief Justice W H Duckworth of the Georgia Supreme Court was elected chairman of the National Conference of Chief Justices at the annual meeting in Philadelphia. He will serve a one year term. Duckworth, 61, was born in Blairsville Georgia and joined the state Supreme Court in 1938 becoming chief justice in 1948.
The Better Vision Institute reports italics are 2.7 percent harder to read than roman type, suggesting typographic choices affect readability and comprehension.
The lower House of Parliament urged immediate enactment of press control recommendations from a government commission. It approved sweeping government oversight over news treatment, employment, profits, management, and advertising for newspapers requiring annual registrar filings with owners executives circulation and pricing details.
The flood left homes wrecked and factories damaged while bridges and roads were washed out. Survivors faced health risks, boiled water orders, and emergency aid measures. In Torrington Connecticut and Stroudsburg Pennsylvania, lives were lost and camps evacuated as helicopters ferried supplies and people to safety.
After six days as a prisoner of the Communists, pilot Bumpas and the body of Army Capt. Charles W. Brown will be returned to Allied lines tomorrow. Brown was killed when their unarmed plane was shot down. Bumpas has a possible skull fracture and will be taken to a point east of Kumwha for medical care and repatriation.
To Mr and Mrs Dewayne Gen try 1410 7th Ave SE a son yesterday. To Mr and Mrs Charles Burden 1204 19th Ave SE a daughter yesterday.
Late this morning, jurors had not yet been struck in a $50,000 damage suit of Lloyd Mc Abee against the International Union. It is one of 30 similar cases filed after a 1951 Wolverine Tube strike. Four prior cases have been tried, including one last week where N. A. Palmer won $18,450. Judge S A Lynne presides.
Dismissals include Mrs. Hoyt West and infant son in Hartselle and J. P. Moore in Hartselle 3. Miss Edna Eckstein of Ardmore Tennessee. Admissions record Mrs. L. D. Massey of Prospect Tennessee.
A local notice lists dismissals from Bank St. Hospital including Mrs. Robert Chenault 722 3rd Ave S.E. Decatur Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp Trinity 1 Wiley Cox Jr 810 Gordon Drive Decatur Helen Montgomery Madison 1 Jimmy Clemons Decatur 2 Kenneth Sutton 917 18th Ave Decatur Raymond Segars 1402 15th Ave SE Decatur Mrs Hodges Minor 1014 Line St Decatur Mrs Ronald Bryant 927 6th Ave SW Decatur Mrs Patty Norman 324 East Market St Decatur.
Dismissals from Decatur General Hospital include Mrs Boyd Drake of Decatur and Mrs Sidney Frances of Hartselle, along with Mrs Lionel Dodson and baby daughter of 1607 Magnolia St. Also listed are Mrs Fred J Kull of Harvest, John Schnoble of 912 4th Ave SE, and Mary Rose Hann of Somerville. Cynthia Mars of 1414 10th Ave SE, Mrs Curtis Stroup of Hartselle, Mrs William C Mills of 1013 Fr Moulton St, Linda Kay Johnson of 1502 Tower St, Miss Marjorie Kirk of McNeill Apartments, Mrs James Reed of Decatur, and James Mills of 1020 Thea.
Local hospital in Athens lists residents including Donald Vinson Billy Mitchell Carolyn Pirtle Curtiss Hill Charles Holt and daughter Mrs John Young J C Martin Rebecca Faye Cowart as part of a community notices display.
Lawrence County Circuit Court accepted a guilty plea from Horace Bates in a pistol slaying case. Bates faced first degree murder for the May 1 shooting of Willie Wiley Johnson, 27, near Wheeler. Bates' plea caps three capital cases in the final week of circuit court with two more first degree murder trials pending for Willie Jane Cunningham and Roy Langham.
Reports say over 210 Moroccon and European civilians plus 20 French and native troops died, with 485 terrorists and 69 French in Constantine area. More than 100 Moroccan rebels blamed. US air bases in Morocco escaped. Major cities in Morocco and Algeria under curfew.
Bombers breaking formation left a trail of smoke as wreckage from Capt. Fagan's burning plane tore through thick woods for about a mile. The second bomber did not ignite.
The first general session of the SNPA mechanical conference opened in Roanoke with more than 300 newspaper mechanical department executives attending the three day session. This is the 14th annual meeting of the Southern News-Publishers Assn. which covers 10 Southeastern states.
Some people report relief from skunk odor after using tomato juice combined with ammonia as a rubdown. The method is described in the context of anecdotal home remedies rather than official guidance.
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