Moulton Council Keeps 1956 License Schedule
Moulton city council voted to retain the 1956 license schedule for the coming year in a routine meeting. The Moulton volunteer fire department reported nine calls last month, seven outside the town. Other actions included road work to the city dump, a 100 foot sewer rod purchase, and Eskridge Taxi Co parking space for $3 monthly.
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Moulton
Clark Weatherwax, Jr
Orbin Hill
Eskridge Taxi Co
Corner Cafe
Decatur City Adopts Modern Code and New Fees
City approves an up dated Municipal Code with state traffic rules a 30 mph limit in residential districts and new offenses. License changes add $100 classifications for molasses plants and prefabricated structures. A $900 Coliseum caretaker appropriation approved and a Civil Defense radio unit purchase of 6260 with half reimbursed by federal funds.
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Frazier
D. M. Hutcheson, Jr
Elmer E. Lindsey
Harry M
Decatur
John A. Caddell
Municipal Code Corp
Tallahassee
Fla
Coliseum Board
Morgan County
Charles Harvey
E. K. Henson
Harvey
Knox L. McRae
Civil Defense
Howard Proctor
Pass Today at The Proud Land and More Showings
The listing notes showings for Today at Princess Walk The Proud Land with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft at 1:30 3:25 5:22 7:18 9:14 and Sunset at The Treasure of Pancho Villa with Rory Calhoun Shelley Winters Dana Andrews Rhonda Fleming at 6:30 9:15 plus other titles with times including Bowline The Solid Gold Cadillac starring Judy Holliday Paul Douglas at 6:30 8:30 Athens Suddenly Frank Sinatra Sterling Hayden at 7:00 9:00 Starvue Courtland Highway Pardners Dean In Jerry Lewis at 6:30 8:40 Hartselle Pardners Ranch with Dean Martin Jerry Lewis at 6:45 Ritz Athens Cockleshell Heroes Jose Ferrer Trevor Howard at 2:13 4:08 6:03 7:58 9:45.
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Audie Murphy
Anne Bancroft
Pancho Villa
Rory Calhoun
Shelley Winters
Dana Andrews
Rhonda Fleming
Police State Methods Attributed To U S Leaders
Meridian Mississippi Bishop A A Leiske addressed the Alabama Mississippi Conference of Seventh Day Adventists warning that some national leaders use police state tactics to crush communism and ideologies opposing American democracy. He urged true freedom respects others rights and follows the Golden Rule.
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Meridian
Miss
A. A. Leiske
Alabama- Mississippi
Seventh Day Adventists
America
City council discusses civil defense program setup
The council plans to inform all city employees about the program and asks the city attorney for an opinion on improving Austin St across private property. Street Supt. Joe Elliott would upgrade Ave within the current traveled path. They vote to pay 34 to Oscar Whitlow Jr. for damage to his car from a hole on Tower St. Lt. Wesley Mott opened the meeting with prayer.
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Civil Defense Office
Austin St
Joe Elliott
Ave
Oscar E. Whitlow, Jr
Tower St
Wesley Mott
Salvation Army
Moulton Woman Defends Self in Husband Poisoning Case
Moulton ninety five year old case sees 45-year-old Moulton woman Moulton Negro woman acting as her own attorney in Circuit Court awaiting jury verdict after assault with intent to murder charges. She allegedly poisoned her common law husband Mack Burgess with rat poison in October. Burgess, transported from Birmingham by Brown Funeral Home, testified as state witness. He described illnesses and hospital visit. she claimed she did not confess. Sheriff Smith and Investigator Chambers quoted her saying she poisoned food because he was mean.
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Moulton
Hattie Burgess
Mack Burgess
Birmingham
Brown Funeral Home
Moulton Ambulance
Burgess
Franklin Smith
Maurice Chambers
British Press Reacts to Egypt Withdrawal and Eden
The Baily Telegraph criticizes Britain for bungled policy and hints at damage to the Atlantic Alliance. The Daily Express notes Commons unrest over Eden possibly resigning after Jamaica. The Daily Herald condemns the Egypt exit as a Conservative error, while The Times urges U.S. oil coordination and strong Middle East action.
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Atlantic Alliance
Baily Telegraph
Lord Beaverbrook
Independent
Daily Express
Eden
House of Commons
Jamaica
Laborite
Daily Herald
Egypt
Europe
Middle East
Yarbrough Dies in Sleep in Athens at 59
William Hagan Yarbrough, 59, of 405 East Pryor St Athens, died in his sleep about 5 a.m. Survived by brothers Murrah Yarbrough Decatur Henry Yarbrough Athens Dr Bunk Yarbrough Texas and sisters Mrs Wesley McAdams Sheffield Mrs Louis Padulo New Jersey Miss Frances Yarbrough and Miss Jennie Yarbrough Athens Funeral arrangements to be announced by McConnell Service Funeral Home.
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Athens
William Hagan Yarbrough
East Pryor St
Murrah Yarbrough
Decatur
Henry Yarbrough
Bunk Yarbrough
Texas
Wesley McAdams
Sheffield
Louis Padulo
New Jersey
Frances Yarbrough
Jennie Yarbrough
McConnell Service Funeral Home
Funeral services for Sam James Moland scheduled
Sam James Moland a 56 year old Hart selle man died suddenly on a Birmingham street yesterday at 6 20 am. The body will arrive in Hartselle this afternoon with funeral services set for Wednesday at 2 pm from Shiloh Church. Peck of Hartselle handles arrangements.
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Hartselle
Sam James Moland
Shiloh
Moland
Birmingham
Peck
Turner attacked at school as riots draw in city leaders
Buford Lewallen, son of the mayor and former Tennessee House speaker, plans to seek contempt citations from U.S. Judge Robert L. Taylor after disturbances near a white and black student clash. A man named Clyde Cook was held for federal authorities after Turner, a minister escorting black students, was assaulted outside the courthouse amid a crowd shouting violent slurs.
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Buford Lewallen
Clinton
W. E Lewallen
Tennessee House of Representatives
U.S
Taylor
Kasper
Francis Moore
Clyde Cook
Cook
Turner
Anderson County
Hungary Women Defy Roadblock Sing National Anthem
Soviet troops manning a roadblock faced a defiant group of Hungarian women who refused to retreat. They pressed toward Russian guns, sang the national anthem, and recited a Petőfi poem ending with the vow that they shall no longer be slaves, raising two fingers in a vow.
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Sian
Hungary
Sandor Petoeff
Noses on Mount Rushmore towers over Sphinx face
The noses on the Mount Rushmore heads Washington Jefferson Roosevelt and Lincoln are described as longer than the entire face of Egypt's Sphinx, illustrating dramatic scale comparisons in a regional feature.
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Washington
Jefferson
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Mount Rushmore
Black Hills
South Dakota
Egypt
Market roundup of cotton milk grains and livestock values
Cotton prices inch middling 33.00 with Decatur loan 33 24 and cottonseed at 40.00 per ton. Milk prices Grade A 6.10 per cwt and manufacture 3.20 per cwt. Wheat No 2 at 2.10, oats 78c, corn 1.33 and 1.25 per bushel. Calves varying by quality with most 15.50 to 25.50, hogs mostly 15.25 to 15.50 per cwt.
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Decatur Loan
Market Gains Mixed Amid Early Trading Activity
New York stocks edged higher in early trading with some profit taking. Gulf Oil rose about 2 points and Royal Dutch gained, while Bethlehem Steel and Lukens slipped slightly after surges. Superior Oil jumped 50 points as DuPont Goodrich and Zenith rose about a point each.
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New York
Gulf Oil
Royal Dutch
Texas Co
Superior Oil
California
Steels
Bethehem
Lukens
Youngstown
Chrysler
DuPont
Goodrich
Zenith
Goodyear
Douglas Aircraft
Commonwealth Edison
Westinghouse
Southern Pacific
Twentiety Century-Fox
American Can
Santa Fe
Allied Chemical
North Alabama and North Georgia Broiler Market Steady
North Alabama broiler fryer market steady with offerings and supplies balanced up to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. In Georgia, live poultry market remains fully steady as demand stays active. broilers and fryers at farms 24 to 23? percent paid, hens and turkeys noted with farm and plant prices and light trading.
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Birmingham
North Alabama
Atlanta
North
Georgia
Egg quality standards in Birmingham market report
AP notes egg distribution standards with categories by size and color. It lists white and brown eggs with large sizes 36 to 40 percent, medium 30 to 31 percent, small 28 to 20 percent, and nearby locally produced whites showing large 39 to 40 percent and medium 32 to 36 percent.
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Birmingham
Nashville cattle market report notes varied gains and steady sales
AP dispatch from Nashville reports cattle classes with mixed results. Slaughter steers and heifers poorly tested while cows run mostly steady, some 25 or more lower. Bulls steady to weak. good 500-600 lb stockers range 15.00 17.00, utilities 9.50 14.50, bulls 11.00 12.75. Lambs 90 100 lb wooldies strong at 19.00 with some unsold lots.
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Nashville
Cotton futures and North Carolina entered the Union
The report notes the historical marker stating Cotton futures and North Carolina joined the United States on November 21, 1782, marking a key moment in early American statehood.
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North Carolina
Negroes Hold 23.4 Percent of Federal Jobs in Five Cities
Washington report by President Eisenhower committee shows Negro workers comprise 23.4 percent of federal employees in five cities including Washington. Findings highlight that Negroes occupy white collar and wage board roles beyond menial positions and that 15 percent reach higher grades 6 through 15.
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Washington
Maxwell Abbell
Eisenhower
Abbell
Chicago
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Mobile
Ala
Elliott to lead Alabama Education Association next spring
Woodrow W. Elliott of Columbiana will become president of the Alabama Education Association succeeding Dr. David W Mullins whose term at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute ends in March. Elliott serves as superintendent of Shelby County schools and will assume the post next spring.
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Elliott
ASA Montgomery
Woodrow W. Elliott
Columbiana
Shelby County Schools
Alabama Education Assn
David W Mullins
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Million Dollar Printing Plant Opens in Sylacauga
Ground was broken for a new million dollar printing plant in Sylacauga to serve the Southeast. A branch of International Color Printing Co., it prints colored comic supplements for newspapers. Plant manager Joe Clinton says 125 to 150 workers will be employed. The 45,000 square foot building will house machinery valued at over 1.25 million dollars and will use newsprint from Coosa River Newsprint Mill at Coosa Pines.
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Sylacauga
Ala
International Color Printing Co
Joe Clinton
Coosa River
Coosa Pines
Britain seeks loan payment relief to protect pound
London reports Britain asking the United States and Canada to waive interest and redemption payments due this month on postwar dollar loans. Chancellor Harold MacMillan said the U S government will seek congressional approval for the request as part of emergency measures to defend the pound pegged at 2.80 dollars. He noted sterling area reserves fell by 279 million dollars in November, bringing total to 1.965 billion.
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London
Britain
United States
Canada
Harold MacMillan
House of Commons
U.S
MacMillan
Sterling
Egypt
Jumping Job in Napa After Traffic Light Collapse
A Napa worker leaped from a pedestrian island to avoid a car that struck and toppled a traffic light. The driver hit the post just after the man had replaced the damaged standard 24 hours earlier.
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Napa
Calif
Local Addresses Recited in Journal Entry
A list of names and street addresses appears: Boyce E Lyle at 303 Spring Ave David Johnson at 301 Spring Ave Wasyl Myle at 600 14th St SE Mrs J E Gibson Pascagoula B H Allen at 912 6th Ave NE Cathy Ann Garner at 1521 Buena Vista Circle Mrs Lona Wimberly at 1430 Fifth Ave SE.
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Boyce E. Lyle
Spring Ave
David Johnson
Wasyl Myle
14Th St
J. E. Gibson
Pascagoula
B. H. Allen
6Th Ave
Cathy Ann Garner
Buena Vista Circle
Lona Wimberly
Fifth Ave
Hospital Births and Admissions List in Athens Area
Admissions include Mrs. W W Malone Athens Walter Coleman Elkmont F S Ward Athens Mrs Leonard Harrison and baby girl Lester Mrs Robert Grisby and baby boy Athens Floyd Glass Rogersville Cleo Lowell Elkmont Pearline Robertson Athens Ida Rainey Athens. hospital notes list gifts and counts for several births in Elkmont and Athens communities.
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W. W. Malone
Athens
Walter Coleman
Elkmont
F. S. Ward
Leonard
Harrison
Lester
Robert Grisby
Floyd Glass
Rogersville
Cleo Lowell
Pearline Robertson
Ida Rainey
Oklahoma A and M tests 75 grass strains for turf
The campus of Oklahoma A and M College plans to test 75 grass strains to determine the toughest grass for use on self coursed turf areas. Researchers aim to identify resilient varieties suitable for heavy foot traffic and campus landscapes.
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Oklahoma A & M College
For Sale Beagles and Tires and More Items
For sale includes a pair of beagles aged claims of 242 years, priced at 40 dollars for both with a note about free black hound pups. Tire listing 47.00x 6 ply, run 50 miles, 25 dollars each. Lost mail truck grey sweater reward. Also 4 room house for rent with well on a rural road. Joe Harrison Athens Route 3 44% Nick Davis Road. Smoked turkeys and gift boxes of imported cheeses advertised.
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Joe F. Harrison
Athens
Nick Davis
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