Goodwyn Likely to Serve as Legal Adviser to Governor Elect
Montgomery reports indicate Mayor John L. Goodwyn will become legal adviser to Gov Elect Gordon Persons upon taking office next month. To serve he must resign as mayor, with his term ending October 1951. Unconfirmed sources say the arrangement is tentative and seen as a potential stepping stone.
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Ala
John L. Goodwyn
Gordon Persons
Alabama
Persons
Public Service Commission
Goodwyn
American Municipal Association
Washington, D. C
Alabama's Voting Record Is Listed
Washington reports Alabama members of Congress voting on recent roll calls. Senate passage of the bill extending the federal rent control act to Feb 28, 1951 saw Hill and Sparkman not voting. In the House, votes covered excess profits tax measures and rent control extensions with members Andrews, Battle, Boykin, DeGraffenried, Elliott, Grant, Hobbs, Jones, and Rains listed among those voting for or against or not voting.
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House
Andrews
Battle
Boykin
DeGraffenried
Elliott
Grant
Hobbs
Jones
Rains
Goodwyn tipped for Alabama supreme court post and state post
Reports say Goodwyn could accept an interim post as Persons legal adviser with a later move to the Alabama supreme court. He would face salary changes from mayoral pay of 7500 rising to 8500 under a 1949 act, and a potential supreme court salary of 9500.
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Goodwyn
Alabama Supreme Court
State Finance Department
Supreme Court
Senators push toward national emergency and all-out mobilization
Senator Elmer Thomas urges declaring a national emergency as a first step to full mobilization and expanded defense production. McClellan supports immediate mobilization with war in Korea in mind. Senators foresee wartime powers, draft expansion, price and wage controls, and redirected labor toward defense needs.
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D-Okfa
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Thomas
Russia
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Roosevelt
Civiliaa
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McCar
Irregularities Reported in Probe of County Revenues
A fragment notes continued irregularities from a probe of county revenues. An oral statement by Probate Judge Isaac Johnson Jr. urges withholding judgment until facts are clarified. The Daily records the ex officio county court chairman urging caution pending audit findings.
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Isaac Johnson Jr
County Court of Revenues
Stout elected mayor of Warm Springs in local vote
S. M. Stout, former Warm Springs Mirror publisher, won the mayoral race in Warm Springs, Ga. Five council members were chosen. Re-elected councilmen are Robert Self and A. D. Hancock. New council members include Harold Crowder Eugene Fridell and C. Milton Hicks.
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S. M. Stout
Warm Springs Mirror
Robert Self
A. D. Hancock
Harold Crowder
Eugene Fridell
C. Milton Hicks
Burdette Guides Alabama Basketball Into Fifth Season
Coach Floyd Burdette becomes the eleventh man to lead Alabama basketball since 1913 and, at the start of his fifth year, is second in tenure only to Hank Crisp. His is a long coaching run including 19 seasons as line coach for the Tide.
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University of Alabama
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Burdette
The
Tide
Hank Crisp
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