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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1956
Page
1
Community and Mine drives report Christmas seal sales surpassing 3000 dollars with 271 more pledged by spokesman Daren Easter, totaling 3243.85. The 3 week campaign aims for 4700 as fire crews report minor dairy truck damage from a Chestnut Street blaze.
Farmers in a designated commercial area voted against a corn control program favored by Secretary Benson. The vote, one of five crop referendums, signals a broader congressional review of federal farm programs and may affect Benson backed policy.
Paris warns NATO members of grave danger that East Germany may follow Hungary in revolt against Moscow. West Germany seeks allied guidance as ministers discuss potential actions to aid East Germans without provoking Russian retaliation.
Seven white defendants were cleared by directed verdicts in the flogging of Jesse Woods a 39 year old Negro taken from Wildwood jail. State Attorney A P Buie asked four releases after witnesses altered stories prompting the judge to direct acquittals for three others. The case centered on a confrontation with Woods a farm laborer arrested Oct 27 on disorderly conduct.
In Poland new violence follows the Stettin Soviet consulate raid with arrests and attacks on police buildings, municipal offices, and a local Communist party secretary. Trybuna Ludu reports crowds in Olecko Nowy Ciechocinek and Nieszawa, amid government apologies to the Soviets.
A protest strike against Premier Janos Kadar's Soviet imposed government entered its second day in Hungary. Reports note clashes between striking workers and Russian soldiers with no repeat of the Nov.4 bloodbath. Soviet troops move to quell guerrillas northwest of Budapest as freedom fighters stay encircled yet fight on.
Five cases against Wesley Patterson charged with election irregularities at Lacon were continued in Circuit Court. He allegedly removed or tampered with ballot seals and remains on bond. Patterson was indicted by the Morgan County Grand Jury and will face the next term. Also, a jury found Boyd Alvin Flack not guilty of transporting.
Miami report describes Haiti gripped by a boiling political crisis amid a mass sitdown strike paralyzing the country. The aim is to oust Gen. Paul Maglio to allow general elections for a new president. See POLITICAL On Page 2.
District farmers reacted mixed to cotton marketing quotas and a Soil Bank base plan for corn. Morgan County rejected the corn base while Limestone approved it, with Morgan and Lawrence dissenting on continuing cotton. Nationally quotas passed while the corn plan failed. County ASC officers blamed lack of understanding and grading acre allotments for the light vote.
A North Alabama coalition from Guntersville Cullman Arab Blountsville Albertville Garden City Jasper Oneonta Scottsboro formed the Tennessee Warrior Waterway to promote using the Mulberry branch of the Warrior River as a Tennessee Gulf canal. The group cites lower cost and a possible federal survey to back the plan, with meetings led by former congressman Joe Starnes and reps Carl Elliott and Albert Rains.
Scottsboro Alabama sheriff says Bobby Smith and James Snader signed statements admitting they shot 34 year old Mary Anderson in her Flat Rock store with a 12 gauge shotgun. They were arrested in Chattanooga and later extradited to Jackson County awaiting charges. The robbery motive and shotgun recovered near Trenton Georgia are cited.
The New York Post reports in Washington that the United States plans to suspend major H-bomb tests at least through 1957. The Atomic Energy Commission will announce next year's tests will be limited to the Las Vegas area. The move aims to ease tensions and may not resume H-bomb tests even after 1957 if world conditions improve.
A 40 acre western edge section of Decatur was annexed after yesterday’s election with 20 votes for and five against. Probate Judge T. C. Almon will canvass results and issue a decree, then city records will reflect the inclusion, placing the area on the city council minutes. The annexed tract lies along Alabama Highway 24 near the old and new Moulton Roads.
NATO leaders reached tentative agreement on expanding political and economic powers for the alliance. The NATO Council of Ministers endorsed outlines from Gaetano Martino of Italy Halvard Lange of Norway and Lester B Pearson of Canada, the conference spokesman said.
The Security Council recommended unanimously that Japan be admitted to the United Nations as its 80th member.
Thornton T. Smith, a deposed book keeper at Colbert County Hospital, was charged with embezzling about $8,000 in hospital funds. He worked there from January 1954 until his dismissal October 5 and was held on a $10,000 bond.
Fresh street disturbances were reported in Budapest today as Communists paid backhanded tribute to the scope of a general strike against Premier Janos Kadars Red rule.
A Phillips Petroleum Co airplane with eight people aboard crashed and burned south of Bartlesville Oklahoma. There were no survivors and investigators could not examine the wreckage due to intense heat. Sheriff E McCombs reported the number of occupants at the scene.
Southern Bell plans early construction of a new telephone line to serve farm families in Morgan and Lawrence counties. J R Dobbs is calling on prospective customers as details like route and subscriber count are finalized with residents. Neel Stroups Crossroads Johnson Chapel will use the Hartselle exchange. Oakville Speake Jesseton will use the Moulton exchange.
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge is 16.60 feet with no change. Yesterday's high 60 and low 42. today’s 7:30 a.m. 59 and 11 a.m. 61. Rainfall 1.2 inches in 24 hours to 8:30 a.m. Forecast: mainly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers today and tonight, partly cloudy Thursday afternoon. Winds south 15–20 mph today, shifting to NW 12–15 mph tonight. High around 59. warming then cooling late tonight and Thursday. Waterfowl times listed for Thursday and Friday.
Near complete returns show 88.2 percent of Alabama cotton farmers favored federal marketing quotas and 95 percent of peanut growers supported peanut quotas. State Administrator B L Collins of the ASC committee noted the figures. Alabama corn growers approved about 85 percent for a soil bank base acreage control program for corn, though national results looked unfavorable.
An old program faced changes as Benson proposals split opinion with Sen. Humphrey pledging new legislation next year. Four referendums passed. farmers kept strict federal quotas for upland cotton extra long staple cotton rice and peanuts. The corn plan failed by a two thirds margin required by law.
Heavy rains drenched multiple parts of the district last night with temperatures high for the period. The forecast calls for more rain tonight and early Thursday with a cooling trend toward 39 degrees. Winds will shift from southeast to northwest at 15 to 20 mph. Decatur recorded 1.20 inches in 24 hours ending 8:30 today. County agents say the moisture will boost small grain and fall grazing crops, giving crops new life.
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