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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1956
Page
1
Grlimale Glimpses reports that Wally Dunnavent of Decatur appears on the Dean's List at Southern Union College Wadley Alabama for the fall quarter.
Congressman Bob Jones will attend the House special committee hearings in Washington starting Monday to examine campaign expenditure practices. The panel chaired by Congressman Clifford Davis will hear from party leaders, Treasury and Justice officials, the FCC, and industry spokesmen. The effort aims to improve federal election laws with testimony from Stevenson and Eisenhower campaign contributors. The group includes Paul Butler and Leonard Hall as invited witnesses.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization declared it will not fight a liberation war in Eastern Europe. The five point policy, presented by West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, aims to reassure Russia and urges influence through economic and social contacts rather than militant action.
The heaviest rainfall in years eases after several areas report nearly six inches since Tuesday night. Decatur logged 4.61 inches in 24 hours, with a two day total of 5.81 inches. Seepage floods streets, a small twister near Town Creek left two families homeless. district crops mostly spared.
Tens of thousands of Budapest workers walk out again after a two day general strike ends. The protest targets the arrest of the Budapest Central Workers' Council chair and his assistant by the Russian backed government of Premier Janos Kadar. Reports say Gen. Ivan Serov has seized control, effectively running the Kadar regime as Moscow tightens grip amid internal fighting.
Vice President Nixon will fly to Austria at President Eisenhower's request to study Hungarian refugee problems and advise on further U S aid. He will report to Eisenhower and Congress on admission of up to 21 500 Hungarian victims already authorized. Eisenhower also forms a 15 member presidential committee on refugee relief.
Peggy West, 17, a Danville high school senior, was chosen Morgan County Good Citizen Girl. She will attend the Good Citizen pilgrimage in Montgomery February 8 and 9. West is active in FHA FTA and the school annual staff, and is elected most ambitious and athletic in her class.
Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge stood at 17.51 feet with a 0.91 foot 24 hour rise. Sea level reading 551.81 feet. Yesterday high 68 and low 56. Today 7:30 a.m. 56 then 11 a.m. 58. Rainfall 4.61 inches in 24 hours to 8:30 a.m. Cloudy with showers, colder today. partly cloudy and colder tonight and Friday. High 59, low 28, high Friday 50. Legal waterfowl shooting times Friday 6:18 a.m. to 4:08 p.m. and Saturday same.
Decatur reports a curb cap system with a 50 cent overparking fine has improved turnover and boosted meter collections. Since December 650 tickets were issued, about 82 daily on average, with a peak of 150 five cent tickets in a day. Christmas shopping drives higher car volumes and more citations, though some violators fail to pay fines.
The United Nations General Assembly condemned Russia for suppressing Hungary's bid for freedom. Adopted by 158 votes to 1, with the Soviet bloc voting no, the resolution demanded immediate Soviet troop withdrawal under U.N. supervision and reestablishment of Hungary's political independence.
A crudely made time bomb believed planted by the IRA was found near a British destroyer in Belfast Harbor. Police searched for IRA raiders active across Northern Ireland after raids spanning roughly 200 miles. The device, set to detonate at 2:30 a.m. tomorrow, was made with a clock and gelignite in a small suitcase.
Christmas seal sales reached 3750 dollars in two weeks, near the county goal though short by under one thousand. Sale chairman Meredith Woodall credits follow up letters for the rise and asks contributors who received a mistaken second appeal to ignore it amid 17 000 accounts involved.
In drizzling rain near Athens Limestone County records its ninth traffic death of 1956. Robert E. Anerton 64 of Madison died after his 1953 Ford hit a milk truck driven by Russell Thomas 19 of Madison. The truck struck a 1952 Plymouth driven by W L Turner 24 of Athens. The crash occurred on U S 72 a mile east of Athens. Anerton died en route to Athens Limestone Hospital. The truck veered into a ditch and the Ford halted off the road behind a rural listing.
In McKeesport Pennsylvania a local 1048 United Steelworkers meeting broke up in confusion as members chased local president John J Donahoe from the room. The gathering aimed to endorse candidates for international union offices. Some members said Donahoe refused to accept the nomination of Don Riark for president to oppose President Lee.
The Decatur Daily launches a Sunday eight part series Unto Us a Child Is Born by George Cornell detailing the Nativity story from prophets to modern echoes. It features key figures Herod Joseph Mary Jesus John the Baptist and includes drawings by Guy Rowe.
Dr John F Riordan a $15000 a year anesthetist at San Mateo County Community Hospital says he became a cat burglar due to mental illness. County health director Dr Harold Chope says overwork and worry caused his troubles and he will stay on the payroll. Riordan with a wife and 17 year old daughter was arrested at the hospital last Tuesday amid a secret until yesterday disclosure.
The New York Giants announced they had signed Jackie Robinson from the Brooklyn Dodgers in exchange for pitcher Dick Littlefield and an undisclosed cash sum.
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