Decatur Floods Lag as Rain Triggers Wide Damage
Rainfall records show 3.65 inches on Feb 3 and 3.60 inches total so far this year in Decatur with 4th Ave SE still blocked at noon. City crews worked eight teams to relieve floods while residential areas including Broadus Ave and 7th SE saw waterbound homes and schools reported high attendance despite localized flooding. On Town Creek Hall Place a tornado damaged three houses injuring none, roofs ripped and power lines disrupted for about 15 minutes as winds struck around 2:30 pm.
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Decatur
Fourth Ave
Decatur Street
Austinville
City
Joe Elliott
Elliott
Broadus Ave
19Th
20Th Aves
7Th St
7Th St. SE
8Th St. SE
Country Club Rd
Worthington Rd
Charles Harvey
Decatur High School
Lawrence
Sam McClendon
Moulton
Cullman
Stevenson
Harris
B. A. Wallace
Town Creek
Movie Lineup Includes Ginger Rogers Princess Tour
A compact TV schedule lists Princess the First Traveling Saleslady with Ginger Rogers and Barry Nelson at 1:00 and 3:06. Roxy presents Hot Rod Girls at 1:00 and 3:56. Girls in Prison shows at 2:15 and 5:11. Sunset features Hot Blood with Jane Russell and Cornel Wild, plus The Man from Laramie with James Stewart at 6:30 and 9:15. Bowline includes 3 for Janice Dawn with Laraine Day and Ricardo Montalban, The Redhead and the Cowboy with Glen Ford and Rhonda Fleming, and Starvue Courtland Highway leather Saint with John Derek and Paul Douglas at 7:00 and 9:40. Ranch Hartseelle presents The Proud Ones with Virginia Mayo and Robert Ryan at 6:45 and 8:45.
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Jane Russell
Cornel Wild
Man From
Laramie
James Stewart
Bowline
Janice Dawn
Laraine Day
Ricardo Montalban
the Redhead
the Cowboy
Glen Ford
Rhonda Fleming
Starvue
Courtland Highway
Leather Saint
John Derek
Paul Douglas
Aed Ue er aed Ue er Iptimale GLIMPSES AND EVENTS
The piece notes the 7th annual Christmas Party of the American Legion Auxiliary at 7 30 Monday night at the American Legion and Auxiliary Home on Bank Street with gifts to be exchanged. It lists numerous local visitors and community notices including library meetings, basketball games, jail incidents, arrests for failing to appear, a burglary indictment, a student visiting from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and the St Ann's Parochial School Evening of Games event.
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American Legion Auxiliary
American Legion and Auxiliary
Bank St
St. Ann’s Parochial
Gales Sweep Britain Killing At Least Four
The winter storm lashed Britain with winds up to 104 miles per hour. Four people were killed as a small boat sank near the Shetland Islands and an assistant lighthouse keeper drowned in the Outer Hebrides. A man died near Sheffield when a bus shelter toppled onto him.
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London
Britain
Scotland
Midwell
Shetland Islands
Hebrides
Sheffield
Asian Colombo bloc splits as Hungary debate shifts at UN
The United Nations General Assembly sees India Indonesia abstain on the U S resolution while Ceylon and Burma condemn the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Burma and Ceylon pledge firm stand. Lodge calls split significant as Hammarskjold urged to pursue solutions in Budapest and Moscow.
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India
Colombo
Indonesia
Ceylon
Burma
Hungary
U.S
Russia
U Pe
Soviet Union
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Lodge
Colombo Group
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
V. K. Krishna Menon
Hammarskjold
Budapest
Moscow
Limestone County Truck Driver Fatally Injured in Crash
The Limestone County truck driver incident near Highway 72 and county road 87 left the driver uninjured critically? No, the text notes the truck driver and Turner were not seriously hurt. Rites for Anerton, who lived with sister Mrs. W H Taylor in Madison, set for Friday at Spry's Chapel with Rev E E Matthews. interment Athens Cemetery. Survivors include three brothers James Anerton Athens W C Anerton Athens and Alvie R Anerton Richmond Va, one sister Mrs W H Taylor Madison and many nieces and nephews. Pallbearers listed: Charles Leopold Leo Hacket Jewel Prater Kenneth Barksdale Sam Harold Jack Norris.
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Turner
Limestone County
Earl Bradford
Anerton
W. H. Taylor
Madison
Athens
Alvie R. Anerton
Richmond
Charles Leopard
Leo Hacket
Jewel Prater
Kenneth Barksdale
Sam Harold
Jack Norris
American photographer Georgette Cha pelle Cha ppelle missing in Hungary
The U S Embassy reported Georgette Meyer Cha ppelle a 37 year old American photographer whose Life magazine work includes refugee subjects is missing in Hungary. Authorities in Austria have been asked to investigate as she was last seen in Vienna. She lives in Milwaukee and works for the National Research Institute in New York.
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Vienna
Austria
U.S
Georgette Meyer
Dicky” Chapelle
Life Magazine
Hungary
Chapelle
Milwaukee
National Research Institute
New York
Life
Bank Debit Increase Shows Spending Up in Alabama
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta reports a 7 percent rise in bank debits in Alabama during November compared with the same period last year, indicating increased consumer spending in the state.
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Birmingham
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Today
Alabama
Boy Unconscious 40 Days Flown Home For Christmas
A 13 year old boy injured in a North Carolina auto crash on Nov 5 was flown home to Birmingham for Christmas. He had been unconscious for 40 days but can now react to pain and move purposefully. Doctors plan brain surgery if needed and community donations funded care at University Hospital.
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James Orr
Morgan County
Orr
Matthew Childers
Childers
Birmingham
Wilson Williams
North Carolina
Shelby N.C
J. D. Pittman
W. McMurray
Shelby
Gerber Gobeller
Galbraith
University Hospital
Young Williams
Cleveland County
Ees
North
Tica Doe
Bus Evades Tornado Threat During School Trip
The bus carrying about 40 children faced a likely tornado when the driver avoided a direct path and turned back toward the school. No injuries reported and students were accounted for after the incident.
Markets Report Shows Mixed Agricultural Prices
Cotton inch middling 33.00 and 33.24 in Decatur. Milk Grade A 6.10 per hundred, manufactured milk 3.25 per hundred. Wheat No 32 hanting 62.10. No 2 White Ear Corn 1.33, Yellow Corn 1.25, Soybeans 2.45. Calves steady with best price 22.50 to 25.50. hogs 200-250 lb butchers 16.00.
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Decatur
Wall Street Mixed Early After Quiet Opening
New York stocks showed irregular, lightly higher opening with a mixed pattern as turnover declined. Youngstown slid on merger news with Bethlehem, while Bethlehem also fell. airlines edged higher with Eastern and United little gains and American modestly up. Industrials like General Motors and Caterpillar gained, while Goodrich and Gulf declined.
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New York
Youngstown
Bethlehem
Eastern Air Lines
United Air Lines
American Airlines
Douglas
Boeing
General Dynamics
Illinois Central
Union Pacific
General Motors
American Telephone
Caterpillar
Westinghouse
Goodrich
Gulf
International Paper
Poultry and egg prices ease in Birmingham and Atlanta reports
AP dispatch notes 16 f. o. b. plant and farm prices for broilers and fryers showing slight declines or steady trends. Turkeys and heavy types are limited. eggs steady with wholesale Birmingham prices for whites and yolks ranging around 32 to 42 cents per dozen in various grades.
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Atlanta
North Georgia
Birmingham
Nashville cattle market tops light trading Amid scarce sales
Cattle receipts were small with limited sales across classes. Calves sold around steady with best price about one dollar under Way's. cutters and feeders scarce. Hog prices steady at about 12 to 13 dollars, with few sows offered early.
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Nashville
Bank Report Highlights Activity in 1955 Birmingham Branch
The report released in Birmingham in 1955 by H. C. Frazer vice president and manager notes that a high volume of bank debits including checks and withdrawals from demand deposit accounts signals strong business activity in the area.
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H. C. Frazer
Birmingham
Hungarian repression expert takes top security post in 1954
Reporting on the crisis around Budapest, the dispatch notes Leonid Serov’s selection by Nikita Khrushchev to safeguard Kremlin leaders abroad. It details British derision, Russian troop deployments, and the Hungarian parliament siege amid riots. The walkout follows arrests of Sandor Bacz and Sandor Bali, with mass factory stoppages and rumors about Kadars fate.
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Serov
Communist Party
Nikita Krushchev
Kremlin
Britain
Krushchev
Bulgaria
Frankfurt
Budapest
West
Szigmund Moriecs
Eger
Miskolc
Austria
Sandor Bacz
Bajolannis
Racz
Bali
Kadar
Labor groups claim AFL-CIO COPE shifts city machines
AFL-CIO specialists say big city political machines are losing grip as labor electioneering groups fill the gap. COPE notes labor held ground in nonpresidential fights and backed Democrats for Congress, with Democrats retaining House and Senate control.
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Afl-Cio
Big City
Labor
Washington
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Organized Labor
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Senate
Burglary Case Before Lynne Here Today
Late this morning in Circuit Court here the trial of Elbert Scott on burglary and buying or concealing stolen property was underway. Several cases set for trial this term were not pressed, including six grand larceny charges against Raymond Hall who is in the Armed Forces. Other cases not pressed included Joe Slaten Donald Slaten Wayne Barrett Herbert Dodson and Hubert Dotson on charges of possessing a still and manufacturing whiskey. Johnny Becker assault to murder was continued. Marion Ramey found guilty of assault with intent to murder with probation sought. Bernadee Garth pled guilty to assault with intent to murder and applied for probation. Daisy Draper pled guilty to assault and battery fined 73 dollars and costs. Freeman Perry pled guilty to transporting and applied for probation.
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Elbert Scott
Raymond Hall
Joe Slaten
Donald Slaten
Wayne Barrett
Herbert Dodson
Hubert Dotson
Johnny Becker
Marion Ramey
Bernadee Garth
Daisy Draper
Freeman Perry
Steelworkers clash at union election in February
David J. McDonald headed the Steelworkers union election when Donahoe signaled McDonald’s endorsement. A surge to the rostrum led to a scuffle, Donahoe losing glasses and being knocked down twice before fleeing. Police found no arrests as Donahoe later said McDonald won by acclamation.
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David J. McDonald
Donahoe
McDonald
Pittsburgh Post - Gazette
Sub Killer Unit to Quit Mediterranean Patrol
A special eight-ship antisubmarine group has left the Mediterranean after patrolling since the Suez fighting began. The hunter killer force, operating with the 6th Fleet, signals Navy leaders feel tension in the area has eased and they are headed home.
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Washington
Mediterranean Sea
Hunterkiller
6Th Fleet
For Sale and Wanted Notices Listed in Athens Area
Classified items include a 6 year old black white spotted Shetland pony for 200 with tack and rider training. jobs for a short order cook and a maid at Major Hooper Tourist Court. a lost sable and white female poodle. and several car listings a 1955 DeSoto Hardtop a 1950 Chevrolet four door and a 1955 Plymouth Pilaoza with contact numbers in Athens Huntsville area.
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Athens
Lawrence Steadman
Hooper
Highway 72
Huntsville
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Ginger Rogers
Barry Nelson
ROXY
Hartseelle
Virginia Mayo
Robert Ryan
Aed Ueer
Tennessee Valley Trade School
Britton T. Hare
Detroit
James Rankin
Tennis Mann
Carl Young
Eddie Nichols
Alfred E. Burns
Killen
Louis Davis
Jack Smallwood
Waugh Terry
Gurney Yates
Hartselle
W. E. Champlin
W. A. Parsons
Library Science Club
Trinity School
Chemstrand
Mixon
Company of Hamilton
Moulton Heights
Morgan
Josh Hern
Josh Herron
Lewis Townson
Morgan County Grand Jury
Morgan Sheriff's Forces
Townson
Roy Wyatt, Jr
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Roy Wyatt, Sr
L'stone
Sidney Taliferro
O Markets
Decatur Markets
Stoc’s
All of
Noon Stecks
Rey
Acme Stees Hupp Cp Alleghany
Harv
Aiser
Allis Chal
T&t Bk Tap Am Sree
Toews
Anac Cop
Nash Armst Ck Minute Maid Techise
Monsan Chem Ba
Murphy
Nati
Ohio
Lve
Crown Zell Crue
Sinclair
Ana
Skelly Oil
Bu Pont
East Air
East Kodak St .Brand
Erie RR
Eversharp
Fam
Texas Co
Firestone
Texas Pc&o
Mtr Fox
UN Pac
Gen Foods
Pub Ut
West UN
Westy A Bk
Ga Pac Cp
Westg
Goodrich Worthworth
Goodyear
North Alabama
United States
Merry Christmas
Hicks
National
Chevrolet
Bel Air
Plymouth
Belvedere
FORD
Thunderbird
Lee St
Serge Ave
Sed Avenue ST
Mediterranean
Pers
Reg Sable
New River
Clifton
Savoy
Call
Melvin Blackwood
Desoto
John R. Moseley
Cranbrook
Ford Victoria
L. D. Tucker
Studebaker
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