Local Weather and Community Notes from Decatur
Cloudy and continued cold this afternoon tonight and Thursday with occasional rain Thursday in south and central portions lowest temperatures near freezing in extreme north. Limestone Democrat editor Harry Walker greeting friends in Decatur. Two building permits issued this week: H B Plemons to build four rooms and bath at 1902 Twelfth Avenue East for 4000. R W Letson to build a 300 filling station at 1114 Sherman Street. Pfc William E Shackelford arrived from Fort Lewis to spend a 20 day furlough with his mother. Johnsons returned to Decatur after six weeks at Morgan County Health Center. he attended a five week refresher course in bacteriology in Atlanta funded by US Public Health Service. Two scarlet fever cases in Morgan County. one in Decatur and one in Hartselle. Rabies tested: dog head Dec 10. horse head from Tuscumbia. Red Cross official Bess Nance visiting Morgan County. City fire department answered two calls. flue fire at 603 Eleventh Avenue West netted no loss, second at Moulton Heights. Five cases to be tried in recorder’s court: two speeders, one DWI, one prohibition violation, one reckless driving. St Paul’s Lutheran sermon tonight My Most Important Work In Life at 7:30. North Alabama Tuberculosis Association board meeting 4:30 at courthouse third floor office. Dr W Nelson Guthrie to conduct prayer at Central Methodist tonight 7:30. Charles Ed Howell from Montgomery here for holidays. Joe and Ray Fowler hosted Row and Clent O’Dell. Sgt Otto Fischer Jr to arrive Thursday for holidays. See Diary On Page 2.
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C. C. Johnson
Decatur
Morgan County Health Center
Johnson
Atlanta
U.S. Public Health Service
Johnsons
Montgomery
Israel Begins To Make Jerusalem Its Eternal Capital
The Associated Press reports Israel moves to make Jerusalem permanent capital defying UN plan to internationalize the holy city. Prime Minister Ben Gurion speeds transfer of offices from Tel Aviv, calling Jerusalem Israel’s eternal capital. UN trustees in New York discuss an international framework for Jerusalem while diplomats debate a possible special UN session.
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Associated Press
Israel
Jerusalem
United Nations
Holy City
Lake Success
United Nations Assembly
David Ben Gurion
Tel Aviv
Ben Gurion
Welfare payments exceed twenty six million dollars in Alabama
Montgomery reports the State Welfare Department paid over 26 million dollars last year with about two thirds for old age pensions. Commissioner Broughton Lambert noted 19,298,111 spent on old age pensions for the 1948 to 1949 fiscal year. Other outlays included aid to the blind 369,651 department children 5,636,590 children in foster care county 106,975 children in foster care state 49,303 handicapped 1,255,078 and temporary aid 32,476.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
State Welfare Department
Alabama
Broughton Lamberth
Gas leak forces mass evacuation in West Oakland
More than 1,000 residents fled as liquid ammonia spilled from a tank car at Best Fertilizer Co. The gas filled 20 blocks, sent many to hospitals, and prompted police and fire units to warn and wash away the vapors. Plant worker James Whitty was overcome during the hookup and ten others escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
West Oakland
Thomas Dolan
Farm Service Co
Best Fertilizer Co
James Whitty
Whitty
Frank Golubin
Chase ends for teen-agers in Florida flee attempt
Four Owosso Michigan teenagers Roger Frederick Hill 18 Charles Grant Cowles 17 Barbara Jean Dillon 18 and Loretta Ewing 17 led officers on a 90 mile per hour chase from a Mobile Alabama filling station into Florida before a state trooper shot their speeding car down. They are held on fugitive warrants in the county jail as the FBI and sheriff’s deputies investigate. The four said the car was stolen in Flint and they had driven to Detroit before fleeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Minette
Ala
Michigan
FBI
Florida
Alabama
Taylor Wilkins
Flint
Mich
Roger Frederick Hill
Charles Grant Cowles
Barbara Jean Dillon
Loretta Ewing
Owosso
Wilkins
Dillon
Detroit
Alabama Gulf Coast
Mobile
Florida State Line
Big Christmas Bonus For A and P Employees
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co announces a Christmas bonus totaling 2.25 million dollars to be distributed December 16. All employees with six months service nationwide will participate in the pre holiday cash payment. John A. Hartford, chairman, announced the plan and noted an additional 2,100 dollars compensation for some employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
John A. Hartford
A and P
Officials doubt missing Girl Scout alive in Washington forest
In Kelso Washington authorities doubt the 16 year old Girl Scout Ruth Aberle will be found alive after she vanished Sunday in a jungle like forest area. A seven square mile mountain sector has been combed by 500 searchers with no tangible clues so far.
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Kelso
Wash
Washington Forest
Ruth Aberle
Alabama Mills To Give Bonus To Employees This Year
Lloyd Lively of Alabama Hosiery Mills Inc says Mojud Hosiery plans higher output but about 500000 less profit than last year due to price cuts and higher costs. The firm will award a Christmas bonus of 1 1 2 percent of total gross earnings to 452 employees, with gifts averaging 60 to 75 dollars for knitters and 30 to 60 dollars for looper seatner inspector and mender. Since 1941, the mill has paid holiday disbursements totaling about 22000 in bonds or cash, plus wages over two dollars an hour for knitters and higher rates on fine gauge machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd L. Lively
Alabama Hosiery Mills Inc
Mojud
Mojad
Seatner
Mender
United States
Alabama
Republicans Reported To Shed Me-tooism For 1950 Vote
Chicago dispatch says GOP leaders report readiness to shed me-tooism and offer a clear choice on 1950 issues. Arthur E Summerfield leads a strategy group, which favors a clear cut program and aims to have a policy statement drafted by February.
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Louis J. Kramp
Chicago
Republican Party
GOP
Arthur E. Summerfield
Michigan
National Strategy Committee
Gabrielson
Will
National Committee
Afoe
Arguments Begin in Mass Flogging Trial in Georgia
Final arguments advanced in the mass civil rights trial of 10 rural Georgians tied to the flogging of seven Black residents. Prosecutors contended a conspiracy with Sheriff's Office members and others led to arrest the night of April 2 and surrender to a KKK group for beatings. Defense argued lack of federal crime and questioned key identifications.
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Rome
Frank M. Gleason
Frank. A. Hooper
Atlanta
Gleason
Hooper
Georgia
Dade County
John W. Lynch
KKK
Three Hurt In Accident Series
Police report three slight injuries and considerable property damage from five traffic accidents in Decatur over the past two days. Names and addresses of several involved were noted, with two vehicles sustaining heavy damage and one driver suspended from the Highway Patrol pending investigation.
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Decatur
Fred Bowen
Wadsworth Avenue
Russell McGee
Bowles Street
McGee
Sixteenth Avenue
Sherman Street
Chevrolet
Leslie Riethmaier
Hartseller
Dodge
Chester P. Beaty
Lewis Landers
Richard Hyde
Memorial Drive
Third Street West
Plymouth
A. F. Parker
Hillsboro
Buick
James Argen
Whiteside Cafe
Joe Weatherly
Pack Self
Horace Standridge
Ferry
Davis Streets
Ford
Roy Fite
Finley Island
Ford Highway Patrol
H. G. Ashmore
Sheffield
Ashmore
W. B. Little
Charles M. Kennedy
Alex Terry
East Church Street
R. C. Bass
Floyd W. Sparks
Moulton
Six Dead and Many Injured in Swift Co Blast
In Sioux City Iowa today a massive explosion tore through the Swift and Co packing plant main office building. At least six people were killed with estimates up to 30 dead and 200 injured. Firefighters and volunteers wore gas masks as they entered the debris filled basement. The National Guard and naval reserve units were sent to the scene while officials sought the cause of the blast and more casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Swift and Co
National Guard
Walter Kerbs
Howard Jensen
Department
Naval Reserve and National Guard
Walter W. Lindgren
Goidel Drug to Close December 29 in Decatur
H O Mike Goidel announced the Goidel Drug Store on Second Avenue will close on December 29 after operating since April 1932. He plans to attend the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and may vacation in Florida afterward, with the family planning limited relocation while not leaving Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. O
Mike) Goidel
Goidel
Second Avenue
New Orleans
Decatur
Florida
Mrs Smiley Called Home In Decatur Obituary
Mrs. Jack R. Smiley, 67, died suddenly of a heart attack at 2:30 this morning at her Eighth Street East home in Decatur. Born in Livingston, Ala., she was active in St. John's Episcopal Church. Survived by husband, two daughters, one sister, two grandsons. Funeral Thursday at 2 p.m. at home, Rev. Eugene M. Chapman officiating. Pallbearers listed. no flowers requested.
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Jack R. Smiley
Eighth Street East
Smiley
Decatur
W. B.mundson
Livingston
Ala
Eugene M. Chapman
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Smith
John B. Martin
Eufaula
Gilbert J. Key
A. F. Bond
Chicago
John A. Caddell
L. M. Huff
Judge T. C. Almon
Carol Smith
Joe Duncan
Robert Harris
Hospital Aid Plan Leads in Alabama Special Election
Unofficial returns from Alabama's special election show Amendment No. 1 for 21 614 against 13 651 and No. 2 for 18 058 against 13 141 out of 1 006 boxes. Amendments Nos. 1 and 3 would fund a 12 million hospital program with bonds federal Hill Burton aid. turnout was light due to rain and lack of campaigns with Jefferson Mobile and Montgomery counties supporting the hospital measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Jefferson
Mobile
Montgomery
Cost of National Security Put At Twenty Billion
The Committee for Economic Development estimated the annual cost of national security at at least 20 billion dollars for years ahead. It urged civilian leadership, stronger long term security, and protection of individual freedom while criticizing current preparedness planning as inefficient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Committee For Economic Development Ced
Republic
Busi
Second Lang murder trial unfolds with witness recitals
The second trial of James Lester Lang for the murder of Mrs Christine Haynie began just before 10 am with prosecutors presenting testimony from Eli and Idmondson, residents of the mountain community, about the finding of Haynie's body in a pine thicket two miles south of Lacon. Edmonson described seeing Lang earlier and Haynie passing toward Bibb store, with Haynie wearing a scarf and a pin striped kerchief. Edmonson said Lang spoke to him then left. The court postponed further Lang proceedings as the defense witnesses failed to appear, while Willie Ed Spraggins trial continued to next term.
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James Lester Lang
Christine Haynie
Phillie Shanks
Eli and
Idmondson
Mountain Bag
Otmunity
Haymies
Lang
Newton B. Powell
Willie Ed. Spraggins
Edmonson
Lacon
U. S. 31
Edmondson
Shank&s
Mrs. Haynie
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Limestone Democrat
Athens
H. B. Plemons
Twelfth Avenue East
R. W. Letsons
William E
Ned) Shackelford
Fort Lewis
W. F. Boswell
Johnston Street
L. M. Murphree
Morgan County
Tuscumbia
Bess. Nance
American Red Cross
City Fire Department
Eleventh Avenue West
Moulton Heights
Recorders Court
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
North Alabama Tuberculosis Association
W. Nelson Guthrie
Central Methodist Church
Charles Ed Howell
The
Baptist State Convention
Joe and
Ray Fowler
Sunday Row
Clent O'Dell
Town
Otto Fischer Jr
U. N
Indonesia
UN’ Security Council
Jogjakarta
Java
Hague
Batavia
Netherlands
Soviet Union
Hong Kong
Pai Chung-Hsi
Indochina
Hope Hodgdon
Portland
Ore
By Ken Reynolds
West
Chase
Alabama Mills
Aggee
Summerfield
Guy Gabrielson
BEM Price
Swift Co
Darling Stores Corp
Second Ave
Etowah
Gadsden
Cullman and
Lay
Ance
Eli Edmonson
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