Negro Leaders Split On Southern Regional Education Plan
Atlanta figures report mixed Southern Negro reactions to a regional education plan. Some see modest gain yet fear it preserves segregation and delays full equal schooling. Leaders like Dr Morell Hill and Dr Benjamin Mays voice caution while others call it a step forward amid limits.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
New York
Supreme Court
Morell Hill
Atlanta University
Benjamin Mays
Morehouse College
Atlanta
Arthur D. Shores
Birmingham
H. F. Price
Lemoyne College
Memphis
Warren Cochran
No Limits Put On Clerk Fund Heights Alabama Decision
Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones ruled that Alabama's temporary clerk hire fund is not limited by the 1947 appropriation setting a $3500 annual cap. The fund, used to pay salaries of administrative assistants investigators and other staff, remains unrestricted. State officials seek further legal resolution with the state supreme court to settle the issue.
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Montgomery
Walter B. Jones
John Graves
Ralph Eagerton
James E. Folsom
Graves
Folsom
State Supreme Court
Albert A. Carmichael
Carmichael
Jones
Atlanta YMCA and Fisk leader discuss incremental desegregation
Dr Charles S Johnson of Fisk University criticizes Southern education plans arguing the proposed $300000 biennial budget for a Negro medical region would not expand opportunities or improve facilities. He says progress must be slow but education gains remain essential. Forest wood fires destroy enough timber to make 700000 tons of newsprint annually.
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Atlanta
YMCA
Charles S. Johnson
Fisk University
Nashville
South
Meharry
Town to Honor Ike Stratford for Freedom of Borough
The council may award the freedom of the borough to Gen Ike Eisenhower if he cannot attend in person, with Lt Col Fordham Flower chosen to present the honor in America if needed. Since 1753 only three others have received the title.
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Ike Stratford
Pilot Found Near Gadsden After Missing Cross Country
A student pilot Basil Robertson of Little Rock Indiana was located in Gadsden Alabama after a cross country flight. He was en route to Scottsburg Indiana and had failed to refuel at Birmingham as scheduled, with the CAA notified of the missing flight.
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Gadsden
Ala
Basil Robertson
Little Rock
Ind
Jeff DeFuniak
Cole Speaks on Peace at Birmingham Kiwanis Club
President Houston Cole of Jacksonville State Teachers College told the Birmingham Kiwanis Club that an obstacle to peace is the belief that war is inevitable. He argued that the doctrine of inevitable conflict is the most significant obstacle to peace.
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Birmingham
Houston Cole
Jacksonville State Teachers College
Cole
Birmingham Kiwanis Club
Drive Planned in Capital Schools On Dental Decay
A dental decay prevention drive will begin early next year in Montgomery at West End Elementary with over 500 children to receive four weekly applications of sodium fluoride solution. The program is a cooperative effort by the U S Public Health Service the state dental health division and county health departments. Dr Leo House says fluoride applications have reduced decay by 40 percent in other states and describes the treatment as a painless procedure applied after cleaning and filling cavities.
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Montgomery
Alabama
State Health Department
Dental Health
Leo House
West End
U. S. Public Health Service
State Division of Dental Health
County Health Departments
House
Appeals Court Delivers Rulings Across Alabama
The Alabama court of appeals released rehearing and appeal decisions across counties including Greene Blount Covington Coffee Tuscaloosa and Jefferson circuits. Several cases were overruled dismissed or affirmed with remands noted.
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Bricken
Ray Knuckles
Alias
Tuscaloosa
Herman White
Wallace Piper
Floyd Doster
Erwin Boykin
Alis
State
Festus Earl Gregory
Hansford Hallman
Eliza Stanley
William Vick
Howard Gordon Frost
Buck Anderson
Lambda Anderson
Carr
Aaron Dykes
Mobile
Joe Hannon Jr
Elmore
John Ike Griffin
City of Birmingham
Jefferson
Lewis Newsome
H. M. Rountree
Grady Branes
Blount
Arthur Wilson
Lamar
Harwood
J. E. Fuller
Sumter
Sidney C. Smith
Houston
Alonzo Curry
Mattie Mae Parham
Nan Cole
Cecil Reeves
Calhoun
Church to Screen Religious Film on December 23
On Thursday December 23 the Hartselle Christian church auditorium will host the sound film Reaching From Heaven. The new picture highlights personal evangelism with a family friendly message and a cast including Cheryl Walker John Qualen Hugh Beaumont Regis Toomey Addison Richards and Nana Bryant. The event is free and open to all from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
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Hartselle Christian Church
Said
Cheryl Walker
John Qualen
Hugh Beaumont
Regis Toomey
Addison Richards
Nana Bryant
Ege
Goodman Family to Be Heard in Concert at Collins School
The Goodman family from Dyersburg Tennessee will be heard in concert at Collins School House December 26. They will also sing at the fourth Sunday night singing at Collins School two miles southwest of Hartselle. Prominent singers are expected, including the Cullman quartet. J Mat Chenault is chairman.
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Goodman
Dyersburg
Tenn
Collins School
Hartselle
Cullman Quartet
J. Mat Chenault
Russia vetoes Ceylon bid to join United Nations
Paris dispatch reports Russia used its twenty ninth veto in the United Nations Security Council to block Ceylon from membership. It marks the second veto against Ceylon and follows Russia’s pattern of blocking seven nations with vetoes. The council also postponed Israel’s membership decision until court action on Israel’s case is resolved.
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Paris
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Ceylon
United Nations
Council
Israel
Second Man is Held in Death
Greeneville Tenn Dec 15 P Magistrate Ed Havely bound Jack Dyer a Greeneville laundry worker to circuit court yesterday on a murder charge in the Dec 4 knife slaying of a laundry worker from Alabama Preliminary hearings set Thursday before Havely for Thomas M Paulevon 44 alias Tom Parker on a murder charge in connection with the same slaying Marion Allen Lawrence 59 who had come from Birmingham only four days previously to take a job in the laundry was found dead at the laundry plant Sunday morning Dec 5 Discovery of the body touched off a nationwide hunt that led to the arrest that night of Paulcyon near Greenwood Miss The Federal Bureau of Investigation said later at Knoxville that Paulcyon was wanted at Indianapolis on federal charges that he violated the national stolen property act Paulcyon had been manager of the laundry here at which Dyer and Lawrence were employed At Dyers hearing yesterday three witnesses including Constable Frank Dodd testified they saw Dyer on Greeneville streets the night of Dec 4 during the hours Dyer had testified he was at the house of a Greeneville resident.
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Greeneville
Tenn
Ed Havely
Jack Dyer
Alabama
Havely
Thomas M. Paulevon
Tom Parker
Marion Allen Lawrence
Biringham
Paulcyon
Greenwood
Miss
Federal Bureaus of Investigation
Knoxville
Indianapolis
Dyer
Lawrence
Frank Dodd
Gretteville
Publication Notice In Maples vs Boatright Maples
In this case the defendant Grace Boatright Maples is over 21 and her residence is unknown. The Register orders weekly publication in the Decatur Daily for four weeks to require her to plead by January 16, 1949 or face a pro confesso decree. Date December 15, 1948.
Broker Truman McGonigal Dies at 68 in Mobile
Funeral services set for Truman G. McGonigal a 68 year old broker and shipping agent who died yesterday in Mobile He was born in Saginaw Michigan and served as consul for the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Ecuador His widow two sons and two daughters survive all in Mobile.
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Mobile
Ala
Truman G. McGonigal
McGonigal
Saginaw
Mich
Dominican Republic
Republic of Ecuador
Byars Nonresident Defendant Ordered to Answer
In Morgan County Alabama Circuit Court equity, Glenn Byars is named a non resident with unknown address. The Register orders weekly publication in Decatur Daily for four weeks, requiring answer or demurrer to the bill by January 16, 1949, else the bill may be confessed. Dates December 15 22 29 and January 5 1948-49.
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Byars
Circuit Court
Morgan County
Alabama
Register
Glenn Byars
The
Decatur Daily
Bryan McAfee
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