State Jaycees Nominate 20 For Man Of Year
ANNISTON Twenty nominees for the four State Junior Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year awards were announced. Ralph P. Bolt, chairman, said the four winners will be named February 1 at a state board meeting. Nominees include George W. Barron, David M. Beasley, Tom Calvin, John Paul Crow, John Davis, Dr. Ray Dunlap, Watt A. Ellis Jr., Leroy D. Gist, Wilfred L. Gorrell, Aubrey D. Greene, Jesse Floyd Hill, R. W. Henderson, Keith E. Jensen, Herbert L. Megar, Theron Montgomery Jr., Dam Shannon Jr., Claude Sparks Jr., Russellville’s Dr. Frank Stitt, William Roy Stokes, and James D. Tyler among others.
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M&s Steel Co
John Davis
Jones Valley
Ray Dunlap
Guntersville
Watt A. Ellis Jr
Centre Farmer
Leroy D. Gist
R. W
Pete) Henderson
Decatur
Keith E. Jensen
Montgomery
Herbert L. Megar
Theron Montgomery Jr
Jacksonville State College
Dam. R. Shannon Jr
Birmingham
Claude E. Sparks Jr
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Franklin Citizen
Franklin County Times
Russellville
Frank Stitt
William Roy Stokes
Brewton
James D. Tyler
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Huntsville Gains New Social Security District Office
The Social Security Administration announced 25 new district offices to open in early 1958 including Huntsville. Commissioner Schottland said offices will serve agricultural areas recently covered and industrial regions with rapid population growth like Huntsville. Existing 558 offices provide benefit claims help and issue social security numbers.
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Washington
Social Security Administration
Huntsville
Charles I. Schottland
Statue Unveiled Of Billy Mitchell In Smithsonian Hall
A bronze statue of Billy Mitchell in World War I flying gear was unveiled at the Smithsonian Institution Aeronautics Hall in Washington. Mitchell, once court-martialed 32 years earlier for remarks on military methods, is honored as a stormy prophet of air warfare. His son William unveiled the piece, a gift from George H. Stephenson of Philadelphia, as an Air Force reversal of the conviction awaits by Secretary James H. Douglas. Mitchell died in 1936, five years before his prophecy of Japan's attack on a Sunday morning.
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Billy Mitchell
Col. Mitchell
United States
America
Mitchell
Aeronautics Hall
Smithsonian Institution
Bruce Moore
George H. Stephenson
Philadelphia
William
Pline
Air Corps
Army
Air Force Review Board
Secretary of
James H. Douglas
Former President Calvin Coolidge’s Middle Name Note
The article notes Calvin Coolidge did not have a middle name despite occasionally using the initial S in writing. It clarifies the historical quirk about his naming.
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Calvin Coolidge
Boxer Cae sar Rescued After Night in Hole
Hopkinsville report describes a dog named Cae sar stuck head first in a metal hole in a vacant lot. A welder freed him after wrapping the dog in a wet asbestos sheet to prevent burns during a blow torch rescue. Liberia population given as 1.5 million.
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Yuul Tut
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