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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
1
Community notes and local glimpses highlight happenings around DeLlale and SCATURS, reflecting everyday concerns and small events shaping neighborhood life. Readers are invited to share stories and updates from their blocks and clubs.
Collections from TB Christmas Seal sales in the county approach 6200 with 185 added this morning. Seals for the year exceed the 4700 goal and near the 6300 record set in 1953.
Negro leaders ask police to guard against violence as Montgomery's boycotters plan to return to city buses following a federal injunction ending segregation. The Supreme Court ruling outlaws bus segregation triggers a formal decree, with a return likely tomorrow after a year and 16 days of boycott.
Many here face an extended break as Christmas creates a long weekend. Downtown stores close only Christmas Day after Chamber of Commerce vote, with some businesses closing Tue and Wed. Decatur banks observe Christmas Day. The Chamber office closes at noon Saturday and reopens Wednesday morning.
Tennessee River at Keller Memories Bridge shows 15.74 feet with a 1.09 foot fall in 24 hours, sea level 550.04 feet. Temperatures yesterday high and night low around 40s, today 58 rising to 62, rainfall 0.10 inches in 24 hours. Forecast: cloudy mild with rain and scattered thundershowers. high 60, low 50. Waterfowl shooting hours Friday and Saturday 6:22 a.m. to 4:10 p.m.
Premier Guy Mollet told the National Assembly that British and French Middle East action was driven by Soviet penetration risk and warned against waiting for irreversible consequences. He argued for continued Atlantic alliance with the United States and outlined two votes on Suez policy and Hungary.
More than 1,000 high school students protested Britain's limited self rule proposal in Nicosia and Famagusta. Police and British troops dispersed the march after clashes and detentions, including a priest linked to the EOKA underground. Makarios remains central to Cyprus negotiations.
January 7 marks the opening of Morgan County Court under Presiding Judge W. H. Long. The first week will cover civil jury and non jury trials, with 34 cases on the docket. Beginning January 14, criminal non jury trials start as more than 150 criminal cases are set.
President Eisenhower pledged U S aid to Hungary refugees in Austria. Vice President Nixon delivered the letter to Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab before touring refugee camps near the border. Nixon noted U S admit more Hungarians and studied camp conditions with Austrian officials.
Police arrest Dr John Bodkin Adams in Eastbourne on charges of murdering an 81 year old widow. The case sparks a wider inquiry into the deaths of about 300 wealthy elderly women over the past two decades. Authorities plan autopsies on two more elderly women to aid the investigation.
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nehru said their talks confirmed a broad area of agreement on world affairs. The White House issued a final communique while Nehru said the discussions strengthened Indian American bonds of friendship and understanding.
The Associated Press reports the winter season starts officially tomorrow with generally mild weather. Most areas remain above freezing, except the Mountain region and Wisconsin, with below freezing readings around 20 degrees elsewhere and as low as 8 below zero at Fraser, Colorado.
Senator Sparkman of Alabama urged a full reappraisal of foreign policy in light of recent events behind the Iron Curtain and in the Middle East. He said Congress will have many questions for the Eisenhower administration and its international course.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports a strong Democratic group is weighing Adlai E. Stevenson as a potential candidate in California to challenge incumbent Republican Senator William F. Knowland in 1958. The move would pit Stevenson against Knowland for the U.S. Senate.
Dr. Arthur Beindorff announced the third annual North Alabama regional Science Fair set for April 5 and 6, 1957 at Cullman College. The event expands sponsorship, increases awards to 24, and will judge six subject areas with grand prize winners earning trips to the national science fair in Los Angeles.
Thomas M. Wiley Jr., once of Decatur and now practicing in Fort Myers, treated Ramon Zayas 24 after a frightful alligator encounter near Whiskey Creek. Zayas, newly arrived from Puerto Rico, was held by four officers and quieted with sedatives as an English speaking prisoner acted as interpreter.
In Budapest the Hungarian government re introduces detention of public security allowing six month containment of those deemed harmful to public order. The decree targets interference with production and faces no trial, echoing past Stalin era measures while lingering tensions stay with two jailed labor leaders and ongoing Russian troop presence.
United States moves to resume five power private disarmament talks in March at the end of the General Assembly session. U S Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. told the U N Disarmament Commission the meeting of the Disarmament subcommittee may be held then. He welcomed Soviet proposals.
State Attorney General Jack Gremillion announced immediate steps to stop NAACP activities in Louisiana. He said Orleans Parish District Attorney Hubert has agreed to take action against local NAACP units following his request for enforcement.
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