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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1960
Page
2
City clerk notes a string of minor charges including disorderly conduct speeding and public drunkenness. Police report Parks Grocery door ajar at 3 15 am and a break in at Amoco Service with about 3 in cash taken. Sheriff's charged one person with reckless driving amid other local notes.
Senator Sparkman comments on Kennedy proposals and Democratic platform during his re election campaign. He says he never felt bound by party provisions and did not subscribe to either major party platform though he believes the Democratic Party is better for the South.
AP reports a lone bandit robbed two employees of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Board in Birmingham Tuesday night, taking several thousand dollars. The suspect is unnamed in the fragment, with limited details available. The incident occurred at ABC Store premises.
Opelik a Alabama AP reports Lee County will receive $168 000 to finance construction of a two bed nursing facility. The money supports hospital expansion and improved patient care in the county.
Wanted for national firm salesmen and a manager with ability. Earn limit set by your effort. Clean record required. Apply to Mr. Howard on 2nd floor of the building, any morning 8 to 10.
A hospital notice lists multiple admissions and patient names including Mrs. Baron L. Cockrell of Decatur, Mrs. Neail Collier of Hillsboro, Mrs. James E. Miller and infant Katheryn Paige of 1213th Ave SE. Admissions include James Leslie Engle of Uptonville Rd and James C. Pettit of 1103 8th Ave SE, Roy E. Borden of Decatur, Ottis Paul Fairbanks of 320 13th Ave NW, and Mrs. Ronnie Froberg of Hartselle.
Dismissals listed include Mrs Bell McAnally Somerville Mrs Johnny Mae Smith 208 1 2 3rd Ave SE Mrs James Horton 1806 4th Ave SW Mrs Willis Watkins and infant 10th Ave Dwain Cole Decatur Miss Dianne Woodall Decatur and Mrs Mary Gay Decatur.
Ft. Campbell Kentucky officials said the contract covers construction of six rifle ranges and related equipment. Col. Vincent Carlson district engineer for the Army confirmed the award on Tuesday.
Eight Mississippi cities shut down savings and loan groups after state charges claim funds were raised under false pretenses. Norman Gradsky and partner Meadors, both from Florida, were jailed. about $300,000 was raised with only 13 cents in interest earned.
Graveside services for Mrs. W. K. McNeil who died in Los Angeles Saturday night will be held Friday at 2 30 p m at City Cemetery with Rabbi Joseph Gallinger of Florence and Birmingham and the Rev W W Glass of South Boston Va officiating The remains arrived today Survivors include son W K McNeil Jr of Los Angeles a sister Mrs Joe Davis of Los Angeles and a niece and a nephew
Funeral services for Tarence W Ledlow 80 who died Tuesday at his Moulton residence will be held Thursday at 2 p m from Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with Rev Dennis Tucker officiating. Interment will be in Old Beulah Cemetery. Survivors include six sons and 40 grandchildren. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Charles P. McWhorter 82 of Moulton 2 died at home after a 10 year illness. Funeral at 2 p.m. Thursday at Fairfield Church of Christ with Kyle and Ray McWhorter officiating. Burial in Moulton City Cemetery. Elliott Brown Service Funeral Home in charge. The Board of Revenue office will close at noon Thursday for the funeral. Survivors include his widow Iva. three sons Charlie C. and others. three daughters. eight grandchildren. six great grandchildren. and five brothers and two sisters. Pallbearers named nephews.
Market notes show hogs active with gains from 25 to 50 cents. U S 13 hogs 180 to 245 pounds traded around 17.00 to 17.25 per hundredweight, with sows mostly 11.50 to 13.00. Cattle and meats listed include utility and cutter at 11.50 to 14.00, bulls 16.50 to 18.00, and stockers good to choice around 30.00.
Wall Street activity remained uneven in mid afternoon trading as oils rose. The AP 60 stock average edged up .10 to 218.90 with industrials and rails each up about .20 and utilities unchanged. The Dow Jones industrial average rose .78 to 615.60 as bonds stayed mixed.
AP dispatch notes quiet trading as most plants clear offerings yet ample supply for current ready to cook. Payments for broilers and fryers hover around 14.5 cents per pound with daily head counts estimated near 500 to 700, prices varying by farm and transfer.
Cattle and calves see supply selling fully steady with early clearances. Slaughter steers bring 21.50 to 23.50, canners and cutters 11.50 to 14.00, utility and commercial bulls 16.50 to 18.00. Stockers scarce with good to choice deals around 30.00 to 40.00. U.S. 1-3, 18-245 lb at 17.50 to 17.75. Sheep listing limited with no early sales.
In Birmingham, wholesale egg prices rise slightly as supplies remain short. Prices paid per dozen delivered by 9:30 a.m. today show nearby local eggs up to 60 percent, with figures 48, 44 39, and 41 to 45 cents for large, medium, and small grades respectively.
Richard L. Lollar, a retired businessman, defeated R. H. McConnel in a runoff election for the finance and water works commissioner position in Tuscaloosa Alabama. The contest occurred on Tuesday and hands Lollar the post.
In Durham North Carolina AP reports Judge Edwin M. ley hears a consolidated case seeking reassignment of 277 Negro children to largely white schools and integration of staff from principals to janitors. New York attorney Jack Greenberg argues maps used by the Durham City School Board assign children to different schools by race and challenges the Pupil Placement Act. A related Chapel Hill suit by the family of Stanley Vickers seeks admittance to a predominantly white school.
Hamilton Alabama prepares to open its first school funded by Alabama s 100 million education bond issue replacing the fire damaged building. Gov Patterson reports about 70 million of the bond issue sold with construction authorized. Auburn library project awarded largest contract to date. Mobile and Montgomery trade schools planned. Montgomery bid set next month.
Ed Wallace, 44, owner of a neighborhood grocery in Huntsville, was shot in his store and died hours later after a gunman escaped with about $3,000. Mrs Wallace and a 10-year-old nephew heard the shot and found him wounded. Police said a Negro man leaped the counter, seized a cash box, and fled.
The crash at Brackins Service Station involved a car hitting S. N. Agee station pumps. Gasoline spilled onto the pavement but no fire occurred. Baker was taken to Moulton for investigation with potential manslaughter charges. Also noted funeral plans for Loosier, a Lawrence County commissioner candidate, with survivors including his wife and son Harvey Elliott.
Alabama harvest near end slowed by low temperatures with only slight freeze damage. Supplemental feeding of cattle stepped up as weekly crop and weather report notes conditions.
Lellar secured 1 637 votes to 391 for McConnel a labor union official to fill the unexpired term of W H Nicol who retired from the position.
Raymond Couser, 43, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on charges that he chased his wife with a grass cutter attached swing blade. Couser denied the allegation saying it was not a swing blade. He contends the claim was false.
Alabama records eight traffic deaths in two days. Floyd S. Batton aged 55 from Mobile died after being struck on U S 90 in Baldwin. Robert Guesnard a Mobile taxicab driver 50 died in a three car crash in Mobile when a stalled cab was hit. In Springville near Birmingham Bertha Wiggins 27 her daughter Ricky Sue 5 and Timothy 18 months died in a separate collision.
In a brief remark a man insisted the item was only a piece of wood he brought home to fashion as a table leg, denying any further purpose. The statement framed the context of the minor incident.
A home owned by W. R. Johnson in the Coffee Addition burned here Tuesday night. The dwelling was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Nash and everything inside the residence was destroyed.
In west Alabama near Collinsville a crash killed 53 year old William Long and injured three others. Victor Foster 33 of Centreville and Mrs Isabelle Sherman 55 of Burlington Iowa were riding with Frank Lohmann at Ft Benning Georgia when the station wagon overturned. Lohmann and his wife and three children were hospitalized at Fort Payne and Fort Benning with unknown injuries.
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