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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1955
Page
3
James Marlow argues Khrushchev shows anti intellectual traits and blunt style on Asia tours. He says Khrushchev rose by toughness and efficiency in the Russian system and appeals to masses rather than intellectuals to boost Soviet aims.
Egypt Saudi Arabia and Syria endorse a joint army command headed by Maj. Gen. Abdel Haim Amer. The three nations bar Baghdad Pact opponents signed last October. Amer, Egypt’s war minister and chief of staff, is seen as likely supreme Arab commander if Israel-Arab fighting resumes.
London doctors x rayed Bob Hope after a holiday show with Joan Rhodes. Hope reports a stumble during a flip routine left him with a headache and two hurt fingers. He plans to resume work on a film tomorrow.
Parts of Elmore Lowndes and Montgomery Counties in Alabama will be surveyed in a federal study of consumer spending and saving plans starting next month. The Federal Reserve Board announced the 1956 survey covering 12 large metro areas and 54 smaller communities. The study seeks data on family incomes financial status and consumers outlook on their finances. Two of every three passenger automobiles in the United States are replacements for scrap vehicles.
Mrs Callie Nail Welts dies at home in Cullman County and services were held at Rock Springs Methodist Church Blount County. Survived by husband W A Nail five sons J C Nail B E Nail W T Nail L C Nail M J Nail five daughters P T Edge J H Maddox J H Grand M F Perkins and Silas Collier one sister and four brothers.
A district court in Helena ruled there was no law against drunken driving for several months in 1955 after the legislature repealed the section and the governor enacted the repeal March 20. The substitution took effect July 1, and Judge Victor H. Fall dismissed a May driving while intoxicated charge as an oversight in November.
Police and stockyard cowboys used five of the yard’s most beguiling cows to lure back a bull that escaped from the Western Packing Co plant. The bovine ruse failed as the bull led the herd into a residential area before reinforcements roped and returned them to the yards for slaughter.
Final rites for James Henry Somerville aged 41 who died in December are scheduled today at St John Church. Services for Wash Swopes of Oklahoma will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Spring Hill Church with Sykes In charge and interment in Sykes Cemetery.
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