Community and Mine Robert Taylor burial in Texas
Robert T. Taylor 46 builder of Worthington Corp plant in Decatur in 1953 dies of heart attack and is to be buried Friday in Ft Worth. He later worked as project superintendent for the Dayton Daily News Journal Herald Bldg in Dayton Ohio.
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Robert T. Taylor
Worthington Corp
Decatur
Ft. Worth
Texas
Mr. Taylor
Dayton Daily News-Journal Herald
Dayton
Ohio
Forecast for 1957 war with higher costs, Babson predicts
Investor analyst Roger Babson outlines 1957 as a year of rising inflation and higher costs for materials and labor. He warns of more business failures, tighter credit, and postponed expansions while overall profits stay modest amid continued geopolitical caution.
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Roger W. Babson
Russia
Otog
Europe
United States
Federal Reserve Board
Robert Cutler
Eisenhower
Roger
Revolt Leader Replaced by North Sumatra Commander
Lt. Col. Djamin Gintings announced from Medan that he had replaced Col. Maludin Simbolon as military commander after tanks surrounded Simbolon’s home. Gintings pledged to obey President Sukarno and said connections with the central government would continue. Sukarno had ordered the handover of command.
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Sumatra
Djamin Gintings
Medan
North Sumatra
Maludin Simbolon
Gintings
Sukarno
Simbolon
Low Bid Submitted For Eva To Florette Road
A Louisville firm is the low bidder for grading and drainage of 8.126 miles of road from Eva to Florette. R G Brown Jr & Co submitted the bid of 350150 dollars. Morgan County bids total 2125150 dollars with 15 road and bridge bids opened in Montgomery.
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Louisville
Miss
Eva
Florette
State Highway Department
R. G. Brown, Jr. & Co
Morgan County
Montgomery
Science in 1956 Missile progress review by AP experts
AP team wraps up 1956 science coverage with a second annual review focusing on missile advances and related breakthroughs. The piece surveys key developments and their implications as the year closes.
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Associated Press
Texan Opposes Upping Refugee Quota
In Washington Representative Burleson of Texas said he will oppose any proposal to raise the number of Hungarian refugees allowed into America. Senator Burdick of North Dakota favored increasing the current quota of 21,500. Eisenhower authorized continued processing of refugee applications while a final decision on quota is pending.
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Burleson
D-Tex
America
Burdick
R-Nd
Judiciary Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
Congress
U. S
Murray Snyder
California Fire Spreads With New Fury. Homes Destroyed
A gale whipped brush and timber fire renewed in Malibu area as two more spots broke out and the perimeter grew to 22 miles. The blaze has burned over 20 000 acres, destroyed substantial homes, and caused one death. Winds up to 50 mph hampered crews at lower levels with higher winds reaching 70 to 80 mph.
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Malibu
Calif
Pacific Ocean
Santa Monica Mountains
California
Plant Explosion Kills 2 Workers in Newnan Georgia
An early morning blast in the smelting department of the William L. Bonnell Co aluminum plant in Newnan Georgia killed two workers and injured at least four others, one critically. The explosion shattered windows, toppled pine trees, and caused a small fire that was put out by local fire crews. Plant maintenace man Luke Johnson was thrown against a wall but escaped injuries and shut off the gas supply.
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Newnan
William L. Bonnell Co
Luke Johnson
Four-engine tanker crashes near Willow northwest of Anchorage
The Alaskan Air Command announced a four engine tanker with eight aboard crashed northwest of Willow, about 50 miles north of Anchorage. It was unclear if anyone survived as a ground team moved toward the scene.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Alaskan Air Command
Willow
Deputies Hurt Chasing Whiskey Car Near Decatur
Morgan County deputies sustained non serious injuries when a fleeing vehicle struck their patrol car on Butch Mitchell Road while illegal whiskey was being chased. A man named Murphy Holyfield, 20 to 25, faced a transporting charge after five gallons of whiskey were found. seven more were believed broken in the crash.
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Boris N. Mitchell
Morgan County Sheriff's Deputies
Decatur
Danville
Richard Hyde
Matthew Childers
Chester Hogan
Hyde
Butch Mitchell Road
Butch Mitchell
Murphy Holyfield
Holyfield
Trinity
Arsenal Workers Move to Decatur Amid Housing Strain
The Huntsville Redstone Arsenal families totaling 126 moved to Decatur in 1956 with many more seeking housing. McCullers notes monthly arrivals, none in January, rising to a peak of 20 in August, plus 18 in October and 13 by December, highlighting Decatur's housing challenge.
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Huntsville
Decatur
Joe McCullers
Chamber of Commerce
Arsenal
McCullers
Four men indicted in Gulf Oil map theft conspiracy
A federal grand jury indicted Odie Seagraves Irving Milner Emanuel Lester and Edward Liberman for conspiring to move stolen Gulf Oil export maps across state lines. The defendants include Seagraves of Houston and New York and the Libermans of the Bronx. A separate Florida note: Negro leaders plan a mass desegregated bus ride in defiance of a police order.
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Gulf Oil Corp
Odie Seagraves
Houston
Tex
New York
Irving Milner
Emanuel Lester
Emanuel Liberman
Edward Liberman
Bronx
N. Y
Tallahassee, Fla
Weather and River Report for Decatur and Vicinity
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning 17 feet, down 19 feet in 24 hours, sea level 551.30 feet. High yesterday 52, low 33. Today 7:30 a.m. 42, 11 a.m. 54. Forecast fair and mild today and Friday, clear cool tonight, winds 10 to 15 mph. High today 61, low tonight 38, high Friday 67. Waterfowl shooting times Friday 6:25 a.m. to 4:14 p.m. and Saturday 6:25 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
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Decatur
Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
Flames Destroy Paintings Valued At 200000 Plus
Fire damaged or destroyed paintings valued at a minimum of 200000 dollars at the headquarters of Masterpiece Restorers Inc in Greenwich Village. About 30 paintings were being worked on by a staff of artists including 20 from the Kress Foundation Washington DC. The loss included Tintoretto Birth of the Virgin Brueghel Country Fair and a Magnasco landscape.
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Greenwich Village
Masterpiece Restorers, Inc
Kress Foundation
Washington, D.C
Tintoretto
Brueghel
Senator Ives Aims To End Filibuster With Majority Rule
Senator Ives says he has encouragement from the White House to seek a rule change to end the filibuster require 64 votes to cloture. He and Sen Douglas say prospects rise if Nixon, as Senate president, allows a simple majority of 49 to decide. Eisenhower not expected to aid actively.
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Sen
Ives
White House
Senate
Eisenhower
Congress
Douglas
D-Ill
Nixon
Gunshots Echo In Montgomery and Birmingham Seating
Gunfire and mass arrests marked efforts to integrate city bus seating in Montgomery and Birmingham Alabama and Tallahassee Florida. In Montgomery a shotgun and bullets hit two buses with Negro passengers and white drivers. Tallahassee authorities suspended Cities Transit Co franchise and arrested nine drivers and the manager for operating without a franchise. In Birmingham 21 Negroes were arrested in a peaceful protest while Rev. F L Shuttlesworth urged restraint. The incidents followed a federal court order to integrate buses.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Tallahassee
Florida
Cities Transit Co
Charles Carter
Charles Ausley
Inter-Civic Council
Birmingham
Ala
F. L. Shuttlesworth
Shuttlesworth
Shuttleworth
Mobile
Veteran Congressman T Millet Hand Dies
CAPE MAY N J veteran Republican congressman T Millet Hand died of a heart attack last night at his Cold Spring home at age 54 He collapsed while sitting in a chair with his wife Elizabeth nearby as she lay on a couch.news report notes Hand had served six terms in the House
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N.J
T. Millet Hand
Cold Spring
Hand
Elizabeth
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