New Year Enters With Cold Front Across Nation
A Canadian cold front pushes through the eastern half of the country as temperatures fall sharply. New England sees another inch of snow while North Dakota and Wisconsin record subzero readings and Minnesotans wake to a brisk morning.
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Ie Bey
New England
Midwest
Central Plains
Ohio Valley
Middle
North Atlantic
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Falls
Minn
Caribou
Maine
Hospitals Baugh-Wiley Clinic Dismissals and Admissions
Hospital notes list dismissals at Se Ave 1401 6th Ave Dearing Mrs Roy Henderson Decatur. Admissions include Doyle Stover Apt 4 West Court, Cindy Everest 806 E Moulton St, Bluitt Montgomery Danville 1.
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Roy Henderson
Decatur
Doyle Stover
Apt
West Court
Little Cindy Everest
Decatur General Hospital Notices List Patients and Addresses
A list from Decatur General Hospital includes Mrs Elmo K Holibaugh at 1806 21st Ave SE Master Thomas Lee May Arab Sherry Jean Green Tan nbr James Louis Nelson 416 7th Ave Mrs Hafford Leeman 203 4th Ave SW F Jones Decatur 1 ed John P Bedenbaugh Tan Calvin Cathcart 1611 Locust St Herbert B Owen 618 Spring ve.
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Decatur General Hospital
Elmo K. Holibaugh
21St Ave
Thomas Lee May
Sherry Jean Green
James Louis Nelson
7Th Ave
Hafford Leeman
4Th Ave
F. Jones
Decatur
John P. Bedenbaugh
Births Daughter Born to Mr and Mrs Al B Taylor
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Al B Taylor at General Hospital. The infant arrived at 1202 Sherman Street on Monday morning.
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al B. Taylor
Sherman St
Tur General Hospital
Mon
Reward Posted For Floggers In Camden
A $1,000 reward was offered for the arrest and conviction of four to five hooded attackers who flogged Camden High School bandmaster Guy Hutchins near his car. Mayor Henry Savage announced county and city officials backed the appeal as Sheriff Hilton reported no new developments. Hutchins, who was assaulted while fixing a tire, said he was driven about 20 miles from the scene and beaten, with police guarding his home and many sympathy messages arriving from across the country.
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S.C. W
Camden High School
Guy Hutchins
Henry Savage
Kershaw County
Hutchins
Es Tree
Amusement and Theater Listings at Local Theaters
Amusement listing shows Pretty Baby at Amusement today with Sal Mineo and John Saxon at 1 30 3 30 5 30 7 30 9 30. Forbidden Planet plays at Sunset at 6 30 and 9 30. Disney’s Westward Ho at Bowline with A Trip To Disneyland at 6 30 and 8 30. Starvue Courtland Highway presents Anything Goes starring Bing Crosby and Donald O Connor at 7 00 and 9 00. Ranch Wartselle features Toy Tiger with Jolt Chandler and Tim Bovey at 6 45.
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Pretty Baby
Sal Mineo
John Saxon
Bowline
Walt Disney
Disneyland
Courtland Highway
Bing Crosby
Donald O'Connor
Wartselle — Toy Tiger
Jolt Chandler
Tim Bovey
New Year Traffic, Stolen Watch Reported in Decatur
The Alabama Highway Patrol reported no holiday traffic accidents in the district on New Year's Eve. No district accidents were reported for the first day of the new year. A watch was reported stolen from Mrs. Mears residence at 405 6th Street on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Lorene Pinkston of Belfast, Tennessee, is visiting relatives in Decatur.
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Lorene Pinkston
Belfast
Tenn
Decatur
Alabama Highway Patrol
Political Split Over Middle East Aid and UN Police Plan
President proposes a two year four hundred million dollar aid fund to aid Middle East economies including Israel against Communist subversion. Democrats favor a United Nations police force and multilateral action instead of a unilateral U.S. military pledge. Senators Sparkman Mansfield and Monroney oppose solo U.S. action and back UN peacekeeping with support from 32 leaders invited to a briefing.
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Middle East
Israel
Eisenhower
Sparkman
D-Ala
Mansfield
D-Mont
Monroney
Dokla
Russia
U.N
Russell
D-Ga
Yrd
D-Va
Byrd
Alabama youths among the dead in several accidents
Jerry Kennedy fourteen of Albertville was fatally wounded in a hunting accident. Separate crashes claimed the lives of John Wesley Collier seventeen of Cullman, Collins Wilkey forty one of Adger, and Thomas Ellis Ard forty six of Roberdale. Mrs Harold E Jackson died of suffocation in an apartment fire in Mountain Brook.
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Alabama
Jerry Kennedy
Albertville
Marshall County
L. P. Dickenson
John Wesley Collier
Cullman Rt
Collins Wilkey
Adger Rt
Thomas Ellis Ard
Robertsdale
Harold E. Jackson
Mountain Brook
University Mascot Nips Young Finger
A Baylor University bear mascot at Camp Leroy Johnson in New Orleans nipped a 6 year old boy’s finger after the child stuck it into the animal’s cage. Randy Flint escaped serious injury. The bear is in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl game.
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New Orleans
Baylor University
Randy Flint
Camp Leroy Johnson
Nang
Robert P. Flint
Phone and Talk to Friends Who Dropped In
A brief fragment notes inviting someone to phone and talk with friends who have dropped in. The line hints at social visiting and informal communication without additional context or action. It preserves the casual tone of a local newspaper snippet.
Buses Curtailed In Montgomery After Integration Violence
Montgomery City Lines restricts service to Maxwell and Gunter routes as violence hits buses since integration began. Officials cite expected holiday lull as reason, while police plan to add 20 officers to the 140 strong force to curb attacks.
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Montgomery
Maxwell
Gunter Air Forces
Montgomery City Lines Inc
Unsteady Texans Disputed As Boisterous Image Grows
The text notes that Texans are not as boisterous as a film suggested while European statesmen enter the New Year with peace as the dominant concern.
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Europe
Redstone Army Units Rooted in Huntsville Growth
More than 2 000 military personnel from three organizations serve Redstone in Huntsville. A recent report highlights the base’s economic impact on Huntly and North Alabama with over 20 million dollars in construction underway and several more millions planned.
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Huntly
North Alabama
Nicholson Rites Wednesday At Two
Funeral services for Mrs. Novella Davidson Nicholson of 506 Gordon Dr. SW are set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home Chapel. She died Monday evening at her daughter’s home. Interment will be in City Cemetery with pallbearers named.
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Novella Davidson Nicholson
Gordon Dr. SW
Brown Funeral Home
5Th Ave
Blount County
Wallace W. Lovett
City Cemetery
Brown Funeral Co
Murray Dodd
Harry Bottis
Joe Joseph
L. B. Sanders
George West
Odie Lipscomb
Alabama Polytechnic Institute holiday period ends
Auburn reports the Christmas New Year holiday period ends for Alabama Polytechnic Institute students tomorrow after a campus break.
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Auburn
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Fire damages Apt at 606 Ferry Street
A blaze of undetermined origin damaged the interior and outside of a garage apartment at 606 1 2 Ferry Street around 8 45 last night. Mr and Mrs Thomas Craig occupants, owned by Mrs Foster Pointer, most furniture burned and clothes in closets mostly smoked. not home when fire started. neighbor reported smoke. Decatur firefighters responded.
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Decatur
Ferry St
Jack Ray
Thomas Craig
Foster Pointer
Craig
Civil rights tension flares as Montgomery bus protests grow
Police plan to hire 20 extra officers after a fifth bus shooting since integration under federal court order began. Twenty two Black residents were arrested last week amid a campaign against bus segregation as Rosa Jordan, a 22 year old woman, was wounded in a separate New Year period incident. President Eisenhower pressed for civil rights legislation after meeting Republican leaders, while Congress shelved a broader administration program for federal civil rights powers.
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Page
Montgomery
Clyde Sellers
Rosa Jordan
Washington
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Congress
Justice Department
News By Telephone Proving Popular
News highlights provided by automotive telephoning machines of the Merv Advertiser Journal prove popular in their first week. From 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. about 720 calls an hour are made for a capsule news and weather outlook. In the first 24 hours after Dec 24 the service answered 3,121 calls. monitor shows 6,481 overflow calls turned away.
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Montgomery
Ala
Merv Advertiser-Journal
R. F. Hudson Jr
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Mead Fined on Traffic Charge in Wisconsin
Gerald L. Mead was fined $35 and costs by Justice of the Peace Charles Payant on a traffic charge. He then hired Payant to represent him in a second traffic matter in nearby Oconomowoc.
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Watertown
Wis
Gerald L. Mead
Mead
Justice of the Peace
Charles Payant
Payant
Oconomowoc
Farmers Gain Slight Relief From Price Squeeze
The Agriculture Department reports a modest easing of the cost price squeeze on farmers as average prices received rose 1.26 percent between mid November and mid December while costs held steady. The December level was 6.6 percent above a year earlier but about 24.6 percent below the February 1951 peak, with hogs, commercial vegetables and tobacco rising to offset declines in other crops.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Rail Fares Rise as ICC Approves Increases
Western railroads and eight Eastern lines moved to higher fares with the ICC approving a 5 percent jump in interstate passenger rates west of the Mississippi and granting emergency 7 percent Pullman space increases. The changes took effect at midnight, with East lines allowed immediate first class and interstate coach rises after five days notice.
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Washington
Western Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Mississippi River
West Point: Nation's oldest engineering school and fort
West Point stands as the oldest engineering school and the oldest permanent military post in the United States, reflecting its historic role in military and technical education.
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West Point
Folsom Pledges State Forces to Uphold Order in Racial Tensions
Governor James E. Folsom in a New Year message promised state forces, including the highway patrol, stand ready to maintain order in Alabama amid bus segregation tensions. He noted no local appeals yet and cited ongoing incidents in Montgomery and Birmingham as examples of the unrest and federal court actions shaping the scene.
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Montgomery
Alabama
James E. Folsom
Folsom
Highway Patrol
Birmingham
Robert E. Lindbergh
Tennessee
Clinton
Tenn
Tuscaloosa
Autherine Lucy
Foster
University of Alabama
Youths Escape Fire At Conway Hunting Lodge
Seven Conway youths awoke to a lodge fire on the Little Pee Dee River. Charles Tibes tried to fling a gasoline can from the doorway but dropped it as flames blocked the exit. Kay Lovell forced a window with a solid shutter and the group slid to safety.
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Conway
S.C
Pee Dee
Harry Tibes
Charles
Timbes
Kay Lovell
Houston Sheriff Probes Shooting Of Businessman
Houston County Sheriff Alvin D Davis investigated the fatal shooting of businessman Ralph Nichols who was shot four times in his living room yesterday. Nichols wife Lucille Nichols was placed under guard in a hospital after reportedly going into hysteria.
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Dothan
Houston County
Alvin D Davis
Ralph Nichols
Nichols
Lucille Nichols
Odd English Law Required Red Flag to Precede Steam Trains
An early English law mandated a man on horseback waving a red flag to ride ahead of steam trains, a practice once used to warn workers and passengers of approaching trains.
Court Upholds Integration Orders for Arlington and Charlottesville
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed lower court rulings ordering Arlington and Charlottesville to desegregate their schools by set deadlines, reinforcing court supervision of school integration efforts.
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Richmond
Va. C
4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Arlington
Charlottesville
Markets Too Late To Classify For Rent
Placeholder text from OCR shows fragmented phrase about markets and rent with unreadable garbled content and no clear event or entities to describe.
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