Negro Leader Fears Repubs Will Sacrificing Civil Rights to appease Southerners
Atlanta based NAACP official Clarence W. Mitchell urged the federal government to push civil rights protections, accusing some Republicans of aligning with Southern leaders to avoid political fallout. He warned against delaying civil rights and called for vigorous enforcement under the 1957 voting rights law to empower Black voters and enable more Negro officeholders in the South by 1960.
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Atlanta
Clarence W. Mitchell
Washington
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Wheat Street Baptist Church
Congress
Mitchell
William Rogers
Rogers
Little Rock
South
Five Points Farmer Doubles His Acreage Of Arable Land
MOULTON Alabama Clifton Little shows a major expansion of arable land through a 1949 land improvement program. He increased from 60 usable acres to about 160 acres by reclaiming 10 and terracing with cover crops. His rotation includes vetch on every acre within three years. He reports average cotton yields over one bale per acre on 26 acres for three years and over two bales per acre in 1955. He also has 70 acres cotton, 160 acres corn, plus pasture and grazing crops for dairy cows and hogs.
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Moulton
Ala
Clifton Little
Little
Five Points
Lawrence County
Hoyt Price
Death notices for E. Z. Tucker and James L. Martin
Funeral services were held for E. Z. Tucker 64 retired merchant at Valley Springs Church with burial at Moss-Servite. Survivors include Bertha Tucker wife and nine grandchildren. Separate funeral for James L. Martin 83 at Mt. Pisgah Church Tarrent City with burial nearby. service officiated by Rev T E Bright. Survivors include two sons three daughters, sixteen grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Cullman
Ala
E. Z. Tucker
Valley Springs Church
Moss-Servite
Tucker
Dripping Springs Rd
Bertha Tucker
Herschel Tucker
Marjoria Harrison
Jannett Sticker
Pinson
John Sidney Gillian
Tarrent City
John Parker
Birmingham
Montgomery man dies in fall from downtown office building
A 50-year-old Montgomery man, Gleason Shofield, died from a fractured skull after leaping 20 feet from a second floor downtown office building. Coroner Dr. M B Kirkpatrick ruled death by own action. The man, unemployed, was despondent after his wife’s critical brain hemorrhage. His 16-year-old son Chester witnessed the fatal plunge.
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Montgomery
M. B. Kirkpatrick
Montgomery County
Gleason Shhofield
Kirkpatrick
Sheffield
Chester
Resistance and healing through nerve flow restoration
A public service article by Dr. Judson Pitts explains that healthy tissue cells fight germs while unhealthy ones invite disease. Chiropractors restore nerve energy to tissues to revive their disease combat. Listen to Better Living Through Better Health on WHOS at 7 15 A M weekdays.
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Nature
Judson Pitts
6Th Ave. S.E
Elgin
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