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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1949
Page
3
HAL BOYLE urges opening Pandora's box with optimism for 1949. He reflects on New Year renewal, medical advances, and shared humanity, arguing life offers a rosy edge of virtue and plenty for all if people embrace hope and progress.
The piece contrasts American rights to a Russian citizen's restrictions, noting freedoms to own property, jury trial, work, travel, assemble, discuss, worship, and press, against prohibitions on land ownership, jury trials, travel, employment choices, and assembly. It also includes a satirical city scene with a motor cop stop and a zoo visit featuring a boy named Willie.
DeWitt Mackenzie argues Moscow targets faith to crush independence in Eastern Europe. He cites attacks on churches in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, Mindszenty’s imprisonment, and a BBC-style charge against clergy, linking anti religious policy to Soviet aims. He recalls Royall's figures of 13 million in forced labor camps and questions belief under totalitarian rule.
A playful compilation contrasts prices rising with staying home to watch others spend. A father explains a lion’s strength at a park zoo, a child jokes about escape routes. A wry domestic exchange riffs on autumn after a painter’s spring. A teacher asks for Bible quotes, pupils mock with dark humor. The set includes light vignettes on marriage and flu tips.
Leonard Blake Gunnells, a nine pound baby born New Year’s Day in Prattville Alabama, is named the nation’s No 1 birth under a new registration system. State officials cite Autauga county and Prattville as first in Alabama, with the state’s alpha order placing Alabama first overall.
J E Christopher resigns from the Internal Revenue Service to open an accounting office in the Gray-Holt Building. Numerous local residents and visitors are noted including Harold Stacey on leave from Guam, and several couples celebrating wedding anniversaries and hosting family visits.
In Muscogee county jail on rape charges, Krashel Shaw 19 and Clifford Turner 18 of Phenix City Alabama were alleged to have abducted a 17 year old girl from a high school club dance and driven into Georgia where Shaw raped her while Turner drove. The girl knew both youths for years and they are held without bond.
White driver Luke Cecil Brown charged with first degree manslaughter in the death of 44 year old Sue Green Carlton, a pedestrian near Lanett. Police say blood analysis showed Brown was intoxicated. Carlton died at the scene. Brown is jailed in Chambers County at LaFayette.
William C. Rosser, 20, of Montgomery, died early today at a local hospital after his motorcycle collided with a taxi on New Year’s night. Investigating officers J.G. Dean and L. M. Parker said Rosser swerved to avoid a parked truck moments before the crash.
An incident report details a collision where a taxi operated by Horace Nettles Jr was struck. The source uses dated phrasing and racial descriptor from the period, noting the driver’s identity and the vehicle involved. Further specifics are not provided in the readable excerpt.
Mrs Louise Adams 38 wife of Alabama Journal sports editor Sam Adams died Saturday night after over a year of illness. Formerly Louise Priester of LaGrange Georgia she had shown improvement recently and visited relatives last week. Survivors include her husband two children Angela 12 and Sam Jr 13. She will be buried in LaGrange GA.
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