Alabama half way point for 1951 legislative session
At mid session Alabama lawmakers moved to raise the state sales tax from 2 to 3 percent to fund schools with Oct. 1 as the effective date. Key actions include a $788,000 prison debt relief bill and a $25 million road bond measure likely to draw federal matching funds for a $50 million program. The session resumes July 10 after the Fourth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgonery
Ala
State Prison Department
Gordon Persons
House
Senate
Mobile County
Tom Johnston
Talladega
Graham Wright
Calhoun
Elvin McCary
McCary
Finance and Taxation Committee
Ways and Means
Local Happenings Reflect Community Ties Across Decatur
Decatur area daily notes include improved condition for Dick Kennedy at Baugh-Wiley infirmary, a transit driver Roy Lee on vacation in Atlanta, and Pvt Almon Hensley wounded in Korea. Local donations to Bobby Franklin fund reach 757.62, while Auburn students pledge fraternities and clergy attend regional conventions. Several births, hospitalizations, visits, and travel fill the week alongside weather data from TVA and Red Cross notices. Funeral services, church revival plans, and community appointments populate the ensuing pages.
Five minimum cease fire terms loom in Korea talks
South Korea backs five conditions for a cease fire including Chinese troop withdrawal and North Korean disarmament while Washington cautions no preconditions. Peiping radio rails against U S air power as Korean unification signatures top the war news and small skirmishes continue.
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Korea
North Korea
Ridgway
Reds
Peiping
Japan
U. S
Pyongyang
Rth
Korean Radio
Berlin
Eighth Army
Armistice terms sent to Ridgway for Korea truce talks
U S and United Nations ally plan for a buffer zone near the 38th parallel and halt to fighting. Proposals include one for prisoner exchanges, access for a truce commission, refugee care, and security measures. Terms are tentative and under consultation with Ridgway and 15 other governments. Communist response could take days, but officials believe rejection is unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
Matthew B. Ridgway
United Nations Committee
38Th Parallel
United States
Ridgway
Cotton Prices In Sharp Drop This Week Amid Uncertainty
New York June 30 cotton prices fell sharply on the New York exchange as traders adjusted to Soviet cease-fire talks and ongoing uncertainties. Net weekly losses ranged from 2.15 to 5.15 per bale with July the least affected. factors included favorable weather and crop advice alongside a slow spot market.
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New York
New York Cotton Exchange
Danish Jutlandia on two hour alert in Pusan harbor
In Pusan Korea on June 30 1950 the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia stood at two hour alert ready to sail to Wonsan the proposed cease fire rendezvous. Commodore Kai Hammerich described the mission as a great honor and noted the ship had to unload 103 patients by 2 PM while water and food were loaded. The U S Navy ship El Dorado stood by to receive civilian correspondents for the trip.
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Pusan
Korea
Jutlandia
Wonsan
Matthew B. Ridgway
Orient
Kai Hammerich
Denmark
Hammerich
Danish Red Cross
U. S. Navy
el Dorado
Red Course Studied as Peace Offer Sparks Negotiation
The article discusses a long campaign to prove peacemaking aims and a belief that the Reds may accept or seek more information about Ridgway's proposal. Acceptance could complicate with a real end to fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgway
Braves overpower Giants in Holmes Boston debut 19-7
Boston defeats New York 19-7 in Tommy Holmes first game as manager. Earl Torgeson hits two homers including a grand slam, Sid Gordon adds a homer as the 18-hit attack ruins Sal Maglie’s bid for a 13th win.
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Boston
Braves
Tommy Holmes
New York Giants
Earl Torgeson
Sid Gordon
Sal Maglie
Britain Faces Iranian Crisis Over Oil Installations
Britain asserts its actions in Iran and Iraq are to protect British technicians and AIOC property. Tehran protests raids on the liaison officer's home as Britain seeks an injunction at The Hague. Iran accuses Iraq of hosting threats while Britain relies on a mutual aid treaty for transit rights.
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Britain
Persia
Iran
Soviet
Russia
Moscow
Tehran
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
International Court of Justice
Hague
World Court
AIOC
Justice Ministry
N. R. Seddon
Maki
Iraq
Fugitive Irwin Sought After Car Theft and Shooting
A state trooper called the manhunt for Irwin the biggest since the Lindbergh case. Miss Barker described Irwin fleeing a stolen car into woods with one gun and six rounds. The pursuit began after a car was spotted near Ringoes about 12:30 PM EST, hours after he left his uncle’s Warrington Pa home. Irwin’s uncle George Brewer, 42, said the fugitive boasted he would reach Mexico and avoid capture.
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Irwin
Flemington
George Brewer
Mexico
Price controls battle looms as rollbacks blocked
Balked said that price rollbacks and livestock slaughters are wholly unnecessary to effective price control. The Office of Price Administration says Congress' ban on rollbacks will cost the public 2.7 billion in price cuts that cannot be ordered. A new fight over controls appears likely next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer Hoyt
Denver Post
Taft
Ohioan
Office of Price Administration
Congress
Decline in Horses and Mules Over a Decade
Over the last ten years the country saw a 52 percent drop in horses and mules. The statistic reflects a substantial reduction in equine and pack animal populations across regions.
Drivers Poised For Bus Strike
About 500 Crescent Bus Lines drivers in four North Alabama cities face a midnight strike after three days of talks with AFL officials failed to produce a wage settlement. The union seeks a 10 percent raise. inter city drivers currently earn five and a half cents per mile, with city drivers at 1.08 dollars per hour.
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Anniston
Ala
North Alabama
Crescent Bus Lines
AFL
Crescent Transit
Crescent Stages
Crescent Motors
Gadsden
Huntsville
Fairfield
Birmingh
Nashville
Atlanta
Montgomery
Columbus
Pension Battle Tests City Councils Power in Georgia
William B. Morris of The Augusta Chronicle led a court action to set aside a $4,000 yearly pension voted to a director who ran both police and fire departments. The suit claimed the council raised the salary from $5,000 to $8,000 and retired him at half pay on the same day. The Georgia supreme court upheld the pension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William 8. Morris
The
Augusta Chronicle
Kennedy
Georgia Supreme Court
Safe Rules For Holiday Driving
Public Safety Director L. B. Sullivan urged careful courteous Fourth of July travel. He advised driving at a safe speed starting early staying on your side of the highway using timely arm signals and yielding the right of way to avoid accidents. He warned that drivers should take pride in avoiding wrecks rather than beating another car through an intersection.
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Montgomery
Ala
Public Safety
L. B. Sullivan
Sullivan
Grivers
Only about 100 of 11000 bacteria are harmful
A statistic notes that among roughly 11 000 bacteria varieties only about 100 cause harm.
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Dick Kennedy
Baugh-Wiley Infirmary
Roy Lee
Decatur
Defense Department
Almon Hensley
Danville 1
Bobby Franklin
Americas Legion
Decatur Daily
C. E. Tull
Auburn
Alabama Polytechnic Institute News Service
Kappa Alpha
Billy Joe Aycock
Billy Levin
Paul Jones
Bob Tweedy
Courtland
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Finis St. John
Cullman
S. C. Williams
Virginia Beach
Commonwealth Life Insurance Co
T. D. Grubbs
Clayton
Lewis Machen Hammond
University of Virginia
Board of Visitors
Dean Hammond
Frances Lile
Trinity
Judith
Frances
Carlile Blackwell
St. Vincent's Hospital
Birmingham
Walter Eubanks
Ninth Avenue East
Decatur General Hospital
Hamil Clinic
H. H. Hannah
William “Bill” Carrell
Horton Avenue
Charles Clark
Sixth Avenue East
Burl Grubbs
Athens
H. H. Hill
East Gordon Drive
Albert B. Watson
Fort Bragg
North Carolina
J. A. Watson
Moulton
Dorothy Akers
Duluth
Minnesota
St. Mary's Hospital
C. A. Hargett
O. S. Bagerman
Hargett
Engineer Combat Battalion
Fort Belvoir
Virginia
E. E. Adams
J. M. Nelsom
Hariselle 2
Decatur Satur
James Stevens
Hillsboro
B. J. Key
Moulton 1
Albert Clapton
Mrs. J. W. Clapton
Guy Lamon
Ypsilanti, Mich
John McGehee
Lester Sheffield
Harold Sheffield
Sam Montgomery
Sixth Avenue West
John Washburn
Ninth Avenue West
New Orleans
Bobby Jean Montgomery
Tuscumbia
Mrs. Gilbert Couch
Alvis Whitehead
Robert
Florida
TVA
Tennessee River
U. S. Weather Bureau
Knoxville
Guntersville
Whitesburg
Florence
Morgan County
American Red Cross
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Buford Maddox
Dalton Aldridge
Helen T. Peiffer
Waynesboro, Pa
Left Thompson
Gene Thompson
Ft. Jackson, SC
Leff Thompson
Robert Glenn
Guy L. Colbert
Southern Union College
Wadley
Congregational Christian Ministers
Rev
Glenn
Amunity
Valdermosa Springs
Lewis
Danville
le-Danville
E. E. Lanier
Minnie Livingston
Bessemer
Ida Jones
Five Points
Maynard Layman
F Arm
Daily
Layman
Brown
Eighth Avenue East
Sixth Avenue South
Mary Layton
June Johnson
Mrs
Frank Nelson
Tri-Cities
Liam R. Nelson Sr
J. W. Eaton Jr
Tenth Avenue East
W.C. Smith
Somerville
Joe Gourley
Austinville
Ray N. Howell Jr
Hartselle
H. Cohan
West
Cherry Street
AIR Line
J. B. Carl
Ozark Airlines
St. Louis
Flying Farmers
Pryor Memorial Airfield
Carl
Tuscaloosa
John M. Hightower
Washington
U.N
Shelbyville Sr
Meadow Lark
Chicago’ and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Nial Lasibi
POS
Preeras
Bulletin
Basra
Habbaniya
Shuaiba
Kuwait
Neil Kirk
E. Moulton
Kirk Chiropractic
E. Moulten St
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