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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1956
Page
1
Official readings show 4.88 inches of rain in June at Decatur with the hottest day June 10 at 95 degrees. June 19 and 25 recorded 94 degrees. Bridge club session canceled for Tuesday. Blue Haven pool opens July 4 from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. 9X11 swimming classes start at 8 a.m. on July 4.
In Poznan Polish heavy artillery and tanks pressed the last holdouts as Westerners fled the city. Reports from Warsaw Radio cited hundreds killed in three days of street fighting and said mass trials for ring leaders had begun.
About 650 000 steel workers walked out nationwide when the 12 01 am EDT strike took effect after failed talks. Leaders from United Steelworkers and major steel firms blamed each other as negotiations ended with no new date set. Industrial impact and national economic concerns loom as the two sides stand ready to bargain but show no imminent revival of talks.
Anthony Nutting, British minister of state, urged a world disarmament plan to avert nuclear threat. He vowed Britain will cooperate with the United Nations and will head the British delegation at the next U N Disarmament Commission talks starting Tuesday, aiming for a workable agreement rather than a take it or leave it imposition.
An extra one cent federal tax on gasoline takes effect today in Decatur raising total taxes to 12 cents per gallon sold locally. Previously 11 cents in combined federal state and city taxes applied. The tax is part of a 13 billion dollar federal automotive tax increase approved by Congress to fund the federal highway program.
President Eisenhower arrived at his Gettysburg country home in a subdued two hour drive from Walter Reed with Mamie by his side. He continued convalescing from illness as the couple faced a quiet homecoming compared with last November's larger welcome.
The article recounts a bear sighting near Leighton tied to two bears released last year by the Conservation Department in Bankhead Forest. Wardens track the animal as it moves from forest safety into populated areas, fueling concern about its origin and behavior.
Two giant airliners carrying 127 aboard vanished after leaving Los Angeles and were last heard near the Arizona California border. Searches by the CAA Air Force and law enforcement spanned northern Arizona as reports of wreckage emerged but could not be confirmed.
The National Safety Council and the International Association of Chiefs of Police project 130 traffic deaths on the Fourth of July period from 6 p.m. Tuesday to midnight Wednesday. They urge strict enforcement to limit fatalities to about 80 for a typical Wednesday in early July.
Athens qualifying ends with 14 men filing for alderman in the July 16 city election. New entrants include William B. Carwile and Hershel J. Littrell. Saturday arrivals add W. B. Buchannan and Baylis Hightower. Four candidates have qualified for mayor: Elmer L. Vinson Cecil V Warren Wayne Jennings and A. W. Stewart.
City attorneys joined an appeal to the U S Supreme Court challenging a federal decision that city and state laws enforcing segregation on public carriers are unconstitutional. The Alabama Public Service Commission had filed the initial appeal a day earlier, asserting regulatory power over state public transportation.
Mississippi and Tennessee milk producers and distributors who ship into Alabama have appealed a Circuit Court decision upholding Alabama's new milk imports law.
Washington reports the United States offering to ship thousands of tons of free food to Poland as unrest and food shortages are cited. Undersecretary Herbert Hoover Jr. says Polish demands for bread reflect growing hardship in Pozawan.
Hartelle Morgan ASC Office Manager Thomas James said signing of agreements between farmers and the county committee for soil bank payments should begin by July 5. He noted appraised yields for cotton on county farms are not being sought, using a five year average from 1951 to 1955 to set yields for payment.
A mysterious night time illness has killed 130 men in 18 months in Japan. Doctors call it pokkuri or sudden death with groaning before death. Similar cases have appeared in Manila and Guam, autopsies show no disease or cause.
The Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge Saturday morning stood at 21.6 feet, down 0.02 feet in 24 hours, with sea level reading 555.91 feet. Friday high 92, low 69. 8 am Saturday 82, 1:30 pm 92, 4:15 pm 94, the year's high. Forecast calls for partly cloudy and hot with a high near 95.
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