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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1957
Page
2
Mrs. Fred Smith and children trip to Birmingham ends. Olie Lee Helms reports purse theft at Cancellation Shoe Store with about $78 missing from a show case. Police have no leads. A judge sentences a hundred days. Jessie Jones faces city court for driving while intoxicated. Decatur council set for 7 PM regular meeting.
Morgan County National Bank vice president J. W. Darrah is listed in satisfactory condition at Decatur General Hospital after a week of illness and a heart attack. The Decatur Curb Market opens Wednesday 6 to 11 am with sale of dressed fryers hens matoes butter beans.
At the Soma Army base Candy reports Shimizu told her angry locals demand condolence money to Mr Akikichi Sakai husband of the scrap scavenger killed by an empty grenade launcher cartridge. Sakai vows action while Girard delays marriage amid a church wedding pledge and Ottawa petition drive. Camp Whittington offers Candy protection and she spends the night with local residents.
Dublin Ireland Robert Briscoe the citys Jewish lord mayor said he was not denied a second term by his religion and that the fair outcome should apply to all. A der y hat and Cartels mame wes wn.
Market bulletin shows milk prices at 3.05 per hundredweight with various grades. Grain futures listed No 2 Yellow Corn 1.27 and Wheat 1.30. Cattle ranges include steers 16.50, cows 11.50, calves 25. Hogs for No 1-3 190-240 lb at 18.75.
The New York stock market edged higher in fairly active trade with gains across rail, chemical, oil, radio and select issues. Aircraft shares fell while steel and nonferrous metals slipped. Aveo and Curtiss-Wright led advances on earnings and defense contract news, while Homesteak e Kennecott and Douglas/United Aircraft weakened.
AP reports in Birmingham that live poultry markets in Georgia show prices paid for broilers and fryers up to 2% to 4 pounds at farms and FOB plant levels. Slow demand affects price signals across plants and farms with figures varying by lot and shipment status.
Birmingham AP market report for period ending 10:30 a.m. notes prices about steady with demand fair to improving in most areas.
In Thomasville and nearby towns estimates show mixed hog prices across weight classes. Barrows and gilts 180-240 lb average 18.50-19.25, with some 19.75, 160-180 lb 17.75-18.25, 140-160 lb 16.50-17.00, and 235-270 lb mostly 18.00-18.50, plus sows 13.00-15.50. Country sales in South Georgia and Florida Monday quoted barrows and gilts 180-240 lb 18.80-19.05.
Iggfor Ryan, 10, was struck by a car in the 800 block of 8th Ave SE while cycling with friends. Dennis Ryan, chased by dogs, veered into Mrs. W. L. Evans’s car. he suffered a sprained knee lip injury and a broken tooth. Kathy Ryan, hit two years earlier, wore a cast then. Police note dogs at large violate city rules and city officials warn enforcement.
A man bled and crawled about 12 miles over 15 days to Simpson Meadows and a ranger cabin. He crossed an 11000 foot pass, found canned food in the shed, drank water, caught fish with hooks, cooked garden snakes, and resumed travel after thaw. Pack-hikers Albert Ade and Dr Charles Howard aided him.
Secretary of State Dulles says recognition should rest on international conduct not internal policy. He cites Chinese treatment of Americans, adherence to obligations, and peaceful behavior as tests of Red China’s respectability.
The fragment lists price ranges for items with high values around 1.00 or more and weights such as 73 to 9 pounds, noting figures like 23.50 to 24.00 and 21.00 to 23.50 for various goods. It also mentions utility and good valued at 13.00.
New York cotton futures showed irregular moves in light activity. The market closed with little clear direction as traders awaited cues from demand and weather signals.
Hospital notices list dismissals and admissions across several hospitals. Names include Mrs. Bobby Nash and baby, Miss Helen N Bumpus, Roy McLemore, Mrs. Fred Coats and baby, Mrs. James Dungy and babies, Mrs. A S Daves Jr and baby, Mrs. Raymond Anderson and baby, Euel David, Miss Betty Coffman, and admissions for Thelma Edmundson plus multiple other patients at Athens and nearby towns. Also mentions bank street hospital, Baugh Wiley Clinic, Decatur General Hospital, and Lawrence County Hospital with various patient and family details.
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Butler aged 64 in Cullman were to be held at Jones Chapel Baptist Church at 11 AM. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. George Helms Rev. Willie Casey and Rev. Al Fincher. Mrs Butler died Sunday at Cullman Hospital and she is survived by her husband Anderson Butler and four sons with daughters.
The Senate confirmed by voice vote the nomination of Robert B Anderson to succeed George M Humphrey as secretary of the Treasury.
Courtland hosts a major sports car weekend with an expected 60 to 75 entrants for the 50 mile Courtland Chase at 10:30 a.m. on the Courtland Air Base runway. Notables include Chuck Saffell, John Ovitt, C. K. Thompson, Prentice Knapp, and Jim Harbour, racing high horsepower models toward top honors amid tough course conditions and prize tensions.
The district attorney described a 9 pm departure by the mother, a boy loading a rifle and his mother resting on a couch. Mrs Daisy woke the boy, gave him the gun, and they waited for Daisy. Leo shot his father when he entered a room and turned on a light. The family then moved to a neighbor’s, and the doctor found the father dead the next morning.
Hartsel le Mrs H B Johnson and family hosted Sunday guests including Mr and Mrs Robert Davis and family and Mr and Mrs Raymond Clark with son from Carlsbad New Mexico and Mr and Mrs Walter Johnson and son from Gadsden Also Moulton welcomes Dick Pavelko and children from Akron after two weeks with Jim Watson family Frank Lowery born June 30 in Mogadore Ohio Delegates from Cullman Kiwanis Club report on International Convention at regular session led by President Warren Nesmith and Vice President Dwight Fuller
The Red Cross reports 267 bodies recovered in Cameron and surrounding areas with mass graves for unidentified victims. President Eisenhower's adviser Val Peterson says total dead could reach 500 as economic damage climbs, including oil property losses estimated at 20 million dollars.
The text argues that allied and Viet nations must enter disarmament talks and be bound by any agreement. It notes the United States faces difficulty handling the issue due to no relations with the Peiping regime and Red China not being in the United Nations.
Rita Steeves, wife of an airman, speaks to reporters in a near incoherent state. She describes the event's impact as beyond rationalization and notes she enrolled at the University of Bridgeport to pursue a degree in psychology after previously graduating from its dental hygiene school.
State Sen. Sam Engelhardt leader of the pro segregation Alabama Assn of Citizens Councils contemplates a constitutional amendment to abolish Macon County and divide the territory among five surrounding counties. A drawn map and steps exist to gerrymander the county to dilute the Tuskegee Institute and VA Hospital influence.
Alabama moves ahead with Florence river docks as part of Gov Folsom and Montgom ery Knox McRae plan inland waterway development. Huntsville and Decatur sites eyed. Decatur to buy TVA waterfront land for new state docks via public auction yet to be scheduled. Site lies west of the Chemstrand plant across a Backwater neck.
Funeral services for Willard Albert Wisner Sr. 51 farmer of Arley will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Nesmith Mt. Pleasant with burial in Mt. Pleasant cemetery. Wisner died Sunday at an Atlanta hospital and is survived by his wife two sons Collins Wisner and Albert Robinson and Mrs W R Lewis.
Temperatures dropped to record lows in the northeast region while a 850 ton floating drydock sank at an Alabama pier, killing Davis Fails 27. The body was recovered by divers. On San Nicolas Island scientists launched the IGY rocket program to study solar flares. Asheville residents felt a 4 35 am earthquake with tremors rattling windows. In Washington Secretary Dulles funding whisky for visiting dignitaries, while a House Judiciary subcommittee investigates Supreme Court rulings and potential new legislation.
Senator Kennedy called on Congress and the Eisenhower administration to push for political independence for Algeria. He said the Algeria issue affects more than France and will no longer be a concern only for Paris.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Billy Sparkman at Bank St Hospital this morning. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Taylor at Nun gester Clinic on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Manley welcomed a boy from Moulton. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hope had a girl. Births recorded at Lawrence County Hospital.
Open till 4th features Joe with fresh cold eats cheeses pecan pralines and party snacks. Exported Foods operates at 1412 6th Ave offering chocolates and bread options.
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