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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1956
Page
1
Local 612 Teamsters Union members checked out after bargaining with officials of the West Way Pure Milk Co. no contract reached. C. E. Winton confirmed discussions yesterday. company had no further statement at this time.
Guy Sutton an 18 year old from East Acres was fined 25 dollars plus 3 dollars costs on a vagrancy charge in city records court. He is serving time to pay the fine after being arrested for leaving a 1952 Chevrolet in the 400 block of East Moulton Street.
The Labuco Mine at Flat Creek Alabama earned a safety contest award for 168 153 man hours worked without any disabling injuries credited to Alabama By-Products Corp.
Federal plan to freeze select steel items to back defense production amid a nationwide steelworkers strike. The order will take effect Friday and last possibly two weeks, while mediators resume talks between USW leader David J. McDonald and industry chiefs.
In Parleys Canyon near Salt Lake City a missing teenager Jean Margetts 18 Sunnyvale Calif was found injured but alive after nine days pinned beneath the wreckage of a car with her fiance. She was rushed to a hospital in critical condition suffering exposure and unknown injuries.
A Morgan County United Fund board meeting is set for Friday July 13 at 2:00 PM in the City Electric Auditorium Decatur. About 60 board members are named in notices across the county. The meeting will report committee findings after hearing requests from all United Fund agencies.
Lindbee of the public department told a group of Negro leaders he would take the matter under advisement. A group led by the Rev. F L Shuttlesworth appeared before the city commission Monday.
The three member appeal board of the State Industrial Relations Department will open July 18 in Birmingham to decide if 14 000 idle workers at Tennessee Coal and Iron in Birmingham should receive state unemployment compensation. Director Eugene M Wells said state attorneys support a prior ruling that non strikers may collect benefits. TCI argues against bloc payment of benefits prompting union attorneys to likely oppose the decision at the hearing.
Specially equipped mountaineers began a climb toward the main wreckage of a United Air Lines DC7 at the Grand Canyon, as remains from 3 of 58 aboard were recovered. Swiss climbers and Rocky Mountain rescue personnel joined efforts amid rough, rotten rock. Atty Shelby McCauley said no survivors were found.
President Eisenhower will host Gen Nathan Twining in Gettysburg for talks on Soviet air power after Twining toured Soviet air forces and observed a Moscow air show. Twining will meet at the Eisenhower farm then hold a news conference in the White House press room. The President and Mrs Eisenhower spent a quiet Fourth of July, with grandchildren visiting.
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 20.70 feet up .17 in 24 hours. Sea level reading 555 feet. Yesterday's high 94, low 71. This morning 8 a.m. 85, 10:30 a.m. 89. Partly cloudy and hot today tonight and Thursday with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. High today 94, tonight 70, high Thursday 95.
General Nathan F. Twining returned from Russia saying he feels about the same on relative Soviet and U.S. air force strength as before his visit. He noted the Soviet air show accenting defensive power and said he will report to the President and defense officials before any public briefing. He called his Russian tour controlled and not revealing expert insight.
Kathy Owens, 9, stuck her tongue in a bottle of grape soda as parents neighbors and a doctor tried to help. Dr William Cunha finally freed the bottle and Kathy thanked him as she recovered.
Independence Day tolls show 10 traffic deaths and 8 drownings in the first hours as National Safety Council estimates a 30 hour holiday toll near 80 with enforcement. Earlier one day holidays recorded higher counts. See HIWAY on Page 2.
Alabama 1955 milk import law remains stalled as Supreme Court reviews its validity. Out of state producers and Alabama distributors argued enforcement could cause a milk shortage while judges weigh the health and market protection claims.
The House approved a five year program of federal school aid totaling 1.5 billion dollars amid a late debate over a provision to withhold funds from areas that continue racial segregation. The vote count stood 164 to 116 in favor though names were not recorded. The administration urged the compromise as Congress neared a holiday recess with final action anticipated soon.
Denver judge Mitchel B. Johns awarded Joseph D. White 109.05 dollars plus 50 dollars for pain after a barber nipped White’s nose with scissors. White testified the barber’s motion made him fear a sneeze and led to multiple doctor visits and penicillin treatment.
Huntington West Virginia Bill Farley 18 pleaded guilty to throwing a firecracker at a street intersection during Independence Day celebration. State Trooper C R Davis driving by arrested Farley and seized several firecrackers. Firecrackers are illegal in West Virginia and Farley was fined ten dollars.
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