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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1956
Page
3
A candid full page ad lists Neale merchandise and "4th of July fizzles" at Brys. It promotes pink and yellow slacks priced 5.99 to 8.95 and 99 cents, odd draperies, and cashmere coats mislabelled as cashmere at 58 dollars after a failed annual inventory.
The second suit in Alabama against high retail trading stamp license fees moves forward as Montgomery enacts a prohibitory ordinance. Sperry and Hutchinson Co. attorney James J. Carter calls the new fee increase from 50 to 2500 dollars discriminatory. The ordinance, effective Jan 1, does not tax merchants, while a Birmingham case seeks 10000 dollars yearly on stamp firms and 2000 dollars on each merchant.
Alabama authorities moved to liquidate Trans-America Insurance Co of Montgomery after a circuit court injunction halted its operations. Judge Walter B. Jones named receivers Bill Armstrong and Donald Pierce following an audit showing an 850000 dollar deficit as of May 31.
A murder charge was filed in Mobile against Fred Lartigue Jr., 40, operator of a Mobile tourist court, in the death of Bill Hill, 48, a maintenance worker there for seven years. Lartigue said a fist fight occurred after Hill insisted on entering the court while drinking. he claimed he did not intend to kill. Hill previously lived in Russellville, Alabama.
Rep Sikes announces Jerry Melvin of Fort Walton Beach Florida will become his legislative assistant on September 1. Melvin, 27, born in Bonifay Florida, is the son of Mr and Mrs C A Melvin of Charleston South Carolina and previously worked at radio stations in Quincy and Fort Walton Beach before joining the Playground Chamber of Commerce in 1954.
Herbert Moore, 14, waded into deep water in Mobile River and drowned yesterday. The Coast Guard recovered his body four hours later. Assistant Fire Chief D. A. Melton said he apparently stepped into a hole recently dredged in connection with construction work at a paper mill.
The Paris metropolitan area counts about 4.8 million residents. The head of a right whale makes up roughly one quarter of its total body bulk.
HAL BOYLE notes Lititz Pennsylvania known as The pretzel town marks 200 years since its 1756 Moravian founding. Once ruled by church elders who banned dancing drinking and streetside play, the community’s early ordinances and courtship by lot reflect a strict colonial ethic amid today’s agricultural and industrial center.
A reflective piece warns against glorifying speed and ambition like rockets. It compares brief public brilliance to personal overachievement, urging balanced living, steady work, and family duty while noting risks of premature burnout and emotional strain. It ends with a call to sustain national independence through daily labor.
Decatur’s telephone count rose from 8 683 to 9 633 in the last year and from 3 306 to present figures over ten years, a 190 percent gain. Southern Bell manager Taylor notes growth signals business progress and cites 2 931 833 dollars spent in the Decatur district last year, expanding service and rural lines, with 854 rural telephones served. He predicts continued demand and mentions Alabama’s share of a 27 million dollar Southern Bell expansion in 1956.
An old village practice paired brides by drawing names from a goose quill until 1818 when schoolmaster John Beck asserted the right to choose his own wife. Some locals say the system worked, noting few divorces and calling marriage a lottery in those days.
The Associated Press reports wet weather threatened Fourth of July observances across the eastern half of the nation while skies stayed clear west of the Rockies. Central plains to Middle Atlantic regions faced heavy storms with near four inch rainfall in Rocky Mountain North Carolina and tornadic winds in Sidney Nebraska and Sterling Colorado.
Wayne Paulette and Thelma Jo Bowling of Pleasant Hill Church Morgan County joined state Junior Memory Drill and Intermediate Sword Drill eliminations. They earned the right by winning at Pleasant Hill church Morgan County Baptist Association and district events in Arab in May.
A Circuit Court judge in Bessemer Alabama is weighing a former officer John L Casey's request to receive 200 in vacation pay. Casey resigned amid an investigation for failing to report a shooting in a city attorney office on his beat. The personnel board says the vacation time was forfeited. The judge is considering a writ of mandamus to compel approval.
The Rev. Vernon Yearby of the Alabama Baptist Convention will speak at a Morgan County Men's Rally at Southside Baptist Church at 7 30 p.m. as part of three planned pre revival events July 15 29. Other rallies feature Dr Walter Moore and a morning Women’s rally at Hartselle First Baptist Church.
Army engineers received bids from R. L. Daughtry Lumber Co. Dothan and Pope Jones Pulpwood Co. Andalusia for removal of timber from 470 acres at Fort Rucker Alabama. Daughtry offered 1 million board feet of saw timber for 35000 and 150000 board feet of mixed hardwood for 1800 to 2250 dollars. Andalusia firm bid 23100 for 2800 cords of pulpwood. Land is to be used for emergency landing fields.
BAYOU LA BATRE Alabama Arthur Crampton Bromberg longtime Allied Artists Inc official died after a long illness He was in the film industry since silent days A Mobile native he owned the Cheatham Chemical Co in Atlanta and lived in semi retirement here for four years Three nephews William Frank and Robert Bromberg prominent jewelers in Birmingham
The individual was a member of the executive board and administration committee of the Alabama Baptist Convention and served as moderator of the Colbert Lauderdale Association.
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