State Delegation Backs Caucus To Chart South Course
Alabama’s 52 member delegation to the 1956 Democratic Convention favors a southwide caucus to chart a course for the region. An AP poll shows 18 of 36 respondents favoring the idea, with 8 against and 8 undecided or noncommittal.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Associated Press
Democratic Party
George Wallace
South
Eugene Connor
Philadelphia
Chicago
Frost
Connor
Citizens Councils
Deep South
Citizens Council
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Stuart Symington
Dick Russell
Lyndor Johnson
Stevenson
Kefauver
Averell Harriman
New York
John Sparkman
Miss Moody Vies For Cotton Maid Honors in Decatur
Betty Moody, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E. Moody of 314 5th Ave NW, represents the Decatur Civitan Club in the Morgan County maid of cotton contest. A 1953 Decatur High School graduate, she will be a senior at Alabama Polytechnic Institute majoring in secretarial training. Moody is Phi Mu secretary, ex-Auburn band member, active in religious emphasis week committees, Glen Club and Plainsman staff. height five feet seven inches, 130 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes. Measurements 36 26 38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Civitan Club
Betty Moody
Leonard E. Moody
5Th Ave
Glen Club
Plainsman
Rev Fennell Garnett To Address Morgan County Women
The Rev. Fennell Garnett will speak at the Morgan County Business Women's Federation meeting at Athens Baptist Church Thursday at 6 45 p m. He will discuss Youth And Youth Relationship To The Church And Missions after a covered dish supper on the church lawn.
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Fennell Garnett
de Tar
Southern Baptist Seminary
Louisville
Morgan County Business Women’s Federation of Baptist Churches
Athens Baptist Church
Garnett
Kentucky Children’s Home
Women of
Baptist Churches of
Morgan County
Southern House Members Gird For Civil Rights Bill Fight
Southern House members plan a delaying fight on the civil rights bill as Rep. Colmer and others seek to slow the measure. They expect to push debate, amendments, and quorum calls to hinder quick passage, with a July 16 target to bring it to the House and Senate action later in the year. The bill would create a civil rights commission, a justice department civil rights division, and give the attorney general power to pursue civil actions and protect voting rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Brown
Washington Service
Washington
Rep
Colmer
D-Miss
House Judiciary Committee
Smith
D-Va
Congress
Senate
House
Rules
McCormack
D-Mass
Justice Department
Attorney General
AIRLINE CRASH HEARING FOCUSES ON PILOT RESPONSIBILITY
CAB inspector William K. Andrews testified at a House subcommittee that the Grand Canyon crash stemmed from TWA pilot error. United and TWA were at similar altitudes, with TWA under visual rules and United under instrument rules, and Andrews stressed TWA bore primary responsibility for maintaining separation.
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Bill Becker
Las Vegas
Civil Aeronautics Board
Grand Canyon
TWA
United Air Lines
House Commerce
Andrews
Oren Harris
United
CAB
Arizona
U. S. Weather Bureau
Civil Aeronautics Administration
California
CAA
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Lake Mojave
Notable U.S. lawmakers and early London gas lighting
The record lists Shaw of California Williams of Mississippi MacDonald of Massachusetts Teague of Texas Flynt of Georgia Rogers of Texas Moulder of Missouri and Hale of Maine as speakers. It notes gas lights were used on London streets as early as 1807.
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Shaw
R-Calif
Williams
D-Miss
MacDonald
D-Mass
Teague
Dtex
Flynt
D-Ga
Rogers
Moulder
D-Mo
Hale
R-Maine
London
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Miss Moody
Business Women’s Federation
U.S
Clorox
Carnation
Ballard
Pillsbury
Vienna
Sweet Sue
Southern House
Gird
Aeronautics Board
Painted Desert
Ariz
Harris
Reps, Hin
Island of
Cyprus
Venice
BUSCH
Bnd
Ainitvie
E. Cooper
Mgr
Canal & Oak Sts
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