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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1957
Page
4
Summerfield says the extra 133 million Congress provided for next year will eliminate the need for significant mail service curtailments. A House committee weighs whether baseball is a business or a sport, with the debate framed as a question of Congress doing nothing.
Nobel laureate Otto Hahn warns that no one will survive an atomic war and life would end for humanity. The piece notes mixed scientific opinions, highlights the UN as a sustained peace effort, and urges global prayer to avert destruction.
The Talladega Daily Home comments on Cecil Hornady’s piece Do You Earn Your Wages arguing fair wages and fair work, noting modern trends toward longer holidays and a potential four day week. It praises forward thinking managers and workers, while jokingly chiding old fashioned views from 1900.
The Washington Merry Go Round notes a heated fight over a high federal dam at Hells Canyon. Adam Clayton Powell of Harlem, key on the Public Works subcommittee, leans toward Eisenhower, amid civil rights politics and past kickback prosecutions of his associates.
Congressman Powell dodged Oregon Congresswoman Edith Green and other leaders over the Hells Canyon vote. He rejected proxy requests and refused talks about a trip to Germany or Caribbean junkets, despite mounting politicking and pressure from New York figures.
A columnist warns self-pity narrows horizons and wastes potential. It urges getting out of oneself, widening interests, helping others, and focusing on life values. The piece cites Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s example as a turning point from self-pity to renewed purpose.
Oregon senators Morse and Neuberger mobilize allies including Truman and Denver Post to sway Republican congressmen Shuford Haley and Chenoweth against Hells Canyon. Civil rights promises are used as leverage with Powell and NAACP leaders. Powell’s vote remains uncertain as committee holds the bill.
A reflection on how local schools faced uniform exams and rising delinquency. The piece critiques double tuition for private schooling, broken homes, and the need for parental discipline and consistent training to curb misbehavior among youth.
In a Senate probe led by John McClellan, Bob Kennedy’s team digs into New York labor racketeering where witnesses stay silent. The investigation traces a cash based, undercover network across unions, with subpenas issued for July hearings in Washington and a pending fall schedule.
A syndicated notice emphasizes strict school discipline enforcing propriety, table manners, and respect for elders. It stresses these rules cannot be bypassed and urges proper conduct in the educational setting.
Nearly 60 000 Boy Scouts and adult leaders prepare to inhabit a 3000 acre temporary city at Valley Forge Pa for the fourth National Jamboree starting Friday and ending July 18. The site will host tents roads hospitals post offices snack bars and an inter camp bus system. QO B Evenson notes no modern parallel for such a temporary city.
The Rev. Nelson Burlin Higgins Jr. preached at Normandie Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church as its first Black pastor in the Southern California- Arizona Methodist Conference. His appointment triggered a white parishioner walkout and was announced by Bishop Gerald Kennedy.
An illness of several months ended in death here yesterday for Fred T. Stimpson, 68, veteran lumber company official and conservation leader. Stimpson was director and president emeritus of the Alabama Wildlife Federation and had been active in the lumber business for 30 years.
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