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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1955
Page
1
A red and white bicycle was stolen from the Roxy Theater on Bank Street at 6 18 p m Saturday. It belongs to eleven year old Jimmy Coffee of 308 4th Ave SW and his mother Mrs Elizabeth Cottrell says he has not had a dry eye since it disappeared. Police request anyone with information to contact them.
Wichita Falls Air Force Base imposed a 9 p.m. curfew for about 16 000 airmen and officers amid rising tension after an airman was slashed and beaten in a city park. Authorities warned of armed teens and planned a gang confrontation next Friday.
Birmingham dispatch reports the University of Alabama seeks a new trial after Federal Judge Hobart Grooms ruled the school cannot deny admission to Negroes by race. Washington notes Treasury Secretary Humphrey defends bond funding for a large highway program but allows alternative methods. Eisenhower nominates Reuben B. Robertson Jr. as deputy defense. Partial text indicates Anderson resignation context.
The Alabama Supreme Court issues a 43 advisory opinion allowing the Legislature with voter approval to reapportion House and Senate seats by nonpopulation means. It also rules a constitutional convention cannot be limited to rewriting only certain sections with one dissent.
Morgan County Bar Association requests raises for county officials as unopposed legislators push two bills. The first bill increases clerical pay for the tax collector and tax assessor to 4 400 yearly, circuit clerk and register to 4 000, probate judge to 1 500, and sheriff deputies by 25 a month. The second would raise probate judge to 7 500, board chairman to 6 200, and other salaries accordingly.
Rep Bryce Davis opposes a bill to merge the circuit clerk and chancery register offices. He says Sparks would run the clerk’s duties while C H Keller would not stay in the equity side, and the register operates on a fee system.
Thieves hit a Chevrolet on East Court Street in Moulton. Deputy Sheriff Lester Reed said the break in likely occurred between midnight and early morning. Evidence suggests safe tampering with a chair used during the heist and three empty coke bottles found nearby.
The president called the Dixon Yates power contract a good fair agreement after meeting Edgar Dixon president of Middle South Utilities Co and Mississippi Valley Generating Co at Eisenhower's invitation. The White House confirmed the meeting and said the president expressed appreciation for cooperation with the government during negotiations.
At a West Memphis Chamber luncheon Memphis officials faced renewed criticism as W K Ingram charged local leaders hoodwink Memphis over public power renewal with TVA. Eisenhower canceled the Dixon Yates contract after talks with Mayor Tobey, signaling a major political shift. In Chicago and beyond, tension lingered from the long dispute.
Four boys from Philadelphia and one from St. Louis were killed in a Mt Temple avalanche at 9 500 feet yesterday afternoon. Two more boys were missing and two were injured and hospitalized in Banff with head injuries.
President Eisenhower pledges frequent progress reports to Congressional leaders at the White House before the Big Four talks in Geneva. He promised an appraisal of the conference after it ends, while aides outline the approach of the U S delegation.
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge measured 20.16 feet with a 0.02 rise in 24 hours. Sea level reading 554.46 feet. Yesterday’s high 97 at 2 PM, low 76 at 5 AM. Today 8 AM 80, 11 AM 82. Forecast: mostly cloudy and not as hot, with scattered thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday. High 89, low 72, Wednesday high 89.
The analysis centers on Bulganin at Geneva and the silent ally Ivan the John Smith of Russia. The piece argues the West could gain a decisive victory, while Khrushchev watches and Ivan drives arms policy amid a bloodless Soviet reform push.
Western sources say Eisenhower Eden and Faure will press Bulganin for step by step talks to reunify Germany and build an East West security system. Aimed at limiting arms expanding trade and ending East West propaganda the plan centers on free unified elections and unified Germany within Paris treaty limits. See HEART on Page 2.
The column notes the jackpot rising to 375 with no claim checks. It urges readers to submit another solution via Friday or Sunday papers and states entries must be in by 5 p.m. today or postmarked by midnight.
The House Appropriations Committee denied President Eisenhower's request for 30 million dollars to provide free polio vaccine, citing lack of authorization. It approved a 1.65 billion dollar appropriations bill, with cuts to defense and atomic programs, and funded state vaccination efforts and anti black market measures. The committee also halted work on the 125 million dollar Air Force academy at Colorado Springs to firm up design.
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