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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1952
Page
5
Chicago columnist Hal Boyle recalls Trellis Mae describing Eisenhower’s nomination and the chaos of a national convention. He jokes about stomach ruin from hot dogs, a Taft for President button, and a delirious delegate shouting about penetrating the iron curtain.
Charles H. Howard son of Mr and Mrs Henry Howard has completed training in Iowa for the Methodist Youth Caravan and will preach in Methodist churches He studies at Birmingham Southern College and is among 216 college youth and 54 adult counselors who will serve on caravan teams this summer The caravans will serve 324 churches in the United States and Cuba
A burlesque dancer billed as Sheila the Peeler pleaded guilty to vagrancy and paid a $25 fine, ordered out of Montgomery. Also arrested were a 34-year-old merchant seaman named Aubrey Thurman who pleaded guilty to Mann Act violations and a hotel bell hop Eugene Stenson awaiting trial on immoral purposes charges.
At a Winston-Salem drive-in last night spectators watched James Capers a 39 year old African American man fall about 75 feet from a railroad trestle to his death He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital Police said Capers lost his footing and fell while crossing the trestle over Salem river during the outing
Capers was returning from a grocery store when police found his groceries scattered on the tracks at the fall site. The scene lies near the drive in, with authorities examining the bagged remains and investigating the incident.
MOBILE The Alabama Bar Association elected T. B. Hill Jr. of Montgomery as president at the final session of the annual state meeting. William H. Mitchell of Florence was chosen as vice president, succeeding John Caddell of Decatur. Speakers included Seybourn H. Lynne and Laurence H. Hyde. Howard L. Barkdull urged international law for peace at a dinner last night.
In the British administered islands of Oceania head hunting was a vital ritual until recently. Its suppression was said to cause social decay and a sharp population decline among the local communities.
Funeral services for Mrs. Joel S. Coates of Oklahoma City will be held Monday at 10 30 A.M. at Oklahoma City. She died Friday night at 6 P.M. at her son John Coates’s home in Oklahoma City. A former Decatur resident, she is survived by son John Coates of Oklahoma City daughter Mrs. Harold Doss of Florence and sister Mrs. Charles Eagen of Oklahoma City.
A compact note explains that horses existed in America in ancient times, disappeared, and only returned after European introduction. The piece highlights the long absence and the later introduction by Europeans.
Statement notes that applying substantial pressure to ice can increase its density beyond that of liquid water, causing it to sink rather than float.
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