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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1952
Page
1
A city pageant or informal feature spotlights local life in Catur with notes on shared spaces and common interests. The piece hints at community identity, daily routines, and neighborhood connections through concise vignettes.
The sheriff's office reports two arrests for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness with evenings in the recorder's court. A building permit authorized a six room brick veneer house at 1403 Beech Street costing about 8000 dollars.Birth announcements include a son for Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Edney at Baugh Wiley clinic. Various hospital admissions and dismissals are listed for Ellis-Meyer and Decatur General. Regular church services and sermons are noted for local congregations. See diary on page two.
President Truman demanded a quick end to the 650000 worker steel strike and sent CIO chief Philip Murray and U S Steel head Benjamin Fairless to the White House cabinet room for talks that could shape a new settlement plan. The two leaders left with optimism but no immediate timetable.
The Decatur Lions Club presents its annual horse show with ten classes tonight at Legion Field and ten tomorrow. Proceeds benefit sight conservation and other charities as patrons from several states attend. The event starts at 7 30 PM aiming for earlier departures each night.
The cost of living rose to an all time high in mid June with the index at 189.6 percent of the 1935-39 base. It was 11.4 percent above two years earlier as food rent and other daily expenses climbed. The index gained five tenths of a point from the previous record in January.
Democratic platform pledges prosperity peace and progress while avoiding civil rights feuds. Speaker Rayburn swiftly secured party approval amid mixed votes as McCormack and McKinney steer unity. Dixie delegates split with some voting no and Tennessees objection noted. Sparksman and Perlman aid harmony while both sides claim victory.
Funeral services for John Richard White aged 49 will be held Friday at 9:30 a.m. at St John’s Episcopal Church with burial at Woodlawn Memorial Park, Nashville. White, a Decatur automobile dealer and civic leader since 1945, died Wednesday at his Finley Island home. The service will be conducted by Rev. Lester McManus. active pallbearers are listed, with honorary mourners from the Decatur Automobile Dealers Association. He is survived by wife Irma, mother E. A. White, sister Randall Purdue, brother Thomas C. White and many nieces and nephews. Born September 26, 1902 in Gleason, Tenn., White started in banking in Nashville, moved to Memphis with Ford, and arrived in Decatur in 1945 with Lee services.
The Alabama delegation approved the Democratic platform civil rights plank with no roll call. Leaders like Sen. Lister Hill and Sen. John Sparkman backed a measured approach noting no compulsion. Cooper Green called the plank acceptable to all.
Auditors found no major conflicts in the Alabama Conservation Department's operations but urged several administrative fixes. They advise maintaining an up to date official bond register and fixing gaps in bond premium invoices. Differences between department and state property inventory records need periodic physical inventories. They also recommend keeping forestry division records to track severance tax collections by county within state fiscal years.
In Montgomery the publishers agreed to about 60 changes to The Challenge of Democracy but protests persist. Birmingham man Robert H. Smith threatens a federal injunction to block use in schools, arguing the book is socialistic and misleading. Governor Gordon Persons and state superintendent Dr W J Terry discuss the dispute as criticism from real estate interests remains.
Two Birmingham men, Davis Arvin McTyre and Ira Dawson, were jailed on robbery charges in the Popwell theft. Popwell, a local gambling leader, identified the suspects in a police lineup after masked gunmen raided his Shelby County area home, taking $4,000 from his car and kidnapping his wife who was later released unharmed.
Police hold Danville Illinois man Robert E. Lee Hathaway after he attempted to sell a 1951 car below value. He forged tag receipt and bill of sale to Bruce Nuby and claimed the car belonged to his sick brother in law. FBI agents and Highway Patrol aided the probe.
Slight damage resulted when a Decatur fire truck on call at Second Street and Ninth Avenue Southwest slid across the street and struck a parked car’s fender. A witness quipped that the engine seemed to be chasing him rather than the other way around.
Sen. Richard Russell's campaign manager predicts Russell will win the Democratic presidential nomination on the 10th ballot. The AP tabulation shows Russell with 1651/2 first ballot votes as Georgia transfers nomination duties to the state on the floor. Russell says he is too young for vice president at 54 and would likely be the first nominee for president today. See GEORGIAN on Page 2.
James D. Hill of the National Safety Council will meet Alabama Safety Commission to make recommendations for reducing the state's traffic accident toll. The coordinating committee will review findings on traffic safety and Hill will present an analysis of Alabama's 1951 traffic safety activities inventory. Governor Gordon Persons created the Safety Commission by executive order with Earl M. McGowin as chairman.
Twenty more polio cases in Alabama last week raised the year total to 52, the State Health Department said. Last year in the same week 166 cases were reported, and the latest week marked the highest reported in 1952 to date. The previous week recorded 13 cases.
President Truman favors Adlai E Stevenson for the Democratic nomination as heated race unfolds at Chicago convention. Russell and Kefauver gain uncommitted support while Louisiana Virginia and South Carolina face loyalty pledge disputes amid roll call. Balloting planned for night session as delegates wrestle with factional positions.
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