Severe weather strikes Alabama area brings hail and high winds
Cold air clash triggers late night storm sweeping Limestone Madison and Morgan counties. Hail golf ball sized covered Rocket City ground with 50 knot winds at Huntsville Airport and nearly two inches of rain in Huntsville. Decatur 1.97 inches. Hartselle hit hardest with torrential rain. Lights cut and power outages reported across Limestone and surrounding counties with limited outages elsewhere. Area weather caution followed by local notices on building permits and police activity.
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Phillip Kyle
Wheeling
Limestone
Madison
Morgan
Alabama
Hartselle
Huntsville Weather Bureau
Huntsville
Rocket City
Decatur
Decatur Electric Department
Athens-Limestone Electric Department
Ethridge Akers
Limestone County
Athens
Ardmore
Belle Mina
Joe Wheeler Electric
Joe Wheeler
U.S
Staying on Your Job as a Christian Witness
Do not flee to Christians to grow spiritually. Strength comes through challenges, not retreat. Your most powerful witness is where you were called to serve, as 1 Corinthians 7:20 teaches. Remain in your current role unless it clearly violates Christian life, and testify to the Gospel’s transforming power.
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Test Ban Nears Final Approval After Talks
After a day of negotiations the nuclear test ban treaty was reported complete and likely to be initiated Thursday. Khrushchev warned a radical shift toward a better climate could come from signing the pact, tying it to a NATO Communist bloc nonaggression agreement in a Tass cited letter to leaders from Africa.
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Preston Grover
Moscow
Khrushchev
Tass
Hartsel le flood leaves city under water and damage tops million
Hartselle suffers a severe rain storm with up to 41 inches of water in downtown businesses. County Civil Defense reports 71 firms damaged and more than one million dollars in losses as the city cleans up after the surge. Howard Proctor notes 40 to 41 inch floods on Main Street amid the quick one and a half hour downpour.
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Winford Turner
Hartselle
Morgan County Civil Defense
Howard Proctor
City Hall
WHRT
Main St
Downtown flood tears through stores and prompts disaster talk
High water flooded downtown with plate glass windows and brick fronts washed out. Deep freezes floated from a window as refrigerators overturned. Telephones failed in many downtown lines and Decatur advised 12 lines out of order. City Hall meeting set for 5 pm with SBA rep invited. Officials eye disaster designation for 20 year loans at 3 percent. Storm rushes in with severe thunderstorm and heavy rain.
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Decatur
Hartselle
City Hall
Proctor
SBA
Solons Tangle Over Alabama Installment Lending Bill
Alabama senators debated a controversial installment lending bill that would set a flat 8 percent annual rate on all loans, while opponents argued it hides a true rate near 16 percent. A filibuster attempt was dropped after amendments failed. the measure remains pending when the legislature reconvenes.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Frigidaire Air Conditioners Featured at Robinson's on 2nd Ave
Robinson's on 2nd Avenue highlights a Frigidaire air conditioner range for every need in a showroom feature for summer cooling.
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Robinson’s
2Nd Ave
Racial truce and protests shape Maryland and South Carolina city tensions
In Cambridge Maryland a Justice Department aided truce aims at desegregation and peaceful school integration while Charleston South Carolina factions reject similar concessions. In New York and other cities, demonstrations continue with arrests and clashes as Birmingham repeals segregation ordinances and a tense voter registration history reemerges.
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Justice Department
Cambridge
Charleston
S.C
J. Palmer Gaillard
Glover
New York
Baton Rouge
Somerville
Tenn
Fayette County
Moon Program Heads Named
Dr. George R. Mueller, 45, longtime space rocket developer, named to head the U S manned space program. NASA says he will become deputy associate administrator for manned space flight on Sept 1, taking over duties from the resignation of D Brainerd Holmes as director of the office.
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Huntsville
Ala
George R. Mueller
Los Angeles
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Mueller
D. Brainerd Holmes
Office of Manned Space Flight
Manned Space Flight Centers
Four Children Drown as Alabama Flood Ravages Mobile Bay Beach
A Birmingham family loses four children Paul Reed two Nicholas Reed five Pete Reed six Tina Reed nine in Fairhope Beach drowning near Mobile Bay. The mother was rescued and hospitalized. Civil defense and SBA Officials mobilize aid as floodwaters subside.
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Alabama
Sulligent
Birmingham
Fairhope Beach
Mobile Bay
Paul Reed
Nicholas Reed
Pete Reed
Tina Reed
H. Peter Reed
Reed
Alabama Power Co
Mayor reports SBA rep to attend city hall meeting on flood aid
Mayor Grady Long said Sen John Sparkman arranged for a Small Business Administration representative to attend a 5 PM meeting at City Hall. He urged all residents affected by the high water to be present.
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John Sparkman
Rep
Bob Jones
Small Business Administration
Washington
SBA
Morgan County
Albert Brewer
House of Representatives
Civil Defense Department
Brewer
Long
Civil Defense
Grady Long
J. Frank Manderson
Montgomery
Proctor
Fred Foy
Ryker
Highway 36
Main St
Sparkman St
Highway 31
Sen
City Hall
Train Collision Kills Three Women in Sulligent Alabama
A car and a train collided near the Frisco Railway Depot in Sulligent Alabama killing three women and injuring four others two severely. Louie Lucas died on arrival at Vernon Hospital and Helen Plunkett plus Mary Nell Cantrell died shortly after.
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Sulligent
Ala
Frisco
Vernon Hospital
Louie Lucas
Helen Plunkett
Mary Nell Cantrell
House committee clears cotton two-price system bill
The House Rules Committee moved the long delayed measure to end the current two-price cotton system for congressional action. The proposal seeks to unify pricing and streamline cotton policy amid ongoing debate and industry concerns.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
House
TVA Receives Six Bids for 2.29 Million Power Cable Contract
TVA spokesman announced six identical bids were received for a $2.29 million contract to lay power cable. The project aims to interchange electricity between TVA and a private utility group.
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Chattanooga
Tennessee Valley Authority
Power
TVA
Army completes pullout from Oxford as final troops leave
The U S Army continues to withdraw from Oxford Mississippi with the last soldiers expected to depart by Thursday marking the end of a prolonged military presence in the university town.
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Oxford
Miss
U.S. Army
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