Community Briefs and Local Notices From Decatur
Local clergy visits and vacation news headline a Sunday church schedule with Rev H S Brannum at Northside Baptist and Rev Smith E Ledbetter at St John s. Community members attend Alabama seedmen convention in Birmingham and Shreve visits Andalusia. traffic accident on Seventh Street and Eighth Avenue East reported with two vehicles involved. Albany station lobby now open 24 hours. Postmaster Sheppard notes longer hours after fixture installation. Floridian trip updates, weekend plans, and a note to see CLARY on Page 2.
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Weatherly
Hunter
Seventh Street
Eighth Avenue East
M. G. Fields
McGough Bakery
W. W. Callahan
Fourth Avenue West
Albany Station
R. T. Sheppard
Johnston Street
Moulton Street
Sheppard
Bellingrath Invites Neighbors to Birthday Party
Mobile says D Bellingrath will turn 80 on Saturday and has invited gulf coast neighbors to a birthday party next Sunday Aug 7. The event is pitched as a public look at his famed Bellingrath Gardens with meats served and guests welcomed.
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Mobile
Ala
D Bellingrath
Gulf Coast
Bellingrath
Jamatto
Fur Will Fly in Legislature in Alabama
Montgomery July 30 The Alabama legislature faces a heated week as reapportionment battles rise in the senate with the Boswell amendments while the house prepares to debate Gov. Folsom's $80 million road bond bill and a one cent gas tax. Two large pig appropriations totaling about $153 million over two years loom on the calendar as general and education appropriations advance under house rules.
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Montgomery
Alabama
House
Senate
Governor
Boswell
James E. Folsom
House Rules Committee
Ala
Folsom
Mary Ann Keenum Sees Miracle After Fractured Leg
Mary Anne Keenum seven year old daughter of Rev Covelle Keenum and Mrs Keenum has a fractured right leg from May 28 yet gains some hearing restoration previously 30 percent normal Doctors suggest relief of nerve pressure after the fall may have unblocked hearing While a student at the first ward school she was said to hear only at three feet and with lip reading skills Mary Anne’s father the Fairview Baptist pastor expresses faith in miracles See MARY on Page 2
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Associated Press Picture Service
Seattle
Decatur
Brenda Edwynn Bowden
Brenda
Carl Angela
George E. Bowden Jr
Grant Street
Hobbs
Mary Anne Keenum
Covelle Keenum
Fairview Baptist Church
Mary Anne
Birmingham
Anne
First Ward
East Will Get Heat Relief But Dixie Swelters
The Associated Press reports a cool front from Canada will end the East heat surge this weekend. But records show 100 in Newark and near 98 in several cities as heat prostration deaths rise to at least 77. Forecasters note showers and storms may ease temps in New York, Boston, and Maine while states like Maryland and Florida endure lingering heat.
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East
Dixie
Associated Press
Canada
midWest
Weather Bureau
Newark
N. J
Portland
New York City
Atlanta
Hartford
Upper
New York
New England
Boston
Dunklin
N. Y
Circuit Court Opens Monday in Morgan County
Morgan county circuit court will open criminal docket trials Monday at 9 a m with Judge James H Crow Jr presiding through the week of Aug 16. Docketed for trial are burglary charges against James Jenkins and Lee Cornelius and manslaughter and leaving the scene charges against Willie Echols.
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Morgan Circuit Court
James H. Crow Jr
James Jenkins
Lee Cornelius
Willie Echols
Jenkins
J. H. Kelsoe
West Church
Cornelius
Hollis Cooper
Danville
Echols
Nella June Maples
Somerville
State Supreme Court
Ralph Blankenship
S. A. Lynne
E. C
Noble Russell
Fonzo Jones
Willie Craft
James Robinson
Tax Valuation Increases Here In Morgan County
Morgan county faces rising real and personal property values with a 1950 assessment planned near 22 million dollars, says Tax Collector Alvis Briscoe. His office preps about 11,000 tax receipts for fall collections on roughly 2,142 million dollars in assessed values, against 3,200 more receipts than in 1945. Briscoe notes Decatur’s 1949 ad valorem estimate around 122 million, up from 11% million in 1948, and explains taxpayers often confuse assessment timing with tax payment.
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Morgan County
Alvis Briscoe
Briscoe
Sybil Gunn
Faye Gillespie
Decatur
Death Claims Mrs. Duncan in Athens Family loss noted
Mrs. George W. Duncan aged 78 of Athens died Saturday at 9 45 am in Hamil Clinic after weeks of critical illness. Born January 8 1871 to Porter and Amelia Bibb, she lived all her life in Limestone county. She first married Edmund Peter Garrett and leaves one son, Edmund Peter Garrett of The Cedars Belle Mina.
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George W. Duncan
Athens
Hamil Clinic
Duncan
Porter
Amelia Bradley Bibb
Limestone County
Edmond Peete Garrett
Edmund Peter Garrett
the Cedars
Belle Mina
Gar
Law Allows Donor Bones Transfer for Posthumous Use
A newly signed Alabama law lets citizens donate or transfer their bones after death for use in others cases. David Mell Adams of Chilton County spearheaded the bill, promoting a “rehabilitation” service from his cabin near Clanton to arrange body parts for hospitals and recipients. He faces family opposition but pushes advertisements in local papers to recruit donors.
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David Mell Adams
Chilton County
Alabama
Adams
Greasy Ridge
Clanton
Ten Union
E. Peste
Creosote Filled Bulbs Damages Mobile Home
In Mobile on July 30 vandals tossed creosote filled light bulbs at a newly completed brick residence on Dauphin Street. The $30,000 modern home sustained about $1,000 in damage after the bulbs were opened at the neck and sealed with wax. Detective Bill Stuckey identified the act as arson by light bulb vandalism.
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Mobile
Ala
Dauphin Street
Bill Stuckey
H. L. Adair
Money Snarl Slows Senate
Washington reports a major fight over the Senate appropriations process as about 30 billion dollars in spending awaits action. Senate leaders hope to break the logjam next week, but timing remains uncertain with two stopgap funds extending to August 15. Both parties challenge provisions seen as new legislation or changes, slowing passage of agency operating funds.
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Senate
Lucas
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Operation Money Stolen From Wife Patient at Hospital
ATLANTA July 23 0 P While Jack Scott waited at a hospital to have his appendix removed somebody stole 120 dollars saved for the operation. Mrs Scott told Detectives Lyle and Wilbur the money was taken from a billfold in her pocketbook while she was there. Lyle said police will start a collection to help pay the hospital bill. Mrs Scott said her husband had the operation and is doing fine.
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Atlanta
Jack Scott
Road Grading Nearing End at Flint Hill Sanatorium Site
Morgan Commissioner Wallace Meadows says grading the road to the Flint Hill tuberculosis sanatorium site should be finished in 30 days. Dinsmore notes most counties have paid pledges. total federal and state funds amount to $410,000 with $128,000 collected locally and plans for a 150 bed hospital due within 60 days.
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Flint Hill
Morgan
Wallace Meadows
Dinsmore
District One Sanatorium Board
Lawrence
Marshall
Jackson
Franklin
Madison
Winston
Two Alleged Floggers Held in Alabama Case
In Rockford Alabama on July 30 two men from Alexander City Bobby Buckner and Buck Burkhalter were bound over to the grand jury on $5,000 bonds each after a four hour hearing. They were charged in a flogging incident at Goodwater that wounded S. G. Bailey and G. Thomas a negro who suffered a ruptured kidney and other injuries.
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Rockford
Ala
Aswo
Alexander City
Goodwater
Justice of Peace
Robert Wilson
Bobby Buckner
Buck Burkhalter
S. G. Bailey
G. Thomas
Bailey
Thomas
Coosa County
Felix L. Smith
Arthur. Hardegree Ashland
Buckner
Burkhalter
Valley Quiet as Morgan Cullman Counties Report No Arrests
Morgan county sheriff’s office jailed two for public drunkenness. Cullman county confined two for public drunkenness, three for violation of the prohibition law, and one for reckless driving. Decatur police reported no arrests and the state authorities were not listed.
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Recorder’s Court
Ublic
Morgan
Cullman
Morgan County
Sheriff's Office
Cullman County
Decatur
Buzzing Plane Blamed for Fatal Fort Dix Crash
A Memphis bound Eastern Airlines DC-3 and a Navy fighter collided midair near Fort Dix killing 16. Twelve passengers and three crew members died, among them a five month old infant. Witnesses said the Navy plane buzzed the liner in a stunting maneuver shortly before impact, with one pilot reporting the same earlier to another Eastern flight. Authorities will question a private pilot who saw the crash from above. The Constellation carrying 65 people also reported a Navy buzz earlier, two hours before the collision. The wreckage and a massive fire occurred on farmland while rescuers gathered at a wide ditch the plane carved on touchdown. Fort Dix and surrounding communities noted no initial sound from the burning craft. See BUZZING on Page 2.
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Fort DIX
J J
Eastern Airlines
C. A. Vance
George Humphries
Morrisville
Navy
Joh B. Armstrong
H. R. Riverbank
Miami
Fla
Constellation
Harry Miller
Boston
Memphis
Peter Mungus
Chesterfield-Sykesville
Congress Now Open to Attack
WASHINGTON July 30 Congress faces a legal clash as some members warn acts passed after July 31 may be invalid. Republicans led by Martin argue the wartime emergency continues until peace treaties are signed, so the adjournment deadline is not operative this year. A resolution to extend the session is being considered.
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William F. Abbugast
Washington
Congress
United States
House Gop
Martin
Massachusetts
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Jed King
Camp Winnataska
Cecil Timberlake
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H. S. Brannum
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Brannum
Marshall Counties
Smith E. Ledbetter
Paul C. Davis
Alabama Seedman’s Association
Raymond
Shreve
Andalusia
Alabama Seedmen's Association
Ousar
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Sewanee
St. John’s
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Billy D. Hodges
Decature
Marvin
Bernard Taylor
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Clary
Fairview
Ake
Ellingrath
By Ken Reynolds
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Edwin B. Harkinson
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