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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1949
Page
1
Partly cloudy today with a forecast of scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers in the northwest. Winds from the northeast to east, becoming southeast Thursday. Local church services, meetings, and events including AA, revival sermons, homecoming, and civic group activities are listed with dates and locations across Decatur and nearby towns.
Police investigated a minor wreck at Sixth Avenue and Eighth Street involving Will M. Wear of Moulton and Leon Hamilton of Hillsboro. Hamilton allegedly struck Wear’s car. only slight property damage was reported.
Decatur city leaders weigh whether the Decatur Cemetery Association can legally transfer title to the city. City Attorney John A. Caddell and Alderman Rutledge Thomas note the association's 60 year history and mixed public opinion on city management versus private control. A formal council discussion hinges on an official legal opinion before Monday night’s meeting.
The Bolivian cabinet mobilizes army reserves ages 19 to 50 to quell tin mine riots described as a state of civil war. Two thousand miners armed with dynamite clash with 200 troops at the Patino mining area in Huanuni after the government deported 26 men to Chile. Hostages are held and deaths may reach fifty.
In Montgomery Alabama on June 1 a question to settle is how many employees the Governor may have. Attorney General Carmichael was asked by Comptroller Graves to provide an advisory opinion. The issue follows a legislature action limiting the temporary clerk fund and transferring staff to the Governor’s payroll. The 1940 code limits five named aides plus unspecified legal advisers. The payroll shows nine employees in the Governor’s office including executive staff and clerical workers.
The House approved a World War I and veterans pension bill and sent it to the Senate after removing the unable-to-work provision by a 172 to 57 vote. The measure, estimated to cost 65 billion dollars in its present form, would become permanent law for current pension regulations. Chairman Rankin opposed the unemployability clause as unfair, influencing the debate and outcome.
Charles Rountree was chosen chairman of the coliseum board at a meeting with Mayor H. R. Summer and chamber representatives Ewell Gregg and Bill Sims. Sam Lile becomes co chair and Emmette Barran secretary treasurer. About 7500 dollars is needed to finish the exhibition plant including seats a lead in road and counters. Nearly 60000 dollars has been spent to date. Plans to seek additional aid from the Agriculture Center board in Montgomery were discussed. Tom C Reid will visit Decatur next week to review needs. The Decatur board will meet with the Center board later to present a formal request.
In Birmingham Alabama a Black family moved into a residential area zoned for whites despite a city building inspector’s warning. Rev Milton Curry Jr and his wife occupied the home in Smithfield, following a prior similar incident with William German Black person 3. The inspector said the move violated the law, and tensions rose as officials documented the act.
Faye Kelso described the July 25 1946 shooting of Wallace Clyde Dean in a Cullman County murder trial. She testified about traveling with Pope Woodard and Dean to a rock crusher on Holly Pond road and being left alone before learning Dean was killed.
Caswell Hayes was elected commander of a newly formed Civil Air Patrol unit. Dennis McClendon was chosen temporary adjutant and Ralph Jones publicity chairman. Major Charles A. Riding, Air Force CAP liaison, will meet June 7 to discuss organization. The group aims to train cadets 15 to 17 and provide reserve flying credits.
Ira C. Ballard 50 former Etowah county sheriff died in a Gadsden hospital after a heart attack suffered early today He resigned as sheriff last March and was a World War veteran.
Poore, sentenced to die in the electric chair for murder, was found bleeding to death in his prison cell at 7 15 a m An open blood stained Bible lay nearby The coroner s jury returned a verdict of suicide The third chapter of John verses 13 17 were circled in pencil with verse 16 most cited
Mrs Theo Ethel Skinner of 1816 Fifth Avenue East told a Daily reporter Poore was a native of Oxford Alabama and she had known him for 14 years. She appeared shocked by the death and could not provide many details and had not been notified.
Poore, a 56 year old Alabama man, was executed by electric chair after a second suicide attempt with self harm. He was convicted in December 1947 for stabbing A H Hover to death near Laguna Beach California. Hover's body was found near the Oweit oil field in Ellisville Mississippi.
The Decatur branch of the state health department reports two animal heads examined and seven treatments for rabies distributed. A Decatur doghead and a Lacon cathead were tested. neither showed rabies. Treatments were sent to Russellville, Ath ens, Decatur, and Hartselle on respective days.
Dr Willie Melmoth Bomar a 54 year old home economics teacher from Glenwood Ga began a sitdown strike at the Georgia teacher retirement system offices to recover 65 78 dollars deducted from her salary for retirement. She says the money will pay for cancer treatment and will stay in the fifth floor office in Atlanta until paid.
Farm leaders pushed a tractor bill to win a nickel per gallon gasoline tax rebate for tractor owners. The measure stalled as the house ways and means committee could not maintain a quorum for a public hearing while members were in other committee meetings.
Public hearings on the proposed rent decontrol bill will be held in the Senate chamber next Wednesday June 8 at 2 PM CST. Senate Judiciary chairman Paul Hooton announced the hearings. The bill, already passed by the House, calls for statewide rent decontrol effective February 1, 1950.
Farm Bureau leaders led by Walter Randolph urged renewal of the rebate before a committee that recessed to one, amid doubt on quorum. Senate finance heard National Guard officers protest a bill abolishing the armory commission, seeking a floor hearing. In other action the Senate Agriculture Committee backed making the camellia the official state flower.
Arrests made Tuesday by the Morgan County sheriff s office included one for assault with intent to commit a felony. The detainee identified as a local resident was taken into custody without incident and faces formal charges pending further proceedings.
IRWINTON Ga June 1 Two bullets and fragmentary tire tread marks were investigators chief hope for solving the lynching of Caleb Hill Jr 28 year old a negro shot and taken from jail after a scuffle at a roadhouse. Sheriff Hatcher and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents seek witnesses and check bullets to identify suspects. Hill left a wife and three children and supported relatives in an unpainted pine house. The sister notes he had enemies white and black who resented his ownership of a 1946 car.
MOULTRIE Ga June 1 Sheriff Olin Beverly of Colquitt county said after a raid on Legion post 242 that he acted to fulfill his duty. He reported arresting five men in the building and noted bonds posted by three men for 35 dollars and two for 100 dollars each. He promised no favors in the poker room investigation and defended the raid as duty done.
Washington June 1. Senate atomic energy committee hearings accuse the Atomic Energy Commission of incredible mismanagement under Lilienthal. Senator Hickenlooper demands FBI and security reports, notes 87 percent turnover in 1947 1948, and seeks Commission records as Chairman McMahon vows truth not whitewash.
A nine month old boy Gary Mitchell Lollar from Fayette swallowed an open safety pin Monday afternoon. X ray revealed the pin in his stomach. Physicians described the baby's condition as fair and had not yet chosen a removal method. Parents are Mr and Mrs S D Lollar.
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