Local notes from Decatur Lions and area obituaries
Roy Odom chairs June Decatur Lions Club meeting at noon Tuesday in Hotel Lyons. Joan Hoppenjans earned a BA at Tulane June 1. Families travel from Decatur and Moulton to Pensacola for C C Armstrong funeral. Bud Orr earns BS at Vanderbilt and is commissioned ensign. to report June 17. Priceville Club meeting postponed after Jim Mee Ghee's death. Mrs. Almon healing after Vanderbilt Hospital surgery. Six public drunks arrested. plus license and driving offenses. Property theft reported on 1714 Ave SE. City docket lists multiple public drunk and disorderly conduct charges. Ven Jonn and family visit from Alexandria VA. Kathy Timberlake visiting grandparents in Chapel Hill Rd area.
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Roy Odom
Decatur Lions Club
Hotel Lyons
R. W
Bud” Orr, Jr
R. W. Orr
Hickory Hill Rd
Vanderbilt University
U. S. Navy
Navy
Local Stores Picketed Over Lingerie Strike in Cullman
Two Decatur stores faced pickets by women workers from Kayser-Roth Lingerie plant in Cullman engaging shoppers to boycott Kayser Luxite lingerie. The CWU Local 457 at Cullman has led a more-than-three-month strike, with Speake Warren & Ratliff and Wohl's Department Store as sites.
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Decatur
Kayser-Roth
Cullman
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Kayser Luxite
Speake Warren & Ratliff
Second Avenue
Wohl's
Bank Street
Tropical Storm Arlene Blows Through Mississippi
Arlene, the season's first storm, winds down to a poorly defined area of squalls as it crosses central Mississippi. The Weather Bureau forecasts scattered showers in Mississippi and Louisiana with high waters reported in parts of Louisiana and minimal wind damage overall.
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New Orleans
Arlene
Mississippi
Louisiana
U.S. Weather Bureau
Unfindable elsewhere Frost proof freezers and combos
Robinson's presents frost proof freezers and combinations for home or shop use. The catalog highlights secure hinges and moisture resistant interiors, with models offering compact or full size configurations.
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Robinson's
State Money Bill Expected To Be OK'd
Alabama lawmakers near quick approval of a 74 million dollar general appropriation bill set to fund non-educational state agencies for two years. Gov Patterson seeks speedy passage to aid his school tax program amid Black Belt resistance to tax proposals, with potential Senate action following House approval.
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Montgomery
Alabama
House
Senate
John Patterson
Lee State
Lake Yields Two Bodies Will Reveal More Drownings
At Conchas Lake New Mexico searchers recovered W C Wright 39 of Friona Texas from 40 foot depths below the dam after markings on the concrete surfaced during a five victim drowning incident. Missing are a Santa Fe man his 12 year old son and a Los Alamos resident with another boy victim Poehler and son Jimmy.
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Conchas Lake
N.M
W. C. Wright
Friona
Tex
Conchas Dam
Wright
Santa Fe
Los Alamos
New Mexico
Jerry Brunk
Tommy Poehler
Victor Poehler
Jimmy
J. E. Snyder
Crash Hurts City Youth At Decatur High Field Collision
Memorial weekend crash leaves 16 year old James Thomas Jones with a fractured leg and head injuries after a two car head on collision at Decatur High School field. Granville Tyler 16 is involved and is reported at scene. Police note other weekend accidents include Everett Russell 56 and Elizabeth Davis 39.
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Decatur
James Thomas Jones
Beech St
Decatur General Hospital
Decatur High School
7Th St
Young Jones
Granville Tyler
11Th Ave
Tyler
Drowning Death of Lawrence Youth at Farm Pond
An 18 year old identified as Walter Shackelford of Lawrence County drowned Sunday while swimming in a stock pond west of Flower Hill Church, about two miles from Hillsboro Crossing. He reportedly dived several times, then called for help as the water depth reached 12 to 15 feet. his body was recovered around 4 p.m. after the 1:45 p.m. drowning.
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Hillsboro
Walter Shackelford
Shackelford
Stock Pond
Flower Hill Church
Hillsboro Crossing
Lawrence County
Grady Sibley Shackelford
Daily Series Relives Fateful 1944 D-Day
The Decatur Daily begins a four part series recalling D day June 6 1944 with voices from Don Whitehead General J Lawton Collins German officer Horst Fluegge and AP writer G K Hadenfield. The report frames a quiet letter from a general a peace found by an AP correspondent and a Rangers unit chronicle.
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Associated Press
Stars and Stripes
Decatur
Don Whitelead
Normandy
Map
J. Lawton
Lightnin
Joe Collins
7Th
Utah Beach
Horst Fluegge
Germany
G. K. Hadenfield
Astonishment over Lloyd fate at Big Four talks
London Times report sparks astonishment among delegates that Selwyn Lloyd will be moved from foreign secretary. British officials deny any such plan and say no change before Britain's general election due by next May.
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Geneva
London
Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
Britain
London Times
the Times
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
Decatur Sky Report for Tuesday June 2
The notice lists sun set at 6 56 p m and sunrise 4 3 a m with moonrise at 2 56 a m New Moon. Prominent star Altair visible low in the east at 9 38 p m and planets Venus Mars Saturn Jupiter with times for setting and rising.
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Altair
Venus
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Weather and river readings for Decatur and vicinity
River reading at Kelle Memorial Bridge this morning was 21.44 feet with a 0.23 foot drop in 24 hours. TVA lake stages list Guntersville at 594.9 Wilson at 507.1. High yesterday reached 88 at 2 PM. low this morning 71 at 4 AM. Today’s temp at 10:40 AM 84 degrees. Forecast calls for cloudy conditions with showers thunder showers and scattered storms today tonight and Tuesday. Winds 12 to 18 mph, gusty near storms. High today 84, tonight 70, high Tuesday.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Reading
Kelle Memorial Bridge
TVA
Guntersville
Wilson
West Presses Soviet on Berlin Tension at Big Four Talks
The United States Britain and France pressed the Soviet Union to suspend threats against West Berlin and seek a stopgap settlement. Herter Lloyd and Couve de Murville met Gromyko at his villa amid secret talks aiming to avert a military showdown and clear a path to a summit. Khrushchev warned West Berlin concessions must match Western offers.
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John M. Hightower
Geneva
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
West Berlin
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Albania
Food Prices Up Ten Years and Farmers’ Returns
Washington AP report: retail food costs rose 20 percent over the past decade while prices received by farmers fell 8 percent. The House Agriculture Committee notes food costs stay cheaper relative to earnings, with last year’s retail farm food bill at 53.7 billion dollars, up about 16 billion from 1947-49, largely absorbed by processors and middlemen.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Children in Macao struggle in Cold War school clash
In Macao, Santa Teresa Catholic school and the Green Island Free School across the fence wage a loud political contest. Principal Ignatius Wong booms anti Communist messages via public speakers as children sing political songs. Santa Teresa now outnumbers the Communist school by about 1,053 to 400.
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Macao
Red China
Ignatius Wong
Santa Teresa
Green Island
Wong
Khrushchev Threatens Destruction If War Comes
Soviet Premier Khrushchev warned in Viore Albania that any attack on the Soviet bloc would amount to death by own action and that capitalism is doomed to be replaced by communism. He asserted Soviet industrial power would surpass the United States and cited a joint Soviet Albanian communique on world policy and calls to end colonialism and nuclear arms in Europe.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Viore
Khrushchev
Soviet Bloc
America
Tirana
Albania
Red
Enver Hoxha
China
United Nations
Germany
North Atlantic Alliance
Warsaw Pact
Geneva
Soviet Union
Circuit Court Opens June Term With Dual Courts
Morgan County Circuit Court begins its regular June term with grand and regular juries seated. Judge James Bloodworth presides while Newton Powell sits in the little courtroom. Bloodworth says two courts could save the county 500 to 600 dollars daily, though it requires more jurors.
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Morgan County Circuit Court
James Bloodworth
W. Guy Walker
C. F. Abbott
John B. Winton
Howard Odell
John R. Parker
George A. Corneil
Robert Wallace
William Walter
James A. Douglas
Ad Halbrooks
Huel D. Sharp
P. C. Matkin
James E. Thompson
H. Oliver Snow
W. F. Hendrix
Max Slate
Bloodworth
Newton Powell
Petitions in Decatur Set 1300 Names for Liquor Referendum
Probate Judge T C Almon says 25 percent of last general election turnout is needed for the liquor referendum petitions. The 5091 votes cast in that election set the benchmark. Petitions from Morgan County voters are being circulated in Decatur Alabama to be filed within state law.
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Decatur
T. C. Almon
Alabama
State of Alabama
Sereby
Morgan County
Memorial weekend traffic toll tops records nationwide
The National Safety Council reports over 300 deaths from traffic accidents during the Memorial weekend, a record for the 54 hour period. The toll, driven by heavy travel and multiple crashes, surpasses past highs and prompts calls to boost highway safety efforts.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
NSC
Pennsylvania Railroad
Crown Point
Ind
Six Die In State Traffic Death Toll Rises
Two cars collided head on on U S 84 near Gosport Clarke County killing John Bradley Du Bose 59 Monroeville Ensyn Packer 33 and Beulah Packer 31 of Lower Peach Tree. Montgomery woman Charlie Mae Britt 57 died Sunday in a head on on U S 29 near Brantley. James Z Peagler 17 of Georgia Ala died when his car overturned near Greenville. AP check period for weekend deaths runs 6 p m Friday to midnight Sunday.
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Alabama
Gosport
U.S. 84
Clarke County
John Bradley DuBose
Monroeville
Ala
Ensyn Packer
Beulah Packer
Lower Peach Tree
Montgomery
Charlie Mae Britt
U.S
Brantley
Frank A. Carter
Ft. Rucker
Dadeville
James Z. Peagler
Georgiana
Greenville
Associated Press
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