GOP Lines Up Housing Votes
Washington Republican leaders convened a closed door strategy with all GOP senators to line up enough votes for housing legislation as debate nears. Senator Butler signaled possible support despite past opposition while Senate leaders seek tighter party discipline amid Democratic opposition from Maybank who has proposed an amendment.
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Rowland Evans JR
Washington
Eisenhower
John M. Butler
Rmd
GOP
Knowland
California
Sen
Maybank
D-Sc
All Incumbents Lose In Madison
Madison County voters ousted incumbents in Democratic primaries with state Senate candidate Herman K Vann leading 5 738 to 5 192 over Joe Foster and Rep Roscoe Roberts Jr 7 321 to R L Eslick 3 652. Sheriff L D Wall 7 321 beat Cecil Sanderson 3 852 and Coroner Jimmy Giles 6 563 defeated Don L Fields 3 409. Giles age 24 works for the same funeral home as Fields.
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Huntsville
Madison County
Senate
Herman K. Vann
Joe Foster
Roscoe Roberts Jr
R. L. Eslick
L. D. Wall
Cecil Sanderson
Jimmy Giles
Don L. Fields
Giles
Fields
Supreme Court Refuses Appeal on San Francisco Housing Policy
A recent Supreme Court decision denies review of a San Francisco Housing Authority appeal seeking approval of a segregation policy in a low rent housing project. The ruling shifts positions on housing policy and access to public housing programs.
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Supreme Court
San Francisco Housing Authority
Hearing For Negro In Axe Slaying Set For Friday
D. C. Clemons, Limestone County Negro tenant farmer, faces a preliminary hearing in Limestone County Court before Judge D. L. Rosenal. He is charged with assault with intent to murder after an axe beating at his home left Levi Fletcher dead and Jim Henry Collier hospitalized with skull fractures. Clemons is free on $500 bond.
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D. C. Clemons
Limestone County
D. L. Rosenal
Athens
Limestone
Clemons
Levi Fletcher
Jim Henry Collier
Huntsville Hospital
Fletcher
Witnesses Back Anniston Mayor in Tax Evasion Case
Witnesses supported Mayor E C Lloyd's denial of evading federal income taxes, saying he bought black market sugar to run his bakery. Lloyd faces$18 000 in taxes due for 1945 1946 and 1947. A prior mistrial left many testimony repeats this week.
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Birmingham
Anniston
E. C. Lloyd
Lloyd
U. S
John Sandner
Ralph Griffin
Calumet and Hecla Declares 15 Cent Dividend
The board of directors announces a 0.15 dollar quarterly dividend per share for stock with July 2, 1954 as the record date. Separately, millions of pounds of petrified dinosaur bones were removed from a quarry at Dinosaur National Monument on the Colorado Utah border.
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Boston
Mass
Calumet and Hecla, Inc
Dinosaur National Monument
Colorado-Utah
Man recounts knife attack near Limestone Madison line
Clemons told Limestone deputies that at his arrest time the two men charged at him with hawk bill knives and tried to force him from his home near the Limestone Madison County line.
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Bond
Clemons
Limestone
Madison County
New Is Appointed Manager Technical Sales Service
Harry E. New has been appointed manager of the Technical Sales Service Division of The Chemstrand Corporation. W. G Luttge announced the appointment today. New joined Chemstrand in March 1953 after 14 years with American Viscose and will keep his office at Decatur headquarters. The division serves Acrilan acrylic fiber and Chemstrand nylon customers.
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Harry E. New
Chemstrand Corporation
W. G Luttge
Mr. New
American Viscose Corporation
Decatur
Chemstrand
Belgian Plane Shot Up By MIG Near Austrian Frontier
A Belgian DC3 freight plane carrying pedigreed pigs from Britain to Belgrade was shot at near the Yugoslav Austrian frontier. A radio operator died and the crew suffered injuries. Survivors described the attacker as a Soviet made MIG jet. the Belgians reported several Soviet fighters. The plane landed emergency at Graz. a sister pig flight landed safely at Belgrade.
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Austria
Hungary
Belgrade
Britain
Yugoslavia
Graz
Munich
Hearing On Probation Revocation For Limestone Man
Grady B. Hanks Jr of Decatur faces a Limestone County Court hearing in Athens to show cause why his probation granted April 9 should not be revoked for driving on a revoked license. He was fined 38 dollars and jailed 30 days after arraignment and placed on probation to pay 15 dollars on three dates and stay sober, which he allegedly failed to do, prompting the revocation hearing.
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Grady B. Hanks, Jr
Decatur
D. L. Rosenal, Jr
Limestone County
Athens
Hanks
Rosenall
Connecticut Unemployment Benefits Top $8 Million in 1953
With business at its record peak, Connecticut paid out more than eight million dollars in unemployment compensation in 1953.
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Connecticut
Hearing impaired children count cited by AHA
The American Hearing Aid Association states more than two million U S children have impaired hearing, highlighting a significant public health concern and potential need for aid and resources.
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United States
The
American Hearing Aid Assn
Book Labeling Law Author Is Beaten For Reelection
Rep James B Morgan author of Alabama school textbook labeling law finished eighth in a 12 candidate field in the Jefferson Democratic runoff. The 1953 statute required labeling of public school texts and author political affiliations. An injunction to restrain enforcement had been issued in Montgomery Circuit Court.
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Birmingham
James B. Morgan
Alabama
Jefferson
Montgomery
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