City permits and local incidents outline town activity
Building permits issued list Harry Clark and Shelby Hunter with addresses and costs. Police report a break in at the First National Bank building by cutting a rope on the front door. a mercuro chrome bottle was spilled and items stolen from R R Steele’s fixtures. A fender mirror was taken from a 1957 Ford owned by Ralph Gamble. Recorder docket notes charges for garbage can violation and peddling. North Alabama accountants hold a June board meeting at the Pitts Motel and plan to attend a New York conference June 21 to 24 with twelve members attending. New graduates Ronnie Smith and Sammy Wright enroll at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Brenda Kay Brown recovers from a fractured clavicle. See DIARY on Page 2.
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First National Bank
R. R. Steele
North Alabama
National Assn. of Accountants
Pitts Motel
Morton Prouty
Alabama - Tennessee Natural Gas Co
James G. Thomas
Rohm & Haas
Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Philip "Herm
Ford Motor Co
Jim Thomas
Frank Hayes
Redstone Arsenal
Frank J. McLaughlin
J. Grady Shaw
Robert Raney
Douglas Kelly
Joe T. Jones
John Mangoven
The
Chemstrand Corp
Youth and Wild Oats Do Not Lead to Salvation
The text condemns the idea of sowing wild oats in youth as a false teaching. It argues youth is for choosing Christ and righteousness, promising joy now and eternal life if seeds of virtue are sown early, while warning that reckless living risks missing heaven. It cites Ecclesiastes and urges early spiritual decisions.
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Solomon
Christ
God
Salk Vaccine Push Urged Amid Polio Rise
Dr. Alexander Langmuir, head of the CDC's communicable disease unit, warns polio cases nearly double this year versus last May to September. He notes 1958 marked the first rise since the Salk vaccine and urges cities to boost vaccination programs to prevent Detroit-scale outbreaks during the AMA meeting.
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Alexander D. Langmuir
Langmuir
The
Health Service
Atlanta
Detroit
Starkweather Granted Stay of Execution by Supreme Court
Justice Whittaker granted a stay of execution for Charles Starkweather 20 of Nebraska who was to die in the electric chair Friday The stay gives counsel until June 17 to file a petition for review with the full Supreme Court and keeps the stay active until the court acts further The petition was filed by two Washington attorneys
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Washington
Charles Evans Whittaker
Supreme Court Today
Charles Starkweather
Nebraska
Starkweather
Nebraska Electric
Whittaker
Supreme Court
Whittacker
Employment Up A Million During May
Washington reports May employment at 66,016,000 with unemployment down to 3,389,000. Officials Strauss and Mitchell note a strong jobs pickup including factories and farm work. May earnings averaged 90.32 dollars, with durable goods at 98 and soft goods at 80. unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent.
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Washington
Commerce
Lewis L. Strauss
James P. Mitchell
German Air Force airman found dead near Cullman
Klaus J. Schroeder 19, Airman 3rd Class, of Karlsruhe Germany, was found in a rented auto outside Cullman with two gunshot wounds. Authorities pursued a suicide or foul play angle while preparing to fly his body to Germany. He had trained at Redstone Arsenal Huntsville and was recently assigned to Aberdeen Texas. despondency over a breakup with a Huntsville girl was noted.
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Cullman
Klaus J. Schroeder
Air Force
Army
Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Karlsruhe
Ger
Crant Waldrop
Waldrop
United States
Army Air Defense
Aberdeen
Tex
Schroeder
Arsenal
Tax Change Effort Fails in Alabama Senate Committee
Sponsors of a constitutional amendment to shift property tax revenue from the state failed to advance the measure in the Senate Constitution Committee. A public hearing was requested by Upshaw Jones and the Alabama League of Municipalities, with action postponed for a week. The committee also debated a county tax ceiling bill and district rotation for state senators as Etowah County disputes the existing seniority rule.
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Montgomery
Larry Dumas
Jefferson County
Senate
Upshaw G. Jones
Elmore
Jones
Alabama League of Municipalities
Ed Reid
Dumas
Cleburne County
John Gaither
St. Clair County
Ray Wyatt
Etowah County
Parker's Trial Over Unlicensed Driving Ends In Fine And Jail
Annie Parker Jr., a 40 year old used car dealer, was found driving with four children ages 2 4 5 and 10 in the car without a license. Judge Charles Brown sentenced him to 100 dollars and 180 days in jail plus 25 dollars on other counts. Parker appealed.
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Annie L. Parker Jr
Armstrong
Smith
Parker
Recorder’s Court
Charles Brown
Brown
Constellation Leo Shown With Moon Alignment
The note describes Leo prominent in the sky above the Moon with its brighter stars forming a sickle shape. Regulus is identified as the brightest star at the end of the handle. Details include sunset, sunrise times and the first quarter on June 13.
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Meenset
Leo
Regulus
Tennessee River reading and weather roundup at Keller Bridge
Decatur area notes river reading 721.46 feet down 1.0 foot in 24 hours. Sea level 555.76 feet. TVA lake stages Guntersville 594.4 Wilson 507.3. Yesterday high 80 at 3 p.m. low 68 at 6 a.m. Today 74 at 11:05 a.m. Forecast partly cloudy windy warm with scattered showers and possible thundershowers. Tonight partly cloudy mild. Thursday partly cloudy with winds 20 mph. High today around 82. low tonight 69. high Thursday.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Guntersville
Wilson
Courts Authorize Enforcing Hoffa Union Cleanup Orders
The U S Court of Appeals held Judge F Dickenson Letts may enforce a consent order over the Teamsters led by James R Hoffa. Monitors may report noncompliance and the court may take action including contempt to compel reforms during the transition to self management.
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Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals
U.S
Federal District Court
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Dist
F. Dickenson Letts
Hoffa
Judge Letts
Teamsters
Letts
Charles Fahy
Henry W. Edgerton
Wilbur K. Miller
Tornadoes Hit Middle U S Fierce Fargo Storm
A tornado with winds up to 115 mph ripped through Fargo North Dakota causing property damage and homelessness though no Fargo casualties were reported. A separate deadly weather incident killed an 18 year old Mexican national Belica Alonso near Ardoch North Dakota.
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Fargo
N.D
North Dakota
Minnesota
Belica Alonso
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Ardoch
Clearwater County Fairgrounds
Bagley
Minn
Hector
Fanpo
Utilities Would Serve New Area
The proposal to annex 20 square miles around Decatur prompts residents to weigh city versus country living. About 600 residences and 75 businesses now get electric service at rates described as reasonable, with Decatur offering the second lowest electric rate in the United States potentially cutting costs for annexed residents.
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Decatur
Cates
City of
Review of TVA bonds plan sparks annual spending call
Washington officials urged Congress and the Budget Bureau to annually review TVA construction financed by up to 750 million dollars in revenue bonds. Elmer Staats and Arthur Focke argued TVA should submit its program each year for approval, while Sen. Kerr criticized the idea as unnecessary.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
Budget Bureau
Administration
Senate Public Works
TVA
Sen
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Elmer Staats
The
Arthur B. Focke
Bureau
Appropriations Committees
Kerr
Bridge Contract Signed Tuesday
A contract for the steel super structure of a new bridge over the Tennessee River at Decatur was signed by Gov. John Patterson on Tuesday. Blount Bros. Construction Co. of Montgomery submitted the low bid of $809,685. Substructure work and approaches are already underway.
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Montgomery
Tennessee River
Decatur
John Patterson
Blount Bros. Construction Co
What Dr Spock Didn't Tell Us
A vivid, sensationalized note on a violent infant episode linked to mistaken nose drops. The piece mocks parental response and cites a child’s fear of nasal medication, suggesting the nose as a danger to brains and mixing absurdities with crude mutterings.
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Dr. Spock
Durante
Rape Trial Of Four Underway In Tallahassee
Four white youths aged 16 to 23 go on trial in Tallahassee Florida for the rape of a teenage Negro college coed. The courtroom scene features gravely defendants and family members with over 150 Negroes in the segregated balcony and white spectators barred from the first floor seating. A veteran Florida jurist vows the court will function regardless of race during the proceedings.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
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