Equal Education For Negroes Is A Volcano On Which The South Slept
Atlanta report on the U S Supreme Court rulings forcing equal Negro and white education across 17 southern and border states. Estimated gap in facilities totals about one billion dollars, with state plans and court pressures shaping a slow path to integration and potential new legal challenges.
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Atlanta
High Court
Texas
Oklahoma
South
Supreme Court
Johnson
D-Sc
South Carolina
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
Megroes
George Mitchell
Southern Regional Council
Local area notices and social items from Decatur
Community brief listing graduations, moves, permits and court actions. Richard E Coffee graduates from the University of Alabama as an advertising and salesmanship honors student. Local residents relocate and buildings receive permits while court records report seven cases over the weekend. Memorial services, church events and health updates follow with social visits and hospital notes.
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R. E. Coffee
Joe Brown
Decatur
Belle Brockman
Birmingham
Richard E. Coffee
University of Alabama
Coffee
Eleven Facing Trial In Morgan Circuit Court
Arraignments in Morgan circuit court criminal division involve 11 defendants facing 29 charges with trials set across June. Four youths charged with robbery of W L Morris store pleaded not guilty. others face second degree burglary arson murder robbery and grand larceny charges with dates ranging from June 19 to June 28.
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Morgan Circuit Court
Newton B. Powell
W. L. Morris
Robert Baker
Hollis Richardson
Lindsey Hyde
Edward Baker
Ernest Smith
Decatur
Floyd Reeves
Hartselle
John E. Allen
Oliver Pickett
Moulton Road
James A. Kirby
Betty Love
Willie Ed Spraggins
Nylan Dickson
Guernie Tunstill
John W. Stewart
Senate Vote On Rent Controls Extends Marathon Session
In Washington a 17 hour Senate session ended at 2 43 A M with leaders claiming enough votes to extend federal rent controls. Senator Cain fought to send the extension back to committee while Majority Leader Lucas said the bill will pass with a sufficient margin, though absentees could decide the result.
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Washington
Senate
Cain
R-Wash
Lucas
D-Ill
Sparkman
D-Ala
Poellnitz Elected Bar Group Chief in Florence
Florence attorney Charles Poellnitz was elected president of the 11th Judicial Circuit Bar Association at the annual banquet at Hotel Muscle Shoals in Sheffield. He succeeds James L. Ormann, a Russellville attorney. The 11th Judicial Circuit includes Lauderdale Colbert and Franklin counties.
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Florence
Ala
Charles Poellnitz
11Th Judicial Circuit Bar Association
Muscle Shoals
Sheffield
Poellnitz
James L. Ormann
Russellville
11Th Judicial Circuit
Lauderdale
Colbert
Franklin Counties
Southern Association Baseball Scores Vary in Memphis and New Orleans
Memphis beat Birmingham 4 to 2 after a 10101001 sequence with Rotblatt Oppliger Whee ler Yochin Mathis Nelson among pitchers. Nashville fell to New Orleans 5 to 2 as Davis Emmerich Sawatski Milankovich Jacobs and Ganss contributed for the winners.
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Southern Association
Memphis
Birmingham
Rotblatt
Oppliger
Wheeler
Yochin
Mathis
Nelson
Nashville
New Orleans
Davis
Emmerich
Sawatski
Milankovich
Jacobs
Ganss
Decatur Birth Announces Daughter at Decatur General
Decatur announces the birth of a daughter yesterday at Decatur General hospital. Several residents were dismissed from the Baugh-Wiley clinic on Saturday including Mrs Hollis Lee Long of Decatur and Mrs E M Rowe with her daughter at 321 East Moulton. Admitted to Decatur General was E Polk of 704 Fifth Avenue. Dismissals on Saturday included Mrs John H Collier and son at 510 Jackson and Mrs Carrie Fitzpatrick of Sherman Decatur 3, Mrs Ney Hall of Decatur 3, and Mrs Arlin Blackwood of Hartselle. Ferrell Ratliff of Bee Line Highway is resting well at Hamilton Clinic after an operation Friday.
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Hamil Martin
Kyle Martin
Decatur 3
Hamil Clinic
G.C. Dendy
Decatur 1
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Hollis Lee Long
E. M. Rowe
East Moulton
Decatur General Hospital
Setustayestes
Comes E. Polk
Fifth Avenue
John H. Collier
Ferrell Ratliff
Hamil Clinic Hospital
Cautious Dicer Walks Away With Tiny Jackpot
In Las Vegas a casino craps player rolled 28 straight passes before quitting. He started with $2 and walked away with $750, avoiding deeper risk as house losses mounted. Zeppo Marx earned $28,000, Gus Greenbaum $48,000, and a pro $9,000 as others gathered around the table.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Desert Inn
Anonymous
Zeppo Marx
Gus Greenbaum
Presbyterian Assembly Concludes Committee Reports
Morning sessions at the 90th general assembly focus on finalizing reports from standing committees. The synodical records panel approved its report swiftly. The education committee’s review covers four seminaries Austin Columbia Louisville Union, the assembly training school Mountain Retreat Montreat College and Montreat school for girls.
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Assembly
Austin
Columbia
Louisville
Uniongg
Mountain Retreat Association
Montreat College
Montreat School For Girls
Burial set for Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg Monday
Funeral services for Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg will be held in Washington on Monday with Rev. Frederick Brown Harris conducting at Foundry Methodist church. Interment will follow at Lindenwood cemetery in Fort Wayne Indiana. Mrs. Vandenberg aged 67 had undergone two major operations and endured multiple illnesses.
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Washington
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Frederick Brown Harris
Senate
Foundry Methodist Church
Lindenwood Cemetery
Fort Wayne
Ind
Vandenberg
Enrant
Ardman Park
Neson
Lution
Miss Alabama Future Homemaker Named At FHA Meet
Carolyn Nixon of Livingston won the 1950 Alabama Future Homemakers Association title at Montevallo with plans to teach home economics before homemaking. Lusie Lipscomb of Wetumpka earned the state degree and a $300 scholarship. Finalists included Jo Ann Wise Samson Jerry Lawhon Myra Emmett and Marion Bayard. Regional officers and other posts were named including Nelda Stanley as state president and Frances Jones as parliamentarian.
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Montevallo
Ala
Alabama
Carolyn Nixon
Livingston
Alabama Future Homemakers Association
Birmingham
Lusie Lizabeth Lipscomb
Wetumpka
Jo Ann Wise
Samson
Jerry Lawhon
Hamilton
Myra Sue Emmett
Ider
Marion Bayard
Greensboro
Nelda June Stanley
Fayette
Jenella Dunning
Orrville
Ruby Gay
Berry
Northwest
Sandra Smith
Orville
Southwest
Francesco Beck
Fort Payne
Northeast
Gladys Billingsley
Clanton
Central
Doris Carpenter
Elba
Southeast
Wanna Leigh
Baxter
Chatom
Sara Ann Wood
Gordo
Lucia Faye Cooper
Hartselle
Jeanine Allrid
Smith Station
Frances Elaine Jones
Clio
City electric workers strike amid alderman dispute
Twenty one of the electric department's 43 employees walked off Friday as a dispute with city leaders over union recognition escalated. Mayor Vinson warned the union of potential impeachment if authority was overstepped while Goidel claimed a written agreement exists in Ft. Payne and cited other Alabama towns with deals. Repair crews worked through a Saturday storm to restore service, which Vinson described as not seriously affected.
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Goidel
Sheffield
IBEW
Ft. Payne
Ala
the Daily
Alabama
Electric Department
Vinson
President warns against attacks on foreign aid and defense programs
The president denounces efforts to cut foreign aid and defense as threats to national security. He argues those actions endanger freedom and compares motives behind them, while praising free nations for strengthening defenses and improving living conditions amid Soviet power.
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Hitler
Soviet Union
Escambia DPAC Opposes Absentee Vote Plan
The Escambia County Democratic Executive Committee went on record opposing absentee voting. The action occurred at the section chaired by Chairman Elliot as he stated the committee voted against the plan.
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Brewton
Ala
Escambia County
Democratic Executive Committee
Elliot
Decatur Market Prices Report for Various Commodities
Markets at Decatur show cotton middling at 2.00 with strict low 28.00, cottonseed 40.00 per ton, broilers 0.25 delivered, hens heavy 0.18, hatching eggs 0.80 per dozen. Yellow corn ear 1.42, shelled 1.48, corn moisture 15 percent. No 2 new wheat onion free 2.00, No 2 oats onion free 0.75, barley 1.06, other grains moisture 134 percent.
Closing Grain Slump Hits Wheat and Oats in Chicago Trade
Wheat and corn eased after a late selling squall in Chicago. oats and rye were softer as crop estimates exceeded expectations. Soybeans fell while hogs and cattle held steady. lard declined. July futures prices listed for each grain and product.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Business board fears overreaction amid robust economy
The board urges power to curb risk, while the Senate Economic Committee weighs price rises and spending. Dr Emerson P Schmitd of the United States Chamber of Commerce notes signs point to favorable prospects but cautions that a boom collapses when people expect it to continue.
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House
Senate Economic Committee
Emerson P. Schmitd
United States Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
O Neals face move after fire aids poured in
After Proctor home burned Maxine 12 died. The Daily appealed for help for the destitute O Neal family. Cash donations totaled 2162.02 with furniture and clothing offers for all six members. O Neal, a Courtland sixth grader, will move to another house on the same farm and run the home for his father while caring for younger siblings. The four younger children are ages 2 4 6 and 10. James Proctor and uninjured children stayed with Wallace Sapp near Wheeler and will return to the farm with tenant farming wait for the home.
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Proctor
Maxine
O'Neal
Courtland School
James Proctor
Wallace Sapp
Wheeler
Scout Troop 236 Plans Clark's Ranch Weekend Campout
Members of Austinville Scout Troop 236 plan a weekend camping hike at Clark's Ranch five miles north of Austinville. Troop reporter Roland Oliver notes the encampment was arranged at the last Monday meeting and that 16 scouts are expected to trek as planned.
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Austinville
Clark's Ranch
Roland Oliver
Ween
Lovin Wins A Trip To Washington D C
Two Alabama boys earned trips to Washington as Boys Nation ends in Tuscaloosa. William Lovin of Decatur and Richard Powell of Tuskegee will travel the last week of July to take part in Boys Nation. State Adjt. Gen. James Saliba addressed the delegates.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
Washington, D. C
William Lovin
Decatur
Richard Powell
Tuskegee
Washington
Adjt
James Saliba
Mrs Pearl Fife Laid To Rest
Funeral rites held for Mrs. Pearl Fife 49 at Prosperity Tennessee with Rev. Robert Glenn officiating. Burial in adjoining Peck cemetery directed by Peck of Hartselle. Survived by husband Olen five daughters Aselle Mattie Wilma Mary Annie Lee four sons James Robert O W Herschel and a note of her Lincoln county Millard family ties and Valhermosa Springs church membership.
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Pearl Fife
Somerville 2
Prosperity
Tenn
Robert Glenn
Peck
Hartselle
Olen
Aselle
Mattie
Wilma
Mary
Annie Lee
James
Robert
Somerville
O. W
Chattanooga
Herschel
Valdermosa Springs
Fite
Millard
Lincoln County
Valhermosa
Birthday Dinner for Mrs Lula Winton in Somerville
A sixty fifth birthday dinner for Lula Winton was hosted Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Winton in Somerville. Attendants included extended family and friends such as Jim Beggs family, Robert Thompson family, Herbert McCutchen family, J. W. West family, Opal Winton, Ella Grizzard, Waymond Jenkins and children, Wanda Winton, Wanda Vaughn, Russell Thompson family, Forrest Echols, W. B. Vaughn, Robert Vaughn and family, J. W. Blankenship family, Delores Ann, Peggy McCutchen, and others.
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Louie Winton
Somerville
Lula Winton
Jim Beggs
James
Melvin
Buddie
Jane
Robert Thompson
Francis
Willard
Annette
Elizabeth
Joe
Herbert McCutchen
Bernice
Ruth
Dorothy
Robert Vaughn
Thomas
J. W. Blankenship
Delores Ann
Peggy McCutchen
Scottsboro Case Details Recounted From 1931 Arrests
The narrative recalls the 1931 Paint Rock arrests of Wright, Roy, and seven others on rape charges against Victoria Price and Ruby Bates aboard a freight train. Eight of nine were initially sentenced to death, later reversed, with outcomes including Norris’ death sentence commuted to life, Wright serving 99 years, and Patterson escaping in 1948.
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Wright
Roy
Paint Rock
Ala
Victoria Price
Ruby Bates
Andy
Bates
Clarence Norris
Bibb Graves
Scottsboro
Norris
Haywood Patterson
Indian Burial Ground Studied In Jasper Alabama
State geologist Walter B. Jones will study an unusual burial area found during road work in Jasper. The site yielded pottery fragments stone tools and human bones and may have been used by the Choctaws. The round burial method suggests a distinct practice and the area appears extensive.
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Jasper
Ala
Walter B. Jones
Jones
Alabama Future Farmers of America at annual convention
At Auburn on June 10 the Alabama Future Farmers of America honored its members. Winford Collier of Wetumpka became state president, with John Sherier Orville vice president Reuben Fenney Five Points secretary Paul Copeland Arab treasurer and Kenneth Landers Leighton reporter. James Price Camp Hill named state star farmer and district stars were Kent Davis Straughton Lewis Logan Collinsville Robert Gulledge Foley Colleen Shotts Hamilton Tommy Morton Pell City. Pell City won farm mechanics and Holly Pond won beef cattle judging with Winfield as runner up. Sidney Lanier chapter dairy winner Beatrice second. state star dairy farmer John Golden Pell City state star reporter Davis Henry Sidney Lanier chapter. Eight honorary FFA members named from Birmingham area.
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Auburn
Ala
Alabama Future Farmers of America
Winford Collier
Wetumpka
State Farm Youth Organization
John Sherier
Orville
Reuben Fenney
Five Points
Paul Copeland
Arab
Kenneth Landers
Leighton
James Price
Camp Hill
Kent Davis
Straughton
Lewis Logan
Collinsville
Robert Gulledge
Foley
Colleen Shotts
Hamilton
Tommy Morton
Pell City
State Star
Davis Henry
Sidney Lanier
Montgomery
Star
John Golden
Robert Ballew
Holly Pond
Winfield
Beatrice
Lincoln
Birmingham
Decatur teachers plan summer study across states and colleges
Decatur educators and students will pursue summer study at multiple institutions. University of Alabama summer school attracts several Decatur teachers including H L Ogle and Lois Walsh while others head to Florence State Teachers College and Auburn for graduate work. Mrs Buford Barnette and Mae Gardner take roles at teacher training sites, and NEA AEA leadership conferences figure into plans alongside Peabody and Nashville programs.
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H. L. Ogle
William Isbell
Charles Smith
William Rutherford
J. D. Reed
Lois Walsh
Edith Murphree
Pearl Matthews
Elizabeth Houston
Claudia Thombs
Maria Johnson
Elizabeth Peer
Irene Clem
University of Alabama
Hubert Brooks
A. T. Hanson
Esther Hunter
Katherine Hoppers
P.T.A
Tuscaloosa
Peabody
W. T. Jordan
Decatur Teachers Association
St. Louis
NEA
FTA
Mexico
Jackson
AEA
C. L. Sheffield
Decatur
Solomon Trimble
Cherry Street
Montgomery State College
Cheese Plant Starts in Cedartown Georgia
A new cheese plant modeled after Decatur’s operation began in Cedartown Georgia with an investment around 50000 dollars. Casto Jarvis as president and manager helped locals set up the plant which opened with 3000 pounds of milk the first day.
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Decatur
Cedartown
Casto Jarvis
Georgia
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