Homecoming Day at Chapel Hill Methodist Church slated for July
The community center in Decatur invites all members and friends to Homecoming Day at Chapel Hill Methodist Church on July 6 with Rev. Woodrow Lamon delivering the sermon at 11 a.m. Lunch follows at 12 30 p.m. and singing. Also noted are wildlife redemptions at City Animal Shelter and local civic notices including a police report and court cases.
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Chapel Hill Methodist Church
Woodrow Lamon
Lowell Methodist Church
Roanoke
Ala
Lamon
Chapel Hill
Dulles Sparks Setback in Test Ban Talks
Secretary of State Dulles suddenly added Red China and the Sahara Desert to the nuclear test ban issue. The move complicates prospects as Eisenhower and Khrushchev push for scientists to meet and discuss policing a ban while government agreements remain required.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Wham
Dulles
Red
China
Sahara
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Macmillan says West's defense strong amid Soviet challenge
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told a National Press Club audience in Washington that Western military power is strong and well organized. He praised Anglo American ties with Eisenhower and Dulles and warned of Soviet propaganda and economic penetration as a rising threat.
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Washington
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
National Press Club
Eisenhower
Dulles
County To Sell Road Warrants For Paving Projects
Morgan County board of revenue approves selling warrants totaling 300000 dollars to finance road paving across four projects and a new Flint Creek bridge on Vaughn Bridge Rd. Warrants run ten years, sale date likely July 15 to align with anticipated federal funds.
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Morgan County Board of Revenue
Guy Roberts
Flint Creek
Vaughn Bridge
Roberts
Tennessee Senate Refuses To Halt Schoolfield Trial
The Tennessee Senate overruled Judge Raulston Schoolfield's motions to halt his impeachment trial and begins testimony. Chief Justice A B Neil presides, with a trial expected to last one to two months as House managers prepare to present evidence on the 24 impeachment articles.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee State Senate
Raulston Schoolfield
A. B. Neil
State Supreme Court
Senate
Schoolfield
Tennessee House
Talmadge Bill Aims to End Cotton Controls
Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia introduces a senate bill to end cotton acreage controls and the soil bank acreage reserve, establish domestic quotas, and set 100 percent parity on domestic quotas. The move targets eliminating price support mechanisms while seeking a defined quota system.
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Talmadge
Senate
The
Decatur Daily
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Air Force to Lose Its Top Cameraman
Louis Hagemeyer, 62, civilian chief of the 1350th Motion Picture Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, will retire after a career shaping Air Force film records. He began as a newsreel cameraman in Cincinnati, filming Gen. Billy Mitchell’s 72,395 foot test and early parachute experiments.
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Dayton, Ohio
Air Force
Louis Hagemeyer
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
House approves five year extension of free trade program
The House passed a bill to extend the reciprocal trade program for five years, denying a two year limit proposal and preserving presidential tariff authority. Final vote 317 against 98, with strong Democratic support and opposition to Simpson plan. The measure moves to the Senate for consideration.
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House
Okehs
Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Richard M. Simpson
D-Pa
Tariff Commission
Congress
United States
White House Denies Adams Took Favors
The White House rejected insinuations that Bernard Goldfine received favorable treatment due to Sherman Adams. Press secretary James C. Hagerty said the claim would be proved false and the matter would be resolved when Adams returns from a New England fishing trip. House investigators paused further questions after Tuesday testimony showing Goldfine paid hotel bills.
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Washington
White House
Bernard Goldfine
Sherman Adams
James C. Hagerty
Adams
Eisenhower
New England
House
Goldfine
Maplesville Police Chief and Officer Freed on Bond
Two Maplesville police officers Harvis Davidson and Joe Bryant were released on $5,000 bond after waiving preliminary hearing on second degree murder charges. They faced accusations in the wounding of 16 year old George Vardan of Jemison.
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Clanton
Ala
Maplesville
Harvis Davidson
Joe Bryant
George Vardan
Jemison
Sheriff Beating Claims Result in Fine for Two Men
AP reports in a civil rights case Sheriff is accused by two white men who said they were beaten. Saxon, whose first trial ended in hung jury last November, pleaded no contest as he faced trial again and was fined by Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.
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Saxon
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Senate approves emergency unemployment extension
The Senate today passed without debate an emergency extension of unemployment compensation totaling 665.7 million dollars to support laid off workers amid the economic downturn.
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Washington
Senate
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Mystery Fires Plague Firemen Along Railroad Line
Grass fires broke out along a Southern Railway stretch to plants and firms on the Tennessee River bank in Decatur. No damage reported. officials speculated a weed-killing chemical sprayed on the tracks reacted with sun heat. Fire crews and railroad workers battled blazes near Decatur Box and Basket and Tennessee Valley Grain Co op as smoke and popping sounds accompanied the fires.
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Southern Railway
Tennessee River
Decatur
Decatur Box and Basket
Tennessee Valley Grain Co-op
The
Box Company
Venus Low in Evening Sky Tonight Near Moon
Decatur observers note Venus about 109 million miles from Earth tonight beneath the Moon, with Earth and Venus moving apart at roughly 62000 miles per day as their solar orbits diverge.
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Venus
Moon
Earth
Mars
Weather and River Report for Decatur and Vicinity
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge was 21.66 feet up 0.07 in 24 hours. Sea level 555.96 feet. Temperature 98 degrees at 1 PM, 68 degrees at 6 AM, 88 degrees at 11 AM. Forecasts call for partly cloudy warm conditions with mostly fair skies and warm temperatures. Winds SW to S 10-18 mph. High today 92, low tonight 68, high Thursday 9.
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Decatur
Tennessee River Reading
Keller Memorial Bridge
Work Order Due For River Bridge
River bridge work advances with agreement for city water service to Tennessee Valley Trade School and nearby residences across the Tennessee River from Decatur. State Highway Dept funds a temporary line on Keller Bridge estimated at 10 950.25 dollars, to be installed by L F Wilder Co, with permanent lines later.
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Keller Memorial
Tennessee River
Tennessee Valley Trade School
Decatur
State Highway Dept
Municipal Water Dept
Municipal Utilities Board
George Godwin
Water Dept
Montgomery
Keller Bridge
L. F. Wilder Co
Highway Dept
Driver Charged After Bus Crash Near Fayetteville
Fayetteville Tennessee reports indictment of H H Burns 32 Huntsville driver of the truck that hit an Alabama school bus May 11 killing Ralph Reed 27 editor of Arab Tribune and injuring about 40 others including many Green Cove Junior High ninth graders returning from Nashville. Burns faces manslaughter and driving while intoxicated charges in circuit court and is free on bond.
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Fayetteville
Tenn
Mar H. Burns
Huntsville
Alabama
Here
Ralph Reed
Arab
Ala
Tribune
Green Cove
Decatur Trio Watches Sputnik In Early Pass
Decatur residents Mark Berrigan Bill and Dan Hebding set a Sputnik watch at 507 Somerville Rd. The Soviet satellite appeared just after 5 a.m. CDT and moved west of due south to east of due north, flashing every four seconds for about three minutes.
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Sputnik-itis
Mark Berrigan
Bill
Dan Hebding
Sputnik
Somerville Rd
Venus
Tornado Ravages El Dorado Four Blocks Killing Thirteen
A tornado devastated forty blocks of El Dorado Kansas late Tuesday killing thirteen people and injuring forty nine. National Guard searchers reported more bodies possibly in rubble while Kansas Turnpike patrols lost track of occupants of three cars swept from a toll road edge. A 13th victim, Miss Bessie Diaz, was found in her home rubble.
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W. W. Goodwin
The
National Guard
Kansas Turnpike Highway Patrol
Lloyd S. Vincent
el Dorado
Bessie Diaz
Charles W. Wheeler
Wichita
Goodpaster Gets 10 Years Slaying of Centreville druggist
Espie Chiles Goodpaster pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter and received a 10 year prison term for the slaying of a Centreville druggist during a bungled narcotics robbery. Byron Scroggins hanged himself in jail hours earlier, undermining the state’s case as he had implicated Goodpaster. Sheriff and prosecutors noted Scroggins confession but did not fully salvage the prosecution.
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Centreville
Ala
Espie Chiles Goodpaster
Byron Scroggins
Jamie Long Meigs
Goodpaster
Scroggins
Meigs
Carl Griffin
Blanchard McLeod
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Shelby G. Johnson
Lackland Air Force Base
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Decatur 3
Rayburn Johnson
Ray
7Th St. SE
Boyd Johnson
E. Moulton St
Johnson
Chateauroux
France
John Thompson
Birmingham Southern College
John
Hugh D. Thompson
Rf. 2
Jessie Pickett
George Smith
Price Clanton
R. L. Clanton
Athens
J. C. Miller
Miller
Robbie Smith
College St
Baugh- Wiley-Smith Clinic
Highway Patrol
Elks Lodge
First Ave
Austinville High School
Woodall
Moulton Rd
Joe Humphrey
Nancy
Kay
Austin
Roy Lewis
J. J. Humphrey
George Lewis
Atlanta
E. K. Henson
Baugh-Wiley- Smith Hospital
Jean Ezell
Gordon Dr
Marie B. Jackson
Ninth Ave. SE
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Buckley
By James Marlow
Associated Press News
M’millan
West
John Graves
Louisville
Graves
Encyclopedia Publishng Company
U.S
Tennessee Senate
Rapid City
S.D
Hagemeyer
John Carlton
U.S. Air Force
S. E. Anderson
Research and Development Command
Muscle Shoals
Anniston
Birmingham
Evergreen
Nashville
Burns
Decatur Trio
Tee
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Frank Tiffany
Kan
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