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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1958
Page
1
Senate opens a sweeping labor bill contesting union practices while balancing labor demands. Leaders express hope for quick passage, but Goldwater pledges hard amendments as Kennedy faces a pivotal floor test in the 1960 political arc.
Local arrivals and visitors include Thomas Homer Hutchinson arriving June 16 at Baylor Camps Chattanooga. Vacation Church School ends Sunday night at Austinville Methodist Church with 90 enrollments and peak 18 attendees. Alabama Polytechnic Institute dean’s list honors go to Carolyn R Schaefer and Wayne N Williams. Rotary and club meetings, hub cap theft, and Calvary Baptist Vacation Bible School start June 16 with 8:30 to 11 classes.
President Eisenhower’s House passed reciprocal trade agreements program meets a Senate hurdle. Senator William F. Knowland moves to trim the extension to three years after a large House vote backing five years. He says he will support other amendments but expects a generally satisfactory outcome for Eisenhower.
The United Nations Security Council sent a watchdog team to Lebanon to guard its borders against intruders from the United Arab Republic. The move follows a Lebanese complaint that the UAR is sending arms and men to rebels seeking to topple President Camille Chamoun's Western allied government.
Storms lashed central states with tornadoes centered in Kansas. Wichita suffered the heaviest damage with dozens of homes damaged and injuries reported. Tornadoes also struck near Arkansas City Newton and Wellington while severe storms roared across Missouri Nebraska and eastern Colorado.
Chemstrand Corp will use a specially built river barge to move a chemical from Texas to the Acrilan plant in Decatur Alabama. Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co of Mobile builds the barge for Commercial Transport Corp of Houston. The barge will be 195 feet long and 35 feet wide, routed via the Warrior Tombigbee river system.
Premier Charles De Gaulle summoned Jacques Soustelle to account for insurgent pressure from army officers and French settlers in Algeria. He urged Moslem majorities to share governance while criticizing Gen Raoul Salan and Gen Jacques Massu for political meddling. Soustelle and leaders in Algiers seek cabinet change and postponed Algerian municipal elections.
Decatur observers will see Saturn and the Earth near each other tonight and again on Friday June 13 at 5 34 a m in the northeast and 8 02 p m moonrise. The new moon occurs June 17. The two planets are 839 900 000 miles apart the closest approach of the year.
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 21.73 feet with a 0.07 foot rise in 24 hours. Sea level reading 556.03 feet. Yesterday high 95 degrees at noon, low 65 at 6 a.m. Today 11 15 a.m. 91 degrees. Forecast fair to partly cloudy and hot with scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoons or evenings today and Friday. Tonight mostly fair and mild. Winds southerly 7 12 mph today then light and variable tonight. High today about 93, low tonight 66, high Friday 94.
A newborn infant found in the Tennessee River near Lewis Bluff upriver from Decatur may have been strangled with gauze matted into a noose. Autopsy findings in Morgan County awaited for a full report, with murder considered possible. The body, wrapped in newspapers and a bed sheet, was found about five miles north of Valhermosa Springs by fishermen L. W. White and Shirley Tyler. The infant appeared in the river for three to five days. placenta still in place.
Gordon Dexter Harvey age 23 from Long Island Alabama died when a tree toppled during timber cutting at the King's Cove Community just outside Bridgeport Alabama. The accident occurred yesterday with investigators beginning a routine inquiry.
Ladies, if your fishing husband has been acting odd, he is awaiting the angler's supreme moment the willow fly. The insect prompts many men to settle near lakes and streams for a brief period to fish, despite its short life. The willow fly life cycle includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult with adults emerging after the shell splits. Nature hinders their digestion, but the grown flies begin breeding within hours. See WIVES On Page 2
Agriculture Commissioner A W Todd announced an auditing procedure for about 1 000 bonded Alabama warehouses described as foolproof The system requires at least yearly checks with more as needed W D Corcoran heads the division and has inspected every bonded warehouse since Oct 1 The Jasper and Decatur warehouses have been reviewed Bonds must be filed with state or federal authorities and about 40 warehouses are not bonded
Rep. Orval Harris offers a standing invitation to Sherman Adams and other officials to testify to a House subcommittee about improper influence on federal agencies. Harris plans to build the case next week, citing allegations Adams helped Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine, and says FTC and SEC officials may be called.
Washington reports first census payments since the recession began show a 1 percent rise in personal income during May. The gain includes a 400 million dollar increase in federal and state payments offset by shifts in other components.
Blount Bros. Construction Co. of Montgomery moved heavy equipment to the Decatur site as final water line arrangements were completed. Crews began placing the first coffer dams in the Tennessee River near the river crossing, signaling rapid progress on the bridge project.
Prof. Charles Waring of the University of Connecticut told an Army advisory panel that the U S Army plans a human Mars visit. He noted the plan includes military and technical details yet to be defined, with civilian advisers from the panel.
In Los Angeles Western Air Lines resumed service after an 108 day strike. Forty stewardesses married during the walkout and the line now operates with about twenty percent fewer flight attendants than before.
Alabama and Mississippi push new steam behind the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway a nine foot navigable link from the Ohio River to the Gulf. The plan envisions a slack water route aiding fuel efficient tow traffic by aligning the Tombigbee with the Tennessee to reach coal and steel centers. A 1946 authorization, 1951 cost estimate near 179 million dollars, and recent state funding set the stage for a future Army Engineers restudy and possible development.
Paul G. Horton of Hillsboro 57 died at home yesterday afternoon from a heart attack after a period of ill health. A retired mail carrier and farmer, he was a World War II Coast Guard veteran and former director of Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Corp. He served on the Lawrence County Jury Commission and Democratic Executive Committee. The body was returned to his home and services were set for Hillsboro Methodist Church with Rev. Leroy McClendon, Rev. A Nabors, and Rev. Mitchell Owens officiating.
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