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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1958
Page
1
Memorial Drive church to host James Tucker speaking tonight
Local layman James Tucker will speak at the Memorial Drive Methodist Church evening service at 7 30 with air conditioning in operation for the service. Also noted are educational and local notices including bids on the Austinville principal's home and registrars sessions at the Courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Tucker
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Boy 5 Killed as Five Are Hurt Near Athens
Five hurt and one killed after a two car crash five miles east of Athens at Johnson's Gin on Huntsville Highway. Victim is Joe Stanley Floyd 5? The Floyd family from Huntsville. Mrs. Thomas Floyd 36 and her 1 year old John David Floyd listed as very critical. Father Thomas Floyd 41 hospitalized with unknown injuries. Other driver Johnny Mathis 50 and Charlie Yarbrough 31 of Belle Mina also injured. See BOY On Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollice Smith
Athens
Here
Johnson's Gin
Huntsville Highway
Joe Stanley Floyd
Thomas Floyd
John David Floyd
Athens Limestone Hospital
Athens-Limestone Hospital
Floyd
Huntsville
Johnny Mathis
Charlie Yarbrough
Belle Mina
Earl Bradford
Boy
Five Bills on Senate Agenda From Johnson Note
Senate action will include five major measures. Alaska statehood, a June 30 tax extension, creation of a civilian space agency, sharing atomic secrets with other nations, and a waterways bill replacing Eisenhower vetoed law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lyndon B.johnson
Texas
Alaska
Senate
Senate House Atomic Committee
Eisenhower
Talmadge Urges U.S. to End Acreage Controls
Senator Talmadge introduced in Congress a farm bill to wipe out all acreage allotment controls allowing farmers to grow unlimited basic crops. The measure, reprinted from the Atlanta Constitution, seeks to end government crop limits and free cultivation.
Missing Airman Girl Reunited After 3 Day Search
Donald Keeton 19-year-old airman returning from Mississippi walked into his mother's home then into his girlfriend Lynn's arms after a three day search. He said he left to visit Lynn and believed a plane would reach her. authorities feared a deliberate crash. He was detained at Hensley Field by air police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Donald Keeton
Mississippi
Lynn
Hensley Field
U S Officer Opens Talks in East Berlin With East Germany
In Berlin Col Robert P McQuail an American officer direct talks in East Berlin seeking release of nine U S Army men held by the Communists. The move ends a nine year policy of no contacts with the Soviet satellite.
Nun Receives Bread And A Patient Tale On Farm Page
Monday’s farm page highlights a nun baking bread, a Las Vegas patient, and a new hospital project. Read about Persalls’ Cullman County garden, W A White grazing oats in Morgan County, and carraway worm treatment in Lawrence County. Grady Keller’s broilers and hogs on Cullman County farms. Patsy Harris, Northwest Alabama 4H VP, future Homemakers of America. Falkville 4H safety on roads by Vondalyn Jones. Morgan County 4H photo of John Warren with Hereford calf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Persalls
Cullman County
W. A. White
Morgan County
G. F. Carraway
Lawrence County
Grady Keller
Vondalyn Jones
Falkville
John Warren
Hereford
Cotton Study Committee seeks Senate hearing on Alabama cotton
State Rep. Bob Gilchrist of Decatur requests a hearing before the U S Senate Agriculture Committee to report on Alabama cotton. Gilchrist chairs the Alabama Cotton Study Committee which has surveyed the U S cotton program across the state, hearing from hundreds of witnesses during months of grassroots study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Gilchrist
Decatur
Alabama Legislative Cotton Study Committee
U. S. Senate
Gilchrist
Cotton Study Committee
John Sparkman
Alabama
U.S
Talmadge Bill Aims to Reshape Farm Policy in 1958 Act
Senator Talmadge pitches the Agricultural Income Equalization Act of 1958 to abolish the soil bank acreage reserve while preserving a conservation program that turns cropland into timber. He says the plan would free farming from abortive laws and restore agriculture to free enterprise with compensatory payments and a larger share of national income. The bill would let farmers grow as much of any basic commodity as they choose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soil Bank
Benson Farm
Talmadge
Savage Battle Rages in Beirut as Rebels Attack
A day long clash between government forces and rebels erupts in Beirut with tanks and artillery in action. Casualties are heavy though figures are unavailable. Rebels try to seize the presidential palace and government houses, while fighting also reported in Tripoli. The worst battles center near Zarif district and the Basta a Moslem fortress as clashes continue into night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beirut
Lebanon
Camille Chamoun
Tripoli
U.S. Information Agency
Ramel
Zarif
Basta
Associated Press
Harris Says Facts Back Adams Inquiry Findings
Rep. Oren Harris defended House investigators in linking President Eisenhower aide Sherman Adams to Bernard Goldfine troubles. He did not promise proof of influence on federal agencies, while Republicans Water and Potter urged clear answers to gifts including a $700 viscuna coat and a $2400 rug and hotel bills. Adams and the White House stayed silent as hearings resume Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Sherman Adams
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Harris
House
Adams
Eisenhower
Goldfine
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Charles E. Potter
Michigan
White House
Commerce
City Plans To Sell Bond Issue For Public Improvements
Decatur will receive bids on 428000 dollars of public improvement bonds at city hall Monday at 2 p.m. Proceeds will fund 13 projects including lateral sewers in Brookhaven and Western Gardens and street paving across Decatur. Projects were accumulated in the general fund over the past year until bond sale readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Decatur
City Hall
Brookhaven
Western Gardens
Recession Fading Seen by Alabama Leaders
Alabama business and industrial leaders report signs the recession is leveling off with increased activity in recent months. Leaders such as John S. Hall of the Mortgage Bankers Assn. of America and Walter W. Kennedy of First National Bank of Montgomery foresee gains in late 1958 as conditions improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynne Brannen Montgomery
Alabama
John S. Hall
Birmingham
Mortgage Bankers Assn. of America
Walter W. Kennedy
First National Bank of
Montgomery
New Orleans
Kennedy
Cullman Cemetery Thief Captured by Angry Residents
In Cullman Alabama watchful mourners confronted a construction worker they suspected of stealing cemetery plants. Howard Lott 87 was arrested at home on two larceny charges after police recovered pots plants stands vases from his house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cullman
Ala
W. C. Waldrop
Howard Lott
Waldrop
Lott
Adam Kesseler
Jimmy Lynn Davis
Davis
Hie Ceee
Pearson Sees Adams Eating The Wrong Apple
Drew Pearson suggests Adams may resign over a link with Goldfine. Expenditure on clothes for Adams and his wife is cited, while Connelly and Caudle face jail for similar troubles in the Truman era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson
Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Adams
Connelly
Caudle
Truman
Drew Pearson
Decatur Daily
Decatur Wins Potential Five Year Air Service Recommendation
A Civil Aeronautics Board official urged five year authorization for Southern Airways to operate between Memphis and Atlanta with intermediate stops at Huntsville and Decatur. The recommendation aims to grant air service to Decatur and Huntsville, pending CAB final approval via examiner Pfeiffer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Civil Aeronautics Board
Huntsville
Southern Airways
W. Rock Grindman
CAB
Bureau of Air Operations
Paul N. Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer
Thompson Named Priceville Principal
Charles Wesley Thompson former two term Coosa County superintendent was elected Priceville School principal for next year by the Morgan County Board of Education. Thompson, 53, holds a B S from Alabama and M A from Auburn, and has previously led Cleburne County High School Heflin and taught at Sylacauga High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Wesley Thompson
Coosa County
Priceville School
Morgan County Board of Education
Thompson
University of Alabama
Auburn
Cleburne County High School
Heflin
Ala
Sylacauga High School
Night Sky Notes Speak Of Moon And Constellation
Decatur skies report The Moon high near the Sun at dawn while New Moon arrives Tuesday morning. Prominent Coma Berenice appears crowded with dim stars near the Big Dipper in evening skies under Central Daylight Time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coma Berenice
Big Dipper
Tennessee River Reading and Weather Update at Keller Memorial Bridge
The Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge shows 721.50 feet with a 0.15 foot drop in 24 hours and sea level reading 555.80 feet. Friday high reached 98 degrees at 1 p.m., low 72 during the night, Saturday morning at 10 40 a.m. temp 9 degrees with a forecast of partly cloudy hot conditions and isolated showers indicated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
Educators Seek Site for New High School in Morgan County
The Morgan County Board of Education backing a State survey to locate a new high school in Northwestern Morgan County after a public hearing where about 100 Trinity area residents urged Highway 24 near Moulton Road as the site. The board will accept the State's final choice for accreditation needs and funding from the sale of the Austinville school to Decatur city schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austinville
Morgan County Board of Education
DST
State Dept of Education
Morgan County
Trinity Area
Highway 24
New Moulton Rd
State Dept
Iville
Decatur
Proration Cuts Morgan County Schools by 150000
A 10 percent proration in state school funds reduces Morgan County and Decatur schools by about 150000 for the current fiscal year. Local officials say statewide revenue shortfalls affect the city system by roughly five tens of thousands and the county system by about one hundred thousand.
Also Mentioned on This Page
el Ad
Roy William Sudhoff, Jr
Stratford Rd
University of Illinois
Thomas W. Baldwin
Morgan County Board of Registrars
Bill Thompson
Karen
J. M. Philpot
4Th Ave
Zettie Sheats
Mari
Vicki McCulloch
Newark
N. J
Joseph Fortunato
Annie Morris
Walter Morris
Anne
Des Moines
Gene Morrow
Ernest Morrow
Mobile
Oscar Morrow
Mrs. Wayne Brothers
Mrs. Charles Brothers
Florida
Horace E. Sutterer
6Th Ave
Decatur General Hospital
Martha M. Neely
9Th Ave
Clifford W. Johnston
Colonial Rest Home
Trinity
Brown Funeral Co
Ben E. Johnston
Chemstrand Corp. Acrilan
Ken Johnson
James Looney
Maple St
Buckley
Atlanta Constitution
Sen. Talmadge
Congress
By Whitey Sawyer
E. Germany
Patsy Harris
Homemakers of America
Northwest
By Tom Masterson
House Prober
Jack Bell
Lewis Gulick
Priceville
Morgan
By Doug Norman
Pepper
Scitt
H. R. Leeman
City Board of Education
Shop Robinson’s Used Store
1St Ave
By Ken Reynolds
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