Sacred concert tonight at Central Baptist Church
The public is invited to a sacred concert at 7 30 tonight at Central Baptist Church by the Chapel Choir of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church Birmingham. The notice also lists visitors from Tennessee Valley State Trade School and various local residents with multiple names and addresses.
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Central Baptist Church
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church
Birmingham
Tennessee Valley State Trade School
Ruby Brooks
Cullman
Joe Sandlin
Billy Young
Athens
E. D. James
Lake Charles
Katherine Lindsey
Russellville
Beatrice Terry
T. M. Howater
Hillsboro
James Robbins
Dan Ashlander
Huntsville
Dale Lee
Stormy Woods
Robert D. Irvin
Horace Scott
Florence
Pauline Watkins
Iuka
Miss
Wayne Herron
Hope
Forgiveness and new life for a child of unmarried parents
A reassuring reply counsels that being born to unmarried parents is not the person’s fault. It urges the teen to feel relief, noting God forgives past sins and offers a fresh start through faith, with a new identity in His family and guidance away from dwelling on the past.
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God
Nates
Night intruder chased from home by Seattle mother
Ethel Adams 41 woke to a burglar rifling her jewel box. She chased him out the back door as a crowd formed. Her daughter Diane Usher urged her to return inside, noting the lack of clothing on the mother during the fright.
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Seattle
Ethel Adams
Gunman Free After 17 Hours as Hostage Crisis Ends
Kenneth E. Adkins 22 releases his half sister Irene Kennedy 34 of Paris and surrenders without firing a shot after a 10 minute talk with lawyer Mervin Beil as police plan tear gas to storm the house in Charleston Illinois.
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Charleston
Ill
Kenneth E. Adkins
Irene Kennedy
Paris
White Frame
Mervin Beil
Adkins
Cotton Acreage Redistribution Proposal In Agriculture Bill
Washington proposes amendments to the 1938 agricultural act to permit redistributing unused cotton allotment acreage within counties. Rep. Bob Jones and Harold Cooley say the bill extends automatic preservation of cotton acreage history and sets penalties for farmers not meeting 75 percent planting or surrender thresholds, allowing county committees to reallocate recovered acreage. The House Agriculture Committee plans early action on the measure.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bob Jones
D-Ala
Jones
Decatur Daily
Harold Cooley
DNC
House Agriculture Committee
Alabama
ASC
Captors’ 10 day ordeal recount by Sedgwick victim
Philadelphia man William Sedgwick, hospitalized exhausted and nearly starved, described ten days captive with the Coyle brothers as hundreds hunted the suspects for killing a Philadelphia officer. He said the trio roped him, robbed him of 11 dollars, and drove toward Massachusetts stopping near Middleboro before continuing to hide in Pine Street woods.
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Middleboro
Mass
Coyle
William Sedgwick
Philadelphia
Sedgwick
David Brown
Carmen Brancanto
John Coyle
William
Torrance Street
Roxborough
Manayunk
Frank S. Nelson
John
Coyles
New Jersey Turnpike
Massachusetts
Pine Street
Decatur Skies Show Prominent Star and Planets
The June skyshows a prominent star Arcturus high in the southwest at 9:16 p.m. Jupiter appears near the Moon low in the southwest around 9:33 p.m. Sunset is 7:03 p.m. today with sunrise at 4:35 a.m. tomorrow and Moonset at 2:42 a.m. Tomorrow’s full Moon is on June 2.
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Arcturus
Jupiter
Weather and River Update for Decatur and Vicinity
Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge reads 21.66 feet with a 0.3 foot fall in 24 hours. Sea level reading 555.9 feet. TVA lakes Guntersville 595.1 feet and Wilson 607.0 feet. Yesterday’s high reached in the 60s with a low near 47. Southerly winds rise to 5 to 15 mph, shifting to easterly by today. showers forecast with possible thunderstorms later tonight and Thursday.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Guntersville
Wilson
Todershowers
Senate Group To Try Thursday To Agree On TVA Measure
A TVA salary increase of about 4.6 percent for 5800 white collar workers was approved with payroll costs rising by about 1.736 million yearly. TVA general manager A J Wagner noted last year’s raise was 5.3 percent costing 1.925 million annually. Separately a Senate subcommittee aims to approve a bill authorizing TVA to issue up to 750 million in revenue bonds to fund new generating facilities to meet a projected power shortfall.
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Senate
TVA
Knoxville
Tennessee Valley Authority
A. J. Wagner
Washington
Public Works Subcommittee
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Kerr
House
Red MiGs Fire On U S Plane Over Sea of Japan
A Navy patrol plane was attacked by two silver MiG fighters about 85 miles east of Wonsan North Korea. One tail gunner was seriously wounded when tracer fire knocked out the gun as the incident unfolded with multiple firing runs.
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Washington
Sea of Japan
Defense Department
Wonsan
North Korea
Pentagon
Lummer
U.S
Obscenity Ban Secured by City Commission
The City Commission this morning assured Decatur clergy and citizens that the ordinance banning obscene literature and magazines will be enforced. Rev. W. W. Lovett read the resolution at a mass meeting of about 800 people held Sunday at Decatur High School.
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Decatur Ministerial Assn
W. W. Lovett
Central Methodist Church
Decatur High School
Danville Neal Bids Accepted For School Construction
A Decatur firm was the apparent low bidder for construction at Danville and Neel schools as bids opened. Stone Construction Co. offered to build five classrooms at Danville and a cafeteria at Neel for 77,136 dollars, with 23,000 listed for Neel and 54,136 for Danville. See Danville on Page 2.
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Decatur
Danville
Neel
Stone Construction Co
Stone
Gromyko and Herter Hold Surprise Berlin Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U S Secretary of State Christian A Herter met unexpectedly at Gromyko s request to discuss the final phase of the Big Four Berlin conference Western diplomats speculated on new proposals to break the East West deadlock or wind up the conference Herter had earlier conferred with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd amid reports of Western splits over a possible summit conference
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Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Gromyko
Berlin
Berling
Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Pediatric Table Etiquette Regression and Named Disorders
A humorous but medical sounding description describes a child unable to sit upright at table during meals, termed a psychic regression to Roman dining. It also defines SCOOT a temporary binding of crotch bones preventing both feet under the table and a SNAKE LEG variant in small girls with one leg tucked beneath at an angle.
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Simon and Schuster
Curtis 3 Co
Ines
BOM
Atk
Efforts Seen To Compromise On Property Tax
The Alabama Senate returns to work after recess aiming for a compromise on property tax rates amid filibuster threats. Key figures include Sen. L. K. Andrews proposing 25 percent, Gov. Patterson seeking 30 percent, with Archer and Graham predicting 28 percent. Statewide assessed value tops 2.596 billion dollars in 1958, and lawmakers warn of slow passage for the general appropriations bill without a deal.
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House
Sen. L. K
Snag) Andrews
Bullock County
Patterson
Birmingham
Dave Archer
Madison
Joe W. Graham
Chilton
Alabama
Patterson backs Kennedy prompts Alabama critics
Gov. John Patterson pledged support for Sen. John Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination drawing criticism from legislators. A House member drafted a resolution attacking high profile pledges to influence Alabama’s votes at the national convention. Some lawmakers called Patterson’s Washington trip to meet Kennedy ill timed amid legislative troubles, especially in the Senate.
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John Patterson
John Kennedy
D-Mass
House
Kennedy
Montgomery
Senate
James E. Folsom
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