Local events and notices fill Hartselle diary and school listings
Leonard Hartselle visits relatives in Hartselle for several days. Cub Scout Pack 91 schedules a family picnic Thursday at 5 30 p.m. at Delano Park with potluck. A two-vehicle collision at 8 02 a.m. near 12th Ave and Sherman St SE caused light damage. drivers were Edward Blackburn and Reverend Guy Colbert. City court docket shows 13 cases with varied charges. Roosevelt Wheeler given 28 days or $28 for assault and battery after a family fight. Fay Eubanks hospitalized after sleeping pill overdose. condition not serious. Recent enrollments at Tennessee Valley State Trade School listed by craft. Local families Bowen family return from vacation to St Petersburg and Pinellas Park. Old Friendship Baptist Church hosts all-day singing Sunday starting 10 a.m.. dinner at noon. D A V Chapter 11 meeting tonight at 7 30 at the D A V Home. Butler Hine urges good attendance as Washington discusses upcoming legislation. next meeting before the State D A V Convention in Tuscaloosa, June 28-30. See Diary On Page 2.
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D.A.V
Railroad St
Butler Hine
Washington
Tuscaloosa
House Forced To Filibuster Readings Halt Bid Bill
The Montgomery House faced a filibuster as supporters of a competitive state purchasing plan tried to suspend the day’s journal readings. A 53 to 23 vote failed to reach the four fifths required, predicting about three and a half hours more of reading before action, with the bill queued behind 83 other measures.
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Montgomery
House of Representatives
Caendar
See House
James W. Lynns Rites Wednesday
Hartselle James W. Lynn Sr. 70 longtime Morgan County official dies Monday at Baugh Wiley Clinic. Services set for Wednesday 2 p.m. at Blue Springs Baptist Church with burial directed by Peck Funeral Home. Survived by two sons a daughter a sister a brother and two grandsons.
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Hartselle
James W
Jim) Lynn
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Lynn
Bibb Graves
Jim Girley
Florette
Morgan County prisoner vanishes after court conference
William F. McBay a 35 year old Morgan County jail inmate walked out of the courthouse during a conference with his attorney Elmer C. Nix and failed to return to jail. McBay faces forgery grand larceny and assault charges and was to be tried Tuesday.
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Morgan County
William F. McBay
Elmer C. Nix
McBay
Sheriff's Office
Nix
Alvie Snow
O. B. Rogers
Snow
Supreme Court Overrules Ala Court Decision
The Supreme Court remanded the Colbert County robbery case of Jesse Blackburn after questioning whether his insanity claim was properly considered. The Alabama Court of Appeals’ ruling on the robbery conviction was set aside to allow a due process review of Blackburn’s confession and mental state.
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Washington
Alabama Court of Appeals
Colbert County
U.S. Supreme Court
Jesse Blackburn
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Alabama
Blackburn
Supreme
Body of George Stanford recovered from Tennessee River
The 27 year old Florence State Teachers College senior George Stanford drowned Sunday while swimming below Wilson Dam. His body surfaced 300 to 400 yards downstream from the last sighting in the Tennessee River.
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Florence
George Stanford
Florence State Teachers College
Tennessee
Wilson Dam
Davis Case Awarded Four Thousand Dollars
After two days of deliberation a jury awarded Brenda Davis four thousand dollars against Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co in a one hundred thousand dollar damage suit arising from a jeep train collision at a Limestone crossing. Also in circuit court Bill Law received five year sentences on two counts for distilling and possessing a still.
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Brenda Davis
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co
Davis
Bill Law
Marshall County
Law
Morgan County
B. H. Allen
Humphrey Credits Fiscal Policies With Unparalleled Prosperity
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey told the Senate Finance Committee that administration fiscal policies spurred unparalleled prosperity in the U S while acknowledging imperfections. He defended high interest rates as aiding savings and investment, warned of inflation risks, and noted farmer segments lagging in gains amid a broad growth period.
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Washington
Humphrey
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Eisenhower
America
Weather and River Report for Decatur Region
Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge showed 21.45 feet with a 14 foot rise in 24 hours. Sea level reading 55.75. Temperatures ranged from a high of 92 yesterday to a low of 71. Today 11 a.m. reading 90. Forecast calls for hot humid weather with widely scattered afternoon storms, fair tonight, easterly winds 8-12 mph. Highs about 93, lows near 69, into Wednesday.
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Decatur
Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
Supreme Court rulings rattle politics in anti communism fight
Indiana Senator says the high court shifted the legal battle 20 years back while two 6 1 decisions overturn Smith Act convictions of 14 California Communists and a contempt of Congress case against labor official John T Watkins. Justice Harlan writes the majority that urging action targets more than belief.
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U.S
Supreme Court
Washington
High Court
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Jenner
R-Ind
Commu- Smith
California
Congress
John T. Watkins
Clark
Watkins
House Un-American Activities Subcommittee
Warren
Subcommittee
New York
Justice Harlan
Majority
Smith
Lawrence Board To Take Action On Road Damages
Lawrence County board of revenue meets Monday to consider appeal of appraised damages totaling 113489 on 48 tracts for the Cullman Tri Cities Highway leg through Lawrence County The action could curb or drop parts of the county road program as high estimates anger officials and threaten farm to market plans.
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Moulton
Lawrence County Board of Revenue
Lawrence County
C. C. McWhorter
Isaac Johnson, Jr
Cullman Tri-Cities
Speake
McWhorter
Lawrence
Scientists Flee Atomic Blast at Nevada Test Site
At 4 45 am a fourth shot in the atomic test series exploded at a Nevada test site. The blast created light fallout prompting evacuation of the control point. A balloon detonated device and a mushroom cloud rose about six miles as radioactive vapor drifted away.
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Nev. P— Atomic Scientists
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Ground Zero
AEC
Due East
Due West
Southern Bloc Loses Jury Trial Amendment in Civil Rights Vote
In Washington the House passed President Eisenhower’s civil rights bill 286 to 126. Before final passage it defeated the Southern bloc’s fourth and final attempt to drive a jury trial amendment into the measure 251 to 158. The bill heads to the Senate, where leaders push for quick action to avoid Southern filibuster. The bill would empower the attorney general to file federal suits and obtain injunctions in civil rights cases, plus create a bipartisan commission and a DOJ division to handle matters.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Knowland
California
U. S
Department of Justice
Uouse
Southern
Japanese Firm To Make Fiber Under Strand Patents
Decatur Alabama June 18 a joint venture between Chemstrand Corporation and Mitsubishi Rayon Company will form Shinko Acrylic Fiber Company Limited to produce acrylic fiber under Chemstrand patents. Mitsubishi Rayon will hold the majority stake with Mitsubishi Chemical Industries as a future participant. Production planned to start in 1959 at 7.3 million pounds annually, with later expansion to 15 million pounds.
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Decatur
Alabama
Japan
Chemstrand Corporation
Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited
Chemstrand
Edward A. O'Neal
O'Neal
Mitsubishi Rayon
Shinko Acrylic Fiber Company, Limited
Shinko Acrylic Fiber
Mitsubishi Chemical Industries
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Sherman St. SE
City Recorder’s
Roosevelt Wheeler
Fay Eubanks
10Th St. SE
Decatur General Hospital
Tennessee Valley State Trade School
Culver Berry
Wess C. Blackwood
Bobby Ray Breedlove
Eskel Franklin Brown
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William A. Champion
Thomas A. Douglas
Huntsville
Kermit 0. Dulaney
Hilda Dunn
Malcolm Edwards
William E. English
Killen
Paul A. Fromhold
Carl Wilson Hale
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Robert E. Hall
Tuscumbia
Wallace Bowen
Jean
St. Petersburg
Sarasota
Pinellas Park
Fla
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Qld Friendship Baptist Church
Jack Miller
Buckley
James W. Lynn
Morgan
Xesibermis
Associated Press
Coney Island
Ala
Sheffield
Tennessee River
Russell Jeffries
Leighton
Cleta_ Davis McCrory
William S. Girard
C. W. Orr
William Otis Dawson
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Democratic Committee
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Hether
Marilyn Mooroe
Miller
U.S. District Court
Baller
Un-American Activities Committees
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