Local News Briefs From Decatur Area This Week
The Youth Council of Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church plans a car wash Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Fuller Super Market. A permit issued to S. M. Still for a $500 garage at 1702 5th Ave. SE. A Nashville truck driver and an Independence serviceman were in a traffic mishap on 6th Ave SE at 12:18 a.m. The accident involved a 1958 White truck driven by Arthur Wilson Harding and a 1953 Packard driven by Paul Edwin Arnold. Twelve cases on city docket include no license charges and parking violations. Morgan County sheriffs made five arrests for drunkenness and other offenses. The Licensed Practical Nurses Assn Chapter 5 meets at Athens-Limestore Hospital at 7 p.m. Today. Mayor Murray Dodd urged renewed parking rules enforcement in loading zones. See DIARY on Page 2.
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Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Fuller Super Market
Nashville
Decatur Police Department
Murray Dodd
Dodd
Pursuit of happiness at others’ expense warns of selfish ruin
The text argues against living only for self and getting what one wants. It cites biblical ethics that no one lives unto themselves and that those who seek self-first end in trouble. It praises Jesus Christ’s example of putting others first and offers a rule: God first, others second, self last.
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Jesus Christ Our Lord
God
Small Loan Meet Proves Fruitless
Legislators who drafted an administration backed small loan bill met with lenders but failed to reach a compromise. Rep. Bob Gilchrist headed the subcommittee and called the conference fruitless while Mobile attorney Wallace Johnson said no progress was made. The State Administration Committee plans an executive session to finish work on the measure. Day long hearings yielded many complaints from money lenders against the bill endorsed by Gov. Patterson.
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Montgomery
Bob Gilchrist
Morgan County
Mobile
Wallace Johnson
Alabama Finance Institute
State Administration Committee
John Patterson
Beck Denies OK of Truckers Loan in 1954 Indictment
Former Teamsters president Dave Beck and two trucking executives deny any wrongdoing in a $200,000 loan to Beck in 1954. Indicted for Taft Hartley Act violations are Beck 64 and executives Roy Fruehauf of Detroit and Burge Seymour of New Preston Conn. The loan was repaid. Beck’s attorney says they will fight the charge and seek delay for his plea set for June 24.
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NEW York
Teamsters
Dave Beck
Beck
Teamsters Union
Roy Fruehauf
Fruehauf Trailer Co
Detroit
Burge Seymour
New Preston
Seattle
Charles S. Burdell
Burdell
Mother and 27th Child Doing Fine
Doctors at Peoples Benevolent Hospital report Mrs. Helidore Cyr and her 27th child are doing well. The seven pound five ounce boy was born last Sunday two days after Helidore and Marie Cyr celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary. The Cyrs live on a 400 acre farm at Ledges New Brunswick with 14 children, five of whom are married and reside elsewhere. seven children have died.
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Fort Kent
Maine
Peoples Benevolent Hospital
Helidore Cyr
Marie
Ledges
New Bruswick
Patterson and critics reach accord to halt filibuster
Gov John Patterson meets with administration critics to approve a compromise allowing an anti property tax measure to exit the Senate Finance Committee and join the Senate Calendar. Opponents pledge to end the filibuster and move the House approved general appropriation bill to a vote Friday.
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Montgomery
John Patterson
Senate
Patterson
Senate Finance Committee
Settlement On IVA Bill Hoped By Kerr Lee
A Senate Public Works subcommittee plans another effort to settle a bill granting the Tennessee Valley Authority a self financing program. The subcommittee is headed by Senator Robert Kerr and Senator Lee. Settlement on Page 2.
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Washington
Senate Public Works
Tennessee Valley Authority
Robert S. Kerr
Lee
Poison Oak Sensitivity Worst for Child in Public Spaces
A satirical sketch describes a child hypersensitive to poison oak causing widespread itching and self scratching. It mocks ineffective cures labeled pink, orange, and purple lotions and depicts the bizarre, exaggerated application method on a bathroom floor.
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Charles Laughton
Night Burglary Trial Opens
Willie James Sykes stands trial for night time burglary in Morgan County Court. Grand jury indictment from November faces a range of penalties from ten years to death. Jurors qualify amid mixed views on capital punishment as other cases proceed.
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Willie James
Sykes
Morgan County ‘Cult Court
Decatur
James Crosswhite
Crosswhite
W. L
Terry
Courtland
Town Creek
Smith
Bobby Gerald Guyton
Hulaco
Ethel Barrymore Dies in Sleep in Beverly Hills
Hollywood actress Ethel Barrymore died in her sleep at her Beverly Hills home. The famed stage and screen star suffered a chronic heart condition and was accompanied by her son Samuel Barrymore at the time of death.
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Hollywood
Ethel Barrymore
Beverly Hills
Samuel Barrymore
Sky Events and Uranus Visible Tonight in Cancer
Decatur notes a Friday sky with sunset at 7 03 p m and moonrise at 52 p m. Uranus can be seen tonight near Venus, about 1 8 billion miles away in Cancer, a position it has held since 1955.
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Venus
Uranus
Cancer
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge noted
The Tennessee River reading this morning at Keller Memorial Bridge was 21.50 feet, down 0.01 feet in 24 hours. Sea level reading stood at 555.80 feet. TVA lake levels listed include Guntersville 594.6 and Wilson 606.1 amid northwest winds 6-15 mph. High today forecast near 84 with low about 61 and similar patterns into Friday.
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Decatur
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Guntersville
Wilson
Senators push to keep guns loaded on patrol planes
Senators Styles Bridges and Lyndon B. Johnson demand action to ensure American patrol planes fly with guns loaded and functioning. The inquiry aims to prevent future defenseless missions after a Navy antisubmarine plane was strafed.
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Washington
Styles Bridges
R-Nh
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Long Returns To Louisiana
A weary Gov. Ear K. Long returns to Louisiana from a 19 day stay in a Galveston Texas hospital. He resumes duties as chief executive but doctors assess his physical condition and whether he can serve a fourth term in December.
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New Orleans
Ear K. Long
Louisiana
Ned
Mis- River
Galveston
Tex
Co op Dropping Its Surcharge
Floyd Anderson announced the Joe Wheeler Electric Co op will drop a 10 percent power bill surcharge for commercial and industrial customers starting July 1 under a TVA contract. The board also cut city street lighting charges by 8 to 12 percent, benefiting municipalities churches schools and other businesses.
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Hartselle
Joe Wheeler Electric Co-op
Floyd Anderson
Co-op
TVA
First In Over 10 Years 12 Mile Path Tornado Strikes Miami
A tornado struck near Miami Wednesday night injuring at least 100 people with several in serious condition. Forecaster Paul Moore noted the damage exceeds typical straight wind effects. An 11 year old Huntsville Alabama boy, Frank Jay Vasellotti, is listed in critical condition with severe head injuries at North Shore Hospital.
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Miami Fla
Greater
Miami Area
Paul Moore
Florida
Moore
Miami
Fla
Huntsville
Ala
Frank Jay Vasellotti
North Shore Hospital
F. J. Vasellotti
Florida storm leaves dozens hurt near bayfront area
Scores of bayfront homes were wrecked as a storm tore a 12 mile path. Nearly 60 people were treated for injuries and about 100 total were hurt, with an 11 year old boy Frank Vasellotti in critical condition from head injuries. Hardest hit was the four block zone around the 79th Street causeway. No fatalities were reported.
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Bayfront
Frank Vasellotti
Florida Highway Patrol
79Th Street Causeway
Stewart Cooley
Big Four Delays Talks 24 Hours
The Big Four foreign ministers postponed talks for 24 hours at Soviet pressure. Gromyko sought more time to consult Moscow and study the Western compromise for a Berlin stop gap. Lloyd Herter and Couve de Murville agreed to the delay amid hopes for progress.
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John M. Hightower
Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Maurice Couve de Murville
Moscow
Berlin
Moscow Radio
Kremlin
Frigidaire Spring Festival Pricing at Robinson's
Frigidaire spring festival brings special prices at Robinson's on 2nd Avenue. Adv. sale features discounted appliances and limited-time offers for home goods shoppers.
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Robinson’s
2Nd Avenue
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S. M. Still
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City Recorders
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Blount Bros. Construction Co
Shoals Creek
Ingalls
Blount Bros
Billy Smith
Beck Claims Truckers
Gordon Brown
Associated Press
Dr. Spock
B. M. Atkinson, Jr
Whitney Darrow, Jr
SUMAC
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Earth
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Decatur Daily
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Big 4
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