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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1956
Page
12
President Eisenhower vetoes a bill granting $6000 to a Virginia couple whose gas station grocery and trailer parking business suffered from highway relocation. The veto message details the decision and its rationale.
Eisenhower told the House from his hospital room that the government cannot guarantee property or business values and is liable only for property actually taken. The bill sought relief for Mr and Mrs Thomas V Compton of Clarksville Virginia whose business fell after U S 15 was moved due to road construction.
The President's Conference on Fitness of American Youth in Annapolis calls for action to improve youth fitness. Delegates urge a national council, expanded physical education, more recreation, and increased funding, aiming to start improvements at the community level. Vice President Nixon cites low gym access and missing recreation leadership.
Forecasters say the disturbance off the Florida coast is unlikely to grow into a hurricane. An Air Force plane from Bermuda probed the squally weather 500 miles east of Miami and found it spreading out or breaking up, with no evidence of a circular storm system.
Former haberdasher Harry S. Truman visits a London men’s clothing shop and shows a salesman how to tie and display neckwear. He buys a white bow tie for upcoming full dress events during a 10 day British stay and jokes about not needing delivery. Truman once ran a Kansas City men’s shop with Eddie Jacobson, which failed in the 1920s but paid all creditors.
SEC spokesman said no hearing was requested or ordered on Southern Co. plan to build a 150 million dollar steam plant on the Coosa River in Alabama. Deadline for hearing requests passed with none filed. The commission indicated eventual approval is likely and noted a possible board action after a procedural amendment.
In a fashionable Atlanta Peachtree Street apartment last night a mother and her young daughter were shot dead as two pajama clad girls watched. Police say the children's father, husband to the younger woman, is a person of interest in the case.
The body of Tommie Robert Cooke a 24 year old Tulsa minister who picked up hitchhikers was found in the Talihina area after Edward Leon Williams 27 admitted shooting him Williams led officers on a day long manhunt and was captured near Wilburton He said he forced Cooke to pull over and shot him in the head near Taft Cooke assistant pastor of Glenwood Baptist Church Tulsa was missing since Sunday morning after leaving the church Williams was arrested on a bus en route to the scene.
Beaver Oklahoma residents rushed to storm cellars when a fire siren sounded but it was not a tornado warning. Firemen sped to nearby Forgan to battle a blaze.
Detective W D Browning reports the body of Lillie Barnes 54 was found on a sofa in a Loganville Ga apartment with a daughter Becky Barnes Grey 29 nearby by a television. Charles Grey 45 husband of Becky was arrested with a .38 pistol. two young children Charlene 5 and Evelyn 2 witnessed the shooting.
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