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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1959
Page
5
A 16 year old Negro youth had his 30 month jail term and $1200 fine reduced on appeal for alleged attempts to date a white woman. The mask in public charge yielded a one year suspended sentence and two years probation. The assault and battery charge was dropped.
President Eisenhower played his seventh round of golf in 11 days at Gettysburg on a sunny day. He planned to attend church before another round and to travel to the White House to meet with Secretary Herter about the stalled Geneva conference. His knee, injured at West Point, bothered him during the round.
Sen. Albert Gore fears Strauss rejection could spur extreme partisanship between the President and Senate and within parties, while Sen. Clinton Anderson argues the outcome may reduce partisanship. Anderson links Strauss to the Dixon-Yates controversy and TVA tensions.
Frank J. Lindsey faces trial in Bessemer Circuit Court Friday on a charge of operating a lottery. He is free under 75 000 bond pending appeal of a seven year sentence for bribery. Lindsey was indicted and convicted of bribing two police officers in Fairfield related to lottery operations.
The United States contains 69 peaks at or above 14 000 feet outside Alaska. Colorado hosts 54 of these high mountains in the Rocky Mountains.
The report notes a golfer at the club golf course on Friday who was not complaining about his knee. He spoke only about his wood shots and long game performance.
Miss Elizabeth Lea Mitchell daughter of Secretary of Labor and Mrs James P Mitchell wed Francis Andrew Natche z of Philadelphia in a Saturday ceremony in Fair Haven New Jersey.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrived in Schefferville Quebec to greet 1600 residents and nomadic Naskapi. The tour included a Stephenville stop where bouquet mishaps and car trouble delayed events. They continue a 45 day Canada circuit visiting camps and the Corner Brook mill.
Bonnie Hand of Lafayette is elected president of the Alabama Assn of Public Welfare Boards at its annual meeting in Birmingham. The group formed in 1958 to coordinate county pension and security boards. Hand succeeds Louis C. Wright of Etowah County, who was elected secretary treasurer.
Melva EF Cline, 30, stepped onto a railroad crossing in Tucson and was struck by a train approaching from the right after mistaking a left side flood light for a crossing signal. She escaped with minor injuries.
Founded by a Filipino in 1914, the Iglesia ni Cristo has expanded from a small group to a large, close knit faith with about a million members. Led by Felix Manalo, the church emphasizes simple services, mutual aid, and a social security network while rejecting priests and confessions.
A reader asks Decatur officials if a local law bans girls and women from wearing shorts and if babies in public hospitals must be born with a diaper. The letter, dated June 18 1959 from Madison Alabama, is addressed to The Decatur Daily.
Tokyo dispatch cites New China News Agency report that Hanoi the capital of Red North Viet Nam will become a Socialist center by 1961. The People's Council reportedly orders socialization across capitalist industry and commerce, agriculture in outlying areas, and handicrafts.
Walter Williams 116, the nation s last Civil War veteran, remained in a semi coma after a pneumonia relapse. The frail Confederate officer, bedfast for years, was stricken June 6 at his daughter's home in Houston. Born November 14, 1842 in Itawamba County Mississippi, he served as a forage master for Southern troops.
The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology voted to have Old Abe the bald eagle in the Madison Assembly chamber cleaned and repaired by a taxidermist, deeming the stuffed bird dirty and in need of care.
The Tennessee Valley Authority offers about 2 117 526 board feet of mixed standing timber and 817 9 cords of standing pulpwood in north Alabama. Seven sales cover Pickwick Lauderdale Elk River Wheeler Guntersville areas with volumes from 57 161 to 542 263 feet. Sealed bids to TVA at Ahon Dam Alabama are due July 8 1959 at 10 00 A M Central Time and will be opened publicly.
MT. HOPE AIl area resident Whitman faced a gas tainted water problem after building a new house. A plumber provided relief but gas again appeared in the taps culminating in an explosion when he lit a cigarette in the bathroom. He suffered facial burns. A new well 600 feet away was drilled and is functioning.
A University of Atheism opened in Ashkhabad the capital of Soviet Turkmenistan. The new institution aims to promote secular studies and critical thinking among students in the region.
Leon Poole, newly appointed Jackson Life Insurarite agent for Decatur, comes from Danville Alabama with a strong education and teaching background. He earned degrees from Florence State College and George Peabody College and taught in Cullman Alabama. He and his wife Mary Ellen Aldridge Poole reside in Cullman and attend Cullman First Methodist Church.
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