Glimpses About Your Community
Partly cloudy this afternoon to night and Saturday with scattered thundershowers. Local notes include a broken arm for Adondolyn Johnson of Athens 4 and plans for Alabama Credit Union League convention in Birmingham. A cotton bloom, planted April 13 on John T Sheats land, is reported. church services, Korea sendoff tape, and draft and traffic cases noted. Community notices cover worship, health, and civic events with invitations to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elouise Long
Sarah Stockton
G. E. Bowden, Jr
Birmingham
Wolverine Tube Employees Credit Union
Alabama Credit Union League
Richard Aycock
Trinity 1
Stoneville
John T. Sheats
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Korea
Jasper Kelly
Reapportionment Pact Aims For 67 Senators In Alabama
In Montgomery a plan emerged to grant North and South Alabama a single senator for each county under a constitutional amendment. Rep Pelham Merrill and Sen Lawrence K Andrews led the effort, backed by leaders across the black belt and North Alabama. The measure would raise the Senate cap from 35 to 67, with districts spanning whole counties.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State Senate
Folsom
Bullock County
Lawrence K. Andrews
Calhoun
Elvin McCary
McCary
Andrews
Cleburne County
Pelham Merrill
Senate
Rep
Merrill
Black Belt
Franklin County
A. W. Todd
North Alabama
Capitol
Constitution Committee
House
Docks Supervisory Board
Charles Adams
Tallapoosa
Karl Harrison
Shelby
Tom Johnston
Mobile
NPA proposes truck production cuts across categories
The National Production Authority proposes July 1 cuts of 40 percent for light trucks, 30 percent for heavy trucks, and 15 percent for medium trucks. The plan, announced after a closed manufacturers meeting, drew strong protests and a factory warned it would lay off about a quarter of its workers.
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Washington
National Production Authority
NPA
NPR
Derenee B.aeeys
Tongay Family Barred From Channel Swim
The Tongay family from Miami Florida were barred from England by immigration officers at London airport. Mr and Mrs Russell Tongay and their two children planned to swim the English Channel but were put aboard a New York bound plane in the morning after a two hour meeting with officials. A Home Office spokesman said they were interviewed and authorities noted their stated plan.
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London
Tongay
Miami
Fla
England
Russell Tongay
America
Bubba Tongay
Kathy
Home Office
Enlisted Reservists Headed Home From Korea
The army announced enlisted reservists will start returning from Korea in mid July with most back by November 30 and in the United States by year’s end. The plan covers inactive and volunteer reserve personnel recalled involuntarily for Korea. Return priority goes to those with prior service, hardship, age factors, and especially men over 26.
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Tokyo
Army
Korea
U. S
Adjutant General
Man finds relief from insanity after self infused brain surgery
London reports a 55 year old retired Army officer who survived a self inflicted gunshot to the head and underwent a frontal lobotomy in a British doctors journal. Doctors say the operation cured mania and depression while memory was restored. The patient recovered mentally and was able to go home after three months.
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London
John Slobach
Basingstoke
Waeble
Slobach
Bien Ealmly
Senter Tov Wemiba Sabicea Jient
Ridgway Backed Chinese Help in Korea Policy
Gen. Matthew B Ridgway then Far Eastern commander backed Gen. MacArthurs December demand for use of Chinese nationalist troops against China to relieve pressure in Korea. The Senate testimony released a Dec communication to Gen J Lawton Collins noting Ridgways conviction of the logic of a nationalist offensive in South China.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Far Eastern
Douglas MacArthur
China
Senate
MacArthur
Red China
Knowland
R-Calif
Ridgway
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Korea
United Nations
David G. Lee Ridgway
Flying Farmers Set State Meet in Decatur Lyons Hotel
Dennis McClendon regional director of the National Flying Farmers Association announced the annual state meeting for June 30 at the Lyons Hotel in Decatur. The gathering will elect officers for the coming year and about 5 500 members exist in 35 states with around 90 members in Alabama. Attendees will fly in from across the state.
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Dennis McClendon
National Flying Farmers Association
Decatur
Lyons
McClendon
Alabama
Negro Is Sentenced On Burglary Count
A 45 year old Hartselle man named Andrew Bledsoe pleaded guilty to second degree burglary of a Hartselle school. He was arrested in March 1951 and sentenced to one year and one day in the state penitentiary.
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Hartselle
State Penitentiary
Andrew Bledsoe
British Readiness to Exit Iran Oil Field
In Tehran on June 22 British AIOC staff of about 3,000 prepared to depart as Iran pressed for immediate turnover of AIOC operations. AIOC head A E C Drake warned Britons to ready passports for a hasty exit while Iran’s nationalization drive threatened a shutdown at Abadan in coming days. Deputy Premier Fatemi said foreigners could remain under the new National Iranian Oil Company with similar pay and privileges, though many Britons doubted willingness to work for Tehran.
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A. E. C. Drake
AIOC
Abadan
Iran
Abandan
Hossein Fatimi
AICC
Tehran
London
Mohammed Mossadegh
Mossadegh
Drake
Soviet press marks 10th anniversary of German invasion
Moscow reports devoted extensive space to the 10th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa. Articles accuse American and British imperialists of encouraging Hitler and financing the German war machine.
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Moscow
Russia
Hitler
Archbishop Pleads Guilty in Hungary Overthrow Plot
Archbishop Joszef Groesz pleaded guilty in Budapest to conspiring to overthrow Hungary's communist government. He and eight others faced Judge Vilmos Olti, who once sentenced Cardinal Mindszenty in a related case. American Robert A. Vogeler received 14 years for spy charges. Vogeler called his own confession rubbish after a recent release.
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Budapest
Hungary
Joszef Groesz
Minzenty
Vilmos Olti
Mindszenty
Robert A. Vogeler
Vogeler
Japan Opulently Buys Empress Dowager Funeral
Tokyo reports the Empress Dowager Sadako was interred at Tamagawayo mausoleum after a costly ceremony. official cost 80 million yen about 222000 dollars. The funeral featured Shinto rites, pomp, and crowds as Emperor Hirohito observed.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hirohito
Sadako
Imperial Mausoleum
Tamagoryo
Omiya Palace
Emperor Taisho
Toshimagaoka
Democrats Alerted For A Vote On Taxes
Washington June 22 Administration leaders alerted all house democrats to be on hand for a decision on the 7.2 billion tax increase bill opposed by most Republicans. The Ways and Means Committee plans extensive changes with a 12 percent defense tax and retroactive corporate boosts. President Truman's earlier request for 16.5 billion was scaled to 10 billion after strong existing-rate revenues.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Percy Priest
Tennessee
Senate
Ways and Means Group
Truman
Doughton
D-Nc
Congress
Man Shot In Arm In Moulton Heights Incident
Police Chief J. B. Whitmire reported that Leonard Stover, a Molton Heights resident, was shot in the arm and taken to Decatur General Hospital after an incident at a water well. Stover said someone propped a shotgun against the well and fired.
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J. B. Whitmire
Moulton Heights
Leonard Stover
Decatur General Hospital
Stover
Popes
Fortieth Court Suits Filed Over Veterans Housing Damage
Forty new suits filed in Birmingham today seek 7300 damages each against White House Inc. Thomas N. Teach and the W B Leidy Co claiming faulty construction in a veterans housing project. Previous suits total forty and allege homes fail to meet minimum instruction requirements.
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Birmingham
Inst White House Inc
Thomas N. Teach
W.B. Leidy Co
Fifth Day Finds U S Planes The Masters Of Sky
Tokyo June 22 The Red air force suffered another loss as American Sabre jets downed two Russian made planes and damaged three in two battles over North Korea. The U S Fifth Air Force reported 11 planes shot down this week with 17 damaged, while 89 jets fought in the engagements. Ground fighting saw U N patrols probing the western front and preparations for a potential limited communist counteroffensive by Monday.
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Tokyo
Red Air Force
North Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
United Nations
U. N
Yonchon
Pyongyang
Kaesong
East Central Front
Manchuria
Yalu River
Eet Cogent
Fifth Air Force
Far East
Chorwon
Motion For New Trial In Hart Condemnation Case
A hearing on a motion for a new trial in the condemnation right of way suit of F. M. Hart and others will be heard before Circuit Judge Newton B Powell on June 29 at 10 A M. Hart was awarded 3000 dollars for damages from trespass of the highway under construction across his property north of Hartselle.
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F. M. Hart
Newton B. Powell
Hart
Hartselle
Aneaenal
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Little Adondolyn Johnson
Gilbert Johnson
Athens 4
Recorders Court
Navy
Marines
W. P. Reeves
Central Baptist Church
O. E. Burton
Southern Baptist Convention
San Francisco
Calif
Reeves
Jeff Dobbs
Dallas
Texas
Mrs
A. D. Dobbs
Morgan County
The
Nazarene Church
H. M. Watson
Todd
Tongays
English Channel
Mama Tongay
Atlantic
Hoy
Wii
Negro
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Gordon Gray
University of North Carolina
James E. Webb
Oxford
N. C
Gray
By Endre Marton
By Tom Bradshaw
Francis J. Kelly
Clen Clements
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
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