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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1950
Page
1
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Clear to partly cloudy weather in Alabama with scattered showers in Tennessee. Local items include court cases, church announcements, hospital admissions, births, building permits, and a Royal Masters meeting. Weather data notes 89 degree noon temperature and 80 at 8 am.
Decatur records reveal 297 residents listed as hope in the 1950 census taken in early April. The article notes additional residents not counted would have altered local totals.
Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson opened a two day meeting of leaders from Maine to Florida to urge turnout for the fall election. He said Americans broadly support Senator Joseph McCarthy's objectives and that the party should win at least 30 new House seats, with attendees from 17 eastern states.
A mistrial was declared by Circuit Judge Newton B. Powell in the third degree ar son case of Floyd Reeves after nearly four hours of deliberation. Reeves remains free on a $750 appearance bond as the case is moved to the next term. Merrill Doss represents Reeves.
About 50 of 70 inland craft plan to anchor at Disco Harbor in Decatur for the TV Ho cruise stop. John White leads the flotilla with four new entries while Decatur hosts a club visit lunch, dinner, and a variety show as boats arrive by late morning and depart by evening.
Carl Bowling, 36, of Somerville 2, died Friday at 12 10 am at his residence after a year long illness. Funeral services set for Saturday at 2 pm at New deag Union. Rev Eddy to officiate. Masons will be charter of grave services. pallbearers are brothers-in-law Owen Felton Aaron Lee Wayman Lester Gar. Interment Union Hill cemetery. Survived by wife Effie.
A Florida lightning strike destroyed the 1928 Christian Science church in Winter Haven, burning the $75,000 building. An escaping convict Angelo Massina was struck by a bolt and died as his partner Robert W. McKay was critically wounded. At the Naval Air Station near Jacksonville a bolt felled the umpire and eight players, ending the baseball game.
Willie Peak, 38, won a five thousand dollar appearance bond in a habeas corpus hearing before Circuit Judge James H. Crow Jr. in Cullman with Peak held on a robbery charge. Peak had been detained since May by Sheriff Shelley Hyatt’s forces. A preliminary hearing earlier denied bond. evidence tied Peak to entering Will Frank’s home armed and firing into the floor. Peak’s movements included fleeing the county and being captured in Memphis on a warrant. He fought extradition unsuccessfully.
Rabies tests at Decatur Branch in La and Town Creek show three animal heads rabid including a fox and a cow. D Hutto of Hillsboro delivered the fox head. Clyde May reported the cow sickened and died. Several other samples showed no signs of rabies.
About 40 local scouts and leaders depart Sunday at 2 20 p m on the Jamboree Special train, with stops in Washington and a nine day stay at Valley Forge. They join 50 000 scouts from around the world for crafts, camping and self reliance learning.
The British and French governments face pivotal parliamentary votes over the Schuman plan and domestic finances. Bidault seeks a confidence vote amid pay as you go protests while Monnet group discusses the pool plan in Paris. Izvestia denounces the Schuman plan.
In Birmingham last night a 22 year old Black man, Frank Nash of Powderly, was shot and killed by two patrolmen, R C Casey and Daniel Purvis, as he fled a Westside store after officers answered a burglary call and found him chopping the back door.
The Alabama legislature adjourned before approving a 67 senator reapportionment plan, prompting Administration leaders to push for a new special session with every county to have a state senator. Governor James E. Folsom was in Washington and unavailable for comment as the issue stalled.
MORRISTOWN TENN June 23 Tennessee Highway Patrol will guard the Enka Rayon plant without National Guard aid. State Safety Commissioner Sam K Neal announced he would keep enough patrolmen to prevent further violence. Gov Gordon Browning indicated he would follow the recommendation. The CIO strike at Enka has caused repeated violence since May with 25 minutes of gunfire at the shift change yesterday. Victor McDaniel, 30, was wounded five times and is in critical condition.
Decatur City Council meets at 2 P M to sign a service agreement and construction contract with Alabama Tennessee Natural Gas Company. Mayor H R Summer and engineer B F Grizzle expected to attend. attorney John Caddell and others prepared last minute details on the contract and city distribution and rates for fuel supply.
Dr. A. E. Barrett, 87, of Fort Stockton, Texas, died after a long illness. The physician’s passing is announced by local officials and family, with tributes expected to follow in forthcoming services.
Senate investigators plan to question career diplomat John S Service in a public hearing over claims he passed secret military data to Amerasia editor Philip Jaffe in 1945. Service denies knowingly sharing secrets while McCarthy asserts FBI testimony will reveal secret information.
Senator Connally guided a $1.22 billion foreign arms program into its second year as U S forces push a Western Europe defense drive. Key disputes target Truman authority to transfer $122 million in arms to vital allies and to extend credit for World War II era weapons to Europe.
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