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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1951
Page
1
Weather and social notes from Decatur area
Partly cloudy with warm conditions and scattered showers in extreme north Alabama. Local hospital admissions and discharges reported at Baugh Wiley clinic and Decatur General, plus travel and family notices. Rotary president Ed Price to pass duties to Al Shelton for 1951-52.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Rotary
Ed Price
Price
al Shelton
Mitchell elected president of Alabama Poultry Association
A. N. Mitchell of Decatur was elected president of the Alabama Poultry Men's Association at a Montgomery meeting. He succeeds A. A. Middleton of Dothan. W. L. Walsh of Montgomery was chosen vice president and Mrs. John Brennan of Mobile was reelected secretary treasurer. Middleton was named delegate to the International Baby Chick Association meeting. Frank Dennis of Talladega W. B. Gibbs of Cullman and H. N. Doss of Boaz joined the board and executive officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. N. Mitchell
Decatur Poultryman
Alabama Poultrymen’s Association
Montgomery
Mitchell
A. A. Middleton
Dothan
W. L. Walsh
John Brennan
Mobile
Middleton
International
Truman to dedicate Arnold engineering center in Tennessee
President Truman to dedicate the Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullahoma Tennessee marking the first anniversary of Korea and highlighting aims for future warplanes. The ceremony includes a noon national broadcast and a jet salute as 10 engine B 36d bombers pass overhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tullahoma
Tenn
Truman
Korea
Air Force
Henry H. Arnold
Arnold
Arnold Engineering Development Center
AFL
Wanted killer Holden captured after years on FBI list
FBI director J Edgar Hoover announced the arrest of Thomas James Holden near Beverton Oregon. Holden, a former train robber on the ten most wanted list, faced charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in Chicago murders of his wife and her two brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
FBI
Thomas James Holden
Beverton
Ore
Holden
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Chicago
Leavenworth
Kans
Oregonian
Red Headed Nurse Teaches Air Base Aiming Lesson
In Selma Alabama June 23 medical officers at Craig Air Force Base faced a marksman test that left them red faced. First Place went to First Lieut J H Ambrose a red headed nurse from Kewaskum Wisconsin who previously fired only a BB gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Ala
Craig Air Force Base
J. H. Ambrose
Jeannette
Ambrose
Kewaskum
Wis
Docketed In County Court In Morgan County
The first week of Judge W. H. Long’s term opens at 9 A.M. Monday with a docket of 78 non jury criminal hearings. Monday lists multiple defendants for prohibition violations, assaults, vagrancy, and related charges. Additional Tuesday cases cover prohibition, vagrancy, public drunkenness, and carrying a concealed weapon according to the page 3 continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Long
Morgan County Court
Lucy Young
Annie McCain
Clarence Clay
Ed Chapman
Leroy Owens
Myrtie Lee Valentine
Walter Cowley
Leon Luckett
Thurman Turney
Tommy A. Willingham
John Wesley Carter
Charley Bolan
Bill McGee
Alvin H. Pitts
Ollie Pearl Linley
Howard Pitt
Stanley Leroy Mahan
Lucile Jones
Willie Mae Walton
J. E. Jones
Edward Edwards
Seldon Justice
Dottie Mac Garth
Curtis M. Wigginton
Roy Lee Alexander
Dick Brown
Will Ratliff
Calvin Brown
Ellis C. Keel
Pest Trouble On The Gulf Coast Is Worst Ever
Mobile, June 23. Gulf Coast area faces worst pest trouble as June bugs emerge from hibernation and damage rose bushes and fruit trees. Local horticulturist Ernest Thublin calls the attack the worst he has seen and warns spraying is needed to prevent further damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
Mobile
Ala
Alabama Gulf Coast
Ernest Thublin
Pan American Constellation Crashes in Libyan Jungle
A Pan American Constellation with 40 aboard disappeared over the sodden jungle 50 miles from Monrovia. The wreckage was found more than 24 hours after expected arrival, with the spokesman confirming complete disintegration and no survivors. Rescuers planned parachute drops as relief teams moved toward the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monrovia
Liberia
New York
Dakar
Idlewild
Johannesburg
South Africa
Roberts Field
Accra
Africa Gold Coast
See Sodden
Accuses Yanks of Rowdyism at Tolstoy Grave Visit
The Literary Gazette accused Americans from the U S embassy of loud and provocative behavior on a June 10 visit to Tolstoy s grave at Yasnaya Polyana near Moscow. It said they arrived drunk and pushed Soviet visitors, loudly discussed exhibits, and showed contempt for the place and people. A U S embassy spokesman attributed the impression to language misunderstandings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Literary Gazette
U. S
Leo Tolstoy
Yasnaya Polyana
Tolstoy
Itoy
Tuscaloosa First City in 40 Years to Earn Rating Change
Tuscaloosa Alabama becomes the first city in at least four decades to rise from second to first class fire insurance rating. The Alabama Inspection and Rating Bureau cites improvements in fire protection water works and street systems as the basis for the upgrade, placing Tuscaloosa alongside Birmingham Mobile and Montgomery for premiums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
Alabama Inspection and Rating Bureau
Birmingham
Mobile
Montgomery
Attempt Upset Of Attack Plan
Allied infantry on the central front attacked and routed enemy troops in bitter fighting near Pyonggang about 29 miles north of parallel 38. Hill battles shifted hands five times as Communist screening forces were driven northward. Allies dug in after clearing Reds from approaches to Pyongyang amid fears of a third spring offensive. See ATTEMPT on Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Pyonggang
Pyongyang
United Nations Command
Segregation In School Upheld By 3 Judges
A three judge federal court upheld segregation in South Carolina public schools in a 2 to 1 decision while ordering equal facilities for Black students. The ruling said school segregation is a matter for state policy and local government, with six months to report on steps toward equality. NAACP vows to seek U S Supreme Court review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S. C
Clarendon
South Carolina
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South
John J. Parker
George Bell Timmerman
Columbia
James F. Byrnes
Supreme Court
Secretary of
New York
Walter White
NAACP
United States Supreme Court
James M. Hinton
The
See
Tax Record Broken Here Monday Morn
Morgan county faces its first tax sale in years as six parcels totaling about 21 000 dollars in value and 500 dollars in unpaid taxes go to auction Monday at 11 A M. Tax collector Alvis Briscoe notes the holdings include 570 acres in the county and three city lots in Decatur. Taxes may be paid before 6 A M to 4 P M or during the sale with redemption possible afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County
Alvis Briscoe
Morgan
Decatur
Solons Take Long Strides in Alabama Legislature
Final passage of the administrations three percent sales tax marks a major Alabama legislative week. The measure cleared the Senate 26 to 8, increases the tax from two to three percent, and takes effect October 1 with the new state fiscal year. Governor Gordon Persons signed it into law yesterday. The session also saw talk of reapportionment, a proposed constitutional amendment to raise Senate seats from 35 to 67, and a Mobile docks reform bill creating a five member board to run docks with 10-year staggered terms and Senate confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Senate
Gordon Person
Lawrence K. Andrews
Bullock County
House
Pelham Merrill
Cleburne
Merrill
Mobile
Tom Johnston
State Senate
Karl Harrison
Shelby
Sunk Twice She Still Travels Dalesman Cleared at Mobile Docks
British freighter The Dalesman, sunk twice in World War II, was being unloaded at Alabama state docks. Capt. H. W. Jones, aboard since 1940 except for four years in a German prison, recounts its wartime history including Crete sinking and capture, and a 1943 torpedoing before reaching Trieste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Alabama State Docks
H. W. Jones
Crete
Mediterranean Sea
James
Malik urges Korea cease fire and troop withdrawal
A. Malik urged that both sides in Korea conf er on a cease fire armistice and withdrawal of troops as the first step to peace. The U S state department said Washington is ready to help if Malik's statement is more than propaganda. The Russian UN delegation offered a peace bid viewed with cautious study in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N. Y
Russia
A A. Malik
Korea
38Th Parallel
U. S. State Department
Washington
United States
Malik
China
Truman
U. N
State Department
Peiping
U S Skeptical Of Peace Offer
The United States expressed doubt about a cease fire proposal from Soviet representative Jacob Malik at the United Nations. A state department statement urged concrete ideas for a cease fire and mutual withdrawal from the 38th parallel and noted skepticism given past Moscow actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
United States
Korea
Russia
Jacob Malik
Malik
United Nations
38Th Parallel
Truman
Defense Department
Capitol Hill
Congress
U. S
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. E. Jones
Hartseller
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
James Robinson
Paul H. Gilliam
Daytona Beach
Fla
Tennessee River
U. S. Weather Bureau
Knoxville
Guntersville
Whitesburg
Florence
Department of Defense
Army
William K. Allred
Roy W. Allred
Hanceville 3
Cpl
Rayburn L. Burden
Arthur D. Burden
Courtland
Frank Richards
7Th Avenue West
Decatur General Hospital
Melvin Oliver
New Harbor
Oliver
Floyd M. Moore
5Th Avenue West
Pansy Smith
Paducah
Kentucky
Moore
Peel Son
Poultry Assoc
Lacon and
Cullman
Daily
Lacon Mountain
L & N Railroad
Hartselle
Air Center
Citizen Spots
Africa
Yanks
Legion
Morgan County Post
American Legion
Bobby Franklin
Oliver J. Shepard
Legion's Service Committee
Eddie Sandlin
the Daily
Tommie Wilson
UTAW
Young Franklin
Solons
U.S
Goldberg
Skeptical of Peace Offer
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
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