Dixie Division Breaking Camp Ends Two Weeks Field Training
FORT MCCLELLAN Alabama June 23 The 31st Dixie Division ends its two week field training tomorrow with over 4000 National Guard troops from Alabama and Mississippi leaving. The first to depart will be the band and the last group will travel in a motor convoy of 500 vehicles led by Col Henry V Graham commander of the 157th Infantry. Col J S Marshall will lead the Mobile unit and is expected to arrive in the coast city around 4.
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Fort Mcclellan
Ala
31St
Dixie) Division
National Guard
Alabama
Mississippi
Henry V. Graham
157Th Infantry
J. S. Marshall
Coast City
Azalea Trail Festival Dates Revised in Mobile
The 1957 Mobile Azalea Trail festival runs Feb 3 through Mar 31 with Montgery coverage arriving about 11 a.m. Col J B Dunbar leads local arrangements. The event notes a strong National Guard presence of over 9 000 troops under Dixie Division command by Maj Gen A G Paxton and Brig Gen John D Sides.
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Mobile
Trail Tales Aes
Lewis Wilder
Three Teens Sentenced to Alabama Industrial School
Three teenage boys arrested for two Sunday night break ins were sentenced by County Juvenile Judge T C Almon to the Alabama Boys Industrial School in Birmingham. They will be held at Morgan County jail and transferred early this week with possible release after one semester or completion at age 21.
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Alabama Boys Industrial School
Birmingham
T. C. Almon
Morgan County
Industrial School
Almon
Sam’s Superette
Somerville Rd
Wood River
U. S. Highway 31
1957 Festival Queen Crowned At Ladd Stadium
The 1957 festival queen will be crowned in ceremonies at Ladd Stadium on March 10. The event marks the festival’s traditional royal pageant with local honorees and community participation.
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Ladd Stadium
M Gregor Heads District S A M
Huntsville report of the Society for Advancement of Management North Alabama chapter electing officers for the coming year. President Robert L. MacGregor, Decatur area. John W. Womble, Redstone Arsenal area. Kermit W. Day, Arsenal personnel. A sizeman board of directors includes Leo Brookshire and Norman P. Harberger among others. The group, organized last November, has 75 members from Redstone Arsenal Rohm & Haas Thiokol Chemstrand Wolverine Decatur and related firms.
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Huntsville
Society For Advancement of Management
North Alabama
Robert L. MacGregor
Wolverine
Decatur
John W. Womble
Rocket Develop Laboratories
Redstone
Ar- Huntsville
Presmuiad
Dent
S. Kermit W. Day
Arsenal Com
Siz Man
Leo Brookshire
Thiokol
Norman P. Harberger
Rohm & Hass
C. E. Hieserman
Chemstrand
A. A. Stewart
Redstone Depot
Redstone Arsenal
Cecil Sanderson
Paul W. McClung
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
National
Rohm & Haas
General Shoe
Dozen Convicts Paroled in Alabama Pardon Board Action
The State Pardon Parole Board granted paroles to a dozen convicts last week in Montgomery including two life terms for murder. Eight prior paroles were revoked and 36 denied. Notable cases include Walter Jarrell of Houston County and a Randolph County burglary sentence. Calhoun burglary sentence recorded at May 21 for 15 years.
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Montgomery
State Pardons Parole Board
Walter Jarrell
Randolph
Houston County
Calhoun
Women’s Exchange Foundation to Disband After 1889 Founding
The WV based organization in Richmond plans to dissolve and donate its 70 000 in funds to three hospitals. Board member Mrs Gray cites a shrinking pool of needy women as motive for the action.
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Gentlewomen Missing
Richmond
Alabama Jurists To Consider Code To Govern Photos
In Talladega on June 23 the Alabama Assn of Circuit Judges committee approved a proposed code of ethics allowing trial judges discretion to permit news photographs in courtrooms. It would adopt the ABA canons with Canon 35 removed, which bans trial photography.
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Talladega
Alabama
Committee of Judicial Ethics
Alabama Assn
American Bar Assn
Soft drink sales hit 1.26 billion in 1955 U.S.
U.S. beverage data show 1 264 925 000 cases of soft drinks sold in 1955 across national markets. This figure underscores the rapid growth of soda consumption and industry expansion during the mid 1950s.
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United States
Eisenhower Reverses Wilson On Officer Uniforms
President Eisenhower overruled Secretary of Defense Wilson on whether officers in Washington should wear civilian clothes or military uniforms. Wilson had ordered uniforms for about 11,000 Army Navy and Air Force officers but reversed the directive after talks with White House aides. The new guidance makes civilian dress optional for officers in the capital.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
Navy
White House
James C. Hagerty
Quantico
Two Decatur Negroes Fined for Driver License Fraud
Two Black men in Decatur county court were fined $25 each plus costs by Judge W. H. Long for attempting to obtain a driver’s license by fraud. Both pleaded guilty and paid the fines. One allegedly took the required test on behalf of the other.
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Decatur
W. H. Long
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Second Ave
Grant St
Revel
Clarence C
Grover Willis
Russell County
Phenix City
A. L. Patterson
U. S
C. K. Parker
Columbus
Lamar Murphy
Chattahoochee River
M Gregor
S. A.M
R. L. Macgregor
R. H. Campbell
Grant Street
Grant
Pride Furniture
Appliance CO
Annouce
Fred Smith
Smith-Pride Furniture Company
E. Moulton St
South
Gulf
Gulf Life
Gulf Life Wa Givng Southern Institution
J. S. Levie
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