TVA Ahead Of Schedule In Repaying U.S. Loans
TVA reports to a Senate subcommittee it has paid $226.5 million in cash and $23.6 million in bonds to the federal government for project funding. Chairman Herbert Vogel says repayments to date total $87.06 million under law, while seeking $16.85 million in annual appropriation and holdover funds to reach $19.06 million.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Senate
Herbert D. Vogel
Vogel
TVA Board
House
A. R. Jones
Frank J. Welch
Senate Public Works Committee
A. J. Wagner
Congress
Local births and police report highlight Decatur diary
James P. Dougherty becomes a patient at Kennedy Veterans Hospital in Memphis. Mr and Mrs Robert Livingston announce the birth of a son Ricky Lynn in Hartselle Clinic. News covers a Chemstrand film at Rotary Club and a Tennessee Valley State Trade School visitor list. Police report theft of 10 one dollar bills, jail breakage, gun accident injury to Jimmie Rogers, petit larceny and invalid licenses cited. A four unit apartment building permit is issued to Carl Murphree. Decatur Sertoma Club members attend Huntsville installation. Grass fire at Legion Field reported with no losses. See Diary on page 2.
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Robert Livingston
North St. SE
Hartselle Clinic
Ricky Lynn
Peggy Blankenship
U.S. Highway 31 S
Decatur
Hammarskjold Returns From Beirut With No Indications
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold returned to Beirut after two days of talks with President Nasser to urge peace in Lebanon. Authorities said Nasser maintained the rebels receive no aid, and Hammarskjold planned to meet Sami Solh and Camille Chamoun before flying back to New York.
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Tom Masterson
Beirut
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Nasser
Lebanon
Hammarskjold
United Arab Republic
Camille Chamoun
Drunk Outdoors Tries to Sit on Trash Can twice
A public drunk in Whiteville N C was canned twice according to police. He attempted to sit on the edge of a 60 gallon trash can and fell in requiring four men to pull him out. The man was later detained by authorities.
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Whiteville
N. C
Robinson's Used Store Ad Offers 10% Down for 24 Months
Ad promotes financing option with 10 percent down and 24 month balance plan at Robinson's Used Store. Text is fragmentary but presents a sale offer and terms for purchasing goods on installment.
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Nnet
Robinson's
Ady
GOP Leaders Explain McElroy Intent In Defense Critique
Senate GOP Leader Knowland and House GOP Chief Martin said President Eisenhower and Defense Secretary McElroy did not intend threats of retaliation against Admiral Arleigh Burke after Burke criticized the defense reorganization program. They spoke at a news conference after a weekly meeting.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
McElroy
Arleigh Burke
Senate
William F. Knowland
California
House
GOP
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Massachusetts
Burke
Moon near Jupiter with Spica in Decatur sky
The June 25 evening sky shows the Moon about 230000 miles from Earth near Jupiter at 468 million miles away and Spica nearly two million times farther. Moon sets at 1:49 a.m. Full Moon comes on July 1.
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Jupiter
Spica
Weather and River Report for Decatur and Vicinity
Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge reads 21.87 feet up .30 in 24 hours. Sea level 556.17 feet. Yesterday’s high 91 at 1 pm, low 57 at 5:30 am. Today 11:05 am 85 degrees. Forecast mostly sunny and warmer today, fair and mild tonight, Wednesday partly cloudy and warm with isolated thundershowers. Winds light and variable. High today 85, low 62, high Wednesday 88.
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Decatur
Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
High Court Asked Disqualify Jones
The State Supreme Court was asked to order Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones to disqualify himself from a contempt hearing against the NAACP. Fred Gray filed the petition alleging personal bias and prejudice, after Jones refused to step down despite challenges from Negro lawyers. The hearing had been recessed to tomorrow.
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Montgomery
State Supreme Court
Walter B. Jones
National
Assa For the Advancement of Colored People
Jones
NAACP
Supreme Court
Fred Gray
Jones’ Court
Athens approves paving plan for ten streets
Athens city council authorized the engineer to prepare plans for resurfacing about 13 500 yards of ten streets at an estimated 13 000 to 15 000 dollars. Bids will be opened June 30. The session also approved a streetlight at Jacobs Road and Shannon Street and water works projects at Sweet Sue Poultry Plant and Twelfth Street.
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Athens
H. L. Carter
Carter
Jacobs, Rd
Shannon St
Water Dept
Sweet Sue
Twelfth St
Vanguard Flanks Another Fire Test
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla The Navy reported another failure for the Vanguard rocket America s top satellite launcher The team worked for hours before giving up at 1 34 a m due to heavy rains causing moisture in the wiring system and an electrical short circuit Warmed by the rain the slender rocket with its basketball moon failed to lift off once more.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Vanguard
America
Navy
Droste Named Administrator of Wheeler Regional Library
George H. Droste, 38, appointed administrator of the Wheeler Basin Regional Library serving Limestone and Morgan counties. The regional library forms from a Dec 6 1957 contract and aims to provide unified service across the two counties under Droste’s leadership.
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Droste
Wheeler Regional Library
George H. Droste
Wheeler Basin
Limestone
Morgan
William Stewart Hartselle
Alabama
Southeast
Patricia Lundquist
Coeds Move Into Male Dormitory at University of Kansas City
Women students occupy the fourth floor of the men’s dormitory while men stay on the lower three floors. Coeds previously lived in approved homes off campus. Dormitory door locks trigger an alarm if tampered with, though no alarms have sounded yet.
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Kansas City
University of Kansas City
SEC Chairman Hofly Denies Goldfine Slant
SEC Chairman Edward N. Gadsby sharply denied today that the agency favored Bernard Goldfine amid House inquiries. He said the SEC could not have acted more against Sherman Adams’ Boston friend and rejected insinuations of bias in a case involving Goldfine’s East Boston Co. failure to file financial reports from 1948 to 1955.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Edward N. Gadsby
SEC
Bernard Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Boston
White House
Gadsby
House
Commission
Adams
Goldfine
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Subcommittee
Oren Harris
D-Ark
FTC
East Boston Co
Huge Aid Bill Before House
The 3.675 billion foreign aid authorization bill was ready for House passage, down 266 million from Eisenhower’s request. The compromise dropped a public ledger of individual accounts for traveling staff and a Senate cap on military and defense aid.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
U.S
May living costs hit new high with smallest rise in months
The May Labor Department index rose 0.1 percent to 123.6 of the 1947-49 base, 3.3 percent above May last year, keeping a 19th straight rise in 21 months. About 850,000 workers face automatic pay boosts in steel and related industries, with 750,000 getting 4 cent hourly raises July 1 and 100,000 in aircraft and transit systems receiving 2 cent increases. Medical care and transport costs drive the modest May gain. see continued details on Page 2.
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Labor Department
Washington
Detroit
Auto Bike Crash Injures Two Athens Teens
Two Athens High School students were injured in a head on auto motorcycle collision on Pryor and Jefferson streets. Jimmy Greenhaw was in fair condition with a badly cut ear and missing teeth while Larry Bonnell had a broken leg and elbow lacerations. The Plymouth driven by William Sutton sustained $40 damage and the motorcycle was totaled.
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Athens
Athens- Limestone Hospital
Jimmy Greenhaw
N. Madison Sr
Larry Bonnell
S. Beaty St
Keneath. Cooper
Pryor St
William J. Sutton
W. Washington St
N. Jefferson St
Jimmy South
Hubcaps Cost $103 Apiece Prompts Two Surrendered Boys
Two Moulton boys discovered hubcaps can be costly and each was fined $100 after giving themselves up at the police station Monday morning.
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Thut
Lawyers Tangle in Federal Court Fight
Two lawyers spent four hours in a cell for contempt after a hallway fight in the Federal here. Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. ordered their custody and fined William J. Fuller Jr. $100 as aggressor. Fuller said he intended only to talk over differences.
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Atkinson
Petition to Remove Falkville L and N Agent Awaits PSC Hearing
Montgomery AP reports petitions to discontinue a railroad post and Railway Express office at Falkville will be heard by the Public Service Commission tomorrow. The Louisville and Nashville Railways line is involved.
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Falkville L&n
PSC
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