Hundreds Jam Board Meeting To Tell Views
About 300 Morgan County residents gathered in a courthouse courtroom to protest placing a new county high school at Trinity. They voiced that the State Department of Education favoring Trinity was unjust and urged the county board of education to reconsider the site.
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Jack Ray
State Department of Education
George Burt
Trinity Rd
Highway 24
Roy Grizzard
Moulton Rd
Norman Braswell
Grizzard
Tennessee River
Lawrence County Line
Flint Creek
Trinity School
Town of Trinity
Morgan County
Trinity
Northwest
County Board of Education
State Dept. of Education
Board of Education
State Dept
Austinville
Decatur
Morgan County Boards of Education
Saee Aad
Local notices and meetings in Hartselle and Decatur area
Community updates include Mrs Virgil McDonald admitted to Doctor's Clinic in Hartselle and L L McCulloch traveling for surgery in Birmingham. A LaThean Bible class meets at All States Tourist Court. Metropolitan Life Insurance agents visit Hot Springs and Kiwanis hear Henry Lamar in Florence. Public sings and dormitory staff appointments noted. Banking figures show Decatur debits and deposits. Willard Matthews improving at Decatur General Hospital. See diary on Page 2.
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Virgil McDonald
Chestnut St
Hartselle
Central Baptist Church
All States Tourist Court
Mason Crow
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Hot Springs
Ark
Metropolitan
J. D. Knight
Decatur
J. D. Collum
G. L. Maxwell
R. D. Ross
Florence
E. Y. Geron
E. G. Storey
W. A. Stewart, Jr
Huntsville
Willard W. Matthews
8Th Ave
Decatur General Hospital
Lebanon seeks UN force to seal border with Syria
Heavy fighting erupts as Premier Sami Solh requests an armed U.N. emergency force to close Lebanon's frontier with Syria. President Chamoun says shells landed from Syrian soil witnessed by U.N. observers as Dag Hammarskjold receives the request.
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Lebanon
UN Force
Beirut
U.N
Syria
United Nations
Sami Solh
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Dag Hammarskjold
Camille Chamoun
Chamoun
Lee Lebanon
Moulton Negro Youth Jailed Over Dating Calls
A Moulton Negro youth confessed to telephoning at least four white women asking for dates and was jailed at Lawrence County Jail after cooperation between city and county officers led to the arrest.
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Moulton
Jack Smith
Lawrence County
Angry Russians Demonstrate At U S Embassy
A crowd of more than 1,000 Russians protested the U S Embassy in Moscow with shouting and a thrown stone. About 150 Soviet policemen restrained the crowd while U S Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson declined protest, citing peaceful assembly. The demonstration was linked to Hungarian refugee protests at the Soviet U N in New York.
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Roy Essoyan
Moscow
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
U.N
New York
Pickets Block Detroit Missile Plant Amid UAW Action
Defiant UAW pickets at Chrysler missile plant in Detroit cause eight mile traffic jam for a third day as the factory continues production of Army Jupiter and Redstone missiles. In Washington, the FCC orders AT&T to cut private line rates by about 15 percent, effective in 60 days.
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Detroit
Mich
Chrysler Corp
United Auto Workers
Redstone
Washington
Federal Communications Commission
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Man Dies Saving Others From Runaway Truck
Russel C. Moore 31 died protecting pedestrians as brakes failed on his truck at a Santa Barbara grade. He steered through eight crossings before crashing into a creek. A News-Press account sparked a near 13 000 fundraising drive for his wife and five children.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Russel C. Moore
Moore
Joe Wheeler Co op Wins 1.45 Million Expansion Loan
The Rural Electrical Association announced in Washington a 1.452 million dollar loan to the Joe Wheeler Electric Co op. The 10 year loan funds expansion to about 1500 homes and system improvements including new substations transformers and higher capacity lines serving Morgan and Lawrence counties outside Decatur Hartselle and Courtland.
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Joe Wheeler Co-Op
Hartselle
Joe Wheeler Electric Co-op
Washington
The
Rural Electrical Assn
Joe Wheeler
Morgan
Lawrence
Decatur, Hartselle
Courtland
Ship Collision Turns River Into Inferno
A Swedish freighter rammed an oil tanker on the East River in darkness, triggering a fire that engulfed the river and set the Manhattan Bridge aflame. The tanker sank, three missing, 37 hospitalized, 11 uninjured. A photographer died of a heart attack while covering the disaster.
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New York
East River
Manhattan Bridge
Coast Guard
Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York Journal-American
William Finn
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Richard Gazzola
Candido
Decatur Sky Notes Full Moon Incoming Monday Night
The June 26 sky forecast for Decatur notes sunset at 8 05 p m and sunrise at 5 37 a m The Moon sets at 2 33 a m with a Full Moon on Monday night Prominent star Altair rises in the southeast Jupiter appears in the southwest Saturn is due south at 11 52 p m Mars low in the east and Venus rises at 3 48 a m
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Altair
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Venus
Tennessee River Reading At Keller Memorial Bridge
Reading this morning showed the river at 21.99 feet, up 12 feet in 24 hours, with sea level at 556.29 feet. Yesterday’s high was 95 degrees, low 64, and today’s 10:30 a.m. temperature was 84. The forecast calls for partly cloudy, warm conditions with isolated afternoon thundershowers, tonight and Thursday cloudiness with showers and scattered thunderstorms, southerly winds 10 to 18 mph shifting to northwesterly. Highs near 89 today and Thursday, lows around 68, with a high of 84?
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
Probers Weigh Gift Report Ties to Federal Judges
House investigators skirt around a probe into gifts from Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine to federal judges and aides. They plan to question Goldfine next week about paying a hotel bill for Judge William T. McCarthy as part of efforts to uncover favored treatment in East Boston Co. filings with the SEC.
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Lewis Gulick Washington
House
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Robert W. Lishman
Goldfine
Sherman Adams
John E. Moss
D-Calif
John Bell Williams
Dmiss
John B. Bennett
Rmich
William T. McCarthy
Moss
Morgan Moulder
D-Mo
McCarthy
East Boston Co
SEC
Langer Nominated For Fourth Term In North Dakota
In Fargo North Dakota William Langer won the Republican nomination for a fourth term over Lt. Gov Clyde Duffy in yesterday's primary. With 471 of 2331 precincts reported Langer had 15089 votes to Duffys 10278. Duffy conceded via telegram wishing Langer luck in the fall. Langer was previously spurned for re endorsement by the GOP State Convention in spring.
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Fargo
N. D
North Dakota
William Langer
Clyde Duffy
Duffy
Langer
Devils Lake
Baby Dies After Tumble Into Mop Bucket
In Nashville a one year old, Albert Hurt, tumbled from his bed into a mop bucket of water and drowned. His mother, 17, said she rested briefly while cleaning their three room house and returned to find the infant head down in the bucket beside the bed. It was his first birthday.
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Nashville, Tenn
Albert Hurt
Albin E. Hurt
Albert
Explorer III Completes 32 Million Mile Space Mission
Huntsville Alabama Explorer III has traveled 32 000 000 miles since its March 26 launch as it reenters the atmosphere. Maj Gen J B Medaris notes the satellite’s science mission included a full survey of cosmic ray intensity and a data tape recorder sending measurements to Earth. Yesterday marked Explorer III’s 90th day in orbit.
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Huntsville
Ala
Army
J. B. Medaris
Army Ordnance Command
Earth
Dulles Reaffirms Trade Stand Amid Senate Push
Secretary of State Dulles told senators the administration will not compromise on a five year extension of the reciprocal trade agreements program. Republicans Knowland and Bridges seek to cut the period to three years while the House passed five years. Opponents warn tariffs could rise and damage industries. Senator Smith, an ally, says he would be disappointed if Republicans side with the administration.
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Washington
Dulles
Senate
William F. Knowland
California
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
House
Sen
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
10,000 Sq Ft Bar Goods at Robinson's Used Store
Ken Reynolds reports 10000 sq ft of new and used bar goods on easy terms at Robinson's Used Store located on First Avenue adv.
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Robinson‘s
1St Ave
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By Doug Norman
L. L. McCulloch
Memorial Drive
Carraway Methodist Hospital
Birmingham
Henry Lamar
National Retail Furniture Dealers Assn
Kiwanis Club
Lamar
Alabama Furniture Dealers Assn
Europe
Salem Methodist Church
Harold C. Eason
Magnolia
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Eason
Auburn Veterans Organization
Alpha Phi Omega
National Service Fraternity
U. S. Army
Nell Clark
David
East
Moulton St
TB Hospital
H. E. Perry
Bureau of Business Research
University of Alabama
Savings and Loan Associations
Buckley
By William L. Ryan
Norris Hagood
N.Y
Probers
By Ken Reynolds
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