Lawrence Honor Student Wins District 4-H Essay Contest
Lawrence County youth Clifton Depreast won first place in the boys division of the District One 4-H Club essay contest at Tennessee Valley Authority station. Paula Bucker led the girls division with her speech on cooperatives. Six winners received loving cups. the top two advance to the state contest at Auburn.
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Tennessee Valley Experiment Station
Belle Mina
Clifton de
Bellemina
Lawrence County
Clifton Depreast
Danville 2
North Alabama
Paula Bucker
Blount County
An Smith
Lauderdale
Linda Dawson
Jackson County
Glen Stansell
Cherokee County
Neil Taylor Jr
Franklin County
E. P. Garrett
Alabama Farmers
Cooperative
Auburn
Depreast
Speake High School
Athens Colege
Adine J. Maxwell
TVA
Wilson Dam
H. Rondell Byrd
Alabama Farmer
Edward E. Kern
Department of University
Mary Hulsey
District Home
George D. H. McMillan
A. W. Jones
H. E. Logue
Ann Barr
Miss Barr
Johnnie Matthews
Alabama Farmers’ Cooperative
David Moore
Madison County
Hal Lee
Von
Prisoners Await Tractors for Freedom Committee Decision
A Cuban prisoner delegation of 10 waited in Key West as the disbanded Tractors for Freedom Committee considered reform. John Hooker Jr. reported no change in the prisoners’ status and hoped a decision today or Thursday on renewal talks. Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter Reuther were named as committee members, though different spokesmen disputed direct contact with Reuther.
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Key West
Fla
Cuba
Tractors For Freedom Committee
John Hooker Jr
Hooker
Eleanor Roosevelt
Milton Eisenhower
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Eisenhower
Frank Winn
Detroit
Reuther
Local social notes from Lawrence County
Miss Paulette Wiley visited Miss Sue Callahan Monday. Mrs J W McCaghren was the dinner guest of Mrs Pearl Crow Friday. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Owens Pam and Tim of Bass ham spent Sunday with their parents Emmett Owens. Mrs Rural Way nee Melba Burke was honored with a pink and blue shower at Miss Jessie McCaghren's home. Linda Dobbins and Sue Callahan plan a two week visit to Ohio. Mrs Bob McCaghren visited her son Melvin McCaghren in Decatur General Hospital. Mrs Malcolm McCaghren called on her grandmother Mrs J W Sunday afternoon. WANT ADS GET RESULTS.
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Paulette Wiley
Sue Callahan
J. W. McCaghren
Pearl Crow
Kenneth Owens
Pam and
Tim
Bassham
Emmett. Owens
Rural Way
Melba Sue Burke
Jessie McCaghren
Manly
Linda Dobbins
Ohio
Lindas
Winford Dobbins
Dobbins
Bob McCaghren
Melvin McCaghren
Decatur General Hospital
Malcolm McCaghren
J. W
Senate votes on paid vacation recess until July 11
Montgomery AP reports a Senate roll call on adopting a House resolution to recess until July 11 with pay. Nineteen senators voted for the measure including Archer Crawford Farmer Gaither Godfrey Graham Haltom Hines Jones. fifteen voted against including Andrews Barnett Berryman Caffey Clark Cooper deGraffenried Dumas Eddins Givhan Green Kendall Robison Samford Shelton.
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Montgomery
Senate
House
Archer
Crawford
Farmer
Gaither
Godfrey
Graham
Haltom
Hines
Jones
Andrews
Barnett
Berryman
Caffey
Clark
Cooper
deGraffenried
Dumas
Eddins
Givhan
Green
Kendall
Robison
Samford
Shelton
Freedom Ride Bill Delayed by House Stalling Tactics
In Montgomery the Freedom Ride outlaw bill cleared the House Judiciary Committee but faced delays amid a reapportionment fight. The measure would punish violations with up to 300 dollars fine and six months in jail. The House passed other bills, including one aimed at restricting Negro voter registration, with monthly quizzes cited as a tool.
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Montgomery
Alabama
House
Judiciary Committee
Congress
State Newsman Dies At N Y State
McClellan Van der Veer 65 retired editor of The Birmingham News died in Hotel Chesterfield Manhattan after arriving from a trip abroad with his wife. He had been chief editorial writer at Birmingham News before retirement on Jan 1 1960.
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NEW York
McClellan van der Veer
Birmingham News
Manhattan
Chesterfield
van der Veer
Frankfort
Birmingham
Birmingham Age Herald
Tulane University
New Orleans
Kansas City
Enid
Okla
Dorothy Rainold
A Me
Lowell S. Hamil
Car overturns kill Grove Hill man near Pine Hill
A Grove Hill resident identified as Thomas C. Hare, aged 41, died when his car left a road and overturned about three miles south of Pine Hill, Alabama, during the night. State troopers reported the fatal crash.
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Pine. Hill
Ala
Grove Hill
Thomas C. Hare
Here
Mona
The
Highway Patrol
Board Seeks End To Maritime Strike Through Mediation
A three member presidential board opened a two pronged effort to halt a 13 day maritime strike affecting 85 000 workers and 200 ships across 30 ports. It weighs national security implications and potential Taft Hartley injunction while pursuing mediated talks between ship owners and five unions.
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New York
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
Board of Inquiry
Kennedy
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Morgan and
Limestone
Morgan
Vondalyn Jones
Falkville
Morgan County
Joyce Hargrove
Ross Smith
Clements
Breast
Paula Buckner
Blount
Cherokee
Martha Smith
Franklin
Jackson
Lawrence
Red Hill
Moody's
N. Y
Lawrence Plaisance
Decatur River Terminal
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
Wheeler Dam
Plaisance
Wheeler
Lee ST
First Ave
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