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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1952
Page
1
A compact column offering brief insights into local life and shared concerns. It sketches familiar places, routines, and neighborhood dynamics, inviting readers to reflect on common experiences and mutual ties within the town.
Among 2200 crew aboard the battleship USS Iowa L D Cathcart seaman USN son of Mr and Mrs C B Cathcart Hartseller. Louis Ling leaves for Memphis for eye treatment. Mr and Mrs Arthur Belew return from two week Buffalo NY visit with Mrs Belew's sister Mrs Mike Cancilla Mr Cancilla and children. Mrs T W Coffey returns from four month visit with daughter Mrs Mike Cancilla Mr Cancilla and children in Buffalo. Mrs Edward Hancock Hartseller admitted to Ellis Meyer Hospital. Miss Videlle Solley Arab Frank Wilson Huntsville Mrs W G Peebles Mooresville Johnny Hurst Decatur join Walter M Jackson to Mexico City leaving Decatur July 6 for 18 days mostly in Mexico with trips to points of interest. Dismissed Saturday from Ellis Meyer Hospital Mrs Byron Stanaridge and son Decatur 2 W G Roberts Jr 103 Seventh Avenue NW. Westminster Presbyterian Church congregational meeting set for Sunday 5 pm. George W Floyd Waverly Tenn past weekend in Decatur with friends. John Sheppard Mobile visiting brother Robert T Sheppard returning to Mobile 2000 mile trip. John e with Gayfirs Dept store Mobile. Priceville Home Demonstration club meets Tuesday 2:30 at Mrs Royal Henderson home with Mrs Joe Lipscomb co-hostess. John H Peach Decatur attorney who spoke in Washington on grain rates will return first of week. Miss Caroline Bradshaw and Mrs Bernard Taylor left yesterday for Orlando and Daytona Beach Fla. See DIARY On Page 2.
The House approved a 10 month extension of price controls by 194 to 142 votes, sending the measure to President Truman. A Senate-House conference committee forged a compromise in a long session, retaining the fruit and vegetable exemption and upholding administration control aims, while critics argued it did not go far enough. The Senate backed the bill with few opposing votes and President Truman is expected to sign.
Additional donations to the Riverside Park fund include Joe Pettey five dollars Mrs Lutie P Shaw fifty dollars Rotary Club member fifty dollars B M Cornell four dollars and T M Austelle five dollars J M Gilbert manager of Decatur Ready Mixed Concrete Co oversaw a shuffleboard court pour at the park site The park requires a building for restrooms and storage and at least one thousand dollars is needed to start the project.
On the Western Korean front UN infantry repelled three Red attacks against Baldy Hill near Chorwon. Eighth Army said about 225 of some 800 attackers were killed or wounded. AP reported Chinese troops prepared Allied bunkers but were halted by hand grenades as dawn broke over the hill mass near the invasion route to Seoul.
U S Secretary of State Dean Acheson arrives in Berlin for a 24 hour morale boosting visit after meeting with British and French ministers in London. Allies denounce Soviet travel restrictions as inhumane and 16 000 West Berliners affected. Police prepared for protests but fighting planned at city hall was called off.
A House subcommittee blamed an overestimate of the 1951 cotton crop by the Agriculture Department for a sharp price drop and multi million dollar losses to cotton farmers. It said about one third stemmed from July 1 acreage errors and two thirds from weather not reflected promptly. The panel noted improvement in accuracy over 35 years.
The State Department apologized publicly to Owen Lattimore and revoked the travel ban he faced. A formal statement said a tip about a planned trip behind the Iron Curtain was false and caused customs to stop the Johns Hopkins professor from leaving the United States. Lattimore accepted the apology but urged safeguards to prevent such injustices in the future.
About 1,100 convicts at Eddyville state prison were forced to eat supper naked as a fourth day of rebellion continued. Eight prisoners were wounded, a guard injured, and more than $3,000 in damage reported since the uprising began Wednesday. Warden Jess Buchanan said the situation isn’t over.
A searing mass of hot air pushed North Alabama temperatures to season highs while the southern half saw slight declines. Huntsville hit a 109, with Muscle Shoals and Tuscaloosa at 104, Birmingham 102, Anniston 101, and Mobile 94 after a mobile thunderstorm drenched the area. The heat wave, intensified by Gulf storms, continued with mostly hot, scattered thundershowers forecast.
A Alabama National Guard plane will leave Pryor Field at 7 30 tomorrow carrying Jo Ann Henderson an 18 year old Hart selle girl stricken months ago. She will be taken to Johns Hopkins Baltimore for examination to combat a disease that left her partially paralyzed. Jo Ann became ill in February and was treated in Birmingham then at Crippled Children's Clinic before doctors ruled out polio.
Western foreign ministers concluded talks that left the four power German elections issue to the Russians. They offered to discuss free elections but doubted any outcome. Acheson flew to Berlin after finalizing the move to smooth Paris pact ratification and Bonn peace plans in the French and West German parliaments.
Huntsville resident Walker Colbert Cagle, 33, was struck and killed by a Southern Railway Tennessean streamliner near the city outskirts. Witnesses Engineer H. S. Stewart and Fireman J. P. Wilson said they saw him rise onto the tracks but could not stop the train.
The Associated Press reports rival camps exchange charges as Kefauver accuses rivals of party manipulation. Taft and Eisenhower aides trade barbs over tactics, proxies, and leadership, while Eisenhower plans a Chicago HQ move despite previous denials.
Annie Lola Price a Court of Appeals judge can overrule juries yet cannot serve on a state court jury. Montgomery League of Women Voters leaders urge the Legislature in 1953 to remove laws barring women from jury duty, calling the rule ridiculous and discriminatory. Mrs. Ethel Schneider joins the push as women voters press for end to poll tax and jury exemptions.
Harold Loyd Seegars 32 of Danville died yesterday afternoon at Moulton hospital from heat stroke after falling ill while returning from Huntsville where he worked as a guard. He collapsed near Five Points. friends gave him water but he never recovered. Survived by mother Georgia Seegars, four sisters and three brothers. Seegars, a World War II veteran, served in Australia and New Guinea. Funeral arrangements set by Peck in Hartselle.
The Decatur area endures a blistering June heat wave as 156000 pounds of ice and seven million gallons of water are rushed into use. Most small cooling units including window fans are deployed, while the Tennessee Valley region swelters near 100 degrees. Heat continues across the area as utilities and residents seek relief from the relentless sun.
Washington reports Philip Murray's strikebound workers seek settlements by approach of smaller basic steel firms in a bid to wrap new contracts. Murray cut a peace pact with Burgh Steel. Union aims to recruit many companies. Colorado Fuel and Iron and Crucible Steel named as targets. About 48,000 workers who walked off June 2 remain under contracts.
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