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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1960
Page
2
County agent warns tractor operators to practice safe operation after a precal report. officials urge farmers to avoid accidents by handling farm equipment with caution.
District Diary reports officers investigate a Cedar Creek Church burglary where four gas heaters and a wall picture were stolen while air conditioners were left behind. The break in occurred at the church building noted for its screen door.
Athens police arrest 23 residents in the past week at city hall records. Eight faced no drivers license charges and excessive noise. Three were charged with unclear offenses. Individual charges included driving intoxicated public drunkenness possession of beer speeding and reckless driving.
Bookmobile stops listed for July include J. R. Edwards' Store from 9 30 to 10 at Center Springs Methodist Church. The schedule emphasizes mobile library service across local venues.
HARTSELLE Local notice states pine seedlings must be ordered from the state nursery this year. Order blanks available at the county agent's office or the soil conservation office. All pine species priced per thousand with Cypress at a higher rate. Also classified rental ads for a 3 bedroom home and a fresh 1 bath apartment with air conditioning.
The 41st annual conference of the National Assn. of Accountants drew Decatur area participants including Frank J. McLaughlin Jr and partners from Chemstrand Corp and Wolverine Tube Co. Other local attendees were J Grady Shaw James O Jones G A Moore W W Weber Sam Nettles and H E Burleson. No fires were reported in the past 24 hours per the Fire Department log.
Patient and infant admissions listed with street addresses across Dearborn and related locales. Names include Mrs Ray Terry, Mrs Ralph E Matthews with infant Timothy, Olga Lee Beard, Karen Joy West, Peggy Joyce Vinson, Raymond A Fuller, James Kenneth Maples, L H Patton Eva.
A compiled notice lists multiple individuals by name and residence across several towns. Names include Tommy Jones, Margaret Kelley, Ronda Voss, Alice Moyers, George Johnson Jr., Bobby Daniel, Vernon Hargiss, Earl Glasco, Lassie Parker, Hester Sparkman, Herbert Hughes, Eunice Teague and others with street addresses in Arab Decatur Falkville Trinity Hart sel le.
Mrs. Charles Waldrop Jr Decatur Mrs. Lela Howell Mount Hope Will Kelsoe Danville 2 Mrs. Daisy Terry Courtland 1 Mrs. Essie Mae Howell Moulton Milton NeSmith Town Creek 1 Moulton 1 George L Wilson Mount Hope Robert Landers Moulton 4 Herchel Allen Russellville 4
Mr and Mrs Harlon Harp of 1015 9th Ave SE welcomed a son on Tuesday at Baugh Wiley Smith Clinic. Mr and Mrs Charles Waldrop Jr of Decatur welcomed a daughter on June 27 at Lawrence County Hospital.
In Chicago on Tuesday night a dishwasher Raimundo Perez Hernandez 35 stabbed a woman Maria Gomez Hernandez 25 and her three young children all found dead in their apartment. The murder weapon an 11 inch butcher knife was recovered from Hernandez belt. Police say jealousy and shame sparked the attack. Hernandez born in Puerto Rico six years ago speaks no English.
Daily Records lists numerous marriage licenses in Lawrence County including Willie Peoples Jr and Lela Crowden. Dwight Carroll and Dorothy Norton. Robert Richardson and Mary Vaughn. Robert Aldridge and Brenda Alexander. Tommy McCullough and Sandra Mitchell. Sidney Sims and Betty Mitchell. James Waldrop and Glenda Coffey. D C Blankenship and Mary Wilson. Andrew McKay and Martha Nelson. Drexel Burch and Myrtle Conner. William Poe and Deweyrean Pruett. Muthey Owens and Betty Hill. Louie Weaver and Peggy Lindley. Clayton Harris and Millie Terry. Deeds show transfers: Mayes to Bray 40 acres. Conner to Witt 186 acres. Steele to Gibson 412 acres. Parker to Nance 22 acres. Couch to Couch 24 acres. Fagan to Maner one acre.
Boaz voters in Boaz Alabama approve a 7.5 mill ad valo rem tax for a second time after wording changes enable bond issuance to be repaid from the levy revenue.
Congressional leaders weigh an August session to push must pass bills before the Democratic convention. Key actions include a $1.25 minimum wage plan, a stalled housing bill, a $40 billion defense package, and extension of tax laws. Senate and House racing to finish education aid and aged medical care bills before adjournment.
Cattle from the Morgan County Cattlemen's Association spring fat calf sale at Valley Stockyards Decatur totaled 631 head. The sale averaged 22.31 cents per pound and brought $63,630.80, with over 30 vendors participating.
Funeral services for Clarence Morse who died Monday at Decatur General Hospital will be announced later by Reynolds Funeral Home. Mrs. Nora Kelley McDonald died Tuesday morning in a funeral notice fragment indicating further details to follow.
Prices show milk at 3.90 per hundredweight and vealers at 24 to 26 while hogs range 17.25 to 17.50 for barrows and gilts. Sheep, lambs, and cattle move modestly with steady to higher grain futures and a Dow up 0.29 to 637.75 as traders digest merger chatter about B&O and C&O.
AP dispatch reports Birmingham and Georgia markets with light broiler and fryer stock. Estimated today 662,400 birds traded at farms around 17 cents per pound, 17 to 17.25 cents on 852,500 head, amid truck shortages and processor pullouts.
Cattle tally around 200 head described as fair at the Nashville market. Sheffield hospital report noted with no further details. Reynolds Funeral Home to announce arrangements later.
In Knoxville two UMW witnesses began defense in a 4.36 million dollar suit filed by three coal firms who claim union violence drove them from business. The union says the firms quit due to exhausted coal reserves as witnesses for the G and R firm name William Gilchrist of Decatur among others testified.
George Fortenberg Hartselle 87 died at 9 20 p m Tuesday at his Falkville home. Funeral services Thursday at 2 p m at Lebanon Baptist Church with Rev Frank McWhorter officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Survivors include one daughter Magalene Owens Birmingham four sons Richard Fortenberry Dyess Ark Wesley and Spurgen Falkville and Clarence Cullman 13 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Pallbearers named James Fortner Guney Wiggins Cecil Fortenberry Lovell Fortenberry Bill Mitchell and Will Swann.
James C. Bryant 75 of 331 7th Ave NW died at 11 p.m. Tuesday at home after a long illness. He worked 40 years for Southern Bell and retired. Funeral at Brown Funeral Home Chapel Thursday at 2:30 p.m. with A. H. Nabors officiating. Burial City Cemetery. Pallbearers include John Patterson Jimmy Bowden Jack Harold Bill Kyle Roy Warren and associates from the telephone company. He is survived by widow Elizabeth Bryant Birmingham daughter Mrs James Stephenson Birmingham three grandchildren and two nieces.
Miss Florence M. Douthit Tanner died today at a Decatur hospital after a long illness. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Tanner Methodist Church with Rev. G. M. Bynum and Rev. Charles West officiating. Burial will follow at Gatlin Cemetery with McConnell Service Funeral Home in charge. Survivors include five brothers B F, H Y, H L, E E and M Y Jr and four sisters Miss Mary Douthit, Miss Ruby Douthit, Mrs Douglas Henderson, and Mrs Mike Lindsay.
Thomasville Georgia reports hog prices with market activity across Albany Columbus Moultrie Dothan and Jacksonville Mostly 25 higher and steady with selective 190 to 200 pound barrows and gilts in limited supply No 1 and No 21 weights noted No 48 cows around 12 to 5 per hundred pounds
Force rescue team recovered five crew members after a tanker crash on Jonathan Smith Mountain. Bodies were flown to Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York. Victims include M Sgt Harold L. Young, 40, of Selma Alabama, flight engineer. Plattsburgh spokesman said it was the first recorded tanker explosion in the air.
Manager Baree announced a completion target of August 15 for the Decatur docks. Newman's comments outline community impact and a move toward power and phone connections, with equipment from Mobile arriving. State docks have spent 1.77 million so far in Decatur, plus 517 thousand in Huntsville and smaller sums in Florence for warehouses, piers, and dredging.
Limestone County sheriff's forces pledge to step up enforcement against highway violations. In Athens there were arrests for stop signs and speeding plus muffler and license violations. Hartselle Mayor Burleson said his siren equipped car will be used over the weekend to tighten enforcement and curb highway slaughter.
The Air Line Pilots Association plans to honor pickets at 11 southern terminals, potentially halting most commercial air. An ALPA spokesman said they will begin picketing, while the airline hired over 40 non union pilots and expected 12 of 60 flights back by Friday. Graydon Hall called the striking pilots as having left their jobs.
Philadelphia industrialist John B. Kelly leaves most of his estate to wife and three daughters in his self written will He says character rather than money should guide his heirs noting loyalty honesty ability sportsmanship and humor as key values
B and O shares face a strong bid that combines stock and nine dollars in cash per common share as negotiators press for a deal.
The Citizens for Johnson announced Alabama's MacDonald Gallion as chairman of the state group backing Senator Lyndon B. Johnson for the Democratic presidential nomination. Gallion, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles next month, predicted near unanimous support from Alabama's delegation.
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