Fire Alarms Hazard Lights Hicks Chevy Fire No Loss
Firemen answered two alarms yesterday with no loss reported. A truck burned at Hicks Chevrolet Sales Co Inc 208 Lee St NE at 3 54 p.m Slight damage to a car in the 100 block of E Moulton St at 7 51 p.m Owners not listed in fire records. The Music Club Chorus meets 8 p.m. Thursday at Westminster Presbyterian Church for Bach Cantata rehearsal under Walter Carter directing with Mrs Walter Carter at the organ.
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Hicks Chevrolet Sales Co. Inc
Lee St.ne
E. Moulton St
Music Club
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Walter Carter
Beck Faces Quiz Before Senators Without Duff
Beck faces a new Senate hearing May 8 on alleged racketeering in unions and industry. He says he dropped Duff and his law firm though Duff argues he withdrew from Beck, while Duff’s associate Arthur D. Condon sat with Beck at the March 27 session. Beck invoked the Fifth Amendment amid questions about $320,000 allegedly misused from union funds.
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Washington
Dave Beck
Senate
James H. Duff
Pennsylvania
McClellan
D-Ark
Beck
Duff
Arthur D. Condon
Teamster
No Compromise On Limestone Tax
Ath ens residents face a five cent sales tax while Limestone County residents pay four. A late meeting of educators officials PTA officers and legislators failed to move positions. The city seeks 50 percent of revenue from a county levy and ADA distribution would give Athens about 16 to 20 percent. Rep Dement will only back county wide tax with ADA feature. See NO on Page 2.
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Athens
Limestone County
PTA
City Board of Education
County School Board
Nicaragua Tense Border Clash Sparks Emergency Talks
President Luis Somoza and top Nicaraguan officials held overnight talks after a deadly border clash with Honduras. Somoza claimed Honduran forces attacked Mocoron killing 25 soldiers, later reports put the death toll at 35 as five Honduran planes strafed a Nicaraguan post. He warned of defending Nicaragua’s national integrity.
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Managua
Luis Somoza
Nicaragua
Honduras
Somoza
Mocoron
Tegucigalpa
Macoron
Quarles Siding With Air Force Against Carrier Task Forces
Air Force official Donald Quarles argues a single hydrogen guided bomb could knock out a naval carrier task force. General Nathan Twining cites high level attack by jet bombers with nuclear weapons as potentially decisive. Testimony from Pentagon leaders in early 1960s discussed carrier vulnerability and defenses.
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Donald Quarles
Nathan Twining
Pentagon
Washington
Charles Thomas
Secretary of the Navy
Adm
Arleigh Burke
Naval Operations
Careless Fishermen Ruining Crops Angers Local Farmers
Farmers blame invading fishermen for crop damage around Wheeler Reservoir amid high costs and low prices. The waterway borders government and TVA land. local farmers rent most open land and resent disruptions from fishing activity.
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Wheeler Reservoir
Bell Pushes Service For East Morgan
Southern Bell Telephone Co begins a $53,000 rural project to serve about 60 families in the eastern Hartselle exchange area. Avery Taylor, local manager, says the 33 square mile plan covers Cota co Talucah and Valhermosa Springs with 40,000 feet of 26 pair buried cable 315 poles and 44 circuit miles of aerial wire. Existing service is inadequate and Valhermosa Springs has none.
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Southern Bell Telephone Co
Hartselle
Avery Taylor
The
Telephone Company
Cotaco
Talucah
Valhermosa Springs
Taylor
Weather Summary for Decatur and Vicinity at Keller Memorial Bridge
Tennessee River reading this morning reached 21.45 feet with a 0.25 foot drop in 24 hours. Sea level was 555.75 feet. Yesterday's high was 82 degrees at 2 PM, low 65 degrees at 6 AM. Today at 11 AM the temperature was 78 degrees. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy and warm conditions with showers and possible thundershowers today, then scattered showers tonight. Cooler with intermittent rain expected Friday. Winds southeast 8 to 10 mph, gusts to 30 mph in showers today and tonight, shifting to northeast 12 to 16 mph Friday. High today around 78, tonight's low near 65, Friday's high about 70.
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Decatur
Keller Memorial Bridge
Falkville Mayor Backs Lawman Amid Charges
Mayor John Cloud backs Falkville Police Chief W L Terry despite pending criminal and civil charges. Terry faces assault and battery charges from the arrest of James Gray with a $300 bond. A civil suit against Terry and a highway patrolman for assault and false arrest is also pending. Hunter, of Hartselle, was arrested, with details heard in mayor's court Monday.
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Falkville
John Cloud
W.L
Terry
Morgan County
James Gray
Edward Hunter
Hartselle
Cloud
Gray
Neal Aycock
Hunter
Leo Hudson
Decatur
Cullman Boy 7 In Critical Condition After Crash
A seven year old boy David Lawrence Sullivan remains in critical condition at Cullman Hospital after being struck by a 1951 Chevrolet driven by Wiley D. Hale 20 of Ypsilanti Michigan. The accident occurred about 11 40 a m yesterday 13 8 miles west of Cullman on U S 278 in heavy rain when he stepped from behind a gas station truck into the car's path. The car carried the boy 146 feet from impact and damage to the vehicle was about 50 dollars.
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Cullman
David Lawrence Sullivan
Harvey Sullivan
Cullman Hospital
Jones Chapel
Here
U.S. 278
Wiley D. Hale
Ypsilanti
Mich
Highway Patrol
Dutton’s
W. M. Brown
Texas Disaster Area Widening
A new disaster area was declared along the lower Sabine as the river rose to record heights threatening Deweyville in Newton County. About 1,000 residents faced evacuation as Trinity River floods caused flash floods across north central Texas while other waters remained high.
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Dallas W
Sabine
Deweyville
Newton
Orange
Tex
Trinity River
Texas
Dallas
Trinity
Ten 3 Year Olds Enter Kentucky Derby Field
Louisville reports the 10 three year old colts entered for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs a mile and a half. Bold Ruler from Wheatley Stable became the favorite after Gen. Duke from Calumet Farm appeared injured with a swollen left front foot.
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Louisville
Gen. Duke
Gene Markey
Calumet Farm
Churchill Downs
Bold Ruler
H.C. Phipps
Wheatley Stable
Federal payroll rises by 2470 in March nationwide
Washington reports the federal payroll increased by 2,470 persons in March, bringing the total to 2,392,987. The rise was announced by the Senate House Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Expenditures.
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Washington
Senate
House Committee
Benson faults farm laws and withholds remedies
Secretary Benson declares major farm program provisions failures and urges Congress to craft better aid schemes. He criticizes late 1930s crop controls and the 1954 price support plan, praises current leeway on price supports, and cites a technological boom that makes existing controls obsolete.
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Washington
Benson
Congress
Eisenhower
Ellender
Senate Agriculture Committee
Dulles vows US will not mirror Britain on defense cuts
Secretary of State Dulles told NATO ministers in Bonn that President Eisenhower directs no changes to 1957 defense plans. The United States will not cut forces as Britain plans to do in five years, though both rely more on atomic deterrence. Dulles warned against Soviet propaganda and said it would be folly to weaken defenses on promises.
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Joseph E. Dynan
Bonn
Germany
United States
Atlantic
Dulles
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Eisenhower
Washington
NATO Council
NATO
Britain
Europe
Bad Godesberg
Foreign Ministry
Russia
West
Witness Revises Story On Airline Route Leak
A former Capitol Hill aide Laurence Henderson told senators he may have heard a leak about a CAB route decision. He earlier claimed he acted on a hunch when calling a Boston broker about Northeast Airlines winning the New York to Miami route. Henderson now cites a possible tip from CAB official Raymond Sawyer as a second source. The Senate subcommittee plans to call Sawyer to testify as it probes whether the CAB decision was leaked to enable stock speculation.
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Washington
Capitol Hil
Laurence Henderson
Civil Aeronautics Board
Henderson
Hagerstown
Boston
Northeast Airlines
New York-Miami
Delta Airlines
Northeast
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Raymond Sawyer
CAB
Sawyer
Bureau of International Air Operations
Subcommittee
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Miami
H. Beene
H. S. Dupree
R. H. Dunnivam
H. C. Roberson
T. C. Ashford
C. H. Edwards
L. C. Guyse
A. H. Putman
L. T. Jones
G. M. Bates
Torch Club
Roger R. Hemminghaus
Pat R. Odom
Alabama Polytechnic _ Institute
Tau Beta Pi Society
City Recorder’s Court
Jane Cary
Jackson St
R. J. Kucera
Betty St
Wood Lumber Co
Enolam Blvd
Decatue
Faye W. Love
West Court Apts
Moulton St
H. M. Turner
7Th Ave
James Reynolds
Pulic Street
Austinville High School
Hatfield
Buckley
Teamsters
U.S. Navy
Quarles
Air Force
Twining
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Tennessee River
U. S. Highway 31
Round Island Creek
Swan Creek
TVA
Flint Creek
Somerville Rd
Percy Sharp
Priceville Dairyman
Bell
East Morgan
Lawman
Derby
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