Tanner High School events fill weekend schedule
Commencement at Tanner High is set Sunday at 2 30 with Clifford Buchanan delivering the baccalaureate sermon. The Women of the Moose Chapter 1390 sponsor a games night Friday at 8 at the Moose Home.
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Tanner High School
Clifford Buchanan
Women of the Moose
Moose
Luther Standridge
Mary Turner
Callie Mae Stinson
Euel Garrison
Herbert Walker
Citizenship
Move To Scrap Aid Bill Flops Move To Scrap Aid Bill Flops
The Senate defeated a proposal to junk President Eisenhower's reciprocal trade program in a decisive floor vote on the foreign trade bill. Sen. Malone's substitute was rejected by voice vote while Sen. Byrd urged its defeat lasting less than a minute of debate.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Malone
R-New
Byrd
D-Va
President Sticks By Belief Voluntary Control Best Way To Handle Salk Vaccine
President Eisenhower stressed voluntary control for Salk polio vaccine distribution, endorsing continued inoculations despite rare paralytic cases. He also discussed Formosa cease fire prospects, his wife’s health, postal pay raises, and farm price supports, signaling careful study of a pending bill.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Eisenhower
United States
China
Formosa
Charles von Fremd
CBS
Senate House
House
Senate
Highway 31 widening project kicks off between Decatur and Hartselle
Hardaway Contracting Co of Columbus Ga begins widening nine miles of Highway 31 to four lanes from Decatur to near Hartselle. Supervisor L V Wesley reports partial blacktop down soon with 50 workers and machinery active. Completion targeted for late September as weather stabilizes.
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Decatur
Hartselle
L. V. Wesley
Hardaway Contracting Co
Hardaway Co
Columbus, Ga
Wesley
College President To Give Graduation Address At DHS
Mater High School seniors will graduate at 8 p.m. June 6 in the high school auditorium. Dr. Hubert Searcy, president, announced the event. W. H. Jenkins is principal. Secretary of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville will attend at 8 p.m. June 5.
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Bobby Scott
Tanner High School
DHS
Hubert Searcy
Mater High School
W. H. Jenkins
Southern Baptist Sunday School Board
Nashville
Weather and River Readings at Keller Memorial Bridge
The Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge rose 0.07 feet in 24 hours to 21.68 feet with sea level reading 555.98 feet. Yesterday’s high was 9 feet at 4 p.m. and low this morning 61 at 3:30. Temperature this morning 78. Forecast calls for partly cloudy warm conditions today tonight and Thursday with highs near 87 today and on Thursday and a low around 55 tonight.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
Anti Poll Tax Bill Gets Nod By Committee
Alabama House Ways and Means Committee votes 9 to 4 to report favorably a bill to abolish the $1.50 annual poll tax despite warnings it could boost black representation. Gov. Folsom supports the measure, which would extend suffrage and faces scrutiny from Rep. Meeks over voter qualification laws.
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Montgomery
Alabama
House
Ways and Means
James E. Folsom
W. L. Martin
Greene
Greene County
Rep. Martin
House Judiciary Committee
Rdssenting Vo
Lee
Embers
Ways and Means Committee
Paul Meeks
Jefferson
Meeks
George Hawkins
Etowah
Georgia
Austin Meadows
Education Department
Senate
House Business and Labor Committee
Puzzles Stir Waiting Fans Ahead of Friday Solution
Puzzles pour in as stakes reach the125 mark. Anxious solvers from Madison Belle Mina Falkville Hartselle send in entries amid clues like germination termination brass grass rest test. Millie and Tillie appear in signatures while Willie remains absent.
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Kentucky
Hattie R. Moore
Madison
J. D. LeCroix
Belle Mina
Glenn Bramlett
Falkville
Faye Waddell
Hartselle
Millie
Tillie
Willie
Showdown Near On Price Props
Democrats in the House near a vote on farm price supports in a repeat of last year s battle. The chamber faces a clash over reversing an administration victory on flexible price supports for basic commodities as final action approaches.
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Washington
House
Cheerful Word Given Out By Chief Mediator
Mediation talks in Atlanta and Washington aimed at ending the Louisville and Nashville rail strike and a broader telegraph dispute. Chairman Francis A. ONeill Jr. called the talks close to settlement and Secretary Mitchell considered active involvement with governors Clement and Weatherby. FBI Mobile announced the arrest of R D Josey in the Bonifay trestle fire case as reports on negotiators’ results remained unavailable.
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Atlanta
Washington
Francis A. O'Neill Jr
National Mediation Board
Louisville and Nashville
O’neill
Mitchell
White House
Frank C. Clement
Tennessee
Lawrence W. Wetherby
Kentucky
Gerald Morgan
Eisenhower
William 0. Pierce
CIO
FBI
Mobile
Ala
Florida
L&n
Bonifay Fla
J. Gordon Shanklin
R. D. Josey
Cus
MIGs Venture Over Matsu Isles Clash Near Formosa
In Formosa the air force reports MIG jets for the first time near the Matsu Islands clashed with four Nationalist propeller planes. Nationalist boats attacked three gun boats across the Formosa Strait near Quemoy. All three gun boats were damaged, one heavily. Nationalist planes returned to base.
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Taipei
Formosa
Matsu Islands
Matsus
Formosa Strait
Quemoy
Matsu
Heat walkout at Detroit Chrysler plant over heat
Chrysler Corp faced a heat walkout as 75 sheet metal workers at the Medieval plant in Detroit left work at 7 p.m. in 88 degree heat, forcing the final assembly to shut at the Jefferson plant and sending about 1,500 second shift workers home.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Merdieval
Chrysler Division
Jefferson
LeRoy McEntire New Lion Proxy Elected President
LeRoy McEntire Jr local attorney was elected president of the Decatur Lions Club, succeeding Paul Robson. Officers named to serve with him include Allison Smith and Tim Lyons as vice presidents, James Roberts as third vice president, Russell Humphrey secretary, James Edwards treasurer, A H Hassell lion tamer, J C Howell tail twister, and directors Day, Frazier, Freeman, MacGregor, Rooks, Ryan, Stone, Williamson. Guests Bayne Vaughn Gilmer Blackburn Tom Leslie spoke for mental health fund drive. Melvin Ozier won attendance prize.
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LeRoy McEntire, Jr
Decatur Lions Club
Paul Robson
McEntire
Allison Smith
Tim Lyons
James Roberts
Russell A. Humphrey
James Edwards
A. H. Hassell
J. C. Howell
William S. Day
Ed Frazier
R. B. Freeman
R.L. MacGregor
Allen Rooks
Hyland Ryan
William G. Stone
Ben Williamson
Bayne Vaughn
Gilmer Blackburn
Tom Leslie
Drive For Funds
Alabama Association For Mental Health
Melvin Ozier
Tear Gas Ends Gun-Toting JP's Bid To Keep Wife From Mental Hospital
In Bethel Vermont a 12 hour siege ended when gun toting Justice of the Peace Manuel Miller surrendered after tear gas filled his two story home. Miller and his wife Lucille 44 face confinement in St Elizabeths Hospital Washington DC with federal charges pending.
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Law
Bethel
Manuel Miller
Miller
Lucille
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Washington, D.C
Ad H. Perry
Vermont
State
Ferrell Jury Tries Again In Phenix City Murder Case
The Ferrell murder trial in Phenix City continued with the 12 jurors debating for hours after lunch without a verdict. Prosecutor Deason urged the death penalty, while defense argued the state failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Patterson was slain 17 days after winning the attorney general nomination to cleanse the city of vice and corruption.
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Rex Thomas
Birmingham
Arch Ferrell
A. L. Patterson
Vice
Phenix City
Cecil Deason
Alabama
Deason
George Rogers
Drew Redden
Ferrell
Albert Fuller
Fuller
Si Garrett
Galveston
Tex
Rogers
Redden
Patterson
Reid
South Viet Nam Proposes Constitutional Monarchy
United States reportedly endorses a constitutional monarchy for South Viet Nam to stabilize the country amid strife. Bao Dai denounces a Saigon congress as illegal as Premier Ngo Dinh Diem calls for ousting the ex-emperor.
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John Roderick
Saigon
South Viet Nam
United States
Ngo Dinh Diem
National Revolutionary Committee
Bao Dai
Annam
French Riviera
States General
Incorporation Plan Slow In Somerville Opposition Arises
Petition to reincorporate Somerville moves slowly as backers expect two weeks or more to file with the Probate Judge. Majority taxpayers within the old limits must sign before filing with Judge T. C. Almon. Opponents say there is not enough industry or resident support to sustain a municipality.
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Somerville
J. R. Ransom
T. C. Almon
Skeggs Johnson
Albertville Trio Held In Rocking Of Bell Exchange
Three Goodyear plant workers from Gadsden were arrested in Albertville for rocks being thrown at the Bell Telephone Co exchange. Sheriff L. P. Dickson identified the suspects as W. W. Bishop Charles Woods and R. B. Cline who posted $500 bonds each. Damage to windows occurred over the prior three weeks before deputy Henry Parker effected the arrest.
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Albertville
Ala
Goodyear
Gadsden
Eea
Eee Era Telephone Co
Marshal County
L. P. Dickson
W. W. Bishop
Charles Woods
R. B. Cline
Dickson
Henry Parker
Trestle Falls To Flames On Mobile Montgomery Line
A 132 foot L and N trestle on the Mobile to Montgomery main line near Bay Minette burned shortly before midnight. Arson is suspected after a separate bonifay Florida bridge fire. Traffic north of Mobile halted. third such blaze in the area in a week with two other bridges damaged but saved.
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Mobile
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Montgomery
Shawty
Hales County
Florida
L&n
Bonifay
Fla
M. R. Black
L&N’s
Mobile Division
Bay Minette
Black
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L. A. Beddingfield
Stancil Bynum
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Otis Kirby
Camp Sumatanga
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Trinity 1
Ash Ae
Buckley
Austria
REDS
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Voeslau
Russia
Rheed
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Big City Demos
Labor
Migs
Matsu Isles
LeRoy McEntire
New Lion
My Threshhold
David
Helen
Josephine
Ernest W. Gibson
Brattleboro
Bell Exchange
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