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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1955
Page
1
Mrs. D. D. Burleson will lead her music class in its annual recital Tuesday at 7 45 p m at the West Decatur School. The public is invited to attend.
Neel School presents an operetta The Wedding Of The Flor... te yore at 7 30 with 15 25 cent admission. Public is cordial invited to attend these services each evening at 7 30.
A Lawrence County Negro was arrested for reckless driving after a rear end collision about a mile west of Courtland. The crash damaged two vehicles, a 1953 Plymouth driven by Buford H. Corum Jr. and a 1949 Ford driven by Lee Woodson Goode. Patrolmen Wilburn Craft and Roy Thomas investigated.
The Supreme Court voided a 5-3 decision, tossing out a high profile suit over a Iowa cemetery denying burial to an American Indian GI killed in Korea. The case questioned if the Iowa Supreme Court violated the UN charter by denying the widow rights to sue for damages.
Clinton physician Dr. John D. Hullinger welcomes his second son born to 34-year-old Mrs. Hullinger. The veteran country doctor has 63 years of practice and 3,309 babies. His first son, John Jr., is 22 months old and healthy. The parents note the only disappointment is the lack of a girl. Hullinger hopes for many more years with his family.
The notice invites multiple solutions for a weekly coin puzzle with a potential $150 prize in coin of the realm and warns that winners typically appear by Saturday dawn. It notes prior entrants sent incomplete cards with no name and promises updates.
A late reported fatality raised Alabama weekend road toll to 11. Victims include five children among crashes from Enterprise to Autauga and Chilton counties. Elmer J. Whisenant 28 died during Fort McClellan training in Guntersville area.
Birmingham reports say FBI and local agencies investigate the L and N violence after dynamite wrecked a trestle near Calera. Six freight cars derailed on the Birmingham Gadsden line at Attalla while crews reopen two blocked lines and await repairs led by F W Kirchner. No injuries noted as a partly open switch caused the derailment.
Gilbert McCracken former Limestone County Probate Judge began serving his sentence at Kilby Prison after pleading guilty to embezzling 13 609 dollars. He was accompanied by his brother in law Leonard Moyers as arrangements were made with the Department of Prisons.
Washington reports machinery for rapid stage by stage release of polio vaccine cleared under new safety checks. Inspectors will phone the Surgeon General as batches pass tests, authorizing doctors and health authorities to use the vaccine.
The Big Three foreign ministers awaited Eisenhower’s decision on a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Bulganin in Switzerland next July. Dulles reportedly did not reply within 48 hours, while Eisenhower hinted at seeking Russia’s sincerity before any top power talks.
Dozens of construction workers are believed trapped after a section of the Columbus Circle coliseum project collapsed. Rescue squads, police and fire units rushed to the scene as a mass of concrete, steel and debris buried workers three stories below ground.
Paris NATO council welcomes West Germany as the alliance’s 15th member. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer attends, pledging to work for world peace and freedom while noting Germany’s past sufferings and commitment to security. The session covers European defense and global issues.
Western foreign ministers led by Dulles Macmillan and Pinay prepare to fly to Vienna to sign the Austrian independence treaty now near completion. Molotov may join Friday as talks cover the Warsaw meeting and a possible summer Big Four conference to ease East West tensions in Europe.
The Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge stood at 21.36 feet with a 0.01 foot rise in 24 hours. High yesterday reached 80 degrees at 3 PM and a low of 55 occurred at 5 AM. Current temperature is 66 degrees with a partly cloudy warm trend and a chance of scattered thunderstorms Tuesday. tonight will be clear and cool. Today's high expected around 82 with a low near 54 and Tuesday's high about 87.
In Montgomery state health officials said the second polio vaccination round would start next Monday if federal clearance arrives. Health Officer D G Gill stated officials were awaiting Washington approval and vaccine safety checks from the U S Public Health Service before proceeding.
Montgomery Ward announces the resignation of chairman Sewell L. Avery aged 81 and president Edmund A. Krider aged 42. Barr, VP and secretary, acts in Avery’s stead. No successor named for Krider.
Admiral Arthur W. Radford told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that foreign military aid permits reducing active duty troops and ties to the Defense Department. He noted allied strength built in five years thanks to aid, as Congress considers the Eisenhower request for 3.5 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year. About 1.7 billion would fund direct military equipment or support for allied forces under mutual defense treaties.
The Agriculture Department final ginning report sets last year's cotton crop at 13,679,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. This is 2,786,000 bales below 1953 and below the 1943-52 ten year average of 12,448,000. The drop followed reduced plantings under federal controls aimed at curbing surplus. Plantings this year are expected smaller due to tighter controls.
Washington reports a round the clock negotiation ended with an agreement to end the Louisville and Nashville Railroad strike. Unsettled issues are to be submitted to binding arbitration by a neutral referee. The accord covers affiliated railroads and aims to resume service next Monday after daylong talks.
Cable cuttings were reported from three Alabama points as the Southern Bell strike entered its ninth week. In Birmingham five cables were cut in four locations, a cable damaged by shotgun blasts at Selma and a cable cut at Mobile. Long distance business in Birmingham set a new Mother’s Day record.
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