Community notices and upcoming meetings in Decatur area
Local residents attend visits and recoveries while organizations schedule events. Officers elect new Decatur Little Theatre leaders at City Electric auditorium and the Decatur Stamp Club plans a Monday gathering. Various church, sorority, and youth activities are noted along with medical updates and a student fellowship award.
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Decatur Little Theatre
City Electric Auditorium
Tom Veazey
Decatur Stamp Club
McElroy Sees Changes to Defense Reorganization Bill
Secretary of Defense McElroy says senators will push for a much stronger defense reorganization bill than draft, aiming to align with Eisenhower’s wishes. The House committee approved the measure 32 to 0, with floor action expected in two weeks before Senate consideration.
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Gardner L. Bridge
Washington
McElroy
House
Senate
Eisenhower
House Armed Services Committee
Man Kills Niece Then Wounds Wife Before Suicide
Phenix City scene ends in tragedy as James Wesley Blair a 33 year old textile worker shoots his 3 year old niece Patricia Ann Austin kills her, wounds his wife Dora and brother in law C A Austin then takes his own life with a 12 gauge shotgun after a domestic argument at the brother in law’s home. Authorities say Blair fired on the porch as others scattered. Page 2.
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Phenix City
Eugene Goodyear
Russell County
James Wesley Blair
Patricia Ann Austin
Goodyear
Blair
C. A. Austin
Austin
Dora
Austins
Three Die in Alabama Weekend Traffic Runs
Three people were killed in Alabama weekend crashes as state patrol reported. Inez B. Barton 41 of West Point Georgia died when a car overturned near Opelika on Friday night. Jimmy Lee Tolbert 25 of Hartsboro perished when his truck overturned two miles east of Tuskegee early Saturday. James Robie Fincher 34 of Atlanta was struck by a steel sign when a car crashed into a highway sign near Seale Saturday.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Highway Patrol
Inez B. Barton
West Point
Opelika
Jimmy Lee Tolbert
Hartsboro
Tuskegee
James Robie Fincher
Atlanta
Seale
Ala
Flags at Half Staff for Unknown War Dead
President Eisenhower ordered flags flown at half staff May 28 to 30 in honor of unknown American dead from World War II and the Korean conflict buried at Arlington on Memorial Day. The bodies return May 28 and the order covers government buildings and naval vessels with a further national observance urged.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Arlington National Cemetery
Rabies Warning Highlights Local Health Efforts
Fragmentary note mentions local health department addressing rabies concerns. It references potential bite incidents and public education campaigns aimed at residents, pets, and livestock.
Wallace Attacks Patterson Over Klan Ties In Alabama Runoff
Circuit Judge George Wallace Clayton campaigned in Lawrence and Franklin counties while denouncing Attorney General John Patterson for Klan associations. Wallace cited Patterson’s California appearance and warned of a Klan revival if Patterson wins the June 3 runoff for governor.
Cotton programs debated in Farm Page coverage
The Decatur Daily features two cotton program proposals in its Farm Page. The American Farm Bureau Federation bills seek to concentrate production in large Western farms, while the House Cotton Subcommittee plan offers a two level price system covering about 17 million acres over three years. Rep. Paul C. Jones speaks on these approaches. a separate Talmadge Senate proposal appears May 26.
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Congress
American Farm Bureau Federation
House of Representatives
House Agricultural Committee
Cotton Farmer Best
Paul C. Jones
D-Mo
Decatur Daily
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
Patterson Pledges Health Plan as Governor Hopeful
Attorney General John Patterson in his first post primary speech in Oneonta vows a strong forward looking health program if elected. He cites hospital space issues and need for expanded medical training facilities and promises more aid to the sick. Circuit Judge George Wallace disputes Patterson’s old age pension proposal as unfeasible and criticizes state dock management. Wallace also backs Alabama waterway development and a Tennessee Tombigbee canal to connect the Midwest with Mobile port.
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Associated Press
John Patterson
Patterson
Oneonta
George Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Middle West
Mobile
Pflimlin vows use of all emergency powers in crisis
Paris premier Pflimlin declares he will deploy every extraordinary power to crush both right and left violent attempts to overthrow the republic. He addresses the nation by radio and television, appoints a new armed forces chief, and sends a personal envoy to Gen. Charles De Gaulle amid ongoing political turmoil.
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Godfrey Anderson
Paris
Pierre Pflimlin
the Nation
Paul Ely
de Gaulle
Ely
Air Force
Charles de Gaulle
Marcel Diebold
Haute-Marne
France
Jacques Soustelle
Switzerland
Algeria
Defense Ministry
Andre Challe
Jacques Martin
Pflimlin
Lima arrests ten tied to riots during Nixon visit
Police in Lima seize Raul Acosta the secretary general of Peru's outlawed Communist party and nine others including Antonio Bornaz a union and federation figure. The group faces charges of interfering with foreign relations attacking officials of a friendly nation and desecrating a flag. They are held incommunicado awaiting trial.
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Lima
Peru
Communist Party
U.S
Nixon
Red
Raul Acosta
Antonio Bornaz
Newspapermen’s Federation Board
Radio Announcers Union
San Marcos University
Workers Revolutionary Party
Decatur Schools Share In Salk Shot Contest
Four Decatur schools share $200 from Kiwanis for highest polio vaccination rates among Morgan County youths under 20. St Ann’s Catholic tops with 293 percent, Walter Jackson 289, West Decatur 269, Gordon Bibb 262, percentages based on a 300 possible score.
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Decatur
Kiwanis Club
Morgan County
St. Ann's Catholic School
Walter Jackson School
West Decatur
Gordon Bibb
You Can Help Jerry Sparkman Do Things He Loves
Eight year old Jerry Sparkman is a bright tow headed boy who loves family, sports, and TV. He battles muscular dystrophy a disease with no known cure and must cope with weakness and falls while peers play. The story follows his daily life and the support he receives from loved ones and community.
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Jerry Sparkman
Barrett Shelton, JR
Jerry
Jury Rules For Brown In Restaurant Hearing Here
A Decatur jury enjoined John L. and Aileen Kiehl from operating the Tower House Restaurant at 441 Grant St. The verdict followed a two day hearing arising from owner Frank Brown who sought damages and to enforce a non compete clause from the Why Not sale. The Kiehls argued Mrs. Kiehl would run the new business and that Brown’s challenge was a dodge of the five year non compete term. The next move in the case was not indicated.
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Doug Norman
John L
Aileen Kiehl
Grant St
Kiehls
Frank Brown
Why Not
Tower House
Kiehl
Brown
Decatur
Decatur Skies May 19 Morning Star Sets in Late Twilight
In Decatur on Monday May 19 Venus fades from the dawn sky as the last morning star. It rises a bit farther north each morning for the next two months. Moonset occurs at 8:42 p.m. First Quarter Sunday night. Times are Central Daylight.
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VENUS
Weather and River Reading at Keller Memorial Bridge
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge Saturday morning was 21.39 feet, a 12 foot fall in 24 hours. Sea level reading 556.69. Friday high 87 and Friday night low 62. Saturday 3 PM temperature 89. Sunday forecast calls for widely scattered thundershowers and light winds. Today's high expected near 85.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
U S Steps Up Military Aid to Lebanon
The United States, in a broad move, agreed to reinforce Lebanon's pro Western government with more tanks and police equipment and dispatched 18 C124 transports to Germany for possible use in the Middle East. Secretary Dulles assured Congress on protecting 3000 to 4000 Americans in Lebanon.
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Washington
United States
Lebanon
Germany
Middle East
State Department
U. S
Donaldson Air Force Base
S. C
Secretary of State
Dulles
Congress
Pentagon
U.S
Handcuffed Deputy Kills His Prisoner on Train
Texarkana Arkansas police report a handcuffed deputy sheriff, Lt. Donald Ellsworth of Lancaster California, shot and killed prisoner James Calvin Jones 30 during an attempted escape on a Missouri Pacific train in Texarkana. Ellsworth and partner Sgt. Raymond Miner supervised the transport from Nashville Tennessee to Los Angeles for trial on a 1955 robbery assault. Jones, with a prior record, reportedly disarmed Ellsworth before the shooting occurred after Jones asked to use the restroom and appeared with a blue-steel pistol.
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Texarkana
Ark
Donald E. Ellsworth
Lancaster
Los Angeles
James Calvin Jones
Jones
Ellsworth
Tennessee State Prison
Nashville
Miner
Decatur Man Injured In U S 31 Crash At Lacon Mt
A 68 year old Decatur man named Arthur Douglas Carr was hurt in a single vehicle crash on U S Highway 31 S at Lacon Mt about 6 30 p m Friday. He sustained chest and hip injuries and was transported to Baugh Wiley Smith Clinic for treatment.
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Decatur
Lacon
Arthur Douglas Carr
Decatur 2
U. S. Highway 31
Lacon Mt
Highway Patrol
Carr
Baugh-Wiley-Smith Clinic
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Irbinalle
R. C. Carr
Davis Robbins
C. E. McDonal
10Th Ave
Robert E. Opferbuch, Jr
10Th St. SE
Perry B. James
Athens College
Southside Baptist Church
Alabama State Chiropractic Assn
Tuscaloosa
Neil Kirk
J. P. Pierce
Judson Pitts
Paul Gilliam
H. J. Wenzel
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority of
W. W. Stewart
14Th Ave
Southeast Girl Scout
Little House
Herman Stover
Bank Street Hospital
J. R. Gray
W. Moulton St
Floyd Sherrod
H. F. Sherrod
William L. Clayton
Fletchers School of Law and Diplomacy
Fletcher School
Harvard
Tufts
Boston
Young Sherrod
University of the South
Decatur Women's Christian Temperance Union
Sixth Avenue Church of God
Decatur High School
E. I. Hartselle
Prospect Dr. SE
University Hospital
Birmingham
Austinville
Oneal Roden
1605
Beach St. SE
Buckley
Bill
America
Wallace Stumps Morgan, Franklin Lawrence Co
George Wallace Clayton
Lawrence
Franklin
Trinity
Hillsboro
Wheeler
Courtland
Town Creek
Wolf's Spring
Hatton
Mt. Hope
Moulton
Russellville
South Alabama
Ku Klux Klan
Robert Shelton
E. 15Th St
California
Hugh Bentley
Health
French Republic
Robert McGovern
Gus Fecker
David McGovern
Fred Sparkman
Warren Rogers JR
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
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