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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
8
Mayor H. R. Summer proclaims Armed Forces Day to renew support for national defense. Open house programs will be held nationwide this Saturday. The National Guard will announce local details Friday and stresses peace through strength and international respect.
The Nation honors the armed forces on Armed Forces Day May 21 as designated by the President and Congress. Citizens are urged to recognize the men and women serving to uphold the principles and ideals of the United States and safeguard peace, welfare, and security.
William M. Jaudon 33 of Hamilton Mississippi was arrested within hours of the Bank of Gordo robbery. About $654 was found in his defroster hose and he surrendered without resistance. Mrs Ruth Graham an assistant cashier was forced at gunpoint to hand over cash from her drawer.
Mrs John A Holder president of the Trinity Home Demonstration Club hosted a May meeting with hymnody "O Worship The King" and a meditation on The Home from Acts 9. Miss Lucille Hawkins county agent demonstrated selecting and arranging furniture. Pennies for friendship funded the dress revue won by Mrs J B Sheats and Mrs Pellom Lamon. Sisters Mrs J Q Parker Mrs J B Sheats and Mrs G O Maner entertained with This Old House on guitar. Co hosts Mrs Holder and Mrs Lamon served refreshments to 18 members.
Lebanon city water bureau tested its new pumping station and three old mains burst under pressure. Plumbing in many homes crumpled and taps produced brown iron-stained water, leaving residents anxious over supply and safety.
I H R Summer mayor of Decatur proclaims May 21 1955 as Armed Forces Day to honor civilian reserve components and National Guard. He urges community participation and visiting local military open house programs in observance of the occasion.
Moscow reports Khrushchev and Soviet leaders will push equal rights and mutual noninterference in talks with Yugoslav President Tito. He said the delegation travels to Belgrade with open souls to normalize USSR Yugoslavia relations and maintain noninterference in each other’s affairs.
One visitor, Mrs. O. M. Parker, attended during the social hour.
Premier Nikolai Bulganin and other top Kremlin officials will confer with Tito in Belgrade late this month. No exact date has been set.
In Los Angeles the Presbyterian Church leaders endorsed a proposal to admit women to Presbyterian ministry. Dr. Ralph Waldo Lloyd, president of Maryville College in Tennessee, spoke in support of the change.
The church leader and moderator urged churchwide nonsegregation in a sermon for the 167th General Assembly. It was his last official function as moderator with a successor to be elected today for the weeklong meetings and next year. Admission of women as ministers and the nonsegregation issue are expected to be acted on later in the session.
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