Weather and small town notes from Decatur area
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers this afternoon and tonight Tuesday partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Capt P O Lowery and wife from Washington delayed visiting due to Mrs Lowery illness in hospital near Chattanooga. Several local residents gain or lose status with illnesses births and court cases noted. Six arrested weekend by Morgan county sheriff and multiple traffic and public drunkenness cases. diary item referenced on page 2.
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P. O. Lowery
Washington
Morgan County Sheriff's Office
Armed Forces to End Segregation Soon Says Panel
A presidential committee predicts equality of treatment and opportunity for all races in the armed forces within the near future, with improved efficiency. The group, created July 26, 1948, says its recommendations have been approved and are in effect, and that current programs aim to integrate services rapidly while maintaining efficiency.
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Washington
Truman
Johnson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Traffic Toll in State is Heavy
A 14-year old boy was crushed to death at Huntsville this week end by two cars, hurrying over a railroad crossing behind a passing train. Investigating officers made the report. One person was killed and 26 others were injured when a school bus roared out of control down a steep mountain grade near Birmingham, smashing into a pickup truck. The bus driver told Highway Patrolmen he put on the brakes, and didn't hold, a bus skidded 100 yards into an embankment and came apart. Its 41 negro occupants were spilled into the highway. The passengers included a baseball team and its supporters from Titus, Ala., returning there after a ball game. One bus occupant was killed and 24 hurt, three seriously. Two white occupants of the up track es caped with minor injuries, although it was knocked 100 feet. No arrests were made. A 12-year-old on his way to a candy store was 4th reported fatality yesterday afternoon. Donald Ray Wilcutt was struck by an automobile at Birmingham and nursed 50 feet. Going to sleep at the wheel was planned for the death of Rufus Mor son Tidwell, Jr., U. S. forest ranger of Jasper. His car left the road near Greens boro and into a tree. Highway Patrolman H. G. Gillespie said itwell apparently dozed-while living alone. A hit-and-run driver was hunted in the fatal injury late sight of Grant Brown, 23-year-old Muscumbia negro. His body was found near Muscle Shoals City. Houston Moore, 14, was, caught a stream of traffic crossing
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Associated Press
Huntsville
Birmingham
Titus
Ala
Donald Ray Wilcutt
Rufus Morson Tidwell, Jr
U. S. Forest Ranger
Jasper
Greensboro
H. G. Gillespie
Itwell
Grant Brown
Muscle Shoals City
Houston Moore
Wife of Vice Raider Recants Kidnaping Tale
Oklahoma City reports that Jo Alice Raper admitted the 21 hour kidnapping chase was a figment of her imagination. police had feared an abduction after a disrupted home scene and a telephone threat note. Raper later told detectives she left home willingly and was not kidnapped.
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Vice Raider
Oklahoma City
Jo Alice Raper
C. V. Raper
Train Fight Is Taken to Court by Southern Railway
The Southern railway fights to drop two daily passenger trains 7 and 8 on the Tuscumbia Alabama to Chattanooga Tennessee route in federal court after the Alabama Public Service Commission rejected the request. The railroad argues the service operates at a loss and seeks authority from a three judge panel to end operation. The AP reports the court has jurisdiction to hear the case and references a prior victory over similar routes.
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Montgomery
Ala
Southern Railway
Tuscumbia
Chattanooga
Seybourn H.lynne
Leon McCord
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Tuscumbia-Chattanooga
Public Service Commission
APSC
South Amboy Stores Reopen After Blast Disaster
South Amboy New Jersey resumes normal business as demolition squads sweep the waterfront for shells and fuses after a Friday night blast that killed 27. Army officials warn of more detonations in the coming days as 3,000 mines have been recovered. schools close for the term, but seniors will graduate.
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South Amboy
N. J
Hugh Casey
Forty Bodies Dug From Ruins After Quake in Cuzco
Forty bodies have been recovered from rubble in quake ravaged Cuzco Peru with death toll rising toward sixty. Rescue squads scoured ruined churches and streets while emergency airlift rushed food doctors and medical supplies from Lima for at least 178 injured.
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Cuzco
Peru
Luis Tapayachi
Tapagachi
Lima
Manuel Odria Amortu
Earthquakes hit Cuzco and other disasters world wide
Peru launches airlift to aid Cuzco after a 12 second quake that killed at least 50 and injured over 175. London tornadoes render 500 homeless while Italy canal tragedy drowns 15 children. Germany miners funerals planned for 71 dead.
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Associated Press
Peru
Andes
Cuzco
Lima
London
Italy
Cavarzere
Venice
Gelsenkirchen
Germany
Irked by Umpire He Draws Pistol And Is Shot Dead
In Greenwood South Carolina James L Roundtree 24 drew a pistol after a disputed umpire call at a Bradley Kirksey baseball game. Umpire James McGowan 58 fired and killed Roundtree. Sheriff J C White notes the inquest set for tomorrow with McGowan held without charge.
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Greenwood
S. C
James L. Roundtree
James McGowan
Roundtree
McGowan
J. C. White
Bradley
Here
Kirksey
Cottingham to Receive Highest FFA Honor
T J Cottingham president of the State National Bank is recommended for the Alabama Association Future Farmers of America highest honor He will travel to Auburn June 9 for the honorary state farmer degree at Langdon Hall ceremonies. For ten years he aided about 400 farm families and 4 H and FFA members in the valley. He says the greatest pleasure is helping them help themselves.
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T. J. Cottingham
State National Bank
Alabama Association
Future Farmers of America
Auburn
Langdon Hall
Cottingham
T. J
Roger Queen Locates Branch Moves into Riverfront Property
The Roger M. Queen company announces purchase of old Standard Oil properties on the riverfront in Chattanooga. The food distributing firm will serve North Alabama including Huntsville and the Tri Cities from the Decatur branch with William G. Worley as partner and manager. Possession may come by July 15 with Standard Oil vacating by September 1 for a new plant between Universal Concrete and Alabama Flour. The company sells to wholesalers and handles 30 accounts including Stokeley and Van Camp.
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Roger M. Queen
Universal Concretipe
Alabama
Roger
Authorization Voted to Cut County Debt and Airport Costs
The Morgan Board of Revenue and Control authorized reducing the county bonded debt by 30000 with a 1944 road warrant retirement bringing indebtedness to 342000. It approved a $1500 payment to the state Department of Conservation and a 50000 annual share for airport engineering inspections, pending notice to Athens Decatur Morgan and Limestone.
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Morgan Board of Revenue and Control
State Department of Conservation
John Caddell
Carol Smith
Athens
Decatur
Morgan
Limestone
Morgan Revenue Board
Department of Conservation
Truman Blasts Red Boycott Over United Nations
President Truman assailed Russia for boycotting the United Nations over the Chinese issue calling it a willful flouting of the UN charter. He told Congress the UN is conducting business as usual while Soviet refusals to attend with Chinese nationalist delegates block constructive action amid rising East West tensions.
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Washington
Truman
Russia
United Nations
U. N
Congress
World Organization
Blood Donors Give Proctors Chance to Live
Three Proctor family members remain critically burned after a fire at their home while 15 year old O Neal walked two miles to summon help. Red Cross donors and the Blood Donor club provided vital blood and plasma to keep them alive as Ruth Driver notes. The Proctors lost everything and the 12 year old Maxine, 8 year old Joe, and 37 year old Mary Proctor are hospitalized with severe injuries. O Neal admits to starting the blaze and says his mother wanted the fire to burn faster for lunch.
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Decatur General Hospital
Mary Proctor
Maxine
Joe
Ruth. Driver
O'Neal
O’neal
Red Cross
Drivgts Maxine
John Chenault
Highway Patrol
Selma Youth Leaps From Bridge In Tragic River Dive
Roy Red Pugh, 19, leaped from the Selma highway bridge into the Alabama River yesterday. A search for his body continued as authorities found a note citing ill health as motive. Witnesses described him swimming to a willow bank before vanishing again.
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Selma
Ala
Selma Masa
Roy
Red) Pugh
J. W. Baker
Selma Police Department
Pugh
Archie Nichols Pugh
Nichols
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Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity
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Southern Bell Telephone Company
Bonnie Pickens
Miami
A. B. Pickens
Ermine McKay
Jefferson Hospital
Nineteenth Street
South
Lucille Couch
Herman Hospital
Houston
Texas
Joe C. Motherway Sr
Ofouston, Texas
Memorial Hospital
Tommy Holland
Thomas Irvin Holland III
J. Wheeler Smith
Mt. Hope
Recorder’s Court
Dwight Brown
Brown
Raper
L. J. Hilbert
Maybelle Voyles
Georgia Baptist Hospital
Atlanta
Maybelle
Everett Voyles
North
Georgia
Southern
Joe Wheeler
South Amboy's
Tapayachi
Santo Domingo
Christ
San Sebastian
Turista
FFA
Roger Queen
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Oes
Ruth Driver
O’neal Proctor
Decatur General Hosp
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Selma Man
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