Evening of games at St Ann's church hall
The article notes an 8 PM church hall games night at St Ann's Catholic Church. It mentions the Morgan County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis holding its annual meeting that evening at 7 PM in the City Electric Auditorium with officer elections and a talk by R C Dobson on the Salk vaccine program. Lonnie M Black is reported resting at Decatur General Hospital. Family Night at Decatur Country Club with dinner at 7 and entertainment at 8 is listed. more details in Diary on Page 2.
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St. Ann’s Catholic Church
Fred Hunt, Jr
Morgan County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
City Electric Auditorium
R. C. Dobson
Polio Foundation
Lonnie M. Black
7Th St
Decatur General Hospital
Decatur Country Club
Selma Storm Destroys Trees and Disrupts Power
Thunderstorms battered Selma and Clanton with the worst impact in Selma where roofs were ripped off and trees up rooted. Power was cut for over an hour as the storm damaged the wholesale grocery building Stewart King and McKenzie and a neighboring laundry.
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Selma
Clanton
Wilson Baker
Stewart, King and McKenzie
Weather and River Report for Decatur Area
The Tennessee river at Keller Memorial Bridge stood at 20.92 feet, up .08 in the last 24 hours. Yesterday’s high reached 79 at 1 pm and the low overnight was 66 at 3 am. At 8 am the temperature was 74. Rainfall of .13 inches was recorded at the TVA sub station yesterday afternoon. none last night. Forecast: partly cloudy and warm with scattered thundershowers. today’s high 86, tonight’s low 65, tomorrow’s high 88.
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Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Bar Integration and Advertising Tax Bills Hit Alabama House
Multiple bills introduced in the Alabama House seek to preserve segregated schools and impose a 3 percent tax on all advertising sources. The Dement measure taxes gross receipts from newspapers magazines signs and broadcasters to fund elementary schools. Oakley’s segregation proposal would amend the state constitution to allow separate white and Negro schools. Other bills address road control changes and repeal livestock branding law with additional hospital board seats and milk import regulation.
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Montgomery
Alabama
James Dement
Limestone County
Gregory Oakley
Wilcox
Legislative Committee
Oakley
Marengo County
James E. Folsom
H. James Hall
C. J
Joe) Goodwyn
Rankin Fite
Marion
Agriculture
A. W. Todd
Pat Vacca
Jefferson
Murphree Withholds Views On Possible Limestone Polio
Athens physician Dr. L R Murphree says six year old Dennis Powers has polio but withholds his own diagnosis pending further tests. Dennis, a Pisgah Elementary student from Concord Community near Athens, became ill Saturday and walks with impairment though not paralyzed.
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Athens
Dennis Powers
Toney
L. R. Murphree
Murphree
Dennis
Pisgah
Cecil Powers
Concord
Polish Beauty's Husband Testifies In Redstone Case
Capt Patrick Meighen testified Bluth, a Redstone Arsenal officer, walked out on him at an officers club before Bluth allegedly drugged and killed Polish born beauty Mrs. Meighen on the night of November 26 27 at Redstone Arsenal He said Bluth helped move out of their apartment and discussed divorce plans.
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Huntsville
Patrick Meighen
Marcus F. Bluth
Bluth
Waynesburg
Meighen
Redstone Arsenal
Rocket and Guided Missile Development Center
Eugene Weems
Folsom Says Can't Understand Why Industry Talks Scrapping Of Sheffield Expansion Plans
Gov. James E. Folsom expressed disbelief that Reynolds Metal Co plans to scrap expansion of its Sheffield Alabama plant due to proposed state tax laws. Reynolds testified to a House subcommittee that tax proposals are prompting reconsideration of location, with possible expansion at existing facilities rather than a new plant.
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Folsom
Sheffield
Montgomery
James E. Folsom
Reynolds Metal Co
Alabama
Richard B. Reynolds Jr
Washington
Ala
House
Reynolds
Arkansas
Texas
Oregon
Lee Folsom
Confidence in Salk polio vaccine after recheck
U S Surgeon General Leonard A Scheele says he has every confidence in all Salk polio vaccine lots after a Public Health Service doublecheck, except for two suspected Cutter Laboratories lots being re-evaluated. He affirmed the safety of the mass inoculation program for schoolchildren pending confirmation.
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Washington
U.S
Leonard A. Scheele
Cutter Laboratories
Scheele
Public Health Service
Manufac
Government forms panel to advise on Salk vaccine lots
Washington reports a new commission to advise on all future Salk polio vaccine lots. The Public Health Service said the panel will review all produced but unreleased lots and those not yet released. No immediate estimate of delays to the inoculation program was given.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Cutter vaccine under review as polio cases rise
Health officials warn an imminent announcement will clarify vaccine safety. Scheele cites 56 polio cases among Cutter vaccine recipients and links a possible cause with a Reuters report noting ongoing tests. Cutter Labs in Berkeley says the statement is interim and not final.
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Turers
Scheele
Berkeley
Calif
Cutter Laboratories
U.S. Public Health Service
Katie’s Still Holding Head Over Closin'
The piece notes Katie remains hopeful for a solution to a puzzle after a late postmark ruling. Office readers submit many answers, with a prize of 200 dollars hoped for, and no more entries accepted after Tuesday midnight.
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Katie
Diminutive Blonde Plans 14th Trip Down The Aisle
Beverly N O Malley 44 seeks 14th marriage after finalizing divorce from Raymond J O Malley 13. She aims to marry Gabriel L Avery 44, a parking lot superintendent, after obtaining a license today in Los Angeles.
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S Angeles
Beverly Nina O'Malley
Raymond Joseph O'Malley
Gabriel L. Avery
Three Percent Hotel Levy Backed to Aid Teachers
Education leaders support a proposed three per cent tax on hotel and motel services aimed at raising about one million dollars annually for teacher salaries. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Karl Harrison, faced opposition from hotel interests at a House Ways and Means hearing in Montgomery. State Superintendent A. R. Meadows noted the bill would extend the three per cent sales tax to services and stressed a need for over twenty million dollars to raise teacher salaries by six hundred dollars and hire two thousand five hundred more teachers. Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee quickly killed a separate bill to cap train length at 3,200 feet amid freight-rail concerns.
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Montgomery
House
Ways and Means
Karl Harrison
Shelby County
A. R. Meadows
House Judiciary Committee
Jaycees Push Delivers Bloodmobile Surplus Quota Met
Morgan County records a blood drive success as 168 donors turnout at Central Baptist Church. Of these, 162 are accepted and the unit reaches its 130 pint quota, oversubscribed by about 25 percent, under Jaycees promoter Harold Michelson. Only other prior instance was April 27, 1952.
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E. C. Grantland
Decatur
William K. Carter
Cedar St
Red Cross
Carolyn Graham
Birmingham
Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce
Morgan County
Central Baptist Church
Harold Michelson
Jaycees Committee
Jaycees
Albright Rated Eligible for Decatur Postmaster Job
Norman Albright leads eligibility for the Decatur postmaster post with an 80 percent grade on Civil Service exams. I E Self acting postmaster, who took the contest with Albright, has not yet received his rating. Self says the report on grades precedes the appointment and the process could take as much as six months.
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Decatur
Norman Albright
Self
Albright
Air power debate heats as Bell strike ends
Atlanta workers return to work ending a 10 week strike that cost millions. Long distance operators led the first shift back at 7 am with plant personnel following. the company said operations will take days to normalize. The CIO reports most locals approved a new contract amid some rejections.
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Atlanta
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Communications Workers of America
CIO
Southern Bell Cwa-Cio
C. T. Meeks
Meeks
Burke Nominated for Top Navy Post by Eisenhower
President Eisenhower names Rear Adm. Arleigh A. Burke to succeed Adm. Robert B. Carney as chief of naval operations amid ongoing debates on Red China and the Formosa Strait. The reshuffle also spots Adm. Arthur Radford for a new two year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gen. Nathan F. Twining for a second two year term.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Adm
Robert B. Carney
Red China
Formosa Strait
Arleigh A
Burke
Air Force
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nathan F. Twining
Senate Debates Highway Bill Revision on Prevailing Wages
The Senate opened voting on a Democratic highway construction bill and struck a controversial section aimed at guaranteeing prevailing wages for road labor. Senators McNamara and Douglas pressed for a roll call vote but failed.
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Washington
Senate Today
McNaMara
D-Mich
Douglas
D- 1
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Morgan County Council Parent Teacher Association
Lester Wooten
P.T.A
Decatur and Vicinity
Buckley
Limestone Salon
Capt. Bluth
Gilmer Blackburn
Young Democrats of
Blackburn
Ed Ewing
Wilton
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D-Wash
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Lewis
Senate
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Harold Talbott
Knot’ Burke
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