Local and Regional Notes From Morgan County Area
Dr Bingham returns from Atlanta after attending a Southeastern Optometric Conference. Miss Barbara Hill visits Scottsboro relatives. J M Greenwell obituary notes Trinity Stone Co. co owner dies in Boston Kentucky. Grange Hall cemetery Decoration Day set for June 1 with Rev Engle speaker and post service activities. City shelter lists eight redemption dogs and sale animals. Mrs Wallace to campaign in Morgan Limestone and Lawrence counties with two day handshaking tour. Decatur Rocket Club meets with jet engine topic. Probation for Lakin Lambert revoked. 15 others housed at Morgan County jail. Girl Scout Troop 33 mothers host luncheon at Cornelian Court Hotel. See Diary on Page 2.
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Grange Hall Cemetery
Trinity Mountain
Hubert Engle
Decatur
George C. Wallace
Morgan
Limestone
Lawrence
Wallace
Pryor Field
Trinity
Lakin Lambert
Moody Oil Co
Kilby
Morgan County
Lambert
Girl Scout Troop 33
Cornelian Court Hotel
John E. Frazer
Robert C. Jackson
Julian Cain
Congress May Go With Ike's Tax-Cut Stand
President Eisenhower urged action to halt planned tax cuts set for July 1. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Rep. Wilbur Mills signaled support for the administration position, while Sen. Harry F. Byrd welcomed the stance, warning of inflation risk.
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Congress
Ike
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Anderson
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
Eisenhower
Washington
Dtex
Rayburn
Indone sian bomber pilot named American captive
An Indonesian army report identifies the captured U S built B 26 bomber crewman as Allan Lawrence Pope of Miami Florida shot down near Amboy May 18 during an attack on government ships. Pope was one of two airmen captured after the plane burned.
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Jakarta
Allan Lawrence Pope
Miami
Fla
Pope
Amboy
300 Million For Anti Recession Housing Program
Washington AP The administration released 300 million dollars to support the anti recession housing program. The Budget Bureau made funds available to FNMA to buy government backed home loans at par. FNMA can commit to buy mortgages up to 13500 on homes not yet under construction.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
Federal National Mortgage Assn
FNMA
Hanna backs Patterson in Alabama runoff endorsement
Major General Walter J. Hanna urged Alabama voters to elect John Patterson for governor claiming a renewed gangster drive aims to restore hoodlum influence. He credited Patterson with integrity and the Phenix City cleanup and warned against corruption.
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Walter J
Crack) Hanna
National Guard
Phenix
John Patterson
Patterson
Alabama
Little Jerry Happy as TV Hooked Up
Jerry Sparkman, a muscular dystrophy patient, cheered as a new television was installed at his Oak Ridge home. His father Anderson planned to take him to Crippled Children’s Hospital in Birmingham for a specialist to examine Jerry’s broken left arm from a tricycle fall.
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Jerry Sparkman
Jerry
Anderson Sparkman
Crippled Childrens Hospital
Birmingham
Fred B. Sparkman
Oak Ridge
Sparkman
Moon, Jupiter and Spica Visible Before Moonset
In Decatur the Moon rises in the early afternoon with Jupiter nearby and Spica below. The full Moon is on June 1, and moonset occurs at 3:08 a.m. Thursday. The visible sky also notes a 9:20 p.m. reference.
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Jupiter
Spica
Tennessee River Readings At Keller Memorial Bridge
The Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge measured 21.60 feet this morning, up 0.01 feet in 24 hours, with sea level at 555.90 feet. Temperatures ranged from a high of 86 in the afternoon to a low of 61, with 88 degrees noted at 10:45 a.m. Forecast calls for mostly sunny and warm today, fair and mild tonight, and a Wednesday with mostly cloudy skies and scattered thundershowers. Winds are easterly 5 to 10 mph, diminishing tonight.
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Decatur
Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
Pension Group Faces Attorney General Over Aid Appeals
Lester F. Lawrence executive secretary of the Alabama Old Age Pension Institute with over 20 000 members accuses Attorney General Patterson of ordering the group to stop aiding the aged in appeal cases Lawrence says the AG deemed free information letter writing and representation at hearings illegal and denies 104 000 elderly a fair hearing while federal and state rules allow witnesses in appeals See PENSION On Page 2
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Birmingham
Alabama
John Patterson
Lester F. Lawrence
Alabama Old- Age Pension Institute, Inc
Lawrence
Patterson
The
Pension Institute
Montgomery
Aid For Morgan Roads Promised
Morgan County to receive state and county funds totaling about 270000 for four road projects. State Director Herman Nelson pledged federal funds to match, with work to start after July bids and a total project cost near 550000.
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Morgan County
County Board of Revenue
Guy Roberts
Roberts
Board of Revenue
Herman Nelson
Flint Creek
Vaughn Bridge Road
Vaughn Bridge
Oak Ridge
Danville-Decatur Road
Talucah
Flint
Austinville
McKendry Rd
Massey
Cullman Tri- Cities Rd
Means’ Bridge
Danville
Iron Man-Neel
County Line
Hartselle
McKendry
Falkville-McKendry
Falkville
Eva
Priceville
Cedar Cove
Florette
Woodland Mills
Father Learns Of Childs Death In River Tragedy
In Talladega Alabama a 9 year old girl Elizabeth Mitchell drowned in the Coosa River near Lock 4. Her father Robert Lee Mitchell suffered a heart attack upon learning of the accident and remains in fair condition at Citizens Hospital.
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Talladega
Ala
Coosa
Eugene Waters
Elizabeth Mitchell
Lock 4
Robert Lee Mitchell
Citizens Hospital
Mitchells
Sheriff Charges Politics In Whisky Ring Arrests
Florence Alabama. ATU officials announce the arrests of 35 persons across four Northwest Alabama counties for manufacturing selling and transporting whisky. Thirteen in Lawrence County seventeen in Winston four in Colbert and one in Lauderdale. Police seized five old cars and 35 gallons of whisky along with over 740 gallons previously captured. Arraignments occurred Friday or Saturday before U S Commissioner Littell McClung and cases will go to the next District Federal Grand Jury.
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Florence
Ala
Jim Lusk
Alcohol Tobacco Tax Unit
Alabama
Internal Revenue Law
Lusk
Haleyville
ATU
U. S
Littell McClung
Federal Grand Jury
Lawrence County
Winston
Colbert
Lauderdale County
ATA
Chevrolet
Buick
Death Takes Cardinal In Early Hours
Samuel Cardinal Stritch the 70 year old Archbishop of Chicago died in Rome at Sanatrix Clinic after circulatory troubles. He arrived April 25 to assume the Vatican post as pro prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith. He died after a stroke and had a blood clot treated earlier.
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Rome
D AP
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Pontifical College
Chicago
Sanatrix Clinic
Pius XI
St. Ignatius Church
Martin John O'Connor
Scranton
Vatican
Congregation For Propagation of the Faith
Vatican Curia
Italy
De Gaulle Moves To Form New French Government
Charles de Gaulle begins assembling a new French government with possible aid from President Rene Coty and Premier Pierre Pflimlin. A high Elysee source said Pflimlin's cabinet may resign tonight as De Gaulle meets with Pflimlin to plan the administration. Reuters dispatch notes nationwide strikes and a National Assembly recess as De Gaulle seeks calm and unity amid Algeria crisis.
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Paris
Pierre Pflimlin
Charles de Gaulle
Rene Coty
Elysee Palace
Pflimlin
de Gaulle
de Gaulle -Pflimlin
Defense
Pierre de Chevigne
France
Algeria
General Confederation of Labor
National Assembly
Popwar Republican Movement
MRP
Coty
Gaston de Bonneval
Raoul) Salan
Adm
Philippe) Auboynea
Edmond Jouhau
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Wellens
Mee
Tom Bingham
Atlanta
Bingham
Barbara Hill
Scottsboro 1
Ray Hill
15Th Ave. SE
J. M. Greenwell
Boston
W. L. Greenwell
Trinity Stone Co
V. L. Greenwell
Decatur Daily
Nancy Kelley
Central Baptist Church
Central Methodist Church
Cullman Cemetery
City Animal Shelter
West Decatur
George Collier
Collier
Decatur Rocket Club
City Electric Auditorium
Buckley
William F. Arbogast
Judiciary Committee
Howard W. Smith
Supreme Court
Nelson
Smith
Robinson's
Ady
Hanna
Phenix City
Birmingham Muscle Shoals
Evergreen
Dothan
Mobile
Pension Group
Raps Patterson
Says
Senate
Tod
By Joe Hall
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
Douglas
Kennedy
William F. Knowland
California
Knowland
Finance Committee
Byrd
Stanley Johnson
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