Local notes: graduates visit and bids, permits, and incidents
Ronald Green, University of Alabama senior, visits with parents and will join Western Electric as a summer technical assistant in Winston Salem. James Benfield graduates from Alabama as family attends ceremony. City issues building permits for three projects totaling $58,900. Car hub caps stolen. traffic arrests total 50 with red light violations leading. Fire crews respond to a minor switch box fire on Church Street. Eastern Star Past Matrons plan annual picnic at Delano Park. Vacation Church School registrations begin June 2 at Austinville and Memorial Drive churches. Commencement set for June 4 at 6:36 p.m. in Fellowship Hall. See DIARY On Page 2.
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Ronald Green
University of Alabama
Clifford F. Green
Somerville Rd
Ronald
Westeern Electric
Winston-Salem, N. C
Mary Lou Dancy No
Order of Eastern Star
Delano Park
Masonic Temple
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
Decatur High School
Billy Smith
Mr. X
Courage to Save a Failing Marriage
A commentator argues that true courage lies in working through marital problems and building a robust home rather than abandoning a marriage. They urge couples to endure crises, seek wisdom, and involve faith to foster lasting happiness, noting God’s presence blessed the first union.
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God
Eden
Statewide Drive Promotes Traffic Safety Launch Planned
A June 1 campaign will intensify traffic law enforcement across Alabama and four counties Limestone Morgan Lawrence and Cullman with sheriffs offices and city police joining state patrol. Officials expect publicity from newspapers to push awareness and curb rural wrecks after a similar drive last year cut accidents and deaths though current figures show high tolls.
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Alabama
Highway Patrol
Limestone
Morgan
Lawrence
Cullman
Highway Toll Mounts Fast During Memorial Day Weekend
Traffic fatalities rise as millions drive to holiday getaways for a four day period. The National Safety Council warned deaths could reach 100 on Tuesday, with four teen deaths in a Jacksonville car train crash and other fatal incidents noted during the Memorial Day holiday.
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Associated Press
Jacksonville
Fla
Autos Neaic
Mount Carroll
Ill
National Safety Council
Six Negro protesters end fast in Capital Jail release and new integration attempt
In Montgomery six black integrationists ended a brief hunger strike in jail and one posted bond for release. A separate group tried to enter a white lunchroom at the train depot but the cafe was closed. Reverend F L Shuttlesworth of Birmingham was released after bond posting by five others, including four white professors. Martial law remains in effect after racial riots and a Freedom Riders headquarters forms at the Abernathy home. The pellet gun injury to Reverend Solomon S. Seay Sr. is reported as slight.
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Adj
Henry V. Graham
Shuttlesworth
Graham
Freedom Riders
Cincinnati
Abernathy
Solomon S. Seay Sr
Lee Fast
Decatur Sky Notes for Monday May 29
The text notes sunset at 6 54 p m and sunrise at 4 37 a m on May 29 with a full moon at 10 38 p m. It also lists Mercury setting at 8 16 p m and Venus rising at 2 46 a m as the two planets moving between Earth and the Sun.
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Earth
Mercury
Venus
Tennessee River reading at Keller Bridge Saturday morning
River level stood at 21.92 feet, up .21 in 24 hours, with sea level at 556.12 feet. TVA lakes Readings: Pickwick 414.0, Guntersville 504.8, Whitesburg 557.1, Wilson 507.3 feet. Friday high 61, low 40. Saturday 55. Forecast clear and cool tonight, sunny today, light south southeast winds 5-10 mph. High today near 72.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Pickwick
Guntersville
Whitesburg
Wilson
GOP Leading In Texas Runoff
College Professor John G. Tower, who never held office, widened his lead in a Texas runoff U S Senate race as late returns showed Tower with 442 183 votes to 434 664 for William A Blakley the interim senator by appointment.
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Dallas
Tex
John G. Tower
Texas Democratic Party
Tower
Texas
U.S. Senate
William A. Blakley
Boston breaks 27 foot broad jump world record
Ralph Boston, the Olympic and world champion, became the first man to exceed 27 feet in the broad jump with a leap of 27 feet 4 inches at the California Relays in Modesto. He surpassed his own prior world mark of 26 feet 11.5 inches representing Tennessee A&I.
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Modesto
Calif
Ralph Boston
Tennessee A&i
California
Folsom Dedicates Lawrence County Coliseum in Moulton
Former governor Big Jim Folsom dedicates the Lawrence County Coliseum in Moulton declaring support for four lane roads from Moulton to Decatur Russellville and Cullman and for higher old age benefits. He asserts segregation aims and notes local officials Todd Gentry and McWhorter praise the project as county progress.
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F. E. Armstrong
Moulton
Folsom
Lawrence County Coliseum
Big Jim” Folsom
Lawrence County
Alabama
A. W. Todd
Decatur
Russellville
Cullman
Big Jim
Todd
Franklin County
Lonnie Gentry
Dixie Valley Hillbilly
Lawrence County Board of Revenue
C. C. McWhorter
Folsom Administration
McWhorter
Wayne Gentry
Jaycee
Moulton Jaycees
Man Rescued From 30 Foot Well After 16 Hours
Fredericksburg resident Ralph W. Burgess aged 19 was pulled from waist-deep mud in a 30-foot well after 16 hours. Rescue workers dug a parallel shaft and tunnel to free his pinned foot. He stayed in good shape doctors said. He vowed not to go into another well.
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Fredericksburg
Ralph W. Burgess
Robert M. Burgess
Burgess
King George County
Everett Henderson
Kennedy says Vienna trip will press freedom against Soviet pressure
President Kennedy told a Washington fund dinner that he will travel to Paris Vienna and London to tell Nikita Khrushchev the United States will resist those seeking to destroy freedom. He said talks aim to influence peace, not solve immediate disputes.
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Washington
Kennedy
Vienna
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Paris
London
National Guard
White House
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