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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1951
Page
9
Rescue squads labored through debris to reach 62 miners trapped after the Easington colliery explosion as 16 bodies were recovered and several men were later found alive or died in hospital. Two rescued workers returned home reducing the missing count, while officials cautioned that hope was fading.
Talladega Alabama May 30 An unofficial tally from yesterday's county option election shows 2425 for legalized whisky and 3411 against A ban on liquor sales will continue in Talladega County The proposal has failed in recent referendums and follows a prior 3110 to 2606 result in June 1948 An active campaign influenced the vote leading to the dry status.
Duncan Parker Liles 64 longtime Escambia County commissioner died in Brewton yesterday from a heart ailment. Funeral services were held today. He had been hospitalized after suffering three broken ribs from a fall at home Sunday. Survived by his widow two sons Thomas Liles of Brewton and D P Liles Jr of Montgomery and two daughters.
A fatal explosion near the pit head traps workers in a winding tunnel a mile from the shaft. Relatives gather under the glare of a spotlight, but no names are posted. rock and coal piles block access to the coal face, and poisonous air often fills openings.
In Norfolk on Memorial Day the 61st Confederate veterans reunion begins with only two of 12 survivors present, both 105 year olds William Bush of Georgia and William Townsend of Louisiana. They attend Elmwood cemetery events where Erle Cocke Jr. speaks as three cent commemorative stamps are issued. The reunion ends Sunday.
The monthly singing will be held at Midway Tuesday night at 7 30 oclock. J I Nunn, the chairman, invites the public. The Nichols family of Falkville will be present. He also announced the next meeting at Berea on the second Sunday in June at 130 in the afternoon.
Charles Blair, matching the North Pole solo flight record, lifted off from Ladd Air Force Base Alaska for a New York City leg in the Flying Gas Tank. He expected a 9 hour 25 minute leg to Idlewild after a 10 hour 27 minute prior hop Bardu to Fairbanks. The tanker plane carried 175 gallons unused at landing. In Oklahoma, vast grassland areas were cleared of sagebrush by aerial 2 4 D application.
A three judge federal panel in Charleston studies whether South Carolina must end school segregation. Hearings covered admission of Negro children to white schools in Clarendon County District 22 with NAACP witnesses urging equality of education. Judges Parker Timmerman and Waring heard the case as deadlines loom for briefs and possible Supreme Court appeal.
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