Vacation Bible School at Austinville Church of God
Community notes announce Vacation Bible School at Austinville Church of God on Cleveland Ave from June 1 to June 10, daily 9 to 11 30 a m. Mrs C L Best leads with church women assisting. Classes: Kindergarten Primary Junior for ages 4 through 11. Also mentions a grass fire on Danville Road with no damage and an update on Fred Sittason in critical condition at Decatur General Hospital with relatives at bedside.
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Austinville Church of God
Cleveland Ave
C. L. Best
Fred Sittason
Decatur General Hospital
Boyd McElroy
Paducah
Leon Jones
Gadsden
Don’t Fret You May Get Shot At 225
A reader notes a handwritten postcard framing a Bonanza puzzle. The piece mentions a family scene with a farm, a runaway boy, and a truck. It ends with a deadline of today at 5 P.M. and a $200 prize through claim checks not yet presented.
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Katie
Tito and Khrushchev Quietly Close Brioni Talks
President Tito and Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Bulganin left the publicity glare on Brioni island as they prepared the final declaration of principles to govern future relations. The island, a vacation spot, was kept off limits to the press.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Adriatic
Brioni
Bill Vukovich Dies In Indianapolis 500
Bill Vukovich, winner in 1953 and 1954, was killed in a five car crash on the backstretch at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the memorial Day 500 mile race. John Zink Special driver Big Bob Sweikert won as Ed Elisian Rodger Ward and rookie Johnny Boyd were among those involved. Elisian Keller and Ward listed in good condition.
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Indianapolis
Big Bob Sweikert
John Zink
Bill Vukovich
Ike Welch
AAA
Fresno
Calif
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Vukovich
Ed Elisian
Rodger Ward
Johnny Boyd
al Keller
Jack McGrath
McGrath
Elisian
Keller
Ward
Wilbur Shaw
Speedway
Bill
Blind meet in darkness and light: Keller touches child
A five year old girl, Dorothy Ann Ciccoli, meets Helen Keller at a reception in Tokyo. Keller guides the crowd to give space and lets the child finger her face. The girl smiles and says she saw Helen Keller.
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Tokyo
Helen Keller
Dorothy Ann Ciccoli
Dorothy Ann
Miss Keller
Speers J. Ciccoli
Battle Creek
Mich
Army “Stars and Stripes
Polly Thompson
Union Surprises Ford With Vote On Wages Or Stock Plan
The CIO United Auto Workers challenged Ford Motor Co to let up to 140 000 employees vote on whether to keep the guaranteed annual wage or accept Ford’s stock purchase offer. The union proposed an independent poll to conduct a secret ballot binding both sides to the workers’ democratic decision.
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Detroit
Cio-United Auto Workers Today
Ford Motor Co
Ford
UAW
Dothan youth given mandatory death sentence in rape murder
George Lowell Everett, 20, was convicted of first degree murder for the rape slaying of Lou Ellen Jones, 21, in her Oklahoma bound apartment. The jury deliberated an hour, and with no mercy recommendation, Circuit Judge E Clay Lewis Jr. imposed the death sentence. Everett had previously told reporters, I’ll deserve whatever I get.
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Panama City
Fila
Florida Supreme Court
Dothan
Ala
George Lowell Everett
E. Clay Lewis Jr
Everett
Lou Ellen Jones
Air Force
Memorial Day Reflections on Death and Remembrance
HAL BOYLE argues Memorial Day brings back the dead in memory but warns against clinging to grief. He urges communal gatherings to honor those who died, so the departed can live again in shared recollection rather than in solitary sorrow.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Curbstone
Limestone Bears Brunt of Storm
The Limestone area suffered electrical outages from a storm with Athens and western Limestone County affected. Pisgah between Athens and Ardmore lost power about four hours, while Athens and western county power returned in roughly 30 minutes. Minor damage reported elsewhere in Cullman Morgan and Lawrence counties with rainfall totals around .66 inches in Decatur.
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Limestone
Reo
Athens
Limestone County
Pisgah
Red Bank
Wheeler Dam
Decatur
Morgan County
L. T. Wagnon
Weather and river reading at Keller Memorial Bridge
Tennessee River reading this morning was 22.06 with a 23 foot rise in 24 hours. TVA Substation reported .66 inches of rain at 8 a.m. Sunday. Yesterday's high 80 at 2 p.m. and low 57 at 5 a.m. Temperature at 8 a.m. 64. Forecast calls for fair and mild today and tonight with Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. High today 80, low tonight 54, high Tuesday 85.
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Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Wooten Urges Students Attend Proper Schools
County Superintendent Lester Wooten urges residents of Somerville Pleasant Hill Collins Gum Pond Plainview Massey and Neel to send their first through sixth grade children to local schools next year due to overcrowding. He cites limited funds to expand facilities and notes Hartselle Elementary has gained staff through consolidating Oak Ridge pupils.
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Somerville
Pleasant Hill
Collins
Gum Pond
Plainview
Massey
Neel
Lester Wooten
Wooten
Hartselle
Oak Ridge
Bad Weather Keeps Alabama Off Highways
Rain and threatening skies kept traffic light on Alabama highways over Memorial Day weekend. At least four traffic deaths and one drowning were reported Sunday night, with the toll rising to 280 by midday as motorists headed home.
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Alabama
Associated Press
Fairfield Youth Drowns In Furnace Cooling Pit
Henry Lee Riley, 15, of Fairfield, drowned Sunday while swimming in a cooling pit of an open hearth steel furnace near his home. Firemen worked for 45 minutes trying to revive him.
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Henry Lee Riley
Fairfield
Seven Injured In Area During Long Weekend
Seven people were injured in Decatur and Athens area accidents over the Memorial weekend. A Montgomery woman about 50, American Indian, was reported critical after a two car crash at 5 15 am on Highway 31 south of Athens. Fred Crenshaw Jr 20 sustained a broken leg and was listed not fully conscious in Athens hospital. Four were injured in a Decatur crash last night.
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Athens
Lucille Hagans
Athens-Limestone Hospital
Bob Walker
Decatur
Athens-Limestone
Anyanadian
Fred Crenshaw, Jr
Quick Jury Action Planned For Couple In 3 Killings
In Ocala Florida an elderly retired schoolteacher Edward Lindley and his wife Bertha face a planned grand jury action for murder after a gun battle that killed Deputies Curtis Youngblood Bob Wooten and Assistant Chief M C Tunak Authority said Lindley claimed he fired to get an apology from a hard of hearing neighbor Wingfield The couple were held for murder with charges to be arraigned likely tomorrow.
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Ocala
Fla
Atty
A. P. Buie
Edward S. Lindley
Bertha
Curtis Youngblood
Bob Wooten
M. C. Tunak
Don McLeod
Douglas Wingfield
Lindley
D. R. Smith
Wingfield
McLeod
McLeod Lindley
Wooten and
Youngblood
Fred
Lindleys
Peiping Radio Reports Deported U S Airmen
Peiping radio announced four U S airmen were tried and sentenced to immediate deportation by a military tribunal on May 24 for flying beyond Korea over Manchuria. The men Captain Harold Fischer Jr. Swea City Iowa First Lt Lyle W Cameron Lincoln Nebraska Lt Col Edwin L Heller Wynnewood Pennsylvania and 1st Lt Roland W Parks Omaha Nebraska were said to be acting under U S military orders. State Department welcomed their release and noted 11 other fliers and 41 Americans still held as cases are reviewed.
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Tokyo
U. S
Red China
Peiping Radio
Harold Fischer Jr
Swea City
Towa
Lyle W. Cameron
Lincoln
Neb
Edwin L. Heller
Wynnewood
Roland W. Parks
Omaha
Peiping
Korea
Manchuria
U.S
Hong Kong
Washington
U. S. State Department
K. Krishna Menon
New Delhi
Railway Strikers Defy Eden in 1926-Style Walkout
Britain faces a major industrial crisis as 67,000 railway workers reject Prime Minister Eden's back-to-work appeal. Albert Hallworth of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen pledges a three month stand, while Union leaders warn the country will break before they do. Only 200 of 2600 mainline trains ran yesterday amid nationwide disruption.
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London
Britain
Eden
Albert Hallworth
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Hallworth
Rvg National Union of Railwaymen
NUR
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