Birth notice and local society updates from Decatur
Mr and Mrs Thomas Ratliff Jr announce the birth of Pamela Joyce a four pound six ounce girl at 4 20 this morning in Lake Wales Florida both mother and child reported fine Mr Ratliff works for Seaboard Railway in Lake Wales also five other items include travel plans for Mrs B R Ross to New York to visit relatives and church leader Dr Otis Kirby leaving for Atlanta to attend a council in the Methodist Church plus court docket reports hub cap theft drivers license violations and a funeral in Elizabethtown Kentucky with a local Baptist church event rescheduled church supper at Austinville Methodist Church and a fall fashions program at the Home Demonstration club in Decatur.
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Thomas Ratliff Jr
Peggy Joyce Collier
E. Sessoms Ave
Lake Wales
Fla
Decatur
Pamela Joyce
Ratliff
Seaboard Railway Co
Otis Kirby
Atlanta
Southeastern Jurisdictional Council
The
Methodist Church
Athens College
Emory University
Faubus Rejects Subpoena in Central High Case
Gov. Orval Faubus refuses to honor a federal court subpoena in a civil rights case and cautions about future actions. He questions whether he will answer tomorrow’s hearing and hints at withdrawing the National Guard if an injunction is issued, planning a higher court appeal. Mayor Mann expresses cautious optimism about calm in Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval Faubus
Central High
Faubus
Arkansas Democrat
National Guard
U.S. District Court
Woodrow Wilson Mann
Change Of Venue Denied in Huntsville Area Manslaughter Case
Circuit Judge S A Lynne denied a change of venue for Alabama Patrolman Howard Battles and set trial for 9 a m October 23 1957 in Limestone County. Hearing spanned 1½ days with about 40 state witnesses and three defense witnesses. Battles faced a first degree manslaughter charge for the October 6 1956 shooting of George Wray.
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Athens
Ala
S. A. Lynne
Decatur
Alabama
Howard Battles
Battles
Iee
George Wray
Weather and River Report for Decatur Tennessee Area
The Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 20.21 feet, down 16 feet in 24 hours, sea level at 554.51 feet. Yesterday’s high reached 78 degrees, low 72, current temperature 78. Clouds to partly cloudy with wind and warm conditions, possible showers or thundershowers. Today’s high near 85, tonight’s low 72, Friday high about 86. Rainfall 0.05 inches in the last 24 hours.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
Athens Police Win Long Race
Athens police chased Napoleon Woods from Athens to Pulaski Tennessee, where he wrecked his car in a head on crash. Woods was jailed for reckless driving and held for Tennessee authorities on additional charges.
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Athens
Pulaski
Tenn
Napoleon Woods
City
Kenneth Cooper
W. T. Arnett
Jefferson St
Woods
F. G. Bates
John Sandlin
Tennessee
Cullman Awaits Plant Completion
Cullman prepares for a gala on Oct 16 to mark the completion of the Golden Red Broiler Processing Co plant. The facility near Highway 31 will process 5 000 to 6 000 chickens per hour and employ about 150 workers, with预计 millions in regional economic impact.
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Cullman
Golden Red Broiler Processing Co
South
King Edward Cigar
Highway 31
Georgia Poultry
Forrest Ingram
Chamber of Commerce
Elbert Ponder
Madison Man Dies From Auto Injuries
Huntsville report states Donald Lanier 18 of Owens Cross Roads Alabama died in a Huntsville hospital from injuries from a September 15 traffic accident. He was a passenger in a car that struck a parked truck on a county highway 16 miles southeast of Huntsville.
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Huntsville
Donald Lanier
Owens Crossroads
Ala
Highway Patrol
C. H. Lowery
Lanier
Johns Hopkins Scientist Reports Cold Vaccine
A 34-year-old Johns Hopkins researcher says he isolated the first true common cold virus and developed a killed virus vaccine that, in tests on over 400 people, prevented colds caused by the JH virus in about 80 percent. Immunity requires two shots four weeks apart. durability unknown.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Winston H. Price
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Price
Guard’s Shotgun Floods Harlem Prison Farm
A guard at a Harlem prison farm fired a double barreled shotgun as inmates were loaded for return to dormitories. Convict Paul Villarreal was killed and six others were wounded, with guard Robert E. Risinger suspended pending investigation. Cayano Guerra triggered the incident by grabbing Risinger's reins.
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Richmond
Tex
Harlem
O. B. Ellis
Texas Prison System
Robert E. Risinger
Paul Villarreal
Ellis
Cayano Guerra
Risinger
Villarreal
Town Battles Cyanide Menace
Thamesville Ontario mobilized 1100 residents after a CN Rail passenger train struck a Truck Transport Co trailer, spilling cyanide pellets over a quarter mile. Police, civil defense, army reserve, and volunteers worked to contain the risk as a state of emergency was declared. Driver J C Sluder was treated for minor injuries.
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Thamesville
Ont
Ontario
Robert Letts
The
Truck Transport Co. Ltd
Dearborn
Mich
Canadian National Railways
Toronto
Windsor
J. C. Sluder
Wayne
Chatham
Here
Letts
Dow Chemical Co
Sarnia
Scientists Create Earthquake at Atomic Test Site
A small atomic bomb was fired today in a chamber 800 feet beneath a desert mesa. Its quake like shock waves may reveal new information about the globe and help pave the way for safe testing of certain nuclear weapons. It was the 21st summer test and the first full scale underground shot in history. Two near surface blasts were fired in 1951.
Soviet Ships Sail For Syria
Two Soviet warships the cruiser Zhdanov and the destroyer Svobodny sailed toward Latakia Syria on a friendship mission. Moscow radio announced the ships may pass near the U.S. 6th Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean. Syria invited the vessels amid recent U.S. naval tensions off its coast.
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London
Syria
Mediterranean
Moscow
Zhdanov
Svobodny
Latakia
U.S
Bank of England raises rate to seven percent
London reports the Bank of England hikes the key rate to 7 percent the highest in 36 years. The move aims to curb inflation and defend the pound as imports are cut and exports boosted to strengthen gold and dollar reserves.
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London
Bank of England
Britain
Peter Thorneycroft
Thorneycroft
Russia Launches All-Out Bid To Publicize Missile Prowess
Washington officials report a intensified Soviet propaganda campaign touting new intercontinental missiles capable of destroying the United States and its allies. Radio Moscow is said to have aired the boast about 80 times in 72 hours, with Vershinin cited on hydrocarbon bomb delivery via rockets, aircraft, and submarines possibly threatening major Western cities.
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Russia
John Scals
Washington
United States
Moscow
U.S
Radio
Konstantin A Vershinin
Vershinin
Radio Moscow
Drenching Rain Seen For Area
A drenching deluge of rain was forecast for Decatur and North Alabama as Esther the last major hurricane of the season dropped moisture. Five inches were predicted for the region with a slow steady rain likely. Farmers were warned to move livestock from low lands near streams due to flash flood threats. See DRENCHING On Page 2.
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New Orleans
Valsin Buttone
Esther
Valsin
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Decatur
North
North Alabama
Wife Joins Husband in Morgan Jail Not By Choice
Willie Mae Walton, 35, was arrested by Sheriff Jimmie Collier on prohibition violations and joined her husband Willie Walton, who is serving a sentence for the same offense in Morgan County jail. Earlier, Jerry Southerland, 33, was caught with two quarts of whiskey on VPS charges. Other Morgan arrests included assault and battery and safekeeping cases.
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Morgan County
Willie Mae Walton
Jimmie Collier
Willie Walton
Jerry Southerland
Southerland
Morgan
Satchmo Attacks Ike Over Integration Stand in Russia Trip Stance
Louis Armstrong denounces President Eisenhower as two-faced and gutless over race integration. He cancels a government-sponsored Russia trip citing the treatment of his people in the South and criticizes Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus as an uneducated plow boy.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Louis
Satchmo) Armstrong
Russia
Armstrong
Eisenhower
Arkansas
Orval Faubus
Faubus
Secretary Dulles urges UN action on Soviet arms in Syria
Secretary of State Dulles warned the UN General Assembly of a growing danger from Soviet arms in Syria threatening Turkey and Middle East independence. He urged collective vigilance and said the UN may need to discuss and act though not guarantee tranquilization with material power.
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United Nations
N. Y
State Dulles
U. N
Middle East
Syria
Turkey
General Assembly
Dulles
United States
AFL CIO threatens Teamsters ouster over Hoffa and leaders
An AFL CIO Ethical Practices Committee report labels the Teamsters as corruptly dominated and names Hoffa Dave Beck and Frank Brewster as responsible. The AFL CIO Executive Council will act next week but the choice rests with the Teamsters: clean up or face ouster from the federation and loss of senior positions across labor ranks. This would trigger ostracism and a prolonged labor battle.
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Washington
Aflcio
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Aflcio Ethical Practices Committee
Hoffa
Dave Beck
Frank Brewster
Afl-Cio
New York
Teamsters
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N. J
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