Alabama Legislature Faces Spending Showdown With Folsom
The Alabama Legislature opens its 1949 session primed for a clash over Governor Folsom’s spending program. Aims include $30 million yearly new taxes, $1,800 minimum teacher salaries, and expanded state services. An economy bloc seeks to limit spending and probe the governor’s temporary clerk fund amid mounting political tension.
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Rex Thomas Yostgomery
Alabama
Gover
James
Folsom
Senate
Bruce Henderson
Wilcox County
Rep
Earl McGowin
Butler
House
Clerks’ Pay Raises All But Certain in County Offices
In the county courthouse, clerks in several offices are likely to gain salary raises under local legislation introduced as the Legislature convenes. Proposals outline new pay scales and gradual increases, with chief clerks slated for a $50 monthly bump and other clerks set to gain from $150 to $200 per month, depending on office and current pay. Next steps involve stipulating dates, publishing schedules, and advancing bills through the legislative process.
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Ton County
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W. D. Malone
Howeer
Wate
Be Collected By cancer Coin Boxes trials Tomorrow
Houston County cancer control fund drive continues with coin boxes and candle trays to be collected Monday. Contributions from Ashford clubs total $180, led by two Fen clubs. Roanoke groups and Lions Exchange club each gave $25, Kiwanis and Optimist clubs contributed, with individual gifts adding to the total. The goal is $2,274. about $375 more is needed to reach it.
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Houston County Cancer Trol Fund
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Ashford
Fen
Fred Garner
Columbia
Cottonwood
Gordon
Dothan
Ro- FY
Lions and Exchange
Exange Club
Kiwanis
Optimist
Garner
Houston
Alabama Fae
American Cancer Siety
Truck Bus Crash Kills Zero, Wounds Six In Marietta
Atlanta AP report states a pickup truck collided head on with a Greyhound bus near Marietta in Cobb County around 4 30 PM injuring six bus passengers and killing none. The truck reportedly veered onto a parkway and struck the bus.
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Greyand
Miami
Chicago
Tornadoes Strike In Oklahoma Kill Child Injure Fifty
Tornadoes in Oklahoma killed a child and injured at least 50 as damage spread across Meeker Crescent Shawnee and Norman areas. Seven year old Ann True died when the tornado struck her car near Meeker. University of Oklahoma campus escaped the storm but hospitals treated 42 people.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Ann True
Meeker
Oklahoma City
Crescent School
Shawnee City Lake
Shawnee
University of Oklahoma
Norman
National Guard
Donation Drive Brings In $100 From Treadwell Return
In Memphis Janice Johnson and fellow schoolgirls sought donations for a cancer fund drive. An elderly man, Lawson H. Treadwell, formerly of the Treadwell school name, contributed a $100 check while visiting his son in Memphis.
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Memphis
Tenn
Janice Johnson
Treadwell
Janice
Lawson H. Treadwell
Washington, D. C
Dewey Groomed For Senate Race
Washington report says Republicans hint Dewey may run for U S Senate in New York next fall. Brewster of the Senate campaign committee says they would regret his withdrawal from public life and Dewey has not ruled out running. A six week Europe tour begins soon and a July decision is expected.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Thomas E. Deweyesterday
Senate
New York
Albany
GOF
Brewster
R-Me
Republican
Dewey
Wagner
Lewis Agrees To Open Talks With Dixie Operators
Washington AP report says John L. Lewis agreed to hold separate contract talks with Southern coal operators and allow press and public access. He wrote to Joseph E. Moody inviting open sessions, and proposed starting bargaining on June 6 in Bluefield West Virginia. The Southern group had split from Northern and Western operators and sought prompt separate talks with UMW president.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal
Lewis
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers’ Association
Taft-Hartley
Bluefield
W. Va
United Mine Workers
Petition for special tax to fund a public hospital
Houston County voters may be asked to approve a four mill tax to finance a new public hospital. Petitioners say a referendum would let voters decide on the levy, with the election to be set within three months. Two hundred signatures are collected, joining physicians and supporters urging affordable care for all.
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ED Driggers
Houston County
Board of Revenue
Wilton Sturges
Sturges
Dothan to charge 25 cents for recreation plan
Dothan will begin collecting a 25 cent per meter recreation levy this month from about 56 000 to 58 000 electricity users to fund parks and playgrounds for white and Negro children. Officials expect roughly 1 500 dollars monthly and about 18 000 dollars yearly. The Inter Civic Club Council backed the plan and commissioners will use the fund to secure loans to begin construction, though no start date is set.
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Dothan
J. L. Vaughn
Inter-Civic Club Council
Practically Starved Twins Face Welfare Probe
Houston County welfare officials opened an investigation into two nine month old twins described as practically starved. The babies, fed on two cans of condensed milk weekly, weigh about nine pounds and two ounces more than their sibling. The father, Tom Banks, is jailed in Mobile after writing threatening extortion letters to the mother, Mozella, who with the grandmother May Welch had cared for the children since the parents separated. Reports note severe malnutrition and questions about the family’s income sources.
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George Whittington
Houston County
Houston County Welfare Department
Mobile
Jane, Bailey
Welfare
C. J
Lins
Tom Banks
Mozella
Cottonwood
Brewton
House Debates Labor Bill Compromise Plan by Rep Jacobs
Rep Jacobs proposes a three step plan to resolve national emergency labor disputes. A fact finding board would assess operation needs, then report to the President who could order settlement or modify. The plan blends Lesinski and Wood provisions, with injunctions and cooling off rules debated as House acts ahead of Senate action.
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House
Rep. Jacobs
Dind
House Labor Committee
Taid
Lator
Lesinski
D-Mich
Rep
Wood
Narroy Trargin
Jacobs
Board
Senate
Two Children Dead in Car. Mother in Hysterics
MADELIA Minn a hysterical mother was found yesterday in a parked car with one child in the front seat in critical condition and two children dead in the back seat Mrs James Teigland 33 disappeared with her three children from their farm near Winnebago Friday A posse and airplane search had been conducted She had suffered a nervous breakdown but was in exceptionally good spirits before the disappearance The dead children were June nine and Robert seven Blood was seen near the boy s mouth The cause of death was not known The mother was taken from the car three miles southeast of Madelia to a hospital Stargaret 18 months old remained in critical condition and showed improvement after arrival
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Minn
James Teigland
Winnebago
Robert
Truman Skips Payday As Congress Dallies
Washington United Press reports President Truman did not receive his monthly salary yesterday as Congress has yet to approve funds for the pay raise. The issue involves the first deficiency appropriation bill to cover the raise and related agency needs into the new fiscal year starting July 1, with House and Senate versions stalled in conference.
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Shanghai under siege amid financial crisis and transport doubt
Shanghai faced advancing Communist forces while a credit meltdown left the Nationalist gold yuan nearly worthless. Rail links to Hangchow remained open though night trains halted, and Kunshan telephone service ended as trades shifted to food and foreign currencies.
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Shanghai
China
Hangchow
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Telecommunications Administration
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Ank
Central Bank
Soviet War Prep Warns of Third World War
London AP reports Soviet minister of armed forces Marshall Vasilevsky warned that American ruling circles are preparing for a third world war in a May Day order. He urged all Soviet troops to strengthen fighting steadfastness and endurance and for officers to daily improve training and education of their subordinates.
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London
Marshall Alexander M. Vasilevsky
Moscow Radio
Vasilevsky
West Berlin traffic plans hinge on Russian moves
Western Germany readies 30 freight trains daily to Berlin and 20 coal trainloads within 24 hours if Moscow lifts the blockade. Airlift tonnages set records with 8,547.2 tons in 934 flights, 60,772.2 tons weekly, and 293,363.7 tons in April. Russians show mixed signals amid May Day mood, while Berlin braces for potential demonstrations and clashes.
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Berlin
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Moscow
Hamburg
Britain
New York
East Berlin
West Berlin
Reds Urge Warships To Leave China
Tokyo report says Chinese Communist radio demands immediate withdrawal of United States British and French warships and aircraft from China. Gen Li Tao claims British vessels intruded defended areas with Kuomintang ships and opened fire on the People’s Liberation Army, seeking indemnities for 292 casualties.
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China
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Li Tao
Kuomintang
People’s Liberation Army
Two Brothers Drown In Flooded Mobile Ditch
In Prichard Alabama two Garrett brothers aged 12 Bobby Joy and 10 Ellis Amon Jr. drowned while crawfishing tadpoles and swimming after a heavy rain. Fire police and hospital crews fought to revive them for over two hours. Witness Charles Sullivan said the boys stepped into a deep hole and disappeared. They were found by bystanders with clothes on the bank and survived by their parents and five siblings.
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Ala
oRay Brothers
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Ellis Amon Garrett, Jr
Ellis Amon
City Hospital
Mobile
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Gum Branch
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Sullivan
Trey
E. A. Garrett, Sr
Evatt foresees early Berlin blockade action
U N Assembly president Dr Herbert Evatt said he expects early hitting of the Berlin blockade. He said the move would not settle all East‑West disputes but would clear the ground for a new approach to peace settlements for Germany and Japan.
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New York
United Nations Assembly
Herbert Vo Evatt
Berlin
U.N
Evatt
Germany
Japan
U. N. Assembly
Hungay
Bulgaria
Free Canal Traffic Agreement Eases Berlin Cold War Tensions
Russia and Britain reached a pact allowing free canal traffic in Western Berlin. Soviet and British officials described the talks as friendly, with three British soldiers freed from Soviet zones and four others released after border clashes. The agreement follows months of standoff since the Berlin blockade.
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Berlin
Ratzburg
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Kvashnin
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Dincusnen
Teokesiisa
Britizh
Maharajah of Baroda Breaks Up His State
Baroda ruler the Gaekwad issued a farewell order to about 7,400 subjects, ending Baroda as an independent medieval state. Baroda, sized like Belgium, will merge today with Bombay province under Indian government.
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India
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Belgium
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