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The Bessemer Section (Hite ixmmxxltam Keros To put news fn THE BESSEMER SECTION Coll 8-3215 Claude Keathley or Harry Garrett Office in Realty Bldg. For social news Call 5-0281 Mrs. Philip Barranco THE WEATHER (Extended forecast) Winter is expected to continue its firm hold on the Bessemer area this week-end with temperatures ranging between 5 and 10 degrees above normal with precipitation moderate to heavy according to the extended forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau.

(Famished bv C. S. Weather Burns! BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1956 Special events aid Polio March 9 On the level Boys, air rifles make dangerous city mixture BY CLAUDE KEATHLEY News staff writer ON THE LEVEL is not a calamity howler nor one that BY HARRY GARRETT, News staff writer Bessemer women and those of outlying areas are sponsoring special events in the Mothers March to obtain funds to aid polio victims. Mrs. E.

E. Perkins is the chairman of the Mothers March, which will be Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m. Headquarters for the Mothers March will be Bessemer branch of the First National Bank of Birmingham. SOME OF THE WOMEN heading and assisting in special events in the Mothers March are shown in the accompanying picture. They are, left to right: Seated, Mrs.

Cecil Butler, Mrs. W. B. Stringfellow, Mrs. J.

A. Cogburn and Mrs. Ralph Hill. Standing, Mrs. Lawson Latham, Mrs.

Jakie Bailey, Mrs. Tom Hogg. Mrs. S. E.

West, Mrs. W. H. Hyde and Mrs. liarry E.

Burnell. Bessemer and outlying divisions of the Mothers March, captains, co-captains and special events were announced by Mrs. E. E. Perkins as follows: North Highlands; Mrs.

J. A. Cogburn, captain; Mrs. Malcolm Parsons, co-captain: special event, galloping breakfast. McNeil: Mrs.

Tom Hogg, captain; Mrs. Milton Casey, Mrs. Jackie Bailey and Mrs. L. E.

Beard, all co-captains: special events, galloping breakfasts. BRIGHTON AND WOODWARD: Mrs. C. G. Butler, captain; Mrs.

Charles Adair and Mrs. Eddie Noah, both eo-cap-tains; special event, fund-raising project. Broadmoor. Mrs. Harry E.

Burnell, captain; Mrs. Earl P. Barnett and Mrs. Walter E. Cox, both co-captains; special event, fund-raising project.

Jonesboro: Mrs. E. E. Hutchinson, captain; Mrs. Leonard Trammel, Mrs.

V. Williams, Mrs. W. G. Bowen, Mrs.

Carl Hume. Mrs. Clyde Burnett, Mrs. Lois Stubbs, all co-captains; special event, galloping breakfast. West Lake: Mrs.

Frank Dugger. captain, Mrs. W. M. McKinley, co-captain; special events, fund raising project, galloping breakfast, dinner at the First Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. W. B. Stringfellow is the captain of the Lipscomb division. Members of the Lipscomb Civic Club will have a galloping breakfast Saturday.

Another special event was the galloping breakfast at Glen Hill. Mrs. Ralph Hill is the lieutenant of this area. OTHER LIEUTENANTS and areas: Mrs. Jack C.

Skewes, Weno-nah; Mrs. George Upton and Mrs. John Powell, East Bessemer; Mrs. J. T.

DeFoor and Mrs. Johnnie Smith, Houston Springs; Mrs. B. L. High.

Exeter and Fairfax-avs, 24th-st through Mrs. W. D. Sadler, Cloverdale. Mrs.

Sam Abston, Clarendon-av to Fairfax-av, Ninth-st to 14th-st; Mrs. Earl G. Roy, Clerendon-av to Hall-av. Ninth-st to Ilth-st; Mrs. J.

Howard ASSIST IN SPECIAL EVENTS FOR MOTHERS MARCH ON POLIO Galloping breakfasts, other events will be held for polio funds drive is prone to see nothing but good in everything. There are times when something bowls us over and we wonder just how it could have happened. This past week, in fact for sometime, police have been receiving complaints from residents about the wave of air rifle firing and damage done by teenagers whose parents have given them air rifles. The complaints ranged from alarm to fear that a person or child would be hit or damage done to windows in cars and homes. In Broadmoor one such incident did happen.

A lad with an air rifle shot the rear window of a car. The glass was shattered. Besides the material damage in dollars and cents, the damage goes much deeper. Some one is going to say that the youngster did not intentionally break the glass, or if he did, it was just the maliciousness and the mischievousness of youth. Police officials call attention to the law in regards to firing air rifles in the city of Bessemer.

There is a city ordinance against air rifles just as there is a law against the firing of any other kind of firearms. Parents can be punished by the courts for permitting their son to use an air rifle in the city limits of Bessemer. Beyond the rules of the law there is the moral rule youngsters should be taught to abide by. Parents then who give their sons air rifles in a community where thousands of people live so close together as they do in a city, are not only inviting trouble for their child but for themselves as well. Mrs.

James Smitih and Mrs. M. D. Rushine, Granville-av, Fairfax-av, side streets to Ex-eter-av; Mrs. Leroy Holt.

Ex-eter-av, side streets to Dart-mouth-av; Mrs. Sara Wermuth and Mrs. Oscar Morrow, Dart-mouth-av, side streets to McEniry, Lakewood; Mrs. A. R.

Beeker, Mrs. Robert Bush, coworker. Pine Crest Mrs. J. Embrey Phares, Sky View; Mrs.

G. D. McKinney, Avenue Muskoda Village; Mrs. J. J.

Baird. Hollbrook-av, Minnesota-av. Avenue side streets to Granville-av. through Fourth-av. side street from 14th-st to Ninth-st.

Mrs. F. McGhee, ebd Catholic women. Fifth-av through Eighth-av. side street from 19th-st to 12th-st; Mrs.

Sam Barr, captain, and members of the Beth-El Sisterhood, downtown Bessemer. MISS FRANCIS KEITH and Miss Alice Murray, Clarendon-av, side streets to Berkley-av; Mrs. B. F. Lunsford and Mrs.

James W. Marsh, Berkley-av, 14th-st to 20th-st, side streets 1o Arlington-av; Mrs. Robert Norris, Arlington-av. 14th-st to 20th-st, side streets to Carolina- av; Mrs. Jack J.

Musso. Berkley-av, Arlington-av, Carolina-av. 20th-st to 32nd-st. Miss Barbara Fisher, captain, and Bonne Amies members, first-av through Fourth-av, side streets from 18th-st to 14th-st: Miss Betty Ricks, captain, and members of Pilot Club, First-av Signed resolution Broadmoor club makes plea to legislature for hospital district THERE WAS A time in the far distant past when there was a reasonable excuse for a teen-ager possessing a gun, but it is not so today, unless the gun in the possession of a teenager is placed under strict use restrictions. Parents should not permit the air rifle to be just a plaything to be used when and where and how the youngster so desires.

Unless they the parents are willing to take time to teach the boy how to use the gun, especially where to use it. One cardinal rule for handling a gun is to never point it at any person, even in play. Another, if you must gratify the whim of a youngster and provide him with even an air rifle, is to take time to go to some isolated spot and teach him how to use it. Big surprise in store for of banqueters A sneak preview of the program for the annual Bessemer Chamber of Commerce banquet at 7 p.m. tonight at the First Methodist Church reveals that the nearly 300 members and guests are going to get the surprise of their life.

W. G. Pettey chairman of the program committee, has announced there will be no speaker and that the committee feels that those who attend will enjoy it better than any previous banquet. LAST YEARS BANQUET with colored slides brought much favorable comment and this year we are going one step further, minus the guest speaker, Pettey and his committee say. Those assisting Pettey are B.

C. Paden, E. P. Reed, Jack Terrell, Philip Barranco and Guy White. B.

F. Lunsford will take the gavel as new president from J. W. Patton retiring president. A plea that the state legislature be asked to create a hospital district for Bessemer, set up a goyerning board and establishing taxing powers for the Bessemer area so additional hospital facilities can be provided has been made by members of the Broadmoor Civitan Club.

Support that the Bessemer area can have adequate hospital facilities; and Be it further resolved that the members of this club, collectively and individually, do hereby pledge themselves to assist in this project in every way possible: and Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be given to the press in order that others may know our stand." DR. B. H. JOHNSON, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Hospital Committee, expressed appreciation for the endorsement of the move by all civic clubs who have expressed their backing in resolutions. At the present time Bessemer has 128 hospital beds available to over 90,000 persons living in the 400 square miles in the Bessemer Cutoff.

State and national figures show that 300 or more beds are needed. Hymn sing on tap at 2:30 Sunday There will be a Bessemer As-sociational Hymn Sing at the Crescent Heights Baptist Church at Browns Station Sunday, Jan. 29. The sing will begin at 2:30 p.m. with 33 churches in the association participating.

Choir leaders who will lead songs are S. J. Smith. Charles Carnes, Richard Caughron, George McDaniel, Clay Herring. Mrs.

Clyde Meredith. John E. Carter and Wayland Hyche. Special numbers will be given by choirs, ensembles, and other groups from the churches in the association. for the Bessemer Chamber of Commerces movement to provide additional hospital facilities for the Bessemer Cutoff, was in a resolution signed by W.

E. Cox. president and three other officers. THE RESOLUTION adopted at a recent meeting of the Civitans follows: Whereas, it is generally recognized that additional hospital facilities are needed in the Bessemer area; and Whereas under the Hill-Burton Act the federal government will make a grant of two-thirds of the cost of constructing another hospital in this area; and Wliereas there has been much talk of the need of this area for a 150-bed hospital which would have an estimated employment of 300 with an annual payroll in excess of and Whereas such a hospital would draw patients and visitors from the entire Bessemer area as well as sections of the neighboring counties and would be a stimuluA-to the sale of flowers, fruits, magazines, for patients and would probably result in much shopping while in town by out-of-town visitors; and Whereas a special act of the state Legislature would create a hospital district, could set up the governing board, and could establish taxing powers for the purpose of raising th necessary local funds (costs of the site and one-third of the cost of construction); NOW. WHEREFORE, be it resolved by the Broadmoor Civitan Club of Bessemer hereby endorse the efforts of the hospital committee of the Bessemer Chamber of Commerce to secure an additional hospital for the Bessemer area and urges that committee to work as rapidly as possible in order All around Winter holding BY J.

B. ELLIOTT Winter weather continues a firm grip on the Southeast, and is expected to continue this hold through the weekend. Temperatures are expected to average 5 to 10 degrees below normal. Precipitation totals for the period (Jan. 24-28) will be mod- '7 7 7 Shoals Saturday morning, and erate to heavy.

Besseme reiialle reports indicated light reliable reports indicated light THEY WILL DANCE IN A "WINTER WONDERLAND" Service League members prepare for Charity Ball Feb. 10 At National Guard Armory Junior Service League Charity Ball is Feb, 10 BY LAUNIA L. BARRANCO, News staff writer The National Guary Armory will be a real "Winter Wonderland" when the Junior Service League members ore hostesses for the annual Charity Ball on Feb. 10. Snow-laden trees will give a woodsy, outdoor note to the setting, and dangling from the ceiling of the great ballroom will be shimmery snow drops.

A Winter scene will be us.ed on one entire wall of the building, and on other walls will be panels of ski-ers hurtling through Guests from 9 SOME YEARS AGO a teenage boy not too far from Bessemer sat on his front porch one afternoon with his air rifle. A playmate was across the street on his own porch. The youngster, playfully of course, raised the air rifle, sighted it at his playmate, and pulled the trigger. The little fellow across the street grabbed his eye and screamed. Rushed to the hospital, surgeons had to remove the eye for it was so badly damaged by a play-fully fired pellet from an air rifle.

Police say that if a youngster is caught firing an air rifle in the city limits he is going to be arrested, and the parent's will be called to face the judge because of the violation of their son. Pretty tough, you say, but life and property must be protected. snow at Culman. On Monday night a low was centered over South Carolina and with a secondary development in the Gulf, conditions looked somewhat favorable for heavy snow over north Alabama and about an inch as far South as Bessemer. No snow was recorded here, however Muscle Shoals reports of snow as far south as Cullman, Ala Tuscaloosa reported light sleet, but at Bessemer it wai all drizzle and rain.

The New Orleans Weather Bureau had issued a heavy snow warning for north Alabama with an expected acumu-lation of 2 to 4 inches, how- normal minimum is now 35 and the max 56. Two low pressure systems, both from the Gulf, gave Bessemer two separate periods of rain during the past 7 days and ended a period of 19 days without measurable rain. Total precipitation for the month now stands at 1.75 inches. At this Tuesday writing. Bessemer has gone 18 straight days with below' normal temperatures.

Lowest of the week was 25 Saturday and the high of 54 was also Saturday. SNOW FELL OVER parts of Alabama on two diferent occasions this eek. Very light McMahon, seating; Mrs. Jack Griffis and Mrs. Stanley Mooney, refreshments; Mrs.

J. E. Bolen coffee table; Mrs. James Beckham, programs, and Mrs. Norman Brown, tickets.

All proceeds from the ball are used to further the leagues welfare program. The league provides lunches, clothing, dental. ophthalmic and medical assistance to underprivileged children in Bessemer. imaginary snow slopes. Already the leagues decorating committee is busily working out the Wintry theme.

Shown in the accompanying picture are members of the committee, from left to right, Mrs. Edward C. Duncan, holding the cutout; Mrs. T. E.

Chambliss, chairman of the group; Mrs. B. Clay Jones, and Mrs. IVilliam Hood, seated at the table. will dance p.m.

to 1 a.m. to the music of the Auburn Knights. CANDLE-LIT TABLES will be strategically placed around the dance floor for refreshments and snacks. Mrs. Joe Piper is general chairman of arrangements, and assisting will be Mrs.

Joe Stoves, in charge of wrapchecking service; Mrs. John McEniry new leader Bessemer YMCA observes week', honors past presidents BY HARRY GARRETT, News staff writer BESSEMER, Jan. 25 The Bessemer YMCA as a part of the observance of National YMCA Week honored past presidents of the and installed new officers and directors at the Y's annual supper meeting here. J. Howard McEniry Jr.

was installed as the new president of the board. He succeeded W. G. Pettey Jr. Installing officer was the Rev.

F. E. Jordan. Other officers installed were dan, W. T.

Warlick Johnny president of Alpha Chapter of RECENTLY ON THE level read of the father of a 15-year-old boy who had been arrested for driving while intoxicated. Called to the police station the father heard the facts, and in the presence of the officers administered a sound thrashing. He then tore up the boys driver license and assured officers, the boy would not drive again for a year. To say the fathers action was commendable is to put it mildly. Too many parents would have resented the apprehension of their offspring on such a charge no matter how merited the arrest.

It was rough justice, but On The Level is sure it was advantageous to both parties. A little more such reaction on the part of parents and there would be less juvenile delinquency. While we are on law violation, On The Level would like to commend the Bessemer Police Department for providing jurors with free parking meter giving them the privilege of free parking while they are under the order of the court. This was done in compliance with a recent grand jury recommendation that free parking be provided by the county or city for jurors. This seems to be a minor compliance with recommendations of the grand jury, but it is a step in the right direction.

Many perron" semer are wondering about some other -of grand juries. What has happened to them? Or has there just been no publicity of compliance vtb grand jury NEW DIRECTORS OF THE BESSEMER YMCA GO OVER 1956 PLANS Tri-Hi-Y Club, and Walter Massey, past president of Alpha Chapter of Hi-Y Club, told of the activities of Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y. Earl Harmon of Hueytown told of the trip of Bessemer YMCAs Candy Bowl football players to Philadelphia to take part in the National Midget Bowl games. HIGHLIGHTING THE boards meeting was the presentation of service award plaques to the past presidents of the Bessemer YMCA. Former presidents at the meeting included Philip J.

Barranco, W. Turn to Page 2, Column 7 Self, S. C. Porch, Leon Bain-bridge, Lee Bains, J. Howard McEniry Carlton Cummings.

Dr. William J. McBride and Charles E. Hawkins Jr. The outgoing members of the board: W.

G. Pettey W. G. Thomas, B. Y.

Williams, Jess Lanier. Dr. Frank Hall, Evans Smithson and the Rev. F. E.

Jordan. Assisting at the board's annual supper meeting were Clyce II. Hurst, Bessemer YMCA executive secretary; John B. Harris, boys department secretary and program director, and Jesse Thompson, physical director. B.

Y. Williams gave the invocation. Lauree Saunders, vice C. H. Bumgardner, first vice president: Jason Dean, second vice president; Eugene Jordan, secretary; W.

T. Warlick treasurer. The Rev. Leon Drummond, president of the Bessemer Ministerial was designated to serve on the board. The new directors who will serve a three-year term are shown in the accompanying picture.

They are. sitting, left to right. Dr. O. C.

Gibson, Guy White, L. W. Allen, Euil Snitz Snider and Jimmy Elkins. Standing, J. P.

Baker. CARRY-OVER MEMBERS of the board are C. H. Bumgardner, Jasoii Dean, Eugene Jor These new directors vgere installed at the supper A.