Blood feud fears grip Italian mountain village
In Drosi Italy police guard the Stillitano clan as the 22nd of the month looms. Martino Seva, crippled in a 1960 duel that killed five relatives, pleads for clemency for Antonio Stillitano while a blood oath targets the Stillitano family. Three million lire reward on Demenico Maisane as officers brace for more violence.
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Reggio Calabria
Italy
Drosi
Aspromonte
Martino Seva
Antonio Stillitano
Demenico Maisane
Young Seva
Stillitano
Seva
Massano
Martino
Maisano
Antonio
France
Burglary and theft reports in Decatur diary notes
A neon sign on So merville Road at Professional Pharmacy was broken during a burglary Friday. A Putt's Drive-In break in on 6th Ave SE netted $15 to $20 in coins. A stolen television from Al Flanagan residence at 18 Lafayette St was recovered between the railroad station and Church St bridge by a train engineer. A wreck at 6th Ave and Corsbie St Friday involved a 1965 Pontiac driven by Majorie Williford of Cullman and a 1957 Pontiac driven by Doris McNabb May of Daytona Fla. Williford reported slight damage while the other car was undamaged.
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Somerville Road
6Th Ave
al Flanagan
Lafayette St
Church St
Corsbie St
Majorie Williford
Cullman
Doris McNabb May
Daytona
Fla
Williford
Gemini Gets Green Light For Blastoff
Cape Kennedy Florida Friday cleared astronauts L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr for a Saturday launch of the Gemini 5 mission. The eight day flight is set to begin at 9 am EST after resolving all technical problems. Cooper and Conrad practiced in space life science experiments and refined final prelaunch testing under a revised timetable.
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Ben Funk
Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles
Conrad Jr
Cooper
Conrad
Gemini Site Security Tightened for Gemini 5 Launch
Cape Kennedy Florida AP security tightens after two youths Gary Young 22 and Theodore Ballenger 17 trespassed on government property during preparations. They pleaded guilty before U.S. Commissioner Tom Henderson received $100 fines and six months probation. Six were detained Thursday during security sweep.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Gary Young
Theodore ‘Ballenger
Ballenger
Young
Decatur Fire Department
Titan
State College
U.S
Tom Henderson
Titusville
Cape
Gary Ralph Young
Theodore Lee Ballenger
New Testament Tent Evangelism Revival Sees Growing Attendance
After the first week at Decatur High School grounds, Jack Fogarty reports strong turnout for the New Testament Tent Evangelism revival. The event runs nightly at 7:20 p.m. through August 29 in a tent on school grounds, with weekend weather incidents including a grease fire at Pancake House causing slight losses and a grass fire on U S 31 S with no losses.
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U. S
Jack Fogarty
Decatur High School
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Ex KKK Leader in Alabama
An Anniston man and former Ku Klux Klan leader Kenneth Adams 45 faces charges of receiving stolen government explosives after a federal grand jury indictment. He was placed in Calhoun County Jail on 5000 bond. Adams has a history of violence tied to segregation including a prior assault on Nat King Cole and involvement in bus burning cases connected to the Freedom Riders era. The arrest followed the indictment handed down Thursday.
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Birmingham
Ala
Anniston
U. S
Kenneth Adams
Calhoun County
Adams
Nat (King) Cole
Patap
Roy Hamilton
Sim Hamilton
Clarke St
Duiky Anderson
Tom Pack
Freedom Riders
South
FBI
Everett Ingram
Citizens Back 14th Street Overpass Plan at Public Hearing
At Decatur City Hall a 50 minute hearing drew about 30 residents and 17 speakers in favor of a proposed 14th St overpass. City officials projected time and traffic savings, cited railroad delays, and noted benefits to fire response and westbound flow.
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Decatur
14Th St
City Hall
Boyce Smith
Wilson
Morgan
Carridale St
U.S. 31
Gilmer Blackburn
Pack Self
Floyd Elkins
Elkins
Self
Shrine Circus Delights Decatur Crowd at High School Stadium
The Decatur Shrine Circus by the Tom Pack Shrine Club drew 1500 to 2000 spectators for an afternoon matinee at Decatur High School stadium. Performers included juggling acts, clowns, and a Flying Palacios trapeze team from South America. A trapeze fall caused no serious injury as the show continued amid heat and cheers.
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David Knight
Decatur High School
Tom Pack Shrine Circus
Flying Palacios
South America
Shrine
Riot erupts at Job Corps dining hall in Kentucky
In Morganfield Kentucky a clash between a black and white student sparked a riot at the Job Corps center. About 50 of 700 students joined the disturbance injuring at least 10 people before guards restored order. State troopers and local officials offered aid and housing options for staff.
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Job Corps Dining
Morganfield
Job Corps Center
Edward T. Breathitt
Glenn Levern
Charles West
West
FBI
Hartselle Pastor's Wife Dies In Wreck
The Rev. Robert L. Archibald, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Hartselle, was critically injured and his wife Alyce Archibald died in a three car collision on rain slick U.S. 411 near Benton Tennessee. Another fatality was Frank L. Kersey, 47, of Cleveland Tennessee.
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Robert L. Archibald
First Methodist Church
Hartselle
Alyce Archibald
Rainslick
U.S
Benton
Tenn
Archibald
Erlanger Hospital
Chattanooga
Central Methodist Church
Decatur
Priest Hospitalized as Probe Opens in Alabama Picket Shooting
A white seminary student was killed and a Catholic priest badly wounded when a shotgun blast struck them during a grocery store picket in Hayneville Alabama. Tom Coleman a Lowndes County deputy was arrested and admitted the shooting. Jonathan Daniels Yale graduate and Episcopal Society worker died. Rev Richard Morrisroe of Chicago was hospitalized.
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Hayneville, Ala
al Lingo
Alabama State Patrol
Tom Coleman
Lowndes County
Lingo
Coleman
Jonathan Daniels
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Mass
Selma, Ala
Episcopal Society For Cultural and Racial Unity
Atlanta
Daniels
Yale University
Phillip Daniels
Keene, N.H
Richard Morrisree
St. Columbanus
Chicago
Montgomery
Plants and turf laid around Decatur Federal Building
One hundred forty eight shrubs have been planted around the Decatur Federal Building and about 2,860 square yards of Tifton Bermuda grass transplanted. The building will be open to the public Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.
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Decatur
Federal Building
Birmingham group submits court reshuffle plan
A Birmingham based group led by Atty Brerome Cooper files a reapportionment plan with a federal court. The proposal would redraw House districts and Senate seats across Jefferson Mobile Baldwin and Montgomery counties increasing Mobile County representation and reshaping Montgomery's Senate share.
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Montgomery
Ala
Birmingham
House
Senate
Atty Brerome Cooper
Jefferson County
Mobile
Baldwin County
Mobile County
Rights Not Riots Johnson By Gardner L Bridge
President Johnson denounces last week's Los Angeles rioting as an inspired outburst of violence unrelated to civil rights. He vows to enforce laws protecting all citizens and warns both Ku Klux Klan agitators and Watts looters are lawbreakers. He spoke at a White House event on equal opportunity with 500 leaders.
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Gardner L. Bridge Washington
Johnson
Los Angeles
White House
Watts
America
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