Flashlight Dies With Its Little Owner in Bronx Tragedy
Eight year old Robert Ingraham adored a flashlight given by neighbors. He explored basements and stairwells for three days until his disappearance led police to a vacant basement apartment. Inside a refrigerator they found his body with the flashlight, its battery burned out.
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Hal McClure
NEW York
Bronx
Robert Ingraham
Robert
John Ingraham
Christopher Kelly
Kelly
Wortz Trophy winner leads Alabama sales in fall months
Cay J O Anderson of Decatur Trail er Park won the Wortz President s Trophy for 1960 as the top Alabama district Wortz cracker sales rep in September and October for Wortz Biscuit Co. Fort Smith Ark. Donations totaling 2852 45 were reported to Morgan County TB Association Decatur. Mizpah Chapter 19 Order of the Eastern Star meets Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. Morgan Limestone Chapter of the Alabama Archaeological Society meets tonight at 7 30 in City Electric Auditorium. Decatur Basketball Officials Association meets tonight at 7 in the same auditorium. Recorder s docket lists 33 charges headed by disorderly conduct with other offenses noted. Building permits issued for two new residences. Sheriff's arrest tally includes 15 on public drunkenness and other counts. Driver tests show 44 passed and 23 permits issued with four cars failing inspection. See DIARY on Page 2.
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J. O. Anderson
Decatur Trailer Park
Decatur 2
Wortz
Alabama
Wortz Biscuit Co
Anderson
Fort Smith
Ark
Could China rule the world someday
The writer notes Bible prophecy does not cover every event and cites China as the most populous nation. It warns that a hungry nation could grow powerful and, with sufficient weapons, might threaten or rule the world, reflecting fears of Communist expansion and East versus West dynamics.
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China
Plan for Protestant Reunion Met Favorably by Church Leaders
The proposal by Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake envisions uniting Episcopalians Presbyterians Methodists and United Church of Christ with other denominations into a single body. Church leaders hailed the idea as promising though requiring time and study and noted it could eventually include more than 20 million members.
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George W. Cornell
Associated Press
SAN Francisco
Methodist
John Wesley Lord
Washington
Episcopal
United Presbyterian
United Church of Christ
Eugene Carson Blake
Philadelphia
National Council of Churches
Arthur C. Lichtenberger
New York
Episcopal Church
Blake
Grace Episcopal Cathedral
James A. Pike
California
United Church of South India
United States
Congregationalists
Evangelical
Negroes Win Bus Case in Richmond Terminal Ruling
In Washington AP report a federal ruling requires bus terminals to serve Black travelers, citing an incident in Richmond where a defender was fined ten dollars for refusing to leave a white restaurant, highlighting integration enforcement.
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Washington
Eneres
Tania Black
Trailwas
Richmond
Red Clamp Seizes Congo City as Lumumba Backers Brace
In Stanleyville forces loyal to Patrice Lumumba clamp a communist style rule after ousting the deposed premier. Whites are barred from Oriental Province and mistreatment by military police is reported. Lumumba, captured 500 miles east of Leopoldville, is to stand trial while diplomats warn of a Korea type civil war if he had reached Stanleyville.
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Michael Goldsmith
Leopoldville
The
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Stanleyville
Oriental
U. N
Antoine Gizenga
Lumumba
Joseph Kasavubu
Soviet Union
Egypt
Sudan
Kennedy Eyes Sweeping Pentagon Reform Plan
President elect John F Kennedy received a Symington committee report proposing mass restructuring of the Defense Department to streamline the Pentagon for the nuclear space era. The plan would abolish civilian secretaries and 22 offices, saving about 8 billion dollars annually, with funds redirected to weapons development and arms control.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Defense Department
Symington
Army
Navy
Air Force
Defense Establishment
Truman
Defense
Kennedy
Washington
Pentagon
Decatur Skywatch December 6 Evening Star Events
The Decatur sky shows a Moon at apogee rising at 7 53 p m and last quarter on December 11. Planets visible include Jupiter setting at 5 48 p m Venus setting at 7 06 p m and Mars rising at 7 05 p m. Sunset is 4 37 p m and sunrise tomorrow 6 42 a m.
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Jupiter
Venus
Mars
Weather and River Readings at Keller Memorial Bridge
Decatur area reports Tennessee River stage at Keller Memorial Bridge 16.55 feet with a 0.44 foot drop in 24 hours. Sea level reading 550.85 feet. TVA lake levels listed: Pickwick 408.6, Guntersville 593.7, Whitesburg 552.3, Wilson 506.2 feet. Sunday high 64 degrees at 3 pm, low 45 degrees at 6 am. At 10:20 am today it
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Pickwick
Guntersville
Whitesburg
Wilson
White Students Return to New Orleans Integrated School
In New Orleans 15 to 17 white pupils attend William Frantz School as one Negro girl remains in first grade. At McDonogh No 19 only three Negro girls enroll amid tightened patrols. Louisiana approves state aid for private schooling amid ongoing segregation battles with protests at churches and renewed efforts to divert funds from the public school system.
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New Orleans
William Frantz
McDonogh No. 19
McDonogh
Louisiana
C. E Vetter
Pamela
Frantz School
Lloyd A. Foreman
Church of the Redeemer
AP Staffer Is Jaycee Speaker
Tom Dygard of the Associated Press will address the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce at the club meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Hotel Lyons. He heads the Birmingham AP bureau since January 1959 and is a Little Rock native with a 1953 Arkansas BA in history.
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Tom Dygard
Associated Press
Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce
Hotel
Lyons
Dygard
The
Association
Birmingham
Little Rock
Ark
Little Rock Central High School
Little Rock Junior College
University of Arkansas
Arkansas Gazette
Gazette
Institute of Science and Technology
Detroit
United Auto Workers
Lake Michigan
Patricia Redditt
Tommy
Whisky still destroyed by Lawrence sheriff and ABC agents
A 1,300 gallon whisky still was destroyed Friday by Lawrence sheriff's forces and ABC Agents. The still, located two miles south of the Piney Grove community in southeast Lawrence, was loaded and ready to run, according to officers. No arrests were made.
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Moulton
Lawrence
ABC
Piney Grove
Titan Blast Delays Titan Missile Program at Vandenberg
At Vandenberg Air Force Base California an explosion shattered a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile after fueling. Damage is estimated at four to six million dollars and the program faces an unknown delay while investigators study the blast. The 97 foot Titan was being lowered into a silo when it blew up, shaking windows twenty five miles away with crews underground and unharmed.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Los Angeles
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Cotton allotments rise 1961 four-county area
Four county ASC offices report a 10 percent plus increase in 1961 cotton allotments, lifting area totals to 164 652 acres from 147 514. Limestone Morgan Cullman and Lawrence counties gain as farmers prepare for a plant or release campaign and await 1961 reapportionment. Voter referendum on marketing quotas set for December 12.
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Morgan
Limestone
Lawrence
Cullmen
ASC
Limestone County
Wallace Steele
Steele
Morgan County
D. M. Robertson
Cullman County
J. H. Montgomery
Alva Wade
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Morgan-Limestone
Alabama Archaeological Society
City Electric Auditorium
Decatur Basketball Officials Association
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Brookside Dr
Howard Smith
State Ave. SW
Sheriff's Forces
H. L. Hester
C. G
Congo Town
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N. O. School
Foreman
New Orleans School Board
U.S. Dist
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Lloyd Foreman
William Frantz School
Jaycee
Titan
Second Ave
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Jack Smith
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