Decatur Rotary hears Christmas songs by high school chorus
The Concert Chorus of Decatur High School directed by Roy Wood will sing Christmas songs at a Decatur Rotary Club meeting on Monday. The event accompanies other local notes including theatre plans and community drive updates across Morgan County.
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Air Force buys new trucks over older Signal Corps stock
Editorial notes a wasteful choice where the Air Force refused 131 used Signal Corps trucks at 3 300 each and instead ordered 63 new trucks at 5 800 each, totaling 365 000. The 500 unused trucks remain at New Cumberland depot, Pa. The piece argues for inter service consolidation and shared data to cut costs.
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Cuban Army Moves To Halt Insurgents
Cuban troops and militia massed around the Escambray foothills in Las Villas as reports said 300 to 400 insurgents may reinforce anti Castro forces. government lines blocked Santa Clara traffic while a separate pistol smuggling incident near Camaguey ended with a fatality and plane crash landing.
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Jackie Visits Future Home
Mrs. John F. Kennedy toured the White House with Mamie Eisenhower, viewing second and third floor living quarters. They spoke briefly after an hour and ten minutes, then posed for photos before Kennedy and her infant son left for a Florida rest.
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Decatur Skies Sunday Evening Star Positions
The Decatur forecast notes the sun set at 4:38 p.m. and sunrise at 6:46 a.m. tomorrow. Moon rises at 12:24 a.m. with a new moon on December 18. Prominent stars Betelgeuse and Procyon appear low in the east and high in the south at listed times.
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Weather and River Reading Near Keller Memorial Bridge
The Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge registered 16.40 feet at 8 p.m. Friday, down 0.04 feet in 13 hours, with sea level reading 550.70 feet. At 8:15 p.m. the temperature was 38 degrees and the forecast calls for continued cold conditions with a high around 46 to 52 degrees.
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Whites Flee To Sanctuary in Congo Crisis as Rebels Threaten Hostages
In Stanleyville, 75 whites sought shelter in a refuge building guarded by two U.N. battalions of Ethiopian troops. The U.N. reported a mass air evacuation of Europeans while rebel leaders warned they would behead Belgians and, if Lumumba is not freed, round up all whites.
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None Badly Hurt In New Brockton Bus Train Crash
A slowly moving Atlantic Coast Line freight train struck the rear of a bus carrying 35 Pike County Training School students in New Brockton Alabama. No one was seriously hurt. one girl reported back pains and others were treated for minor injuries at a nearby hospital in Enterprise.
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Kennedy redevelopment panel to present by New Year
A 21 member grass roots committee of business and labor reps will deliver recommendations for a broad area redevelopment program to President-elect John F Kennedy by New Year’s Day. Senator Paul Douglas will head the task force and subcommittees will meet in Washington next Wednesday Thursday and Friday before a full session on December 27 to draft final recommendations.
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Kennedy Leaves for Florida Ahead of Inauguration Week
President elect John F Kennedy, his family in tow, flies to Palm Beach for a long weekend as he moves to assemble an official White House team. He met with Rostow and Stevenson aides and spoke with lawmakers about social security health plans and foreign policy.
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New Mexico
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Tennessee
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New York
Eight Whites One Negro At N. C. School
Eight white children and one Negro girl attended William Frantz School with U.S. deputy marshals as federal pressure reduced by boycott threats. Attendance fell from 18 to 23 to 14 across Monday to Thursday amid token integration in New Orleans.
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Mary Sand
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Farmer Cheng Feng Sentenced to Death in Stabbing Death
In Taipei Formosa Cheng Feng a 51 year old farmer was sentenced to death on Friday for stabbing a year old boy to death during a quarrel with the child’s mother.
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Cheng Feng
U N Congo Force Vows to Shield Whites From Threats
Dag Hammarskjold told pro Lumumba authorities at Stanleyville that the U N Congo force will resist violence against whites seeking protection from threats to kill or injure them. He delivered a protest to Oriental Province authorities after they threatened mass arrests and beheadings unless Patrice Lumumba’s deposed government was released.
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Stanleyville
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Oriental Province
Patrice Lumumba
U.S. backs Lumumba arrest at United Nations
Ambassador James J. Wadsworth told the U.N. Security Council that Washington supports Patrice Lumumba's arrest and urges all U.N. members to back President Joseph Kasavubu amid Congo crisis threats to target whites in Oriental Province.
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Congo Crisis Escalates as Lumumba Detained
Hammarskjold reports intensified tension in Congo as Lumumba is held near Leopoldville by Mobutu forces. The Congo threat warns attachments of European residents seek UN protection while calls for Lumumba's release mount, with Stanleyville poised for clashes if aid is blocked.
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