Local political meet and Baptist Focus Week events headlined
Mrs. Newton B Powell urges women to attend a 7 30 pm meeting at City Electric with Rep Bob Jones and Sen John Sparkman as guests. Betty Burks of Decatur named general chair of Baptist Focus Week steering committee for Auburn University Jan 7 11. Ed Partridge wins best performance at Decatur Toastmasters Club. next meeting Jan 3. One building permit issued to Huel Nelson. one injury in a two car collision on 2nd Ave SE near Grant St.
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Newton B. Powell
Morgan County Democratic Women
City Electric
Bob Jones
John Sparkman
Betty Burks
Decatur
Auburn University
Auburn
Southern Baptist Convention
Ed Partridge
Decatur Toastmaster’s Club
Cornelian Court Hotel
H. H. Bradley II
Paul Mark
George Wood
Bill Cook
Bob Robinson
Huel Nelson
Sth
Ave
2Nd Ave
Grant St
Thomas 0. McCarley
4Th Ave
Norma Wallace Sanders
6Th Ave
Linda Walling
Chestnut St. SE
Question on Satafi as an angel in heaven
The author cites Isaiah 14 about Lucifer falling from heaven to explain sin in the heart of Lucifer. It argues pride leads to independence from God and a world without Him equals misery. It concludes that Satan was once an angelic being.
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Satafi
Heaven
J.M
Lucifer
Hell
God
Satan
Caracas clamps down as agitators rounded up before Kennedy visit
Police in Caracas rounded up about 50 agitators for painting Kennedy No on walls and warned of nightly raids by a special unit. Four crude bombs planted by terrorists injured two. Brig. Gen. Linares said troops would be used to ensure Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy's safety amid fears of a repeat of 1958 anti-visit violence.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
Latin America
Antonio Briceno Linares
U.S
Richard M. Nixon
Nixons
Daily Farm Editor Appointed To U S Group
H Maynard Layman farm editor and circulation manager of The Decatur Daily travels to Washington for consult with the Department of Agriculture after his appointment by Secretary Orville Freeman to an advisory committee on feed grains and wheat. He helped found the Alabama Legislative Cotton Study Committee and Cotton Hardship Committee and has led Alabama agriculture efforts. He chairs the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee and is president of the Alabama Educational Television Commission.
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H. Maynard Layman
Decatur Daily
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Sec. of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Freeman
Layman
Alabama
Alabama Legislative Cotton Study Committee
Decatur Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee
Alabama Educational Television Commission
Decatur 2
Race Arrests Top 500 in Albany Protest
Albany police report 555 Negroes and 5 whites arrested since Sunday amid anti segregation demonstrations. Over 300 remain jailed with no violence recorded. Protests widen as Freedom Riders face trial in Recorder's Court and police vow more arrests if marches resume.
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Don McKee
Albany, Ga
Albany
Georgia City
Laurie Pritchett
Freedom Riders
Recorder’s Court
M.S. Page
Page
Abner Israel
Slater King
King
Albany Mgoo
Freedom Rider
Una
Second Trucker Killed In Area In 24 Hours
A Henderson Kentucky truck driver, Donald Lee Hearring, 224 Blue Ridge Drive, died when his tractor trailer, loaded with clay pipe, crashed and overturned on Interstate 65 south of Cullman between 4 50 and 5 a m He was the second fatal truck crash in this area in about a day following a Bibb County drivers death on U S 31 near Swan Creek.
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Cullman
Henderson
Here
Donald Lee Hearring
Blue Ridge
Henry Dunkin
Bibb County
Limestone County
Swan Creek
Hearring
Dunkin
Earring
Planes Bomb Katanga Positions Again Over Elisabethville
Indian bombers and Swedish jets attacked Katanga troops positions in Elisabethville, with bombs dropped from 6000 feet on Kenya township near the army headquarters. The assault followed Wednesday raids on Hotel Lido as Tshombe urged total war against the United Nations. U.N. troops continued to move in as Globemasters ferried reinforcements for a potential offensive.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
the Congo
Prince Leopold Hospital
Kenya Township
Lido
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Tshombe
U.N
Belgium
Cease Fire Pressure Faces Split Over Katanga
United Nations action on Katanga gathers broad support with the United States and the Asian African bloc backing Thant. Britain seeks a cease-fire but the move is likely to be rejected by the Congo advisory committee as the majority pushes for initial U.N. objectives in the province.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
U Thant
U.N
Katanga
Britain
Thant
Patrick Dean
Congo
U.S
Grandma Moses dies at 101 after long life of art
Hoosick Falls New York aged 101, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known as Grandma Moses, died at 3 15 p m in Hoosick Falls Health Center after a long heart ailment. She began painting in her late 70s and became a worldwide folk art icon on Christmas cards. She vowed to live to 200 on her 101st birthday.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Grandma Moses
Grandma
Hoosick Falls Health Center
Clayton Shaw
Eagie Bridge
John F. Kennedy
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Virginia
Flood Threat Mounts Across Alabama Rivers
Rain swamps Alabama as the Alabama Coosa Tombigbee Warrior and Cahaba rivers rise signals of higher crests. Chief Meteorologist A R Long warns another day or two of rain could trigger severe flooding with evacuations near Montgomery and rising river levels up to 41 to 44 feet threatening homes and Negro neighborhoods along the north Montgomery riverfront.
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A.R. Long
Montgomery Weather Bureau
Alabama
Coosa
Tombigbee
Warrior
Cahaba
Birmingham
Gulf
Tennessee Valley
Long
South
Montgomery
Decatur Cullman youths near Rhodes Scholarships
Decatur and Cullman youths moved one step closer to Rhodes Scholarships as the U.S. field narrowed to 100. John R. Sobotka of Vanderbilt and William Dean Stanley III of the US Military Academy earned Alabama and Tennessee representation with other candidates from Duke and Vanderbilt. They will compete in Atlanta for Oxford University bound scholarships while Alabama's finalists compete in New Orleans. Dwight Eddins of Decatur is at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.
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Decatur
Cullman
United States
John R. Sobotka
Max Sobotka
Gordon Dr
Tennessee
Atlanta
U.S
Sobotka
Vanderbilt
Alabama
William Dean Stanley III
United States Military Academy
Stanley
Warner D. Stanley
U.S. Army
Fairbanks
Washington
Jerome Alec Pieh
Helena
Duke University
Andrew Lamar Alexander
Maryville
Tenn
M. R. Rankin
Alexander
Rankin
Virginia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Florida
England
Oxford University
New Orleans
Dwight Eddins
Decatur High School
University of Alabama
Oxford
Unseasonable Cold Grips Nation From Rockies To New England
The Associated Press reports a broad cold snap across northern and central regions from the Rockies to New England with only slight relief in snowbound Midwest areas. Temperatures fell to zero and below in ten states on Wednesday morning, then moderated yet remained below normal. In North Dakota and Nebraska many locales stayed below freezing while South Dakota saw 20 to 30 degrees warmer readings.
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Rockies
New England
Midwest
North Dakota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Dickinson
Minot
Holiday in Europe Tour Promises Budget Travel
The newspaper sponsors a 17 day Europe tour leaving March 10 with plans to visit major sites such as St. Peter's Westminster Abbey and the Eiffel Tower. A 30 minute film at the City Electric Auditorium Friday at 7 30 p m with coffee follows the event. The offer stresses economical pricing through March 31 and urges early planning.
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Europe
St. Peter’s
Westminster Abbey
Eiffel Tower
Switzerland
Venice
City Electric Auditorium
Bus Train Crash Kills Many Children in Colorado
A Union Pacific streamliner struck a Greeley area school bus at a crossing near Evans Colorado. At least 18 to 20 children died, with about 14 others in critical condition. The driver survived and is jailed for shelter. A temporary morgue was set up in Greeley.
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Greeley
Colo
Colorado
Ross Adamson
Duane Harris
Union Pacific Railroad
Evans
Denver
la Salle
Sheriff's Office
Shoes Repaired Free for Governor Patterson in Selma
Gov John Patterson's shoes repaired free after a Selma shop offered prompt service following a news photo. The repaired pair was mailed back when no one claimed them, with a note from Patterson thanking the shop and highway patrol.
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Selma
Ala
John Patterson
Gladys White
Patterson
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