Decatur Chamber selects five new directors for three year terms
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce announced five new directors W Roy Fite Jr Gobble Fite Lumber Co W G Bill Hall Kermit Pitt John F Smither Jr and Haskell J Ross will serve three years joining 13 existing members The group plans two more elections and a 1963 officers vote at Friday luncheon at the Lyons Hotel The Jan 4 dinner at Decatur Country Club is nearly sold out with 250 reservations and 100 remaining Aubrey J Wagner TVA board chairman will speak with TVA members A R Jones and Frank F Smith as special guests entertainment will come from Shearen Elebash billed as American Victor Borge
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The
Chamber of Commerce
W. Roy Fite, Jr
Gobble-Fite Lumber Co
W. G. “Bill” Hall
Liberty National Life Insurance Co
Kermit Pitt
John F. Smither, Jr
Hill Ferguson, Jr
Ned Frazier
John Bostwick, Jr
Dick Ordway
Chamber
Pete Henderson
Decatur Country Club
Ordway
Aubrey J. Wagner
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
A. R. Jones
Frank F. Smith
Shearen Elebash
Montgomery
Victor Borge
Community notices and local incidents in Morgan County
Morgan County Board of Registrars sit through December 29. WCTU meets Tuesday at 3 pm with Miss Carrie Alexander. Eastwood Elementary PTA meets Monday at 7 30 pm. School Chorus to perform Christmas music. Lucille Swope reports wallet theft on Vine Street NW. A 1959 Chevrolet driven by Donald Severson collides with a station wagon driven by Ethel Schmidt at 6th Ave and Church St NE. A 1960 Chevrolet, driven by Luther Hendrix, strikes Ed Brown on 4th Ave SE. Brown says the fault was his, injuries minor. See Diary On Page 2.
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PTA
Eastwood Elementary School
Donald R. Severson
Florin
Calif
Ethel I. Schmidt
Line
6Th Ave
Church St. NE
4Th Ave
6Th St
Luther D. Hendrix
Ed Brown
3Rd Ave
Brown
Deliverance from alcoholism through Christian surrender
Read as a religious guidance piece advising immediate spiritual surrender to Jesus Christ for victory over alcohol. It emphasizes accepting Christ as Savior and Lord, unconditional surrender, trust in God, and then serving Him. It cites 1 Corinthians 10 13 as a way to endure temptations.
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Christ
Nine Die as Plane Crashes Into Homes in North Hollywood
Civil Aeronautics Board investigators probed the charred wreckage after a Flying Tiger Line four engine air liner crashed in a residential area near Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Nine people died and several homes and two industrial plants were destroyed or burned. Among the identified dead were Flight Engineer Jack W. Grey and others named by the airline. The crash occurred about 10 15 p m as the plane approached Lockheed Air Terminal.
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North Hollywood
Calif
Civil Aeronautics Board
San Fernando Valley
Flying Tiger Line
Boston
Chicago
Lockheer Air Terminal
Los Angeles
Flying Tiger
Jack W. Grey
San Mateo
Karl C. Rader
Burlingame
David L. Crapo
Compton
John A. Olsen
Sunland
Olsen
Janet
Burbank
Blazek
Jack Elliott
Northridge
Pacific
Atlantic
Cold Bay
Alaska
Mike Powers
Laurel Canyon Boulevard
Hart and
Vose Streets
Cuban Swap Hinted Again
The SS African Pilot is on standby to sail Monday night from Baltimore to Miami with medicines and supplies as a potential exchange for Cuban invasion prisoners. James B. Donovan, assisting families, said he knew nothing of a ship being held. The Baltimore Sun cited the readiness per the National Maritime Union.
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Baltimore
Miami
Fidel Castro
Baltimore Sun
New York
James B. Donovan
the Sun
National Maritime Union
Florida
Brazilian air liner sighted crash in Amazon jungle
The Brazilian air liner with 50 aboard was sighted crashed in a jungle clearing near Manaus on a flight from Rio de Janeiro. Panair do Brasil said there are no survivors and search planes report no life signs at the scene.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Amazon
Panair Do Brasil
Fernando Hupsel de Oliveira
Amazon River
Manaus
Air Force
Plane missing after long Amazon flight with 43 aboard
Ground teams hack through jungle toward wreckage as communications fail amid the Amazon search. The Air Ministry had incorrectly declared the plane located, while Manaus SAR issued the false survivors report. Captain Dalvo da Costa led a nine stop route from Rio de Janeiro with 43 passengers and seven crew.
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Amazon
Air Ministry
Manaus
Amazon Area
Rio de Janeiro
Amazon River
Dalvo da Costa
Panair Do Brasil
Belem
City's Fiscal Year Lauded in Decatur Report
The city of Decatur issued its annual fiscal year ending Sept 30 1962 report hailed as the best ever by Mayor Gilmer Blackburn. The report notes an appropriated surplus of 113070.95 and 82462.34 in cash, with four debt free years under a pay as you go plan.
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Decatur
Gilmer Blackburn
Blackburn
D. D. Burleson
Burleson
Soviets Claim Three More U.S. Spy Suspects
Moscow reports three additional Americans accused in a spy plot at the U S Embassy, bringing to seven the number charged in three months. Names include Doctor from Atlanta Alexis H Davison and Robert K German with Hugh Montgomery, with Russia publishing photos of the alleged activity. State Dept says accusations are unfounded while awaiting a full embassy report.
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Moscow
U.S
Pravda
Moscow Boulevard
Soviet Communist Party
Atlanta
Alexis H. Davison
Robert K. German
Dallas
Tex
Hugh Montgomery
Springfield
Mass
Soviet Union
Washington
State Department
Joseph Reap
Russia
Hutson Resigns As Head Of Mutual Board
Melvin Hutson resigned as chairman of the Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co. board effective Jan 1 and was named founder and chairman emeritus. Redus C. Collier becomes chairman while remaining president. Hutson plans a California and possibly Hawaii trip, then a memoir about his life and Mutual Savings.
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Hutson
Mutual Board
Bill Chilton
Melvin Hutson
The
Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co
Redus C. Collier
Newsmen
California
Hawaii
Decatur
Mutual Savings
H. E. Hicks
Dan Ewing
Thomas W. Wert
Birmingham
Old American Life Insurance Co
Decatur Merchants Report Mixed Christmas Week Trade
Downtown Decatur merchants report a mix of slow midweek business due to cold weather and a strong finish to the week. Several say Friday and Saturday sales were very good with stock holding strong and restocking ready if shipments arrive.
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Decatur
Police Pledge To Catch Birmingham Church Bomber
Police Commissioner Eugene Connor pledged an all out effort to find those responsible for the blast that heavily damaged Bethel Baptist Church and two nearby houses in Birmingham. Dynamite from a car caused the explosion injuring two babies and lightly injuring two others while twelve children escaped a Christmas play unhurt.
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Birmingham
Eugene Connor
Bethel Baptist Church
Connor
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Alabama_ Christian Movement for Human rights
Cincinnati
Ohio
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John Smither
W.W. G. Hall
DR. Kermit Pitt
Roy Fite
Haskell Ross
Drea
Grlimale
Morgan County Board of Registrars
WCTU
Carrie Alexander
Lucille Swope
Danville
Vine St. NW
God
Red Cross
T.H. Gerber
Violet Blazek
Edgar Miller
Moscow Post
Wert Pulled
Magnavox
Robinson's
Negro Church
Kimbly Rene McWilliams
McWilliams
Lucille Clark
Rives
Provitt
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