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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1965
Page
2
December 16 sunset 3 39 p m sunrise next day 6 49 a m moonrise 1 34 a m new moon December 22 prominent stars Altair Sirius Rigel Spica Procyon evening sky times show 7 06 7 54 8 53 p m
Readings from Keller Memorial Bridge on the Tennessee River show 16.68 feet above sea level for the river at Decatur and vicinity, with sea level reading at 550.98. TVA lake stages include Guntersville 593.2 Whitesburg 551.9 Wilson 505.7 Pickwick 408.1 Wheeler 550.9 and Chickamauga 675.4. Yesterday’s high was 52 at 1 pm and the 5 am low was 4. Today’s morning temperature reading at 7 30 was incomplete. A 24 hour rainfall total reached 10 inches prior to 7 am. The forecast calls for cloudy and cool with intermittent light rain and drizzle early tonight, Friday cloudy and cool with a 60 percent chance of rain today and 40 percent tonight. Winds light and northerly. High today around 52, low tonight about 43, and Friday high near 47.
Testimony describes Fennell striking Kimball with a iron pipe and fleeing. Detective Newsom testified Fennell showed the area where he discarded a torn under shirt and a cloth fragment. The weapon, rusty iron bar, was identified by Fennell as the murder tool. Evidence of Fennell’s character and past cases were presented as the trial progresses.
Gov. Wallace sought Supreme Court guidance two weeks ago on whether a legislatorsponsored bill creator could hold a judgeship. The ruling allows a sponsor who is an Alabama Bar Association member to serve. Rep. Moore faced prior failed attempts to pass the bill, then backed reapportionment with Sen. Gilchrist. Pettus expected for district attorney if not judge, as Lawrence County joins a redefined circuit with Morgan and Limestone. Local attorneys cautious. court sessions delayed. sheriff’s team voices frustration over the unsettled appointment and resulting countywide confusion.
Federal funds totaling 102,439 will go to the Morgan County Board of Education for students with federally employed parents. A check for 76,829, three quarters of the total, will reach Supt. J. C. Pettey soon, with the remainder later. About 500 students in the county are affected, many whose parents work at Redstone Arsenal. Tuscumbia Public Schools will receive 32,076 with 24,057 sent immediately.
Funeral arrangements for Mack Nichols of Hopewell community Danville will be announced later by Reynolds Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements for Mrs Malisse Brooks who died in Louisville Kentucky will be announced by Reynolds Funeral Home.
Thomas D. White 63 of Rogersville died Wednesday at 9 30 am at Athens Limestone Hospital Services were today at 3 pm at Temperance Oak Baptist Church in Limestone County with Rev E A Annerton officiating Burial in Higgins Cemetery Spry Funeral Home directing Survivors include a son Wallace White of Athens five stepdaughters Mrs Lee Webster Athens Mrs Zack Clemons Lexington Mrs Thomas Dobbs Mrs Buford Clemons and Mrs Henry White all of Town Creek a stepson Thomas Baker Lexington two brothers Porter White Athens and Solon White Rogersville two sisters Mrs Johnny Lamar and Mrs Charlie George both of Athens a granddaughter Mr White lifelong Lauderdale County resident retired farmer and Temperance Oak member Pallbearers were Wayne Gerald and Rayford Baker Kenneth and Gene Tucker and Cleo Clemons
Iuler Palmer 83 a Warrior resident died Wednesday Funeral services will be at Fulton Springs Baptist Church Friday at 2 PM with burial in Walker Chapel Cemetery Hugh es Funeral Home of Warrior directs Surviving daughters include Mary Etta Higginbotham Hayden Willie Jones Warrior 1 Alton Glenn Fultondale Mrs James Terry Trinity Mt Mrs C K Henderson and Mrs J A Cobb Birmingham and Betty Morrison Oakland CA sons Henry Palmer Kimberly L A Palmer Decatur Ezra Palmer Hanceville James Palmer Corinne W A Jessie Palmer Birmingham 47 grandchildren 67 great grandchildren
Schirra led most of the on board radio chatter during the Gemini 6 mission jokingly dubbing one crew member Bluebeard and noting a mustache joke. Stafford handled on board computers and photography while both astronauts shot photos and movies of each other as tourists in space.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told NATO ministers that Red China would pose a nuclear threat within five years with a small weapons stockpile and intermediate missiles in two years, and intercontinental missiles and a missile submarine within ten years. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said NATO members took the warning seriously and recognized China as a global security threat.
An Air Force spokesman said a Wednesday raid on a power plant, aided by 15 tons of bombs and 300 rockets, left the installation in flames. A multistory building and 13 nearby structures suffered explosions, knocking out two generators. Navy carrier planes then hit the Bac Long island radar site in the Gulf of Tonkin, reporting a secondary explosion but no clear success. The installation had withstood prior attacks.
The Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 crews completed a historic rendezvous above the Pacific, then Schirra and Stafford pursued Gemini 7 while Borman and Lovell returned to Earth. Gemini 6 landed in the ocean 660 miles south of Bermuda after a 25 hour 52 minute flight.
Lucy Hill reported a .32 caliber pistol stolen Wednesday. A complainant said garage windows and a car windshield were shot with an air rifle. TVA said glass was broken at a storage building door, no items missing. Several vehicle collisions were logged on 16th Ave SE, 6th Ave SE and Gateway areas. Building permits issued for electrical work, a carport, and a house. Local clubs announced Christmas events and meetings. Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 mission details described with orbit maneuvers and formation techniques.
Interdealer NASD quotations issued around 10 a.m. show bid and ask prices for various insurers and financials. Prices exclude retail markdowns and commissions with marks adjusted upward. markets vary through the day. Notable entries include Allied Life Ameco Life Life of America National Life & Accident Protective Life Southern Airways and others with percent quotes and par values.
Cotton remains steady with Decatur loan middling at 30.40 and cottonseed at 40 per ton. Milk markets list Grade A at 6.55 per hundred and manufactured milk at 3.20 per hundred for four percent. 0.055 above four percent, ratio below four percent. Wood values range with 65, 45, and 35. Pulpwood sits at 13.50 per cord. Corn, oats, wheat, barley and poultry feeds show No. 2 Yellow and White varieties with prices from 1.07 to 2.00 per unit.
Nashville AP notes cattle and calves 50 head, early arrivals insufficient to gauge trends. Hogs 200 head fairly active, steady to 25 higher with US 1 2 3 at 27.75 to 28.00 for 200-260 lb, no early sow sales. Sheep 25 head active strong with 75 lb wooled slaughter lambs at 24.00.
Birmingham AP reports egg demand improves while supplies remain tight at unchanged ranges. Retail buyers face slightly harder procurement with cartoned dozen prices to retailers including case as follows: large 51-54 cents, medium 49-52 cents, small 39-40 cents per dozen.
Atlanta reports steady demand for live broilers and fryers with farm prices around 13 percent. Birmingham notes a quiet market with many plants shut down, trading light and unsettled pricewise as competition and interplant movement adjust supply. estimated daily slaughter about 625000 head versus 793000 last Thursday.
Wall Street shares gained as steels copper and rail stocks led a broad market advance in New York trading. Investors watched metal sector gains lift industrials and transport issues amid light economic data and expectations for policy tone.
Decatur native Fred A Bloodworth has been named vice president of the State National Bank of Alabama. He returned to Alabama this year after leading the First National Bank of Longview Texas and joined the Huntsville commercial lending division. Bloodworth was educated in Decatur public schools Emory University and the Banking School of the South LSU where he later lectured. He began banking in 1925 at Morgan County National Bank Decatur. From 1936 to 1961 he worked with banks in Gadsden and served as Alabama Bankers Association president in 1958 1959.
W Somerset Maugham was a leading writer with about 30 plays 26 novels and 120 short stories over more than five decades. His memoir Looking Backward appeared in 1962 and he stopped fiction writing in 1953 at age 78 as hearing declined cataracts impaired his sight and memory grew dim.
Wilson voices continued pressure on Rhodesia with measures such as an oil embargo. He asserts Africans demand change and expresses belief that the British government and Parliament will assert authority through representatives speaking for Rhodesia as a whole, given time and patience.
Trading stayed brisk with 9.9 million shares changing hands. The Dow and AP averages pressed past their November 4 peaks and eyed new highs by today’s close. Big movers included Anaconda, Air Reduction, Jones & Laughlin, U S Steel, Goodyear, Goodrich, and IBM. Ford advanced, airlines edged down, and a local ad noted a 1959 Buick Invicta sale and mini-bike shipment offers.
A three vehicle wreck on a rain slick County Road 35 two miles north of Cullman claimed the life of Albert B. Mayhall, 53, and injured John W. Weaver, 20, both of Cullman. Weaver was hospitalized in good condition. the other drivers were Gary N. Bentley, 22, of Vivermont, and Allie H. McCollum, 37, of Vivermont. Mayhall’s funeral arrangements were being handled by Moss Funeral Homes in Cullman.
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