Young Clifton Knight Beats Illness After Christmas Fund Help
A 13 year old Clifton Knight, once ill with gland tuberculosis, recovered after treatments at Mayo Clinic and District No 1 Tuberculosis Hospital. Area residents raised funds to aid his family the Knights of 322 Sixth Ave NW. The Knight family expressed gratitude during Christmas holiday reflections.
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Clifton
Alvin Knights
6Th Ave
Alvin
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
District No. 1
Decatur Post Office Gift Packages Deliveries and Local Missing Item Report
The Decatur Postal Department will deliver parcel post gift packages today and be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday. Gift packages will be delivered Tuesday and the department will return to its regular schedule Wednesday. Friday at 11:15 p.m. police spoke with Mary Williams at 503 Cherry St NW, who said items missing from her home include two brown leather bill folds, women’s clothing, and a pork chops package. Wayne Anderton, 28, is reported as a missing person. A brick was thrown through a plate glass window at Mike Namie’s grocery store, 608 Vine St NW, with no reported missing items. See diary on page 2.
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Decatur Postal Department
Mary Williams
Cherry St. NW
Mike Namie
Vine St. NW
Christmas Tree and Christian Faith
The author says the Christmas tree stems from tradition not explicit Bible teaching. He argues Christmas centers on Christ, who became flesh, and the tree can symbolize Christ’s gift of love as gifts hang on it, echoing Calvary and salvation.
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Christ
Bethlehem
Calvary
Fires Claim Lives Of 10 In Alabama
Ten people including seven children died in four house fires and two men perished in Alabama traffic accidents during the Christmas weekend. In Huntsville Henry Lane 46 died in a bed fire, Opelika saw 80 year old Mary Stevens burned in a blaze, Tusculum a midnight fire killed three children and a man, and Sylacauga a morning fire claimed four children.
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Alabama
Henry Lane
Huntsville
Opelika
Mary Stevens
Tuscumbia
Sylacauga
Mattie Owens
Vernon Ray Owens
Karen Owens
Otis Neville
Willie Owens
Leonza Borden
Skybolt Test Success Intensifies British Debate
The Skybolt air launched missile registered its first success in six tests, but US officials say the launch will not affect plans to cancel the program. Britain faces political pressure over its Nassau agreement with Kennedy to accept Polaris missiles, while the US hints this may be the last Skybolt flight. The test from a B52 near Cape Canaveral hit 850 miles downrange, landing one mile from the bullseye as officials call it an unexpected bonus.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Canaveral
Fla
White House
Pentagon
U.S
Roswell F. Gilpatric
Washington
Skybolt
Air Force
Great Britain
Harold Macmillan
Nassau
Kennedy
Atlantic Ocean
Ransom Laden Freighter Flies Cuban Prisoners Swap
Cuban exile reports say the first planeload of Bay of Pigs prisoners will be flown to Florida Sunday morning with a Pan Am flight from Miami to Havana. A 460 ton freighter from Port Everglades carries medicine and food as part of Castro’s 53 million dollar ransom gesture amid tense reunions and family hopes.
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Fla
USS
Florida
Homestead Air Force Base
Pan American World Airways
Miami International
Havana
Pan Am
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuba
Port Everglades
Guba
Homestead Afb
Christmas reunion for Airman Munroe in Bangor
Airman 2c Frank Munroe arrives home in Bangor Maine on December 20 after a cross country trek from England. He traveled by plane car and bus with help from fellow airmen and strangers, wearing two pairs of socks in cold weather. He plans to return to Alabama December 26 and hopes for an opening at Dow Air Force Base after his England tour ends.
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Daily
Frank Munroe
England
Bangor
Maine
Bangor News
News
Kalii Ayoob
Ayoob
Munroe
Sculthrope
Birmingham
Ala
Allentown
Decatur
Nashville
Tenn
Winchester
Francis Murray
Martin
Main St
Dianna
Alabama
Dow Air Force Base
Dow
Virginia
Alabama-Tennessee gas refunds to reach 198000 dollars
Alabama-Tennessee Natural Gas Co. will cut rates and refund 2 050 000 dollars to customers in Alabama Tennessee and Mississippi. The city gas department expects 198000 dollars but Garner Pride says no official word has been received yet. Any plan for use of funds must be decided after consultation.
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Alabama - Tennessee Natural Gas Co
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama-Tennessee
Garner Pride
City Gas Department
Five Die in Iowan Family Car Crash Near Clarks Neb
Dennis Dewey 28 and wife Patricia 26 along with six year old and younger sons perished when their car slid on an icy curve near Clarks Nebraska. The family was en route from Des Moines to a Christmas gathering at their relatives home. The accident occurred Friday night and water filled the roadside ravine hid the wreck until Saturday.
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Clarks
Neb
Dennis Randall Dewey
Des Moines
Patricia
Randy
Steven
Kevin
Dennis
William H. Norton
Omaha
Alan Dewey
Norton
Dewey
Britain shifts nuclear deterrent to submarines amid Kennedy deal
Prime Minister Macmillan returns from the Caribbean to a nation split over Britain's H bomb policy. The plan to move Britain’s deterrent from air to submarine Polaris missiles and link with NATO draws sharp criticism even from pro-Conservative papers. Skybolt test success is downplayed as costly and ineffective. Moscow voices scepticism, warning of obsolescence for bomber forces. A Polaris path is officially praised though details remain guarded.
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Macmillan
Caribbean
Kennedy
Britain
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
America
Cape Canaveral
Skybolt
Defense Ministry
Moscow
Tass
Kennedy and
United States
Foul Weather Slows Holiday Driving Death Toll
Severe winter conditions slowed deaths on the Christmas travel period as a storm dropped up to a foot of snow in the Middle Atlantic and Central Appalachians with a blizzard in the Midwest. Howard Pyle of the National Safety Council cites speed and drinking as major factors in the fatalities.
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Yale
Middle Atlantic States
Central Appalachians
Midwest
Howard Pyle
The
National Safety Council
Final Shopping Day Is Monday
Downtown Decatur merchants reported strong business with Christmas Eve expected to be even bigger. One merchant said Saturday was terrific with shoppers rushing in, mainly buying wearing apparel rather than gifts, and noted stock was beginning to show signs of the season.
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Decatur
Navy says Cuban crisis antisubmarine search found about six Soviet subs
Admiral George W. Anderson reports a three week, 3.5 million square mile U S naval search around Cuba during the Cuban crisis located roughly six Soviet submarines. Submarines surfaced to recharge their batteries and were observed visually and photographed. No hostile action occurred and U S sailors offered help when subs surfaced.
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Guantanamo
Cuba
U.S. Navy
George W. Anderson
Naval Operations
Korea
Air Force
Anderson
U.S
Azores
Canaries
South America
Soviet diplomat Zorin removed from U.N. post
Valerian A. Zorin longtime hard line Soviet delegate to the United Nations was replaced by Nikolai Fedorenko who will become the new Soviet ambassador to Japan. Tass said no new post for Zorin was announced and his rank status remained unclear amid Cuban crisis fallout.
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Valerian A. Zorin
Kremlin
United Nations
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Japan
Tass
Zorin
U.N
New York
Fedorenko
Peking
U.S
Cuba
Khrushchev
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.N. Security Council
Stevenson
Geneva
Andrei A. Gromyko
Andrei Vyshinsky
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Stalin
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Foreign Office
West Germany
Soviet Union
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Clifton Knight
West Decatur School
Moulton
Wayne Anderton
Associated Press
Castro
Jose Miro Cardona
Cuban Revolutionary Council
Antonio de Varona
Everglades
Mac
Robinson's On
Second Avenue
Lorin Qusted
U.N. Post
By George Syvertsen
Glen Cove
Long Island
U.N. General Assembly
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