National Flu Epidemic This Year Seems Doubtful
The Public Health Service predicts no widespread flu outbreak this winter with only scattered local clusters of Asian or other influenza types. Vaccination is urged for high risk groups including pregnant women the elderly and those with chronic diseases as forecasts from last summer align with a lighter 1964 65 season.
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Frank Carey
Associated Press
Washington
Public Health Service
Minnesota
Equality tempered by differences in democracy
An American Bar Association public service feature by Will Bernard discusses how equal treatment under the Constitution allows discrimination when based on sensible, real distinctions. It cites height requirements for policemen versus voters and contrasts lawful and unlawful discrimination in cases involving women and morality, arguing democracy offers a guarded equality.
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American Bar Association
Will Bernard
Steelworker files suit to overturn union election
A dissatisfied steelworker filed a federal lawsuit in Birmingham asking that the Bessemer local United Steel Workers Union election be declared invalid. The worker remained unidentified in reports.
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Birmingham
Bessemer
United Steel Workers Union
Flu advisory urges caution during outbreaks
The text notes that epidemics are rare but cites the 1961-62 US outbreak and quotes the American Medical Association advising general health precautions. It recommends avoiding crowds, dressing warmly, staying in shape to resist infection, and calling a doctor immediately if illness occurs.
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United States
American Medical Association
Alabama Briefs Roundup From Mobile to Birmingham
Mobile Harbor master Peter Shea says refloat efforts for the grounded SS Smith Defender will proceed at high tide. In Mobile, a Defense Department spokesman says Brookley Air Force Base will close with economic adjustments to ease the impact, noting 574 facilities have been closed or consolidated since 1961. Carpenter Bros of Dallas bid $1,159,000 for a NASA Mississippi test facility mobile equipment maintenance building, higher than Army estimates of $1,151,839. In Montgomery Gov George Wallace and staff exchanged Christmas gifts on the last working day, Wallace receiving a silver punchbowl service and staff copies of Jefferson Davis biography by Hudson Strode. In Birmingham Mayor Albert Boutwell plans to appeal a June Local 1466 election after Labor Secretary Wirtz filed a court petition alleging ballot irregularities.
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Peter Shea
Atlantic Ocean
Brookley Air Force Base
Defense Department
Donald Bradford
Defense Dept
Bradford
Carpenter Bros
Dallas
Tex
NASA
Mississippi Test
Army
Texas
Montgomery
George Wallace
State Capitol
Wallace
Jefferson Davis
Alabama
Hudson Strode
City to appoint 20 member anti poverty program committee
The Birmingham city council authorized the mayor to pick a 20 member committee to implement President John son anti poverty plan after Monday’s meeting. Thelma Alexander, a Montgomery policewoman who saved two children from a runaway truck, received the American Legion’s top heroism award in Montgomery, the second Alabama recipient in 16 years.
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Johnson
Birmingham
Ithe
Montgomery
Thelma Alexander
Montgomiery
American Legion
Oil executive charges UAR with reckless act after plane downing
W Angie Smith of John W Melcom Co Houston accuses the United Arab Republic of brutal behavior after two Egyptian MIG fighters shot down a Fairchild C82 cargo plane over the Nile delta. Crewmen Hoyt Williams and Kjell Grupp died in the crash while en route from Amman to Benghazi.
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Texas
United Arab Republic
W. Angie Smith
John W. Melcom Co
Houston
Tex
U.A.R. Foreign Ministry
Nile Delta
Amman
Jordan
Benghazi
Libya
Hoyt Williams
Mulberry
Fla
Kjell Grupp
Malmo
Sweden
Governor Wallace Praises Macon Academy Founders
Governor George Wallace lauded the founders of the private Macon Academy in Macon County for their determination and courage after the federal court order led to the school system takeover. He said their stance reflects a commitment to individual liberty and freedom.
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Montgomery
George Wallace
Macon Academy
Macon County
Wallace
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