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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1965
Page
2
The notice explains tonight’s Moon with Mars visible above it and marks Mars at over 200 million miles away. It also notes Venus above the Moon on Saturday with a crescent phase and the first quarter Moon.
Reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 16.21 with sea level 550.51. Yesterday’s high reached 4 at 1:30 p.m. and the low this morning was 52 at 2:38. At 8 a.m. temperature was 55 with southerly winds 15 to 25 mph. Today’s high is 65, low tonight 45, and Saturday’s high 58.
An analysis contrasts 1954 Geneva outcomes with current Vietnam tensions. It notes Soviet and British signals, the French fall at Dien Bien Phu, and Viet Minh and Viet Cong control patterns. It compares U.S. long involvement since Truman era to past French struggles and evolving military engagement.
Banks operate reduced hours today across Decatur and four counties as offices close early. Prisoners and detention home youths receive holiday meals, while state troopers deputies and city police pledge strict traffic enforcement. McDonalds funds hospitality effort handing out free burgers and coffee to Salvation Army workers and public servants. City administrator urges proper disposal of gift wrap and notes leaf collection status as churches plan cantatas and services through the weekend.
Decatur city records show forty nine cases on the Christmas Eve docket including eight for disorderly conduct and intoxication on a public street, seven for parking in prohibited zones, and multiple counts for traffic violations. Police logged several automobile accidents with no injuries and two vandalism reports involving vandalized windows and scratched doorways. A Christmas Cantata at Grace Baptist Church Sunday at 7 p.m. will feature both children and adults in the program titled The Greatest Story Yet Untold.
Young Jackie G. Holmes of Decatur remained in satisfactory condition at St. Vincent's Hospital Birmingham after a buckshot accident during a deer hunting trip in Thomasville Wednesday. His mother-in-law Mrs Wiley G Randolph said he had a good night's rest.
The text notes New Jersey asphalt tonnage, Bao Dai's government in Saigon signing the 1954 Geneva accords, and limited U S involvement until after December 1960 when the Viet Cong National Liberation Front claimed representation of South Vietnam. It suggests Hanoi hopes talks on its terms, while Americans fear prolonged costly fighting.
Funeral services for Alfred Pryor Jr. who died Tuesday at a local hospital will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Union Grove Primitive Baptist Church Burial will be in Sand Hill Cemetery Reynolds directing Survivors include his father Alfred Pryor of Chattanooga Tenn a sister Mrs Bobby Jackson Decatur and other relatives
Parish Houston dies in Mooresville on Thursday. Funeral services will be Sunday at 11 a.m. at Mt Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Burial at New Hope Cemetery. Reynolds Funeral Home directing. Survivors include widow Mrs Mary Houston and other relatives.
In the past ten years lot costs averaged three thousand dollars or about eighteen percent of the house price. In 1954 lots cost only twelve percent of the total.
Americans in China face their 14th and 15th Christmases in prison cells on Saturday as the four men endure harsh conditions. The Most Rev. James E. Walsh, 74, from Cumberland Maryland, marks his third Christmas in a prison hospital after a 20-year sentence on espionage charges. Hugh F. Redmond Jr., 46, of Yonkers New York, a former business executive, is among the others serving time in this crackdown era.
The article recalls U S prisoners in China, including Bishop Walsh in Shanghai since 1962, Downey and Fecteau jailed after plane shoot down, and Christmas at President Johnson's Texas home. It notes no visits to Walsh, limited Red Cross parcels, and bleak daily life for the four Americans.
USS Galveston sailor Store keeper 3 C Ronnie W Sims of Decatur, son of Mr and Mrs Herbert D Sims, returned to San Diego Dec 18 after nearly seven months with the Seventh Fleet in the South China Sea off Vietnam. His ship fired 4600 rounds from five and six inch guns in support of landed forces during operations near Chu Lai and Van Tuong Peninsula.
Coroner reports Chambers of Marshall Space Flight Center killed in a grinding three car collision on U S 31 S near Athens. Two others died in that crash. Survivors include two sons Ralph and Eric. Earlier, six year old Randall Vickers was injured on Bethel Section Rd north of Athens. Wigginton and Burkalter injured in separate wrecks on Ala 67 east of Decatur. Holiday period traffic toll: one killed, one injured, three accidents.
Late shoppers are urged to visit the Garden Center at 804 Carridale S.W to find poinsettias cyclamen and azaleas along with other attractive gifts. Open until 9:00 P.M. tonight. Call 353-7154 for details.
From Da Nang to Saigon, U S troops observe a Christmas truce amid heavy fighting. U S B 52s strike Viet Cong hideouts as Viet Cong and Hanoi radio pledge a 12 hour halt. Marines share holiday meals and deliver gifts to South Vietnamese civilians while Cardinal Spellman visits.
Henagar residents approved incorporation by a 124 to 7 vote on Wednesday. Separate AP reports note a SCLC staffer jailed on car theft suspicion, a Montgomery man arrested for reckless driving after two armed bandits robbed him of cash and tools, and a Dothan lift accident that killed 52-year-old Shelby Stephens at a fertilizer plant.
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