Area Faces 15 Tonight
Decatur area endures a frightful mix of rain sleet and snow with a forecast of 15 degrees. Highway Patrol reports open roads with icy spots and a fatal wreck near Decatur amid four area accidents and several weather readings across Morgan Cullman and neighboring counties.
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Decatur
Highway Patrol
Alabama
Morgan County
Florette
Cullman County
Cullman
Gadsden
Birmingham
Anniston
Night of Moose Lodge Cancelled for Holiday
Minnie Randolph reports Robert Earl Randolph aged nine missing since Tuesday afternoon. She told police she has no idea where he went. The item appears in the diary section on page two.
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Minnie Randolph
Vine St. W
Robert Earl Randolph
Origins of the Christmas Tree in German and English Traditions
Pagans in the German forests lit a Yule log and decorated a tree. The custom spread in Germany and entered English usage by 1789. It reached England with Queen Victoria’s German husband and later crossed to America with migrants. The tree symbolized Christ as a living plant yielding spiritual fruit, though some wording in the text becomes unclear.
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Germany
England
Victoria
America
Christ
Babson’s 1962 Forecast Shapes Local Outlook
Babson predicts 1962 will be stronger for readers than 1961 with higher industrial output and rising costs. He forecasts stock gains, record retail trade, erratic commodity prices, and real estate gains as population grows, while cautioning on land shortages and parking space.
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Washington
Babson
Alabama Editors pick Race Violence as top 1961 story
The Freedom Rider bus fire at Anniston and related violence topped Alabama editors' 1961 news list. Redistricting battles and the Alabama football team ranked next, with the 9 8 plan legally challenged and under court review.
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Freedom Riders
Anniston
Alabama Associated Press Newspapers
Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide
Freedom Rider
Justice Department
Sun
Greyhound
Georgia Line
South
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Birmingham
Montgomery
U.S
Mrs Wilson Weaker In Washington Aged Widow Of President
Mrs Woodrow Wilson aged 89 widow of World War I president was reported a little weaker. Physicians described her illness as a respiratory ailment with complications.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Car Yields One Life
One man died and another escaped after a 1954 Plymouth plunged into a canal near Lakeside High School on Highway 20. Marvin Ralph Stover, 41, Decature, died at the scene. James E. Wallace, 44, 519 4th St NW, was listed in critical condition with a dislocated hip, exposure, and shock after being under water 20 to 25 minutes. Autopsy planned for Stover.
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Nal
Lakeside High School
Marvin Ralph
Tutt) Stover
Decature
Lewis C. (Pinky) Brown
Decatur General Hospital
James E. Wallace
4Th St. NW
Wallace
Brown
Stover
E. L. Garrett
Garrett
Six Katangese In Parliament
Six Katanga deputies took seats in the Congo Parliament and aimed to push for a revision of the provisional constitution to loosen central government control. Katanga President Moise Tshombe urged a Congo confederation granting independence for his province despite the Kitona unity pact, clashing with terms agreed with Premier Cyrille Adoula.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Congo
Katanga
Elisabethville
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Cyrille Adoula
Kingsport Newsboy's Christmas Gift Sparks Nationwide Funds
The Kingsport newsboy Gary, known as the littlest Santa, donated profits to the Salvation Army kettle. The Exchange Club hosted him. he received a bicycle jacket and a savings account was started. Public response poured in from across the country raising about 275 dollars for his fund with supporters from Colorado to New Jersey sending donations.
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Kingsport, Tenn
Kingsport
Salvation Army
Gary
Exchange Club
Associated Press
Chamber of Commerce
Tenn
Colorado
Fargo
N.C
Abilene
Kan
Knoxville
San At Barbara
Calif
New Brunswick
N.J
Thin clay seam blamed for Wheeler Dam lock collapse
TVA blamed a nearly horizontal clay seam in the land wall foundation for the June failure of Wheeler Dam lock in northern Alabama. The seam 116 to 138 inches thick provided a sliding surface under the wall as 436 feet of the lock’s land wall gave way while water stood near the normal maximum level.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Wheeler Dam
Alabama
TVA
G. P. Palo
Palo
Long List Of Telephone Calls Reviewed In NAACP Case
A Birmingham Bell employee testified as state prosecutors reviewed long distance calls charged to W. C. Patton, former Alabama NAACP leader, during proceedings on a five year injunction against the NAACP. The hearing before Judge Walter B. Jones assessed if a permanent injunction should replace the temporary restraining order issued in 1956.
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Montgomery
Southern Bell Telephone Co
W. C. Patton
NAACP
Alabama
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
MacDonald Gallion
Walter B. Jones
Fred Gray
Telephone Company
William Eagerton
Birmingham
Ralph Edgerton
Gray
Edgerton
Attorney General
Patton
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Ecatur
By Roger Babson
Dow-Jones
Roger Babson
Douglas Dillon
Crimson Tide
THE
Alabama Supreme Court
Mrs. Wilson Weaker
NAAGP
Robinson's
Second Avenue
Rex Thomas
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
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