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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1960
Page
1
Deagles DIARS City Animal Shelter in West Decatur has a blue tick hound and a red bone hound for redemption. Poundmaster George Collier says the shelter also has three collies and five mongrels for sale.
A church member questions concentrating roles in one man who chairs the Deacons, runs Sunday school and leads the Brotherhood. The response cites talent variation and favors rotation to involve many members in leadership, suggesting offering service to the pastor and adopting rotating offices to develop leaders.
President elect Kennedy plans a global review of American foreign policy and picks Robert V. Roosa as undersecretary of the Treasury for monetary affairs. He also considers Archibald Cox for solicitor general and meets with Senator J. William Fulbright to discuss foreign policy and domestic wage plans.
Alabama ranks ninth among Southern states for pupils in accredited high schools, with Florida and Georgia leading. Morgan County has only two accredited high schools by the Southern Association, while most Alabama schools meet state standards. Georgia officials cite stronger Southern Association standards and broader funding as factors.
In Noyan Quebec AP report Marjorie Vosburgh 43 and 11 of her 15 children died after a stove caused a blaze in a wooden house near Montreal. Abel Vosburgh escaped with one child. others perished as flames consumed the home.
The Justice Department plans to ask a federal court in Birmingham for an order allowing FBI copying of Sumter County voting records. Summonses were served on six of seven defendants, including State Atty. Gen. MacDonald Gallion Judge Emmett Hildreth Probate Judge W. E. Dearman and Sumter County Registrars E. C. Godfrey Ruby Tartt and M. C. Culpepper. Sheriff C. G. Scott to be served this week. Defendants have 20 days to seek the court order before the hearing.
A man robbed the Bank of Sebastopol soon after it opened, fleeing with an undetermined amount of money. Reports say an accomplice waited in a car nearby as police investigate the incident. Grand Opening Sale Frigidaire appliances advertised next to the notice.
Clay County authorities will seek a rapid sanity decision from Bryce Hospital on Raymond Eugene Brown, the teenager arrested for knife slayings of his aunt, grandmother, and great grandmother. Brown, a Clay County high school athlete, was held for sanity tests after the Oct. 1 deaths at the Ogle farmhouse.
Efforts to locate Vaughn D. Perkins in Flint Creek continue after his boat drifted from the bank while he hunted for Indian artifacts. Local rescue workers report roots and stumps hindering dragging and await Huntsville divers this weekend to aid searches.
Decatur notices a full Moon on January 1 and Mars visible all night as it rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. Mars shines brighter than all stars except Sirius, with current sunset and sunrise times noted for late December.
Decatur and Vicinity Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 16.19 feet a fall of .12 feet in 24 hours. Read ing from sea level was 550.49 feet. Other TVA lake stages this morning Pickwick Guntersville Whitesburg High temperature was 53 degrees at 2 30 p m low during the night 42 at 6 a m today At 10 35 a m today it was 43 degrees Forecast is for considerable cloudiness and cool with occasional rain today tonight and Friday Winds southeasterly at 7 15 mph becoming northerly at 5 10 mph Friday High expected for today 49 low tonight 39 high Friday 47
In Kingston County near Newburg two miners Truman Burke and James Tarleton both about 24 were killed when a gas blast collapsed slate inside the Sanford Phillips coal mine. Rescuers and state inspectors prepared to investigate as authorities noted the mine had been idle for holidays.
An official Hawaii recount gives Kennedy 303 electoral votes to Nixon 219 and Byrd 15. National popular vote totals show Kennedy ahead 34,221,531 to 34,108,474 with a 113,057 plurality. Total votes reach 68,832,778. others capture 502,773, leaving Kennedy short of a majority.
Alabama editors named the statewide controversy over Democratic presidential electors as the number one story of 1960. The split Democrat slate, loyals versus independents, and the Dec 19 Electoral College votes shaped a year-long, closely watched sequence with Republicans hoping to win electoral votes for the first time since Reconstruction.
King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola flew home from their honeymoon as 15,000 strikers surged through Brussels, smashing windows and overturning cars. The Socialists' action halted Spain stay, while police and troops guard government buildings. Premier Eyskens met strikers’ delegates to discuss amendments to the program.
New York AP reports Americans contributed over 8 billion dollars for charitable causes this year. The American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel notes yearend totals of 7.8 billion in 1959 and 7.1 billion in 1958, with incomplete returns suggesting federated campaign giving will exceed 1959 by at least two percent.
Quickies by Ken Reynolds notes a wife urging her husband to buy a car in the Daily Want Ad section with a playful warning not to block her. The column uses witty banter to reflect mid century domestic humor and shopping obsessions.
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