CBS Denies Charge Over Negro Voter Registration Broadcast
CBS says it did not intend to charge Montgomery county registrars with dereliction of duty in a NOV. 2 televised piece about a school for prospective Negro voters. An attorney for the registrars called the statement unsatisfactory and discussed possible slander action.
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Montgomery
Columbia Broadcasting System
Montgomery County
CBS
Robert Stewart
Douglas Edwards
Board of Registrars
Montgomery Stewart
Hospital Admissions and Dismissals Listed by City
A compiled hospital notice lists admissions and discharges. Named patients include Mrs. Lucinda Waldrep in Birmingham area, Mrs. Neal Flippo, Master Barry Moore, Master Jeffrey Cook, and others in Decatur Athens Moulton Trinity Cullman and surrounding areas.
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Lucinda Jane Waldrep
Grant St
Neal Flippo
8Th Ave
Barry Franklin Moore
W. Market St
Athens
Jeffrey Randall
Cook
Brookwood Dr
Randall Kent Countryman
Danville Rd
Funeral services for Ike Jones held in Cedar Lake
Funeral services for Ike Jones of Cedar Lake were held at 1 p.m. at the Carl M. Sykes Chapel with Rev. Robert Sandifier officiating. Interment followed in Oakland Cemetery near US Highway 31. Surviving relatives include two sisters Mary Allen and Julia Crutcher of Cedar Lake and one daughter Johnnie Banks of Cleveland Ohio along with three grandchildren two great grandchildren and other relatives.
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Ike Jones
Cedar Lake
Carl M. Sykes
Robert Sandifier
Oakland Cemetery
US Highway 31
Mary Allen
Belle Mina
Julia Crutcher
Johnnie Banks
Cleveland, O
Evening Sky Outlook for Sunday December 31
Sunset at 4 47 p m. Sunrise 6 55 a m. Moonrise 1 47 a m. Prominent Orion visible in southeast at 8 38 p m. Saturn sets at 5 50 p m and Jupiter appears low in the southwest at 5 19 p m. Venus Mars and Mercury are too near the Sun to be seen.
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Saturn
Jupiter
Venus
Mars
Mercury
Tennessee River reading near Keller Memorial Bridge
River stage Friday night stood at 17.18 feet with a 0.05 foot drop in 12 hours. Sea level reading was 551.48 feet. Friday high reached 33 degrees with 9:15 p.m. temperature at 3 percent. Forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy and not so cold tonight. Sunday remains partly cloudy and warmer with light southwest winds.
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Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
Thailand Plans Its Peace Corps Version
Bangkok officials outline a local Peace Corps style program to advise Thai communities in agriculture engineering and health. Young Thai college graduates are expected to form the nucleus of the corps.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Peace Corps
Tests Suggest Aluminum Shielding At High Altitude
Tests of biological specimens exposed to intense radiation at high altitudes indicate that relatively thin aluminum may provide adequate shielding.
Scouts Hunted In Mountains In Snow
In Knoxville Tennessee park rangers hunt from foot and jeep for two Explorer Scouts missing in the Great Smoky Mountains after a 26 mile Appalachian Trail hike. Frost bit comrades are treated for shock while helicopters are prepared if not found by morning.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Park Rangers
Great Smoky Mountains
Mike Harrington
Allen Wallin
Shepherd
Harrington
Wallin
Senne
Newfound Gap
Low Gap
Cosby
Pecks Corner
North Carolina
North Carolina-Tennessee
John C. Jacobs Jr
Jacobs
Davenport Gap
Deaths Russell F West 59 of Decatur services Sunday
Funeral services for Russell F. West, 59, of 1604 Chestnut Street SE, will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Gunthorp Brown Service Funeral Home Chapel. Survivors include wife Kathleen West, two daughters Betty Sue and Mary Ann West, a brother H. B. West, with pallbearers A. H. Turner, L. L. Garrison, W. D. Free, A. C. Taylor, and Zolom Moses.
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Russell F. West
Chestnut St
Gunthorp- Brown
Funeral Home
M. H. Harper
John Barton
Kathleen West
Decatur
Betty Sue
Mary Ann West
H. B. West
Auburn
A. H. Turner
L. L. Garrison
W. D. Free
A. C. Taylor
Zolom Moses
Eyeglass Firms Face Trust Suits
The United States filed a civil antitrust action in Chicago against American Optical Co. and Bausch & Lomb, seeking to force divestiture of more than 40 wholesale distributor branches and to bar their activity as wholesalers and retailers in eyeglass markets. Trial of the related case in Milwaukee is pending.
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Chicago
U.S. District Court
American On Co
Bausch & Lomba
Milwaukee
Busiare
Cave In Fatal To State Youth
A Fairhope Alabama boy aged 8 to 11 was killed when the side of a gully collapsed while he and four friends played. Steve Hammel was buried under two feet of dirt for about 45 minutes before rescuers recovered his body. he was pronounced dead on the scene. The other four boys escaped uninjured.
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Fairhope
Ala
Steve Hammel
Big Head
Cecil Clemmens
Dick Hammel
Hammel
Adenauer Sees No War In 1962 Berlin Crisis
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said East West talks on Berlin would begin early next year and that there would be no war in 1962. He noted De Gaulle wants a hopeful atmosphere before talks and welcomed a Moscow probe to test Soviet willingness. Willy Brandt urged foreign ministers meet in West Berlin, signaling softened resistance to risk.
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Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Berlin
Charles de Gaulle
France
Paris
Adenauer
de Gaulle
Soviet Union
Moscow
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Khrushchev
the ‘‘Politisch-Soziale Korrespondenz
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Brandt
West Germany
Mine To Open For TVA Pact In Kentucky
West Kentucky Coal Co officials announce a nine year 26 million TVA contract to reopen East Diamond Mine east of Madisonville. Work to start with a small crew. full operation adds 1.25 million in payroll and 1 million tons annual coal output. TVA also exercises option to 19 250 tons weekly No 9 coal.
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Madisonville
West Kentucky Coal Co
Tennessee Valley Authority
C. E. Wilkerson
TVA
Chattanooga
Federal Power Agency
West Kentucky
Wilkerson
Daughters Born to Local Couples This Friday
Mr and Mrs Gerald Meherg of Decatur welcome a daughter at Bank Street Hospital. Mr and Mrs Garland Nuby of Hartseller announce a daughter at Decatur General Hospital. Mr and Mrs Ronald Pridmore of 408 4th Ave SW report a daughter at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital.
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Gerald Meherg
Decatur
Bank Street Hospital
Garland Nuby
Hartseller
Decatur General Hospital
Ronald Pridmore
4Th Ave
Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital
Berlin Bar Gaining Stance Shows Country’s Stake with Soviet Union
A concise report notes a country maintaining a critical stake in Berlin amid bar gains and rising influence of the Soviet Union, signaling shifting power dynamics and potential diplomatic implications for Europe.
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Berlin
Soviet Union
Tshombe presses Congo pact as Katanga Assembly nears decision
Tshombe said his Kitona accord to surrender independence must be ratified by the Katanga Assembly. He reported a new Congo army attack on Kongolo aided by U.N. transport and jet bombardment, while Adoula weighs placing Congo troops under U.N. command ahead of Katanga’s Jan. 3 assembly session.
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Tshombe
Adoula
Kitona
Leopoldville
Katanga
U.N. Congo
Congo Army
Kongolo
Elisabethville
Kivu
United Nations
U.N
Kamina
Adlai Cites Hope After U.N. Actions
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson told President Kennedy that the U.N. achieved better results on four major issues than expected and voiced concern over U.N. action regarding India's Goa ratification. He praised U.N. conduct in Congo and warned of uneven enforcement of international law in Goa.
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Goa
United Nations
Stevenson
U.S
York City
White House
Dag Hammarskjold
Congo
Katanga
China
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Cleveland
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