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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1961
Page
4
The Fayette, Lamar and Winston counties in Alabama rejected all 45 statewide amendments while the state overall approved 43 of 45. Only about 160000 of 750000 qualified voters participated, leaving questions about the counties' opposition to the legislature's proposals.
The 28th TVA annual report to the President and Congress outlines flood control saves of nearly $5 million and 149.6 million in damages averted since 1936, power sales of 60.1 billion kWh, net income over 51.6 million, and $100 million of power bonds sold. It notes waterfront plant investment over 70 million and farm shifts from small to larger holdings with 193,000 farms averaging about 100 acres. The report stresses rural overpopulation, tenancy decline to 15 percent by 1960, and urges an integrated agricultural and industrial development for the Valley’s progress.
The piece argues the 1964 GOP prospects hinge on Rockefeller and Nixon amid 1962 races. Rockefeller fights a New York divorce while Nixon campaigns in California after a narrow 1960 loss. A GOP failure in 1962 could leave Barry Goldwater as the sole 1964 hopeful.
A reflective piece urging busy people to seize time for self improvement and community service. It warns against idleness and watching life pass by, stressing personal responsibility for planning and pursuing meaningful projects.
In Bogota and rural towns barrios, 62 Peace Corpsmen work on community development under Mary G Lowrie. Larry Radley helps pipe water to Armenia and Terry Adcock teaches sanitation, while Neil Hansen advances a 3 km plastic water line in El Valle. Mike Willson trials a four pound onion variety in Tonjo and William Woudenberg innovates tropical concrete in Buenaventura.
Norman Vincent Peale reflects on a modern concept of success beyond money or fame. He highlights self knowledge self control and self reverence as key traits and cites Ruth Hardy of Palm Springs as an example of a person who built a healthy life through positive thinking and ethical conduct.
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