Local road crash and city notices highlight Monday
A 1960 Chevy driven by Frank Williams and a 1962 Chevy driven by Earl Benfield collided on U S 31 south near the Holiday Inn at 12 20 PM. Building permits issued include Pet Milk Co extension and enclosing cooler room at 1609 6th Ave SE for 8000 dollars and electrical service changes at several addresses. Sheriff’s deputies reported six arrests for public drunkenness highway intoxication and other offenses. Ronald Green earned a University of Alabama electrical engineering degree and begins work with Boeing in Huntsville. Fire crews responded to two grass fires and City Cemetery incidents. See Diary on page 2.
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U. S. 31
Holiday Inn
Frank Williams
Hartselle
Earl D. Benfield
Lafayette St. NE
Pet Milk Co
6Th Ave
Herbert Milligan
Olive St
Zola McCulloch
16Th Ave
Decatur 4
J. S. Burnett
5Th Ave
H. P. McKenney
Market St. NE
Martin G. Fleming
6Th Ave. NW
Ronald Green
C. F. Green
Somerville Rd
University of Alabama
Boeing Co
Huntsville
4Th Ave
City Cemetery
Kennedy Skips News Conference This Week
President Kennedy will not hold a news conference this week as White House says he met with newsmen last Thursday in Washington.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Anchor of the soul and acts of service to mend loneliness
The advice centers on faith in Jesus Christ as an anchor for the soul and outward focus. Stop dwelling on loneliness, help others, and read the Psalms in a solo sitting to find comfort, hope, and prayerful assurance. End with praising God.
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J.C
God
Jesus Christ
Christ
David
Weather May Ease For Much Of Nation
Unseasonably cold weather continues across much of the nation with subzero readings in the Ohio Valley Great Lakes New York and the Rocky Mountains. Warmth expected to spread from the southern plains to the Ohio Valley and lower Great Lakes as arctic air retreats. Shipping on the upper Mississippi remains halted by a 45 mile ice jam above Cairo Illinois and the Missouri River is blocked by a large ice gorge above St Louis.
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Rocky Mountain
New York State
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes Region
Northern Plains
Rocky Mountain Region
Great Falls
Drummond
Mont
Elmira
N.Y
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
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Rockies
Montana
North Dakota
Wyoming
South Dakota
Nebraska
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New York City
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Great Lakes
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Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
Texas Panhandle
Mississippi River
Cairo
Ill
Missouri River
St. Louis
Kansas City
Martin Files Vote Contest in Senate Challenge
James D. Martin of Gadsden Alabama filed an affidavit with the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee asking for a recount of Alabama Senate votes in the race against Democrat Lis ter Hill. He contends ballots were discarded contrary to state law and could have changed the outcome. Hill was sworn in for a new six year term as the Senate faces a filibuster over debate limits.
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Martin
Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
Senate
Hill
Alabama
Birmingham News
TVA
Th Senate
Grand Jury Returns Guilty Finding in Morgan County Case
Shortly before noon today the Morgan County Grand Jury found Roosevelt Baker guilty of reckless driving and set a $25 fine. Judge Lewis H. West did not sentence Baker and scheduled Feb 9 for a pre sentence report hearing. The jury began deliberations shortly after 2 p m Monday as other Blue Law cases were continued to the next term.
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Morgan County
Roosevelt Baker
Lewis H. West
Baker
West
Hartselle
J. W. Reynolds
Glenn Crook
Elbert Tankersley
Decatur
Bi Racial School Suit Filed In Macon County
A federal suit seeks a permanent injunction to end racial segregation in Macon County public schools.16 Negro children sue the Macon County Board of Education and Superintendent C A Pruitt seeking a nonracial reorganization plan approved by the court.
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Montgomery
Macon County
Macon County Board of Education
C. A. Pruitt
Alabama
Tuskegee
Study Group Seeks Money For State Budget
A legislative committee examined future funding needs as Governor Wallace weighs a possible fiscal proration. The Agriculture Department seeks two year appropriations including 100000 for Bangs disease, 50000 for swine disease, 100000 for poultry, and 27000 for white fringe beetle control.
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Montgomery
George Wallace
Wallace
Senate House
Bang
Agriculture Department
John A. Milligan
Milligan
W.A. Ruffin
Emmett Oden
Franklin County
Ruffin
Markets At A Glance
New York stocks traded lower in quiet trading while bonds moved mixed and cotton fell with new crop months weak. Chicago grain mixed as wheat rose slightly, corn and oats steady to firm, soybeans generally weak and hog prices steady to 50 cents lower, slaughter steers mostly unchanged.
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New York
Chicago
Kennedy proposes 24 point education aid plan for 1963
President Kennedy sends Congress a 24 point education aid package with 1.2 billion dollars to begin. The plan avoids direct private school aid, focuses on grants for public schools, expanded student loans, and college support, with a four year phase out. It emphasizes a national study on why students do not attend or finish college and limits loans to facility construction with grants for libraries and training.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Robert Frost Dies at 88 Dean of American Poets
Robert Frost, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, died in Boston at 1:50 a.m. at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital after a heart attack and blood clots in the lungs. He had been hospitalized since December 3 and survived prior operations despite a recent deterioration. Frost, once a mill worker and farmer, gained fame late, reading at Kennedy’s inauguration and serving as poet laureate adviser to the Library of Congress.
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Robert Frost
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
New Hampshire
Kennedy
Frost
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Library of Congress
Congress
Carl Sandburg
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dartmouth College
Robert
Writer's Luck Is Rare Frost Visit to Frost at Bread Loaf
In 1956 at Middlebury College Bread Loaf near Ripton Tony Shelton recounts a private visit with poet Robert Frost. He describes mist, a damp woods afternoon, Frost’s cabin, and a cautious privacy maintained by Frost and neighbors.
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Bread Loaf Mountain
Ripton
Robert Frost
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Frost
Poet
U Thant Sees Bright Nuclear Test Ban Hopes
U Thant said prospects for a nuclear test ban treaty are brighter now than ever in UN history. In Cape Canaveral the Delta rocket faces a Feb. launch window to place the Syncom satellite 22,300 miles high, with a Feb. 13 postponement announced by NASA from Feb. 6.
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New York
U Thant
United Nations
Cape Canaveral
Fla
America
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington
Spain confirms smooth renegotiation on US base terms
A top Spanish official predicted smooth sailing in renegotiating the treaty that grants the United States four military bases in Spain. In Alabama, Madison County voters may next spring decide whether private clubs, restaurants and hotels can sell liquor and wine, replacing current state store restrictions. The Madison County legislative delegation plans a bill to legalize private liquor sales, pending a countywide referendum.
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Madrid
Spain
United States
Huntsville
Madison County
Body of 59 year old found in pond near Grant
The body of 59 year old Miss Ethel Fletcher was found in a pond near her rural home in Grant Alabama. She had left her house around 5 30 am and a search was started when she failed to return.
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Grant
Ala
Ethel Fletcher
France rejects Britain joinStalemate ends EU bid
Six-nation talks fail to overcome French veto on Britain's Common Market entry. France stands firm under De Gaulle as U S envoy press seeks compromise. Britain and five partners face setback with Spaak warning unity eroded.
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Jfk
de Gaulle
Brussels
Belgium
Britain
Kennedy
Paul-Henri Spaak
Edward Heath
Ludwig Erhard
U.S
John Tuthill
Erhard
European Economic Community
West Germany
Netherlands
Italy
Luxembourg
Tuthill
Charles de Gaulle
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