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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1962
Page
3
A new attempt to set off a nuclear blast in space fringe is expected next week as the Dominic test series nears completion. With 2 successes and 2 failures, the program is about 85 percent done and may fall within the months Kennedy cited for resuming atmospheric testing. the Defense Department says it will disclose cause of the stalled June 19 launch attempt.
A Crenshaw County legislator described 34 year old Graham of Luverne planning a July 6 return trip to Laverne. He noted Graham, a longtime Luverne barber, would have enough spending money to live well and would stay at a Hyannis motel and a top New York hotel. Graham, a bachelor, is known as the twist champion of Crenshaw County and hopes to perform at a New York nightclub. Major Sikes asked Hyannis and New York mayors to extend hospitality.
The Defense Department announced that a package attached to the Thor missile booster disrupted air flow during launch, causing a vacuum that overpressurized and collapsed part of the skin. Wreckage including non detonation nuclear warhead fragments fell on Johnston Island and into adjacent sea. only two workers were scratched by debris.
Morgan County Rural Areas Development Committee named officers for its RAC and listed new chairmen and members for Agricultural Forestry Business and Industry Education and Training Recreation and Tourism Health and Welfare Marketing. Guy D. Roberts chairs RAC with Bennie Neighbors as VP and Charles D. Rutledge as secretary.
The article notes hair loss after a bite could be caused by multiple conditions spread through scratching or biting. Without lab tests diagnosis is uncertain and treatment is not reliable. Specialists in animal skin diseases exist and veterinarians can refer you to one.
A Negro woman Mamie Lee Underwood 36 and her 10 children plus one grandchild left Centreville Alabama for Cleveland on a one way free trip funded by the Bibb County Citizens Council. Mayor Jim Oakley arranged tickets $60 cash and a total outlay of 246.13. The family seeks work in Cleveland and has a brother there John Heard. The council raised over 600 for such trips and plans more departures as available. They were due in Cleveland Sunday afternoon.
Julich Maynard Layman Ed Price and Paul Hendry are listed alongside Technical Panel members C Cash D M Robertson Roger Chapman and Floyd Anderson in the credited lineup.
Willie Vester Graham nicknamed Big Nit, a 450 pound shoe shiner from Luverne Alabama, leaves with a roundtrip bus ticket and cash for Hyannis Massachusetts on a reverse freedom ride with a planned return home after sightseeing. Local sponsors say he may stay north if he likes it or return to Alabama and then go back. Graham, who learned of other travelers, hopes to see life up north and decide his future with a three day Hyannis stay and a July 5 trip to New York unless he changes his mind.
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