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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1965
Page
4
The piece notes that parades and double-header games are fading, but the chance to display Old Glory endures. It urges Americans to celebrate this July Fourth for past, present, and future generations and for fellow citizens around the world.
Alabama Department of Public Safety issues simple driver rules for a safe Independence Day weekend. Major W. L. Allen urges common sense and courtesy to reduce highway fatalities, noting eleven deaths last year and urging Alabama to lead with a zero traffic fatality goal.
A regional call remains for Congress to authorize construction as an economic feasibility study by the Corps of Engineers results. Four-state representatives await the report to pursue funds and hearings with President Johnson, with leaders optimistic about favorable findings.
Washington report details a lobbying clash over bread prices led by Maurice Rosenblatt for major baking firms and unions. It ties bread costs to farm policy, noting farmers face parity moves, millers and bakers seek a two cent loaf premium, and Johnson administration farm bill proposals.
The piece urges seizing time as a gift from God and becoming the person you seek to be now. It cites Tagore and Psalm 118 to advise acting on faith and love without delay, warning that many delay living and relationship with God until late.
The Wyoming Beer Wholesalers held their convention in Riverton followed by the Wyoming Liquor Dealers Association and soon after the Wyoming Alcoholics Anonymous opened its Riverton convention. The sequence shows back to back gatherings in the Wyoming town.
Water runoff from December floods in Northern California was more than twice the irrigation and arid area savings expected from the 2 billion State Water Project when completed in 1990.
David Lawrence reports on Patrick Gordon Walker urging the United States to recognize Communist China at the UN. He argues such recognition rewards aggression, cites Korea and Vietnam, and condemns appeasement and Munich era compromises amid Cold War tensions.
Marquis Childs analyzes Ray Bliss as GOP chairman pressured by Goldwaterites and moderates. He notes internal splits threaten party unity, fund-raising, and future elections, with right wing factions seeking control and moderates fearing a Whig-like decline in a one party era.
A special California exposition train carrying about 150 Alabamians from San Francisco passed through Decatur the night before. A dozen or more boarded the train here. The traffic committee discussed plans for crowds at Decatur's four day celebration beginning July 4. Billy D. Lamon planted tomatoes in his vacant yard with beans measuring 19 and 17 inches. Abell was installed in the Bank St Post Office for emergency signaling by clerks on duty.
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