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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1965
Page
4
Decatur's City Commission creates an administrative assistant post to supervise growing city operations, with a monthly pay of 200 to 300 dollars depending on the mayor. Larkin Yates, a proven school administrator, takes the role as the city moves toward professional governance.
An editorial condemns the 535 U S highway fatalities over the holiday weekend and 43 564 deaths last year, urging every driver to be alert non drinking and cautious. It recalls Nathan Hale and Gettysburg to argue for personal responsibility and a safety culture to end highway slaughter.
Washington lawmakers held two days of closed hearings on cigarette advertising health warnings. Two tobacco lobby spokesmen, Walter Rogers of Pampa Texas and Horace Kornegay of Greensboro North Carolina, resisted FTC regulation but yielded after pressure. The result is a three and a half year moratorium on FTC power with warnings allowed anywhere on the pack, replacing the side-display rule.
The writer argues for religious freedom while criticizing false cults and Satan worship. Citing Los Angeles worships and Hitler, the piece warns against choosing faith carelessly and urges astute discernment in religion consistent with truth and life.
A Malayan spider hunts without a web using a yellow body and stamen like legs resembling the center of a golden flower to lure flies into striking range.
A 1965 column notes Luci Johnson’s Catholic conversion as a private matter reflecting U.S. tolerance. It cites interchurch cooperation—Lutheran Catholic talks in Geneva and World Council of Churches discussions—as steps toward unity. It references Bhagavan Das and a 10 000 year lineage of shared sacred truths.
William S. White argues John Lindsay’s rise signals a shift in New York politics. The piece suggests Lindsay could become a 1968 Republican presidential contender, potentially dethrone Rockefeller or push Javits forward, while Democrats face factional strife and Robert Kennedy’s uncertain leadership.
On this date in 1835 the Liberty Bell cracked as it was tolled for Chief Justice John Marshall. Other notes recall Bryans Cross of Gold speech in 1896, Rockefellers birth in 1839, Boxer Rebellion action in 1900, Sullivan Kilrain fight in 1889, Polo Grounds opening, Laos fighting, Congo unrest, China Romania science pact, and a velvet ant adapted to desert heat.
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