Decatur Leads Alabama Cities in Five Month Building Totals
Building permit figures show Decatur far ahead of Tuscaloosa Florence and Dothan in the first five months, with Decatur's total at 6 559 954 and growth seen as signs of a stabilizing economy. An Atlanta planning firm and construction officials forecast a potential 14 million year.
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Goldwater vows to enforce civil rights law in 1964 bid
Barry Goldwater told the Republican Platform Committee he would enforce the civil rights law and not seek repeal. He said the president should administer the law and urged party unity while declining to dictate platform planks.
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Harry S. Truman
North Alabama AI Engineers Meet At Redstone Arsenal
The North Alabama chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers will meet tomorrow at the officers club on Redstone Arsenal. Social hour starts at 7 pm dinner at 8 pm and dancing from 9 pm. Mr and Mrs Armando Quesada of Camaguey Cuba will attend Decatur Rotary Club luncheon at the Lyons Hotel Monday.
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Officers Club
Redstone Arsenal
Armando Quesada
Camaguey
Cuba
Decatur Rotary Club
Lyons
Attitude Toward Modern Goods In Christian Life
A reader questions how to balance enjoyment of television and cars with faith. The reply argues Jesus did not promise an easy path, says material gifts come from God, and that a Christian should coerce desire, using Scripture to show goods serve as tools under a surrendered life.
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Jesus
James
Paul
Timothy
Christ
Palance Visit Triggers Riot at Integrated Theater
In Tuscaloosa the appearance of actor Jack Palance at an integrated venue sparked a melee. Police used tear gas and fire hoses to break up the disturbance as an 8 pm to 5 am curfew for those under 21 was ordered after the riot.
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Tuscaloosa
Jack Palance
Gatherings At Selma Banned In Civil Rights Case
A Selma Alabama judge issued a temporary injunction banning Negro and white organizations from mass meetings or street demonstrations for or against the civil rights act. Circuit Judge James A. Hare signed the order to preserve law and order and keep streets safe after a week of demonstrations and violence. It targets Negro organizations the Ku Klux Klan and the National States Rights Party and bars assembling three or more members.
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James A. Hare
Ku Klux Klan
National States Rights Party
FBI Chief Hoover Arrives in Mississippi to Confer on Tense Race Rift
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover landed in Jackson Mississippi and met with Governor Paul B Johnson to discuss the volatile racial tensions. President Johnson announced 50 FBI agents would be assigned to a new Mississippi field office and Hoover was greeted by Mayor Allen C Thompson Police Chief W D Rayfield and Highway Patrol director Col T B Birdsong before heading to the state capitol.
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Highway Patrol
Youth Revival Nightly at Sherman St. Church of God
The Sherman Street Church of God hosts nightly youth revival at 7 30 p m led by evangelist Rev Coy Phillips Adv promotion invites young people to attend the event each evening through the week.
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Sherman St. Church of God
Coy Phillips
Crashed United airliner bound for Huntsville
Searchers traced the United Airlines crash near Newport Tennessee to a disaster that killed all 39 aboard. Fragments and 23 bodies were recovered to a morgue as investigators led by George R Baker probed sabotage possibilities while the flight recorder remained missing. Capt Oliver E Labathe reported a switch to visual flight just before the crash in Trenth am Hollow.
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Four Huntsville residents die in Tennessee plane crash
Mrs. Margaret Anderson and her children Robert six and Nancy nine were killed when a United Airlines jet crashed near Newport Tennessee on Thursday night en route to Huntsville. Hugh M Taylor of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center also died in the disaster.
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Tenn
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Limestone School Start Delayed Over Textbook Row
Athens limestone County Board of Education delays fall term open at request of State Supt Austin Meadows due to a textbook dispute with Paul Malone. Montgomery AP state Supreme Court refuses to intervene in lower court injunction halting shipment of school texts to a new depot.
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Madison County Board of Education
Board awards two construction contracts to Athens and Huntsville firms
In a major action the board awarded two contracts totaling 142 500 to an Athens construction company and a Huntsville metal firm for the construction See L'STONE On Page 2.
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Huntsville Metal Firm
U S Education Officials Meet Alabama School Leaders
Five representatives of the U S Health Education and Welfare Department met about 30 Alabama school officials to discuss enforcing the civil rights law. The session aimed to agree on best practices for integration and compliance.
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Montgomery
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Alabama
Floodlights Drive Johnson From Spotlight At Transit Act Signing
President Johnson dodged the hot floodlights during the $375 million mass transit bill signing. A photo-light aversion kept photographers out of the ceremony after his entrance, with aides seeking to avoid repeated exposure while he praised the measure as a major domestic milestone.
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Washington
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Block Chandler Expansion Begins At Hartselle Hospital
Hart selle Alabama Davis Construction Co of Birmingham awarded an eight room addition to Block Chandler Hospital. The $40 000 expansion extends south of the west wing and will boost capacity to 65 beds. It is the sixth enlargement since the 1956 opening.
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Chandler Hospital
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Birmingham
Grandmother In Huntsville Has Triplets
Mrs. Collins Hess, 45, gave birth to triplets in Huntsville Alabama on Thursday morning. The three healthy boys are named Shawn Michael, Collins Charles and Gregory Walter. The Hess family previously included six other children and the father Collins Hess works as a program analyst for the Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal.
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Huntsville
Ala
Collins Hess
Special Republican Coverage Planned For Daily Readers
AP reports that Decatur Daily readers will receive personalized coverage from the National Republican Convention in San Francisco. Ross Hagen of Birmingham will file daily Alabama specific reports on convention activity and the Alabama delegation.
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Birmingham
Ala
Decatur Daily
San Francisco
Ross Hagen
Alabama
Markets At A Glance From New York to Chicago
New York trading mixed gains across stocks while motors rally. Bonds show mixed performance as rails advance. Wheat weak in Chicago with liquidation, corn and oats irregular, soybeans easier with liquidation. Hog prices steady to 25 cents higher at 18.50, slaughter steers up 50 cents to 24.75.
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New York
Chicago
Exchange Furniture On Moulton St Advertisement
Buy and exchange old furniture on Moulton Street. Simple ad invites customers to trade items rather than discard them. Policy highlights a local shop promoting resale and recycling of used furnishings.
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