11 Jul 1962
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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1962
Page
1
The Alabama House of Representatives approved a 67 senator constitutional amendment and standby bill detailing district populations. It lists county by county seat allocation for both House and Senate, with multiple counties sharing seats and others holding a single seat.
Telstar the new U S satellite sent television pictures from space spanning the Atlantic to France and England and relayed a Maine to Washington telephone call. It transmitted news stories at high speed and enabled two way calls from 3 000 miles up. French and British viewers received the signal with varying clarity as officials planned follow up broadcasts.
The Treasury will issue liberalized depreciation guidelines for plant and equipment, reducing the useful life of assets and promising about 1.25 billion dollars in annual tax relief for businesses. New rules establish objective standards to curb improper deductions and ease IRS administration.
Rev. John Rutland of Central Methodist Church will address the Decatur Kiwanis Club at Woodall's Barbecue Thursday. The Cub and Boy Scout Round Table meets Thursday at 7 15 p m at First Methodist Church. Committeemen den mothers and unit leaders urged to attend. Fall program quarterlies to be distributed. See Diary On Page 3.
Robert Mann, 19, an American university student, goes on trial behind closed doors in East Berlin on charges of luring people from the East to the West. Co-defendant Uwe Sturberg, 25, is not identified in role. Public excluded for state security reasons. Mann arrested Jan 22 after studying near Stuttgart with Stanford in Germany program.
The verse contrasts finding and losing life with worldly gain versus losing life for Christ and finding eternal life. It explains God’s eternal perspective versus human worldly values, urging priority of divine will over material aims and noting ultimate spiritual profit. It cites the question of profit if one gains the world but loses the soul and calls for seeking God’s eternal viewpoint.
Algerian crisis deepens as Premier Ben Youssef ben Khedda and Deputy Premier Ahmed ben Bella fail to reach amity talks in Rabat. Ben Bella inching toward a Western Algeria show of strength with 2 000 troops and a planned parade in Oran, while Boumedienne’s reinstatement dispute escalates. Elections set for Aug 12, with Ben Bella seeking consolidation of power.
Eight B58 bombers from Carswell Air Force Base flew over the Athens area Tuesday night at about 1150 mph. Residents reported shaking homes as the planes, in single file, passed at roughly 15 minute intervals. Authorities cited sonic boom noise as the sound barrier being broken with no reported structural damage beyond a cracked ceiling in a Sheffield residence.
Judge Powell fined Dr. Paul H. Gilliam fifty dollars after he admitted making a phone call to Dr. J P Pierce about 7 a m July 1 in an appeal from the State Board of Chiropractor Examiners which had revoked his license. Pierce testified he recognized the caller and that the phone rang late Thursday night. Gilliam said the call was to learn if Pierce was happy about the trial outcome and that he was upset and could not sleep.
In Montgomery the Alabama Senate planned to convene a conference committee to resolve differences in a 67 member reapportionment amendment passed by the House. The House concurred with Senate changes but shifted the statewide referendum date to align with a general election. The plan aims to have a 1967 enactment with one senator per county and population based House seats, pending court review.
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