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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1966
Page
4
The average cost of interstate highways in Alabama is about a million dollars per mile with 90 percent federal and 10 percent state funding. Alabama has roughly half of the interstate system completed.
A column argues Richard Speck should be confined for life due to insanity after eight student nurses were murdered. It notes the law permits relief from criminal consequences for serious mental disorders and predicts lifelong institutional confinement if insanity is established. Public demand for swift justice is acknowledged.
The Alabama TB control effort faces a special legislative session. Advocates urge increasing per diem funding for the Flint City and state sanatoriums to ten dollars at 95 percent occupancy and call for a legislative study of TB hospital needs and the overall TB program.
In the Dodd Klein inquiry the Senate Ethics Committee weighs which version of events is true. Gen Julius Klein claims no double sealed envelopes were sent to Dodd while secretary Helen Batherson testifies they were. Dodd swears he did not see Klein's detailed instructions for Germany as alleged. The panel also weighs letters and diary entries about meetings and the March 22 trip to New York where Klein's driver accompanied Dodd.
President Johnson's Asia policy envisions U S leadership in the Pacific with military resistance to Communism and economic aid. A broader alliance of free nations with Australia and New Zealand emerges, while conciliation with China is offered if it shifts from aggression. Domestic debate views the move as a challenge to isolationist sentiment and Viet Nam policy.
Billy Graham explains salvation depends on God’s grace not human works. He warns self righteous pride hides need for Christ and cites Ephesians 2:8 9 about salvation as a gift. People must confess need for God to live rightly.
Washington analysis notes the Senate shelved a plan to enlarge the CIA oversight panel. The piece cites constitutional precedence granting the President control over committee access to national security information and quotes Rear Admiral William F. Raborn on safeguarding sources and methods.
A brief sequence of historical notes dated July 19 includes 1892 when President Harrison ordered 2,000 troops to Idaho to quell unrest in the Coeur d Alene mining district, and 1778 marking Denmark's first public library opening. Additional items reference budget balance claims, river activity in Tennessee, and local Decatur area developments.
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