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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1964
Page
4
World renowned author John Gunther hails the Tennessee Valley Authority as the century’s greatest American invention. He contrasts his view with Senator Goldwater’s apparent disagreement.
Cliff Almon of Decatur and Morgan County led Alabama at the Democratic Convention. Now Jess Lanier of Bessemer and Decatur heads the delegation to Atlantic City in late August. Lanier, former Decatur High quarterback and past mayor of Bessemer, has risen to prominence as Alabama League of Municipalities president, marking Decatur's two firsts in convention leadership.
Oklahoma banker Jack T. Conn of Ada, chairing the ABA federal legislative committee, told Alabama bankers in Tuscaloosa that Congress remains the preferred path for banking legislation and urged bankers to actively engage in politics at local, state, and national levels to express their views in a dignified manner.
The Alabama Society for Crippled Children and Adults reports a record year aiding 825 people in 11 workshops and placing 3 123 in fulltime jobs. Harold M. Harris credits medical advances, more workshops, and employer openness for rising self sufficiency and productive citizenship. Morgan County funds support much local work through the United Fund with donations turning into human value.
A reporter tours the Sea of Galilee to the Negev irrigation line linking water to Israel’s arid south. Guards, bunkers, and Swiss-made pumps protect the project amid Arab threat of war as political leaders haggle over the water corridor.
The text argues that self contentment leads to stagnation and no real life progress. It contrasts contentment with striving for improvement, citing Paul and George Jean Nathan to urge pressing on to higher goals and never settling for perfection.
Experiments indicate that both fathers and mothers who take the sedative thalidomide may cause abnormalities in their children. The studies warn of potential congenital defects resulting from parental exposure.
A New York Herald Tribune report indicts communists in riots in Harlem and Brooklyn and links Soviet influence to civil rights agitation. The piece cites Paul Screvane, Eastland, and concerns over Supreme Court limits on prosecutions while urging sterner action by Johnson era leaders against communist infiltration in the race controversy.
The piece notes Senate colleagues objecting to Barry Goldwater vacationing near Berchtesgaden. It cites Der Spiegel praise, a Goldwater CBS report dispute, and Truman’s warning about heat in politics as context for media scrutiny and campaign pressures.
The AP calendar notes key events on this date including Hoover declaring the Kellogg Briand Treaty in force in 1929, Detroit founded in 1701, the 1870 Pacific Coast train reach to New York, and 1941 Moscow bombing by Nazis. Also mentions a 1954 Senate filibuster on atomic energy, Nixon Khrushchev Kremlin meeting, and 1953 rail labor pattern.
A federal court will hear next Tuesday whether the Birmingham Board of Education accelerated desegregation plan suffices. U S District Judge Seybourn H. Lynne set the date after Negro attorneys filed objections to the revised plan submitted last week.
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