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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1966
Page
4
The piece argues that education and job training under a giant WPA could reduce rioting and looting, citing recent Jacksonville jail sentences for teenage offenders and police-reported unrest. It urges addressing poverty with work programs for both parents and youths as a better solution.
The article traces Cullman County and Cullman city origins to John G. Cullmann a Bavarian immigrant who in 1872 recruited families from Cincinnati Indiana and Illinois to settle north of Birmingham Alabama. By 1878 a town named Cullmann existed and Americanized to Cullman. Estimates credit him with bringing about 100000 Germans to Alabama.
Senate Democrat Tom Dodd of Connecticut extensively pressed federal officials to aid real estate developer Tom Frouge in opposing conservation groups over Marinello near the Golden Gate. Dodd met Udall, lobbied GSA, and wrote Johnson, arguing a high rise near San Francisco should proceed, while Frouge sought government space leases to spur the project.
Billy Graham poses the question of salvation by belief in God and a good life. The answer cites Titus 3 5 and describes God’s mercy through Jesus death as the sole path to spiritual freedom, likening it to a governor pardoning a prisoner and urging personal appeal to the holy savior.
In a televised news conference President Johnson urged peace but avoided strong denouncement of riots. Critics say administration failed to curb demonstrations and violence, while leaders in Congress and the cabinet push for tougher actions to restore law and order amid civil rights tensions.
In a bold retrenchment, Prime Minister Harold Wilson seeks sharp spending cuts to save Britain’s finances. Readers are urged to weigh his courage against a feared drift to isolationism and softening national resolve as Churchill-era resilience is echoed but not guaranteed.
On this date 1955 the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm near Nantucket. Forty five passengers and five crew died. Other entries note Wyoming’s 1868 organization and Cleopatra's Needle arrival in New York.
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