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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1966
Page
1
A killer tornado four blocks wide plowed through central Topeka causing a 15 mile swath of destruction. Mayor Wright estimates $100 million in damage as civil defense reports list at least 14 dead and about 450 injured with 2,000 left homeless. The storm damaged Washburn University and reached the municipal airport area before moving southeast.
In Senatoria Mississippi the James H Meredith march resumed with leaders urging peaceful conduct. Volunteers are warned that nightly tent encampments are planned along the route toward Jackson.
Decatur Diary notes the Assembly 26 Order of the Rainbow for Girls meeting at 7 p.m. and the Jayceettes entertainment night at 8 p.m. at the Pet Dairy Hospitality Room. A 300 strong march led by Martin Luther King Jr. gathered near US 51 north of Senatobia, awaiting leaders from Memphis amid Meredith’s Mississippi return talk.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a reduced economic aid bill after cutting over 117 million from the administration’s bare bones plan. The Agriculture Committee endorsed a bill to fund a multi million dollar cotton sales promotion program by a one dollar per sale fee on growers.
Huntsville sees Prof. Carl S. Marvel of the University of Arizona honored with the third Madison Marshall Award for chemistry. Chester W. Huskins presented the award as the North Alabama section of the American Chemical Society honors Marvel for polymer work and wartime research. About 490 attendees attended the presentation at the Carriage Inn.
In Saigon Buddhist groups allied with Thich Tri Quang denounce neutrality and reject peace talks with Viet Cong. They call for continued U S military aid while reporting heavy Viet Cong losses after a battle 48 miles north of Saigon. The Unified Buddhist Church claims a tougher line than the U S administration in seeking nonviolence against the Ky regime.
The Civil Aeronautics Board announced a fire of undetermined origin caused the United Air Lines Viscount crash near Parrottsville on July 1 1964, killing 39. No evidence of sabotage found, but a passenger may have carried combustible material aboard either innocently or maliciously.
John Grenier, candidate to unseat Senator John Sparkman, says he will not run a personal campaign but attacks Sparkman’s voting record as liberal. He claims Sparkman aligns with Kennedy and Johnson era Democrats and has spent 30 years in Washington shaping policy for the national party. Grenier pledges change and criticizes long incumbency.
Premier Alexei Kosygin told Soviets and the Communist world that the Soviet Union will not become further involved in Vietnam than it already is. He urged patience as the path to success, and criticized U.S. advisers for proposing how to start the war without a plan to end it.
Hurricane Alma lashed the Florida Panhandle with top winds of 90 miles per hour. At Apalachicola the eye wall moved ashore around 11 a.m. EST as a Westward turn spared Tallahassee yet left coastal residents in peril. Civil Defense ordered mass evacuations of beach areas as the storm tracked inland. No further details on fatalities were provided in this excerpt.
Florida's death toll from the hurricane rises as rescue teams work. Walter Murphy notes many residents evacuated while some resist leaving. In Chicago, wheat and corn rise, soybeans mixed, hogs steady to down, slaughter steers steady with top prices listed.
Decatur's water treatment plant was cited for the third straight year as the best operated plant in its class by Alabama Health Department officials. George Godwin Jr. accepted the award at Auburn during a water and sewage short course by the Alabama Water and Pollution Control Association.
Decatur area heat ends as cooler conditions move in Friday from the Huntsville Weather Bureau. Spotty showers and isolated thundershowers were possible today and tonight over parts of North Alabama, with a north section of the state seeing cooler, less humid air by Friday and highs in the mid eighties. Yesterday reached 89, today 90, with WHOS radio reporting 87 at 10 30 a.m.
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