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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1964
Page
4
CARE plans 1964 self help and medical aid for about 11 million needy people in 39 countries funded by 7 million dollars in donations. The appeal notes roughly five dollars per eight people helped and frames CARE as a supplement to food programs.
June 14 is Flag Day highlighted by Decatur Kiwanis Club urging display of the flag. The piece traces the flag’s color symbolism and historical growth from 13 to 50 stars, noting key dates including 1777 Congress actions and 1960 adoption of the fifty star design.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale recounts a friend who moved to California and stayed ill until adopting a threefold self conditioning program. He combines daily physical exercise, mental conditioning with dynamic thoughts from Emerson James or the Bible, and soul conditioning by daily thoughts of God. The method yields renewed vigor and well being.
Washington looks at the Army’s confidential files to chronicle deserters who fled to the Iron Curtain. Accounts profile motives from punishment avoidance to love traps. Many return home after prison or communist life proves grim, with 22 of 67 defectors back since Korea.
Washington Republican leaders split on civil rights cloture with 27 to 6 supporting the gag rule. Goldwater stands largely isolated among GOP lawmakers, facing Johnson’s rising influence and a party divided over civil rights and legislative strategy.
The article extols sharing as essential to human welfare noting isolation is lonely and dangerous. It argues cooperation and helping others strengthen individuals and society and urges cultivating the habit of sharing.
Two youths were wounded while trying to crash a house party in Natick Massachusetts. Francis J Rivers Jr 19 was held on $5000 bail for assault with a dangerous weapon after he fired three shots in the air and a fourth during a struggle over a .45 caliber pistol. David Anniballi 19 was treated for a flesh wound to the left arm and Gerald Hall 19 for a slashed scalp. The incident occurred at the Rivers home as the two youths returned after being told no party was occurring. Rivers father is an Army master sergeant stationed at Redstone Arsenal Alabama and the family recently moved from Alaska. Dist Judge Thomas F Quinn set bail and scheduled further proceedings to secure a lawyer.
An 18 year old named Willie B. Davis was struck by a car while walking along U.S. 29 near Banks Alabama. State troopers reported the fatality as the sole road death in Alabama during the early weekend hours.
NASA employs about 30,000 civil service workers with roughly 10,000 scientists and engineers among them.
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