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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1960

Page

12

Kennedy Calls for Debates on World Problems

Sen. John F. Kennedy urges autumn debates between presidential candidates focused on national strength and security. Nixon, absent during Kennedy's foreign policy speech, likely to dispute the premise as Kennedy attacks American military standing. Humphrey and Capehart react, while Johnson praises Kennedy's maturity and courage in domestic policy.

Kennedy Senate Cam Nixon United States Soviet Union Capehart Kinois Massachusetts Hubert H. Humphrey Dminn Humphrey Eratic Lyndon B. Johnson Texas

Trade Schools At H ville Huntsville And Mobile Planned

AP report notes Mobile officials will help the State Board of Education acquire land for a new Negro trade school in Mobile with $435000 allocated. The board backs Negro trade schools in Huntsville and the proposed white facility, linked to a Lincoln Mills lease condition. Florence State College seeks a $1365000 federal loan for two dormitories and a student union.

Montgomery Mobile City State Board of Education Frank R. Stewart Mobile Huntsville Alabama Education Authority Lincoln Mills Florence State College

Taller teens outgrow parents in height and weight

Researchers report today’s adolescents are taller and heavier than previous generations at nearly every age, making the trend a common pattern rather than an exception.

Phenix City Group Forms Industrial Development Board

A Phenix City group of businessmen won city approval to form a non profit corporation to promote industrial development. The Industrial Development Board of Phenix City will be governed by nine directors who must be qualified electors and Chamber of Commerce members.

Phenix City Ala The City Commission Industrial Development Board of Russell County Chamber of Commerce D. L. Jenkins Clarence F. Wilson Sr Lemuel T. Downing Jr Alabama

Two Missing In A Sub Blaze At Pearl Harbor

Two sailors remained unaccounted for after a flash fire aboard the submarine Sargo at Pearl Harbor. The one hour blaze was contained while the sub was half submerged, with the torpedo room flooded and the stern sealed. Navy officials cited a ruptured liquid oxygen line as the fire cause and noted no reactor danger.

Honolulu Pearl Harbor Navy

Pacific Has Cool Weather

Cool weather moved in from the Pacific bringing rain to the northern tier of states. Scattered showers occurred in the upper Mississippi Valley central plains and northern Rockies with heaviest rainfall in Rochester New York and Colville Washington. Temperatures ranged from 43 in Fraser Colorado to 50s 60s elsewhere and 70s 80s in the South and Southwest. Needles California was 101 at midnight.

Associated Press Pacific Mississippi Valley Central Plains Rockies Chicago

Race Driver Is Held In Thefts

A Birmingham stock car racing driver, Thomas L. Wells, 31, was jailed on six charges of grand larceny in Montgomery. He allegedly stole six late model cars since January and sold them at a Birmingham suburb car lot in Ensley. Police expect more arrests among ring members as investigations continue.

Montgomery Birmingham Thomas L. Wells Ensley Ring Wells

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