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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1962
Page
1
New York State Supreme Court Justice J. Vincent Keogh, former aide to William O Dwyer and mayoral hopeful, was found guilty by a federal jury of nine men and three women after a three day deliberation. He bribed to lighten a bankruptcy fraud case sentence in a $35,000 payoff.
Pecaturs Diary reports a brief community note with names and dates forming a snapshot of local life. The item hints at routine events, small meetings, and calendar items affecting residents, with emphasis on neighborhood activity and civic detail.
The North Alabama Chapter of the National Association of Accountants meets Monday at 6 p.m. at the Lyons Hotel. Decatur Lions Club Health and Welfare Committee chaired by Dr. Arthur Calix hosts a noon program Tuesday at Lyons Hotel. The public is invited to today’s North Alabama Historical Association meeting at 2:30 p.m. in McCandless Hall at Athens College. Thirteen Metro politan Life staff members hold a business conference in Edgewater Park with officials at the Edgewater Hotel. Attendees include J. D. Knight and others from Decatur Florence and Huntsville. A grass fire was reported at 1:03 p.m. Saturday on 6th Ave. NE near Keller Memorial Bridge. Mrs. Allie Rainey is improving after surgery at Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital. See DIARY On Page 2. Convicted with a 56-year-old veteran judge were ex-US attorney Elliott Kahaner and labor racketeer Antonio Coral lo. Sentencing set for July 17 by U.S. Dist. Judge Edward Weinfeld. Keogh proclaims innocence and will appeal. His wife Rosemary Brickman watches.
Guerrillas attacked an armored South Vietnamese column 30 miles north of Saigon, killing 2 U S officers and 15 Vietnamese as 300 to 400 raiders used 50 caliber guns 57 mm recoilless rifles and mines. All seven vehicles were damaged and the group vanished into the jungle after stripping weapons. Vietnamese and U S forces pursued but narrowed by dense jungle.
In Algiers a strong OAS faction woos amnesty from a future Algerian government as fires from arson squads burn through debris lit streets. French forces seal key posts while Moroccan and Tunisian claims to Sahara borders stir tension amid Algeria’s independence referendum.
Governor George Wallace condemned The Birmingham News and magazines Time and Look during a 30 minute Athens Alabama Disabled American Veterans address. He praised the DAV for its achievements and urged joining, claiming South’s future as industrial and agricultural center. World War II and missile race comments followed.
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, speaking at the University of Michigan, defended NATO’s nuclear posture while warning France's Gaullist plan could destabilize deterrence. He emphasized destroying military forces over civilians, urged stronger alliance integration, and stressed restraint against city bombing unless Soviet actions force it. He listed four NATO priorities: adequate overall nuclear strength, minimization of nuclear war risk, grave civilian damage from such war, and bolstering non-nuclear forces to deter aggression short of all-out war.
The reader is urged to distinguish faith in the Bible from faith in Christ revealed by it. Peace comes as one trusts Jesus as Savior and Lord, sins forgiven, and assurance follows faith in God's promises. Read the Bible faithfully, invite God to speak, and live in obedience.
In Key West AP reports the Castro regime sent troops and taxes to Cardenas near Havana in a forceful display aimed at crushing growing counterrevolutionary activity. Fidel Castro was not shown but Osvaldo Corticos warned that counterrevolutionaries will have no rest or truce. The action signals a rallying of regime control and a notable escalation since 1959.
John and Clarence Anglin along with Frank Morris allegedly escaped The Rock at Alcatraz by chipping cells with spoons and crawling through vents to a raft. Their fate remains unknown as authorities note no prior Alcatraz escape had succeeded in 28 years. The Ruskin Florida trio had long histories of crime and repeated prison breaks dating back to 1945.
AP reports the mastermind behind last week's Alcatraz escape appears to be Frank Lee Morris, a small man with high IQ. Assistant director Fred T. Wilkinson notes Morris is quiet and intelligent, a planner, while brothers John and Clarence Anglin are seen as more action oriented. Morris previously escaped from Angola prison after a 1955 bank burglary in Slidell Louisiana. He was captured in Houma and sent to Alcatraz on January 14 to finish a 14 year sentence.
Elkmont Van Buren Gilbert 70 state public safety director under Gov Chauncey Sparks from 1943 to 1947 died at Athens Limestone Hospital at 1245 am after surgery on Thursday Born at Gilbertsboro near Bethel Limestone County sheriff in the 1920s charter member and captain of the Alabama Highway Patrol since 1935 See EX SAFETY on Page 2
Relatives seek information on Viola Digulimio, 50, who left Washington Tuesday to visit a Decatur friend and then her brother Bill Stewart in Moulton. Stewart says she traveled alone in a 1956 Chevrolet with Maryland tag DH-2635. Anyone with clues urged to contact Stewart at FA 6 3011.
Robinson's on 2nd Avenue advertises a Frigidaire space saver refrigerator for only $199 with tax. Limited stock and showroom hours listed.
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