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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1962

Page

3

Cotton Prices Show Increase Across Market

New York AP reports cotton futures slipped on the domestic market while spot prices rose to a season high. Friday closes show futures 65 cents a bale higher at 2.35, with slow trading and near-term gains as certified stocks may fall. Export momentum remains strong. 94,000 bales shipped the week ending June 12, season total 4,169,000 bales.

New York New York Cotton Exchange Texas Cotton Exchange Service Bureau

Will you be moved up or passed up

A promotional guide extols Dale Carnegie training to build self confidence speaking skills and human relations abilities. It asserts prospects for promotion or higher pay depend on developing personal qualities and applying them with job experience, citing nearly a million trainees.

Dale Carnegie

Cattle Prices Tend Higher In Past Week

Prices across cattle hogs and sheep moved higher in the week with southeastern hogs up 50 cents to a dollar while Memphis quotes rose to 17.75. Cattle and calves were steady to 50 cents higher with Nashville steers at 24.50 to 25 and cows to 18.11. Egg prices surged across regions with Atlanta at 39 to 40 cents a dozen and other southern markets up 2.5 to 5 cents. Peaches and vegetables eased in several markets as tobacco volume remained light due to rain. Net auction sales for the season reached 23.6 million pounds at an average $62.88 per hundred.

Atlanta Agricultural Marketing Service Memphis Nashville North Carolina Virginia Del-Mar-Va Birmingham Jackson Jacksonville Florida Louisville Montgomery Georgia- Florida-Alabama Georgia Kentucky Alabama Carolinas Dixie U. S South Maryland

Grain Futures Weakness Turns Mixed Gains in Late Trading

Chicago reports show grain futures drifting into general weakness late last week yet closing with moderate broad gains. Soybeans and rye led advances on most days due to short covering and reports of steady weekly declines in commercial stocks. Wheat, corn, oats, and rye posted mixed changes with July futures reflecting modest gains or slight declines amid fluctuating volumes.

Chicago

Indicted Clerk Posts Bonds in 12-Count Case

Tuscaloosa Circuit Court Clerk Lowell Hardin posted bonds totaling 16000 dollars on a 12 count indictment returned this week. The county grand jury that returned the indictment also recommended that Hardin be impeached. The indictment charges Hardin.

Tuscaloosa, Ala Lowell Hardin Hardin

Comstock Skips Diploma as Poison Ivy Delays Honor

In Grayson Kentucky Dr J Lowell Lusby president of Kentucky Christian College conferred diplomas on 28 graduates. He shook hands with all but honor student James Comstock citing poison ivy as the reason. The audience heard Lusby explain the delay.

Grayson, Ky J. Lowell Lusby Kentucky Christian College James Comstock Lusby

Traffic Kills At Least Three In Alabama This Weekend

Three people died in one vehicle crashes across Alabama this weekend. Lois M. LaTourelte 49 of London Mills Illinois was killed when a car overturned on the Citronelle Mount Vernon Highway about 20 miles north of Mobile. A Ft. Rucker soldier Kenneth E Runion 25 was crushed when his car ran off Alabama 95 near Daleville. Charlie Daniel 15 of Montgomery died when the car he rode in failed to negotiate a curve near Montgomery.

Lois M. LaTourelte London Mills Mount Vernon Mobile Highway Patrol Ft. Rucker Kenneth E. Runion Daleville Charlie Daniel Montgomery

Area Men In Service Promotion From Okinawa

John A. Hinkle 20, son of Mr and Mrs L M Hinkle Cullman, promoted to specialist four on Okinawa with the 3rd Artillery Hawk missile unit. A 1960 Fairfax High School graduate, he entered the Army in December 1960 after basic at Ft Hood and stints at Ft Bliss before arriving overseas last October. He was with Hinkle Aircraft in Houston prior to enlistment.

FT. Buckner Okinawa John A. Hinkle L. M. Hinkle Cullman 9 3Rd Artillery Artillery Spc Hinkle Army Ft. Hood Tex Ft. Bliss Fairview High School Cullman Hinkle Aircraft, Inc Houston

Clerk Hardin faces embezzlement and forgery charges

Hardin, age 40, stands accused on one count of embezzling and eleven counts of second degree forgery tied to jury certificates. He currently serves a second six year term as circuit court clerk, an elective post.

Hardin

Airline Strike Agreed Upon

Washington AP reports the Flight Engineers International Association agreed to strike three major U.S. airlines Eastern Pan Am and TWA in a dispute over cockpit crew staffing wage hours and working conditions. Union leaders called the move defying Kennedy urging arbitration but could not fix a start date and whether all three lines would be affected.

Washington Flight Engineers International Association Kennedy Eastern Air Lines Pan American World Airways Trans World Airlines New York Don Byrne Ronald A. Brown Miami Kansas City H. S. Dietrich TWA Jack Robertson Paul Chorbajian Pan Am Arthur J. Goldberg White House Brown Engineers’ Union U.S

Napper At Flint Victim Of Thief

In Flint Wendell Lee of 116 Hamaker St. napped Saturday around noon a thief entered his home and robbed the bedroom dresser wallet containing about 80 dollars in cash his driver's license a social security card and a gasoline credit card

Napper Flint Wendell Lee Hamaker St Lee

Bonfires Mark Ninth Berlin Wall Anniversary Across Border

West Berliners lit bonfires near the wall and along the zonal border on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the East German revolt. Adenauer urged the Soviet Union to grant East Germans more freedom while warning reunification would not come soon. East Germany held a national congress with 2300 delegates as Ulbricht and Grotewohl attended the opening session.

Adenauer Berlin West Germany Ernst Lemmer Wall ADN Walter Ulbricht Otto Grotewohl

Senate hopeful quitting job in bid for Senate

James D. Martin of Gadsden resigns as president of Associated Industries of Alabama to focus on the campaign. He criticizes U S foreign policy as appeasement of Russia and praises his opponent Senator Lister Hill. The move takes effect July 1.

Birmingham Alabama James D. Martin Gadsden Associated Industries “of Martin AIA Inirmingham Lister Hill

Christian Dells Opens July 9 Camp Near Decatur

The Conservative Baptist Association of Alabama operates Christian Dells summer camp ten miles from Decatur on Trinity Mountain. Ro bert Billings directs the camp which starts July 9 offering weekly sessions for boys and girls eight and up with a new concrete swimming pool and activities including a private lake and several court sports.

Christian Dells Christian Dells Bible Camp Trinity Mountain Decatur Robert Billings Baptist Association of Alabama Ralph Jones Jones

Mabel Hubbard Bell Learns Deaf Skills Young

Mabel Hubbard, who later became Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, lost her hearing before age five due to scarlet fever. She learned lip reading and by age thirteen learned German through lip reading.

Alexander Graham Bell

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