Morgan County United Fund Board Meeting Tonight
The Morgan County United Fund board of directors will hold its regular quarterly meeting tonight at 6 30 in the Lyons Hotel private dining room. Full attendance is requested as year program plans will be presented and discussed. Deputy Sheriff Paul Smith convalescing after hospital admission. Two vehicle collision reported with no injuries at Gordon Drive and Somerville Road. Police logged details and a 50 dollar building permit issued to S R Garrison Jr. demolish out building. See Diary on Page 2.
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Morgan County United Fund Board of Directors
Lyons Hotel
Decatur Business and Professional Women’s Club
Mary Louise Frost
11Th Ave. Court
S. R. Garrison Jr
Memorial Dr. SW
God and the Creator Are One in Eternal Nature
The author argues God is eternal and unoriginated, citing Psalm 90 and Hebrews 11:3. He says the question of God’s origin presupposes a beginning, which cannot apply to God. He emphasizes human explanations fall short and true understanding comes from faith and relationship to God.
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God
Creator
Old Reliable finishes its test work at Cape Canaveral
Redstone the old reliable rocket ends eight year military tests with a 200 mile Atlantic-range hit in its final launch. The Army reports 41st success in 45 tests as three more Redstones prepare to carry astronauts on suborbital flights following Alan Shepard’s May 5 milestone. A Polaris A2 second generation failure occurs on a separate ship test off Florida.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
America
Atlantic
Army
Cape
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Shepard
Florida
Navy
Observation Island
Living Cost Dips in May as Meat and Groceries Fall
The Labor Department reports consumer living costs eased by one tenth of a percent in May. Food prices fell four tenths due to meats and poultry, while nonfood items rose two tenths. About 23,000 metal workers face a one cent hourly pay cut under index clauses, and roughly 123,000 will gain two to three cents an hour. Included are 25,000 at Lockheed and Pacific Airmotive with two cent raises. aluminum and can makers also benefit.
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Robert J. Myers
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Pacific Airmotive Corp
Decatur Skies Tuesday Evening Guide
Decatur observations for Tuesday June 28 show the Moon at last quarter with rise at 7:17 p.m. Mars appears to the west at 8:16 p.m. Saturn rises after midnight at 1:20 a.m. Jupiter sits to the left of Saturn, Venus rises at 2:14 a.m. Antares sets due south at 9:47 p.m. Sunrise is 4:38 a.m. Tomorrow. Computed for Decatur by Bailey R. Frank.
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Antares
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Venus
Decatur
Bailey R. Frank
Weather and River Update for Decatur TN Area
Decatur and vicinity reports the Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning at 15.87 feet up 0.03 in 24 hours, sea level reading 550.17 feet. TVA lake stages listed include Pickwick 413.3 Guntersville 594.7 Whitesburg 553.0 Wilson 507.6. High yesterday 75 at 3 pm, low 57 at 4 am. Today 74 at 10 am. Forecast calls for mostly sunny and cool today then partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon. tonight and Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer. Winds light to variable. High today 82, tonight 60, Wednesday high 85.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Pickwick
Guntersville
Whitesburg
Wilson
Miss Universe contestant Suellen Robinson from Auburn
Alabama’s Miss Universe entrant Suellen Robinson, a 19-year-old Auburn University student, arrives in Birmingham for official costume fittings ahead of the Miami Beach pageant. The 5 foot 4, 107 pound silver blonde plans radio and television work and seeks to seize every opportunity in a likely male dominated field.
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Jack Stillman
Birmingham
Alabama
Miami Beach
Suellen Robinson
Expanded SS measure gains Senate passage with health care promise
President Kennedy's bill to boost Social Security benefits won Senate passage 90 to 0, with Democrats pledging to bring up a medical care for the aged program later this summer. The measure would raise the minimum check, allow earlier retirement at 62, increase widow's benefits, and add about 160,000 beneficiaries, funded by a Social Security tax hike.
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Washington
Kennedy
Senate
House- Senate
House
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Clinton P. Anderson
Dn.m
Welfare Department
Cuba
Hartselle Man Takes His Own Life
In Hartselle a 47 year old man died at about 6 30 am from a self inflected shotgun wound. Aubrey Russell Johnson shot himself in the room where he lived four miles east of town on route 36. He worked at Goodyear Mills in Decatur for 14 years before leaving last February due to illness. No note was left but he spoke of awful pain and to check his insurance policies before the act. Sheriff Knox McRae ruled it a suicide in the absence of the coroner.
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Hartselle
Aubrey Russell Johnson
Knox McRae
McRae
Lewis C. (Pinky) Brown
Johnson
Here
Goodyear Mills
Decatur
H’selle
Cum berland Law School to Move to Howard College Campus
Howard College in Birmingham will absorb the Cumberland Law School from Lebanon Tennessee this fall. President Dr. Leslie S. Wright said summer sessions end in Lebanon and operation shifts immediately for a Sept. 1 move. The school will be housed in Harwell G. Davis Library pending a dedicated building within three years.
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Birmingham
Cumberland Law School
Lebanon
Tenn
Howard College
Howard
Leslie S. Wright
Wright
Law School
Alabama
Harwell G. Davis
Memphis State
University of Tennessee
Reapportionment Fight Heats Up In Alabama House
Administration leaders revive the reapportionment issue and push a substitute bill through Judiciary Committee as lawmakers eye a second showdown. Opponents threaten a filibuster while a competing congressional redistricting bill nears committee action. The substitute aligns with a prior defeated measure but alters Jefferson County representation. Senate and House move to cap the Fourth of July recess with pay questions looming.
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Montgomery
Capitol
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Bob Gilchrist
Morgan County
Haltom
Jefferson County
Jefferson
Alfred Goldthwaite
House
Goldthwaite
Larry Dumas
Bob Kendall
Conecuh
Frigidaire Baby Care Washer Ad at Robinson's
Robinson's on Second Avenue runs a Frigidaire Baby Care Automatic Washer advertisement. The notice highlights the appliance as a modern laundry solution.
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Frigidaire Baby Care
Robinson's
2Nd Ave
Cuba Calls 10 Captives Home From Havana
Cuba says a prisoner delegation sent by Fidel Castro will return to Havana today due to failure of their mission. An immigration official doubts the return plans, while Castro criticizes the Tractors for Freedom Committee as a mockery and links possible redress to farm equipment. John Hooker Jr. expected to confer and announce a decision on negotiations.
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Key West
Fla
Fidel Castro
Havana
Cuba
Tractors For Freedom Committee
John Hooker Jr
Hooker
Associated Press
Alabama Highway Patrol reports Monday wrecks and arrests totals
The Alabama Highway Patrol logged 162 wrecks causing 4 deaths with 12 rural and 48 urban injuries. Rural and urban property damage together reached $64,225. Arrests included drunk driving, speeding, reckless driving, no license, improper passing, and running stop signs across multiple counties. Decatur and Courtland reports noted additional incidents and violations.
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Montgomery
Highway Patrol
Alabama
Decatur
Courtland Police
Ae Decatur Highway Patrol
Ship Strike Report Will Be Pushed
A three member fact finding board meets in New York to speed a report on the 12 day old maritime strike to President Kennedy under the Taft Hartley law. The board will brief all principals in the dispute and report by Friday. Union leaders doubt the threat and expect no early injunction.
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New York
Kennedy
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf Coast
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
Ribicoff Challenges States Rights Over School Aid
At the 53rd annual conference governors debated Kennedy school aid plans. Ribicoff pressed states to name which federal programs they would surrender echoing GOP and Democratic lines. He warned against states rights rhetoric masking continued federal funding. Patterson attacked Freedom Riders while accusing the administration of constitutional violations.
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Jack Bell
Honolulu
Raymond Moley
Newsweek Magazine
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Luau
Khrushchev
David L. Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Mark C. Hatfield
Oregon
Berlin
GOP
Ribicoff
Congress
John Patterson
Atty. Ge
Robert F. Kennedy
Alabama
U.S
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E. L. Barrentine
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