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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1967
Page
3
A 1967 report warns Western Europe faces rising oil scarcity as Iraqi and Trans-Arabian pipelines halt. The Suez Canal is closed and tanker capacity is exhausted while European demand rises from coal to oil and consumption doubles in a decade.
The Alabama State Championship Rodeo opens in Athens at Veterans Fairgrounds with nine of the top 10 International Rodeo Association cowboys set to perform. Miss Rodeo Alabama was crowned during a street dance that kicked off the weekend, halted briefly by rain. Performances run 8 p.m. tonight through Saturday night.
Decatur police were alerted at 2:15 am when the Billups Service Station manager reported a man regaining consciousness after a crash near Lakeside School. Officers found Sims nearly unconscious in his car with a bleeding nose and swollen eye as he described two men. An Oriental wood borer pest has been found in Florida affecting several tree species.
Guyton recounts the fall of Bataan and the Corregidor defense, noting heavy shelling on May 4 and Japanese barges sunk by Allied guns. He describes brutal captivity, the 10 man shooting squads, and forced marches to Manila and later to mainland Japan. He recalls hunger, disease, and relief when the war ended on August 15 1945.
Actress Vera Jayne Palmer later known as Vera Palmer rose to notoriety after a publicity junket for a Jane Russell film led to a Warner Bros contract. She became a Broadway star in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter and later starred in The Wayward Bus and The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Palmer married at 16 to Paul Mansfield and split with him as her career grew.
Champion Papers Inc. acts on options but has not chosen a site yet. Officials in the area note a final decision may favor Champion, amid the merger with U S Plywood forming U S Plywood Champion Papers Inc.
Benson Guyton of Decatur recounts surviving Corregidor and a Japanese camp. A B-29 dropped a flag over the camp, possibly the first U S flag over Japan after the war. He later recovered belongings in Corregidor tunnels and rebuilt life with his wife and two sons.
The article notes about 17,000 million percent fled from Communist nations since World War II, highlighting a massive exodus of people seeking safety and opportunity in the decades after the war.
In a June 5 statement Yugoslavia denounced Israeli moves to annex the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem. The government called the steps unacceptable and intolerable and urged international solidarity against the measures.
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