Alabama Higher Education Awakens State Support
A Gadsden gathering and subsequent talks by Drs. Rose, Phillips, Cole, and Draughon urge Alabama to increase higher education funding. The piece argues education boosts state wealth and urges unity among Auburn, the University, and Jacksonville to raise Alabama’s educational standing and economic prospects.
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Alabama
South
Gadsden
Willis A. Sutton
Atlanta
Sutton
Houston.Cole
Jacksonville State College
Department of Commerce
Cole
Howard Phillips
Alabama College
Montvallo
Frank Rose
Tuscaloosa
State University
Ralph Craughon
Phillips
Georgia
University of Kentucky
Auburn
University
Jacksonville
Patterson
Tutwiler
Hugh Comer
Associated Industries of
Florida
Orange Blossom
North Carolina
Charles D. McIver
Edwin A Alderman
Charles B. Aycock
Walter Hines Page
Tar Heel
Rose
Draughon
Rural Urban Committee to present program at Rotary Club
Maynard Layman's Rural-Urban Committee will present a program Monday at the Rotary Club meeting held at the Lyons Hotel. Local list of visitors to the Tennessee Valley State Vocational Technical School includes Tony Curl Linda Morgan Harold Johnson Vonson Turner J D Phillips Glenn Waddell Margaret Nales Gene Morgan Clifton Careman Betty Owens Marie Bartee Thomas Drinkard Nathan Kelley and E H Williams. Local fire officials report a stove fire at 818 3rd Ave at 3 57 p m Friday caused no loss. Beginning Sunday the nation marks two weeks Save Your Vision Week and National Peanut Week. March is National Coffee Month and National Egg Month.
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Maynard Layman
Rotary Club
Lyons Hotel
Tennessee Valley State Vocational Technical School
Tony Curl
Cullman
Linda Morgan
Hartselle
Harold Johnson
Vonson Turner
Athens
J.D. Phillips
Decatur
Glenn Waddell
Margaret Nales
Gene Morgan
Moulton
Clifford Careman
Betty Owens
Marie Bartee
Thomas Drinkard
Nathan Kelley
E. H. Williams
Due
3Rd Ave
Save Your Vision
Plane Crashes Near Queen Elizabeth Off Cape Hatteras
A Beech 35 plane off course and low on fuel crash landed astern of the Queen Elizabeth 235 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras. The liner and Coast Guard searched with no survivors found. The FAA traced the pilot to Don Haaman of Bloomington.
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Portsmouth
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Federal Aviation Agency
Washington
San Juan
Puerto Rico
St. Petersburg
Fla
FAA
N. Linden St
Ill
E. W. Harman
Oklahoma City
Donald Wil
Wichita, Kan
Don Haaman
Florida
Haarman
Air Force
Bloomington
Subversion Alarm Over Cuba Report Draws GOP Criticism
CIA chief John A. McCone describes a dangerous, organized Latin American subversion network trained in Cuba for guerrilla warfare and terrorism. Rep. Gross accuses the administration of a coverup as Kennedy links the threat to poverty reforms and the Alliance for Progress. The testimony notes 1000 to 1500 trainees in 1962 and ongoing flows, forming cadres for a potential liberation army.
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Washington
Cuba
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
H. R. Gross
Iowa
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
McCone
Gross
Alliance For Progress
Kennedy
Latin America
Alliance For Poogress
Armistead Selden
D-Ala
Subcommittee
MecCone
Fidel Castro
Democratic Subcommittee
United States
Peronnel
Kennedy Electors Targeted by Mississippi Bill
Mississippi Senate passes Gov. Barnett's plan for party presidential primaries to決 nominate electors and resolve factional fights. The measure would let Democratic conventions appoint electors, with voters choosing between States Rights and Loyalist slates in a January primary process. Senate leaders plan to send the bill to the House, with heavy criticism labeling the move a Hitler like power grab.
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Jackson
Miss
Stout
Barnett
Senate
House
George Yarbrough
Red Banks
Mont
Attempt To Assassinate Three Mississippi Negroes Probed
Sheriff ordered a full investigation into the shooting of three NAACP and SCEF activists in Greenwood Mississippi. Jimmy Travis was wounded, two companions unhurt, as bullets hit their car on U S Highway 82 near Greenwood en route to a voter registration drive.
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Greenwood
Miss
John Ed Cotheren
Jimmy Travis
Jackson
Travis
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
The
Southern Conference Educational Fund
U.S
Robert Moses
Greenvile, Miss
Randolph Blackwell
Atlanta
Moses
Green
Wood
U.S. Highway 82
Greenville
Blackwell
Southern Regional Council
State furniture expense hit in Montgomery report
A Senate House subcommittee exposed alleged abuse of state owned furniture and office equipment and urged strict controls. The panel found desks tables chairs tires and other items kept in stores while departments request funds for new items. It noted large unspent balances and a pattern of declaring usable items surplus. Current year equipment appropriations total 359600 with requests for 594250 next year.
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Montgomery
Senate House
Air Support Not Planned Writer Details Bay of Pigs Airmen
Birmingham reporter Albert C. Persons recalls that 18 American airmen trained for Cuban invasion duties were recruited to replace Cuban crews for early air strikes. The four Birmingham area airmen died April 19 1961 over the Bay of Pigs aboard a C46 Cargo plane. Air support decisions reportedly tied to Kennedy and Nicaragua orders. CIA blamed by Persons.
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Birmingham
Cuba
Albert C. Persons
Birmingham Examiner
Bay of Pigs
Persons
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Kennedy
U.S
Nicaragua
AIR Ongo
Building Here Takes Upswing In De catur February Permits
Contractors and residents of Decatur posted the highest total value in building permits since October 1962 with 694 150 for February. January saw a low of 278 347 20. February 1962 had 855 422 for construction and expansions, 270 557 more than 1961.
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Decatur
Complete service for Frigideire and all make appliances
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Robinson's
Edg
State Senator Accuses Plan to Provoke Federal Troops in Mississippi
Jackson March 1 State Senator Flavous Lambert charged that a state official told him last September leaders aimed to provoke the Kennedys into sending troops into Mississippi during the Ole Miss desegregation crisis He said a co author planned to break Loyalist Democratic power by placing unpledged electors on the ballot.
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Jackson
Miss
Flavous Lambert
Mississippi
University of Mississippi
Lambert
Belmont
Senate
Kennedy
Sen
John McLaurin
Brandon
McLaurin
Ole Miss
Bible Reading Law at Center of Supreme Court Case
Edard Lewis Schempp and his family challenge a Pennsylvania requirement that daily school openings include 10 Bible passages. A Philadelphia federal court ruled the law unconstitutional, citing religious freedom and church state separation. The case, supported by Unitarians, is argued before the Supreme Court with the Schempps present in Washington.
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Philadelphia
America
Edward Lewis Schempp
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Schempps
Donna
Roger
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