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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1963
Page
1
Two Soviet reconnaissance aircraft penetrated U S air space about 30 miles into Alaska on Thursday night. American fighters scrambled and tracked them by radar but did not fire. The incident prompted a formal protest from Washington to Moscow and sparked calls from Alaska officials for stronger air defenses.
Huntsville section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers will hear Dr W E Glenn discuss Thermoplastic Recording at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the Azalea room of the Albert Pick Motel. The Disabled American Veterans Wheeler Brown Hendrix Chapter 11 meets at 7 30 p m Tuesday at the DAV Home on Bank Street with Brunswick stew served.
The passage warns that human plans apart from God lead to death while God reveals truth through creation providence and Christ. Ignoring divine revelation blocks eternal happiness and forgiveness, though many remain content with their own ways seeking transformation.
In Rankings of the States 1963 the Alabama position is weak in per capita tax collections teachers salaries and selected educational expenditure figures Alabama ranks as low as 31st or 50th in various measures Former educator Dr Frank N Philpot told Alabama principals in Birmingham that state taxes are low NEA ranks Alabama 31st in public education spending as a percentage of total expenditures in 1961 Utah led in share of revenues for education while Georgia stood 35th See STATE on Page 2
Diane Sawyer 17 from Louisville wins America's Junior Miss title at Kentucky pageant. First runner up Carol Case of Rapid City South Dakota, third Roxanne Hooper of Springerville Arizona. Sawyer performs a Civil War monologue Five Score Years Ago and plans to attend Wellesley College for foreign languages. Her parents E P and Mrs Sawyer listed.
Orville L. Freeman secretary of agriculture will visit the Tennessee Valley April 10 and 11 to inspect Decatur area developments TVA facilities at Muscle Shoals and the Beech River Tributary Area Development Program in western Tennessee He will speak in Decatur and Nashville on national and international agricultural problems The Decatur event is arranged by Decatur Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce with TVA officials and agency leaders also in the delegation including John A Baker Norman M Clapp and Louis J Van Mol among others
The Decatur High School chorus and Youth Symphony present two free performances at 3 p.m. in the Decatur High School auditorium. Local sponsors underwrite the event and the young players will dine at the Crescent Motel after the concerts. Levinson, Birmingham Symphony first violinist, serves as concertmaster.
The Moscow based Ekonomika Sovetskaya Ekonomika magazine says Soviet agricultural output grows slowly. Since 1958 the annual increase per acre has averaged 1.5 percent, far below the faster gains of 1953 to 1958. A new agricultural department head Ivan Volovchenko was named to replace Konstantin Pysin. Khrushchev’s Virgin Lands campaign expanded crops by 90 million acres, but investment in fertilizer and machinery remains unclear, and farm living remains hard as population grows.
Morgan County legislators returned from Montgomery amid a short highway session and prepared for a likely lengthy session on schools. Albert Brewer outlined the administration's plan for a $100 million bond issue, while Sen. Bob Gilchrist explained his vote against it. House members discussed how a future tax burden would unfold as Ed Rodgers proposed a minimum highway program tied to federal funding. The bond total includes cities and counties requests, supported by gasoline tax trends.
A land and air search along the Chile Bolivia border failed to find any trace of the four engine Bolivian airliner that vanished with 41 people. Two Americans were thought to be among the 36 passengers.
New York honors St Patrick with a 120000 crowd of Irish Americans and nationalities along Fifth Avenue. John J MacWeeney and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller review the sunlit parade as Dublin officials express awe at the American spectacle and the warm weather.
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