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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1966
Page
1
U S Air Force B52s dropped about 100000 pounds of explosives on thick mangrove swamps 18 miles southeast of Saigon as Marines sweep river approaches to the capital. The operation targets a mine factory in the area.
President Sukarno announced a new Indonesian cabinet after a week of bargaining. Lt. Gen. Suharto Hamengku Buwono IX and Adam Malik are named key figures, with Abdul Haris Nasution placed as minister and deputy commander of the Kogan force. The exact role for Nasution remains unclear amid ongoing political shifts.
FBI agents arrested 13 Mississippi Ku Klux Klan members and hunted for Sam Holloway Bowers Jr. in connection with the Jan 10 fire bombing and slaying of Vernon F. Dahmer. The 14 charged include violations of civil rights laws and the Voting Rights Act.
Premier Salazar calls NATO inadequate for modern problems and hostile to members. He states Portugal will end automatic cooperation with western powers and criticizes the U S for undermining allies. The New York Times News Service also notes TV coverage quirks in Britain and the U S and features on priests marrying and Archbishop Ramsey.
The Decatur Fire Department answered a false alarm Sunday at 8 01 pm at 510 Cherry Street. The Morgan County Women Democrats plan a Dutch luncheon at Pavilion Inn Wednesday at noon. Interested women should contact Mrs. Lewis West at 353 4436. See DIARY on Page 77.
In Moscow delegations from over 40 foreign countries and 5,000 Soviet delegates converge under rain for the opening of the Soviet Communist party's 23rd congress. Visitors include North Viet Nam and North Korea, with boycotts by Albania New Zealand and Japan.
New York markets mixed with higher stocks and mixed bonds. Chicago grain futures show wheat and corn down on profit taking and weak demand while oats trade lightly. Hog and slaughter steer prices fall, with top hogs at 25.25 and steers around 32.00.
The Weather Bureau predicts cool temperatures today and tonight with a high of 56 and a low of 32. Tuesday should be slightly warmer at a high of 62 and fair, partly cloudy skies with northeasterly winds 4 to 12 mph.
BERKELEY Calif AP a psychiatrist asserts the aisle to wedlock is the happiest journey. Dr Genevieve Knupfer reports married men top happiness and job satisfaction while bachelors show more dissatisfaction and loneliness. Single men often face childhood difficulties. single women fare best in childhood happiness. Cultural factors influence marriage desirability and perceived equality in couples.
An advertisement for Security Mutual Finance Corp located at 714 Bank St lists loan and financing services with the box number 353-Q742-Loans and Financing.
A rockwell-documented accident at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver suggests a method to generate and perhaps control earthquakes. Army chemical waste disposal pumped highly lethal nerve gas wastes into a two mile deep well, causing daily small tremors and a zone of shallow strike-slip fault activity between 2,800 and 6,000 feet below the well bottom. The finding, noted by the U S Geological Survey, raises the possibility that deep fracture-zone liquid injection released pent-up strain to trigger quakes.
President Johnson welcomed India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as a good and gracious friend and pledged U.S. backing for her efforts to solve India's problems. Gandhi urged that India and the United States not take each other for granted and avoid drifting relations, saying together they can make the world a better place.
The Space Agency plans to launch the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory today from Cape Kennedy. An Atlas-Centaur rocket will follow with a crucial test on Tuesday, sending the observatory and telescopes into space to view stars beyond Earth's distortions.
The Supreme Court approved federal charges against three law officers and 14 others in the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia Mississippi. Red China praised U S antiwar demonstrations as a prelude to larger movements. In Miami a gunman abducted a contractor’s teenage son demanding 25000. At the United Nations Ambassador Goldberg said U S policy on China is under review but unchanged on China’s U N representation.
Advertisement for Security Mutual Finance Corporation offering automobile financing with contact number 353-0742 at 714 Bank Street.
A 15 year old Danville sophomore, Ronnie Bullard, was named Alabama’s state 4 H corn growing champion of 1965 for growing 128 bushels on his best acre, 78 above Morgan County average. Second place went to David Magnusson of Ardmore, Limestone County, who also averaged 128 bushels per acre but lost on profit. Jim Beaty of Funks Corn will present a gold plaque to Morgan County 4 H officials in a few days.
Other news of agricultural interest appears on pages seven and eight. The items cover farming developments and market notes of the period, with brief notices of crops techniques and seasonal conditions.
Beaty said the plaque should be Alabama shaped but arrived as Georgia shaped. Morgan County 4-H leader Jerry Parker praised the Mor gan County 4-H Club and Bullard, noting his county won the state title and citing Bullard as having the best corn crop seen. Six people participated in the demonstration. See DANVILLE On Page 2.
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