Community and Mine Events Highlight Local News
Local clubs meet at homes and civic venues with talks on foundry processes and small business counseling. Building permits issued for housing and repairs. A police break-in report at Mills Motors and notes on Dominican Haiti tensions and U N concerns.
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Herbert Milligan
Olive St
J. Cecil Black
16Th Ave
Morris Bros. Construction Co
W. J. Woodall
Lee St. NE
Old Mills Motors
Chuck Ledbetter
Ledbetter
TVA 30th Anniversary Events Planned in Decatur
Decatur hosts former TVA board chairman David Lilienthal on May 18 at the high school auditorium to mark TVA’s 30th anniversary. The Decatur Daily will issue a special edition on TVA’s first and second 30 years with a $.25 mail copy option.
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W. T
Doc” Jordan
Decatur School
Decatur Daily
TVA
Gaylon Mote
United States
Tennessee Valley Authority
Decatur
TVA Board of Directors
Atomic Energy Commission
David Lilienthal
Decatur High School
Tennessee Valley
Lilienthal
Is the Lazarus and rich man tale a true incident or parable
The Lazarus and rich man story is a Jesus teaching device about heaven and hell. It may be a parable or a factual event. if a parable it conveys two posthumous abodes, an impassable gulf, and that life beyond extends or ends opportunity for salvation.
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Lazarus
Hell
Jesus
Pre Oighiag
Heaven
Paradise
Haiti Dispute Marks Time on Two Diplomatic Fronts
Washington AP report notes Haiti and the Dominican Republic facing a tense moment as no decisive move is expected soon against President Francois Duvalier. UN and OAS holds urge restraint while Latin American chair Gonzalo Facio signals a referral back to the OAS and possible ongoing fact finding.
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Lewis Gulick Washington
Francois Duvalier
Roger Seydoux
France
U.N. Raeurite Cnamnailee Eee
Vyvmln
Awhleu Wutu
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Gonzalo Facio
Costa Rica
Organization of American States
U.N
OAS
Washington
Haiti orders evacuations for U S dependents
The State Department orders all dependents of U S diplomatic and military staff to leave Haiti. An airlift will be operated for their rapid evacuation, officials disclosed.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Haiti
Hundreds of Negroes Demonstrate in Birmingham
In Birmingham hundreds of Negroes eluded police blockades and swarmed toward downtown in a mass demonstration against racial segregation. Police were momentarily overwhelmed, reinforcements arrived, and horns and billy sticks were deployed. no arrests were reported. Governor Wallace warned of murder indictments if killings occurred. See continued coverage on Page 2.
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Birmingham
Montgomery
George Wallace
Advertising income tops all mass media combined says Lipscomb
New York financier Charles T Lipscomb, president of the Bureau of Advertising for the American Newspaper Publishers Association, said newspapers bring in 3.6 billion dollars annually, more than all other mass media. He spoke at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association conference in New Orleans. Classified ads were noted as the fastest growing segment, with 300 million classified ads last year generating 850 million dollars.
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New Orleans
Charles T.lipscomb
New York
Bureau of Advertising
The
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Lipscomb
Montgomery group asks Kennedy to seek peaceful integration path
A Montgomery organization urged President Kennedy to advocate peaceful settlement of all problems, opposing the atmosphere created by leaders of integration such as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The call emphasized nonviolence and dialogue.
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Montgomery
Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
Two U S Soldiers Seek Political Asylum in East Germany
East Germany reports that Capt Alfred Swenson of Scranton Pennsylvania and Sgt Benjamin Cain of Frederica Delaware have appealed for political asylum. Swenson crossed into East Germany in a military vehicle. Cain reportedly contacted East Berlin authorities seeking asylum. Army HQ in Heidelberg is investigating. families dispute defection claims, with Swenson’s mother fearing Soviet torture and Cain’s wife insisting he did not defect.
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John D. Koehler
Berlin
East Germany
ADN
Alfred Swenson
Scranton
Benjamin Cain
Frederica, del
Svenson
Giessen
West
Cain
West Berlin
East Berlin
U.S. Army
Heidelberg
New Windsor
N.Y
Newburgh
Betty
Germany
Fruehauf land action approved by city commission
The Decatur city commission authorized conveyance of about 40 acres to the Industrial Development Board for lease to Fruehauf Trailer Co. for an aluminum rolling mill project. The mill will be operated by the Decatur Aluminum Co. a Fruehauf Hunter Engineering subsidiary expanding the existing plant on city-owned land under a Wallace financing program.
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City Commission
Industrial Development Board of
City of
Decatur
Fruehauf Trailer Co
Decatur Aluminum Co
Fruehauf and Hunter Engineering Co
Fruehauf
Wallace
Frigi daire washer and dryer headline tease
A compact item notes no weather worries with a Frigi daire washer and dryer. Mention includes Robin son and lady as contextual names in a light home appliance blurb.
Reivers Wins Pulitzer Fiction as Drama Award Lapses
Andrew Meisels reports that The Reivers by William Faulkner won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, while no drama prize was awarded. Drama jurors John Mason Brown and John Gassner resigned, citing the omission. they had favored Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The Chicago Daily News won the public service prize for birth control coverage. The Columbia trustees announced the awards on the page.
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Andrew Meisels
New York
the Reivers
William Faulkner
John Mason Brown
John Gassner
Yale University
Brown
Gassner
Edward Albee
Virginia Woolf
New England
Chicago Daily News
Daily News
Columbia University
Market News Snapshot Mixed Stocks Grain Rally
NEW YORK AP reports mixed stock activity with gains in motors and higher bond prices amid quiet trading. Cotton remains firm with active buying while wheat in Chicago shows modest strength. Corn and oats rise, soybeans firm on broad demand. Hog prices gain 25 to 50 cents to a top of 15.25, slaughter steers steady to strong at 24.25.
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New York
Chicago
Telstar 2 Blasted Into Orbit From Cape Canaveral
Telstar 2 rose on a 90 foot Delta rocket at 6 38 a.m. from Cape Canaveral sending a 175 pound satellite toward a looping earth orbit between 575 and 6559 miles. Officials reported the second stage ignited and a full orbit would take nearly four hours with confirmation likely after the first pass. The mission aims to advance global communications using satellites for radio television news and telephone service.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Telstar
Globe
Telstar 2
Space
Lee Telstar
Wallace pushes for more school money and orders calm
Gov. George Wallace warned Negro demonstrators of murder charges if violence erupts in Birmingham while pledging action to prevent violence. He urged a larger school-funding package beyond 40 million annually and said he would sign a one cent sales tax. The legislature moved to form a committee to study unrest as Wallace urged peace and declared the governor is chief law officer and guard commander.
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Montgomery
George Wallace
Birmingham
Wallace
House
Senate
National Guard
Alabama
Special Session Cost 350000 for Alabama Legislature
AP reports the Alabama Legislature spent about 350000 dollars for seven weeks in Montgomery to enact 40 million in new yearly taxes. The session cost includes 30 dollars daily for 141 members. If ended last Friday, savings would have been about 15000. Gov George Wallace aims to speed the 1963 regular term to save roughly 300000 by meeting three days weekly instead of two.
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House
Senate
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