Pair Is Dead In Limestone County
A Negro couple in Limestone County is dead after the husband shot his wife in Crosskey then killed himself with a shotgun blast. Mrs. Rossie Hambrick died at Limestone Hospital after a drive to the city for a hospital bill. Sheriff Buddy Evans found Hambrick dead at his Crosskey home about 9:30 a.m. with photographs not allowed due to the wound’s nature. An investigation continues.
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Limestone County
Rossie Hambrick
Crosskey
Kittie Ann Jones
John
Archie McElroy
Ham
Buddy’’ Evans
Hambrick
Cooper Circles Earth In Faith 7 Space Flight
Astronaut Gordon Cooper completed the third orbit of his Faith 7 mission en route to a new American man in space record. He released a 10 pound sphere with flashing lights for observation and reported the action from Ascension Island while public enthusiasm surged worldwide.
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Fla
Gordon Cooper
Cooper
Faith 7
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Ascension Island
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Apollo
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Soviet Union
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Washington
John H. Glenn Jr
M. Scott Car
Camala
Janita
I Cooper
Orena Hefd
Tecumseh
Okla
Atlantic
Pacific
Case CO
Grissom
Roger
Florida-Georgia
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Schirra
Cape
Fle
Alabama Editors to Meet President at White House Luncheon
About 25 Alabama editors and publishers were invited as guests at the White House for a luncheon with the President and the Vice President. The event marked the 21st such gathering, unrelated to recent Birmingham and Alabama facial incidents. Editors and publishers from 20 other states have also met with the President to discuss national affairs.
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Alabama
White House
United States
Birmingham
Morgan Co High School Key Club Inducts Officers for 1963-64
Dinner meeting Monday night inducted new officers Mike Simpson president Preston Newman secretary and Jimmy Yarbrough treasurer at Morgan County High School Key Club. Guests included Gary Tillery district official and Joe Basenburg former Alabama district governor. Also notes on building permits issued by city clerk and Decatur cub scouts visit Wheeler Refuge with educational displays and safety reminders.
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Morgan County High School
Mike Simpson
Preston Newman
Jimmy Yarbrough
Gary Tillery
Cullman
Joe Basenburg
Alabama
Tillery
Baseburg
Conversion as a Biblically rooted term in public discourse
A reader questions the meaning of conversion between faiths. The columnist argues conversion is a Biblical concept, cites a provocative analogy to a gas buggy, and critiques a Kennedy administration press conference focusing mainly on race issues rather than taxation and Haiti. He notes editors from Alabama pressed race topics, while the President’s broader policy agenda received little attention.
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D. R
Kennedy
Haiti
Alabama
United States
Chicago
San Francisco
Birmingham
Oxford
Miss
University of Alabama
New Alabama Highway Building Planned Near Decatur
The Alabama Highway Department plans a new district building near Decatur at an estimated cost of 300000 to 400000 dollars on 25 to 30 acres, with no property bought yet. Rodgers expects rising employment and major North Alabama highway construction including Interstate 64 between Cullman and Lacon and portions of Interstate 50 in DeKalb County. If the Gordon Dr overpass plan is approved, construction would start with 90 percent federal and 10 percent railroad participation. otherwise work would begin later this year. The department aims to use 25 million from the 100 million highway bond issue by June 1 and may sell about 15 million more later this year.
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Alabama Highway Department
District Highway Department
Decatur
Rodgers
Lay Rodgers
North Alabama
Cullman
Lacon
DeKalb County
Gordon Dr
Beet the heet with Frigidaire Air Conditioner
Frigidaire air conditioner promotion appears amid terse listings for Ludget Terms and Robinson's. The fragment hints at a sale or advert placement with brand reference and local shop names.
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Robinson's
Lilienthal to Speak on TVA Anniversary in Decatur
May 18 marks TVA's 20th anniversary with a public address by David E. Lilienthal at 8 p.m. in Decatur High School auditorium. Lilienthal, a former TVA chairman, helped shape wartime utility policy into broad regional progress. UA President Frank Rose and coach Bear Bryant address alumni in the high school cafeteria earlier, with Sherrill noting the UA program ends before Lilienthal's talk.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
North Alabama
David E. Lilienthal
Decatur High School
Lilienthal
Marty Truman
U.S. Senate
Atomic Energy Commission
University of Alabama
Frank A. Rose
Paul “Bear” Bryant
John D. Sherrill
Morgan
Wallace challenges federal troops amid Birmingham race talks
A Birmingham racial dispute heats up as Gov. Wallace accuses Gov. Kennedy of delaying troop recall while urging moderation. Wallace pressed President Kennedy to withdraw federal troopers after telegraphic exchanges with Alabama leaders. The White House gave no reply to Wallace’s telegrams. Demonstrations spread from Selma to Cambridge with arrests as efforts to integrate sites continue.
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Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Wallace
President Kennedy
Alabama
White House
Montgomery
Ala
George Wallace
Kennedy
Birmingham
Turmoil Over Desegregation Fuels Downtown Tension
White shoppers shun the downtown district amid rumors of a white boycott tied to a biracial agreement on gradual desegregation of public facilities and improved jobs for Negroes. Separately, a severe weather forecast warns of thunderstorms and large hail in northern Alabama from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and MLK Jr. and 10 ministers face a notion of excessive, vague injunctions from the Alabama Supreme Court.
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Alabama
Limestone
Madison
Jackson
Montgomery
Martin Luther King Jr
Alabama Supreme Court
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