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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1963
Page
2
Detailed sky observations list Venus Mars Saturn Jupiter and Uranus with times for visibility and rising in the evening and early morning hours. Includes guidance on where to look for prominent stars and planets across the western and southeastern horizons through late night into early morning.
Decatur and vicinity readings show the Tennessee River at Keller Memorial Bridge 21.50 feet, down .05 in 24 hours, sea level 555.80 feet. TVA lakes Chickamauga 682.2, Pickwick 413.7, Guntersville 82 degrees at 3 30 pm with a 60 degree low. skies clear to partly cloudy, cooler. Highs near 75 today and 76 Thursday, lows around 53. Winds north to northeast 8 15 mph.
Alabama forecast calls for temperatures a few degrees below normal most days with a steady high near 82 and low mid to upper 50s to mid 60s. Precipitation totals range from one half to one inch, mainly in the latter part of the period.
Diamond police reported a break in early this morning with a thief injuring his arm on glass. A description was given as 5'8" to 5'10" tall, slender, brown hair, wearing blue jeans and a light shirt. Detective Bowman leads the inquiry.
The typical American woman aged 25 to 29 stands about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs around 136 pounds, based on demographic estimates.
Multiple small ads include: care for children for working mothers summer, special sale on The Pulpit Commentary set from Ira's Gift Shop, Beagle female for hunting and pet, warehouse antiques sale by House of Elegant Junk, Wanted experienced waitress, and two salesmen needed for GM car sales.
Complete returns show 545,776 votes for the plan and 595,351 against it as farmers confront a shift in policy. The proposal would cut 1964 plantings by 10 percent, pay $2 a bushel on most production, and subsidize idle wheat land totaling about $300 million. The loss signals growing appetite for less federal intervention and challenges Freeman and administration prestige.
Alabama farmers across four county area approve a 1964 wheat marketing quotas and acreage diversion plan. Unofficial returns show 2,916 in favor and 1,236 opposed nationwide turnout near 50 percent. The program includes marketing quotas, acreage reduction payments, and a $2 per bushel price support.
Des Moines AP United Presbyterian General Assembly nears conclusion urging broader peace making among nations and races. It praises cordial Protestant Roman Catholic ties and asks the U.S. to pursue a workable Soviet disarmament agreement with patience. Delegates also approve a church constitution revision.
The funeral for Mrs. Rosie L. Owens who died at Decatur General Hospital will be Sunday at 2 p.m. from the First Baptist Church of Decatur. Burial follows at Owen Family Cemetery in Wheeler. Survivors include daughter Mrs. Ida Ball of Ohio and sister Miss Paulella Jenkins of Decatur.
Slaughter yearlings mostly heifers 20.50 to 22.00. Utility cows 14.50 to 16.50. Commercial bulls 19.00 to 19.50. Medium and good 375 to 500 lb feeder steers 23.50 to 25.00. Feeder heifers 21.00 to 23.50. Calves 125, active, steady, good and choice 27.00 to 29.00. Hogs 800 active, 25 to 75 higher, mixed lots 195 to 240 lbs 15.00 to 15.50. Sows active, strong to 50 higher.
Wall Street firmed late trading as steel stocks boosted the market with gains around one to two points. U.S. Steel Bethlehem Republic rose about one point, Jones & Laughlin and Youngstown Sheet gained about two, while some sugars and specialty issues faltered on profit taking. Corporate and U.S. government bonds moved irregularly higher in moderate trading.
A compact snapshot of New York market chatter listing several stocks with brief percentage figures. Names include Acme Steel Int Harv Int Paper Kaiser Kress KVP Suth Ligg & My Lockh Air Lorillard Lou & Nash Mont Ward Nat Dairy Nat Distill Olin Math Owens Tl Gi Penney Pepsi Cola and Pet Milk with varied percent changes.
Nashville report notes active cattle with tight supply and steady ranges. Slaughter yearlings 20.50 to 22.00, utility cows 14.50 to 16.50, bulls 19.00 to 19.50, calves 15.50 to 16.00, sows and lambs mixed with prime 90 to 100 pounds at 23.75 to 24.00 and 90 pound lambs at 23.25. Wool and slaughter sheep softer, demand weaker.
Gordon Nathaniel Francis Moulton 53 died today at Black Chandler Hospital. Funeral services Friday at 2 p m from Corinth Baptist Church with reverends Bennie Miller W B Ferguson Houston Texas two half brothers Jack Lynch Warren Lynch Houston Texas active pallbearers will be Young Men of Cooper's Class Corinth Baptist Church honorary pallbearers will be members of the men’s adult class Corinth Baptist Church
Leon Chunn dies with service planned at Valhermoso Christian Church Thursday at 2 p.m. The funeral, led by Rev. Ray McCulloch and Rev. Conner Lundy, will precede burial at Valhermoso Cemetery directed by Peck. Survivors include wife Mildren, son William Gerald, sister L. L. Kennedy, brother John Mack, all tied to Valhermosa Springs or nearby areas. World War I veteran and church member. Pallbearers named. Body to lie in state one hour before service.
A tentative three year no strike pact between Gulf Coast Contractors Association and AFL CIO building trades unions aims to cover Mississippi rocket test facility work in Gainesville. Negotiations on wage scales proceed while ratification by local unions is awaited. The project, near Gulfport, will employ about 3,000 workers plus a permanent 2,000 staff, to test Saturn rockets for the moon mission.
Construction has begun on Huntsville's 3.2 million city hall. Mayor R. B. Searcy turned the first shovel of dirt Tuesday, delivering perhaps the shortest speech on record: "Let's get going."
Receipts totaling 3,300 hogs are reported at Columbus Moultrie Thomasville Dothan Alabama and Jacksonville Florida. Prices are uneven with barrows and gilts 190-230 pounds at 15.50-16.00 per hundredweight 240-270 and 160-180 pound groups at 14.50-15.25 and No 1-3 sows at 10.25-12.50.
New York AP reports cotton futures opened level to two cents above the prior close, with the prior close noted around 33.30 per hundredweight, indicating a quiet start to trading.
A hospital admissions list shows patients from Cranehill Bremen Hanceville Cullman Falkville and Vinemont. Individuals include Cheryl Jada Lott Thelma Waldrop Avery Calvert John Bervin Milligan Mack Scott Billy Harbison John McBrayer Ethalane Light Louis Evans and Ralph Cain with various room numbers.
A list of names including Mrs. Willard Dutton of Courtland and others from Moulton Danville Decatur Town Creek and Town Creek appears with dismissal counts for several individuals such as Mrs. James Gibson and Mrs. Joseph Williams along with Donald Wayne Terry and Waylon Terry.
Mrs R B French and family members listed with addresses Danville Rd and 9th Ave Norman West. Rebecca French also listed at 1511 Danville Rd. Infant daughter of Verdon Nesmith noted from Moulton. Master Robert and Master Thomas Dockery connected to Trinity. Rosa McDonald listed in Danville.
A reader notices an admissions listing from Decatur General naming numerous individuals and family members. The list includes Mrs. Baron Cockrell of Decatur and others across Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia with addresses in Athens Huntsville Hartselle Cullman Florence Louisville and Lexington. The compilation features adults and children such as Rev Wilbur Leo Smallwood Miss Terry Lee Denson and Master Barry Allen Black among many listed.
A Hart selle Moulton and Decatur Units American Legion Auxiliary plan a May 31 covered dish supper. City records note multiple charges including speeding no license and driving while intoxicated. Decatur Bowling Center reported four coin-machine break ins with unknown losses. X Ray convention attendees, building permit issued for 511 19th Ave SE, and several U.S. 31 traffic collisions in Huntsville area with names and ages.
Mr and Mrs Lee Walter Nelms 317 4 lith Ave NW report a son born Monday at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital. Mr and Mrs Charles Wright 6 Church St report a son born Tuesday at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital. Mr and Mrs Willard Dutton Courtland 1 report a son born Monday at Lawrence County Hospital. Mr and Mrs A D Light Falkville 3 report a son at Cullman Hospital. Mr and Mrs Howard Allen 1708 Chenault Dr SE report a daughter born Tuesday at Decatur General Hospital.
Athens police reported two Tuesday arrests for driving while intoxicated and for no driver's license.
Athens Limestone County Sheriff’s force made five arrests totaling three for grand larceny one for public drunkenness and one for driving without a license. The spree reflects ongoing enforcement actions across the county.
Cullman police arrested two individuals on Tuesday one for disorderly conduct and one for violation of the prohibition law.
Violence blights Attalla Alabama as protests persist over racial imbalance. In New Jersey about 30 Lincoln Elementary students protest at a visitors area against neighborhood school assignments while Franklin Township pickets split evenly between Black and white. Detroit NAACP seeks school bus transport to achieve integration.
Space authorities scoured seas 250 miles southeast of Bermuda for a five foot long re entry package suspected to have parachuted from space. The item, 18 inch diameter, drifted after a 100 mile high test launch of a 400 pound dummy reactor by a Scout rocket, part of an Atomic Energy Commission study on reactor survival on re entry.
A Cullman two car crash caused 450 dollars in property damage. Police report shows a 1956 Ford driven by Lillian E Widner rear ending a 1953 Buick driven by Delbert C Parker at Arnold Street at 417 PM while the Buick waited at a red light.
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