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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1963
Page
1
Hurricane Flora battered Cuba for a fourth day, wiping out half of the island’s sugar rice coffee cotton and cocoa crops. At 8 a.m. EST Flora resumed movement across the stricken nation, worsening the Castro regime’s economic crisis.
PTA and Mizpah Chapter plan meetings this week with host details. City docket lists multiple offenses and several building permits issued, plus W M S meeting. Cuba storm Flora devastates Oriente sugar region, with hundreds dead and unknown crews missing as transport and weather worsen.
The speaker urges that anyone desiring to serve the Lord will be given opportunity. With population growth and a global shortage of missionaries, nurses, doctors, and teachers, there are many open doors for service. Youth should prayerfully choose a path, as boards and churches seek competent workers.
President Kennedy allied with the United States ratified the limited nuclear test ban treaty calling it a clear and honorable national commitment to mankind's survival. The signing marks a step in arms control and global safety efforts.
A 14 year old Negro boy, Bobby Lee Bell, drowned in a river inlet after wading from the bank while playing near a barge in the Decatur harbor. Eyewitnesses reported his friend James Michael Townsend cried for help as Bell vanished beneath muddy waters. Police and rescue teams responded, but Bell did not survive.
Negro leaders await Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and a SCLC task force in Birmingham to assess progress on racial issues. Harry Boyte declined to name the trip’s other members. Alabama Democratic Conference urges President Kennedy to use his influence to ease tensions and restore morale amid ongoing bombings and harassment of Black citizens.
Fire at Shoal Creek Baptist Church during Sunday service damaged two rooms in an old section joined to the new educational wing. A young boy is believed responsible, and Marshal Howard Dees planned an investigation after the incident reported by Pastor Bunyan Wallace.
Four searchers spotted a waving explorer near Creel Mexico and contacted twelve men and two women missing for over a week. The group from Utah California and a zoology professor endured a rugged Barranca Cobre gorge while attempting a Rio Urique descent and river trip to Chihuahua.
Hospital authorities report the left lung tumor of Edward R. Murrow, director of USIA, is malignant. Cuba accuses the US of undeclared war and vows not to sign the limited test ban treaty. Birmingham mayor and council mull hiring Negro policemen. Rep. Huddleston asks Justice Department to probe disclosure of Gov. Wallace veteran records. Kennedy nominates Lt Gen WM Greene Jr to commandant of the Marine Corps.
Sheriff Knox McRae led a five hour operation with deputies and ABC agents targeting bootleggers. At least 16 people were arrested with 26 counts of violating prohibition law filed. Undercover agents bought illicit whisky and beer at several locations as warrants were served and suspects processed.
New York AP reports mixed stock trading and narrow bond ranges. Wheat and corn rise on speculative demand while oats and soybeans advance. Hog and cattle prices push higher with hogs topping 16.75 and cattle at 25.50.
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