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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1963
Page
1
Portmouth reporters describe the heartbreak and resilience of Thresher families six months after the nuclear submarine sank off Boston with 129 sailors and civilians. Ashore mothers, widows, and children cope through memory, duty, and community funds supporting education for 44 civilian dependents.
Police were notified of theft from Decatur Boat Harbor a 1963 blue Chevrolet. A 1957 Plymouth backed into a parked 1963 Buick at Central Baptist Church causing very light damage. At Decatur Shopping Center a 1963 Oldsmobile backed into Lois Morgan’s 1959 Chevrolet. Boy and Cub Scout Roundtable and Arrowhead district meeting set for Thursday 7:30 p.m. at First Federal Savings and Loan penthouse. Mrs. Benton Smith and Bessie Cowan spent the weekend in Chattanooga for the Plum Nelly Art Show. See DIARY on Page 3.
Advice from a parent on graduation, stressing that a final lecture is unlikely to change a young adult. Emphasizes living a Christ centered life, praying for guidance, and seeking noble motives over secular distractions during the college transition.
Mrs. Thomas Roy Jarrett world president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union urged an alcohol free society at the Alabama WCTU state convention in Montgomery. She cited youth drinking, 55 percent of accidents linked to alcohol, and called for community recreation and social host responsibility. The speech closed the 79th convention, noting WCTU’s global reach and influence on policy and youth programs.
Medical authorities reported the last known source in the Western world was tapped today for rare type E antitoxin serum to treat nine Tennessee patients hospitalized with botulism. Eric Charles Dalton, five, son of a Marshal Space Flight Center physicist, was en route from Huntsville to Nashville in critical condition with a classical botulism case.
Students are urged to obtain Decatur Red Raider sweatshirts at Sears located at 108 Second Ave in Decatur. The ad highlights availability through the local retailer with no further details.
UF official Ira Lay announced at United Fund headquarters that 12000 has been turned in toward the 175500 goal. He cited potential 20000 more from big industry and noted only two campaigns completed The Decatur Daily and First Federal Savings and Loan. Lay said the drive remains on track with ongoing reports and space flight donations from the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Ardmore shows growing interest from Fly Manufacturing Co to locate a branch plant here. N P Edmundson and Morgan Mims announce a southern firm courting Ardmore after a labor survey. residents 18 to 45 urged to apply for jobs at local banks.
Reports say Kennedy may announce a sale of more than 300 million dollars in wheat to the Soviet Union and East European satellites. White House delays news conference as aides weigh political impact and subsidy price issues amid Capitol Hill caution.
Scotty Stone of Stone Lumber Co in Hartselle reports about 900 contributed to aid 15 year old Denville High student Hilda Self who recently underwent surgery at University Hospital in Birmingham Kiwanis Club chair Horace Broom set up the fund at Citizens Bank in Hartselle with 182 deposited to date Donations received before the official fund was established were turned in on page 2 See SELF On Page 2
Hurricane Flora, second deadliest from the Atlantic, nears the northeast with winds up to 100 mph and a path toward Bermuda and Europe. Haiti reports 3,500 dead and 40 percent of the country devastated, while Cuba and the Bahamas suffer flood and wind damage.
President Kennedy's news conference set for 6 p.m. EDT will be carried live by NBC CBS ABC and Mutual. NBC will also televise. ABC plans a 6 30 p.m. showing while CBS airs with regular news from 6 30 to 7 p.m. or 7 30 p.m. on various stations.
The Associated Press reports Negro James B. Meredith plans to re-enter the University of Mississippi where his 1962 enrollment provoked riots, deaths, and a federal state showdown. Also in AP dispatches two Birmingham men face six months hard labor for illegal dynamite possession in a racially charged bombing probe.
Alabama State Board of Education approved placing a junior college at the Tennessee Valley State Vocational Technical School two miles north of Decatur in Morgan County. Rep. Albert Brewer announced the decision after months of effort with local officials. The site is one of ten chosen for junior colleges and will serve Morgan Limestone Madison Marshall Cullman and parts of Jackson County. Final site approval awaits the state superintendent of education. The college would share facilities with the technical school and is tied to a $15 million bond issue, with the junior college portion about 1.5 million.
Robinson's promotes Magnavox television models in color and black and white with no money down, inviting shoppers to take home a set without an upfront payment.
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