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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1963
Page
1
In Belluno Italy AP report says over 10 000 workers collect and bury bodies from the Vaiont Dam slide to curb disease. Premier Leone visits the stricken area as authorities assess up to 3000 dead with 600 bodies recovered early today.
About 100 Soviet troops halted a U S Army supply convoy near Berlin on the autobahn Babelsberg. A second U S convoy stood ready nearby while East German and Soviet forces blockaded both lanes amid a dispute over troop counts and traffic procedures.
The Promenaires Square Dance Club will meet at the American Legion Home on Bank Street at 8 tonight. All western style square dancers welcome. The Christian Business Men's Committee will meet at 6 30 p m Saturday at the Shangrila Restaurant.
The passage means not literal death but the death of self and selfishness. true discipleship requires full commitment not half hearted belief. Jesus asks to deny self, take up the cross, and follow him, promising fulfillment when one loses self for his sake.
A 24 year old Marshall County man, Billy Ray Briscoe of Arab, died in a fiery three vehicle crash on U S Highway 231 three miles north of Morgan City. Truck driver Ed Tidwell, 52, Huntsville, said Briscoe pulled out and hit the cotton laden tractor trailer. The truck exploded with 57 cotton bales burning over two hours as Arab firefighters battled the blaze. Also involved was a 1960 GMC pickup driven by 22 year old Jackie Hardin of Birmingham. No other injuries were reported.
Miss Olive Huston mayor of Xenia Ohio greets Decatur mayor Gilmer Blackburn as National Business Women's Week tour stops in Alabama. Six women from Michigan and Ohio travel from Great Lakes toward the Gulf Coast. Huston chairs the week. Wyandotte Michigan's Virginia Allen is BPW president and Cahalan Drug Stores executive vice president heads to Washington to speak on women’s status.
Paul C. Davis, about 61, of 627 Johnston St SE, longtime Decatur merchant, died about 11 20 a m today at Decatur General Hospital of an apparent heart attack after hospitalization since Monday. He owned Paul C Davis Feed and Seed Store on Moulton St E Survivors include his wife and one son James Davis Funeral services to be announced later.
Robinsons advertises a trade-in sale of beautiful upholstered chairs with free parking offering.
The Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba says Hurricane Flora deals a major blow to Fidel Castro's dictatorship. It cites Cuba's collapsing food supply and growing disenchantment with strict Communist rationing as added threats to Castro's grip, noting the storm's damage could influence his fate.
A group of senior Conservative lawmakers in Blackpool England urged drafting Foreign Secretary Lord Home to succeed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The move signals a leadership bid within the party as the crisis unfolds.
Washington Undersecretary George Ball reports Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko claimed he was unaware that U S convoys on the West Germany to Berlin highway had been halted. Paris seven nations back study of multinational nuclear defense shield for the West.
In New Orleans Tulane University surgeons transplanted a monkey kidney into a young woman. The operation was announced today and the patient was listed in fair condition.
A federal advance of 34880 is released to aid the urban renewal program in Decatur Alabama. Senators Lister Hill John Sparkman and Rep Bob Jones announce final approval for funds to complete planning of the general neighborhood renewal plan including the downtown study. Planning firms Miller Stephenson Baker of Atlanta and Ewald Associates of Memphis conduct surveys under a 24000 contract.
President Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met and discussed Cuba and the moon but offered no concessions on East West disputes. Officials called the session exploratory with no immediate changes in Soviet positions as Washington and Moscow test possible avenues for limited nuclear test ban follow ups.
The United States protested the Soviet blocking of a Berlin bound U S convoy as unwarranted. President Kennedy met with top advisers after a noon meeting with Rusk and McNamara to discuss the Berlin Autobahn incident.
New York AP market round up shows stock prices rising and bonds moving higher with general activity. Agricultural grains fall on liquidation while livestock prices edge down. also an ad notes Decatur Red Raider Sweatshirts for sale at Sears, 108 Second Ave.
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