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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1963
Page
1
Very Rev. Brian J. Egan, president since February 15 1958, resigns at St. Bernard College Cullman. Acting president Vincent Sheppard takes over as the college confirms no formal announcement and cites calls for Egan on other duties.
Asbury Malone is reported in critical condition at Veterans Hospital in Nashville. At his bedside are Mr and Mrs Roy Wyatt and Mr and Mrs Benny Malone of Decatur. Also noted is a Demolay Commandery 14 Knights Templar meeting at 7 30 in the Masonic Temple and a public entertainment at the Moose Lodge in Moulton Street at 8. Father Egan named president of St Bernard College at 38.
Two sentinel satellites launched to test a method for detecting nuclear explosions in space as part of the limited nuclear test ban treaty. The mission seeks to chart space radiation and spot energy surges, with precise orbits planned to avoid false alarms.
A.V. argues children should receive religious training to avoid spiritual confusion. He compares withholding faith instruction to neglecting a shrub, urging parents to expose kids to Christian teachings, music and art, history, science, and literature.
A downtown Chattanooga church caught fire and exploded mid-morning injuring at least six firefighters as bricks and glass flew. Initial reports said four people might have been trapped inside the brick and frame building.
At the United Nations the Soviet Union faced an awkward session as Nationalist China led the argument against admitting Communist China. Liu Chieh cited Kremlin admissions showing aggression, while Albania and Mongolia walked out as the bloc stayed seated. Stevenson argued Red China's opposition to peaceful coexistence under Khrushchev.
President Kennedy greets Tito of Yugoslavia at the White House in a ceremonial welcome six years after a prior visit was canceled amid protests. Kennedy stresses the need for nations separated by oceans to understand each other to lessen war risk.
A labor dispute blocked the New York Journal American from publishing a late Starlight Edition. The AFL CIO Printing Pressmen's Union Local No. 2 calls it a stoppage, while the union says it concerns work assignments. The Hearst papers shuffled features from The New York Mirror to the Journal American after Mirror assets were sold.
The House Judiciary Committee weighs a motion to limit voting rights provisions to federal elections, supporting a milder administration bill. Attorney General Kennedy argues for the broader measure while civil rights groups call the change a sellout and warn it could heighten tensions.
A U S senator cited racial disorders in Birmingham Alabama during his attack on attempts to water down a civil rights bill. Sen Clifford P Case said removing a section that allows civil rights suits would be surrender before the real battle begins. The change was urged by Attorney General Robert F Kennedy.
Tod Thomas a 19 month old from Decatur is listed in critical condition at University Hospital Birmingham after paralysis from polio. He was admitted Oct 11 at Decatur General Hospital and then moved to Birmingham on a respirator. Authorities say he has complete body paralysis including breathing muscles and has not received polio vaccine.
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded jointly to Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley of Britain and Sir John Eccles of Australia for discoveries on ionic mechanisms in nerve membranes. Prize total 265000 Swedish crowns. Eccles cited for central nervous system inhibition research.
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