India China clash near Nathu Pass yields no casualties
India and China exchanged near range fire at Nathu Pass in the Himalayas. The brief, bloodless engagement saw Chinese troops enter Indian territory opposite Sikkim and retreat after Indian fire. No casualties reported on either side.
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Conrad Fine
New Delhi
India
Red China
Nathu Pass
Himalayas
Sikkim
Tibet
Himalayan
Peking
Kashmir
Gridiron Tickets Contest at Birmingham Game
Brenda Stone, THE DAILY receptionist, holds four Alabama Ole Miss tickets and a $25 check as prizes in this week’s GridIron Forecast. She cannot win because she is an employee. Readers are invited to enter. full rules appear in the sports section.
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Brenda Stone
Gayly
Birmingham
Brenda
Jim Taylor
No Venue Change In Tot Death Case
Athens Circuit Judge Newton B Powell denied a venue change for 31 year old George Wooden charged with the death of 10 month old Carlos Wooden. The court set September 27 for the first degree murder trial in Limestone County after ruling a fair trial is possible there despite publicity.
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Athens
Newton B. Powell
George Wooden
Carlos Wooden
Powell
Wooden
Limestone County
David Patton
George Latham
Decator Diary Notes Auburn Dean's List Summer Quarter
Robert W. Tapscott of Danville made the dean's list at Auburn University for the summer quarter. A. C. Jordan underwent surgery at University Hospital in Birmingham and is listed in room 827. West Decatur Elementary PTA meets at 7:30 p.m. at the school. Walter Jackson Elementary PTA meets at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. See Diary on Page 2.
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Robert W. Tapscott
Danville
Auburn University
A. C
Dedi) Jordan
Davis St
University Hospital At
Birmingham
19Th St. South
West Decatur Elementary School
PTA
Walter Jackson Elementary School
Forest State Losing EOA Funds in Alabama Programs
John W. Forest, EOA coordinator for DHHE, told Rotary Club that Alabama is not utilizing a job training program under the Economic Opportunity Act. He noted the work experience training aimed at moving welfare recipients toward employment.
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Alabama
John W. Forest
EOA
Rotary Club
Forest
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Atlanta
Senate agrees to joint talks on remap bill
The Alabama Senate voted 17 to 13 to form a conference committee with three House members and three senators to reconcile differences on a Senate reapportionment bill. Gov. Wallace can influence the panel as Lt. Gov. Allen selected three senators to serve. The House had rejected Senate amendments aiming to reshape the chamber to meet a federal court ultimatum.
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Senate
Montgomery
Alabama Senate
House
George Wallace
James B. Allen
Ed Horton
Imestone County
Roland Coopler
Wilcox
Jimmy Clark Barbour
Third Escapee Is Captured
John Raymond Thomas a 17 year old who escaped Morgan County Jail on August 25 was recaptured by Tarrant City officers. He list his home as Birmingham and had fled while held on grand larceny with two men William Pierce and Charles Hefner. Pierce was captured. Hefner is in Gadsden custody. Thomas also faced an Montgomery auto theft charge.
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John Raymond Thomas
Morgan County
Don Hobby
Thomas
Tarrant City
Birmingham
William Pierce
Charles Hefner
Pierce
Hefner
Sheriff's Department
Gadsden
Copter Down In North Viet Nam
A U S helicopter carrying four crewmen was shot down in North Viet Nam while attempting a rescue of a downed American pilot. The four crewmen and the pilot are listed as missing as North Vietnamese troops moved toward the pilot.
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North
Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Ku Klux Klan member faces retrial for civil rights worker death
In Hayneville Alabama a murder charge against a young Ku Klux Klan member accused in the killing of a white civil rights worker was rescheduled for retrial on Wednesday September 29. In Boston the American League fined Pedro Gonzalez five hundred dollars and suspended him for the season for swinging at Detroit pitcher Larry Sherry.
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Hayneville
Ala
Boston
Joe Cronin
Cleveland
Pedro Gonzalez
Detroit
Larry Sherry
Fire Destroys Major Buildings at Nashville State Fair
Wind fed flames swept through the Tennessee State Fair Grounds destroying the women’s and merchants buildings and a grandstand. 18 people were hospitalized including 10 firefighters. no deaths or missing persons were reported. Mayor Beverly Briley closed the fair while investigators consider electrical wiring the likely cause.
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Nashville, Tenn
Beverly Briley
Briley
Merchant's
Women’s and Merchants
Rooster Club Told Freedom Has Three Musts
3M executive William Bennett told about 300 Chamber members at Congress Inn that leadership and progress require three musts. He spoke on United Fund as a challenge to free enterprise, asserting strong community relations shape America’s free enterprise posterity. He urged continued involvement and progress.
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David Knight
3M Co
William Bennett
St. Paul, Minn
Chamber of Commerce
Aca
Tne
Congress Inn
Bennett
Civic Affairs
United Fund
America
Decatur Chamber. of Commerce
Roy Fite Jr
Rooster Coffee Club
Ing
Cliff Hansen
Rooster Club
Jim Garner
Federal grand jury finds no indictments in Selma Marion cases
Foreman Charles W. Forrest told U S District Judge Daniel H. Thomas the federal grand jury heard testimony from 49 witnesses in five cases against seven defendants and returned no true bills. The panel reported no indictments for police handling of violent voter rights demonstrations in Selma and Marion last winter.
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Mobile
Selma
Marion
Charles W. Forrest
U. S. Dist
Daniel H. Thomas
Forrest
Peking Entry To U N Urged By Thant At U N
Secretary General U Thant urged the General Assembly that Peking and all governments, including Red China, be represented at United Nations headquarters. He noted Viet Nam’s war set back East West cooperation and raised Cold War tensions amid India Pakistan conflict. He acknowledged seating all governments poses political difficulties.
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Max Harrelson
United Nations
N.Y
U Thant
U.N. General Assembly
Asia
Red China
U.N
General Assembly
Thant
Viet Nam
India
Pakistan
Market News Snapshot from New York and Chicago
New York stocks mixed while bonds and cotton hold steady. Chicago wheat mixed with September weak, corn mostly steady, oats weak to steady, soybeans firm with September up 10 cents. Hog prices rise 25 to 50 cents to a top of 24.40, slaughter steers steady at 28.50.
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New York
Chicago
Early settlers along Cottaco Creek in Morgan County
In the Decatur Daily John Knox recounts eastern Morgan County settlers who followed Andrew Jackson from Huntsville during the War of 1812 and later returned to settle and file land grants when Huntsville’s land office opened in 1818.
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Morgan County
Decatur
John Knox
Andrew Jackson
Huntsville
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Security Council
Limestone
Patton
Latham
Decator
Hobby
An Ninh
101St Airborne Brigade
Lee Copter
Nashville
Freedom Has
Isle
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
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