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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1968
Page
2
Athens Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual meeting at 7 tonight at the Athens Country Club with Sam Moore of Royal Publishing Co. as guest speaker. Officers and directors will be elected and outstanding farmers honored.
John T. Crews Jr. becomes executive vice president of the First National Bank of New Port Arkansas, after previously serving as cashier at the Decatur based First National. He is a Starkville Mass native who has lived in Decatur for nine years. Melody Anne Lee, daughter of Mr and Mrs John D Lee, appears in Baylor University Theater productions as Lady Mulligan in Camino Real and as a Citizen in Richard III while an undecided freshman drama major at Waco Texas. A Decatur engineer at Marshall Space Flight Center received 1400 for a Saturn launch vehicle project. John A Hauser of Decatur was honored by Dr Werner von Braun for purifying gas for Saturn rocket development. Decatur Art Guild meeting postponed to Monday at 7:30 pm with Walter McKeegan speaking. Decatur Festival of Music at 8 pm at First Methodist Church Fellowship Hall with admission. Austin High School Band Boosters to meet Thursday at 7:30 pm in band room. Royal Arch Masons convocation at 7:30 pm in Masonic Temple. Wheeler Basin Regional Library designates Friday as no fine day for overdue books as National Library Week observance. Decatur Concert Association reports 1967 68 season sold out and memberships closed. Margaret Elizabeth Stephenson named a vndi Alpha Lamia Delia and other text appears incomplete.
U S Bureau of Outdoor Recreation official Roy K Wood said Decatur may become a key recreation hub with Point Mallard Park featuring golf courses pools marina beaches and more He noted tourist dollars could stay longer boosting local businesses if an effective interstate interchange and reception center attract visitors The plan aims to extend stays from two to five or six days and would seek Bureau funding for eligible facilities while some riverfront elements may not qualify.
Field tests in Decatur and eight southern states evaluate if eradication of imported fire ant is feasible. Tests use Mirex bait applied by aircraft with three treatments costing about 1 dollar per acre. Fire ants infest 120 million acres and cause about 15 million dollars in annual damage.
Lt Gov Albert Brewer told Mobile at a Chamber of Commerce meeting that Mobile ranks 10th nationally in total tonnage and 7th in torfage and 5th in import tonnage. The annual report notes a $4.1 million service use last year due to economic cutbacks and requests almost $4 million for the next fiscal year.
State National Bank of Alabama announces the appointment of Bennett S. West as assistant trust officer in Decatur. West moves from the charge department after 12 years in finance, to lead the master retirement plan for self employed individuals. He is active civically in Huntsville with Civitan and the Chamber of Commerce Contact Club.west and his wife Pearl Bennett reside at 2009 Chambers Dr NE Huntsville with two children.
George Wallace plans a three day Texas tour with airports in Beaumont Port Arthur Lufkin Tyler and Texarkana a Dallas rally tonight and stops in Wichita Falls Amarillo Lubbock Midland and San Antonio Friday. Campaign seeks ballot access with volunteers across 126 counties.
An out of court settlement of 45000 dollars, believed the largest involving Lawrence County residents, was reached at a Federal Court hearing in Decatur. The case arose from a Dec 5 accident near Moulton that killed Lola Glennis Brewington, 17, and injured her husband Banford who sought 225000 from Tommy Wallace and others, with truck owners G. T. Conley and O. B. Conley among defendants. The suit had moved from Lawrence County Circuit Court to federal court.
Alabama will not gain new money but is authorized to spend 10.4 million more of federal highway funds already set aside. B L Bray said the funds will support interstate primary and secondary highway construction, mostly on the interstate system. Alan S Boyd raised Alabama’s authorized rail funds from 75.5 to 85.9 million for the year to correct perceived inequities from a slow 1967 building period.
Changes in management of the two Decatur Holiday Inns were announced by the home office in Memphis. Thomas H. Chaffee, formerly with the chain, is named to a new position as the article notes.
Richard A. Holcombe Jr. was appointed innkeeper of the Holiday Inn South, succeeding Chaffee who has been with Holiday Inns of America since 1962. Holcombe, a Lambertville New Jersey native, has managed Breakers Motor Hotel in Virginia Beach and the Cavalier there, and holds a B S from Trenton State. He is married with two children and a member of the American Hotel and Motel Association.
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