Streight Raid Began 100 Years Ago On Sand Mountain
One hundred years ago today the Day's Gap battle opened Streight's Raid in North Georgia. Federal Col Abel D Streight led about 7 500 men in a bold but flawed campaign through Alabama terrain toward the mountains near Cullman Morgan County. Nathan Bedford Forrest pursued and stopped the march as civilians recall historic sacrifice on Sand Mountain.
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Phillip Kyle
Daily
Sand Mountain
Decatur
Streight
Day’s Gap
Abel D. Streight
North Georgia
Alabama
Tuscumbia
Russellville
Mount Hope
Moulton
Danville
Cullman
Morgan County
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Forrest
Hog Mountain
Cullman County
Tell Me Why Earthquakes Shake The World Of Science
A reader asks why earthquakes occur and how they are measured. The article explains faulting in the crust, energy turning to vibrations, and how seismographs record wave arrival times directions and motion to locate quakes.
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Mare
Tokyo
New York
Earth
Area service members receive Navy and Air Force training updates
Howard A. Edmondson completes a 12 week aviation fire control technicians bomb director course at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Memphis. James W. Hill, aviation electronics technician first class, serves with Attack Squadron Three at Sanford Naval Air Station. Ensign Herbert C. Barker reports to Naval Station Pensacola for an eight week Pre-Flight and Officer Indoctrination course. Phillip Thornton, seaman apprentice, serves aboard USS Ranger with the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. Coleman B. Harris of Cullman completes USAF medical service specialists training at Gunter Air Force Base. He is reassigned to a permanent base after training.
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Memphis, Tenn
Howard A. Edmonson
USN
George T. Edmondson
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Here
Pensacola
Fla
Herbert C. Barker
Dewey L. Barker
Athens 2
Naval Air Station
Naval School
Gunter Afb
Ala
Coleman B. Harris
Cullman
United States Air Force
Harris
Air Force
E. C. Harris
Crane Hill
Walker College
Jasper
Space budget signals large Southern share next year
A government forecast shows forty one cents of every dollar in space spending will go to the South, totaling more than 1000 dollars in the region for the coming year.
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United States
South
States
Industry Days Set In Hartselle
HARTSELLE Alabama Industry Days a state wide Jaycees project sponsored locally to promote public awareness of the vital role of local industries in community welfare and growth. Reservations of Hopi Navajo Apache Papago and 10 other tribes extend over a third of Arizona’s 113,909 square miles.
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Hartselle
Alabama
Arizona
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Ay & She
By A. Leokum
Deborah Baker
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Washington
Naval Air Station, Sanford
USS
Ranger
Phillip
Samuel L. Thornton
Malone St
Athens
Seventh Fleet
Pacific
Alameda, Calif
The
Theodore Burger
Rochester, N.Y
Davidson Coal & Feed Co
Hully St. NE
U. S
Decatur Daily
Bureau of Advertising
ANPA
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