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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Aug 04, 1966

Page

3

Senate Faces Full Calendar As Alabama acts on bills

The Alabama state Senate returns to work facing a large bill calendar and will review House-passed measures including a $44 million school appropriation package. The House approved a six-bill program to fund pay raises, more teachers, and college budgets, plus a library and a new TV station. A jury service bill for women and other laws await first readings.

House Senate Alabama Albert Brewer Alabama A&m College Huntsville Dothan

Markets report with varied commodity prices

Cotton middling at 30.40 with Decatur loan noted. Cottonseed at 40 per ton. Grade A milk 6.55 per hundred. manufactured milk 3.20 per hundred. Wood values 65 45 and 35. Pulpwood 13.50 per cord. Grains and other staples listed: No 2 Yellow Shelled Corn 1.35. No 2 Yellow Ear 1.11. No 2 White Ear 1.07. No 2 White Shelled 1.46. No 2 Oats 0.68. No 2 Milling Wheat 1.63. Poultry Wheat 1.13. No 2 Barley 0.95.

Decatur

Nashville Livestock Market Report Notes Election Day Activity

Nashville AP reports cattle and calves 50, marketings meager across divisions as election day takes focus. Early sales insufficient to test trade. Hogs 150, fairly active and near steady for mixed lots 1,3 200-230 lb barrows and gilts 25.50. Sows scarce 370-500 lbs 18.00-19.00. U S 3 640 lbs 17.00. Sheep 25, no early arrivals.

Nashville U.S

Wall Street gains trimmed after White House hits on steel

Shares ended mixed with a higher close as Wall Street weighed White House criticism of steel price boosts. Volume reached about 7.2 million, led by U S Steel and other heavyweights. Motorola climbed while Sperry Rand and IBM gained modestly amid active trading on the American and New York exchanges. A New Zealand discovery notes the rare Huttons shearwater breeding colony.

New York White House

Attorneys Debate Fate of Boulden in Capital Case

Attorneys continued from page one dispute Williams threats, while Boulden faces a conviction for shooting and stabbing Hays to death in the woods with a 15 year old white mother present. He also faces rape and robbery indictments not yet tried. The defense vows to appeal to the U S Supreme Court if needed. The state, led by David Clark, says the case will be retried if Judge Johnson sides with the defense, and hints at further appeals if they lose.

Cpt Williams Boulden Hays William Moore Nick Braswell Decatur Daily Johnson U.S. Supreme Court

Hastings Ends as Marines Claim Heavy Viet Cong Losses

Following Operation Hastings in the buffer zone south of North Viet Nam, Marines and South Vietnamese forces report 882 North Vietnamese killed and up to 1,000 more possibly slain, with 15 captured and 25 weapons seized. About 5,000 Marines faced moderate but unofficial casualties. U S pilots flew 1 29 sorties the highest strike total in the war. B52s hit a Viet Cong base camp 30 miles northwest of Saigon and 103 missions were flown over North Viet Nam though weather restricted coastal and southern panhandle raids. Oil storage areas and fuel barges were damaged in 11 locations.

U.S Hastings Demilitarized Zone Saigon North Viet Nam Panhandle

Morgan County Notices and Local Life Brief

Mrs Oscar Sivley attended the funeral of Herman Patterson in Cullman. Dalton Henry and his Indiana relatives are visiting relatives here. Rev Billy Bowers preached Sunday morning and Rev Billy Sharpton of Tupelo Miss will move here as pastor. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Sam with details pending.

de A Roy Hartselle Hospital Oscar Sivley Herman Patterson Cullman Dalton Henry Indiana Billy Bowers Billy Sharpton Tupelo Miss Sam

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