Editorial backs sixty million bond for state universities
SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL endorses a 60 million bond issue for higher education capital projects. It cites funds from existing educational revenues, supports a Law Communications center at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and urges approval by governor and legislators to fund law, communications, and public journalism facilities.
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Selma
Law Communications Center
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Alabama Bar
Law Communications
Law Center
Alabama Law
Alabama
School of Public Communication
Law School
River and Weather Decatur Area Forecast
High Friday reached 83 at 4 p.m. and 6 a.m. low was 63. Today’s high near 85 and low 62 with Sunday’s high around 86. Forecast calls for mostly fair skies with mild days and cool nights. Readings from 8 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Friday show highs in the 70s and 80s, with 5:59 a.m. sunrise and 7:45 p.m. sunset tomorrow.
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Decatur
Anchorage
Asheville
Cir
Atlanta
Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Brownsville
Buffalo
Charleston
Charlotte
Chicago Cincinnati
Cleveland Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Dulutha
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Cdy
Honolulu
Houston
Orlando
Philad’phia
CIT
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Daily Records at Decatur General Hospital
Hospital notices list admissions and dismissals for Decatur General. Names include David Ross Hackett, Sherrill Hopper, Karol Holt, Donald Holt, Mary Birdwell, Lisa Moses, Larry Thompson, and many others. Several births announced with parents in Decatur, Athens, Trinity, Hartselle, Cullman, and nearby towns.
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Decatur General Admissions
David Ross Hackett
Decatur
Sherrill E. Hopper
Hartselle
Gurnie L. Parker
Moulton
Johnny Houston Dutton
Athens
Donald Glenn Holt
Karol Marie Holt
David Charies Dobbins
Mary Angelique Birdwell
Minnie Lee White
Lisa Dawn Moses
Trinity
Donald Keith Thomas
Jimmy Wayne Laney
Cullman
J. M. Whitehead
Jasper Lee Segars
Larry Darnell Thompson
Toy .G. Sparkman
Peebles
Courtland
Beryl Clifton Kellerman Jr
Shane Ronald Hefner
Charles €. Watson Sr
Thomas Eloise Hanks
Robert Carl Law
Joan Heeny
Georgia
Wallace Pitts
William Clay Kimbrell
Rufus P. Thompson
Albert Howard Harton
Eliza Elizabeth Howard
James W. Little
Hope Ben Marvin Henderson
Joseph A. Vanabie
Clyde Ollie Thompson
David Carswell Russell
Somerville
Michael Everett Tanner
David Shane Bilngburn
Tamala Elaine Mashburn
Eikmont
Thonda Janes
Morgan Decatur
Ronald Lewis Sparkman
Johnny Keith Childers
Decatur General Hospital
James Clarence Tims Jr
Charles R. Guillion
Luther Eugene Roper
Gray recalls handling faked State Dept cables in Watergate hearings
Gray describes burning papers during Christmas week and handling what looked like authentic top secret cables about Kennedy administration officials and Diem. He admits misjudgment in accepting the documents and failing to file them properly, amid Watergate controversy and a Nixon call at a peak in the Mexico CIA cover confusion.
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State Department
Diem
South Vietnam
Gray
Hunt
Senate
FBI
Dean
Asst. Atty
Henry E. Petersen
Petersen
Sen
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
R-Conn
Watergate Committee
United States
Nixon
CIA
Mexico
Samford Beauty Maid Of Cotton Crowned In Morgan County
Mary Kyle Ellis 20, a Samford University junior and physical education major, was named Morgan County Maid of Cotton at the Farm Bureau meeting held at Morgan County High School. First alternate Elizabeth Ann Herchenhahn 19 will represent the county at the state convention in Mobile in December. Second alternate Yvonne McCulloch 20, Auburn University junior, also chosen. Ellis won 200 cash and travel to state contest. Herchenhahn 50 and trip to bureau convention. McCulloch 30. Other contestants included Hughes Snider Nancarrow.
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Linda Parham Hartselle
Mary Kyle Ellis
Samford University
Morgan County
Farm Bureau
Morgan Couty High School
Ellis
Elizabeth Ann Herchenhahn
Bureau
Mobile
Calhoun
I. A. Herchenhahn
Rhonda
Yvonne McCulloch
Lonnie E. McCulloch
Cagle Ave
Auburn University
Miss Ellis
Charles R. Ellis
Charles Bullard
Morgan County Farm Bureau
Herchenhahn
Farm Bureau Convention
McCulloch
Decatur Inn
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
Brenda Hughes
Jennifer Snider
Beth Nancarrow
Hartselle
Elizabeth
State Reapportionment Edits Highlighted by Court
The opinion notes amendments changing allocations of numerous people in Pike Coffee Chambers and Tallapoosa counties and that Senate district lines were redrawn in the Jefferson Shelby area and northeast Alabama. It says the court approved plan was not perfect and urges reliance on the legislature's enacted plan rather than a hybrid. The justices urge avoiding another federal reapportionment and hope the current plan, if acceptable, will ease legislative tasks.
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Pike
Coffee
Chambers
Tallapoosa
Senate
Jefferson- Shelby County
Moore
Thomas
Rives
Johnson
Alabama
Two More Jailed In Drug Dragnet
Sheriff John McBride reports two more arrests in a Morgan County drug crackdown bringing the total to 31. Roderick Dale Wallace, 20, of Moulton, and Ronald H. Maxwell, 25, of Hartselle, face illegal sale charges with bonds set at 750 and 1500 dollars respectively. An undercover operation over months led to drug identifications by State Toxicologist Van Pruitt and subsequent grand jury indictments.
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John McBride
McBride
Roderick Dale Wallace
Moulton
Ronald H. Maxwell
Simpson St
Hartselle
Wallace
Maxwell
Morgan County
Sheriff's Department
van Pruitt
Skylab Rescue Efforts Accelerated Amid Uncertain Return
Skylab 2 astronauts Alan Bean Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott conducted a full day of experiments while mission planners speed preparations for a possible emergency rescue. The crippled Apollo command ship raises questions about returning home as Cape Kennedy technicians ready a backup craft for a rescue, with a Sept. 25 mission end date and a Sept. 10 readiness target.
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Paul Recer
Apollo
Earth
Space
Cape Kennedy
Fla
William C. Schneider
Schneider
Doll Hobby Keeps Mrs Murphy Busy
Irene Murphy, a former fifth grade teacher from Austinville, collects repairs and restores dolls alongside ceramics since retirement. Her century old English doll, valued at the highest price in her collection, and a cherished mother’s doll, both reflect family memory. The brace of dolls sits at Murphy’s Bank Street crafts shop, with reproductions for sale, and the granddaughter Tonda Murphy set to inherit the lot.
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Irene Murphy
Austinville
Grace Baptist Church
Tonda Murphy
Murphy's Crafts Shop
Bank St
Lee Around 50 Collects World Dolls for Granddaughter
A nine year old receives a growing doll collection started by Mrs. Murphy after retirement. Her travels through Tennessee and North Carolina revived the hobby, with blue ribbon ceramics wins in Decatur Huntsville and Florence. Friends finish faces due to eyesight limits. Gatlinburg shops sell reproductions, some sales funded the Murphy family vacation. Prices start at ten dollars, rising with size.
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Murphy
Austinville
Tennessee
North Carolina
Decatur
Huntsville
Florence
Gatlinburg
Murphy’s
Flim-Flam Investigation at Gateway Shopping Center
Police probe an alleged flim flam at Gateway Shopping Center after Mrs. Ora Smith of Courtland said a man with a roll of money and a letter claiming to be from the African nations approached her. She cried foul, a second man offered to guard the first, and both men disappeared when she alerted authorities.
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Gateway Shopping Center
Ora Smith
Courtland
Dump Truck In Flaming Wreck Injures Man at Alabama Intersection
A 26 year old Decatur man Kenneth W Flanagan was injured in a flaming dump truck wreck at the Alabama 20 and U S 31 intersection Friday. He was treated and released at Decatur General Hospital. Cause of the crash was not immediately known.
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Alabama 20
U. S. 31
Kenneth W. Flanagan
Flanagan
Decatur General Hospital
Be It Or Not Beating Beef Hoarding Sting
A Forest Hills delicatessen owner says shoppers panic and buy beef in large quantities elevating inflation. He claims to buy meat on the black market at 1.10 dollars per pound and pay 0.20 dollars over the table, yet the freeze blocks passing costs to customers. The piece recalls the Broadway Central era rich with Boss Tweed and Vanderbilt.
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Forest Hills
N.Y
Broadway Central
Boss Tweed
Diamond Jim Brady
Jim Fiske
Jay Gould
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Limestone County gains big share in revised county allocations
Rascoe announced revised Alabama allocations rising from 90 million to 102 million. Limestone County received a notable increase from 265,698 to 28,647. Other area shares included Athens 160,192 Town Creek 9,553 Moulton 70,761 Hillsboro 2,818 Courtland 4,996 Lawrence County 124,427 Ardmore 14,547 Elkmont 2,360 Mooresville 593 and Lester 367.
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Limestone County Commission
Athens
Town Creek
Moulton
Hillsboro
Courtland
Lawrence County
Ardmore
Elkmont
Mooresville
Lester
Rascoe
Alabama
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