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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1968
Page
3
Partly cloudy hot and humid through Tuesday with scattered thundershowers. Highs around 91 to 95, lows near 68 to 73, and a 30 percent afternoon thunderstorm chance rising to 10 percent at night. Winds south 3 to 12 mph, gusty near storms.
This morning readings at Keller Memorial Bridge in Decatur and nearby vicinity recorded river levels and conditions along the river, reflecting current water flow readings and potential impacts on local traffic and safety.
The period Tuesday through Saturday will run 1 to 3 degrees above normal with little day to day change. Normal highs reach 90 to 93 and lows 68 to 73. Rainfall will be mostly light with widely scattered isolated afternoon thunderstorms. Total amounts range from one fourth to an inch or more in spots.
A Kansas City doctor offers a trial of a new reducible rupture truss. The device has no leg straps or belts and reportedly holds the rupture securely and comfortably. Readers can test it for 30 days and keep a $4.95 truss if satisfied or return it for a refund.
ATHENS Onis Pettis Bird well 73 died Saturday at Limestone Nursing Home. Services were to be today at 2 p.m. at McConnell Funeral Home Chapel. Burial in Athens Cemetery. Survivors include four daughters and five sons with numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Pallbearers were to be grandsons. Funeral home directing.
Mrs Adania Eula Grimes 68 of Moulton died Saturday night at Lawrence County Hospital. Funeral to be held today at 4 p.m. at Jones Chapel Methodist Church officiated by Revs Silas Lang and Clarence Jefferies. Burial in adjoining Elliott Cemetery. Survivors include widow Jim Grimes a daughter Mrs Nancy Hale Rozell Ill five sons Price Chickasaw Robert Addison Ferman Grimes Courtland James Grimes Moulton 12 grandchildren 5 great grandchildren.
Gary David Fairbanks 23 of Decature died in a one car crash near Franklin Tennessee Saturday. Services were held today at 2 p.m. at New Friendship Baptist Church with Rev. C P Davis officiating. Burial followed in the adjoining cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs Annie Laurie Minnis of 1511 14th Ave SE, age 78, who died Saturday at a Madison County rest home, will be held Wednesday at Southern Baptist Church in Greybull Wyoming. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery.
C. I. Keys is named engineer in charge of process assistance at Monsanto’s Acrilan acrylic fiber unit in Decatur. A Louisville native, he earned a 1960 chemical engineering degree from Purdue, served three years as a USAF engineer, and then worked five years for B F Goodrich in Louisville.
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