Community events calendar for North Alabama area
Local gatherings include White Shrine meeting at the Masonic Temple in North Alabama, a Babe Ruth League officer election in Hartselle, a Courtland High School fundraiser fried chicken dinner, and a United Cerebral Palsy gospel concert at Morgan County High School with free admission and donations welcomed. Also listed are church stews, gospel singings at Oak Grove and Flint Baptist Church, a Sandlin reunion at Joe Wheeler State Park, a Decatur Saddie Club trail ride cancellation, tennis matches between Decatur and Florence, and various civil and community group meetings with SBA hours and civic speeches. The report also notes national employment data showing stagnant wages, rising overall employment, and ongoing jobless rate concerns amid economic analysis by Woodrow Ginsburg.
Morals Case Eyed After Decatur Incident
Decatur police seek a teenage boy who exposed himself to a woman at a business on 12th Ave NW around 5 30 p m Thursday.
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Decatur
12Th Ave
W C T U Promotes Social Hour And Budgets Women
The World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union supports a social cocktail hour as a safer alternative to driving home. The piece notes the organization’s 1874 founding by Frances Willard and highlights membership figures, historical aims, and demographic details.
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V.L. Shinneman
Weldon, Ill
W.c.t.u.’S World Fruit Juice Promotion
W.C.T.U
Frances Willard
Northwestern University
Evanston
Miss Willard
Vietnam
Tooze
Decatur Chamber Plans Fall Membership Blitz
Harold Riley, membership committee chairman, announced a fall blitz to recruit new members for the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The group has worked to keep member investments current, reporting receipts for the first half of 1971 about $2,000 ahead of the same period in 1970.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Harold Riley
Riley
Land swap awaiting council approval for new fire station
Cameron reports verbal land swap approval but requires council consent at a public meeting. Preliminary drawings are a month away with Aycock and Neville as project architects. Construction funds to be in the October city budget as bids are planned for October. Decatur operates five fire stations.
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Cameron
Aycock and
Neville
Decatur
Revival services and church events listed across area churches
Revival services begin at multiple churches including Bellview Baptist Flinting 4 and Hamby s Chapel United Methodist with nightly 7 30 p m or 10 30 a m sessions. Revs Fields Freeman Busler and Holden speak. Randy Washburn and Louis Miller lead singing. district American Legion meeting at Carrie Matthews Center. Counts family reunion at Big Spring Park with lunch at 12 30 p m. Community singing at Ruth Baptist and Bethel Methodist. West Hartselle Church opens new auditorium. John N Craig reunion at Terry Club.
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Bellview Baptist Church
Wayne.Fields
Randy Washburn
Rev. Fields
Washburn
Brookhaven Baptist Arch
Counts
Big Spring Park
Tuscumbia
William Counts
41St District of the American Legion
Carrie Matthews Recreation Center
Ira L. Turner
Hamby’s Chapel United Methodist Church
Monroe Lewis
Clinton Busler
Bridgeport
Forest Chapel United Methodist Church
Hartselle
R. B. Bridges
Wallace Attacks Nixon Amid Desegregation Fight
The 51-year-old governor condemned Nixon's stance on China and busing. He called Nixon a double dealer and urged appointees against busing. Wallace linked Nixon to Burger's Supreme Court and predicted a 1972 bid despite questions about his presidency. In Riverhead, 22 inmates sue over Morris the mouse's death at Suffolk County Jail. They claim officials assassinated Morris during a cell shakedown and lament jail conditions.
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Adolf Hitler
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State Supreme Court
Morris
Philip F. Corso
Charles Curta
Farm Family Of Year Sought In Morgan County
Morgan County seeks a Farm Family of the Year for 1971 to compete in a statewide FHA event and then the national contest. The program promotes outstanding FHA families and public awareness of FHA services and aims to graduate borrowers to conventional credit. Eligible families must have used FHA farm loans at least 60 months and hold or have recently graduated a loan.
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Morgan County
Farmers Home Administration
C.T. Cash
FHA
FIA
Jones To Open Health Building
Congressman Bob Jones will cut the ribbon to open the Tri County District Health Service district headquarters in an Aug 15 ceremony. G W Pete James says the event runs from 2 to 4 pm at the $1 million facility with further open house plans to be announced.
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Bob Jones
Tri-County
District Health Service
Health Service
G. W
Pete) James
James
Joint Chamber Meeting Monday in Decatur and Huntsville
The annual joint meeting of the Huntsville and Decatur chamber boards will be held Monday with a tour and golf match at Point Mallard, tours of the Aquadome and Oak Park Middle School, and a 7 p.m. dinner at State National Bank Penthouse. Attendees include board members city and county officials and state lawmakers.
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Decatur
Huntsville
Decatur Chambers of Commerce
Bill Collins
Point Mallard
Aquadome
Oak Park Middle School
State National Bank
Collins
Decatur Market Prices Report
Decatur market notes list cotton middling at 20.45 and cottonseed at 40 per ton. Milk prices show Grade A at 6.55 per hundred and manufactured milk at 3.20 per hundred. Grain and feed items include soybeans 3.40, corn 1.65, oats 0.60, milling wheat 1.30, corn meal 2.10, barley 0.80, and yellow corn 1.35.
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Decatur
First clocks traced from sun to weight driven
The article narrates early timekeeping from sun shadows to sundials and candles to water clocks. It describes ancient Egyptians creating 12 period shadow clocks, later hourglasses circa 2000 years ago, and Greeks Romans using water clocks. It notes the first true mechanical clock appeared about 1400 years after, using weights, gears, a dial hand, and a balance wheel.
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Matthew Huber
Lancaster
Stock market slips in slow trading as investors pull back
New York prices rose fractionally with the Dow up 0.80 to 850.25 at 2 p.m. on a day of cautious activity. Unemployment nudged to 5.8 percent from 5.6 percent in June, but analysts noted the rise was minor. investors cited economy inflation and dollar problems abroad as reasons to stay on the sidelines. Tenneco rose 4 to 26?
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New York Stock Exchange
LVO Corp
Victor Com
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Russ Togs
Plessey Ltd 2A
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American Stock Exchange
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Labor Department
Tenneco
Over the Counter Securities Prices and Quotes
NASD quotations show representative interdealer prices around 10 a.m. for over the counter securities. Prices exclude retail markup markdown and commissions.
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