Controversy Erupts Over Blue Law Enforcement
Decatur three supermarkets faced pressure from Dist. Atty. Mike Moebes to close or face charges under the Sunday blue law. Managers of Giant Foods and Malone's Supermarket agreed to close Sunday.
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Winford Turner
Decatur
Mike Moebes
Giant Foods
Malone’s
Somerville Rd
Big Bear
11Th St
Larry McAbee
Moebes
McAbee
Malone
Eads
Dennis Malone
Alabama Hospital Review Considers TB Center in Flint
Lee Thomas, administrator of the District One Tuberculosis Hospital at Flint, asks the Alabama Hospital Association to keep the facility open as a treatment center. The plan to cut TB hospital numbers is under review by the Health Study Commission ahead of the May 1973 legislature session. Thomas cites accreditation and outpatient needs while noting general hospitals could treat more TB patients.
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Montgomery
Alabama Hospital Association
Lee Thomas
Flint
Alabama
Alabama Health
Mmission
Thomas
Joint
Commssion
Health Study Commission
Nixon Russia peace signal claim stirs 1968 memory
Secretary of State William P. Rogers disputes a missed peace signal from 1968 linking to the Nixon era. Sargent Shriver campaigns, arguing Nixon ignored a chance for peace as controversy over blue laws flares around local stores reopening on Sundays.
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William P. Rogers
United States
Nixon
Sargent Shriver
Miami Beach
Fra
Rogers
W. Averell Harriman
Paris
Johnson
Shriver
U.S
Republican Platform Committee
Two Arab girls convicted in hijacking of Belgian airliner
An Israeli court found two Arab girls guilty of taking part in the hijacking of a Belgian airliner to Israel and sentenced both to life imprisonment. Army Engineers from Ft. Benning moved into Selma to assist in a citywide trash cleanup campaign invited by local officials. A federal judge signaled consideration of extra environmental studies for the 789 mile trans Alaska oil pipeline.
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Lod
Israel
Selma
Ft. Benning
Washington
Kissinger Holds Secret Paris Talks With North Vietnam
Henry Kissinger met in Paris with Le Duc Tho and Xuan Thuy for the 16th secret talks as part of resumed negotiations. Hanoi officials avoided comment on the White House notice while U S and South Vietnam had suspended the regular Paris meetings earlier.
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Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
Nixon
Hanoi
White House
Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Xuan Thuy
United States
South Vietnam
Alse
Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Saigon
U.S
Ronald Ziegler
Xhuh Thuy
Ziegler
Time Magazine
Decatur Man Dies After Tree Fall in Hartselle
A Morgan County man Edward King aged 52 died from injuries after falling from a tree while trimming on Wheeler St in Hartselle. He died at 10 20 am in Hartselle Hospital emergency room. Funeral services will be announced by Peck Funeral Home.
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Decatur
Hartselle
Morgan County
Edward King
8Th Ave
Hartselle Hospital
Roy Carl Haynie
Huntsville
6Th Ave
King
Wheeler St
Peck Funeral Home
Haynie
Michael Benjamin Badgley
Burger King
AAA Southend
Truman Announces Japan's Surrender Ending World War II
On this date in 1945 at 7 p.m. Eastern War Time President Truman announced Japan had accepted unconditional surrender terms. The news marks the end of World War II as conveyed in a brief wartime update amid daily notices and weather notes.
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Truman
Japan
Bombers Strike Reinforcements Across the DMZ
U S air power hit North Vietnamese units near the demilitarized zone as 30 B52 bombers dropped 750 tons of explosives. Saigon reports 113 NVA and Viet Cong killed, 28 South Vietnamese dead and 71 wounded. US BS2s attacked near Saigon and toward Cambodia.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Tri Front
South Vietnam
Saigon Command
Dmz
U.S
Quang Tri City
Hue
Cambodian
Spassky Postpones 14th World Chess Match Game
The 14th game of the World Championship was postponed due to medical reasons for Boris Spassky. Fischer leads 8 to 5 after 13 games as Spassky confronts time pressure and critics say he must win three in a row to draw even.
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Harold C. Schonberg
New York Times
Reykjavik
Iceland
Boris Spassky
Spassky
Bobby Fischer
Sannanes
Fischer
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