Senate Filibuster Delays Wallace Highway Plans
The Alabama Senate stalled on a water pollution bill after Sen. Jimmy Clark sought to alter the proposed control commission to include industry voices, prompting a filibuster by Sen. Aubrey Carr. Across the hall the House prepared for a vote on diverting teacher retirement funds to fund $24 million for new mental health centers over two fiscal years.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Senate
George C. Wallace
House
Senate
Jimmy Clark
Barbour County
Clark
Aubrey Carr
Marshall County
Carr
Wage Freeze Chills Local State Employes
Millions of state and local workers face wage freezes under Nixon's 90 day policy. The Cost of Living Council says raises in contracts are paused unless the period started before August 15. Pentagon pay plans were revised after Treasury officials called the move a mistake.
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John Stowell
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Cost of Living Council
White House
Thaddeus J. Dulski
House Post Office Committee
New York Democrat
Pentagon
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Connally
Defense
David M. Packard
Department
Arrest Made In Theft Of Drugs From Bryce Hospital
Former Bryce Hospital patient Mike Wilson, 29, of Tuscaloosa, charged with grand larceny burglary and arson for allegedly stealing drugs valued at 15000 from the hospital laboratory between July 1 and July 20. The drugs were later recovered near Decatur, per Sheriff B B Walker.
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Bryce Hospital
Decatur
Tuscaloosa
B. B. Walker
Mike Wilson
Walker
Wilson
Overpass Chamber members clean area around Albert P Brewer Overpass
Clean Up group led by August chairman Jim Webster trims grass rakes and removes litter around the Albert P Brewer Overpass as part of the Chamber of Commerce monthly demonstration cleanup on 14th St SE. Charles Mathias Eldridge Cockrell and T V Sailors assist with sling blades during the effort.
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Chamber of Commerce
Charles Mathias
Eldridge Cockrell
T. V
Albert P. Brewer
Jim Webster
14Th St. SE
Teen in Critical Condition After Four-Vehicle Crash
A 16 year old girl Renita Jones remains in critical condition at Huntsville hospital after a four vehicle collision at the Church Street and 6th Avenue intersection. She was a passenger in a car struck by a southbound tractor trailer carrying construction equipment. Her mother Geneva Jones suffered minor injuries. Others involved included Earnest Duren 51 of Huntsville driver of the first truck and Joe Dorthan Howard 42 of Falkville driving the northbound car. The truck involved belonged to Stanley Landscaping and Construction Co. of Huntsville. Renita Jones lives at 1006 8th Ave SW Decatur General Hospital previously treated. The accident also damaged a small foreign car buried between the trucks. The mishap caused the ditch digger on the truck to detach and fall onto the car. The other driver and truck occupants were not injured. See TEEN On Page A-3. President of Alabama Water and Pollution Control Association George Godwin Jr. elected during the association’s 26th annual short course at the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa.
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Huntsville Hospital
Renita Jones
8Th Ave
Decatur General Hospital
Church St
6Th Ave
Geneva Jones
Earnest Duren
Huntsville
Joe Dorthan Howard
Falkville 3
George Godwin Jr
Decatur Water Department
Alabama Water and Pollution Control Association
Godwin
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Ancient dugout canoe may date to 1750 in Alabama
A wooden Indian canoe recovered from a cave near Florence by Roy Mitchell is believed by Amos Wright Jr of the Alabama Archaeological Society to date from historic times possibly 1750. Michigan-style axe marks and cave context support an Indigenous craft likely created before modern era. Wright will feature the find in the Journal of Alabama Archaeology and a Decatur Daily story noted the earlier feature.
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Florence
Priceville
Roy Mitchell
Amos Wright Jr
The
Alabama Archaeological Society
Wright
Journal of Alabama Archaeology
Archaeological Society
Decatur Daily
Southeast
Alabama
State Waterfowl Regulations Set for 1971 72 Season
Alabama sets migratory waterfowl rules for 1971 72 with a goose season from November 15 to January 23 and a five bird daily limit, two Canadas maximum. Duck season runs November 27 to January 15 with a six per day limit including up to two mallards two wood ducks and one canvasback or redhead, plus fifteen per day for coots and mergansers and up to five mergansers daily with hooded merganser restricted to one.
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Alabama
Contaminated Eggs Eaten Across Nation
FDA acknowledges unknown quantity of eggs tainted by a DDT like chemical were ingested by consumers. Officials say contamination level is not a health hazard though critics like Ralph Nader call it hazardous. A Washington distributor reported 5 000 dozen tainted eggs entered the market before tests. Hotels restaurants and grocers had received the eggs by the time testing was finished.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Ralph Nader
FDA
Paper workers in St. Joe ignore Nixon wage-price freeze call
Striking workers at St. Joe Paper Co in Port St. Joe Florida said they would disregard a federal request to halt their strike for the 90 day wage-price freeze period. The notice appears in a local brief with a listed business ad.
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Port ST. Joe, Fla
St. Joe Paper Co
Nixon
Boll Weevil Survey Shows High Infestation in Morgan County
Morgan County Extension Farm Agent Harry Houston reports boll weevil infestations reaching up to 90 percent in untreated fields. Extension entomologist Frank McQueen notes Aug 5 to 11 marked a second major hatchout, with 10 to 40 percent counts in many fields and hot spots higher.
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Morgan County
Harry Houston
Houston
Frank McQueen
Auburn University
Tennessee Valley
McQueen
Civil Defense Course Added in Alabama Schools
A state plan makes Civil Defense the first course of its kind nationally and a ninth grade social studies requirement in Alabama starting second semester. State director C J Sullivan notes a $482000 grant funds the program, plus a 25 member task force to develop materials and eight regional workshops.
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Montgomery
Alabama
C.J. Sullivan
Civil Defense
Sullivan
George Wallace
State Department of Education
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J. Curtis Counts
Federal Mediation Service
Ottawa
Canada
E. J. Benson
Jean Luc Pepin
Treasury
Senate Judiciary Committee
Stanley Landscaping and Construction Co
G. David Wallace
Robinson Furniture
Second Ave
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