Grenier Backed by Dirksen in Alabama Senate Bid
U S Senator Everett Dirksen endorses John Grenier for Alabama Senate, praising his competence and service potential while Grenier thanks the senator for the backing. In Birmingham, Democratic county executives form a unified League of County Executives to meet the GOP challenge with James M Prestwood elected chairman. A Green County judge halts mass picketing at Alabama Power Co as a 2400 member IBEW strike continues.
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Birmingham
Everett Dirksen
United States Senate
John Grenier
Senate
Alabama
Dirksen
United States
John
Washington
Grenier
League of County Executive Committees
Democratic Party of Alabama
James M. Prestwood
Andalusia
Ala
Alabama Power Co
Emmett Hildreth
Green County
Alabama Power
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Youth Job Training Grant for Huntsville Area
Wirtz announced 243440 allocated to the Huntsville Madison Community Action Committee for a neighborhood youth project in Huntsville Madison County. The plan provides job training for 120 out of school youths aged 16 to 21, with total project value 271890 and ties to the Neighborhood Youth Corps's work to help youths return to school or gain skills for permanent jobs.
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Washington
U.S
W. Willard Wirtz
Huntsville- Madison
Spring Hill College Announces Campus Expansion Plans
Spring Hill College, the oldest higher learning institution in Alabama, enters its 137th year with an agenda including enlarging the MOBILE campus and developing about 275 acres of property. Very Rev. William J. Rimes, S. J., the president, announced groundbreaking for a new biology building valued at $330,000 to begin this fall.
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Mobile
Spring Hill College
Alabama
William J. Rimes
S. J
Pay Raises Attacked by Montgomery Candidate
Republican candidate John Eagerton of Montgomery condemned what he called outsized pay hikes for state officials. He criticized the Legislature's $7,000 annual raise for each of the three Public Service Commission members, arguing the increases exceed the average taxpayer earnings.
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Montgomery
John Eagerton
Public Service Commission
Paper Mill Planned for South Region by International Paper
International Paper Co. announced on Friday plans for a new mill in the southern United States with a budget of 6.5 million dollars. The facility aims for an annual capacity of 70 million square feet of particleboard produced from nearby woodlands, though the exact site was not disclosed.
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Mobile
International Paper Co
International Paper
Southern Kraft
Woodlands
Southern to Serve Michoud Flights on Temporary Basis
Southern Airways received temporary authority from the Civil Aeronautics Board to operate scheduled hops between Huntsville Alabama and New Orleans serving NASA Michoud test facility in Mississippi. The ruling lasts until the board rules on the carrier’s permanent service application supported by NASA.
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Washington
Southern Airways
Space Agency
Huntsville
Ala
New Orleans
Civil Aeronautics Board
Southern
River and Sky Notes Over Decatur Weather Summary
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 20.65 feet. Sea level reading 554.95. Forecast calls for partly cloudy, warm and humid conditions with scattered showers and thunderstorms today and tonight. 30 percent chance of showers today, decreasing to about 10 percent tonight. High today 90s, low tonight around 70, high Monday near 91.
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Tennessee
Keller Memorial Bridge
Alvin Ruby Atkins obituary in Hartselle area
Alvin Ruby Atkins, 55, of 104 William Street, died Friday at home. Services Sunday at Union Hill Church near Eva, with Rev. W L Carden and Rev. Robert Slack officiating. burial at adjacent cemetery. Survived by widow Mazie, two daughters, several grandchildren, mother Catheryn Holmes, six brothers and two sisters. A member of Hartselle First Baptist Church, body to be at 431 Beach Orchid Road today before services.
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Union Hill Church
Eva
W. L. Carden
Robert Slack
Peck
Mazie Atkins
Harold Siggers
Hartselle
Robert Fenton
Harvest
Catheryn Holmes
Falkville
Nell Brown
Lakemore
Ohio
Frances Harkness
North Hollywood
Calif
Howard Atkins
Jasper
Ona Atkins
Somerville
Max Atkins
Harold Atkins
Elmo Atkins
Bobby
Atkins
Ken
Hartselle First Baptist Church
Beach Orchid Rd
Laura Hart 71 Falkville Woman Dies at Nursing Home
Mrs Laura Hart 71 of Falkville died Friday at a local nursing home Funeral services set for 230 pm at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Jimmy Henderson and Ray McCullough officiating Burial will be in Falkville Cemetery Peck directing Survivors include two sons A J Hart Jerry Hart a daughter Mrs Totsie Gard ner Plymouth NC five grandchildren two brothers R L Spiegel Atlanta GA C P Spiegel Charleston SC two sisters Mrs Sally King Falkville Mrs Julia Presley Vine mont She was a member of Piney Grove Christian Church Pallbearers named Chester King John Teague Harris Montgomery Noel McEwen Douglas Hart Boyd Drake
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Atlanta
C. P. Spiegel
Charleston
S.C
Sally King
Falkville
Julia Presley
Vinemont
Hart
Piney Grove Christian Church
Chester King
John Teague
Harris Montgomery
Noel McEwen
Douglas Hart
Boyd Drake
Louie Coleman of Town Creek Dies at 66
Louie Coleman 66 of Town Creek died at 11 30 p m Friday at Beatrice Rest Services will be at 2 p m Sunday at Bethany Baptist Church Burial will be in Black Ground Cemetery with Elliott Funeral Home directing Survivors include widow Lucy Coleman a son Louie Coleman Jr three daughters Lily Mae Slay ton Katie Coleman and Daphna Milligan all of Town Creek eight grandchildren and three others
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Moulton
Louie Coleman
Town Creek
Beatrice Rest Home
Bethany Baptist Church
Blackground
Elliott Funeral Home
Lucy Coleman
Louie Coleman Jr
Lily Mae Slayton
Katie Coleman
Daphna Milligan
UAW push faces resistance from Big Three on raise
National reports indicate General Motors Ford and Chrysler will likely reject the United Auto Workers plea to reopen contracts for at least a 50 cent hourly raise for skilled tradesmen. The dispute comes as airline strike settlements and White House wage guidelines apply pressure, with UAW claiming average skilled pay around 34 an hour for about 100,000 workers. The piece notes political context in Georgia, where voters from the 1964 Goldwater era and local Republicans show support for Lester Maddox.
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Detroit
Mich
United Auto Workers Union
White House
UAW
Beatles visit Memphis spark teen crowds at Mid-South Coliseum
The Beatles performed twice in Memphis drawing about 19,000 fans, mostly teenage girls, in a scene met with city approval from officials, disapproval from the Ku Klux Klan, and competition from a Christian youth rally. John Lennon's remark about being more popular than Jesus fueled controversy.
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Memphis, Tenn
Bible Belt
Mid-South Coliseum
John Lennon
Jesus
Maddox Predicts Strong Finish in Georgia Governor Race
Atlanta, Ga. Lester Maddox, one of six candidates in the Democratic nomination contest, says he expects to gain a solid share as the race moves toward the primary. He pinpoints support across urban and rural blocs and vows a vigorous campaign.
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Atlanta
Lester Maddox
Georgia official accuses federal officials of Gestapo tactics
Jack K. Acree executive secretary of the Georgia School Boards Association charged that representatives of the U S Office of Education use Gestapo practices to enforce federal desegregation guidelines. He disclosed that similar Southern associations met with Georgia officials last Wednesday.
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Atlanta
Georgia School Boards Association
U.S Office of Education
Jack K. Acree
Georgia Association
Georgia Group
SNCC Protests Charges In Atlanta Teenager Arrest
SNCC denounced charges of insurrection as scandalous and illegal after a Negro teenager was arrested during a picket at an Army induction center in Atlanta Georgia. William Ware SNCC spokesman said protests would continue at 12th Army Corps headquarters to express displeasure.
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Atlanta
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
William Ware
SNCC
12Th Army Corps
Egyptian publisher gets life for passing to U S embassy
An Egyptian court sentenced Mustapha Amin, 54, once linked to President Nasser and publisher of Al Akhbar, to life imprisonment for providing to the U S Embassy material deemed harmful to the United Arab Republic. He protested his innocence stating history will reveal the truth. Other dispatches note Japan’s Communist party declaring independence from the USSR and China, and West German Chancellor Erhard resisting opposition pressure while considering a cabinet overhaul after a regional defeat.
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Cairo
Hamburg
Germany
Ludwig Erhard
West Germany
Social Democrats
Christian Democratic Party
Erhard
Konrad Adenauer
North Rhine-Westphalia
Willie Ray dies at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in Decatur
Willie Ray of Decatur died at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at a local hospital. Services were held Sunday at West Side Baptist Church with Rev. James I. McGahee officiating. Burial followed in Somerville Cemetery with Reynolds Funeral Home directing. Survivors include daughters Martha Thatch and Olie Bryant, a son Billy L. Ray, a brother Silas Ray, and eight grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
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Willie Ray
Decatur
West Side Baptist Church
10Th Ave. West
James I. McGahee
Somerville Cemetery
Reynolds Funeral Home
Martha Thatch
Madison
Olie Bryant
Detroit
Mich
Billy L. Ray
Ardmore
Silas Ray
Local births and civil actions list with names and sums
Daily Records lists numerous birth notices from Cullman and Decatur General Hospital and several civil matters including loan settlements, workmen’s compensation cases, and garnishments. Names include Dwight Ransom Hender son Burgess Nelson Woodruff and more with addresses and ages. The item records multiple transactions and court actions with monetary amounts and venues such as Morgan County and Vulcan Equipment.
Correction: Summer concert for First Baptist Church scheduled
The First Baptist Church summer concert is set for tonight at 7 30 in the church sanctuary. A yesterday story misstated Saturday night and The Daily regrets the error.
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First Baptist Church
WAF Interviewer to Visit Decatur for WAC Enlistees
Sergeant Janie Daniel of the Women's Army Corps will interview potential WAC enlistees in Decatur on Monday and Tuesday. She will appear at the Decatur area Army Recruiter Sir James Silver’s office in room 220 of the Federal Building.
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Janie Daniel
Gadsden
Women’s Army Corps
North Alabama
Decatur
WAC
Daniel
Decatur Area
Sir James Silver
Federal Building
Decatur Girl Becomes Pan American Stewardess
Anne Warren of Decatur wears the horizon blue uniform with gold wings aboard Pan American Jet Clipper flights from Houston to Latin America and the Caribbean. A 1966 Birmingham Southern College graduate on the dean's list, she attended International Stewardess College in Miami and belongs to Pi Beta Phi Cotillion Club Kappa Delta Epsilon and the women's choir.
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Decatur
Anne Warren
Pan American Airways
James Warren
Grant St
Stewardess College
Miami
Fla
Houston
Texas
Rica
Caribbean
Birmingham Southern College
Pi Beta Phi Sorority
Cotillion Club
Kappa Delta Epsilon Honorary
Women’s Choir
French Club
Decatur High School Sets August Orientation for New Students
The annual orientation at Decatur High School will be held on August 26 starting at 9 a.m. Freshmen and others new to Decatur schools will learn the layout, with student council officers leading tours and answering questions. Principal Bill Jenkins and the student council president will welcome attendees at a brief assembly, and the program ends after the school tour.
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Decatur High School
Decatur
Bill Jenkins
Christensen Promoted to Senior Engineer at Monsanto
Ronald I. Christensen is promoted to senior engineer in Monsanto Company’s Chemstrand Division Development Department per J B McKay Jr. He joined in 1958 at the Akron acrylic fiber plant as a process engineer. Davenport Iowa native, University of Iowa chemical engineering graduate, member of AIChE. lives with wife Janice and daughters at 2419 Crestview Dr SE.
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Ronald I. Christensen
Chemstrand Division
Monsanto Company
Christensen
Davenport
Iowa
University of Iowa
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
His
Janice
Crestview Dr. SE
Fire damages boiler house at Chemstrand unit A
A Saturday dawn blaze at the Chemstrand facility on Alabama Highway 20 heavily damaged a boiler house filled with coal or coke. The 4:38 a.m. fire required Decatur Fire Department crews and ladders to douse the flames from above. Firefighters had the blaze under control quickly with little or no damage to the main buildings and no injuries. The cause was not known and damage estimates were unavailable.
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Chemstrand
Alabama Highway 20
Decatur Fire Department
Bill Dukes
Dukes
Soldier injured as Rambler skids on rain slick Alabama highway
Ray Russell, 19, stationed at Redstone Arsenal, was slightly injured Saturday when his 1963 Rambler station wagon skidded on a rain slick on Alabama Highway 20 near Ingalls Iron. He applied brakes in a large puddle, spun out, struck a telephone pole, and the car sustained heavy damage. Russell suffered a small cut on his right arm not requiring medical treatment.
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Ray Russell
Redstone Arsenal
Rainslick
Ingalls Iron
Russell
District Governor J W Park to address Decatur Rotary Club
District Governor J W Park will address the Decatur Rotary Club Monday at 10 am at First Federal Savings and Loan penthouse. All committee chairmen or representatives are expected to be present at the assembly. Dr George Serner of Chicago father of Fred Serner has suffered a stroke and is in serious condition. A new method of stamping library cards makes new cards effective Sept 1 available at the Decatur Public Library. The Band Booster Club meets Monday at 7 30 pm at Tanner High School and the new band director will be introduced by the principal. The Rev and Mrs Ennis Roper and children left Friday for New Orleans Seminary after visiting Decatur relatives. Guy Walker president of Alabama Light and a local Lions Club will address the Decatur Lions Club Tuesday at noon.
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J. W. Park
Decatur Rotary Club
Federal Savings and Loan
George Serner
Chicago
Fred Serner
Decatur Public Library
Tanner High School
Ennis Roper
New Orleans Seminary
Ben Roper
Decatur
Guy Walker
Alabama Light
Decatur Lions Club
Police Report: Tools Stolen From Auto Behind Princess Theater
Police logged a burglary Friday night at a parked automobile behind Princess Theater. Howard Berryhill reports a quarter inch drive set with sockets and ratchet, two pliers, wire cutters, five open end wrenches and a crescent wrench stolen from a box. A $20 wrist watch and $5 in coins were taken from Vine Street Pool Room by breaking a window to reach a jukebox. Beatrice Morris filed the Saturday complaint.
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Princess Theater
Howard Berryhill
Endlam Blvd
Vine St
Vine St. NW
David Smith
Smith
Beatrice Morris
Sunset Dr House Burglarized Break-in Reported Friday Night
Police report details a burglary at Sunset Drive late Friday night. William Vaughn of 624 Sunset Dr NW reported a window entry after a screen was removed and nothing was found missing.
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Sunset Dr
William Vaughn
Vaughn
Morgan PTA District Diary at Crestline School
The Morgan Count Council of PTA will hold its annual school of instruction for all officers and committee chairmen in Morgan County schools Thursday at Crestline School at 7:30 p.m. Mrs Fulton Cobb will be the guest speaker. Also listed are civil actions with damages claims including $100,000 and $25,000, and a $150,000 suit against Larry Gene Cassady and W N Cassady.
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Morgan Pta Hartselle
Morgan Count Council
PTA
Morgan County
Crestline
Fulton Cobb
William Erwin Garner Jr
Flora Garner
Johnnie G. Miller
Gillie S. Graham
M. F Henley
Arthur A. Calix
T. P. Ahrmadi
Catherine Owen
Larry Gene Cassady
W. N. Cassady
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Dirksen Endorses
Madison Nyc
Spring Hill
Paper Mill Eyes South
Michoud
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Procyon
Jupiter
Mars
Venus
Mercury
Decatur and
Alvin Ruby Atkins
William St
Coleman
Lauderdale County
The
Methodist Church
Mrs
Laura Hart
Barry Goldwater
South Georgia
Maddox
Cairo Sentences
Tokyo
Japanese Communist Party
Soviet Union
Communist
China
North Korea
Communist Party
Mrs. Dwight Ransom
Cullman Hospital
H. M. Henderson
Decatur General Hospital
Jasper Burgess
David Nelson
Thomas Howard Woodruff
6Th Ave
Blanch Irwin’ Royer
Apopka
Thomas William Nix
8Th Ave
Sara Frances Clarke
Sth
James Arthur - Thomas
Chicamauga
Doris Evelyn Blair
Chattanooga
Tenn
David Allen Summerford
Southern Electric Construction Co
Marjorie Ann West
Hartselle Frank Neville Speer
Tri
Deborah Lee Fagan
Mynatt St
William Howard Holt
Carridale St
Kroger
Betty Sue Smith
Cleveland St. Decatur
James P. Slatten
Emmette L. Barron
L. S. Sanders
Haywood Nix
Ellis Rayburn
Betty Ellis
Lee Price
Guy V. Thompson
Walter M. Penney
Jimmy W. Cole
Charles E. Livingston
Hughes Holmes
Matra Jennings
Henry G Jenkins
James H. Hill
Zettie Shelton McLemore
G. P. Frost
G. R. Woodruff
J. Gilmer Blackburn
Harold H. Humphry
Circuit Court
James Harold Anders
Bonder Builders and Supply Co. Inc
Dewey Anders
Bonder Builders Supply Co. Inc
Elizabeth Cottrell
Joseph W Wottrell
Walter H. Frederick
Mark Puryear
Bryan McAfee
D. L. Graham
Bobby G. Shoemaker
Kenneth M. Goodman
Wendell A. Simonton
Horace W. Crow
Secretary of Housing and Urban Renewal
William G Clarke
Alfred White
Clarence E. Ferguson
William Houston Gully
Thomas Burks
Holland and Woodard Co. Inc
A Corp
Holland and Woodard Stone Co. Inc
John Garrison
Metco, Inc
Vulcan Equipment and Supply Co. Inc
Jack Webb
Fred F. Horn
Aetna Insurance Co
First National Bank of Decatur
National Banking Corp
John C. Fisher
Limerick Finance Corp
Clarence G. Massey
Juanita L. Massey
Southern Life and Health Insurance Co
Southeastern Fire Insurance Co
W. L. Evans
Evans Awning Co
Grady Terry
Lawrence County Board of Education
William Irwin Garner Jr
William Irwin Garner Sr
Justa Williams
WAF
J. B. McKay Jr
Acrilan Development
Cess
Donald Christensen
Sunset Dr. House
Lisae Neyes
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