University of Alabama Medical Center opens major psychiatric wing
A 4.2 million 100 bed North Wing for University of Alabama Medical Center was dedicated Sunday enhancing mental health capacity. The seven story facility funded by a 1959 3 million bond and federal sources triples hospital space for the mentally ill and marks a premier addition to state medical leadership.
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Birmingham
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University of Alabama Medical Center
University Hospital
University of Alabama Hospitals
Open housing marches spark jeers and rain held violence
In Chicago area neighborhoods crowds jeered and firedcrackers as marches formed for open housing. Dr King noted heavy rain may have restrained violence while a third march drew little attention. Suburban forays marked a first as city officials obtained a court injunction limiting marches to one per time. DETROIT unions seek early pay rise. Big Three plan to reply today.
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Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
Transportation Department Bill Faces House Consideration
A proposal to create a 12th Cabinet post a secretary to head a new Department of Transportation is before the House this week. Congressional activity includes automobile safety and defense as members finish legislation already advanced. the House is expected to act on the transportation bill Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Washington
Department of Transportation
House
Transportation Department
Washington broadcaster Fulton Lewis Jr. dies at 63
Fulton Lewis Jr., a Washington based broadcaster and columnist known for conservative commentary, died of a heart attack at 63 after recent surgery for pancreatitis. He hosted two daily Mutual Broadcasting System newscasts and wrote the syndicated Washington Reports column appearing in over 200 newspapers. He described himself as speaking for the small town Mr Average Listener with a suburban home and family.
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Washington
Fulton Lewis Jr
Mutual Broadcasting System
Washington Reports
Lewis
Mexican woman improves after artificial heart pump removal
Esperanza del Valle Vasquez of Mexico City who received an artificial heart pump Aug. 8 to aid a damaged heart continues to progress satisfactorily. She has left her hospital room for brief periods and the device was removed last Thursday as doctors said her heart had healed enough to no longer need the left ventricular bypass. Methodist Hospital said Sunday she continues to progress well in every way.
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Houston
Tex
Esperanza del Valle Vasquez
Mexico City
Seven inmates flee federal prison near Tallahassee
Among the seven escapees from a Florida minimum security facility were two Alabama men. J. B. Yates of Valley Head, jailed two years for motor vehicle theft, and 19 year old George Larry Edgis of Townley, a parole violator with 213 days remaining. FBI and local police launched a woodlands search Wednesday night. Other escapees hailed from Florida and South Carolina.
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Communist Party warns against disloyalty to Mao in Red Flag
Japanese and Polish reports trace ongoing Cultural Revolution tensions. Peking radio quotes Red Flag promising swift discipline for any official not embracing Maoist thought. In Poland Cardinal Wyszynski notes violence at home deserves attention like Africa and Vietnam amid police actions against Catholics in Warsaw.
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India announces $31.6 billion push to lift agriculture and industry
New Delhi unveils a five year plan aimed at raising agricultural output and industrial growth with a target of 31.6 billion dollars. The government seeks about 8.5 billion dollars in foreign aid from Western nations, notably the United States, and a further 1 billion dollars from the Soviet Union and other Communist states.
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India
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United States
Soviet Union
BOAC Staff Complain of Busier Duties Amid Faster Planes
BOAC workers complained that longer meals and quicker aircraft reduce time for passenger service and maintenance. Chairman Sir Giles Guthrie rejected the charges, saying catering gear is checked while some flights must ignore special requests when duties run long.
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British Overseas Airways Corp
Giles Guthrie
BOAC
Decatur Weather And River Report For Monday
Decatur Tennessee area reports river readings at Keller Memorial Bridge at 1970 river level and sea level 574. Other TVA lake stages include Guntersville 594.0 Whitesburg 555.4 Pickwick 411.3 Wheeler 553.8 and Chickamauga 680.4. High yesterday 92 at 3 pm. low 74. Today 80 at 8 am with no rainfall in the past 24 hours. Forecast calls for variable clouds warm with morning rain and afternoon showers and storms. Tonight and Tuesday expect increasing cloudiness. west to southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with occasional gusts near storms. High today 89, low tonight 74, high Tuesday 85.
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Wheeler
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Daily Records Births and local ads in Decatur area
Daily Records lists multiple birth notices including daughters for Newman Higginbotham Davis Williams Curtis, and Harris. Also various local ads for real estate, trailers, vehicles, services, and items for sale in Decatur and Hartselle with contact numbers and pricing.
Weather Elsewhere and Docket Notes in City Recorders Court
Listings show repairs and demolitions with names and addresses, plus court charges including disorderly conduct speeding no license and intoxication. Also housing ads offer 2 bedroom apartments and a 3 bedroom house with contact numbers.
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City Recorders Court
Morgan County Sheriffs Department
Wonders Of The Universe High Energy Fuel Needed In Space
The article traces rocket propulsion history from early liquid air fuels to modern propellants, compares liquid oxygen kerosene, liquid oxygen hydrogen, and nitrogen tetroxide hydrazine, and argues fluorine hydrazine offers higher density impulse with manageable safety. It forecasts fluorine enrichment and potential all fluorine or nuclear options, noting a decade to a 50 percent payload rise.
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Car Fire Damages Vehicle in Cullman District Diary
A car fire occurred Sunday at 3rd Ave and 5th St in Cullman. The Cullman Fire Department spokesman said the car belonged to E. V. Burks and damage was minor.
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Cullman
3Rd Ave
5Th St
Cullman Fire Department
E. V. Burks
Fire department battles couch blaze in Hartselle home
HARTSELLE Fire Department responded to a dwelling on 221 South Nelson Street Sunday at 1 30 p m where a couch was burning. Minor damage resulted.
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Harold Aldridge
S. Nelson St
Masonic Building Announced Initialization
A Masonic Building project announces an initiation event. Details are sparse in the readable text. The notice highlights the upcoming initiation and related ceremonial plans within the lodge.
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Masonic Building
Decatur to host education group address by Stone
Dr Ernest Stone democratic nominee for state superintendent of education will speak at Decatur's citywide teachers meeting on Aug 29 at Riverside School with Bruce Spencer and Mayor Gilmer Blackburn welcoming. Program begins 8 30 a m with Supt H R Leeman and Asst Supt Mathew Hall prior to Stones address at 10 a m.
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City Board of Education
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H. R. Leeman
Mathew Hall
Youths Charged In Decatur Burglary at Russell’s Auto Parts
Three Decatur youths Ern est Cecil Segler 19 Danny Theo Kitchen 17 and Roger Lee McDonald 18 faced second degree burglary charges after thefts from Russell’s Used Auto Parts on U S 31 South. Detectives Bowman and Smith made the arrests and some merchandise has been recovered including about 18 dollars in change and a transmission conversion kit valued at 22 50 by owner Charles R Russell. The suspects are held in county jail.
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Russell
U.S. 31 South
Ernest Cecil Segler
Oak St
Danny Theo Kitchen
19Th Ave
Roger Lee McDonald
9Th Ave
Ernest Bowman
David Smith
Smith
Charles R. Russel
Breakins Probed at Allied Sales and Woodalls Used Parts
Decatur police investigated two breakins at Allied Sales Co at 16 Johnston St SE and Woodalls Used Parts on Alabama 24. Three portable radios were stolen from Allied Sales after entry through an east side window. a toolbox worth about $300 was taken from Woodalls Used Parts. Owner G A Woodall reported the weekend theft.
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Allied Sales Co
Woodalls
Allied Sales
Johnston St. SE
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G. A. Woodall
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