Alabama gets $125000 grant for 320 job trainees
Washington funds a $125,208 Labor Department grant to train 320 Alabama workers under the Manpower Development and Training Act. Sen. Hill and Sen. Sparkman announced the program, with the Alabama Petroleum Jobbers Assn., Inc. of Montgomery to sponsor the project. The move comes as Alabama Democrats push a broader guidelines bill, while a Bessemer attorney campaigns claiming to be the uncommon man with the common touch.
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Washington
Labor Department
Lister Hill
John Sparkman
Alabama Petroleum Jobbers Assn., Inc
Montgomery
Alabama Democrats
Alabama
Bessemer
Mortimer Jordan Armory
Governor fills three seats on industrial panel
Gov George Wallace appointed three new members to the Alabama Industrial Advisory Committee. The appointees are Dr Paul F Ketcham a Demopolis physician and surgeon Marvin P Young Jr director of quality control for Reynolds Metals Co Sheffield and Sam Duke Searcy an Opelika attorney.
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Montgomery
George Wallace
Paul F. Ketcham
Demopolis
Marvin P. Young Jr
Reynolds Metals Co
Sheffield
Sam Duke Searcy
Opelika
Alabama pension payouts rise slightly in July
Elderly residents received more than 8.1 million dollars in state pensions for July, a minor rise from June. The average pension grew by about 3.00 dollars per recipient while spending on medical services dipped marginally.
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Montgomery
State unemployment benefits dip again in July
The Alabama State Department of Industrial Relations reported payments to unemployed residents fell in July with 12,180 claims totaling $1.1 million, averaging about $29.35 per recipient. The total marked the lowest in more than a year.
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Montgomery
State Department of Industrial Relations
Department
Traffic deaths in Alabama drop by 70 from 1965 totals
Through August 18 Alabama traffic deaths totaled 442 this year, 70 fewer than 512 in the same period of 1965, according to Public Safety Director Col. C W Russell. Birmingham area politics note a gubernatorial candidate critique of the Wallace administration. In Mobile, Reverend J Franklin Murray was named vice president at Springhill College by President Very Rev William J Rimes. Murray will study faculty needs degree programs and courses.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Col
C. W. Russell
Mobile
J. Franklin Murray
Springhill College
Murray
William J. Rimes
Rimes
Pickets Ordered Cross At Alabama Power Plant
U S District Judge Daniel H. Thomas ordered the Mobile Alabama State Docks Terminal Railway to cross picket lines and deliver coal to Alabama Power Company's Chickasaw steam plant. The railway had been honoring IBEW strikers against the power company.
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Mobile
Alabama State Docks Terminal Railway
Alabama Power Company
Chickasaw
U. S. Dist
Daniel H. Thomas
Terminal Railway
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Crash blamed on pilot Gilmore in Huntsville air tragedy
Washington report says Huntsville man Robert Ogden Gilmore died when his plane crashed near Trenton October 8. The Civil Aeronautics Board blames the accident on pilot disorientation during a night flight over dark unlighted terrain, causing loss of control.
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Washington
Huntsville
Robert Ogden Gilmore
Civil Aeronautics Board
Gilmore
Trenton
Martin Calls Alabama Anti-Guidelines Bill a Fraud
Republican guber candidate James Martin denounces Wallace administration anti-guidelines bill as a fraud in a Sigma Delta Chi speech. He says it cannot replace federal funds with state money and would force local schools to strain to meet bills while potentially enabling federal court orders for full integration.
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Birmingham
James Martin
Sigma Delta Chi
Journalism Society
Martin
Medicare program runs smoother than expected nationwide
A national AP survey shows Medicare in its first weeks operates with fewer issues than feared. Admissions rose about 3 percent, occupancy often below capacity, with total admissions around 700 01K across facilities. In Georgia, Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter reiterated his pledge to raise starting teacher salaries to the national average, addressing DeKalb County teachers with Lester Maddox and Hoke O Kelley present.
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Washington
Associated Press
Atlanta
Jimmy Carter
DeKalb County
Carter
Plains
Lester Maddox
Hoke O’kelley
Rusk Urges US Stay In UN If China Admitted
Secretary of State Dean Rusk says the United States should remain in the United Nations even if Communist China joins the body, though he doubts Peking would secure a seat. He indicated support for continued U.S. participation regardless of Beijing's status.
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Dean Rusk
United States
United Nations
China
Organization
Peking
U.N
Soviets Push Mohole Projects In Ocean Drilling
U S scientists report the Soviet Union has two superdeep drilling operations underway and plans three more as Congress rejects further Mohole funding. Mohole chief Daniel Hunt laments the potential loss while insisting the deep crust target will be penetrated someday.
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Washington
U.S
Soviet Union
Daniel Hunt
Decatur Area Weather and River Forecast
Decatur and vicinity forecasts for today and tonight call for clear to partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Northerly winds 7 to 12 mph, becoming light and variable at night. High near 80, low around 56.
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Jupiter
Saturn
Decatur
Obituary notes for Mrs Lessie Briscoe of Joppa
Funeral services for Mrs Lessie Briscoe 65 of Joppa who died Thursday at Huntsville Hospital will be held at Ryan Baptist Church Saturday at 2 p.m. Rev Bill Pike will officiate burial in Ryan Cemetery Survivors include three Decatur relatives two daughters Mrs Mamie Childers and Mrs Imogene Turner a brother Jesse J Putman a son Hoyt A Briscoe and others in Decatur and Huntsville as well as six grandchildren and four great grandchildren
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Lessie Briscoe
Joppa
Huntsville Hospital
Ryan Baptist Church
Bill Pike
Ryan Cemetery
Briscoe
Decatur
Mamie Childers
Imogene Turner
Jesse J. Putman
Hoyt A. Briscoe
Huntsville
Minnie Hester
Mary Lee Albright
Normer M. Putman
Houston
Tex
78Th St
Elmwood Cemetery
Hester Baker Oden
Norman Oden
Birmingham
Reynold Oden
Carmen Burnett
Cocoa
Fla
Mary E. Andrew
6Th Ave. SE
Mrs. Linnie Coker Dies at 65 in Athens
Mrs. Linnie Coker, 65, of 1305 6th Ave Athens, died Thursday at Athens Limestone Hospital. Funeral services set for Saturday at 10 a.m. at West Highland Baptist Church with Rev James P Adams officiating. Burial at Black Creek Cemetery Etowah County. McConnell Funeral Home directing. Survives include brother Ernest Guy Spears Killen, two sisters Ola England Springville and Pearl Adams East Gadsden, and Ethel Hester Memphis. Body at residence then lying in state at church one hour before services.
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Linnie Coker
6Th Ave
Athens
Athens-Limestone Hospital
West Highland Baptist Church
James P. Adams
Black Creek
Etowah County
McConnell Funeral Home
Ernest Guy Spears
Killen
Ola England
Springville
Ethel Hester
Memphis
Tenn
Pearl Adams
East Gadsden
Otto W. McCarley Rites Set in Hartselle
Otto W. McCarley 86 of U S 31 North died at 3 p m Thursday at a local hospital Survives include two daughters Mrs Ruth McCarley and Mrs N A Palmer two sons Willis and W C McCarley two sisters and eight brothers Pallbearers named Funeral is at 1 30 p m Saturday Peck Funeral Home chapel with burial in Blue Springs Cemetery McCarley was a member of Hartselle First Church of God and a Morgan County native
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Hartselle
Otto W. McCarley
U. S
North
Peck Funeral Home
M. L. Hamon
Blue Springs
Florette
Peck
Ruth McCarley
N. A. Palmer
Decatur
Willis McCarley
W. C. McCarley
Pomona
Calif
C. O. Perry
Dallas
Texas
Viola Robbins
Bartlesville
Okla
A. A. McCarley
B. C. McCarley
Dewitt McCarley
Vernice McCarley
Gordon McCarley
Howard McCarley
O. W. McCarley
Hubert McCarley
Houston
Billy Mac Willis
Joe Willis
Johnnie Willis
Cleon Yates
Harold Johnson
Bill Spivey
Mr. McCarley
Hartselle First Church of God
Morgan County
Daily Records of Local Marriages and Notices
Lists multiple marriage licenses and paired names with ages and addresses, followed by property transfers and small notices, a few birth announcements from Decatur General and local hospitals, and a brief ad blurb about paper uses. Dense with names, ages, addresses, and monetary values, reflecting a typical daily community record page.
Decatur City Administrator to speak at Lions Club
Larkin Yates will address the Austin Lions Club Monday at 7 p.m. at Shan-Gri-La Restaurant. Blue Haven and Paradise pools close 5:30 p.m. Sunday for the season. The Decatur Curb Market opens Saturday 6 to 11 a.m. with beans, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, peppers, potatoes, melons, jams, jellies, milk and butter. Vegetables offered in freezer quantities.
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Larkin Yates
Austin Lions Club
Blue Haven
Paradise
Decatur Curb
Man Charged in Forgery Arrest at Home
Police report William Holden Jr. 20 of 727 Newcomb Street NW was arrested around 4 30 a.m. and charged with forgery. Detectives say he forged a Decatur boy's name on a 40 dollar check cashed at Lang's Sporting Goods on 2nd Ave. He is held in Morgan County jail.
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William Holden Jr
Newcomb St
E. C. Bowman
David Smith
Holden
Decatur
Lang’s Sporting Goods
2Nd Ave
Morgan County
Martha Johnson
Clearwater Fla
6Th Ave
Holly St
William R. Johnson
Clearwater
Fla
Decatur General Hospital
Holly Street
Gilbert Leon
Shelton
6Th Ave. SE
Burglary at Tommy Lee warehouse. copper wire stolen
Police report a warehouse owned by Tommy Lee broken into late Thursday afternoon. Missing items include 200 to 300 pounds of copper wire and an undetermined amount of gasoline.
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Tommy Lee
Morgan Schools Hold Fire On Desegregation Guidelines
Morgan County Board of Education postponed action on federal desegregation guidelines while opting to wait for legal developments surrounding Gov. George Wallace. The meeting also rescinded senior class trips, approved a $750 Falkville street resurfacing grant, opened bids for gymnasiums but withheld contracts, and hired 18 new teachers along with 84 bus drivers for next school year.
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Morgan County Board of Education
Alvis Briscoe
Robert Street
Alec Collier
Briscoe
George Wallace
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
J. C. Pettey
Morgan County
Pettey
Falkville
G. D. Sims
Falkville High School
E. C. Alston Jr
Sims
West Morgan
Priceville
Supt
George Nancarrow
Rice shipment from U S arrives for Indonesia port
International Jakarta reports the first 50 000 ton rice shipment sold by the United States is being unloaded in the Indonesian port. Mexico City adds UN Secretary General U Thant warns the global climate remains highly explosive after World War II risk from hydrogen bomb. Moscow stores will close Sundays starting Sept 4 shifting shopping patterns and rural access concerns.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
United States
Mexico City
U.N
U Thant
Moscow
Red Square
Moscow Truth
Governor Wallace Birthday Party Receives Civil War Volume
Governor George Wallace marked his 47th birthday with a staff party in Montgomery. He joked there were no state funds used as he received Bruce Catton’s Centennial History of the Civil War, volume Never Call Retreat. A bumper sticker cake celebrated the Nov. 8 election featuring his wife Lurleen as the Democratic nominee to succeed him.
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Montgomery
Ala
George Wallace
Bruce Catton
Wallace
Lurleen
Barcarole music term and notable composers
Barcarole once described gondolier songs from Venice but now refers to any lilting musical piece usually in 6 8 time. Notable barcaroles appear in the works of Chopin and Offenbach, illustrating the style's enduring influence.
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Chopin
Offenbach
Major cacao bean producers include Ghana Nigeria and Ivory Coast
Major producers of cacao beans for chocolate are Ghana Nigeria Brazil Ivory Coast and Cameroon in global markets with longstanding roles in cocoa supply chains.
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Ghana
Nigeria
Brazil
Ivory Coast
Cameroon
District Diary: Rescue Squad publicizes CP fun-a-thon contact
Athens Limestone County CB Rescue Squad released the call number 232-5692 for the Cerebral Palsy fun-a-thon set for Saturday and Sunday. Tanner High School hosts an ice cream supper tonight at 7 pm in the lunch room, hosted by the band booster club, with 50 cents adults and 30 cents students.
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Athens
Athens-Limestone County
Tanner
Tanner High School
Multifamily Rentals and Sales in Local Listings
A flood of classified notices lists rentals and sales across several streets and towns. Ads include a large 2 bedroom trailer with utilities, a 1966 Plymouth Fury for sale, 2 room upstairs furnished units on Canal Street, furnished 2 bedroom and unturned 3 room apartments, a 1960 VW payment offer, a 3 bedroom house near Gordon-Bibb School, a large shaded 2 bedroom with den for sale, a 3 bedroom Hartsville property with baths and kitchen, a 6 room house with acre near Hwy 31 N, and a 6 room dwelling with a store building north of Moulton offering low down payments. Contact numbers and agents appear alongside each listing.
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Broadway
Hartselle
Hwy
Harry Maiden
J Howard Proctor
Moulton
Myr Harris
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Kings New York
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Don Euin Mills
1St St
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Dodd Dr
THE
Decatur Daily
Harry Woods Lowther
9Th Ave
Charlotte Jean Coulter
Mark St
Gene Rapheal Teal
Somerville Rd
Ruth Ann Sanderson
Arthur J. Conders
F. G .Spivey
John P. Barnes
Charlie Sherman Jr
Charlotte A. Bolan
Florence L. Bolan
Dallas L. Crowell
Charles B. Terry
M. D. Dobbs
Harold L. Noll Or
J. A. Maner
Roy G. Estis
Raymond W. Deagin
City of
Cecil B
Theopolis Bumpus
Geddis and
Walnut St
Southern Home Improvement Co
Church St
Jimmy Hensley
1St Ave
Decatur General
Douglas Carlton
Courtland
Donald E. Sims
Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital
James Weigart
Anderson
Lewell Smith
Robert Bassinger
Cullman Hospital
Robert Robinson
Gene Carroll
Jerry Crawford
Donald Horne
Welsey Garrison
Baugh
Raee
Florida
19Th Ave. SE
Union Compress
Burl Oliver
Oliver
Morgan
David Knight
DAILY
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Canal St
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Prospect Drive
S.E
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20Th Ave
Grant
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