Four Alabama 4-Hers Win National Scholarships
Four Alabama 4-H members earned $2 400 in scholarships at the 48th National 4-H Congress. Winners include Mary Jane Fleming Elizabeth Humber Patricia Vickers and Landers Macon Sanders in baking citizenship consumer education and entomology categories. Each received a $600 award as the congress continues through Thursday with potential additional Alabama recognitions.
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Chicago
Alabama
Mary Jane Fleming
Fairhope
Elizabeth Humber
Fayette
Patricia Vickers
Alexander City
Macon Sanders
Leighton
Miss Fleming
Arthur Fleming
Mary- Jane
Miss Humber
University of Alabama
Lloyd Humber
West Alabama
Vickers
TVA Lets Coal Pact For Western Kentucky Mines And Tennessee Plant
TVA announces a contract with American Commercial Barge Lines to move about 120 million tons of coal from two new Peabody mines in Union County Kentucky to a new Cumberland Steam Plant in Tennessee. The $88 million, up to 20 year deal uses a belt conveyor system to load coal onto 15-barge tows on the Ohio and lower Tennessee Rivers with shipments starting July 1971 and peaking by April 1973. A two mile dredged cutoff channel will aid river traffic at Cumberland plant. Police report: about 190 morphine pills taken in a break in at CEM Drug Co on Sanders St. Capt Richard Faulk comments.
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Western Kentucky
Tennessee
Tennessee Valley Authority
American Commercial Barge Lines Company
Jeffersonville
Indiana
Inland Waterways Division
Texas Gas Transmission Company
Peabody Coal Co
TVA
Camp Breckenridge Military Reservation
Union County
Ohio River
ACBL
Cable Belt Conveyors, Inc
Cumberland
Cumberland River
Clarksville
Ohio
Kentucky
Barkley Lakes
Athens
CEM Drug Co
Sanders St
Richard Faulk
Four children die in Montgomery fire. Alabama toll rises
The Associated Press reports a Montgomery home fire killed four Dawson sisters aged 2 to 9 after their beds blocked doors. The father and another daughter suffered serious burns while the mother and four other children escaped. Faulty wiring is blamed.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Cleophus
Dawson
Catherine Dawson
Alberta
Brenda
Zora Dawson
Asst
R. W. Brassington
Wallace Hints May Run for Governor in 1970
Wallace on Meet the Press strongly suggests a 1970 Alabama governor bid. He says the people would decide if he should use the office to advance his national movement, noting impact on major parties and alignment with Nixon and Agnew. Apollo 11 lunar rocks display planned at Marshall Space Flight Center in February and March.
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Washington
George C. Wallace
Alabama
NBC
Wallace
Nixon
Agnew
Huntsville
Marshall Space Flight Center
Fernbanks Science Center
Decatur
Mr. Agnew
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Two Hurt In City Accident In Decatur
Two Athens men were injured today in a traffic crash within the Decatur city limits. Roland Pulley 57 and Sandy B Lucas 62 were listed as injured by city police. Don P Guster 19 606 Cherry Sr was driver of the second vehicle at the Fink and Walnut intersection.
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Athens
Decatur
Roland Pulley
Sandy B. Lucas
Don P. Guster
Cherry Sr
Fink
Walnut Srs
Amoco Worker K R Griffith to Retire After 41 Years
K R Griffith a warehouse foreman at Amoco Chemicals Decatur plant will retire Feb 1 1970 after more than 41 years of service with Amoco and related Standard Oil subsidiaries. He began in 1928 at Dixie Oil in Vivian Louisiana and held multiple supervisory roles before joining Decatur in 1967.
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K. R. Griffith
Amoco Chemicals
Decatur
Amoco
Standard Oil
Indiana
Griffith
Dixie Oil Co
Vivian
Stanolind Oil and Gas
Brownsville
Texas
Stanolind
Amoco Chemicals Corp
New Joliet, Ill
Lida C
North St
Shreveport
Death Report Awaited On 14 Year Old Carolyn Ivey
The coroner said an autopsy report on Carolyn Ivey died last Monday at her Decatur home is expected early this week. State toxicology officials in Huntsville promised a report by Tuesday at the latest. The official will determine if the death was accidental or otherwise based on the postmortem examination. Authorities have confirmed reports that the Decatur Junior High eighth grader died after taking an overdose of pills.
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Carolyn Ivey
Decatur
John McBride
Huntsville
Virginia AIP Warns Against Extremism in New Paper
The American Independent party of Virginia announces a shift to the American party name and releases The Eagle eight page tabloid warning against extremism. The paper aims to distill party aims, halt splinter factions, and distribute 112000 copies nationwide to supporters.
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Virginia
AIP
Richmond. Va
American Independent Party of
American Party
Eagle
George C Wallace
Alabama
Del-T
New Party
the Eagle
Wallace
Virginia Conservative Party
Alabama campus may double with Bryce land acquisition
University of Alabama leaders discuss a possible transfer of 460 acres from Bryce State Hospital to campus use, with a 25 to 50 year lease back for hospital facilities. Board members estimate Bryce lands could be worth up to 40 million dollars and note the need for new facilities for the mentally ill.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
University of Alabama
Bryce State Hospital
Alabma Department of Mental Health
Alabama Department of Mental Health
Mental Health — Board
Bryce
University
Mental Health Board
John Chenault
Decatur
Chenault
Alabama
Bryce University
Ed Hyde
Talladega
Chanault
Bryce Hospital
U.S. 82
Partlow State School
Partlow
Fed
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W. D. Vickers Sr
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Coal
THE
Associated Press
William G. Baker
Addison
Winston County
Donald Swords
Harmony
Marshall County
Boaz
Brent
Julia W. Williams
Howard Shayne Williams
Bibb County
Mobile
Mark A. Midgette
Rudolph King
Richard M.carcelon
New Bedford
Mass
Pittsview
Russell County
Johnny McDaniel
Leeds
John Lee Smith
Margaret Karras
Selma
U.S. 80
Boris Rudolph
Nathan Sammons
Campo
Chilton County
Jemison
Ernest R. Griffin
Dora
Andrew Jackson Cox
Red Level
Moon Rocks
H’ Ville
United States
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Charles Guntharp
Maurice McGuire
Coy Harvell
Guntharp
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