Colored Cloud Spotted Across Southeast During Air Force Test
Residents from the valley area and across the southeast reported seeing a greenish blue cloud about 100 miles wide Wednesday evening. The barium gas cloud formed when a rocket from Eglin Air Force Base detonated at high altitude to test interference with a communications satellite. it faded in roughly two hours.
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Air Force
Lee Jeffreys
Howard Proctor
Morgan
Civil Defense
Decatur Post
Horace Standridge
Moulton
Eglin Air Force Base
Florida Panhandle
Foster Child Christmas Drive Touches Morgan County
Cheri Shipper reports on Morgan County DPS volunteers and foster families rallying to shelter 140 foster children, including Pete who begged for a Tonka truck. Call 353-8181 to sponsor a child as switchboard lights flash with holiday urgency.
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Eastep
Decatur
Morgan County
Live Norfolk Pine Tree For Sale In Daily Ads
Classified notice announces a Live Norfolk Pine tree for sale in the Daily Ads classified section 812. Advertises want to buy and sell marketplace, 3 lines, 10 days only, five dollars twenty five cents, open hours weekdays and Saturday.
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Petatur
Daily Want Ag
Decatur Daily
North Alabama prison plan persists amid Jefferson County talks
Prison official says a North Alabama facility will be built with or without the Birmingham site. A final site decision isn t due before 1977, as Madison Lawrence and Limestone County locations are reviewed. The system now holds about 5 200 inmates in jails and prisons with 4 000 beds available.
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Steele Holman
North Alabama
Jefferson County
Birmingham
Hale
Corrections Board
Jefferson County Commission
Commission
Tom Gloor
Gloor
Montgomery
Atlanta
Economic Development Administration
Board of Corrections
Jefferson Commission
Birmingham Area
Ale
North
Alabama
He Corrections Board
Office
Arch, Monitoring
Madison
Lawrence
Limestone
They Need An Extra Reindeer For Foster Gifts
Morgan County social workers called for extra help as volunteers prepare Christmas gifts for 140 foster children. The Santa detail staff includes Ray Chandler Sonya Cabre Jeanie Arnold Kay Easter Paula McAdams and Randy Tucker and can be reached at 353-8181.
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Morgan County
S of Pensions and Security
Ray Chandler
Sonya Cabre
Jeanie Arnold
Kay Easter
Paula
Move For Guardrails On Causeway Pressed
Decatur civitan club voted to mail the State Highway Department urging guardrails on the causeway after a woman's car plunged into the Tennessee River. The bridge danger prompted the action as officials noted funding and priority issues for guardrail installation. A prior similar rescue last month involved James Torbett, hospitalized after his car skidded on the same bridge.
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Russ Roberts
Tennessee River
Decatur
Decatur Civitan Club
State Highway Department
Civitan
Dan Lansing
Jim Rombokas
Gary Whitlow
Caddo
Twilah West
8Th St. SE
Lansing
C. F. Camp
Camp
Montgomery
Terry Spain
College St. SE
Jerry Boyd
20Th Ave. SE
James F. Torbett
St. SE
Torbett
Spain
Fidel Castro lands in Cuba to topple Batista regime
In Today's DAILY ON THIS DATE IN 1956 Fidel Castro and a band of followers landed in Cuba to try to overthrow the Batista government. Quick weather notes list highs near 50 and lows in the 20s with page A-2 providing a full weather map. It ends with a Tennessee Valley motto: It’s A Privilege to live in the Tennessee Valley.
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
Batista
Tennessee Valley
Commercial Gas Use Gets New Limit
The city gas department halts new commercial customers and curbs new equipment. Existing users may replace equipment with the same gas rating. Department urges notices to all intending installers and notes November gas allotment exceeded by over 28 million cubic feet due to cold weather and higher demand.
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City Gas Department
Mahlon Trimble
Trimble
James Ward
Ward
Booster shots urged for 18 to 24 year olds
Tri County Health Service Information Director Judy Harris announced booster vaccinations are needed for young adults who took the first swine flu shot. Make up clinics will run Friday in Morgan Limestone and Cullman counties at county health departments and in Lawrance County at the Monchan Armor UWS LES from 10 am to 6 pm. Vaccines will be available to any who missed the first immunization, with a new vaccine also offered for school age children who must return for a booster. Children ages 3 to 17 may be inoculated, with prioritization for those in group settings as doses allow.
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Tri-County Health Service
Judy Harris
Health Service
Jerry Gets His Hospital Pajamas
Five year old Jerry Fortenberry was admitted to Decatur General Hospital for abdominal surgery but lacked pajamas. His mother Evelyn Fortenberry needs robes and bedclothes as four sickly siblings strain finances. A donor gave $10 and a local family has adopted them for Christmas, though more than 100 other families need help this winter. See JERRY On Page A-5.
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Paul Foreman
Little Jerry Fortenberry
Decatur General Hospital
Evelyn Fortenberry
East Acres
Morgan County Department of Pensions and Security
Stephenie Waller
Fortenberrys
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Hartselle
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Miss Basham
Causeway
Landers Peeeenee
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Weete
Rts
Seeeeeneene Financial
Robinson’s Furniture
2Nd Ave
Jerry
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