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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1966
Page
11
Modest 1382 square foot house with a rear U shaped design and ample outdoor terrace. Design 6-65 features a center hall plan, a beamed kitchen family area, and a basement with three rooms, plus a two car garage and flexible teen hobby space.
A brief notice from the Decatur Daily building editor records an enclosed payment of 50 cents plus 3 cents sales tax for a baby blueprint on design G-65. The item appears to be a printed order or internal design document.
Britain plans a worldwide ban on trade with Rhodesia amid warnings of inevitable consequences from defiance. George Brown heads to New York to coordinate U N actions while U S officials promise continued support for British measures.
Four adults and four grandchildren including Marietta Rowell 10 and Patricia Ann Rowell 4 flee from a blaze after managing to exit through a rear door. The children's mother Bashie Rowell and her other two children George 9 and Frank Rowell Jr 13 along with Lola Johnson, the mother's sister aged 15, also escaped.
Decatur will change dialing codes with the new telephone directory arriving Dec 19. Information and repair service numbers shift to 411 and 1 respectively, replacing current 113 and 114 until the change takes effect. George Davis of Southern Bell Decatur cites nationwide standardization as the reason.
Four Alabama communities were named ARCIP district winners for economic and home development by Dr. W. H. Taylor of Auburn University. Cave Springs Etowah District 1 Echo Dale District 11 Gallion Marengo District III Romulus Tuscaloosa District IV each will receive 300 dollars for outstanding community improvements.
In 1945 testimony at the Nuernberg trials, Mussolini allegedly urged Hitler in 1939 to delay war in Europe, but Hitler insisted the moment was right.
Curtis Huey Roden, convicted of first degree manslaughter, is named in two lawsuits totaling $400000 over the deaths of Audrey Bean and her son William. Price Bean, administrator of Audrey Bean’s estate, sues Roden claiming negligent operation of a car on Alabama 36 near Hartselle caused the fatalities. Roden has appealed and seeks a new trial.
Town Creek Mayor Paul Houston is scheduled for lung surgery today at Colbert County Hospital in Tuscumbia. City councilman John Green says the mayor was admitted about a week ago for treatment and monitoring.
California led all states in 1963 with 50 million prescriptions filled by drug stores.
Dismissals include Mrs Bobby Matthews Cedar Street Southwest and Mrs George Terry Trinity 2. Other entries name Elbert Wallace Cain Street Morris Holt Kooken Avenue SW Cortez Abbott 4th Avenue Northwest Charles Collin Decatur 1 Mrs Elizabeth Summeford Decatur and Mrs Robert Hopper Decatur 3 Trinity area.
A list of admissions or residents appears with numerous names and addresses across Decatur and nearby towns such as Hartselle Madison Athens Moulton Danville and Somerville. The compiled entries include titles Mrs Miss Mst and Mr with street addresses and city notes indicating patient or attendee admissions.
The court’s ruling on population based redistricting differs from whether a governor must be elected by the people. The Supreme Court case arose after neither Howard H. Callaway nor Lester G. Maddox won a majority in the November 8 election. A Georgia constitutional proviso requires the legislature to choose between the two top finishers.
Decatur markets report cottonseed at 40 dollars per ton with grade A milk at 6.55 per hundred and manufactured milk at 3.20 per hundred for four percent. Wood bids 65 45 and 35. Pulpwood 13.50 per cord. Grains list corn and oats prices with No 2 yellow and white varieties ranging from 1.07 to 1.46 per bushel and 0.68 per bushel for oats.
The New York market widened its gains this afternoon as trading picked up with about 7.5 million shares changing hands. Airlines, office equipment, electronics and other science issues led gains while aerospace stocks moved lower. Steel, oil, drugs, rails and utilities also advanced with autos and farm implements noted but not specified.
Huntsville police say Carl Epperson Jr. 31 of Mountain View Trailer Park Decatur hid in a cardboard box inside Budd's Men's Wear Shop at Holiday Plaza. He was charged with burglary after officers Dexter Moon and James Clear arrested him. Investigators probe possible links to other Huntsville break-ins.
Probate judge in Morgan County outlines four amendments including a bond issue for a Marengo County courthouse rebuilt after fire, a salary scale for Marengo tax officials, and an industrial plan for Geneva County. Voter turnout was expected light and costly per vote across the state as airlines rose slightly.
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