TVA Studies Bill Lee Land As Plant Site
TVA officials test land near Big Nance Creek in Lawrence County for a possible nuclear plant. Probate Judge Bill Lee, also county commission chair, owns 1,800 acres. TVA may drill and install monitoring towers. No firm plans or purchases yet. testing could begin in up to two months. cost will be low and crops would be compensated if damaged.
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Russ Roberts
Tennessee Valley Authority
Lawrence Coo
Bill Lee
Lee
Chris Eck
TVA
Lawrence County
Big Nance Creek
Wheeler
Tennesseeiver
County Commission
Eckl
Corrosive gas leak at 3M plant evacuates workers
Fifty five employees were evacuated when a safety device malfunction released corrosive hydrofluoric acid vapors at the 3M chemical plant in Decatur area. Four treated at the first aid station were sent to Decatur General Hospital with one hospitalized.
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Lee Sentell
Phil Raths
Decatur General Hospital
Marshall Schrimsher
Raths
J. R. Stone
Charles Pitt
Larkwood Dr
Decatur
Gary Absher
Joppa
Daryl Sammet
Lucas Ferry Rd
Athens
Decatur General
Decatur High Cheerleader Watches Morgan County Clash Win
Eyeing DHS victory Decatur High School cheerleader Anna Laura Dunn watches a Morgan County basketball game between the Red Raiders and West Morgan. Her team won 58-55. The story and photos appear on pages B-1 and B-9.
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Decatur High School
Anna Laura Dunn
John W. Dunn
15Th Ave
Red Raiders
Morgan
Morgan County
Anna
John Godbey
Prison location plan discussed with Morgan County leaders
A state corrections board official met Morgan County leaders to discuss a proposed North Alabama prison. The plan envisions a 300 inmate facility in two sections, with high security inmates sent to Holman Prison. The research unit will evaluate multiple Morgan sites before presenting more options at a December 15 meeting.
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Steele Holman
State Corrections Board
Morgan County
Alabama
John Hale
The
Corrections Board
Lawrence
Limestone
Morgan County Commission
Dick Fleming
Decatur
Bill Dukes Hartselle
John Long
Guy Roberts
North Central Alabama
North Alabama
Holman Prison
Atmore
Hale
Decatur celebrates sesquicentennial with time capsule parade
City crews prepared for an 8 p.m. celebration on the oldest commercial street as a 7 p.m. parade headed by an antique pickup carrying a time capsule led to brief ceremonies at the Old Bank. Mayor Bill Dukes and others were set to speak as the capsule was lowered, while a 150th birthday party at city hall offered cake from local bakers.
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Decatur
City Park and Recreation Departent
Ank
City Hall
Lee T
Bank St
Cording
Douglas Fuller
Bill Dukes
Bill Ferguson
Bill Jenkins
Stephen Decatur
Aquadome
Keller Memorial Bridge
Frederick Wright
Vincent Fuller
Nuclear Ban in Space Treaty Reached by U S and USSR
In today’s date 1966 item the United States and the Soviet Union agreed on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space. The page also lists weather details and contact information for a local want ad line, plus a Tennessee Valley note about quality of living.
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U. S
Soviet Union
Space
Decatur Daily
Broad Coverage Across U.S. News From Friday Reports
Debra Harris in Brodhead Wisconsin rejects swine flu vaccination for herself and her year old son despite her husband Don contracting the first confirmed case since the vaccination program began. In Groveport Ohio Superintendent Phillip Williams laments 12 empty schools as voters defeat a tax levy for a second time, delaying reopening. Washington coverage notes Carter era worm farming advice from Plains Georgia and Soviet cadets seeking talks on arms control, nuclear test bans, and trade. Unpopular postmen campaign to improve image as Waldheim wins another UN term after initial veto, and Milan police cordon the La Scala crowd amid disruptions during the opera opening.
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Brodhead
Wis
Debra Harris
Don
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Harris
Groveport
Ohio
Phillip Williams
Eg Herpes
Beavers Threaten Limestone Peach Trees Near Raymond Roberts Orchard
Limestone County peach grower Raymond Roberts reports a family of beavers near his Raymond Roberts orchard off U S 72 gnawing trees and destroying more than five with about 1000 dollars in damages. Workers have dynamited beaver dams and installed lights and lamps in a bid to deter them, but the pests rebuild and ignore efforts. Roberts offers ten dollars for bagging a beaver and contemplates an electric fence as the beavers multiply in the creek area.
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Sonny Turner
Athens
Limestone County
Raymond Roberts
U. S. 72
Here
Roberts
Limestone
Aoe
Roberta
Morgan County
Larry Hale
Doug Winton
Mallard-Fox and
Swan Creek
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Montgomery
Ala
Department of Youth Services
Roebuck
Birmingham
Horace Sutterer
DYS
George Phyfer
DHS
Meet Here
Johnny Smith
Leo Smith
Lee Decatur
Tennessee Valley
Landers
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Carter
Hugh Carter
Plains
Russia
Postmen Advertising
Washngton
Postal Service
James H. Rademacher
National Association of Letter Carriers
Waldheim
United Nations, N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
Kurt Waldheim
U.N
Assembly
Security Council
China
Police Cordon
Milan
Italy
Lefoo
la Scala
Opera House
Beavers
Decatur Daily Want AD
Dial
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