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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1968
Page
1
A professor drills auto repair students on customer expectations and billing. The exchange centers on a $113.67 charge and timing, exposing flaws in how repair work and pricing are communicated and executed.
Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford said he hopes progress in Paris within the next 40 days could lead to a mutual withdrawal of U S troops from South Vietnam. He warned it depends on Paris talks and noted a possible winter North Vietnamese offensive and the Pentagon may seek supplemental funds for fiscal 1969 after meeting required cuts.
The city received apparent low bids totaling 134 246 for equipment to start its own garbage collection next year. Bid items include truck bodies, refuse trailers and containers. Projected total investment 250 000 to 300 000 with a transfer station and future chassis bids. Waste Control Inc. of Birmingham submitted the low bid on 280 containers and on two front end loader and packer bodies. Holley Muer Inc. of Birmingham offered low bids on eight rear loading truck bodies and two 75 cubic yard trailers. Transfer station cost about 30 000 and additional staff needs are undecided. City to award contracts Wednesday at 5 p.m. See CITY on Page A-3.
The Viet Cong National Liberation Front accuses President Johnson of halting a bombing pause while claiming U S B52 strikes in South Vietnam rose sharply. Spokesman Duong Dinh Thao says more than 1000 tons were dropped near Da Nang and accuses the United States of intensifying the war. He also restates attacks on Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and insists the NLF is the authentic South Vietnamese representative.
President-elect Nixon appears poised to appoint Sargent Shriver U.N. ambassador, with Shriver meeting Nixon in New York and later conferring with Edward Kennedy. Shriver, then ambassador to France, flew to Paris after returning to Washington.
City Council to consider a 2 million local loan for initial Point Mallard Park construction with repayment by the Point Mallard Authority once the park opens. A 5 p.m. City Hall meeting is planned, pending county financing for about two miles of park road connecting Decatur areas along 8th Street.
Athens reports an autopsy scheduled to decide if 29 year old Rayburn Nolan Phillips died from a car crash injuries or a shotgun wound. Police say he was shot on the front steps of the Audrey Thomas home near Salem in Limestone County. A second two car crash occurred in Lauderdale County at the See AUTOPSY on Page A-3.
Dr Pat Trammell the University of Alabama football quarterback who led the Tide to the 1961 national title died today in Birmingham after a cancer battle. His family was at his side when he died at 10 20 am Bear Bryant had visited him earlier and his last public appearance was at the November 30 Auburn Alabama game where Alabama presented him the game ball. He was in his residency at University Hospital after surgeries in Birmingham and New York.
Chicago AP reports that four railroad unions approved a referendum creating a new body called The United Transportation Union. In Alabama two teenagers died in a head on collision with a two ton truck two miles east of Albertville. Identified were 18 year old Tommy R Fincher and 14 year old Paula J Strange, both of Boaz.
Markets at a glance show easier trading in New York with fairly active activity. Chicago reports wheat lower on liquidation and mixed to laterally traded corn and soybeans, with hogs 25-50 higher and top at 21.00, while slaughter steers are steady with top at 30.00.
The Alabama State Board of Adjustment will hold a Friday hearing on claims totaling more than 158 790 by parents of children killed and injured in the April 6 Cataco school bus wreck. Four students died and 43 were injured including the driver Hoyt Wilhoite. Attorneys for dozens of claimants and the Morgan County Department of Pensions and Security will attend, with several lawsuits already filed seeking up to 1 million dollars against the bus, its makers and designers.
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