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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1965

Page

25

Gray Wages Long Running War on Junk in City

E C Gray has led a 21 year city cleanup effort with seven to eight crews daily. A $30000 Vac-all truck boosts leaf and trash pickup replacing an older front-scoop truck. Gray oversees five more trucks two sweepers and a water wagon plus a leaf machine and radio links to nine contacts to run an around the clock operation covering about 100 miles daily.

Cora Blair E. C. Gray Vacatl Gray Lafayette St

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Turkey Lake Erie City Punjab Pakistan Hunter Cesar Hollywood Comborm France Church of Rome Fiji Williams

Man Pleads Guilty In Referee Assault Case

A Cotaco area man, James D. Russell aged 26, pleaded guilty to assaulting basketball referee Theron Drake of Decatur after a Cotaco versus Priceville game last month. Justice Roy Bradford fined him 50.50 dollars and suspended a 30 day jail term. Drake, who officiated with Jack Allen, was reportedly not hospitalized.

Cotaco Morgan James D. Russell Theron Drake Decatur Priceville Justice of the Roy Bradford Russell Drake Jack Allen

Decatur Man Acquitted In Forgery Case

A circuit court jury Friday acquitted Decatur resident Obie Mitchell on forgery charges after about an hour of deliberation. He was charged with forging a check drawn on Paul Crawford’s account at a Decatur bank. Mitchell’s acquittal came amid a busy week in court as 32 of 62 cases were resolved, with two more defendants, Billy Jack Curtis and Houston Kenneth Kilpatrick, also involved in separate rulings. The week closed with Judge James N. Bloodworth set to preside over the second week of court.

Decatur Obie Mitchell Paul Crawford Mitchell Billy Jack Curtis Houston Kenneth Kilpatrick Charles Wade Gulley Nashville Tenn James N. Bloodworth

Churchill’s suppressed chapter hints at peace with Hitler

New York AP reports Winston Churchill wrote six months before WWII that the world might welcome a genuine Hitler of peace and toleration. The unpublished March 1939 chapter, found in a proof copy of Step by Step, suggests Conservative views urged England to stay out of war and let Hitler and Stalin clash.

New York Winston Churchill Hitler Churchill Columbia University Daniel Longwell Neosho Life Time Magazines Doubleday & Co Longwell England Stalin Napoleon Soviet

War on Junk Report Opens Monthly Update

City Administrator Larkin Yates released the first official monthly War on Junk report. City Planner Gary Voketz will mail letters to violators. 25 abandoned cars were identified and 13 to be stored if not moved. benches stored. many old refrigerators and rubbish collected. property owners urged to clean up and buy new garbage cans. sanitation dept. purchased a new two ton truck for transporting rubbish.

Larkin Yates Yates Gary Voketz Pack Self Harold Smith Sanitation Department Smith

British plan to pull halfpennies from circulation

London reports Labor MP Marcus Lipton will urge the Commons to withdraw halfpennies, arguing the coin is practically useless. He notes a halfpenny equals half a British penny with 12 pence per shilling and 14 cents per shilling in U.S. money, recalling the extinct farthing once legal for a quarter of a penny.

London House of Commons Marcus Lipton Britain

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