Seminar stresses bus brake safety in Alabama
Lawrence County school bus supervisor R C Beckett led a one day seminar on school bus brakes for 57 transportation supervisors and mechanics from 11 counties. Chevrolet fleet service manager W R Bryan emphasized systematic brake maintenance and bleeding, warning that air in fluid and high alcohol content fluids can cause brake failure.
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Morgan
Madison County
Cherokee
Fleet Services Division
Chevrolet
Lawrence County
W. R. Bryan
Atlanta
Bryan
Alabama
Silas Cross
Matthews To Head TOP Group
The Top of Alabama Council of Governments confirmed Dean Matthews as executive director. Matthews, a former Huntsville city planner, will assume the $17 000 position in January after resigning his Huntsville post to take a similar job in Asheville in 1966. Athens Mayor Charles Bailey hosted the meeting at city hall and died of a heart attack less than an hour later.
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Bob Walker
Athens
Alabama
Tcnally
Dean Athews
Matthews
Huntsville
Asheville
Limestone
Madison
Marshall
Jackson
Ryatsville
Athens Lire
A. B. Lightfoot Jr
Lightfoot
Joevis
Bill Starnes
Amittee
Alabama Council of Governments
Wiha ‘Council
Research Group, Inc
Atlanta
James Record
Madison County Board of Commissioners
Charles Bailey
Man in Critical Condition After Decatur Stabbing
A 2 year old Decatur man De Shelton of 310 W Moulton St is in critical condition at Decatur General Hospital after a heart stabbing in front of a Triana club. Betty Brown 31 of 301 4th Ave NW is jailed for investigation as deputies continue.
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Decatur
De‘Shelton
W. Moulton St
Decatur General Hospital
Madison County
Shelton
Betty Brown
4Th Ave
Ato
County Sheriff's Deputies
Rites Friday for Bailey Athens Mayor Dies After Attack
Funeral services for Mayor Charles P. Bailey, 53, who died after an office attack, will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at First Methodist Church in Athens. Bailey had been in office since Oct. 7 and died at Athens Limestone Hospital. City offices will close in his memory. Council President Oscar O Barker will serve as mayor pro tempore until a permanent successor is chosen. Gov. Albert Brewer expressed shock and a condolence telegram will be sent to the family. Burial will be at Roselawn Cemetery with Rev. J. E. Harris officiating.
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Bob Walker
Athens
Charles P. Bailey
First Methodist Church
Bailey
Athens- Limestone Hospital
Oscar O. Barker
Barker
Albert Brewer
Bobb Inman
Alabama Council of Local Governments
Charlotte Groce
National League of Municipalities
Tanner School to Close Early for Sanitary Work
Tanner School will close Friday afternoon to allow installation of new sanitary facilities after Principal Perry and staff moved to halt a hepatitis outbreak. Classes resume after the break, and the Wheeler Basin Conference basketball tournament scheduled here will be moved to Ardmore due to the outbreak.
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Tanner
Gerald Perry
Perry
Harry Richter
Wheeler Basin
Ardmore
Confidence schemes nab Decatur woman for cash and purse
Mrs. Pearl Snopes says two women befriended her in a department store and persuaded her to withdraw 280 dollars from her bank and hand over 200 more from her purse. The suspects, one claiming bank ties, fled in a late model car after a failed job lure. Victim described as tall with curly black hair and a heavy-set woman with black hair.
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Decatur
Pearl Snopes
Newcomb St. NW
2Nd Ave
Det
David Smith
Problems Of Blind Discussed At Meet In Decatur
North Alabama blind businessmen gathered at a Decatur seminar to share problems and solutions. Participants discussed floor space, slow selling stock, customer attraction, and unique blind related challenges like money identification and candy color. J C Barksdale outlined Small Business Administration aid and volunteer executive support.
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Dick Cooper
Business Enterprise Program For the
Decatur
North Alabama
C. Barksdale
Small Business Administration
Barksdale
Christmas breakfast for local banking women planned
The Decatur chapter of the American Institute of Banking sets a 7 30 a m Christmas breakfast at the Crescent Motel with about 65 members from Decatur and nearby towns including Athens Courtland Moulton Falkville and Hartselle. Francis Nungester will speak. Decatur Jayceettes host their Christmas Party at 7 p m today at the Decatur Country Club. West Berlin records the world’s highest death by own action rate in the last decade though lower than the Hitler era.
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Decatur
The
American Institute of Banking
Crescent Motel
Athens
Courtland
Moulton
Falkville
Hartselle
Francis Nungester
Decatur Jayceettes
Decatur Country Club
West Berlin
Hartselle to Expand Rural Telephone Service in Pines
South Central Bell plans a $30 000 expansion in the Pines community within the Hartselle exchange to upgrade service and remove eight party lines as part of a 1969 state rural development program. George Davis notes progress toward better, lower cost service and cites a 19 percent CPI rise 1957 1967 while regional phone costs fell 5.3 percent.
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Hartselle
South Central Bell Telephone Co
Pines
George Davis
Davis
Bell
Alabama
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Bob Dunnavant
DAILY
Board of Education
Louis McGee
McGee
Tuscaloosa
Top of Alabama Council of Local Government
Kermit Johnson
Marshal ‘County Board of Revenue
Gorgon
Sebring
Jackson County Board of Revenue
Madison County Board of Revenue
Thomas Lee Hammons
Limestone County Board of Revenue
Grandpa's Corner
She
al Baker
Sgt
Jep Tallent
Cecil Christopher
Athens-Limestone Chamber of Commerce
Thomas L. Hammons
County Board of Revenue
Limestone County
R. W. Bailey
Army Reserve
National Guard
Korea
Walter
John Conlan
Mary S. Bailey
John Conland
Johnnie Tribble
Douglas Ray
Harry Berry
Eddie Whitworth
Birmingham
Paul Bumgardner
Randolph Air Force Base
Texas
Walter Bailey
J. E. Harris
Roselawn
McConnel
Tanner School
Ernie Ball
Rogersville
New Decatur City Hall
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AAA South End Service
Gresham, Williams and Johnson Constructions
New City Hall
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