Brewer Signals Major Expansion at Calhoun Junior College
Gov. Albert Brewer indicated state funds may soon back a major Calhoun Junior College Technical School project. A $1.3 million classroom building is anticipated, with February or March as a likely formal announcement. The plan also includes a $1 million field house and a new 40,000 square foot classroom center between campuses.
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Albert Brewer
Calhoun Junior College Technical School
Calhoun
Carlton Kelley
Technical School
Junior College and Trade School
Montgomery
Renis Jones
Pearson, Humphries and Jones
Brewer
Kelley
F. C. Smith
Citizens Advisory Committee
F. O. Smith
Smith
Burfield Pleads Guilty in Mt Hope Slaying
Moulton teenager Edward Robert Burfield, 15, pled guilty to murder and related charges in the slaying of Mt Hope grocer Louis Lane and wounding his wife. He received 23 years, to run concurrently, with most time served in a boys industrial school. The case ties to his uncle Earl Flannagin, on death row for similar charges.
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Hilda Terry
Moulton
Mt. Hope
Louis Lane
Edward Robert Burfield
Lawrence County
Billy Burney
Burfield
Lane
Earl Flannagin
Kilby
Alabama Supreme Court
Flannagin
Graves Eyed For UAH Presidency
Dr. Benjamin Graves, Millsaps College president in Jackson Mississippi, is expected to be offered the first presidency of the University of Alabama at Huntsville. If selected he would assume next summer or fall, completing a three-campus leadership plan following Dr. Frank Rose’s resignation. Graves holds a BA from Ole Miss a MBA from Harvard and a PhD from LSU. He lives Civil War era.
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Huntsville
Benjamin Graves
Millsaps College
Jackson, Miss
University of Alabama At Huntsville
Graves
Huntsville Post
Frank Rose
Board of Trustees
Jetport
Man Ape Gap Narrowed By Blood Studies
Washington reports new blood chemistry studies suggest humans diverged from African apes about 5 million years ago, far earlier estimates once proposed by some anthropologists. The finding, based on term chronology, narrows the evolutionary gap between man and ape.
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New York Times News Service
Washington
U S Forces Hit North Vietnamese in Five Attacks
U S aircraft and artillery killed 111 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers in five attacks with no American casualties reported. South Vietnamese forces said 88 enemy troops were killed. In Washington FBI Director Hoover said crime rose at a slower pace in nine months of 1969 than 1968 but armed robbers grew as a major threat in cities.
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Saigon
U. S
Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Nixon Aims to End Dual School Systems in the South
Justice Department officials told federal prosecutors and marshals in Atlanta that the Nixon administration will abolish racially dual school systems in the South by September 1970. They said district attorneys must cooperate, even if it requires using all government resources, and to shift community sentiment toward desegregation.
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New York Times
Washington
Justice Department
South
U.S
Huchard Kleindienst
U. S
Atlanta
Kleindienst
Supreme Court
Mississippi
Nixon
Bost
Rleindienst
Leonard
Justice Dept Eyes Civil Rights Action in Southern Schools
Leonard says DAs should retire or run for local office if unable to act. Kleindienst notes extra counsel from HEW to aid in compiling district compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Law. DOJ watches Georgia suit on withholding funds from segregated districts and may expand statewide actions to other southern states. Targets include Arkansas and South Carolina. Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi already face many suits.
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Leonard
Rleindienst
Justice Department
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Department
Georgia
Arkansas
South Carolina
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
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Decatur
North Alabama
Pete Rutherford
Chicago
Calhoun Junior College
Billy Smith
Barfield
Eas
Santa Claus
UAH Presidency
Rose
General Computing Corp
Magnavox
Robinson Furniture
David Matthews
James Volker
Birmingham
Jackson
Santa
Lonnie McDaniel
Kleindiegst
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