Life in Barrow under Judge Sadie Neakok’s steady hand
In Barrow Alaska Judge Sadie Neakok the Eskimo village’s magistrate keeps order as a busy mother of 12 balances court duties with family life. She helped bring natural gas lines to the town and battles Eskimo causes in Washington. The piece sketches Barrow’s Arctic lifestyle including caribou meat stores, allEskimo homes, and a mix of ordinary American commerce with Arctic touches.
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Sadie Neakok
Alaska
Barrow
Neakok
Navy
Arctic
Washington
Charles D. Brower
New Jersey
U. S
Ahsiangatok
Bill
Nathaniel
Neakoks
Kansas
Shantz
Eskimo Cafe
Polar Bear Theater
Bill Lucas
Trinity resident killed in three car crash on Alabama 24
Moulton man Thurmond Terry dies from injuries Sunday at Decatur General Hospital after a Nov 22 one car crash on Lawrence County Road 33. William Ned Etheredge 31 of Trinity 1 is the Sunday fatality in the three vehicle crash on Alabama 24. Injured: John Wear 37 Moulton and Eva Ghrigsby 43 Trinity. Ghrigsby reported in fair condition.
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Moulton
Trinity 1
Alabama
Here
William Ned Etheredge
Thurmond Terry
Decatur General Hospital
Lawrence County
Etheredge
John Wear
Eva Ghrigsby
Trinity
Fatal Alabama crash near Drapers Market injures and kills
Wear was treated at Lawrence County Hospital after the accident while Etheredge died on arrival at Decatur General Hospital. The wreck occurred on Alabama 24 near Mrs. Ghrigsby’s home with Phillip, 9, uninjured in the rear seat.
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Wear
Lawrence County Hospital
Etheredge
Decatur General Hospital
Draper’s Market
Alabama
Decatur Raiders Fund Seeks $7,500 For Miami Trip
Donations totaling 5869.08 push the drive toward a 7500 goal to send Decatur's Class 4A champions to Miami for the Orange Bowl. Major gift from Roy Burcher's KFC totals 501. James Wall plans to donate half Saturday breakfast proceeds. Diamond Jewelers adds 25. Other supporters include Bowles 20 Simpson's Florist 15 Allied Sales 10 Armentrout 5 Bankston 1 and Hill 25. About 75 volunteers will fly to Miami on New Year's Day to see Alabama.
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Raiders
Miami
Decatur
Red Raiders
Roy Burcher
6Th Ave
James Wall
Starlite
U.S. 31S
Wall
Thomas A. Bowles Jr
Simpson’s Florist
Allied Sales Co
William V. Armentrout
L.W. Bankston
H. Willis Hill
Alabama
Indian brigades push toward Dacca amid fighting on two fronts
The Associated Press reports two more Indian brigades helicoptered into the Dacca area as Indian assaults close in on East Pakistan on two fronts. Pakistani defenses are described as crumbling while Lt. Gen. Niazi vows not to surrender. Separate battles reported near Tangail and Narsingdi with claims of fall and ongoing resistance.
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Associated Press
Dacca
Pakistan
A.A.K. Niazi
Radio Pakistan
Tangail
Narsingdhi
Rawalpindi
West Pakistan
France
United States
Dr Claude W Lavender Dies In New Orleans
Dr Claude W Lavender a Decatur urologist and founder of Hartselle Hospital died at Ochsner Clinic New Orleans Funeral services will be announced by Peck Funeral Home of Hartselle He built the Hartselle medical facility Lavender's Clinic in 1948 The clinic later expanded to a 10 bed unit and was sold in 1955 when he returned to medical school
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New Orleans
Claude W. Lavender
Woodmont Dr
Decatur
Hartselle Hospital
Ochsner Clinic
Peck Funeral Home
Hartselle
Lavender
C. B. Lavender
Hartsell Hospital
John E. Guier Jr
A Sherrill
Supreme Court rules indigent faces free trial records for appeals
The Supreme Court held indigent defendants in felony cases must receive free trial records and full transcripts as needed for appeals. In separate dispatches, a Port Huron inspector accused safety violations in the Lake Huron tunnel disaster. Morgan Guaranty cuts prime rate. two Americans freed by Communist China reach Hong Kong.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Port Huron
Mich
Lake Huron Water Tunnel
Hong Kong
China
United States
National UDC Leader Dead
Mary Darnell Johnson national public relations chairman for the United Daughters of the Confederacy died Sunday night at Decatur General Hospital. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church with burial in Decatur Cemetery. Survivors include husband Charles C. Johnson and brother Ben Darnell. She held multiple national offices and organized several chapters in memory of her. Pallbearers listed. body to remain at funeral home until escorted to service.
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Mary Darnell Johnson
Calumet Ave
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Decatur General Hospital
First Baptist Church
W.K. Stephenson
Decatur Cemetery
Gunthorp
Charles C. Johnson
Decatur
Ben Darnell
Frank Chenault
David Austin
Ed Price
James N. Bloodworth Jr
Newton B. Powell
James B. Hudson
On This Date The United States Observed Prayer Day
A revision of a late historic note references a day of prayer and thanksgiving observing the end of the Revolutionary War. The prose mentions a calendar style page with sections like sports entertainment and obituaries and references weather with rain probabilities and river pages.
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United States
South Vietnamese Push Probes Deep Into Cambodia
Under US air cover 6000 South Vietnamese troops advanced into eastern Cambodia aiming at a North Vietnamese divisional HQ. By night, two of three columns neared the Chup rubber plantation, with one within three miles of Chup on Highway. No enemy contact reported as NV regrouping last week.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Chup
Nixon and Pompidou Begin Discussion in Azores Meeting
President Nixon met with France's President Pompidou in Angra do Heroismo to discuss East West relations and the Pakistan India conflict. A side meeting with Treasury Secretary Connally and France's Giscard d'Estaing covered the monetary crisis.
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Angra DO Heroismo
Azores
Nixon
Pompidou
France
Treasury
John B. Connally
Giscard d’Estaing
China
Soviet Union
Peking
Moscow
Cambodian plantation battles shape Saigon push for Chup
U S and South Vietnamese forces press toward the town of Chup on the Mekong east of Saigon as intelligence notes North Vietnamese moves along the plantation's northern edge. The area has endured heavy air strikes, bunkers, collapsed tunnels, and explosions from B52 bombing.
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Saigon
Chup
Mekong River
Cambodia
U.S
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Lady Judge
Edward C. Burks
New York Times
Brooks Range
North Slope
Fairbanks
Anchorage
Wien Consolidated Airlines
Lawrence
Omer
3Rd Ave
Bessie Alvis
Decatur Daily
Billy Smith
India
Kashmir
Dr. Lavender
New York
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
UDC
Decatur Engravers & Supplies
S.E
Decature
Friendjigst
TV Log
Athens
Tennesee Valley
South Viets
George Esper
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Paris
Secretary of
Robinson Furniture
Second Ave
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