Fire Kills Chinchillas At Walter Hall Home
An early Monday blaze destroyed a garage at Walter Hall’s Vestavia Drive SW Decatur home and killed 12 chinchillas valued at 5000. Hall said he had raised them for pelts about a year and woke to a popping sound. Firefighters saved the residence with water while the building burned. The cause was suspected electrical wiring.
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Walter Hall
Vestavia Dr
Decatur Fire Department
Hall
Danville Rd
Lewis Keenum
Decatur
Sth
Athens Drug Stores Burglary Suspected in Overnight Breakins
Police report two Athens drugstores C&M Apothecary and Cole Drug Store were entered in a break in overnight or early today. C&M’s front door was smashed and police found the break at 5 40 am. An inventory was underway to determine stolen drugs at Cole Drug Store.
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Athens
C&m
Athens- Limestone Hospital
Sanders St
Cole Drug
South Jefferson St
Bill McGregor
A. B. Lightfoot
Cole Drug Store
Three Die In Alabama Traffic Crashes
Three persons died in separate traffic accidents in Alabama on Monday. Micah Buckelew, 19, of Gadsden, died when his motorcycle collided with a car on a Gadsden street. Hardaway, a car passenger, perished in a collision with a trailer-truck west of Tuskegee on U.S. Highway 80. Roy May, 57, of Winfield, was killed when his truck collided with another truck on U.S. 278 and burst into flames east of Winfield in Marion County.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Gadsden
Micah Buckelew
Hardaway
Tuskegee
U.S. Highway 80
Roy May
Winfield
Marion County
May
U.S. 278
Notes of Interest William Wallace Minor Injury at Recreation Center
William Harold Wallace aged 28 of Decatur was slightly injured while playing basketball at Carrie Matthews Recreation Center on Monday. He received treatment at Decatur General Hospital.
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William Harold Wallace
Decatur
Carrie Matthews Recreation Center
Decatur General Hospital
Cash box theft at Carl Ayers Standard Oil station
Police report a small cash box containing 37 dollars stolen from Carl Ayers' Standard Oil service station on 6th Ave SE Decatur. Officers Dan Price and J B Adair investigated the incident.
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Carl Ayers
Standard Oil
6Th Ave
Decatur
Dan Price
J. B. Adair
Athens College President Receives Scholarship Fund Donation
Mason Brock of Associates Capitol Corp. presents a check to interim Athens College President Dr. Luther L. Gobbel during a ceremony at the Athens Branch. Legal proceedings involve eight counts with Robison urging clear indictment details and Corsland defending the state's aims. Lolley’s trial is scheduled for January 12 pending Emmet’s intervention.
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Mason Brock
Athens
Associates Capitol Corp
Luther L. Gobbel
Athens College
Robison
Dist. Atty
Dave Corsland
Lolley
Emmet
Acting Prison Chief Selected in Alabama
The State Prison Board named Atmore Prison Warden James T. Hagan Jr. acting state prison commissioner to allow Robert P. Bradley to take office as a judge. Bradley, previously acting commissioner, was appointed to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals but delayed taking seat until a permanent successor was found. Bradley will be sworn in Wednesday morning while Hagan serves as acting commissioner.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Prison Board
Atmore
James T. Hagan Jr
Robert P. Bradley
Bradley
Frank Lee
Alabama Court of Civil Appeals
Albert Brewer
Lee
Hagan
Pike County
Troy State University
Prisons Department
Church of Christ
Top of Alabama Council to present regional garbage plan
Athens based Top of Alabama Council of Governments will brief state and federal health officials next month on a detailed five county garbage collection system proposal. State National Bank of Alabama announces a new executive slate including William L. Dickens as vice president and several assistant vice presidents and cashiers across Decatur Huntsville and New Hope.
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Athens
Alabama Council of Governments
Huntsville
North Alabama
State National Bank of Alabama
Decatur
William L. Dickens
Howard F. Wilson
Granville Graves
John G. Butler
New Hope
Stephen R. Edmondson
Jay Mullins
Gary Sullivans
Roger L. Gentry
Albertville
L. W. Currin
Bettye Mink
Mullins
Bank
Limestone
Madison
Marshall
DeKalb
Jackson
Dean Mathews
Tarcog
Mathews
U. S. Public Health Service
Atlanta
Montgomery
Alabama Association of Sanitarians
Maths
Decatur Man Apprehended After Escape from Camp Cullman
Madison police and Morgan County Sheriff David Sandlin apprehended Melvin White, 25, in Triana after he escaped from Camp Cullman last month while serving a two year forgery sentence. The article notes further local planning items on sanitation and waste management proposals across several counties.
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Madison
Morgan County
David Sandlin
Decatur
Camp Cullman
Sandlin
Melvin White
Triana
White
Huntsville Bus Wreck Case Settled
The father of 15 year old Jack Simpson was awarded a 25000 settlement after a 1968 school bus wreck on Monte Sano Mountain near Huntsville. The suit named Crescent Transit Co GM and Midland Ross Corp as defendants in Madison County Circuit Court.
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Huntsville
Ala
Here
John G. Simpson III
Jack Simpson
Monte Sano Mountain
Crescent Transit Co
General Motors Corp
Midland Ross Corp
Madison County
Mobile Judge Loses Round in Disbarment Appeal
Washington AP report notes former Mobile County Judge Frank O. Alonzo failed to win reinstatement as a practicing attorney after the U S Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. Disbarment followed a Mobile circuit court conviction for pressuring a bill collection agency to raise a monthly retainer for his brother and law partner Reynolds T. Alonzo Jr. The Supreme Court had previously dismissed an appeal challenging his impeachment and removal from office.
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Washington
Mobile
Frank O. Alonzo
U. S. Supreme Court
Alonzo Monday
Alabama Bar Association
Alonzo
Ctages
Reynolds T. Alonzo Jr
The
Supreme Court
Six Alabama School Systems Ordered To Desegregate
A three judge federal panel ordered six Alabama school districts to intensify desegregation efforts by February 16, 1970. The panel also tentatively accepted plans to abolish dual education in 12 other systems and set January 15 for objections to new plans from city and county districts.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
U. S. Circuit
Richard Rives
Dist
H. H. Grooms
Frank M. Johnson Jr
U. S. Justice Department
Alexander
Anniston
Phenix City
Baldwin
Eufaula
Henry
Marengo
Opelika
Pickens
Russell
Sumter
Tuscaloosa
U. S. District Court
Lee
Teacher Suit Reversed Over 24 Year Placement
Cullman County Circuit Court order reinstating Evelyn Buchanan to the fourth grade at East Elementary was reversed by the Alabama Court of Appeals. The state appeals panel said the Tenure Commission, not the local board, should have been the respondent in the lower court case.
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Cullman
Cullman County
Alabama Civic Court of Appeals
Evelyn Buchanan
East
City Board of Education
State Tenure Commission
State Appeals Court
Tenure Commission
Board of ‘Education
Extradition Papers Filed for Patricia Krenwinkel in Tate Case
Montgomery Alabama AP reports extradition documents signed by Gov. Albert Brewer and Secretary Mabel Amos authorize Los Angeles police to take Patricia Krenwinkel 22 to California for trial in the Sharon Tate slayings. Krenwinkel was arrested in Mobile December 1 after an earlier illegal arrest ruling.
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Montgomery
Ala
Los Angeles
California
Sharon Tate
Albert Brewer
Mabel Amos
Patricia Krenwinkel
Brewer
Mobile
Krenwinkel
Joseph M. Hocklander Jr
Hocklander
Miss Krenwinkel
Limestone County Board seeks federal aid for Thatch Rd and repairs
The Limestone County Board of Revenue asked to place Thatch Road on the federal secondary system and sought state aid for 2.9 miles of grading and drainage on Temperance Oak Lentzville Roads. It approved $340 to Johnson and Co. for rail remodeling with lighting and emergency power. It also pledged $500 to support the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
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Athens
Limestone County Board of Revenue
Thatch Rd
Temperance Oak-Lentzville
Board of Revenue
Green Hills Acres
Buck Island
David Peek
Johnson and Co
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency
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Ray Lolley
Vaughan Hill Robison
Coffee County
Blue Cross
Montgomery County
Grand Jury
W. G. McCarley
Prattville
Frank Samford
Liberty National Life Insurance Co
Decatur Rotary Club
Pete Henderson
Samford
Johnnie Washburn
Redus Collier
Billy Smith
Jim Tassinaro
Carol Smith
Fern Kibler Frye
Bob Maschetta
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