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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1969
Page
1
The Nixon administration has replaced 94 percent of policy posts with Republicans, 2,020 of 2,150, while many holdovers remain in lower levels. Fireings and reorganizations continue across agencies, with Morgenthau, Ley, Lapin, Burns among the notable departures and moves affecting HEW and FNMA policy posts.
The Senate rejected a plan to fund Formosa fighter jets in the foreign aid bill, with a 62 to 28 vote that bars unauthorized projects. House leaders aim to include 54.5 million for jets in a later conference while Congress races to finish appropriations and tax measures before a potential Christmas session. President Nixon urged restraint on spending and tax revenues.
Mrs. Mary Etta Whitehead lies critically ill at Decatur General Hospital while her husband J W Whitehead reports building a fire before leaving for work. The family, among relatives, faces Christmas without a home after a Tuesday fire on Birdspring Road at 4 p.m.
New Orleans police raided a motel stag party and arrested all attendees including Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. The 55 year old Criminal District Court judge faced charges of soliciting for prostitution obscenity resisting arrest and four counts of assault on a policeman after a confrontation during the raid tied to the Clay Shaw trial coverage continues on another page.
A house burned to the ground around 6 p.m. after an open fireplace, with the Whitehead family losing all their belongings. Neighbors and Pleasant Valley Baptist Church members are organizing aid including clothing and Christmas meals. Children are Eugene 12 Mike 9 Trena 6 Faith 4. Reverend Alvin Tucker and Mrs. Mary Hogeland coordinate donations and contact numbers 355-0667 and 353-1437.
A Morgan County teenager died Wednesday night when his car left the road and struck a tree while en route home from his girlfriend’s house to watch aTiny Tim wedding on television. Richard Earl Compton 16 son of Mr and Mrs Seldon Compton of Burningtree Estates died at the scene as troopers and the coroner investigated the fatality.
The Morgan-Lawrence Community Action Committee receives a 154 773 dollar Office of Economic Opportunity grant for fiscal 1970 antipoverty programs. Funds support staff supervision evaluation design planning medical services home management adult education recreation neighborhood services and community coordination across counties.
Washington reports personal income up 3.2 billion in November, 200 million more than October but below the eight month average, Commerce Department notes. Paris Peace talks see North Vietnam chief negotiator absent for second week as US warns no gain from delay. A fatal car crash near Burningtree Country Club leaves Richard Earl Compton, 16, dead.
Plans for a $1 million district health building serving Morgan, Lawrence and Limestone counties move forward after a $300,000 Hill Burton grant was approved by the State Board of Health. Construction is set between the Federal Building and the Chamber of Commerce Building with work expected to start mid next year.
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