Francis LeMay Dies After Long Public Service Career
Francis LeMay 64 of Town Creek died from a massive brain hemorrhage at Colbert County Hospital Saturday. A former staff consultant for the U S House Committee on Agriculture he led public relations for the House from 1951 to 1953 and later handled financial affairs until retirement in 1967. He advised Southern Cotton Growers and Southeast Cotton Growers and worked for the Associated Press in Birmingham and Washington before joining Congress. LeMay supported southern agriculture after retirement and served on the advisory board of First Colbert Bank. He was a native of Leighton and a graduate of Sidney Lanier High School and the University of Alabama.
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Francis LeMay
Town Creek
U. S. House Committee On Agriculture
Colbert County
LeMay
House of Representatives
House
Sam Rayburn
Southern Cotton Grow
Leighton
Masonic
Montgomery
Sidney Lanier High School
University of Alabama
Atlanta Constitution
Florence Times
Atlanta Georgian
Associated Press
Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
Birmingham
Southern Agriculture
First Colbert Bank
Lee Francis
Senate Rejects Foreign Aid Bill
The Senate killed a 1.8 billion foreign aid bill after clashing with the House over a 54.5 million request to buy jet fighters for Nationalist China. The vote 39 to 29 tabled a compromise measure as Congress neared a Christmas recess with a Tuesday deadline in sight.
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Washington
Senate
House
China
Congress
Foreign Aid Agency
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
White House
Bus Decision Seen Monday
A Morgan Lawence Community Action Committee group will decide Monday if busing for low income students should expand after Decatur Transit ended routes for 250 pupils. Manager Mary Chambers said survey results will guide whether CAC buses will run again when students return January 5.
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Mary Chambers
Morgan-Lawrence
Seven die in three car crash near Centre Alabama
At the intersection of Alabama 68 and a Cherokee County road seven people were killed and three injured in a Saturday evening crash involving three cars. The Abernathy family relatives perished in one vehicle, with others dying in hospital. cause under investigation.
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Cedar Bluff
Troy Abernathy
Leesburg
Evelyn
Louise Burkhalter
Kay Hudgins
Centre
Estes
Chrokee County
Resident questions traffic rules and pension taxation in Decatur
Public Q and A from the Decatur Daily covers radar units in operation with four units in Morgan, Lawrence, Limestone and Cullman counties. social security rulemakers. right of way at Church Street. pension taxation differences. a fatal accident count over the weekend with deaths in Alabama.
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Highway Patrol
R. P. Sorrell
Decatur Post
Morgan
Lawrence
Limestone
Cullman
C.A
Trinity 1
Social Security Administration
Decatur
Alabama
Church Street
Goodyear
Decatur Police Department
19Th Avenue
Seven new Decatur Chamber of Commerce board members named
Seven new directors were chosen at a Holiday Inn North meeting. Five were elected by mail, John Cook Lynn Fowler Shelby Massey Al Matthews and Fred Underwood. Harold Riley and George Hansberry selected by the existing board.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Holiday Inn North
John Cook
Lynn Fowler
Shelby Massey
al Matthews
Fred Underwood
Chamber
Harold Riley
George
Hansberry
Denton Cole
John Hamilton
Paul Lamont
Dorothy Schwachow
John A. Taylor
Leo Wenzler
Cook
Pest Control
South Central Bell
Alabama Flour Mills
Matthews
Air pollution doom forecast for 1990 from Scotia scientists
Scientists at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center warn of a stark future if pollution continues. By 1980 ten thousand would die in metro areas, and within 10 to 15 years all people could need breathing helmets outdoors with most life wiped out, domed cities by 20 years, as clean air vanishes across the United States.
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Scotia
N.Y
Hemisphere
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
United States
State University System
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Health
Alfred Hulstrunk
Schnectady
Flagstaff
Ariz
California
Arizona City
Hulstrunk
Halstrunk
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Leigh Nelson
Santa’s Treasures
Dan F. Nelson
Sherman St
Billy Smith
Robinson Furniture
Second Avenue
Tage
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Taiwan
Gale W. McGee
D-Wis
Nixon
Rover
Burkhalter
Abernathy
Hudgins
PTHE
Decatur Daily
Ale
A.M
Internal Revenue Service
Cherokee County
C. M. Garrett
Dannelly Field
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Trussville
Ala
Irene Griffith
St. Clair County Line
U.S. 11
Alva J. Hill
Rising Fawn
Ider
Alabama 75
Santa
Geraldine Sakeagak
Old St. Nick
Alaska
Edmund Pinto
New York State
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