State Senator Pushes Expanded Power for Insurance Authority
Alabama Senator Bob Harris proposes a bill to give the state insurance superintendent power to take control of an insurance company without court order if funds are misused or solvency is at risk. He cites recent actions against Mutual Savings Life and notes a 1969 measure with similar aims. Harris hopes for quick approval.
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Winford Turner
Bob Harris
Decatur
Alabama
Harris
Morgan-Limestone
Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co
Joe Goodwyn
Senate
State Insurance
John Bookout
Newton B. Powell
Louie Roussel
New Orleans
Bookout
Mutual Savings
Massive U S air campaign rocks North Vietnam
An armada of 350 American fighter bombers pounded North Vietnam around the clock in the biggest attack since Johnson halted bombing years ago. Hanoi claimed five F4 Phantoms shot down, and two American airmen killed, while U S command described the raids as limited and targeting military sites along the Laos border and in Thanh Hoa.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Johnson
Hanoi
U.S
Fei Nixon
United States
Radio Hanoi
Thanh Hoa
Mutual Savings Regains Control After Court Ruling
Circuit Judge Newton B. Powell dissolved an injunction that had given the state insurance superintendent authority over Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co. The ruling follows argument by the attorney general that the bill of complaint was filed without proper authorization. Bookout would oversee transactions over 25 000, with the attorney general handling company affairs.
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State Insurance
John Bookout
Thomas Skinner
Bookout
Mutual Savings Insurance Company
Newton B. Powell
Billy Smith
Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co
State Superintendent of Insurance
Powell
Attorney General’s Office
George Wallace
Atty
Bill Baxley
Mutual Savings
Charles Barnes
Insurance Department
Attorney General's Office
Baxley
Barnes
Wallace Bes
See Mutual
Lindsay plans near million dollar bid in Florida Wisconsin primaries
Mayor John V. Lindsay budgets about 1 million for Florida and Wisconsin contests as he fields aides and plans a big fundraising push. He travels to Madison Eau Claire LaCrosse and Milwaukee with a formal candidate announcement anticipated in both states.
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Frank Lynn
New York Times News
Miami
John V. Lindsay
Florida
Wisconsin
Madison
Eau Claire
Cadett
LaCrosse
Milwaukee
Lindsay
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
J. Irwin Miller
Cummins Engine Co
New York
McGovern
Oregon
California
County Adopts Community Based Probation Plan in Morgan County
Morgan County will use a 31000 LEPA program to hire two probation officers and a secretary and place them in the city’s federal housing projects. The aim is to improve juvenile work and officer outreach, moving some tasks from the courthouse. The project makes Morgan the third county in the state to test this concept after Jefferson and Montgomery counties.
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Mary County
Alabama
Alabama Department of Revenue
Limesto
Walker
Limestone County
Madison County
Jefferson
Montgomery
Mobile
Etowah
Calhoun
Morgan County
Bill Cornwell
Law Enforcement Planning Agency
LEPA
Bob Patton
County Commission
Patton
Marchetta
Decatur’s Friendly Shopping Area Highlighted
On this date in 1939 a powerful earthquake devastated Erzingan in northern Turkey killing about 100000. The Daily Calendar notes horoscopes classifieds landers comics obituaries editorials entertainment and financial sections with a Tennessee Valley weather map and river page.
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Landers
Turkey
Erzingan
Collapse of defense as North Vietnamese press Laos frontier
In northeast Laos the joint U S Lao Thai Meo Force retreats under North Vietnamese pressure after Ban Na and Air Strip 204 fell on Christmas. The North Vietnamese moved from Plaine Des Jarres toward Longcheng and occupied high ground near the plain, signaling an earlier, stronger dry season offensive.
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Vientiane
Laos
Thongphunh Knoksy
Ban Na
Plaine Des Jarres
Central Intelligence Agency
Longcheng
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
North
Draft delay and Vietnam air operations announced by Defense Secretary
Secretary Melvin R. Laird said there will be no military draft in January and possibly none until April while U S planes will continue strikes in North Vietnam to protect forces in the south. A Christmas weekend traffic toll reached 610 fatalities. In Flomaton a sergeant his wife and two children died when their car crashed into a tree. Robinson Furniture in Decatur advertises Magnavox dealer status.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
U. S
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Flomaton
Air Force
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