Blood Shortage Triggers Red Cross Emergency Appeals
Alabama Red Cross faces a critical blood shortage with the Birmingham bank down to roughly a one day supply of 707 units for 200 hospitals in Alabama and Mississippi. Decatur hosts an emergency blood drive at Central Baptist Church while Birmingham and other areas extend drives through the holiday period to avert a potential crisis.
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Tommy Stevenson
American Red Cross
Alabama
Red Cross
Steve Huffstutler
Birmingham
Mississippi
Huffstutler
Huffstutter
Decatur
Central Baptist Church
Holiday shopping boom fuels widespread double digit gains
Merchants nationwide report double digit sales increases over last year with luxury items and clothes selling strongly. Cold and wet weather dampened activity in some areas while New England rain and ice and a tornado watch affected others. Several cities posted 15 to 45 percent rises. firms praise strong consumer mood and willingness to pay for premium wrapping. Deeper concerns include a missing child in New York and a fire death inquiry in New Britain, Conn.
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New England
Detroit
California
National Safety Council
New York City
Rockefeller Center
Charlotte
N.C
New York
Richmond
Jordan Marsh Co
Boston
Morton Huff
St. Louis
Barr Co
Huff
Dan Sharkey
Dillards
Little Rock
Ark
Sharkey
Ford Signs Bill For Bridge Span In TVA Project
President Ford signed the TVA appropriations bill on Friday during a Colorado vacation. The measure provides 5.6 million dollars to install a lift span on the Southern Railway bridge over the Tennessee River, upgrading from a 180 foot clearance to a 400 foot standard. Construction aims to finish by September 1977, with 2 million dollars for initial construction and 3.6 million for final work, amid a broad public works package including 40 million for North Alabama projects.
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Paul Foreman
Ford
Tennessee Valley Authority
Southern Railway
Tennessee River
Corps of Engineers
Corps
Vail
Col
TVA
North Alabama
Socialite claims affair with John F Kennedy years ago
Joan Lundberg Hitchcock says she dated Kennedy for three years when he was a senator and calls him a ladies man. She describes meetings in a San Francisco Examiner interview and says she will be more specific in an autobiography.
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San Francisco
Joan Lundberg Hitchcock
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Hitchcock
San Francisco Examiner
Board of Supervisors
Santa Monica
Magician Henning Escapes Tank Bindings Live TV
Canadian illusionist Doug Henning escaped from a water tank handcuffed and ankle-bound during a live Los Angeles TV telecast. He recalled Houdini’s 1920s ankle injuries while rehearsing Friday night.
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Doug Henning
Los Angeles
Henry Houdini
First Primary Looms As Candidates Worry
A crowded field of six Democratic contenders campaigns in New Hampshire as the first in the nation primary nears. Analysts expect a stalemate with no clear front runner and multiple candidates aiming to avoid dropping from the pack.
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Manchester
N.H
New Hampshire
Ronald Reagan
Ford
Laurence Radway
Radway
Dartmouth
Arizona
Morris K. Udall
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Udall
Carter
Fred Harris
Oklahoma
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Sargent Shriver
Kennedy
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Schulz compares Peanuts to a stage company in casting actors
Charles M Schulz describes choosing Peanuts characters as assembling a stock company For a daily strip he must keep a versatile cast introducing new players while aging out others He cites Peppermin t Patty Marcie Lucy Snoopy Linus and Charlie Brown as core roles shaping story ideas and dialogue
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Schulz
Peppermint
Patty
Marcie
Shadow
Charlie Brown
Lucy
Snoopy
Beagle
Linus
Carrie Nation's First Saloon Raid in Wichita 1900
Prohibitionist Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a Wichita saloon in 1900 smashing bottles. The brief item notes the date and actions within the temperance movement context.
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Carrie Nation
Wichita
Guaranteed Frigidaire Services Ad
Robinson's Furniture downtown on Second Avenue Decatur offers Frigidaire service and repairs. Contact 353-2378 for appliance support and maintenance.
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Robinson’s Furniture
Second Avenue
Decatur
Bogus Bills Tied To 1971 Arrests
A Secret Service spokesman said $40,000 to $50,000 in bogus money found this week ties to a counterfeiting ring busted four years ago. The cash was found in a tin bucket seven miles east of Centre Alabama on Christmas Eve by pulpwood cutters and turned over to authorities. In July 1971 agents raided a Gadsden printing company, arresting eight people and seizing equipment and counterfeit $10 and $20 bills.
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Secret Service
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