Wallace Trials Pain Block Device In Miami Skid
Gov George Wallace, paralyzed after a May assassination attempt, was fitted with a cutaneous stimulator at the VA Hospital in Miami. Doctors say the battery powered device blocks pain impulses by tingling the nervous system, with Wallace free to adjust via a control box on his wheelchair. He expects relief as he continues his vacation with wife Cornelia.
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Miami
George Wallace
Veterans Administration Hospital
Wallace
Alabama
Laurel
Maryland
Cornelia
King Reports Good Year For Textiles
Alabama textile industry shows higher employment sales and profits in 1972 according to J Whitfield King Jr ATMA president and Monsanto official. Spinning and weaving employ 45800 up from 43900 1971 plus 4000 in man made fibers totaling near 97000 workers. Wages exceed 260 million with 36 plants investing 34.5 million creating 2657 jobs. New record sales hit 27.9 billion up from 24.5. Also notes ROTC scholarships at Davidson and Dean's List at Georgia Tech.
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Montgomery
Alabama
J. Whitfield King Jr
Alabama Textile Manufacturers Association
King
Southeast
Southwest
Monsanto Co
Decatur
Alabama Department of Industrial Relations
ATMA
American Textile Manufacturers Institute
ATMI
Athens Council Allows Empire Homes License to Stay
The Athens City Council unanimously allowed Empire Homes Inc to retain a business license in a medical center area near Athens Limestone Hospital after overruing the zoning board. Property owners Hand and Maund filed a $15 000 damage suit seeking for an injunction. The license runs to December 31 1973.
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Athens
New York
Board of Zoning Adjustments and Appeals
Empire Homes
Stanley Hand
Doug Maund
Harper House
Athens- Limestone Hospital
Lawrence To Receive Federal Health Aid
Lawrence and Bibb counties in Alabama are slated to gain medical personnel under the National Health Corps program aimed at critical health manpower shortages. One doctor, likely near Courtland, is approved to start this summer. Lawrence County currently has one fulltime physician for 4,197 residents versus a national average of 814.
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Moulton
Lawrence
National Health Corps
Bibb
National Health Service Corps
National Emergency Medical Personnel Act
Courtland
Lawrence County
Lawrence Man Flees Hospital Escape
Lawrence County man Daniel McCary, 32, awaiting burglary trial, escaped Wednesday night from Bryce Hospital where he was undergoing psychiatric evaluation. Sheriff Edsel Moore said officials notified him but details were unavailable. Hospital officials refused comment on the escape.
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Tuscaloosa
Lawrence County
Bryce Hospital
Edsel Moore
Daniel McCary
Moore
McCary
Hartselle School Bids Set Tonight
Bids will be opened tonight at Hartselle Junior High School for a 350000 project to add classrooms at three schools. Plans include agribusiness and home economics TM classroom, remodeling of a girls gym at Morgan County High, eight more rooms at Crestline, with costs possibly reaching 220000 if alternates are chosen. Architect is Frank Neville.
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Hartselle
Hartselle Junior High School
Morgan County High School
Crestline School
Frank Neville
Audit Finds Misused Federal Grants in Four Alabama Projects
An audit by the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration says four subgrants paid by the Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Agency under former Governor Albert Brewer were not substantiated. The agency seeks repayment of 18,742 dollars, but SEPA director Robert Davis says the money should be recouped from the companies that received the funds.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Agency
Albert Brewer
Robert
Bo" Davis
SEPA
Emergency numbers and crisis contact guidance
The Decatur Daily lists the Crisis Call Center number 355 8000 for personal crises and possible poisoning, advising callers to dial 0 if unsure of the emergency number. It notes hospital or family physician as alternatives and provides department and night line contacts.
Limestone Lodge Upgraded After State Repair Push
Athens Lee Hi Lodge on the Elk River near here is being repaired and upgraded. State owned with 14 rooms, the project follows Rep. Tommy Carter’s demand for funding or leasing to a county for a mental health center serving 8 to 10 counties. A park ranger is now to operate it with new stores and refrigerators procured. cost estimates were not provided.
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Athens
Elk River
Lawrence
Tommy Carter
Carter
Alabama Conservation Department
Lee Hi
Man Sentenced In Manslaughter
A 41-year-old Huntsville man Robert Earl Rucker received a day in jail and a $500 fine after a jury found him guilty of second degree manslaughter in the shooting at a Huntsville nightclub that killed James Paul Johnson. He must report to Madison County Jail and had sought a new trial after a prior murder conviction was overturned.
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Huntsville
Hartselle
Robert Earl Rucker
James Paul Johnson
Rucker
David Archer
Madison County
Black Forest
E. L. Hughes
Hughes
Johnson
Archer
Fred Simpson
Simpson
van Pruitt
Antique dealer retracts claim on burglary probe at Hartselle home
Jim Norman, antique dealer, retracts a statement about the initial weekend burglary of his Hartselle residence. More than $4,000 in antiques were stolen, and he had offered a reward, criticizing authorities for brief investigations at the scene.
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Hartselle
Jim Norman
First U.S. Space Hero Retiring In Huntsville
In Huntsville Alabama Miss Baker celebrated as Americas first space hero and the first monkey to complete a successful flight now spends her final years at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center amid exhibits describing her historic quest.
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Huntsville
America
Alabama Space and Rocket Center
Miss Baker
Monkey Miss Baker Retires At Alabama Space Center Exhibit
Miss Baker the squirrel monkey, a 1959 spaceflight partner with Abel, lives in a dedicated exhibit at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center. She enjoys public visits, fan mail, and Christmas cards while remembered as an early space travel pioneer.
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Miss Baker
The
Space Center
Big George
Space
Ed Buckbee
Alabama Space and Rocket Center
Special Boat Ready for Search of Hunters
Morgan County Commission to finance outfitting of a surplus boat with six floodlight clusters and a generator for a Tennessee River hunt for missing duck hunters. The eight foot by 30 foot craft, donated by military authorities, will be used with a launching ramp behind the 3M Co. site to aid weekend searches for Charles Edward Bradford, 40, Allen Bradford, 17, and Robert DeLoach, 44 of Birmingham missing since Dec 16. Jimmy Roddam, 20, was found.
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Morgan County Commission
Tennessee
Civil Defense
Howard Proctor
State Docks
3M Co
Proctor
Commission
Dick Fleming
Charles Edward Bradford
Allen
Robert DeLoach
Birmingham
Jimmy Roddam
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Thomas R. Parks
Davidson College
Parks
Ross L. Parks
College St. SE
Atlanta
Samuel E. Bechtel
Georgia Tech
Civitan Speaker
Richard G. Smith
Saturn
Marshall Space Flight Center
Eddie Self
Decatur Civitan Club
Council
Malcolm Moore
Circuit Court
Health Service Corps
Lawrence Man
LEAR
Decatur Daily
Limestone
DIAL
U.S
Ben Windham
Glenn
Armstrong
Schmitt
Iquitos
Peru
Pensacola
Abel
Fleming
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