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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1975
Page
2
Former Decatur High School basketball standout Willie Rice recalls a bold, defiant path after 1972 graduation. He passed on Alabama A&M and Calhoun CC offers, met rebuffs from Calhoun War Hawks coach Bob Shuttleworth who deemed him too short, and pursued play with the Redstone Arsenal.
Alabama native Rice joins the Army in 1973 and later lands in Huntsville at Redstone Arsenal. Now in his third year of intramural basketball, he averages 14.5 points after two games while recalling a college scholarship, a pre dentistry major, and a life shaped by moves and service. He notes a past 230 pound frame and asserts his ongoing drive to improve as he jokes about his two young sons and their possible sports futures.
Monday Rising Sun Lodge 29 F and A M calls a 6 30 p m meeting for M M degree work. Tuesday Decatur Pilot Club executive board meets at 6 p m at Decatur Inn. Wednesday watchnight service 8 p m Rural Grove Baptist Burleson Mountain features Gospel 4 Watwood family and Spiritual Echoes New Center Baptist Church six miles east of Hartselle 7 p m with the Southerners Motes Family. Single Adult Fellowship meets 7 p m at the First Baptist Youth Center. Decatur Pilot Club gathers again at 7 p m at Decatur Inn.
Melanie and Butch Watterson of Decatur were named to the UNA fall honor roll, Melanie a secretarial education major and Butch a business management major and baseball player. Daniel Lamar McCullough of Decatur was named to the Austin Peay Dean’s list for the fall quarter with a 3.54 GPA.
The Decatur Daily lists emergency phone numbers for Hartselle Limestone County Athens Lawrence County Cullman and a Crisis Call Center number 355 8000. It advises dialing 0 if unsure and directs calls to hospitals or physicians for possible poisoning and personal crises.
An Alabama driver was killed on I-59 when a car jammed between guardrails and threw the driver from the vehicle. The AP tallies Christmas weekend fatalities at five with other victims including Joyce Harper, Herbert Champion, Renee Johnston, and John Stitt in separate crashes across Tuscaloosa Talladega McIntosh and Roanoke areas.
The E F MacDonald Stamp Company will redeem Plaid Stamps for cash at the face value, one mill per stamp, $1.20 per filled saver book. Readers should use current catalogs for orders and can request the latest catalog from P O Box 1047 Dayton Ohio. Porter Wagoner Enterprises mail address listed, and a reader received a refund after repeated contact with Vickie Wayne Tucson Arizona.
Secret Service says a cache of more than $40,000 in phony money found in a tin bucket near Centre Alabama on Christmas Eve is linked to a Northeast Alabama counterfeiting ring busted more than four years ago. Pulpwood cutters reported the money and handed it to police before agents retrieved it from a Gadsden printing company.
Alabama Gov. George Wallace staged a non political appearance in Candler Florida drawing about 7 500 tourists plus local residents from Marion County The visit featured a 40 minute speech amid a Christmas celebration with a new company building and a church dedication He attacked liberals and New York papers and voiced a 1976 focus on the average citizen while calling for a stronger armed forces and inflation controls.
Weather forecast notes a return to cloudy windy and cold conditions Tuesday into Wednesday with sun returning Thursday. Rain possible again Thursday as a low moves northeast into Alabama. Highs mostly in the 40s Tuesday and Wednesday, with lows in the 20s Tuesday morning and 40s by Wednesday.
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