Evers Drives Mississippi County Toward Economic Boom
In Jefferson County Mississippi James Charles Evers spurs nearly $10 million in loans grants and investments to develop Fayette and nearby areas. The black leader who won Fayette mayoral race in 1969 promotes nonviolence yet urges self defense with guns if needed while guiding new industries and thousands of jobs in the rural region.
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Thomas A. Johnson
N.Y. Times
Fayette
Miss
Jefferson County
Mississippi
Natchez
Vicksburg
James Charles Evers
Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Charles Evers
Sur
Fayette County’s boom reshapes old slave South region
Rapid, concentrated development in Fayette County includes the Thompson factory, a subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph, employing 194 residents on two shifts to produce automotive wiring components. About 80 percent of workers are women who had relied on public assistance before the Evers election. Large new buildings and trailers form a multipurpose community center, shaping a distinctive growth pattern in the region.
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Virginia
Texas
Fayette
Thompson Factory
International Telephone and Telegraph
Evers
Morgan Murderer Escapes Hospital Again
Huntsville man Billy Joe Moore, 29, convicted of first degree murder in Morgan County, escaped from Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa after fleeing Draper Correctional Center near Montgomery and a prior August escape. Recaptured in Huntsville briefly, he remains at large. Moore’s accomplice Anthony Baker pleaded guilty to second degree murder.
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Huntsville
Morgan County
Billy Joe Moore
Emmett Phillip Hillis
Whitesburg Bridge
Moore
Draper Correctional Center
Montgomery
Bryce Hospital
Tuscaloosa
Texas
Dallas
Maurice Shalom
Ed Myhand
Myhand
Mt. Meigs Correctional Center
Madison County
Hillis
Anthony C. Baker
Study Seeks Limestone Jobs To Create Local Opportunities
TARCOG has launched a county wide survey with Limestone County Commission and EDA to identify job shortages and plan programs. The study aims to uncover areas of need, guide applications for assistance, and boost employment in a county with unemployment over 8 percent and economic dynamics shaped by Brown's Ferry plant and proximity to Huntsville.
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Athens
Limestone
Alabama Regional Council of Governments
Tarcog
Dean Matthews
Limestone County Commission and Economic Development Administration
EDA
Matthews
Limestone County
Madison
DeKalb
Jackson
Marshall
Brown’s Ferry
Huntsville
Decatur
Former State Senator Hugh Morrow III Killed in Crash
Hugh Morrow III, 44, a former Alabama senator and investment banker, was killed when his Bentley struck a concrete pillar off U S Highway 280 in Mountain Brook. He served in the senate 1966 to 1970 and led the Jefferson County delegation. his father, Hugh Morrow Jr., faced a bribery arrest two weeks earlier.
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Birmingham
Ala
Hugh Morrow III
Morrow
Mountain Brook
Alabama Senate
Jefferson County
Jere Beasley
Mid-South Co
Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority
University of Alabama
University of the South
Independent Presbyterian Church
Athelstan
Mobile
Hugh Morrow Jr
Greene County
Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty in 1934
On this day in 1934 Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty limiting the navies of the United States Britain and Japan. Weather outlook shows high near 50s, rain 80 percent today and 90 percent tonight with cooler Tuesday in the Tennessee Valley.
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Japan
U. S
Britain
Scared Boy Recalls Safe Capitol Airways Emergency Landing
A boy aboard Capitol Airways International Charter described his fear after an emergency landing in Oakland. He said he was in the cockpit with the pilot who urged him to find his mother. officials reported no serious injuries.
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Chicago
Oakland
Capitol Airways International Charter
Passengers calm after cabin depressurization on DC-8 flight
A charter jet carrying 183 passengers from Honolulu to Chicago depressurized Friday night near Oakland. The DC-8 descended from 32000 to 16000 feet and landed safely at O'Hare after an emergency stop. Duke Rose of Capitol said the stop was for fuel and a new crew, not a major incident, and cited a likely frozen valve as the cause.
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Bobby Sullivan
Mequon
Wis
Honolulu
Chicago
O'Hare International
San Francisco Bay Area
Oakland
Duke Rose
Capitol
Rose
Smyrna
Tenn
Red Cross urges Tuesday blood drive to ease shortage
After a tough weekend the Birmingham Red Cross reports only 289 units on hand and expects higher demand around New Year’s. Emergency collection efforts run in Decatur and other Alabama sites with a Bloodmobile set for Tuesday at Central Baptist Church noon to 6 pm as drives at factories have been canceled.
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Tommy Stevenson
American Red Cross
Birmingham
Steve Hufstutler
Red Cross
Hofstutter
Decatur
Red Cross Blood Center
Alabama
Mississippi
Hufstutler
The
Central Baptist Church
Ford Graceful Not Clumsy Says Aide
President Ford downplays a spill photo as harmless noting skiers fall more often than stand up. Press secretary Ron Nessen rejects jokes about clumsiness and calls Ford healthy graceful and athletic.
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Vail
Colo
Ford
Ron Nessen
Nessen
Israeli Egypt agree on Sinai spy station site
Israeli and Egyptian officers reached a compromise over the location of a new Egyptian spy station in the Sinai Desert, with construction to begin near the Gidi mountain pass. The accord followed a dispute delaying the Sept. 1 truce final stage, discussed at a UN post in the Sinai.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Sinai Desert
U.N
Jerusalem
Gidi
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Jane Miles
Tennessee Valley
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