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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1975
Page
12
Florida officials outline a transition from a single 50 day renewal for all motorists to staggered renewals by birthdate starting in 1977. Auto fleet and commercial tags will renew in June. mobile homes in January. Decals will be purchased in 1976 with newer four year tags and ABC 123 style codes beginning 1977.
Pvt. Stanley D. Jacobs, 18, son of Edgar E. Jacobs, completed nine weeks of advanced training at Ft. Polk. He trained as light weapons infantryman and mortar crewman and learned mine placement and disarming. Pvt. Jacobs entered the Army last July after basic training at Ft. Jackson. Pfc Ronald B. Loney also finished nine weeks of advanced training at Ft. Polk as a light weapons infantryman.
A series of patient admissions and dismissals from Parkway Medical Center and Decatur General with names including Maggie Mosley Terri Hannah Stella Hutson Winford Blasingame James Aday Jerry Morris Donald Chandler Robbie Veal Edna Eckstein Christine M. Decatur Hubert Hallcatur and others. The note also mentions a private entering the Army in July and Pfe. Loney a 1975 graduate of Albert P. Brewer High School with family details.
No vember brought bad news for John Galbreath's Darby Dan Farm as two top 3 year old thoroughbreds Prince Thou Art and Sylvan Place were injured during Belmont Park workouts and had to be humanely destroyed. Prince Thou Art had won the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park and Sylvan Place finished second in that race earlier that season. Prince Thou Art had been highly regarded for the Kentucky Derby and Belmont but disappointed after beating Foolish Pleasure in Florida.
Obituary items include infant Melessia Ann Briscoe burial at Hartselle Memory Gardens with many relatives named. Other funeral notices cover Claude Colquitt Decatur 88, James Olen Philpot Mt Hope 71, Alvie C Saylors Athens 51, John Phillip Watkins Moulton 71. Births list several families at Decatur General Hospital and area clinics. Marriage licenses show several couples from Somerville Trinity Decatur and surrounding towns. Fire alarms reported by Decatur Fire Department with multiple calls and losses.
Mercury in a thermometer expands as heat rises and contracts when cooled. The glass tube and bulb are set so the mercury rises up the tube with increasing temperature, providing a readable scale. Mercury’s quick, even expansion allows accurate temperature reading across a wide range.
Notice states default on a 1968 mortgage by John H Hudgins and Cynthia K Hudgins to Murphree Mortgage Company, later transferred to First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Hammonton. Public sale set for January 12, 1976, in Decatur, Alabama, with Lot 8 Springdale Acres and related personal property described.
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