Fires, crimes, and local notices from Morgan County era
Fire damage at Hillsboro facilities including Hillsboro Gin Co and a downtown store. a $6,000 house loss. Burglary ring case in Cullman County with Morgan County suspects. Double killing near Waldemose Springs. Leo McDaniel sentenced to 50 years. National Guard unit mobilized. executions and trials in Alabama courts. Marriage in Bank Street Hospital. Multiple calendar items note road work, awards, and community events through mid year.
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Hillsboro
Hillsboro Gin Co
James Roberts
Waldermose Springs
Leo McDaniel
National Guard
Ft. Hood
Tex
William F. Bowen Jr
Decatur
Huntsville City
Joe Henry Johnson
Kilby
Local firm plans new office and warehouse at larger site
Wayne McKenzie, president, announced a move from 126 4th Ave NE to 11th St and 4th Ave SE with a $60,000 concrete block station complex for four pumps per island to be built within 90 days. Moody Motors shifts from Athens to Decatur ending local dealership. showroom 80 by 25 feet with lounge offices and service lifts. operation expected in three months.
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Moody
Volkswagen
Athens
Decatur
Saturn
Wheeler Dam
Ku Klux Klan
Moulton
Floyd L. “Nuggy
Pirtle
Herbert Dotson
Willie B. Thorne
Courtland
Town Creek
Charles Winston Garth
TVA
Gov. Patterson
Bowman
Cullman
United Fund
Athens College
H. Maynard Layman
Decatur Daily
Sec. of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Worthington Corp
County farm income rises with cotton rebound in 1961
The county reported total farm income near 12.24 million in 1961 with cotton contributing about 7 to 8.4 million and other categories including beef cattle 1.27 million hogs 1.4 million and poultry 1.01 million. Pinkston notes improvements over 1960 despite a below normal cotton crop and forecasts for 1962 remain hopeful with various factors to watch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agee
Lawrence
Cullman County
H. G. Pinkston
Pinkston
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Tennessee River
Morgan County
Dick Boyd
Limestone County
Bank Street Hospital
Marshall Lee Reding
Cathleen Norwood
Sam Engelhardt
Alabama
Daren Easter
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Ruby Lee Kelso
Alabama _ Associated Press Association
Barrett Shelton Jr
Carlton Crook
George Johnston
Somerville
Decatur Jaycees
Alton B. Hollis Jr
Jaycees
Neel
Jerome Carpenter
St.Louis
Gordon
Woolworth's
A. B. van Arsdale
Billy Graham
Southern Baptist Convention
St. Louis
W. G. Hall
Dunn Construction Co
Birmingham
Jimmy Ray Brannon
Falkville 2
Benjamin W. Powell
Albert Boutwell
Decatur Lions Club
Hugh Greene
Hartselle
Marilyn White
North Alabama
Falkvilel
Falkville
Big Jim
Folsom
Wernher von Braun
Evelyn G. Day
Middleton
Ohio
Secretaries’ Association
Wanda Smith
Barbara Henderson
Limestone
Sylvia Turner
Lawrence County Coliseum
U.S. Board
Edward F. Mauldin
Kennedy
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Alabama Division of Children of the Confederacy
Main St
Wilson Mountain
Friends
Bobbie Ann Landini
Hatton
George Wallace
Gordon Bible School
H. R. Leeman
Elizabeth Belt
Miss Belt
Binney & Smith Inc
Pacific Northwest
Devidson Coal & Feed Co
Helly . N.B
St. Ann’s Catholic Church
Pol
George Royer
Mutual of Omaha
13Th Ave. N.W
Decatur, Alabama
Omaha
Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association
Omaha, Nebraska
N.W. Decatur
Ala
New
Nome
Norman Albright
IBM
The
Accre
Diting Commission For Business
U.S. Office of Education
Anderson Business College
Gregg
Second Ave
Holly St
Anderson
Business College
Broadhead-Cook
ieOele
Bank Street
King's
Fluffy
2Nd St. S.W
Laundry & Cleaners
Twin Cleaners
Atuens
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